STRATO FIGHTER/RAIGA

The final game on the JTGAIDEN core is a famous shooter: RAIGA. I have looked for other Tecmo games of around this time but they do not seem to operate on this hardware. So the core will support Ninja Gaiden, Wild Fang and Raiga.

History

Space shooter game released by Tecmo in 1991. In AD 2135, under attack from an unknown enemy, the Earth's military launched the RAIGA mission and sent two MB-OGs into the enemy colony, entrusting them with our future. Whether an American president was flying the MB-OG is not clear, though. Controls include an eight-way lever, shot and turn buttons. Notice that using the analog stick to control the ship will give you 32 directions on the core.

The turn-around button is your best ally, as enemies lurke from behind. This button is not very common in shooters. The turning around feature can be seen on Section Z and Side Arms (both from CAPCOM, and supported by JT cores). More enemies appear from above, below and behind you than from the front. So the items you choose in different stages can make the difference between victory and another coin.

As each item name is shown under it, you can identify them easily and make sure to pick up only the best ones for the situation.

Weapons

• Shotgun: shots in three forward directions

• Ion Launcher: strongest horizontal fire

• Vertical: fires a wave in three directions: up, down and forward

Protection

• Beam Rifle: Automatic enemy lock-on

• Solid Shooter: sabre attacks enemies at close range

• Blaster: moves to trace the ship's movement and attacks forward

Side Arms

• Homing Missile: automatically tracks enemies

• Bomber: drops bombs diagonally downwards

The best all-round fighting equipment might be the Vertical + Beam Rifle + Homing Missile.

Other Updates

• Stack reset value fixed on jt6805

• Note that MiSTerAddons released a new firmware that has addressed the phantom input issue for MiSTercade V1.X owners to solve Player 2 stick movement causing phantom inputs for Player 1

About the Sinden Lightgun, we have it working now but NY Captor does work well when the input comes from the gun. It might be that the input is shakier than when using the mouse and maybe the original software gets confused. We are still looking into it so we decided not to release it this week.

Thanks for your support.