Ok...I think it's about time!

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Originally Posted by ApolloBoy

Except that you have to go through the code screen every time you want to play a non-region locked game and it's more unstable. It's very easy to mod the cart slot and it looks good if you file the slot as opposed to taking cutting tools to it.

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32X solves it all. No slot cutting, no game genie code screens at start up, and has a slot big enough to fit the Jap MD carts.

So to rephrase an earlier post: Get your hands on a 32X and dive into all that Japanese goodness!

But you might as well get a Game Genie anyway for games that you do need lockout codes for.

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Originally Posted by Curryman123

One thing, I want to buy eliminate down and Glaylancer, how can i play these on the American genesis. Is there a region lock?

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Eliminate Down is a mix bag. It has some really impressive and fantastic looking levels, then it has some really mediocre levels. Not that other shmups don't have that kind of design mixture, it just feels exaggerated in Eliminate Down. I dunno.

Glaylancer is a solid game all the way through. The game itself it great and solid from start to finish. It also has that original 16bit feel to it, if you're more into that side of the 16bit generation (which I am). I highly recommend getting this shmup. You won't be disappointed.

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Originally Posted by The Coop

Oh, and Curryman, should you go after TF IV for the sake of owning the original, here are the Game Genie codes...

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What do you mean, for the sake of owning the original? From what I understand, there is zero difference between TF IV and Lightening Force, other than the name change.

Lightening Force is the original.

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Originally Posted by jerry coeurl

What do you mean, for the sake of owning the original? From what I understand, there is zero difference between TF IV and Lightening Force, other than the name change.

Lightening Force is the original.

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No "99 ships" cheat, some slight text edits done to the epilogue for the U.S. release, far better looking package art, its original title intact... little things like that.

I'll give you the 99 ships cheat, but the rest of those don't really have any effect on the game itself. You don't play the package art, and regardless of what they called it over here it's still the same game.

Now I can see picking up the Japanese version of say Dynamite Headdy or Contra Hard Corps over the US equivalents, but this strikes me as a case where it really doesn't matter. And I think the "benefits" you listed would be outweighed by the fact that you would have to enter a game genie code every single time you wanted to play it. Just my opinion, of course. :)


TL;DR version: Just get Lightening Force, OP.

It basically only comes down to whether or not you're anal about not having the misspelled "Lightening" or not.

I don't know why you would buy Tatsujin over Truxton either since I think you can trick the game into playing as Tatsujin if you really want.

I like to spell it lightening thunder force 4.