R-Type

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R-Type

Game No.	48
Developer	Manfred Trenz, Andreas Escher
Company	Software Company
Publisher	Activision, Electric Dreams
Musician	Chris Hülsbeck, Ramiro Vaca
HVSC-File	/MUSICIANS/H/Huelsbeck_Chris/R-Type.sid
Release	1988
Plattform	{{{Plattform}}}
Genre	Shoot'em Up, V-Scrolling
Gamemode	1P only
Operation
Media
Language
Information	{{{Info}}}

1 Voting
2 Description
3 Design
4 Hints
5 Solution
6 Cheats
7 Critics
8 Miscellaneous
9 Highscore
10 Weblinks

[edit] Voting

Voting of the C64-Wiki users (10=the best vote):
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[edit] Description

"A desperate battle is fought in the endless and unknown dimensions of the universe, which are being contaminated and corrupted by an evil power. The evil power is the Bydo Empire, whose aim is the repression of the whole world. Its inhabitants are eerie creatures, whose direct sight already cause fear. But the humanity fights back and sends you to advance in an unimaginable highly modern spaceship, the R-9 fighter. Behind the control panel of this fantastic battle machine you are the last rampart of humanity against this enemy."

(Story text from the manual)

[edit] Design

[edit] Hints

[edit] Loading instructions

Insert diskette in the drive and type

LOAD"*",8,1

Insert cassette into the datasette and press SHIFT and RUN/STOP simultaneously and then press the PLAY button on the datasette.

[edit] Operation

In the Intro

F1 starts the game

In the game

The R9-Fighter is controlled by the joystick in controlport 2.

Space disconnect an connect the Force satellite.

F7 pause

[edit] Weapon system

In the game you can pick up a variety of objects.

- Bonuscontainer, contains the following upgrades

- Reflection-Laser-Crystal, laser is reflected on the walls

- Anti-Aircraft-Laser-Crystal, a broader and stronger wave-laser

- Ground-Laser-Crystal, energy discharges move along the wall

- Homing Missiles, aim searching rockets

- Extra Speed, raises the speed of the R9-Fighter

- Shield Orbs, protects the R9-Fighter from above and below

[edit] Solution

On Longplayer.de you can find the complete solution to R-Type.

[edit] Cheats

Entering SUMITA into the highscore list as a cheat does not work with the C64 version.

POKEs

This POKE switches off the sprite collisions in the disk version.

POKE 12887,96
SYS 32768

Be careful, in level 1 when facing the end boss, you should defeat it before it starts to walk over the screen.

[edit] Critics

Logan: "Nice game, but Katakis is the better R-Type on the C64."

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Cracks

Atomic Demo Heroes
Beastie Boys +2
Crack Swap Industries +8
Crest +3
Double and Hotline +
Ikari +2 (also works with the floppy VC-1581)
Oneway +2
Rawhead +3
Talent +2
IDE64 Version (works with HDD, CD and floppy) JiffyDOS v6.01
SuperCPU/RAMCard version

Some cracks cannot be played to the end. More about this topic can be found on C64Games.de (see game links).

[edit] Images of the original

As all the cracks of R-Type are erroneous -as already mentioned, C64Games attended to this problem and could create a G64-Disk-Image of the original. It works only with the WinVICE emulator and can be played to 99%.

[edit] Missing options

Unfortunately, in the 6 1/2 weeks of development at Rainbow Arts they forgot to built in a highscore saver. Not even the code for it can be found in the game. For this problem there is also a solution on C64Games.
The 2-player mode doesn't seem to work either. The code is present in the game, but it is missed out. In the IDE64-Patch by Arcane the mistake was eliminated.