超連射 68K / Cho Ren Sha 68K - 2-ALL Clear 21,2 Million

Old replay from 2013 that I never uploaded. Turn on subtitles for some extra comments here and there.
Cho Ren Sha is one of the oldest doujin shmups out there. It originally came out in 1995 on the X68000 and was later ported to Windows in 2001. The game got a patch last year to make the game more compatible with modern PC's, 12 years after the last patch.
A combination of being one of the first and it being a really good game in general, is what makes Cho Ren Sha a very iconic game.
It does a very good job of feeling like a Toaplan game. Very fast-paced game with minimal bullets, but they are pretty fast.
Powerups in this game come in a ring of three and are dropped by the big red enemies, these are:
Power up! - Powers up your shot.
Bomber! - Gives you a bomb.
Shield! - Gives you a one-hit shield.
Once you're maxed out on a certain powerup you'll get score for them instead, which will keep increasing until the max of 25600.
After every 1 million points, one of the items on the ring will be replaced by a 1-up.
Normally you can only pick one powerup, but by going inside the ring and staying inside it for a few seconds, you can collect all of them at once. This is of course very important for survival and scoring.
The game has 2 loops with a TLB at the end of the 2nd loop. In the 2nd loop all enemies will fire aimed suicide bullets at you when you kill them.
There are a couple of ways to score in this game.
- Stage-end bonuses is where the bulk of your score will come from. You get 50k per life, 20k per bomb and 50k if you have a shield at the end of the stage. The more lives you get from scoring, the bigger the stage-end bonus will become and the faster you'll gain extends for even more score. If you can keep up the no-miss while scoring very well, you can get a silly amount of extends and score.
- Being maxed out on powerups and continually getting the max points of 76,800 per item ring.
- Killing as many enemies as possible, some enemies and bosses will release extra enemies once you damage them to a certain point or stall them enough. You can milk these for points.
If you die, you lose all of your power. This is hugely detrimental because your shot is very weak at zero power. Once you die, it's not uncommon to fall into a downwards spiral until you run out of resources. You want to avoid dying at any cost.
Download the game here:
www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~yosshin/m...
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[@tomauberwenig2116]

One of the oldest, on of the best!! I hope the younger shmuppers will (re)discover this pure gem of intense pleasure! Thanks for this run! PS : obviously, the creators of the excellent ZeroRanger must be big fans of Cho Ren Sha! (see the way the player's ships shoot in both games, and among other strong references, the final boss (not TLB) of Cho Ren Sha has the same design as some of the big ships on stage 3 or 4 (I don't remember) in ZeroRanger.

[@Mantafirefly]

And the whole two-loops thing before the final boss really appears.

[@chaimlouie1680]

Sorry to be offtopic but does anyone know of a method to get back into an Instagram account? I was dumb forgot the account password. I would love any help you can give me.

[@mrsoup6782]

Not to mention dat face in name entry screen.

[@bronsonarabie1078]

Glad to see that this game is getting the love it (still) deserves.

[@realcodise]

The reason for repeating monotonic backgrounds might be that this whole game fits into one 1.2 megabyte floppy disk and loads everything into memory when started. Of course having been developed by only one person might be a second limiting non-technical factor. Btw this game has been made to run on 1987 hardware with 10 MHz CPU which is also mindblowing. Though compared to first model this game might require 2 megabytes of RAM which was the default for later X68000 models.

[@burner9147]

An amazing playthrough of my favorite shmup of all time.

[@DukeButtwater]

Excellent video, thanks for archiving this game in such high quality (and with annotations)

[@TheElectricUnderground]

I always find awesome dojin shmups on your channel! Also, superb gameplay as usual :-)

[@DiddlyDiPotatoes]

Such a nostalgic game. I remember playing this years and years ago when I was on a doujin shooter binge.

[@bluewolf8873]

This game is absolutely gorgeous

[@williamvanhuss8452]

One of the best doujin shooters

[@Coreagrus]

Side note: Is Zero Ranger on your radar? If not, it should be.

[@LazyMaybe]

I love this game's TLB. I especially love that its theme is called "Cookin' on the Hell"

[@NoiseDayForCats0]

omg I had no idea ZeroRanger was paying homage to this game. That's so cool!

[@downsouth420]

Haven’t played this since 2003. Used to love the hell out of this.

[@the1337fleet]

Good shit. I remember playing this in 2004 and impressing my roommate at the time! I still remember some of this music vividly. BTW, the Stage 0 boss is a big version of the player's ship...

[@rivaldiarta692]

Oh yeah it is XD

[@rockhyde7775]

It’s hard to mess up a shmup and this is no exception. Definitely want to play it. Hope I can get this one working on my Steam Deck.

[@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69]

When I first cleared this game on second loop, I was on my last life. I was trying to see how long I could go before all my lives were gone. Beat the final boss on Loop 2 and I was relieved. But then... "Whew, second operation accomplished. Loop 3, here we go." "... Why is the music different?" "What is that thing? *WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING!?!"* "This seems chill enough, I can dodge this for a bi-- *OH SHIT!!!"* "Oh god! Oh shit! It's relentless! No no no!" "Shit, I can't lose my last life here! I can't--!" *BOOM!!!*

[@Dark_Angel555]

ok .... I have heard and played some bullet hell games but THIS .... this is no comment game - it's beyond insanity

[@LivingWithGames]

Old replay or not, fuck me sideways. I founf this game ages ago on youtube by a certain man, AdigunPolack. In an older account, of course. But to see someone like you not only break the 21 million mask and lose only one life on TLB, is kind of maddening. You didn't spam bombs either, only used them when necessary. You have more guts than I thought, excellent play.

[@Coreagrus]

Hell yeah! This is one of my favorites.

[@LoppinLazy]

That stage 2 theme is pretty bangin’

[@RougeNoire2757]

The 4th stage has 10 bosses in total if I counted correctly.

[@griegomamey4624]

ok I can clearly see the inspiration taken into zeroranger both in the TLB and the music that goes along with it

[@OkamiAmaterasu.]

22:25 - I'm guessing this is the boss that Big Zan from Zeroranger is a reference to?

[@Ranney165]

The beta version of Big Zan’s design was even more blatantly ripped from this, yeah. The name even makes sense since the life bonus here’s called the “Zanki Bonus”, and that boss looks like a big version of the player ship here.

[@kairi85]

thank u

[@ObsoleteGamercom]

This game is amazing!!!!

[@batoceragames4828]

I love it !

[@morolo6665]

Bueeeeena !!!! no se puede ser tan japonés !!!!! gran partida. congratulation !!!

[@kardenaz]

you madman!

[@euglena8112]

おー超連射懐かしい。

[@hakuro07]

Oh hey, just in case you haven't noticed but this game received an update awhile ago. It has an Impossible rank now if I'm not mistaken, maybe you should give it a try.

[@yokdahaneler.3418]

now give me back my eyes.

[@PaulRockey]

Does this have a physical release on any modern consoles? Soundtrack is great.

[@LukePlayz-gf2is]

How do you autoshoot?

[@jamesiewalters2360]

huh; i think the stage zero boss was copied into zeroranger.

[@ssg-eggunner]

Recca 2

[@faelgamesantigos5957]

Eu nao consigo zera esse jogo

[@NathanTran]

Ver 1.10

[@G3E007]

touhou