VERY nice list. :tup: progear is that shit if you need to sharpen up your dodgeball skills. dangun and dodonpachi both make me happy all day too. I’ll try to throw a few up at a later point. right now I’m about to fall over onto the floor. Too damn tired tonight and I don’t know why.
-Starhammer-
I love Progear, I don’t know why, but out of that entire list I find myself playing that one the most.
nothing wrong with that. I just wish that MAME would get some of the other carpet patern games though. unless I stop being so lazy or win a lottery, I’ll never make it to an arcade that has the good stuff. Yeah, playing it at home isn’t all that bad, but that arcade feel…I just grew up with it. I miss it now. A lot.
-Starhammer-
So I’m not sure if this is old. But Ikaruga is coming to the X360 on April 9th for XBXLive.
So look out for that if you don’t already know.
old or not I didn’t know about it. I really didn’t want to buy an X-Box just yet, but now my hand my be tipped. Thanks G.O.T. :tup:
-Starhammer-
I watched a video of Radiant Silvergun. I was sort of unimpressed but I guess the dude was so good that he made it seem boring. Anyway. It still doesn’t show up on Mame. I got the latest version too. I think, I mean I REALLY think that Treasure should port this to the PSP or as a download for one of the consoles. I feel like it’s a load of technical reasons for why it hasn’t been ported yet. Like how Panzer Dragoon Saga from Sega is missing something.
Running some games, like Radiant Silvergun takes the emulator, the rom, and the appropriate plugin. I’m guessing you lack the latter.
If you ever couldn’t get a game, that is known to be compatible with MAME to run, then you need to find out if it requires a plugin, and since I already know it does, then you need to get it.
To find out, use MAWS. Plugins are easy to get, but just to save you time,here. Simply place that in the roms folder. Don’t unzip it or anything. Same as you would do with the rom file.
I simply, love, you.
So yeah wow. Radiant Silvergun, even in it’s crappy state on MAME, is one of the most amazing shooters I’ve ever played. GEEZ what is Treasure waiting on? A sign from the heavens? This needs to be ported. I find this game to be so much more better than Ikaruga. It takes what I like about Einhander (multiple weapons and destroyable chunks on bosses) and Ikaruga (the score and chaining) and Alien Storm (fuck ton of bosses), plus all the obvious nods to shooters that have come before (loved the R-Type “Gallop” boss).
This is the greatest shooter of all time.
All-in-all, another satisfied shooter fan. :tup: makes me happy.
…Still I wonder. Why is the Curry Furry? 
-Starhammer-
Alien Storm huh? Goes to Youtube.
I swear to god Axelay needs a next gen remake. I might make a thread of games that needs remakes. But Axelay especially.
What are some good Ps2 Shmups?
Been a minute since I last played one.
I think just like R-Type Final and Gradius V. There’s all the Cave style stuff as well (not my cup of tea). I think there are few gems that made it stateside. It’s not like the PSX/Saturn/DC days or hell even now. We get more shumps now thanks to the Online Marketplace (Live, PSN, Wiiware) and the rise of indie shumup developers. It’s a great time to get shot.
I meant to say Alien Soldier. Lol. I looked up Alien Storm. Looks like shit. So not what I meant! Incidentally, Alien Soldier is a Treasure game.
Axelay? Loved Axelay. Sad that part two was scrapped and the best thing we have like it today is Nanostray 2/Iridion 2 (for the mode 7 levels).
Now back to Radiant S…
That damn Gallop boss from Radiant S. is so cool though. It’s literally a giant R-Type. Like I never even knew that I wanted to fight a giant version of an R-Type with weapons that CONSUME the screen. Oh my god. In Stage 2, that damn chase through the tunnel thingies, with the red boss that’s either letting you chase it or it chase you, with the darn blocks that split your path in two, and then the pipe works towards the end that require split second reaction time to navigate. Fuck… I’m gonna cum out pink bullets now. Radiant S. is the most epic shump of all time as well. I’d spend $60 on this game for sure. Just everything about this game is on point. I can’t even get mad at me losing my level up on my weapons. It’s like, I just need to get better.
Ibara
DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou
Mushihime-sama
Espgaluda
Axelay is indeed fucking awesome. And I second you making that thread.
Yea, RS is awesome. I enjoy Ikaruga more, but damn both of those games are top of the top, as far as SHMUPS go.
First time checking this thread out looks at OP wow i’m late lol anyways shumps have always been my favorite genre next to fighters and action games.
If contra hardcorps and alien soldier count they’re prolly my favorite shumps of all time, with honorable mentioend to radiant silvergun, ikaruga, and rez.
Honorable mentions: raiden series, r-type dx, and the gradius series.
Came out during the end of the xbox era so it got no love, though I remember eagerly waiting for this bitch it’s a great shump and soooo underrated:
Watch it in action and tell me it doesn’t kick the rear region of you lower back.
There was the one shump I played at my friends all the time I forgot what it was called but it was very simple and the ground you fly over in the 3nd level looked like shit literally, anyone know the name of the game?
I need to import the PSP version from Europe one of these days. I can’t wait until we have an Xbox emulator for PCs 
And Run N’ Guns count as well. If you have to tap a fucking button for an hour straight while not blinking and jerking a stick around, it’s a shump of some type.
OH! Nitro Ball impressions. It’s short but fun. The game would work better if you could get in a fix position and shoot but alas. The concept though is genius. I need to play it again and work with shooting people into holes and passages for more bonus points.
We really need to make a list of the top 15 shoot em’ ups. From Run N’ Guns to Bullet Hell to Horizontals.
the third boss in ikaruga makes me cry
Gradius V
Man I was so happy that Cave was releasing DDP-DOJ and Ketsui on XBLA…until Microsoft pulled the carpet from underneath them. Fuckers. I could have got the games cheaper(10 bucks vs 50 bucks), easier(right there on Marketplace, compared to trying to search the internet for a copy), and faster(Who knows if the 360 versions will even come to Amercia).
Microsoft rather have Jelly Truck and Discs of Tron instead of quality titles like this, PERFECT for 10 bucks/achievements/online co-op…FUCK YOU MICROSOFT.
yep, microsoft really screwed the pooch on that one.
did I really just use that expression?
…hold on…
my sources tell me that yes, I did just use that expression.
Besides the previously mentioned ones, Castle Shikigami 2.