i am 39 years old, and i have played this game on super nintendo on 1993(15 years old). Great memory when i think, was the best age of video game. great work !!
Expert use of the power shot here. It was always a weapon I struggled with. I've always liked the laser myself but I've never cleared tricky or wild - only normal - and I spammed the final boss with bombs!!
The Laser and the Power Shot are my favourite weapons in this game. I also like how Circle deals continuous heavy damage to any targets that are locked on to one of the circles, that's a very fun way to kill the boss on Area 2.
@@Vinicius-hs2rf Then you should tell it to stop slowing down at 50:44. It's brief, minor, and not worth talking about, except to give credit to the careful tile management and expert programming this game is doing. It's nowhere near as easy as they're making it look.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Truth. But this is practically imperceptible. But it is worth remembering that this game is in SlowROM (2.68mhz), that is, it is using only 67% of the Snes processor speed, which is even more impressive. Certainly a conversion to FastROM (3.58mhz) would eliminate this tiny slowdown. But it's not worth it since this tiny deceleration is insignificant and doesn't interfere with the gameplay at all.
@@Vinicius-hs2rf Do you know the first game to run the SNES cpu at full speed, by any chance? Every single early SNES game seems to be saving money on the cart - even F-Zero, judging by the FastRom hack.
If there were not the issue of Compile's bankruptcy (which complicates the issue of the remaining copyright), it would probably be there. The game was also never released on the Wii's Virtual Console.
I know this was played long ago but it was awesome to watch on wild. Just makes me love it even more. I've only played through on Hard before and this looks nuts, but I'm still going to try it. 😁 This game was always Gunhed on SNES for me and all the similar sound effects only add to that. This couldn't have been easy to route in this difficulty with how long the game is. Seriously impressive.
Thanks! Space megaforce/super aleste is probably my favorite compile game, although I haven't played all of them yet. Wild mode is really where the game shines, even though the game is an hour long it flies by and the intensity never let's up.
Nice one man! Funnily enough I just played this today and my final score was 5,433,230 so only about 600 points off your score! Personally my weapon of choice was always Multi-Directional Shot. You can’t deny how powerful Powershot is, but I loved how flexible MDS was.
Mate you have just made my night. No-one at my school could love or play this game like me. And no-one, including me, plays this game like you do. I'll keep watching!
Fantastic stuff! Watching that really brought back some great memories of playing this game. I can't remember ever daring Wild difficulty though. Watching your panic when you accidentally lost the power weapon on stage 10 (was it 10?) and desperately trying to survive until you could pick it up again was a heart in mouth moment for you I'm sure :).
Yeah, I was in a lot of trouble when I picked up the wrong weapons in stage 10, happened twice. I had to use more bombs than I would have liked and just barely had enough to make it to the end of the game. This game is very long and stays very intense for almost the entire time, so you really have to keep focused. There were a lot of close calls in addition to the stage 10 stuff. The space graveyard stage in particular is probably the hardest in the game, and there were a few times I was reduced down to level 0 and nearly died, I had to brute force bomb my way out of those situations. It's a really fun game, and the best part is you can usually come back from seemingly impossible situations because they are very generous with powerups and bombs. Thanks for the comment!
Apparently one way to minimise slowdown is to have lots of enemies move mainly in vertical patterns, since this gives the game less information per scanline or something like that.
The Japanese version had a different track for Stage 3. It's a really good track actually, you should check out the Japanese version and go to that stage and have a listen.
@@stpierreorama Yes, but both games are excellent! I love M.U.S.H.A too, but Space MegaForce is more graphically advanced in color and with very well executed Mode 7 effects (scale, zoom and rotation).
TBYVGS BOS Thanks, your videos were a huge inspiration to me, and really got me motivated to play this game. And you were so right about how awesome it is, it's quickly becoming one of my favorite games!
One of the BEST parts of SM is how all the BOSSES have some ol' Slick stuff to say to you before the fight😂 For those who can't quite hear/understand: 5:58 -- "Welcome to the Underworld" 12:10 --"Give me a break will you?" 🤣 19:47-- "Hey! Look Sharp!" 27:44 -- "To Hell with you" 🤣🤣🤣 36:02 --"What a brave guy you are" 43:34 -- "I'll watch you die!" 53:06 -- "Fancy meeting you here!" 1:01:01 -- "I came from the World beyond."
Aaand on the complete opposite side of the spectrum from that awful Raiden port, here we have one of the (rather few) gems in the SNES shooter library. Loved it back then and still love it now. I remember as if it was yesterday when I attempted a 1CC in Wild mode. It was circa 2010. Problem is that I didn't have a working SNES anymore so I went the emulation route and played via a keyboard (and for some reasons I couldn't get the button for speed change to work so I played through the whole game with default speed). Also, in order to up the ante, I decided to impose myself only 1 week to achieve this... And I managed to do it but it was in extremis, on the very last day, at the very last hour! 😅 But it was immensely satisfying and I was hurry to share my score on various shmup-related forums... Anyway good job on the 1 LC 👍 The Power Shot comes in handy isn't it? I remember also using the weapons 2, 3 and 7 a lot. A 1LC is something I should also consider but only when I'll get a working SNES again so I'll do it with a pad or joystick this time around. Super Aleste is not without its flaws or, at least, compromises. There's no weapon sound FX, there are a lot of reused assets throughout the game, enemies are often small and with limited behavior... but it's otherwise excellent, with creative visual FX, entertaining gameplay with cool weaponry and lot of great patterns to deal with and the soundtrack is pure magic. BTW it's interesting to know that Compile, the developer, sought help from the sound CPU in order to get all this frenziness running smoothly on an otherwise rather compromised SNES hardware. It's one of the few SNES games that did that alongside Super Smash T.V.
Great game, good gameplay. This is a great tribute 2 the legendary gunhead on pc engine, but done with such expert panache, giving us 'old school veterans a far superior game in every way possible on the Snes, w/o any of the classic slow down. That alone was a great tech feat & the great use of mode 7 & superb sound track, were just part of a superior shooter, that many agreed was a real show case for anyone doubting the real power of the Snes. Faster, smoother, better spirits, explosions, huge bosses, with mode 7 on bosses for scaling & rotating! You can see the love for gunhead the devs TOHO had & what better game then SMG 2 showcase their coding skills. This & Axelay (by Konami) were my 2 fav verticle shooters ever on Snes. Big thumbs from the boys n gals at awesome Bob 😀👍👊🙏💯
Insane gameplay .. One hell of a pilot . I just finally picked this up from my favorite game stores here in Nebraska. This is a awesome but difficult game that you make look easy . It's to bad both my favorite systems (nes,snes) all the games have gone way up in price the last 5 years . But thanks for the great video
+playakain Thanks, Space Megaforce / Super Aleste is one of my top 3 favorite shmups on the SNES and it really shines on the higher difficulty settings.
@@WeArePharmers Stage 1 Forest Zone > "Welcome... to the Underworld!" Stage 2 Mobile Fortress > (pilot) "Give me a break, will ya?!" Stage 4 Hi-Energy Satellite > "Hey! Look sharp!" Stage 5 Canyon > "Down with you!" Stage 7 Asteroid Belt > "What a sad sight you are..." Stage 8 Ship Graveyard > "I'll watch you die..." Stage 10 Coastline > "Fancy meeting you here!"
This game really deserves a re-release. This game is called Super Aleste in Europe. I’m not sure why it’s called Space megaforce in the us? Aleste was recognized brand before this game. But it’s not the first time an Aleste game is called something else. Musha: genesis, Blazing lazers: Pc engine/ Turbografx 16 (I think?) and probably a few more that I forgot
The Aleste name was only ever used on Robo Aleste (The sega cd game) in the US. Apparently we needed "better" names like Space Megaforce and Power Strike instead... Blazing Lasers is not technically an Aleste game, it was called Gunhed in Japan and based off a movie.
@@PEG You’re probably right. I think the Aleste name is more recognized in Europe and Japan. Blazing lazers really feels like an Aleste game, to me at least
Spoiler alert (compliment on strategy) Wow, I didn't know you could just stay in the upper left corner when the Area 8 boss started moving around, awesome job! Thursday, November 10, 2022 CE, 16:32 EST
BTW you got great skills to beat this with 1 life. It took me 2 lives but l got distracted half way by my ex. Here's a bit of trivia 4 all you Snes fan boys n gals:- The the sound is fantastic, 2 be expected by the console that had hands down the best Sony custom designed dsp with an 8 channel 16 bit stereo adpcm audio dsp, that produced near cd quality orchestral sounds & audio. Yes audio lovers, even beating the powerful 16 bit Neo Geo console audio!
I found 2 copies boxed and sealed of this game in my uncle's garage in Dec of 2020. He had an old video rental shop and also rented games. I remember trying this before selling everything. This game is very difficult.
I'm a couple minutes away from playing this bad boi for the first time. Super excited. Can't believe I've never come across it until now. You are a beast that's for sure. Seriously impressive lol; lemme ask because I usually need to play a Vertical Shooter like this for 5-10 hours before I feel really comfortable and used to it. How many hours have you put into this (Estimated obviously I'm sure you haven't kept track) to get to this level of skill?
tusheschannel Yes, that level is a nightmare, you really need to bomb quite a bit to make it through without taking damage. Agreed about the soundtrack, that's also my favorite song in this game.
Pegboy I used to like using the fully charged Power Shot too to shoot as many of the ship walls as I could, and trigger the debris explosions before I got too close to them. It's an awesome weapon, fully charged, it's second only to the bomb in terms of power.
I was never a fan of the Missiles, they just didn't seem to have the punch of the other weapons, perhaps I just didn't give them enough time. My personal favourites were the aforementioned Power Shot, The Multi Direction and the Scatter (I think that was its name, the 8th weapon with the exploding balls). The standard weapon was cool too, just for the sheer number of bullet patterns you could choose with it.
ive figured out how to use the 5 missile the best anyone can in this game i think. theirs little tricks you can do with it. like because the missiles shoot straight out from either side. you can shoot enemies ahead. while you are right beside like one of those enemy spawn doors. and blow it up i dont know if you read me but.... yea
Which upscaler and video cables did you used to capture? By that time I assume there was the Framemeister and other upcoming upscalers like the OSSC & Retrotinks came out the following years
I used the Framemeister to upscale then capture with El Gato HD Capture (the original one). The video cable was just some custom made SNES RGB scart cable I bought off ebay a long time ago. Was played on a 1-CHIP SNES, revision 2 I believe.
@@luisreyes1963 They can be different games but if you look good both games look similar, it is like an improvement of Gun Nac for the SNES, you could even say that it is a direct sequel to the game itself, at a glance you can see many equalities between Space Megaforce with Gun Nac, The most obvious is the ship, it is similar but not the same, some attacks the ship makes are clear reference to Gun Nac when it is just beginning to take Power Up's, also the form these same appear is similar, Not to mention that another and very obvious reference to Gun Nac, is that changing item of numbers, that same that goes into account regressive from 1 to 5 only that in Space Megaforce reaches until 8, Another reference is when a level is completed and is that animation when the ship withdraws, it is the same as Zanac, another Compile game, it's pretty obvious that Compile reused things from two of his best games for the Nes
@@ExtraerLC I would consider "Space Megaforce" a spiritual sequel to "Gun Nac", which means that they are very similar in lots of ways even though the second game isn't an actual sequel; it's kind of like how "Perfect Dark" is a spiritual sequel to "GoldenEye 007".
@@Peter_1986 It's curious because when you watch a Space Megaforce gamecplay By chance on UA-cam the first thing that came to me At the head was Gun Nac and then Zanac when the ship toward the animation of retreat at the end of a level
There are two versions of this game, if i remember, one with slightly different voices and some extra music that can not be found in the other, I had it at a time in emulation, but I never managed to find this rom then.
The Japanese version has different voices, and also a music track for Area 3 that doesn't exist in the American version. The reason why they removed that track was because it sounded exactly like parts of various songs from artists, like the chorus for the song "The Perfect Kiss" by New Order.
Best weapon in my opinion is Circle. You can freeze it from spinning and it double as a shield. It can attack thorough walls, enemy shield, etc. and it has the fastest rate of fire (constant).
And now, will you try to beat the game on wild setting without bullet cancel ? I did it on tricky mode and i'm trying to do the same but on wild difficulty. I still die in area 8.
TBYVGS BOS Man that's nuts, I can't believe you did that on Tricky or even made it to area 8 without power shot on wild. What weapons are you using? I think it might be possible using Sprite (weapon #7) but that cancels bullets too so I'm not sure if you would allow it.
Pegboy I honestly think that the wild setting is nearly impossible to beat without bullet cancel, so I would be proud if I only could do just a 1CC...I'm sure that power shot was specially designed for tricky and wild modes. But it's possible to beat tricky mode with another weapon (I beat this game using weapon 3) or without cancel. Wild mode is too fast and deadly to be beaten without power shot and without losing. So I still try to win, but I'm not sure I will make it one day...
Pegboy I reached area 9 on my last attempt a few hours ago. Area 8 is a level from hell ! And when I think there are still 4 areas left ahead...Areas 9,11 and 12 are short, but area 10 seems like a gateway to this goal. It's a crazy goal, but that's why I still try to reach it ! STG players are insane...I'm sure we STG players are all crazy !^^
TBYVGS BOS I agree that Area 8 and 10 are probably the hardest in the game. The Area 10 boss in particular seems impossible unless you have power shot or sprite.
It is kind of like a "spiritual successor", in other words a game that shares lots of game mechanics with an older game and has the same general style. A few other examples of games like that are "Star Ocean" and "Perfect Dark", which were spiritual successors to "Tales Of Phantasia" and "GoldenEye 007". Also, the NES games "Castlevania" and "Ninja Gaiden" have very similar game mechanics.
@@PEG I'm playing on hard and can't get passed Area 8. I feel like once you die there, it's almost impossible to level back up. I really only use Lazer for the bullet cancelling and I struggle with Power. I always mistime my blasts
Area 8 is the hardest level in the game, definately the part that cost me the most runs. You really need to learn how to time the power shot to get through it. Also remember there are 2 modes for each weapon, one charges much faster than the other for power shot.
I have Aleste (space megaforce) Its good, however I prefer Blazing Lazers on pc engine which I assume the same team made both games. Blazing Lazers is superior for me. Though Axelay is the greatest for the Snes
Yeah Blazing Lazers (huge favorite of mine too) was developed by Compile as Gunhed who did the Aleste (Space Megaforce is Super Aleste) series. They also did The Guardian Legend.
People go on about the framerate but it isnt actually that good looking,i remember buying it shortly after release and it was a downgrade in graphics,it looked and sounded more like a megadrive game alot like thunderforce but with cool voices and weapons ,game was too easy with OP weapons.. axeley,un squadron,gradius 3 and parodius all better
This game got slept on hard. One of the best shmups on SNES right up there with Axelay.
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i am 39 years old, and i have played this game on super nintendo on 1993(15 years old).
Great memory when i think, was the best age of video game.
great work !!
Same here. Man it was a great time to be 15! Perfect age to really enjoy those 16-bit consoles for sure!
You are born in 1978.
It is a great memory, for me at least Except that this guy cheated through the whole game. other than that, yeah...great.
I didn't cheat, none of my videos use any cheats. This was played on a real SNES with the real cart.
same here too, i spend the holiday of april 1994 playing it.
Expert use of the power shot here. It was always a weapon I struggled with. I've always liked the laser myself but I've never cleared tricky or wild - only normal - and I spammed the final boss with bombs!!
Wow, I didn't realize how amazing the Power Shot is in the game. I didn't know the charge would absorb bullets! Great run!
Thanks!!
*Circle and Sprite are the best but never mind .........................*
The Laser and the Power Shot are my favourite weapons in this game.
I also like how Circle deals continuous heavy damage to any targets that are locked on to one of the circles, that's a very fun way to kill the boss on Area 2.
Lazer is the best because both options of it rock. I always die when I try Power. One mistimed charge and you are wide open.
Finally someone who actually blows open those hardened containers on the "bonus stage" areas;
those containers are too precious to ignore.
Was sitting here telling my kids how this game was one of the few snes games with not much slowdown
The game has no slowdown.
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Then you should tell it to stop slowing down at 50:44. It's brief, minor, and not worth talking about, except to give credit to the careful tile management and expert programming this game is doing.
It's nowhere near as easy as they're making it look.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Truth. But this is practically imperceptible. But it is worth remembering that this game is in SlowROM (2.68mhz), that is, it is using only 67% of the Snes processor speed, which is even more impressive. Certainly a conversion to FastROM (3.58mhz) would eliminate this tiny slowdown. But it's not worth it since this tiny deceleration is insignificant and doesn't interfere with the gameplay at all.
@@Vinicius-hs2rf
Do you know the first game to run the SNES cpu at full speed, by any chance?
Every single early SNES game seems to be saving money on the cart - even F-Zero, judging by the FastRom hack.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Yeah, Nintendo didn't make developers life any easy
This game absolutely NEEDS to be in the snes online service on switch! It’s probably the best snes shmup I’ve ever seen
If there were not the issue of Compile's bankruptcy (which complicates the issue of the remaining copyright), it would probably be there. The game was also never released on the Wii's Virtual Console.
@@KobayashiBR they put super puo puo 2 on the snes service and that’s a compile game. I think there might be a chance for this to come
This, Axelay, R-Type: 3rd Lightening, Rendering Ranger and Pop'n Twinbee are the best SNES shmups.
@@seyronabbott6001 un squadron, macross scrambled valkrie, parodius da, there's a bunch of them
I know this was played long ago but it was awesome to watch on wild. Just makes me love it even more. I've only played through on Hard before and this looks nuts, but I'm still going to try it. 😁 This game was always Gunhed on SNES for me and all the similar sound effects only add to that. This couldn't have been easy to route in this difficulty with how long the game is. Seriously impressive.
Thanks! Space megaforce/super aleste is probably my favorite compile game, although I haven't played all of them yet. Wild mode is really where the game shines, even though the game is an hour long it flies by and the intensity never let's up.
Nice one man! Funnily enough I just played this today and my final score was 5,433,230 so only about 600 points off your score!
Personally my weapon of choice was always Multi-Directional Shot. You can’t deny how powerful Powershot is, but I loved how flexible MDS was.
Mate you have just made my night. No-one at my school could love or play this game like me. And no-one, including me, plays this game like you do. I'll keep watching!
6:35 I was thinking about how crazy that dodge was, and then I remembered that this is only the first level. Badass.
Great job PEG. You are the man. I can tell this game has awesome gameplay.
Fantastic stuff! Watching that really brought back some great memories of playing this game. I can't remember ever daring Wild difficulty though. Watching your panic when you accidentally lost the power weapon on stage 10 (was it 10?) and desperately trying to survive until you could pick it up again was a heart in mouth moment for you I'm sure :).
Yeah, I was in a lot of trouble when I picked up the wrong weapons in stage 10, happened twice. I had to use more bombs than I would have liked and just barely had enough to make it to the end of the game. This game is very long and stays very intense for almost the entire time, so you really have to keep focused. There were a lot of close calls in addition to the stage 10 stuff.
The space graveyard stage in particular is probably the hardest in the game, and there were a few times I was reduced down to level 0 and nearly died, I had to brute force bomb my way out of those situations. It's a really fun game, and the best part is you can usually come back from seemingly impossible situations because they are very generous with powerups and bombs. Thanks for the comment!
Some brilliant geniuses optimized the code to get all this shit to run smooth on the SNES in 1992
Douglas Murphy *Zero slow-down like Parodius Clever programming and math!* ⭐️
Apparently one way to minimise slowdown is to have lots of enemies move mainly in vertical patterns, since this gives the game less information per scanline or something like that.
@@afriend9428 Parodius uses an SA1 chip. This game was stock snes hardware. No doubt they used genius programming on top of it for both games tho.
@@Peter_1986 hence it is a vertical scroller? The groups of enemies also move in the same patterns but that was a trick used on old NES games too
@@douglasmurphy3266 only the 3rd parodius game for snes uses sa-1, and that was for speech compression mainly
Incredible gameplay, No death.
Im speechless... I've always played this game on normal mode and dying a lot! 😂
(Láser, my favourite ♡)
Amazing job!
nothing can beat the sound track
MUSHA has superior sound track
The Japanese version had a different track for Stage 3.
It's a really good track actually, you should check out the Japanese version and go to that stage and have a listen.
Started playing this game a few hours ago and the amazing soundtrack hooked me. Great game.
Stage 2's theme is excellent
@@stpierreorama Yes, but both games are excellent! I love M.U.S.H.A too, but Space MegaForce is more graphically advanced in color and with very well executed Mode 7 effects (scale, zoom and rotation).
"Fancy meeting you here!"
One of the few games I still have the box and manual for. So many hours playing in the 90s. Just LOVE this game.
Great playing ! I'm glad to see another player complete the task. Thank you, this is a great STG achievement.
TBYVGS BOS Thanks, your videos were a huge inspiration to me, and really got me motivated to play this game. And you were so right about how awesome it is, it's quickly becoming one of my favorite games!
That's great ! Makes me fell very glad !
One of the BEST parts of SM is how all the BOSSES have some ol' Slick stuff to say to you before the fight😂
For those who can't quite hear/understand:
5:58 -- "Welcome to the Underworld"
12:10 --"Give me a break will you?" 🤣
19:47-- "Hey! Look Sharp!"
27:44 -- "To Hell with you" 🤣🤣🤣
36:02 --"What a brave guy you are"
43:34 -- "I'll watch you die!"
53:06 -- "Fancy meeting you here!"
1:01:01 -- "I came from the World beyond."
Man, you're a Master. Thanks for this upload
This game and Metal Warriors were very rare and hard to find at most stores. Im glad I got to enjoy and own both. Thanks for the memories!
It took me forever to do this, You do it with such skill, like Oh my god
Super aleste is legendary with Spectacular graphics and STUNNING gameplay
Good music as well
I never in a million years would think of trying level 2 with Power Shot but here this guys is, making it look easy.
Aaand on the complete opposite side of the spectrum from that awful Raiden port, here we have one of the (rather few) gems in the SNES shooter library. Loved it back then and still love it now. I remember as if it was yesterday when I attempted a 1CC in Wild mode. It was circa 2010. Problem is that I didn't have a working SNES anymore so I went the emulation route and played via a keyboard (and for some reasons I couldn't get the button for speed change to work so I played through the whole game with default speed). Also, in order to up the ante, I decided to impose myself only 1 week to achieve this... And I managed to do it but it was in extremis, on the very last day, at the very last hour! 😅 But it was immensely satisfying and I was hurry to share my score on various shmup-related forums...
Anyway good job on the 1 LC 👍 The Power Shot comes in handy isn't it? I remember also using the weapons 2, 3 and 7 a lot. A 1LC is something I should also consider but only when I'll get a working SNES again so I'll do it with a pad or joystick this time around.
Super Aleste is not without its flaws or, at least, compromises. There's no weapon sound FX, there are a lot of reused assets throughout the game, enemies are often small and with limited behavior... but it's otherwise excellent, with creative visual FX, entertaining gameplay with cool weaponry and lot of great patterns to deal with and the soundtrack is pure magic.
BTW it's interesting to know that Compile, the developer, sought help from the sound CPU in order to get all this frenziness running smoothly on an otherwise rather compromised SNES hardware. It's one of the few SNES games that did that alongside Super Smash T.V.
wow I'd like to see a video detailing how you get the sound CPU to help - pretty amazing given the great soundtrack they had cycles leftover!
That was amazing! You have my eternal admiration...
Great game, good gameplay. This is a great tribute 2 the legendary gunhead on pc engine, but done with such expert panache, giving us 'old school veterans a far superior game in every way possible on the Snes, w/o any of the classic slow down. That alone was a great tech feat & the great use of mode 7 & superb sound track, were just part of a superior shooter, that many agreed was a real show case for anyone doubting the real power of the Snes.
Faster, smoother, better spirits, explosions, huge bosses, with mode 7 on bosses for scaling & rotating! You can see the love for gunhead the devs TOHO had & what better game then SMG 2 showcase their coding skills. This & Axelay (by Konami) were my 2 fav verticle shooters ever on Snes. Big thumbs from the boys n gals at awesome Bob
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Insane gameplay .. One hell of a pilot . I just finally picked this up from my favorite game stores here in Nebraska. This is a awesome but difficult game that you make look easy . It's to bad both my favorite systems (nes,snes) all the games have gone way up in price the last 5 years . But thanks for the great video
+playakain Thanks, Space Megaforce / Super Aleste is one of my top 3 favorite shmups on the SNES and it really shines on the higher difficulty settings.
I know, I can't even get this game. God DAMN those Collectors!
Legendary game AND OST....I'd say it's up there with Einhander, Lords of Thunder and MUSHA.
1:01:03 “I came from the world beyond.”
I wonder what the other bosses say, too. It's kind of like Doom 2's "John Romero" message on the last boss.
@@WeArePharmers
Stage 1 Forest Zone > "Welcome... to the Underworld!"
Stage 2 Mobile Fortress > (pilot) "Give me a break, will ya?!"
Stage 4 Hi-Energy Satellite > "Hey! Look sharp!"
Stage 5 Canyon > "Down with you!"
Stage 7 Asteroid Belt > "What a sad sight you are..."
Stage 8 Ship Graveyard > "I'll watch you die..."
Stage 10 Coastline > "Fancy meeting you here!"
This game really deserves a re-release. This game is called Super Aleste in Europe. I’m not sure why it’s called Space megaforce in the us? Aleste was recognized brand before this game. But it’s not the first time an Aleste game is called something else. Musha: genesis, Blazing lazers: Pc engine/ Turbografx 16 (I think?) and probably a few more that I forgot
The Aleste name was only ever used on Robo Aleste (The sega cd game) in the US. Apparently we needed "better" names like Space Megaforce and Power Strike instead...
Blazing Lasers is not technically an Aleste game, it was called Gunhed in Japan and based off a movie.
@@PEG You’re probably right. I think the Aleste name is more recognized in Europe and Japan. Blazing lazers really feels like an Aleste game, to me at least
This game is amazing, found out about it not to long ago via emulator. Didn't realize it was Super Aleste until later.
Absolutely one of the best shooters, any console or PC
favorite snes shootem up is strike gunner still to this day.
Spoiler alert (compliment on strategy)
Wow, I didn't know you could just stay in the upper left corner when the Area 8 boss started moving around, awesome job!
Thursday, November 10, 2022 CE, 16:32 EST
BTW you got great skills to beat this with 1 life. It took me 2 lives but l got distracted half way by my ex. Here's a bit of trivia 4 all you Snes fan boys n gals:-
The the sound is fantastic, 2 be expected by the console that had hands down the best Sony custom designed dsp with an 8 channel 16 bit stereo adpcm audio dsp, that produced near cd quality orchestral sounds & audio. Yes audio lovers, even beating the powerful 16 bit Neo Geo console audio!
would love to see you played parodius one day, the first one on snes. that game is super hard, would def be a nice challenge!
Super Aleste is the best shooter on snes. Good video 👍
I found 2 copies boxed and sealed of this game in my uncle's garage in Dec of 2020. He had an old video rental shop and also rented games. I remember trying this before selling everything. This game is very difficult.
you're simply a god
Hell of a run, death is never far away on Wild!
+BIL0471 Thanks BIL, luckily they give you tons of bombs in this one :)
This game is SNES version of BLAZIN' LAZERS for the turbo-grafx-16 system back in the day.👍
That first and second stage soundtrack was MY SHITTTTTT!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥
This one is flipping hard. I just beat it now. Hut fuck level 11 that took almost all my lives up
...man such good soundtrack
６番レーザーが一番好き
クリアが楽なのは３ｏｒ７だけど、６番には一撃必殺のロマンがある
The Power Shot is your best friend in the 8th stage. Makes it so much easier.
with other weapons than 6 its hard
What would the balls with the numbers you kept on avoiding do if you touched them?
Also, great playing!
Thanks. They are different weapons you can use. I use weapon 6 throughout because it can destroy bullets.
@@PEG
Power Shot is the only good weapon during this kind of challenge, along with as many Bombs as possible of course.
Great job with Space Megaforce.
I'm a couple minutes away from playing this bad boi for the first time. Super excited. Can't believe I've never come across it until now. You are a beast that's for sure. Seriously impressive lol; lemme ask because I usually need to play a Vertical Shooter like this for 5-10 hours before I feel really comfortable and used to it. How many hours have you put into this (Estimated obviously I'm sure you haven't kept track) to get to this level of skill?
I was playing it off and on for a few weeks, I don't remember exactly but maybe around 30 hours.
Never used that weapon , i was user of the 2 / 3 / 4 weapons :p Good job btw
Some tense moments in the Ship Graveyard level! That level was a bastard (with a kick ass spooky soundtrack!)
tusheschannel Yes, that level is a nightmare, you really need to bomb quite a bit to make it through without taking damage. Agreed about the soundtrack, that's also my favorite song in this game.
Pegboy I used to like using the fully charged Power Shot too to shoot as many of the ship walls as I could, and trigger the debris explosions before I got too close to them. It's an awesome weapon, fully charged, it's second only to the bomb in terms of power.
+tusheschannel i am getting close to beating this game
and i've been having good luck with the 5 missile
I was never a fan of the Missiles, they just didn't seem to have the punch of the other weapons, perhaps I just didn't give them enough time. My personal favourites were the aforementioned Power Shot, The Multi Direction and the Scatter (I think that was its name, the 8th weapon with the exploding balls). The standard weapon was cool too, just for the sheer number of bullet patterns you could choose with it.
ive figured out how to use the 5 missile the best anyone can in this game i think.
theirs little tricks you can do with it.
like because the missiles shoot straight out from either side. you can shoot enemies ahead. while you are right beside like one of those enemy spawn doors. and blow it up
i dont know if you read me but.... yea
The best snes/genesis shooter combined
Which upscaler and video cables did you used to capture?
By that time I assume there was the Framemeister and other upcoming upscalers like the OSSC & Retrotinks came out the following years
I used the Framemeister to upscale then capture with El Gato HD Capture (the original one). The video cable was just some custom made SNES RGB scart cable I bought off ebay a long time ago.
Was played on a 1-CHIP SNES, revision 2 I believe.
currently playing this game its super difficult even on easy very impressive
excelente , uno de los mejores juegos de naves , la dificultad las armas y muchos mundos
👍😎🎮
No era difícil, porque yo recuerde nunca morías xd. Pero era muy entretenido; y el soundtrack le daba una buena atmósfera.
Gun nac new version of snes ??
Totally different game. Although, both Space Megaforce & Gun-Nac were programmed by Compile.
*Master System game called Aleste little dude!*
@@luisreyes1963 They can be different games but if you look good both games look similar, it is like an improvement of Gun Nac for the SNES, you could even say that it is a direct sequel to the game itself, at a glance you can see many equalities between Space Megaforce with Gun Nac, The most obvious is the ship, it is similar but not the same, some attacks the ship makes are clear reference to Gun Nac when it is just beginning to take Power Up's, also the form these same appear is similar, Not to mention that another and very obvious reference to Gun Nac, is that changing item of numbers, that same that goes into account regressive from 1 to 5 only that in Space Megaforce reaches until 8, Another reference is when a level is completed and is that animation when the ship withdraws, it is the same as Zanac, another Compile game, it's pretty obvious that Compile reused things from two of his best games for the Nes
@@ExtraerLC I would consider "Space Megaforce" a spiritual sequel to "Gun Nac", which means that they are very similar in lots of ways even though the second game isn't an actual sequel;
it's kind of like how "Perfect Dark" is a spiritual sequel to "GoldenEye 007".
@@Peter_1986 It's curious because when you watch a Space Megaforce gamecplay By chance on UA-cam the first thing that came to me At the head was Gun Nac and then Zanac when the ship toward the animation of retreat at the end of a level
I've gotten a one-credit clear on Normal, Hard, Hyper, and Tricky, but I've yet to beat Wild. This is really something.
It's a huge jump in difficulty from the other modes, no doubt.
i can say this is real console from background humming sound
You wildin.
This is REAL PRO 😍
yayy i just beat space mega force. thanks to this play thru lol
+Jay Rorabeck Good job, it's a great game, hope you enjoyed it!
+PEG just beat it.
my score was 1,031,650
i dont know how you got 5 million lol
prob because you were using the power shot. i didnt use that
*Who thinks this is better than GunHed and Super Star Soldier?!? I like all 3!* ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
There are two versions of this game, if i remember, one with slightly different voices and some extra music that can not be found in the other, I had it at a time in emulation, but I never managed to find this rom then.
The Japanese version has different voices, and also a music track for Area 3 that doesn't exist in the American version. The reason why they removed that track was because it sounded exactly like parts of various songs from artists, like the chorus for the song "The Perfect Kiss" by New Order.
Super Aleste
*This game costs $100 or $200 today people!*
Best weapon in my opinion is Circle. You can freeze it from spinning and it double as a shield. It can attack thorough walls, enemy shield, etc. and it has the fastest rate of fire (constant).
damn dude, good work
hey, its Complile
Blazing Lazers turned up to 11.
Why you recorded the audio in mono? Dude wheres the stereo sound? :(
+Stammin Ruisu I dun goofed with the options! I didn't even realize the game defaulted to mono audio :(
Childhood memories... damn...
Bv
Hey would it be alright if I used some of your footage for a video I'm working on?
Yes, but please provide a credit or link to my original video.
@@PEG thank you!
How did you survive the Level 1 boss's attacks? (around 6:22)
It's a safe spot, even though it looks like the boss is hitting me it's not.
@@PEG Thanks! I tried it today, it's amazing :)
Max out two red lasers and you're safe
And now, will you try to beat the game on wild setting without bullet cancel ? I did it on tricky mode and i'm trying to do the same but on wild difficulty. I still die in area 8.
TBYVGS BOS Man that's nuts, I can't believe you did that on Tricky or even made it to area 8 without power shot on wild. What weapons are you using? I think it might be possible using Sprite (weapon #7) but that cancels bullets too so I'm not sure if you would allow it.
TBYVGS BOS Are you trying to do a no-death run without power shot or just a 1cc?
Pegboy I honestly think that the wild setting is nearly impossible to beat without bullet cancel, so I would be proud if I only could do just a 1CC...I'm sure that power shot was specially designed for tricky and wild modes. But it's possible to beat tricky mode with another weapon (I beat this game using weapon 3) or without cancel. Wild mode is too fast and deadly to be beaten without power shot and without losing. So I still try to win, but I'm not sure I will make it one day...
Pegboy I reached area 9 on my last attempt a few hours ago. Area 8 is a level from hell ! And when I think there are still 4 areas left ahead...Areas 9,11 and 12 are short, but area 10 seems like a gateway to this goal. It's a crazy goal, but that's why I still try to reach it ! STG players are insane...I'm sure we STG players are all crazy !^^
TBYVGS BOS
I agree that Area 8 and 10 are probably the hardest in the game. The Area 10 boss in particular seems impossible unless you have power shot or sprite.
4:37 secret power egg behind left diamond block
I've always wondered if this was a sequel to Gun-Nac.
It is kind of like a "spiritual successor", in other words a game that shares lots of game mechanics with an older game and has the same general style.
A few other examples of games like that are "Star Ocean" and "Perfect Dark", which were spiritual successors to "Tales Of Phantasia" and "GoldenEye 007".
Also, the NES games "Castlevania" and "Ninja Gaiden" have very similar game mechanics.
Que juegazooooo like si aun lo juegan
What does the blue face do that is hidden away on the right side on the first stage?
It gives you an extra life. If you shoot it enough it will turn red and also give you an extra bomb as well.
Thanks dude
Rate the weapons least to greatest in your opinion. So far i really hate weapons 3, 4 , 8 and 7. 1, 2, 5, and 6 seem the best
este joguinho é bom de ++++++++++++++...
07:14 Super Battle Ship, 1992
Remembers me child memories. Oh,not me... My mother smoked it. MY MOTHER. She now plays Facebook games :(
I played this when im a 5 years old kid WOAAAOO i wanna play again!!!!!!! some Snes pc emulator?
Did you use a regular snes controller ???
Yes
Weapon #6: Power Shot
So on the highest difficulty you can only use power and Lazer. The other weapons will get you killed instantly
Weapon 6 is the only one worth using. Bullet canceling is virtually mandatory in wild mode.
@@PEG I'm playing on hard and can't get passed Area 8. I feel like once you die there, it's almost impossible to level back up. I really only use Lazer for the bullet cancelling and I struggle with Power. I always mistime my blasts
Area 8 is the hardest level in the game, definately the part that cost me the most runs. You really need to learn how to time the power shot to get through it. Also remember there are 2 modes for each weapon, one charges much faster than the other for power shot.
I have Aleste (space megaforce) Its good, however I prefer Blazing Lazers on pc engine which I assume the same team made both games. Blazing Lazers is superior for me. Though Axelay is the greatest for the Snes
Yeah Blazing Lazers (huge favorite of mine too) was developed by Compile as Gunhed who did the Aleste (Space Megaforce is Super Aleste) series. They also did The Guardian Legend.
Also Zanac :P
The sixth branch of the United States Armed Forces
weapon 3 is the best weapon in the game
I am just curious, but why are you using the power shot? Doesn't that weapon take a while to charge up?
Is that the maximum difficulty?
Yes
musha aleste.
People go on about the framerate but it isnt actually that good looking,i remember buying it shortly after release and it was a downgrade in graphics,it looked and sounded more like a megadrive game alot like thunderforce but with cool voices and weapons ,game was too easy with OP weapons.. axeley,un squadron,gradius 3 and parodius all better
Very impressive skills, PEG!
Too bad crack is cheaper than the game itself.........
Here i am playing on tricky hoping i find a laser lol
Wait
_Compile_
*Is this the same Compile that will later be reborned as **_Compile Heart_** ??*
I couldn't get through this game on ANY difficulty