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I love this game, but the final boss is completely destroying me. It's interesting to see in this video that apparently the first burst shot he uses in each of the stages can be avoided by standing still (apparently).

Doesn't this game have a True Last Boss? Why didn't it appear?

old shmup with slowmo, proximity-based scoring and has kinda manic or bullethellish pace in a sense, with ton of slow bullets on screen. surely was game ahead of its time in some areas, and the music is awesome, great to see it covered! gradius syndrome though is making this too hard to play for me without save states, it seems too hard to recover from continue at 7/8 stages

90 DOLLARS? man i jus got a steal on this for 25

The scoring mechanic is totally Ketsui 15 years before it became a thing.

A great version of the Commodore 64 classic Uridium. I wish this developer would remake Andrew Braybrook’s other classic C64 shmup Paradroid.

wow yeah i like the look of this. gotta try it. thank god for arcade archives, would be sweet if one day they drop some physical releases

No way I’d be able to play with that lol, it is cool though. For me with switch, I just take my pro controller on the go……also @Dace, is that you #3 on the leaderboards in Dead End City on switch?! Says Dace so I’m assuming so lol. I really enjoyed that one, 1ccd last week

Thanks for covering this one. UPL made so many interesting games that I’m surprised they weren’t better known back in the day.

My favorite EastAsiaSoft shoot em up as of now still waiting for the Soldner X Collection to come to Switch both of those releases are insane.

One of if not UPL's best releases

Sorry, even in just the first 5 seconds, how did you get to 9.6 multiplier in just 1 lock on? Is that type Z privilege? I've been playing type II mainly. Or maybe I just don't understand how the multiplier works...

Hell yeah lol

Its good that you know that you like but i honestly dont like the fact that you dont properly address why people dont like this stick. When a button or something is dead, you have do some soldering to replace it whereas mayflash f300 is $60 and much more future-proof and solder-free in that manner. Unless soldering already a hobby for someone, its why people try to steer others away from it

Hey thanks for making this! 🤘Hope you also enjoyed the music :)

Hey Dace HAPPY NEW YEAR🎉

Shmups have so much untapped potential in the licensed game space. So many movies, TV, comics/anime whose aesthetic would map easily onto a shooter and draw more players to the genre.

I'll wait for the elite version and compare prices compared to sourcing individual parts, but I respect the hussle for homie to get multiple girlfriends to get discount codes just to buy a stick (unless I misheard that part).

Great leverless, although the buttons could be even further splitted apart for my taste and the bottom could have some sort of rubbers.

Thanks for this these tips.I have a question is the switch version of this game harder then the Snes version it seems to be the case.

Thats not a bad idea. A bigger ball top would make it feel that much better.

The Life Insurance item is not an extra life; it only prevents your Medal from getting halved when you continue :( For no continue runs, that item is a complete dud, as if it was made as a joke for something. It only appears when you enter the shop with full life stock. Horrible!

Interesting. I think the best use for such a small controller would be on the Steam Deck, on the go during a long trip.

Someone needs to win Evo using this.

Nice review. Now, could you tells us a bit about your finger-tattoos? Mayan?

to be fair, crimzon clover arcade players must use a NESICA id card to gain the ability to unlock the type-Z ship

Cool novelty pad, not for me but I’m glad quirky products like this exist. 😊

This thing work with a iPhone? I can’t find where to buy it.

Holy cow, hey Dace!! Long time, no see (I still the Switch and Twitch days). How's it been? And it looks like Ima have to scoop one of those up to go with my Ambernic 35XXSP Edit: 1:58 lack of shoulder buttons is a plus, really. I'll try it in my wallet

Good stuff!

Doesn’t look like something I’d use all the time but it’s definitely cool to see something like this be so useful

Not something I'll use., but cool little gadget nonetheless.

Love it! I thought this was going to be a joke about a micro transaction heavy pay-to-win shmup. 😂

Also: why do I not see it on their Etsy page

Is this Bluetooth or wired only?

I can accept this clickbait

you're a beast Dace. haha

That wouldn't be too bad of an alternative to a Hori Fighting Commander. Interesting. But you wouldn't have shoulder buttons. OmniArcade has done some really cool projects. I installed their Odin V2 in a fightstick recently and it's awesome. Also, they made their own pushbuttons called the O720 that sound awesome, but I don't think they're available right now.

That thing is adorable, but hand cramps galore after extended play! 😂

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A card?.I am intrigued

Cool ch.. I'm actually wondering if this stick would be compatible with retro games I downloaded from ps5 like Ms Pacman, galaga, also super Mario, donkey kong games on switch? Not sure if anyone would know this. But if so, would be very helpful. Thanks!

Meeeeeeeeeeeeep, this was such a great listen! :D It's awesome that you two view shmups as a lifestyle, and it showed with everything that was talked about throughout this episode! Pardon me as I yap about stuff that resonated with me in this interview, heheh ^^; Spiders' humility at the beginning with wanting to do his appearance justice was fun to hear (and I can probably relate too, aaaaaaaaaa) I can *super* relate to drama being present within one's shmup runs, it's something I've been experiencing as of late too! Had an Eschatos [Original, Normal] 1CC attempt where I was scoring better than I thought I could score and made it to the final boss with 5 lives, but I just wiped out because I wasn't familiar enough with dealing with their attacks and now I'm like "gosh, am I going to expect myself to be on pace with my 12M PB as I continue going for my Normal 1CC? Am I gonna get thrown off my game because of this?" cause I'm so scorerun-pilled ;u; I actually thought Eschatos dished out extends based on score, but I eventually learned that it's based off of enemies killed, but I still cope with my scorerunning self and go "well a good offense is a good defense" when it comes to killing enemies quickly so I don't have to deal with dodging their patterns for longer than I need to... Granted, I mostly play for safety on Stage 3 and Stage 5 with some of their hecked sections, but I'm still thinking about that score, to the point where I sometimes go for WonderWitches I shouldn't quite be going for because I haven't built up their value in previous sections... Also learned that each extra life gives 1M points at the end in Normal, so maybe the real score strats are survival, haha! The talk about genre baggage was neat! Spiders mentioning the distrust in some developers being the reason for said baggage checks out. Somewhat related, but I liked how I didn't even consciously think about Seaside Drive in UFO 50 having inertia until some shmup peeps pointed it out several days after launch day! Might need to play it more to form a more solid opinion, but it feels like it does what it can with its patterns given the existence of inertia, and while there could always be visual effects to sell the car drifting, I guess the game's valid for having intertia! In general, the openness to new things being tried out in the genre is appreciated, and I remember also pondering about why one wouldn't always be firing all the time in shmups too (until I came up with examples like Ikaruga's color chaining and general shmups that have elements of milking and/or linking enemies together in a certain time frame to chain them, as well as optimal positioning for revenge bullets) Lastlyyy, Spiders' enthusiasm to score by any means necessary at 1:01:37 was fun and based to hear, and I liked the mention at around 1:08:27 of trying to have some kind of evaluation metric for shmups to really gauge how eventful moments can be in runs!

I was blown away when I saw this at an arcade in Los Angeles many years ago. I always give this game a go when I go to Hey in Akihabara. Hopefully the Hamster folks add Macross Plus and Ultra X Weapons to the ACA lineup. Side note: If you buy an ACA game after 15:00 UTC Wednesday, you can play the Caravan mode, and if you make the ranking, you’ll get a shoutout when Hamster does its livestream-usually at 10:00 UTC on Thursday.

I have 2 Hori mini 4 for quite some time now and they worked great for years, PS3, PS4 and raspberry Pi. But for the last few months the rubber buttons (the ones on top) now are very hard to register. Almost impossible to use. Shame, I loved these controllers

Does it have a program button to set combos?

That's wild and awesome!

Very good review