Uploaded August 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Here is a 1-Life clear of the legendary conversion of R-Type on the PC Engine. Unfortunately the Japanese HuCard release only had the first 4 stages and the latter 4 stages were released on a separate HuCard, I think was due to the cost of memory back in the day and would have been costly. The American TG16 version took advantage of the price drop and came with the whole game included on a single TurboChip. Not to leave the Japanese PC Engine owners out, Irem released a SuperCD version with all the stages. This version also includes lengthy cutscenes, Tbh I have never had the patience to sit through them, its a nice extra I suppose. Also it comes with a questionable arranged soundtrack. For the most part I think I prefer the original HuCard music, though.
*for some reason it took a while to load stage 7 after I completed stage 6. I am not sure if it was the CD drive having trouble reading the disk or it was loading a particularly long cutscene, luckily it loaded and didn't crash!
*Played on genuine hardware through a CRT in RGB with a padhacked Sega VirtuaStick Highgrade, and captured in glorious 480i with my £5 USB capture dongle...
Here is a 1-Life clear of the legendary conversion of R-Type on the PC Engine. Unfortunately the Japanese HuCard release only had the first 4 stages and the latter 4 stages were released on a separate HuCard, I think was due to the cost of memory back in the day and would have been costly. The American TG16 version took advantage of the price drop and came with the whole game included on a single TurboChip. Not to leave the Japanese PC Engine owners out, Irem released a SuperCD version with all the stages. This version also includes lengthy cutscenes, Tbh I have never had the patience to sit through them, its a nice extra I suppose. Also it comes with a questionable arranged soundtrack. For the most part I think I prefer the original HuCard music, though.
*for some reason it took a while to load stage 7 after I completed stage 6. I am not sure if it was the CD drive having trouble reading the disk or it was loading a particularly long cutscene, luckily it loaded and didn't crash!
*Played on genuine hardware through a CRT in RGB with a padhacked Sega VirtuaStick Highgrade, and captured in glorious 480i with my £5 USB capture dongle...
