Mega R-Type Full Demo Loop - Sega Genesis & Mega Drive

There was some confusion among a few people as to what this game was and included. Here is the full options menu and 2 play sessions using both Arrowhead(Mega Soundtrack) and Leo Prototype(Arcade Soundtrack).
Captured on the Mega SG at 1080p60.
Visit the creators page:
/ @theroboz
EDIT: There is music at the ending credits but I had to mute it because it kept bringing up a copyright claim.

[@atomicskull6405]

If anyone is wondering why the Super Stage has never appeared in any other R-type game but the SMS version it's because it's original content by Compile who developed the SMS port of R-Type. So that stage and it's unique assets actually belongs to Compile not Irem.

[@jessragan6714]

And all that's left of Compile NOW is Compile Heart, which means that if they remade the game, they'd have Idea Factory do it and put lots of softcore porn in it.

[@Unholy_Louie]

@@jessragan6714 Haha. Man. Sad but true :P Made me laugh, thank you! It's funny what can be the result of decades of mergers and more frequently acquisitions; the end result rarely retain anything of what it used to be, who it used to employ, what it used to "do" eh. Still, there's still art even there, unlike freaking pachinko BS imho. Or worst, mobile casinos masquerading as games (a real issue with younger segment of the crowd; not a surprising when it's pushed knowingly by large creators monetize the trust youngsters easily give to them. They knowingly push that crap on kids. But to older guys it's a great way to filter content TBH ;) And NO, you DON'T NEED to SELL YOUR SOUL to shady casino companies to make a living here. You can use it to make MORE money, there's a distinction. I say it because there's always an idiot coming out of the woodwork with that demonstrably false argument. In life, not only in KZbin and since forever, you will have MANY occasions to "make MORE money"; sometimes the only limit is your own morals, if you have any. Civie is a channel about mostly obscure DOS FPS, and he's now a giant and NEVER, EVER, not a SINGLE time, used a sponsor (aside spoofs lol). He's making a lot of money. Could he and have been making more money? YES! But he told them to GTFO because of principles. Same with guys like SLX and sooooo many others. I think my wake up call was when AVGN, YES, THE channel about horrible games and anti-consumerism in the industry shilling for Raid:SL... A "game" owned by a literal casino cartel in the middle east; So not a bad but cheeky good game, no. A "if you have any sort of casino related weakness you WILL waste your money AND time" in the most boring and insulting gaming loop possible. Not sure why I felt like writing this, but I did, and it felt good. Sorry guys lol. Thank for the vid SLX. But about that, R-type has active rights holders so they use the visibility given by channel like yours to test the water, probe the beast a little, instead of doing ALL the work and getting a C&D letter the next day. It's love to hear their plan for that. I navigated those water with Sony with the PSP and VITA CFW/ hacking scene, and SNK + various hardware companies they used for their last 6 years of products or so (since the Neo Geo Minis I think, all the way up to the MVS X, which is when I left because the main team decided to fold everything even though no one had a right to stop freely distributing a hack/CFW without actual roms; it's been a long standing caselaw since the Nintendo landmark case loss to Game Genie guys AGES ago). But here, I mean, it's directly the IP of another company. Hope they refuse donation, for now at least, or it will come back to bit them in the a$$ even if it's a negligible amount.

[@Diskoboy1974]

I remember my friend and I finding that stage. We wrote down what we did, got a screenshot, and sent it in to EGM and GamePro magazines. Turns out we were beaten to the punch by 3-4 days by someone else. It was still a pretty epic little find.

[@TECAgain]

​@@jessragan6714 OH GOD. 😳

[@DhinCardoso]

I absolutely love that feeling caused by Genesis sound chip

[@kaitain7595]

def is what intrigued me the most. didnt disappoint.

[@NewportBox100s]

That emoji is something fierce! When did that come out and how did you get it?

[@gsimatty]

The colour on this version is awesome, awesome port

[@StevenCusic]

so glad they gave the music an atomic runner revamp

[@dexocube]

Wow this port looks amazing! I'm loving the remixed soundtrack as well.

[@sharksmate]

I definitely like the look of this game and the sprite work looks incredible. If i had any constructive criticism to give it would only be that i think some of the sound assets could be tweaked a little bit. The explosions of basic enemies especially seemed to be too grainy and jarbled for my taste. Also hoping for more variations in the songs as far as looping. One of the tracks felt very repetitive. Overall this game looks spectacular and i hope it really turns into something special 😃

[@f.k.b.16]

I'm not hearing what others are and I'm pretty nit pickish about me audio shtuff... Especially compared to the arcade or other games that would have released when this game originally did.

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

What I don’t like about the audio in this remake is the arranged version of the R Type arcade soundtrack is she excessive use of the PSG chip it drags an otherwise awesome rearrangement of the original R Tyoe arcade soundtrack i much prefer the original version which sounds very clean and close to the arcade original.

[@RE-wo1ss]

The music is incredible. Normally I'm very down on changing something that is so much associated with the original version but it really pumps you up.

[@felixoldgames]

Muito bom, sempre esperei por R-Type no Mega Drive

[@ynotwalk7391]

trippy, so they included an enhanced version of the sms hidden stage

Amazing work, looking forward to play it!

[@shaggymcdaniel3216]

You did it. You beat the game! You are now knighted as Sega Lord X.

[@Chan_Prado]

This is looking incredible so far! The game engine looks solid, so I can't wait until the rest of the content is in place. I also agree that the sound mixing conflicts a lot, not that's something I'm sure the dev team will iron out.

[@joshmiller887]

I’d love a physical copy of this!!👏🙌

[@DesertRainReads]

This keeps up? I'm sure one will come to fruition.

[@thehumbleone1983]

Me too guys i definitely would buy a boxed original cartridge

[@user-hk3es9tq8d]

thanks for showing the demo

[@thegameslibrarian5264]

This is sweet love some R Type

[@travissmith8017]

Hopefully they sell through rom, this looks and sounds amazing!

[@roldanrosario8292]

Yep. That’s R-Type. This took effort. If they based this on the Master System sourced code they did a fantastic job of updating it to 16 bit.

[@theroboz]

All code is written from scratch, just playing the game and looking at videos. I have no access to any source code unfortunately...

[@fossil-bit8439]

Awesome! Also looking forward to Earthion!

[@mazonemayu]

Already looks amazing. Would be awesome if he were to implement the Leo force pods into this game

[@jm2621]

Hoorah!

[@krissymarklewis1793]

smooth as fuck.

[@cyxceven]

This looks so good!

[@skalt711]

I love remixed music!

[@DLiberator78]

An awesome conversion of an awesome game. The soundtrack is rocking!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Been keeping an eye on this one for awhile, but... what's the endgame here? Are they going to sell physical cartridges? Wouldn't that get them in trouble with Irem (or whoever owns the license now?) Even giving it away for free could be troublesome...

[@SegaLordX]

As long as R-Team doesn't try and sell it, it should be ok. Unless it was a Nintendo game. Then of course a cease and desist would have been issued instantly.

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

Ooooo So glad this is a thing. First Darius, now R-Type? Dude!

[@johncraw8572]

Awesomeness video please do more thanks ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Arcadiality]

Mega Drive really was and is the better system for the arcade game. Awesome work.

[@greensun1334]

The Genesis is better suited for shooters and sports games than the SNES, because of the faster CPU. But it's a different story with fighting games and RPGs, those games are usually better on SNES. Both of those great systems, have their pros and contras.

[@Isoquant]

SNES probably better overall for arcade ports with the SA-1 chip. You could run this at full 60hz instead of 30hz on mega. And you'd have the superior sprite count, color, and wavetable synthesis of the SNES hardware.

[@greensun1334]

@@Isoquant with SA-1 for sure, it's a huge improvement for the comparable slow 3,58mHz CPU. But I guess he meant how those games are running on stock hardware without any helper chips. Like I said, it depends on the genre and the game itself, and altrough the Genesis has the bigger shmup library, there are also very impressive S-tier shmups without or close to no slowdown on SNES, like Rendering Ranger R2, Super R-Type 3, Super Aleste, Axelay and other great titles.

[@Isoquant]

@@greensun1334 Yeah, that makes sense about the stock hardware.

[@kevinjrpiedr2490]

The music is fire can't wait to play it! 🔥🔥

[@Diskoboy1974]

That remixed soundtrack is pretty damn awesome. This looks incredible on the Genesis/MD. It's a shame it took this long for someone to port it. Would love a physical copy.

[@dwightdixon8508]

Ok so this looks fantastic and exciting to see a physical release but the music and sound effects seem to be battling it out for supremacy so hopefully adding sound levels in the menu to adjust would aid this. That is all

[@albey1816]

I agree with the sound. A BGM and SFX Volume slider would be good.

[@theroboz]

This is something we talked about a lot but it's not easy to balance. Right now the music driver in sgdk doesn't allow software control of volume, so once music and sfx are authored, that's what you get. If you can point out a timestamp where you hear this conflict it would be of great help to use as a reference for further adjustmenets.

[@dwightdixon8508]

@@therobozRemember this is just my opinion, so no offense at all but the music sounds like it’s on the same volume level as the sound effects so if the music were 2 maybe 3 levels lower I can focus on the task at hand, firing weapons and hearing enemies being hit & eliminated as it is the music at same levels making that difficult, for me at least. The visuals look fantastic and regardless of sound effects & music levels I’d buy without hesitation.

[@theroboz]

we're working on balancing this, looking for opinions after everyone tries the demo @@dwightdixon8508

[@evilash570]

Looks awesome!!

[@Buttafingaz]

Amazing!!

[@tecnosofttechnosoft3426]

Great work ! Thanks.

[@atomicskull6405]

I wonder what an R-Type Final 2 demake for the Megadrive would be like?

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Pretty rockin' music!

[@buzzclikverifyme]

Dobkeratops seems a bit harder to beat when you don't have the force in your arsenal! 😅 Been watching the development of this project for a while now, and I'm very excited to see the finished product, especially Level 3! 😉

[@NeoGeoNinja81]

I've double checked elsewhere amidst concerns, however, this does actually run at a buttery smooth 60fps (this video is running at around 30fps, for anyone wondering...). Overall, looks amazing 👌

[@SegaLordX]

This video was 60fps.

[@jessragan6714]

The remix for the Compile stage is A-W-E-S-O-M-E. Too bad not many people will be able to find it in the full game!

[@onionhat745]

Never played the first R-Type. The spaghetti and peas stage was pretty novel.

[@gracekim25]

Awesome

[@OllyDee123]

Awesome. I can't wait to be embarrassingly bad at it.

[@projectmayhem6898]

Thanks!

[@SegaLordX]

Welcome!

[@georged7627]

WOW 😲🤘🏾

[@landom9080]

It’s amazing to see how much smoother and accurate this port is compared to the Turbo version. While I enjoyed the Turbo very much I always thought arcade ports made on it were subpar. Especially when others like Ninja Spirit (another great IREM title) and Shinobi were also ported to the PC Engine and ironically not the Megadrive. The sprite works looks spot on IMO. I always prefer original soundtracks when they are arcade titles but it’s nice to hear reworked soundtracks.

[@cpt_bill366]

Hey man, you're pretty good at that.

[@karnovjunior]

They gotta do something about the Leo ship. In R-Type Leo the bits home in on enemies when you hold down the fire button. Cant see how you can beat Bydo without using that gimmick. With R-9 shooting the force pod into Bydo is mandatory if you want to beat the game.

[@atomicskull6405]

The Leo tree ships are VERY op in R Type Final 2 though you can compensate by just playing on R-Typer difficulty.

[@democrazy69]

Gotta love the days when good and evil was standard. Bydo Empire is just evil, and that's that. And they thought you were the evil one.

[@Johnnygrafx]

The drums @3:52

[@jay1177]

Looks great. But some of the sound effects are a little off. Hopefully this is something they can tweak before release 👍🏻😁😁

[@theroboz]

I think it's due to the megadrive sample rate. all sfx are sampled straight off the arcade rom but converted to a smaller format that mangled high frequencies a lot. The anti air ribbon laser specially sounds quite different and we'll see what to do near the end of the project

[@zusk8556]

Is this demo actually available? I can't find any links to it online anywhere.

[@SegaLordX]

It's not out yet. End of the month ETA.

[@zusk8556]

@@SegaLordX Okay cool, can't wait! This looks excellent.

[@TraumfresserBMofficial]

Blows my mind it didn’t get a genesis release during its day. The TG16 got one and so did the master system. The FUCK...

[@turbinegraphics16]

I always liked the blue background of the first level from the sms but actually I didn't know thats not like the arcade. I compared side by side with the pc engine and this has more detailed background graphics but the next levels will be a challenge as they really push the colour pallete of the pc engine for smooth gradients. Well done.

[@somemadcaaant]

Looks 👍

[@dragongamer2670]

Would have been really cool if this had a 2 player version of the game. Like the Recent Remix release. Loved being able to play R-Type 1 and 2 with 2 players.

[@abcmaya]

OMG. I hope so!!! that would be awesome!!!

[@theroboz]

It's actually a neat idea, i'll try to do something once more levels are done!

[@dragongamer2670]

@@theroboz Thanks! Cause 2 player or more games are the only thing I collect now. Just makes the games more enjoyable for me.

[@noob_fighter368]

Que massa!!!!!! Amazing

[@JDoucette]

R-Type needs a respawn at start of stage, not at checkpoints (mid stage), which is unnecessarily difficult and only useful to be a quarter muncher. It is much more fun to get more power up through the stage than to restart in the middle of chaos. Please add this option! 😊

[@JDoucette]

The respawn in position was tried in R-Type Dimensions and it doesn't work. The game is not balanced for this. It's not fun and only serves to beat the game despite losing. The fun is the power up system and kicking ass.

[@rsmith02]

R-Type 3 did respawn at checkpoints and always had power ups there to give you a chance of beating the level. Had it put me back at the beginning I would have just given up.

[@JDoucette]

@@rsmith02 Sure. To be clear, I am speaking about the original R-Type arcade and ports of it, such as this Sega Genesis port. The stages are so brutal to start mid-way (there's only one checkpoint per stage) that it's much better to start at the beginning. Sure it means more back tracking, but it also means less replays of the 2nd tougher half of the stage with no fire power. Adding onto this the multi-power-up system (options, force, missiles) which takes several stages to max out, more stage time = more chance to max it out.

[@albey1816]

Just have it as an option, in the settings menu to re spawn at checkpoint or at start of stage, then every ones happy.

[@mattcole6230]

If this had the C64 sound track it would be perfect!

[@jamesmcgeachy5433]

🎉

[@StevenCusic]

I know I commented on this already, butI should remake the remake with custom fm and xg midi instruments + my own custom sound fonts

[@roydriver8956]

Are the levels shorter then master system version?

[@zxspectrum16KB]

The arcade screen is vertically bigger why didn't they add vertical scrolling like the pc engine version?

[@SegaLordX]

They did.

[@zxspectrum16KB]

@@SegaLordX eh?

[@edy1361]

@@zxspectrum16KB You can choose it in the options menu.

[@zxspectrum16KB]

@@edy1361 have you seen the coc and zx spectrum versions? Maybe there's hope for nemesis!

[@El_Cheapo]

That indestructible spinning thing in the last stage seems too predictable and moves in a single pattern. I remember the movement being more random (almost no pattern) and therefore makes the stage much harder, since that thing darts all over the play field.

[@opa-age]

Is that second stage a new original stage?

[@SegaLordX]

It's the secret stage from the Master System release.

[@opa-age]

@@SegaLordX !!!!!!

[@targetrender9529]

Music is actually better! The game does appear to be speeded up just a bit, but that’s good.

[@Schush]

I hope they tackle R-type II as well...

[@albey1816]

There needs to be a: SFX and BGM volume adjust in the options.

[@theroboz]

This is something we talked about a lot but it's not easy to balance. Right now the music driver in sgdk doesn't allow software control of volume, so once music and sfx are authored, that's what you get. If you can point out a timestamp where you hear this conflict it would be of great help to use as a reference for further adjustmenets.

[@Koexistence13]

You launch your circular invincible thing into the first bosses belly and leave it there and use rapid fire while dodging the bubbles. Easier and faster

[@SegaLordX]

Yup. But killing the cool boss in 3 seconds hardly makes for a good demo of the visuals.

[@Koexistence13]

@@SegaLordX fair

[@SegaLordX]

It's still a good point. I could have launched it a few times around the stages just to show the mechanic. Didn't honestly think to do it.

[@Koexistence13]

@@SegaLordX bro. Your doing fine. This channel is a can't miss for me. When ever i get a notification of another post from you I literally say "awesome" out loud. FYI I play the sms R Type constantly so when I see this game I can't help it .

[@kengoku3498]

This music has ruined my childhood arcade experience rather play SMS version 💯

[@andromedaone3640]

Hope it comes to evercade vs

[@renatodalmo]

é impressão minha mas tem uma musica bem parecida com a do Raiden

[@carlozduerson2935]

Sega lord Please review Tomb Raider Unfinished Business for Sega Saturn Then do the Demos of Metal Gear Solid for the Sega Saturn Then I he Demo of Tomb Raider 2 for Sega Saturn

[@NintenData]

Linkkkkk

[@NintenData]

Noone likes da red orb xD

[@misterbigg3336]

It does not look as good as the PC Engine version :(

[@abcmaya]

how so? it look virtually identical to the arcade. just like the pc engine, its pretty much pixel perfect. Plus this have parallax scrolling like the arcade.

[@misterbigg3336]

@@abcmaya I watched a long play of the pce version and the genny version looked rough to me.

[@chrisjohnroach]

​@@misterbigg3336Made up to see this on the MD, bit of a dream come true. But it does highlight how great the PCE version is. The Engine has a better colour palette & the port was programmed by Hudson who designed the PCE hardware. Still, this MD version is a fantastic achievement

[@LEXRAPS]

Hated that game lol

[@karnovjunior]

This wasn't made for you. Go play Sonic :)

[@MarquisDeSang]

R-Type was never good

[@B1FFCO]

Maybe you're just not good. It's okay though keep at it and you'll get better each try!

[@yeahyeahwowman8099]

R-Type was never good, doesn't give any examples as to why. Was this the new thing to do on the internet, lol.

[@kalofkrypton]

Edgy

[@sharksmate]

Seriously, that response fails at every level. If you can't give an opinion without any details as to why you have it, then your opinion does absolutely nothing to sway my nor anyone else's perception of this game. From what I can see from this footage, the game appears to be pretty damn decent.

[@karnovjunior]

Say you just suck at shmups and rather play a million more Sonic and Streets of Rage hacks😊.

[@miltiadiskoutsokeras9189]

Early access?

[@DhinCardoso]

Looks like it is in early access E T A end of this month to general public