Back in 97 I had moved to a unique house shaped like an Arabian palace that had a lot of odd rooms and secret compartments. I was 10 yo at the time and therefore very curious and would explore these secret rooms. I found a room that had abandoned arcade machines and the only one that worked was this game. I noticed that the wiring was pulled out from where the quarters go but when I touched the green wire to the other green wire it would give me a quarter. So I had infinite lives and money and would sorta cheat my way through this game. But it was super fun and unfortunately a year later I had to move and the arcade machine was given to a crazy cousin of mine who did drugs and partied a lot. One of his crazy friends got drunk and beat the machine with a baseball bat because he thought it was funny. RIP UN Squadron arcade machine you will be missed 😢
Uniroyal Mish I would argue the best SNES music went to Plok, ActRaiser, Jim Power, The Lawnmower Man, etc. Super Castlevania 4 sounded great, but suffered from being an early title. Mega Man X I don't hold in high regard though, since it uses the same twangy, tinny sound engine from Capcom that UN Squadron used too.
@@solarflare9078 Yeah man, I'm kinda shocked to hear people saying they like the music in the SNES version better. If you ask me, it's nostalgia bias talking. The SNES OST sounds super compressed and not nearly as dynamic, or punchy, like you put it.
yea it had some slowdown issues as is just in the single player mission. I remember the one where you have to kill the submarine having a lot of slowdown unfortunately.
Arcade graphics are a little better of course. I didn't know snes can't select and play 2 players at once. Above that snes playable is equal to arcade and have more stages and muscelanous in compensed. Good!!!!
Yeah, if I remember right, sometimes the game would bog down a little bit because there was so much going on, on the screen at the same time. Imagine trying to fit another player in there. :P
😂 dont feel bad i thought an had the same crush as well. Capcom always doing some weird mess like that. Look at poison from street fighter 4 arcade edition. They say she is a man.
Arcade sounds the best, but it's not without its flaws. There appears to be a LOT of sound delay when a LOT of sound effects play at once. Notice when the players die at 26:25, the explosion sound didn't play until two seconds later. This game really keeps the YM2151 busy.
That is a problem I was aware of, but I'm not sure at this point if that's an emulation problem or if it really was like that on the real thing. I'd need to see a 2p video taken from the real hardware, assuming there is one.
@@arronmunroe This can happen with one player too. I've seen another video with this exact issue. There were over 5 simultaneous sfx trying to play (low health beeping, shooting, hitting, using special weapons, and explosions) and the game couldn't keep up. I think this is something that happens with the real arcade board thanks to how busy everything is in this game in general.
I actually got to play this particular game before the whole shitshow that is the current pandemic we got, and it's a blast! I only heard of this game because of the SNES port that came out a couple years after the arcade game, and while it's not a 1:1 port, it's close where it needs to be, while adding in some cool extra little tidbits that the SNES could pull off at the time.
CPS1 used a very similar soundchip (YM2151). The Mega Drive's soundchip (YM2612) is essentially like the arcade soundchip, but modulated differently (I would argue for the better in some areas), has two less sound channels, has SSG EG, and one less detune operator.
I liked the third plane only because it shot at ground enemies too. There was another shooter similar to UNS that I often played, the name escapes me...
Thanks. I think what you're referring to is the slowdown that happens when too many things are on screen. This can be fixed with overclocking the game, but also makes it harder to dodge the bullets. The game also technically runs at 59.637 hz, meaning that there is a single frame stutter every certain number of frames.
Assuming you mean something on a more modern system that is just like the arcade one, I don't think there is anything like that. I only know of the SNES port and similar ports from that time.
There's a bunch of crappy ports on Euro computers (Atari ST (that one wasn't so bad though), Amiga, ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC, etc.) [EDIT] Just realized why they were so bad! It's because of FRIGGIN TIERTEX.
I believe single player is exactly the same for ship selection. The weapons in the shop are determined by which player you are using. How much damage you take from getting hit and the game difficulty can be separately adjusted.
arronmunroe Thanks for letting me know. I never played the arcade version, just the SNES version. Beat it so many times on whatever difficulty I feel like at the time. I played alot of shoot em ups over the years but U.N. Squadron is the most relaxing. Still want to play all versions of this game. Here are a few other ones that are pretty good. Gyruss, The Guardian Legend, Space Mega Force, Super Star Dust, Blazing Lazers, Lords(Gates) of Thunder, R-Type, Gradius, Lifeforce
@@arronmunroe MAME seems super-confusing to use, though. It seems like you have to pick the exact right folders several times and use very specific types of files and boot them up in various complicated ways.
@@Peter_1986 It's definitely not the easiest to use, but there are tutorials if you need any extra help. It's worth noting that different rom versions are for different versions of MAME, and that's what I consider the most complicated part. For example, there are different versions of unsquad.zip and they don't all work with every version of MAME. Anyways, you might find MAMEUI a little easier to use than the standard version of MAME. windows-cdn.softpedia.com/screenshots/MAMEUI_1.png
@@Peter_1986 I got MAME on my original Xbox with all the arcade games. One day i was just browsing an seen this an was like i didn't know they had an arcade version since i first played it and beat it on snes. What even more contusion i didnt know it was 2 players.
Sorry i thought you where talking* about the real one which i thought this was the real game not homebrew. Anyways you can play the real one which i bet you already knew that
Quite the opposite imo. SNES sounds empty, bare, and downright cheap at times. (Listen to Boss 05 (arcade) and Forest Fortress (SNES) and compare them. SNES sounds like a cheap MIDI.)
This game has an internal resolution of 384x224. On a real arcade cabinet, the screen would be squished to a 4:3 aspect ratio. Unfortunately, there is no perfect way to record it. If I recorded with a 4:3 aspect ratio, the screen would look a little off when it's scrolling.
@@arronmunroe Because you forgot to play some arcade games like Carrier Airwing, Ghost Pilots, Blazing Star, Prehistoric Isle in 1930, Prehistoric Isle 2, 1941 Counter Attack (Version 900227), 19XX The War Against Destiny, Varth Operation Thunderstorm, etc.
I know there are a lot of horizontal and vertical shooting games that I haven't yet played. Those actually aren't my favorite game type, but I still do plan to play through them eventually.
![U.N. Squadron Speedrun Gamer Difficulty [former WR] 28:38](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mODhuov7xb0/mqdefault.jpg)
holy shit do you know how amazing it is to see this in 2 player.. 27 years later.
I never knew it was 2 players an i got snes version and the arcade version.
Best quote ever “Mickey: I feel like taking a shower”
“Greg: how about a beer?”
Back in 97 I had moved to a unique house shaped like an Arabian palace that had a lot of odd rooms and secret compartments. I was 10 yo at the time and therefore very curious and would explore these secret rooms. I found a room that had abandoned arcade machines and the only one that worked was this game. I noticed that the wiring was pulled out from where the quarters go but when I touched the green wire to the other green wire it would give me a quarter. So I had infinite lives and money and would sorta cheat my way through this game. But it was super fun and unfortunately a year later I had to move and the arcade machine was given to a crazy cousin of mine who did drugs and partied a lot. One of his crazy friends got drunk and beat the machine with a baseball bat because he thought it was funny. RIP UN Squadron arcade machine you will be missed 😢
Damn, my condolences to your favorite arcade. I couldn't even imagine your devastation
Great old game. Played dozens of times on arcade. Probably a hundred on SNES.
This play through proves two things
1)- Both versions are amazing and very much worth playing
2)- The SNES is a boss when it comes to music...
100% agreed. It's probably tied for best snes music with super metroid
Disagreed, Thunder Force 3 on Megadrive is the best. Known as Thunder Spirit on the snes. This is still an awesome game though.
SNES port sounded like a cheap MIDI. This sounds much more punchy and energetic.
Uniroyal Mish I would argue the best SNES music went to Plok, ActRaiser, Jim Power, The Lawnmower Man, etc. Super Castlevania 4 sounded great, but suffered from being an early title. Mega Man X I don't hold in high regard though, since it uses the same twangy, tinny sound engine from Capcom that UN Squadron used too.
@@solarflare9078 Yeah man, I'm kinda shocked to hear people saying they like the music in the SNES version better. If you ask me, it's nostalgia bias talking. The SNES OST sounds super compressed and not nearly as dynamic, or punchy, like you put it.
man i wish the snes one had two players. Musta been too many sprites on screen for the snes to handle.
yea it had some slowdown issues as is just in the single player mission. I remember the one where you have to kill the submarine having a lot of slowdown unfortunately.
Arcade graphics are a little better of course. I didn't know snes can't select and play 2 players at once. Above that snes playable is equal to arcade and have more stages and muscelanous in compensed. Good!!!!
Yeah, if I remember right, sometimes the game would bog down a little bit because there was so much going on, on the screen at the same time. Imagine trying to fit another player in there. :P
Wow.. This is so different from the SNES version. Thanks for uploading.
yea, it's crazy.
I wish we had co-op mode on the SNES like this. Might require the SA-1 or Super FX chip to give it the needed muscle to pull off tho.
Best chip would be the Super FX 2
awesome, amazing game i played the fisrt for super Nintendo.
3:29 That's an epic entrance ;)
One of the greatest games ever. Arcade or SNES.
I never knew there was an arcade version!
Wow
Played this game many many hours growing up never seen this before.
Love the game
The super nintendo version is a masterpiece. The arcade version looks great but that Sega style music fucks everything up.
wonderful game!!!! thanks for this video
I used to think shin was a girl and I had a crush on her. But now I know it was a dude this whole time !
😂 dont feel bad i thought an had the same crush as well. Capcom always doing some weird mess like that. Look at poison from street fighter 4 arcade edition. They say she is a man.
@@retiredsnowbunnyhunterx5106 Poison is Trans/Non-Op. Has been since forever. The Devs originally called her by the outdated term "Newhalf."
Arcade sounds the best, but it's not without its flaws. There appears to be a LOT of sound delay when a LOT of sound effects play at once. Notice when the players die at 26:25, the explosion sound didn't play until two seconds later. This game really keeps the YM2151 busy.
That is a problem I was aware of, but I'm not sure at this point if that's an emulation problem or if it really was like that on the real thing. I'd need to see a 2p video taken from the real hardware, assuming there is one.
@@arronmunroe This can happen with one player too. I've seen another video with this exact issue. There were over 5 simultaneous sfx trying to play (low health beeping, shooting, hitting, using special weapons, and explosions) and the game couldn't keep up. I think this is something that happens with the real arcade board thanks to how busy everything is in this game in general.
I actually got to play this particular game before the whole shitshow that is the current pandemic we got, and it's a blast! I only heard of this game because of the SNES port that came out a couple years after the arcade game, and while it's not a 1:1 port, it's close where it needs to be, while adding in some cool extra little tidbits that the SNES could pull off at the time.
I wish this game was part of capcom arcade 2nd stadium.
Loved this game.
I have a rom of this but would love a comp disc on console. The arcade music screams Sega Genesis.
CPS1 used a very similar soundchip (YM2151). The Mega Drive's soundchip (YM2612) is essentially like the arcade soundchip, but modulated differently (I would argue for the better in some areas), has two less sound channels, has SSG EG, and one less detune operator.
I liked the third plane only because it shot at ground enemies too. There was another shooter similar to UNS that I often played, the name escapes me...
Carrier Air Wing is like this game.
(^_^)
Ah yes, the C-5 Galaxy. Nothing strikes fear in the hearts of fighter jet pilots like a slow-moving heavy cargo plane.
That old dude sells weapons would sounds like Dave Morgan
its like playing with my son, he Gets all of the power ups
Is this real...a 2 player version? Please tell me this is real. This is way too cool.
Yes, the arcade version has a 2 player mode. The Amiga version also has 2 player.
Welcome to 1989....lol
arronmunroe And the Amiga version was a lame ST port that was completely unoptimized for 2 player.
So even in games the F-20 Tigershark doesn't get picked. :)
U N Squadron Best Game Play Arcade 2 Players More Snes is Awesome Game Great System
A jet flying in reverse.
That's Harrier Jumpjet.
It’s just a game. It doesn’t need to be realistic
Nice
Good game! For arcade AND snes ;)
Awesome upload, some parts seem closer to 60 fps than others tho
Thanks. I think what you're referring to is the slowdown that happens when too many things are on screen. This can be fixed with overclocking the game, but also makes it harder to dodge the bullets. The game also technically runs at 59.637 hz, meaning that there is a single frame stutter every certain number of frames.
Is it me or is the intro music Chocolate Rain?
Does UN Squadron arcade not have the same intro as Area 88?
Awesome game , 100%
The music quality on the SNES was so much better
Joguei muito esse jogo no super Nintendo
Are there any ports of this game available anywhere other than a mame/rom?
Assuming you mean something on a more modern system that is just like the arcade one, I don't think there is anything like that. I only know of the SNES port and similar ports from that time.
There's a bunch of crappy ports on Euro computers (Atari ST (that one wasn't so bad though), Amiga, ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC, etc.)
[EDIT] Just realized why they were so bad! It's because of FRIGGIN TIERTEX.
Does the single player allow for different weapons or ships?
Can you adjust the difficulty setting up?
One of the best games EVER!
I believe single player is exactly the same for ship selection. The weapons in the shop are determined by which player you are using. How much damage you take from getting hit and the game difficulty can be separately adjusted.
arronmunroe Thanks for letting me know. I never played the arcade version, just the SNES version. Beat it so many times on whatever difficulty I feel like at the time. I played alot of shoot em ups over the years but U.N. Squadron is the most relaxing. Still want to play all versions of this game.
Here are a few other ones that are pretty good.
Gyruss, The Guardian Legend, Space Mega Force, Super Star Dust, Blazing Lazers, Lords(Gates) of Thunder, R-Type, Gradius, Lifeforce
Some graphics in this game are like 1995
This looks almost like StarFox because it has mugshot characters.
Hard ass game
How can I get that game and where can I use it on.... I have not been able to find the arcade machine in years...
You could play this game on the emulator MAME. The game itself can be found by looking for "unsquad.zip".
@@arronmunroe MAME seems super-confusing to use, though.
It seems like you have to pick the exact right folders several times and use very specific types of files and boot them up in various complicated ways.
@@Peter_1986 It's definitely not the easiest to use, but there are tutorials if you need any extra help. It's worth noting that different rom versions are for different versions of MAME, and that's what I consider the most complicated part. For example, there are different versions of unsquad.zip and they don't all work with every version of MAME. Anyways, you might find MAMEUI a little easier to use than the standard version of MAME.
windows-cdn.softpedia.com/screenshots/MAMEUI_1.png
@@Peter_1986 I got MAME on my original Xbox with all the arcade games. One day i was just browsing an seen this an was like i didn't know they had an arcade version since i first played it and beat it on snes. What even more contusion i didnt know it was 2 players.
Dlouhá voda!
No sabía que había la versión 2
#USARMY _ #MISSIONGO !
Anyone able to get this to work on SNES classic?
This was the first game i got cause i wanted to play it like i did back in the days. So yes! Lol
Sorry i thought you where talking* about the real one which i thought this was the real game not homebrew. Anyways you can play the real one which i bet you already knew that
the soundtrack for this urks me.. the SNES version sounds more refined.
Quite the opposite imo. SNES sounds empty, bare, and downright cheap at times. (Listen to Boss 05 (arcade) and Forest Fortress (SNES) and compare them. SNES sounds like a cheap MIDI.)
Street Fighter ZX Spectrum
the aspect looks a bit stretched
This game has an internal resolution of 384x224. On a real arcade cabinet, the screen would be squished to a 4:3 aspect ratio. Unfortunately, there is no perfect way to record it. If I recorded with a 4:3 aspect ratio, the screen would look a little off when it's scrolling.
i think that's a feature with many Capcom arcade games.
Looks fine to me
arronmunroe Is this a screen shimmering issue?
The arcade version is harder than the SNES version... But the SNES version had better bosses
Like
Can you play Carrier Air Wing?
I can try to get around to it sooner or later.
@@arronmunroe Because you forgot to play some arcade games like Carrier Airwing, Ghost Pilots, Blazing Star, Prehistoric Isle in 1930, Prehistoric Isle 2, 1941 Counter Attack (Version 900227), 19XX The War Against Destiny, Varth Operation Thunderstorm, etc.
I know there are a lot of horizontal and vertical shooting games that I haven't yet played. Those actually aren't my favorite game type, but I still do plan to play through them eventually.
@@arronmunroe Also you haven't played yet Andro Dunos
He's playing on PC like me
In snes is mpre difficult.
The sound and music is better on the snes version.
Arcade version has better bosses.
Opposite here. SNES has more creative bosses (minus the final boss)
Arcade is MUCH MUCH MUCH better for audio
snes version >>
This shit sounds like hot dog water compared to the SNES version.
Nah