The tyrant who transplanted Taito masterpiece STG "Darius" on his own to mega drive appeared

Taito's masterpiece side scrolling STG (shooting game) 's "Darius", Sega's game hard ·Mega driveWhen he transplanted himself to himself,HidecadeHas reported in the blog.

Mega Drive Version Darius - Completed! | Arcade Cabinet
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Darius is a side scroll STG announced as an arcade title from Taito in 1986. Design of boss with motif of aquatic life · Production of warning "WARNING !!" · Stage composition of route committee selection · Three laterally connected monitors and dedicated chassis equipped with body sonic are topics, and Darius Konami's "Gradius· Irem's "R-TYPEAlongside "Side scroll STG's Three FamiliesIt has become a popular series that is called as.


The first Darius has not only arcade, but also a lot of arrangement arrangements for home use such as PC engine · CD-ROM ² and game boy, recentlyPlayStation 4It became a topic that the arcade 3 screen version was completely transplanted at the arcade archives for the purpose. Hidecade, for Sega's home game machine / mega drive released in 1988, refers to the early new version of arcade version Darius and PC engine · CD-ROM ² version of "Super Darius" while referring to the first Darius He said he had transplanted it.

"Mega Drive Version Darius" Finally finished. It took about three years since I started studying C language. Since it seems that there is still room for improvement such as game balance adjustment, operation confirmation, bug correction, etc., we make it beta version just in case.https://t.co/0qhlcrbfGGpic.twitter.com/9 Cq64 Zgy 4 g

- Hidecade (@ AC_Hidecad)June 3, 2018

A state of actually playing Mega Drive version Darius is published in movies by Hidecade.

Mega Drive Version Darius - Normal Mode "Up to A-B-D-G-K-P-Z" - YouTube


The title is like this. UI designs such as armed gauges and stage displays follow the ones of PC engine · CD-ROM ² Super Darius. However, since the mega drive can use 320 dots wide and 64 dots wider than the 256-dot PC engine · CD-ROM², the position of the score display has been changed.


Unlike the arcade version of 3 screens, it is a screen, but the ambience of the arcade version is beautifully reproduced. In addition to directing the depth by changing the scrolling speed with the topography and background, detailed animation of the background is reproduced.


On the A side boss, the familiar "Darius" seriescoelacanthType battleship "Kingfosul" appeared. It has almost the same specification as an arcade, such as an animation that finely moves a fin and a bullet spreading in 5 directions.



On the Z plane which is one of the last stage, "Great Thing" of a sperm whale type huge battleship also appeared. It is the same as the arcade version that tries to knock out players with overwhelming physical quantities such as dolphin bullets spreading in four directions, homing missiles, laser cannons and drill munitions. It is easy to understand that not only merely transplanting the arcade version as it is but also considering the ease of play, it is putting in the special software for mega drive.



Taito's sound team ·ZUNTATAOgur Ogur Higashi Kagura's composing BGM is transplanted by Mr. Hidecade for mega drive. "YM2612" of the movie title below is the name of Yamaha's FM sound source chip installed in mega drive.

DARIUS - YM 2612 (DefleMask) - YouTube


Hidecade has made his own game housing as a hobby so far, and in April 2015Complete the Darius case of 3 cathode ray tubesI am making it. Then, with the goal of "transplanting to Darius's mega drive", starting to study game programming in C by self tutoring from July 2015, it is a software creation tool for mega driveSGDKHe said that he transplanted everything up to graphic, sound, and programming. For Hidecade, game programming was a challenge since giving up learning in junior high school, so we just completed learning and completed the mega drive version Darius in just three years.

In addition, overseas, fans love Sega's action game "Sonic the Hedgehog" and fans who ported the series "Sonic the Hedgehog CD" for mega CDs for iOS got in direct contact with Sega We released a ported version, "Sonic ManiaThere is a case that I was involved in the development of This Mega Drive version Darius is also a place I would like to expect the opportunity to visit somehow by all means.