Howdy all. What are some good SHUMPs that will run on the GP2X? I just dropped some quarters on some arcade action and now I'm craving some at home

Simple: Vektar.

Get the freeware version here

or buy the new, enhanced commercial version here
You can get a demo of the commercial version at that page too.

I like Noiz2sa a lot. It's really addictive and can be found in the archive.

Noiz2sa, Kobo Delux, and Level SHMUP are the freeware I've found myself enjoying most.

As far as using emus go, Summer Carnival of '92 Recca, Super Star Soldier, Soldier Blade, and Gradius '90 are what I find myself playing most.

Gradius III of SNES is really great.Excelent for me.In Squidge SNES it works fullspeed with 275 OC or less.

I would recommend you Axelay too, but it´s slow for now

In Genesis-Megadrive DrMD emu you have a lot good ones:Gynoud,Thunder Force-series,...

In GnuBoy (GB&GBC emu) you have:Nemesis II for example.I love that game.

I've fallen in love with Galaga '90, and I don't even like shmups.

r-type - pcengine. timeless stuff.

Neo-Geo
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Twinkle Star Sprites
Blazing Star
Sonic Wings 2 and 3
Alpha Mission 2
Ghost Pilots

Megadrive
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MUSHA Aleste
Xenon 2
Truxton
Gley Lancer
Phelios

MAME
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1941
Gemini Wing

PCEngine
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Galaga '88
Soldier Blade

Misc
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Nois2sa



There are many more. These are just a few off the top of my head.

i never liked musha

Noiz2sa is a truly excellent shooter in the bullet-hell style...

Noiz2sa for homebrew, and Blazing Lazers for the PC-Engine.

I like Powermanga

Try some of the Turbo-CD games on hu6280. Star Parodia, Sylphia, Rayxanber 2 all work perfectly and are brilliant shooters! There are a ton more on the system that I haven't tried yet...

my favo's at the moment


R-type 1 or 2 (PC Engine)

Soldier Blade (PC Engine) uber game!!!

Salamander (PC Engine or MSX2)

Nemesis II (msx)

Lords of thunder (SCD PC Engine or Sega CD)

Sol Dease (MegaDrive/Genesis)

Hmm.. never heard of this game before, I'll check it out in a sec.

Also, an awesome shooter for gen/meg is Bio-Hazard Battle... believe me

Edit: It's a cool game. I was skeptical when i first loaded it up, but it has a nice powerup system .

The absolute best arcade-like shootemup that's available at the current time on the GP2X is Dodgin' Diamond II. Gadget's GP2X Invaders is also very nice, although in very early stages.

- Alex

Some others that would run perfect the gp2x is:

Megadrive/Genesis
Thunderforce II-IV
Verytex - very awesome overlooked shooter
Gaires

GameGear
GG Aleste

Wow! Thanks for all the suggestions. This is going to take some time to sort through.

Sol Deace is the american name for the japanese game, Sol-Feace. The Megadrive version is watered down compared to the Mega-CD version which had a very strong soundtrack and good mode 7 style scaling and rotation in game.

Some great shooters to try:
Megadrive/Genesis: Hellfire, Zero Wing, Tatsujin, Gynoug
Snes: Super Aleste, Jikkyou Parodius, Osayberi Parodious
PC Engine: Gunhed, Final Soldier, Toilet Kids, Gradius II: Gofer, Spriggen II, Super Big Brother
Amiga: Battle Squadron

Oh, and on NeoGeo try Ghost Pilots and Red Hawk!

- Alex

When MAME Supports Guwange,

...Guwange.

There have been some great shooters mentioned here and I "ditto" them all. So I do not want to repeat. I'll try not to.

On the PC engine, for some reason, Double Ring/W Ring is over looked. It is excellent!
Download
Burning Angels
Dead Moon
Raiden
Blazing Lazers
And for fun, Coryoon

On the DrMD

Bioship Paladin
Battle Squadron
Eliminate Down (no sound )
Gleylancer
Taskforce Harrier

On Mame it has to be
Juno First
Sidearms
Tempest

I have been spending a lot of my time lately with the homebrew shooters.

Lot's of excellent suggestions here, as I missed most of the arcade & console shoot'em ups at the time... especially the PC Engine seems to have great titles in this department. And on Mame, you can always play the classic Phoenix, which is the first game I ever played at the arcade (I still love it).

Anyway, my humble suggestion is actually playable on the C64-emulator, and it's a horizontal scroller called Delta - one of my favourite games of all time. Turn on the background music (F5), and start playing. A dreamlike experience unlike any other, with very specific patterns you have to remember to get add-on weapons that you have to use at certain times. And it still looks OK, imo. It's not a frantic blaster, but just in case you get bored with all these "normal" shumps. And I find the GP2X stick difficult in games requiring tight controls.

Anyway, that's my suggestion, just starting out exploring the GP2X myself...

I almost forgot, but provided GNUBoy can handle it, give Solar Striker a go. Whenever I start a game I can't put it down for a long, long time - very addicting and gameplay-oriented, you'll love it. The music's awesome, too

- Alex

Lifeforce on the NES is a good one

I just skimmed through the thread so correct me if I'm wrong but.. I can't believe no one mentioned the mighty Xenon 2! The weird thing is I was just listening to Megablast by Bomb The Bass (soundtrack for Xenon 2) when I came across this thread

u.n. squadron

It's a pity that NK's NeoGeoCD emulator never got updated as Ironclad is a classic shooter, one of my favourites. It runs a bit twitchy with no sound on GP2x.

Otherwise I've been playing R-Type on PC Engine, UN Squadron on MAME, Trans-Bot on SMS, and Arrow Flash on Megadrive. You've got to get hold of Vektar though, it's a beauty!

Don't forget M.U.S.H.A for MD/Gen (as so know as Musha Aleste in japan)

on the Sega-CD have also MUSHA but whit an another name Robo Aleste the same game but
with a great soundtrack