Yeah, you have to beat it on Funny 10 times (there's a secret switch in the cart that records how any times you beat it, though you'd never know it if there wasn't that article a few years ago), then when you start another game, the clouds will be red in the first stage, and Metal Sonic will appear. There's then a cutscene with the old man yelling at Metal Sonic that he'll avenge his banjo. Metal Sonic then throws screen-filling grenades, and you get a scripted game-over, unless you quickly input A B L R START A B R L LEFT RIGHT DOWN UP A SELECT (hey, it's a Nintendo Power code, don't blame me.). Then you'll see the true ending, where Thor comes down, and tosses the old guy a new banjo, but tells him to play the Song of the South to Metal Sonic, which fires a beam of electricity at Metal Sonic, which destroys him. Then you'll see the credits sequence, and the ending picture of the old man eating chilli dogs with Sonic. Make sure not to screw up that whole code though, or you'll have to beat the game on Funny 10 times again. Talk about Nintendo hard...
They made the front cover that way because the designer wanted to make something different. Games like R-Type, Axelay, Life Force, Gradius, etc. all have the same look on the box art.
secret area bonus stages and maybe a easter egg on this one this secrets areas are available on stages 2,3,4, and 8 (final stage) on certain areas but the item drops after beat this stages is completely random
I have so many fond and horrific memories of this game. I think I beat it when I was 7? I got it when I was 4 I believe. The visuals and music hold a special place in my heart. Nice gameplay!
If you beat the game on Funny you get a special cutscene (just a pic, as I recall) at the end of the credits of the pilot kissing a girl. A little reward for losing years off your life.
You get it for hard. For Funny, you get a code and an invitation to send it to the Studio behind the game. I guess nobody sent the code at that time, because nobody knows what that code got you. I myself finished funny only because saving stages on the emulator.
This actually feels more like a Sega Genesis game. It has more variation that you rarely saw in this genre of games on SNES, and none SNES slow-downs despite a ton of stuff is happening on screen. Kudos to the devs.
Yeah you’re right. I did watch the whole video tho. I rewatched now and noticed some slowdowns but they’re minimal compared to Gradius 3 and Super R-Type. Those games are almost unplayable…ugh.
Never understood why the dude with the banjo was on the box, never played it when it was sitting on the shelf in the movie rental back in the day. Now I get to see it.
People are talking about the guy playing the banjo. What about his wife who plays the kazoo, their daughter who plays the flute and that merchant who plays the xylophone, saxophone and violin?
uh you have to get wirts leg from the level 4 boss by killing it fast enough and combine it with a banjo gem from killing the level 3 midboss fast enough, put both in the horadric cube that you get when you hold down select, and both shoulder buttons as you start a new game on Funny. everyone knows this
I'll never understand why the bullets you need to dodge are dark red in Phalanx. That said, this is impressive! I only ever beat this game on Normal, and I have owned it for nearly 2 decades. This is coming from a decent 2D shooter player (8 stages cleared on Skyshark, Contra beaten, Biometal beaten on hard, Super Earth Defense Force beaten on hard, etc). Well done
Yeah, making the bullets dark red was a piss poor design decision, especially with the copious amounts of them on this "funny" mode. Those damn trolls at Kemco lol.
Somehow it gets a rep for being average, but I really think there's a LOT to like about this game. It's probably as close as you can get to bullet hell on the Super Nintendo. And then there's the graphics, music, secret areas, etc.. But those *@&#$!% invisibullets!!!!* What were they even thinking?? Makes your run all the more impressive though :) Well done, and send that code to the devs, mate!!
I was point farming the boss, I could have killed it earlier if I wanted to but was running up the score. It really only takes a minute or so to kill normally.
Como amante de los Shoot'em Up clásicos (preferiblemente de perspectiva horizontal) guardo un hermoso recuerdo de este juego. El cartucho (no vamos a engañarnos) es bastante mejorable en todos sus apartados, sin embargo, hay que reconocer que es divertido y desafiante como pocos. Gráficamente cumple bastante bien con su cometido y el apartado sonoro también está en la línea... Un título recomendable al que debemos perdonar ciertas carencias. Saludos desde España 🇪🇦🇪🇺👍
For you guys coming from AVGN, to see the old man, you have to beat it on Funny 10 times (there's a secret switch in the cart that records how any times you beat it, though you'd never know it if there wasn't that article a few years ago), then when you start another game, the clouds will be red in the first stage, and Metal Sonic will appear. There's then a cutscene with the old man yelling at Metal Sonic that he'll avenge his banjo. Metal Sonic then throws screen-filling grenades, and you get a scripted game-over, unless you quickly input A B L R START A B R L LEFT RIGHT DOWN UP A SELECT (hey, it's a Nintendo Power code, don't blame me.). Then you'll see the true ending, where Thor comes down, and tosses the old guy a new banjo, but tells him to play the Song of the South to Metal Sonic, which fires a beam of electricity at Metal Sonic, which destroys him. Then you'll see the credits sequence, and the ending picture of the old man eating chilli dogs with Sonic. Make sure not to screw up that whole code though, or you'll have to beat the game on Funny 10 times again. Talk about Nintendo hard...
This is some impressive gameplay and graphical quality! You say this is all recorded on real hardware, and yet it looks like it's done on an emulator! What sorta hardware are you using? I've got a Framemeister XRGB Mini myself, and I think I have some dodgy cables, since my PS2 can show some pretty clear images with 2D games, but the SNES gets some rather subtle blur that doesn't make it as sharp as I'd like. I'm currently using a SCART cable, but I hear there's special makes that can get better quality out of the ageing consoles. What would you recommend for recording purposes?
***** I can assure you this was not done on an emulator, none of my videos use emulators. My setup: SNES 1-chip-02 revision, RGB scart into XRGB mini (upscaled to 720p) then captured using El Gato HD capture. Might be your cable or your Framemeister settings (take a look at this: junkerhq.net/xrgb/index.php/XRGB-mini_FRAMEMEISTER, check out the 240p settings).
I've just checked with my PS2 recording Rayman - I'm pretty sure it's either the Scart cable or the SNES, cause the video quality was clear as a bell on the PS2. There's a pretty noticeable hiss with the SNES's audio, and the graphics are definitely blurrier than the PS2's output (which, granted, is on Component). I'll see if a new cable does the trick. Thanks for the advice!
This looks great for an early NES game. My favourite part is the awesome weapon sound effects. Truly Phalanx has Thunderforce and Axelay crapping in their dungarees.
Man I wish I could tell you. I have no idea how I ended up in that secret area. The secret areas in this game, and there are many of them, still appear to be undocumented after all these years.
So this is a comment to the original player, and to you. So if you want to try digging around with the code of the game and if you want to like fiddle around with something like game Replay code so you constantly have a mega Crush, you'll note that every single interactable Secret will take damage on a mega Crush, but is explicitly not an enemy. I assume it's because they program these things as an enemy, but instead of dealing damage, it just triggers a stage shift. It's entirely likely that he may have seen something take damage and noted that was a secret spot.
this is actually the only other cool shump ive yet to see on the snes other than the masterful gradius 3... personally i would play phalanx in an emulator with reduced speed though
Heh, played this on the GBA version, which is maybe slightly less impressive. They changed it up a bit. Cool to see the original SNES version. You didn't have a ''funny'' difficulty on the GBA version, but it was still not that easy on hard. Still have my finished campaign save file on the cardridge haha.
Though a port from the X68000, I feel the SNES had a damned fine version of this game. While the boxart was odd, the game inside was not. Not the flashiest game in the world, but it doesnt have to be, just a solid shmup.
Regardless if the game's good or not, they sure had a struck of genius on the marketing, some old guy playing a banjo ends up saving the world kindda sounds weird even in an old video game...
At least the GBA version had sound effects for the projectiles being fired. It feels odd that you're firing all these lasers and missiles and stuff and not a single one of them is making any noise except when they're blowing something up. Did the developers fire their sound engineer or something?
@@Bauglir100 I prefer it the way this game presented it because with all the projectiles being fired, from both enemy and player, it would become excessive. Also, when the enemy projectiles have sounds, which does occur a few times, it makes it more intense due to the lack of it being there all the time. Same goes for the E power up that charges, it makes a sound when it is fully charged and shot. Also for all the special moves for each powerup, they have associated sound(s) which makes them stand out as being more wow and is a pretty cool decision. Lastly, dat soundtrack doe man, it's stuck with me since I played it in the early 90's. You would hear less of it and that, imo, would have been a travesty.
@@Arycke No, the lack of sound effects takes me out of the game. It makes the game seem unfinished, like they didn't have time to program all the audio. I want the satisfaction of listening to my lasers and missiles being fired from my cannons and turrets as I shoot my enemies full of holes. Imagine if Doom didn’t have any sound effects for the guns and missiles being fired. Or GoldenEye 007. Or Half-Life. The GBA port did it right by putting them in. If a game had to make me choose between music and sound effects (looking at you, Zool and Zool 2!), I'll definitely pick the sound effects every time. If I want to listen to the music, I'll just find a RUclips video of the soundtrack.
he's farming points, It actually doesn't have that much health. Unless you're some sort of insane God gamer, or you're cheating with safe States, you're going to need those lives if you want to ensure you make it.
***** Yeah I've looked at some of your vids for the x68000 version, it looks and sounds a lot better than the SNES version. Still I think they did a pretty good job porting the game to the SNES all things considered.
there is no way in hell he didn't use save states through emulation... and he likely slowed down the speed while playing, then readjusted it before posting this video... it is not possible to react that fast to the bullet-hell in Funny Mode, and the color of the bullets make it very hard to see them in many parts of the game... there should be a $1,000,000 prize for beating Funny on real hardware with multiple witnesses, but nobody would even pass the 1st level.
Este juego yo lo recuerdo un poco diferente solo un poco pero yo tengo una PSP y lo tengo ahí los sonidos son un poco cambiados los soundtracks también en si son los mismos pero como mejorado el audio y algunas cosas gráficas pero sigue siendo el mismo juego
I'll quote myself from an earlier response: "I practiced this game for about 2 weeks straight (logging many hours almost every day) before I cleared it on Funny difficulty. I do use emulators for some practice sessions, mainly for doing single stage runs or practicing boss fights or finding safe spots (this is how I discovered the ability to milk the stage 7 boss for points).." The main thing is this game is extremely generous with extra lives, so you can die a lot of times and still clear the game. I still find Super R-Type and Strike Gunner STG on the highest difficulties to be harder than this game.
This game on the SNES is alright, but it felt rather generic (presentation, graphic looks bland, and sounds very generic) compared to its X68000 original (has better graphics, kickass opening and great music). Also the X68k version is much easier than the SNES version since the default difficulty on the X68k original was set on easy.
Man, talk about not judging a book (Or video game) by it's cover. Also: "Funny" difficulty? What, did "So hard you'll sweat your balls off" difficulty scare people away? I didn't see anything to laugh about in there..............and I still wish the banjo guy was the last boss dammit.
I hate bullet-hell shooters like this, mostly because seeing so many bullets on-screen just looks wrong to me. It's graphically--and I mean in the graphic design kind of way--just clumsy and awkward. Compared to something like U.N. Squadron, Phalanx' more bullet-hell approach just doesn't look right to me (it's constantly visually cluttered): ruclips.net/video/_Fsmcvt8ftk/видео.html
There is actually a reason for this. This is a port from the sharp system, and in the original version, there is no funny difficulty. They added this in as a joke, not knowing that this would actually become its own genre shump later on. But you aren't wrong of the fact that the bullets are butt ugly, and apparently the reasoning for that is they were trying to stick to an art style. Personally, they could have easily just gone with something like pearl white.
Unfortunately nobody seems to know what it's used for. I've heard rumors that you were suppose to mail that code back to Kemco for some reason but it's still a mystery. I don't know if we will ever have an answer to this long standing question. Too bad.
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So where's the guy with the banjo?
+Bill Volk Unfortunately he doesn't ever show up in game. The ultimate bait and switch!
+Bill Volk You just haven't unlocked that part yet.
Yeah, you have to beat it on Funny 10 times (there's a secret switch in the cart that records how any times you beat it, though you'd never know it if there wasn't that article a few years ago), then when you start another game, the clouds will be red in the first stage, and Metal Sonic will appear. There's then a cutscene with the old man yelling at Metal Sonic that he'll avenge his banjo. Metal Sonic then throws screen-filling grenades, and you get a scripted game-over, unless you quickly input A B L R START A B R L LEFT RIGHT DOWN UP A SELECT (hey, it's a Nintendo Power code, don't blame me.). Then you'll see the true ending, where Thor comes down, and tosses the old guy a new banjo, but tells him to play the Song of the South to Metal Sonic, which fires a beam of electricity at Metal Sonic, which destroys him. Then you'll see the credits sequence, and the ending picture of the old man eating chilli dogs with Sonic. Make sure not to screw up that whole code though, or you'll have to beat the game on Funny 10 times again. Talk about Nintendo hard...
+Bill Volk he's playing the music you hear
+Emma Starr Nice try, please admit you just made it up because there might be 1 person out there that believes you. Hahaha.
The man with the banjo on the US box art was probably one of the few people who knew the legend of the spaceship called "Phalanx"...
The first true strand type game
KNACK 2 BABBBBYYYYYYYY
@@mboz_2108 here comes the moneeeeey
KEK
My grandfather randomly brought this home over 20 years ago, and here I am in my garage writing remixes of the soundtrack to this day
After 20 or whatever years renting from Blockbuster, my brother found this game for a Christmas present. Best gift ever.
They made the front cover that way because the designer wanted to make something different. Games like R-Type, Axelay, Life Force, Gradius, etc. all have the same look on the box art.
It worked too. Excellent marketing, really.
1:36:10 - 1:36:33 I would like an explanation on to what the hell is happening.
You have this game?
That would be a great oportunity to swap that character with an old man playing a banjo
secret area bonus stages and maybe a easter egg on this one this secrets areas are available on stages 2,3,4, and 8 (final stage) on certain areas but the item drops after beat this stages is completely random
"funny" mode?
@@scottjohnston3098 yep
I have so many fond and horrific memories of this game. I think I beat it when I was 7? I got it when I was 4 I believe. The visuals and music hold a special place in my heart. Nice gameplay!
If you beat the game on Funny you get a special cutscene (just a pic, as I recall) at the end of the credits of the pilot kissing a girl. A little reward for losing years off your life.
You get it for hard. For Funny, you get a code and an invitation to send it to the Studio behind the game. I guess nobody sent the code at that time, because nobody knows what that code got you. I myself finished funny only because saving stages on the emulator.
This actually feels more like a Sega Genesis game. It has more variation that you rarely saw in this genre of games on SNES, and none SNES slow-downs despite a ton of stuff is happening on screen. Kudos to the devs.
I feel the ADVERTISE AREA level could only be on SNES though.
there is quite a bit of slowdown in this game, it's not as noticeable in the first level.
Well. It WAS an X68000 game…
Yeah you’re right. I did watch the whole video tho. I rewatched now and noticed some slowdowns but they’re minimal compared to Gradius 3 and Super R-Type. Those games are almost unplayable…ugh.
Never understood why the dude with the banjo was on the box, never played it when it was sitting on the shelf in the movie rental back in the day. Now I get to see it.
Probably the guy with the banjo is a veteran of this war
Maybe He Retired.
Stage 4's scrolling effect is just breathtaking 😳
Ahh, I remember playing this back then. I don't think I ever made out of the first stage. I always just sat back watched my bro play.
Pilot: what am i fighting?
Commander: flying balls and tentacle monsters, oh; and a fish, kinda.
Pilot: [blasts the fuck off]
A ship that looks like a prostate massager....completes "operation Climax".
People are talking about the guy playing the banjo.
What about his wife who plays the kazoo, their daughter who plays the flute and that merchant who plays the xylophone, saxophone and violin?
I can't believe so many people can't locate the secret banjo player level. Gamers these days need everything handed to them.
uh you have to get wirts leg from the level 4 boss by killing it fast enough and combine it with a banjo gem from killing the level 3 midboss fast enough, put both in the horadric cube that you get when you hold down select, and both shoulder buttons as you start a new game on Funny. everyone knows this
What a fucking great soundtrack!
its one of the best ever :)
jajaja
It’s the guy playing the banjo
when life shoots lasers at you shoot lasers back
Wait, what the hell?!? There are secret areas in this game? Damn you, Nintendo Power. I don't remember that at all!
He missed a couple of areas, for example you can enter in the third stage in that little corner with the red lines.
This game reminds me of r type and gradius.
You telling me the Guy with the Banjo has nothing to do with the Game? My life was a lie
Yes. Like blast processing.
When your friend shows you the cartridge cover and says we’re playing this you’ll deadass think you’re gonna play like some hillbilly game 😂
that hillbilly is actually the pilot's father
@@magnusdiridian heh well that’s cool
The music is insane.
the cover in the American cartridge version features a grandfather who has an instrument in his hand dressed as a farmer
On 4.08 that tune is awesome!!
the old man on the cover, an upside down triforce, what can possibly go wrong!
Here to enjoy an early strand type game.
Imagine saving all humanity and the galaxy from the alien threat, returning to base and be gettting “Congratulations, here’s your final score…”
holy shit.. corrupted powerups... brilliant
I'll never understand why the bullets you need to dodge are dark red in Phalanx. That said, this is impressive! I only ever beat this game on Normal, and I have owned it for nearly 2 decades. This is coming from a decent 2D shooter player (8 stages cleared on Skyshark, Contra beaten, Biometal beaten on hard, Super Earth Defense Force beaten on hard, etc). Well done
Yeah, making the bullets dark red was a piss poor design decision, especially with the copious amounts of them on this "funny" mode. Those damn trolls at Kemco lol.
DEAR GOD, HALF OF THIS IS ONE BOSS BATTLE.
Somehow it gets a rep for being average, but I really think there's a LOT to like about this game. It's probably as close as you can get to bullet hell on the Super Nintendo. And then there's the graphics, music, secret areas, etc.. But those *@&#$!% invisibullets!!!!* What were they even thinking??
Makes your run all the more impressive though :)
Well done, and send that code to the devs, mate!!
🤣
PHALANX ROCKS HARD and always did.
So I came here to see if the guy with the banjo has anything to do with the game at all...but it looks legitimately fun!
Mission 7 boss fight for 40 (!!!) minutes???? They crazy?
I was point farming the boss, I could have killed it earlier if I wanted to but was running up the score. It really only takes a minute or so to kill normally.
Como amante de los Shoot'em Up clásicos (preferiblemente de perspectiva horizontal) guardo un hermoso recuerdo de este juego. El cartucho (no vamos a engañarnos) es bastante mejorable en todos sus apartados, sin embargo, hay que reconocer que es divertido y desafiante como pocos. Gráficamente cumple bastante bien con su cometido y el apartado sonoro también está en la línea... Un título recomendable al que debemos perdonar ciertas carencias. Saludos desde España 🇪🇦🇪🇺👍
Nice to see gameplay from the 2nd strand type game. Zoom were pioneers,
Awesome!❤️👏👏👏👏
Who is the old man holding banjo?
Damn, those enemy bullets are hard to see. Other than that this game is awesome. Dat parallax scrolling.
sick!
Best shooter in SNES. Rented it throughout my childhood gor $1 for 1 day.
Space Megaforce, Axlelay, R-type 3 and Aero Fighters say hold my beer.
38:32 Browsing the internet without an adblocker in 2024 be like
After I Tried Funny...i Put The Game Back in The Famicom Box an On My Shelf an it Still Sits There Till Today Cuz I Didn't Think it Was That Funny 🌟😀🌟
I'm sure this guy messed with the game speed and used tool assist through emulation... it's not possible to get far on Funny difficulty in real time.
amazeballs!
For you guys coming from AVGN, to see the old man, you have to beat it on Funny 10 times (there's a secret switch in
the cart that records how any times you beat it, though you'd never know
it if there wasn't that article a few years ago), then when you start
another game, the clouds will be red in the first stage, and Metal Sonic
will appear. There's then a cutscene with the old man yelling at Metal
Sonic that he'll avenge his banjo. Metal Sonic then throws
screen-filling grenades, and you get a scripted game-over, unless you
quickly input A B L R START A B R L LEFT RIGHT DOWN UP A SELECT (hey,
it's a Nintendo Power code, don't blame me.). Then you'll see the true
ending, where Thor comes down, and tosses the old guy a new banjo, but
tells him to play the Song of the South to Metal Sonic, which fires a
beam of electricity at Metal Sonic, which destroys him. Then you'll see
the credits sequence, and the ending picture of the old man eating
chilli dogs with Sonic. Make sure not to screw up that whole code
though, or you'll have to beat the game on Funny 10 times again. Talk
about Nintendo hard...
So that code was never on an x68000 version
How the fuck did zoom do?
Obviously, you made that thing about Metal Sonic being in Phalanx up. You have way too much time on your hands.
Came from AVGN 2 to see how it look like but now I'm still there and think I will do it and watch all the video till the end just cannot stop ;)
NO MOAR TINY RED ENEMY SHOTS.
Sheesh, if only they were yellow
This is some impressive gameplay and graphical quality! You say this is all recorded on real hardware, and yet it looks like it's done on an emulator! What sorta hardware are you using? I've got a Framemeister XRGB Mini myself, and I think I have some dodgy cables, since my PS2 can show some pretty clear images with 2D games, but the SNES gets some rather subtle blur that doesn't make it as sharp as I'd like. I'm currently using a SCART cable, but I hear there's special makes that can get better quality out of the ageing consoles. What would you recommend for recording purposes?
***** I can assure you this was not done on an emulator, none of my videos use emulators. My setup: SNES 1-chip-02 revision, RGB scart into XRGB mini (upscaled to 720p) then captured using El Gato HD capture. Might be your cable or your Framemeister settings (take a look at this: junkerhq.net/xrgb/index.php/XRGB-mini_FRAMEMEISTER, check out the 240p settings).
I've just checked with my PS2 recording Rayman - I'm pretty sure it's either the Scart cable or the SNES, cause the video quality was clear as a bell on the PS2. There's a pretty noticeable hiss with the SNES's audio, and the graphics are definitely blurrier than the PS2's output (which, granted, is on Component). I'll see if a new cable does the trick. Thanks for the advice!
How has your life changed since being recognized as a Super Player?
This looks great for an early NES game. My favourite part is the awesome weapon sound effects. Truly Phalanx has Thunderforce and Axelay crapping in their dungarees.
25:34 what exactly happened there to get to that secret area? hard to see any indicators of a secret there.
Man I wish I could tell you. I have no idea how I ended up in that secret area. The secret areas in this game, and there are many of them, still appear to be undocumented after all these years.
@@PEG probably something one should explore when breaking the game down, would be nice to see.
So this is a comment to the original player, and to you. So if you want to try digging around with the code of the game and if you want to like fiddle around with something like game Replay code so you constantly have a mega Crush, you'll note that every single interactable Secret will take damage on a mega Crush, but is explicitly not an enemy. I assume it's because they program these things as an enemy, but instead of dealing damage, it just triggers a stage shift. It's entirely likely that he may have seen something take damage and noted that was a secret spot.
Dude I bet you get mad gash when you show off your Phalanx.
Mission 6 is the hardest...and the funniest level of the game.
+TBYVGS BOS Yeah that was a really weird stage
this is actually the only other cool shump ive yet to see on the snes other than the masterful gradius 3... personally i would play phalanx in an emulator with reduced speed though
Heh, played this on the GBA version, which is maybe slightly less impressive. They changed it up a bit. Cool to see the original SNES version. You didn't have a ''funny'' difficulty on the GBA version, but it was still not that easy on hard. Still have my finished campaign save file on the cardridge haha.
Thanks for the full Phalanx hook-up. A slo-mo controller would've been helpful!
Though a port from the X68000, I feel the SNES had a damned fine version of this game. While the boxart was odd, the game inside was not. Not the flashiest game in the world, but it doesnt have to be, just a solid shmup.
Regardless if the game's good or not, they sure had a struck of genius on the marketing, some old guy playing a banjo ends up saving the world kindda sounds weird even in an old video game...
39:15 scp?
I appreciate the story cutscenes added in the GBA version, but I wouldn't recommend it. The way they handled the sound in that version was horrible
At least the GBA version had sound effects for the projectiles being fired. It feels odd that you're firing all these lasers and missiles and stuff and not a single one of them is making any noise except when they're blowing something up. Did the developers fire their sound engineer or something?
@@Bauglir100 I prefer it the way this game presented it because with all the projectiles being fired, from both enemy and player, it would become excessive.
Also, when the enemy projectiles have sounds, which does occur a few times, it makes it more intense due to the lack of it being there all the time.
Same goes for the E power up that charges, it makes a sound when it is fully charged and shot. Also for all the special moves for each powerup, they have associated sound(s) which makes them stand out as being more wow and is a pretty cool decision.
Lastly, dat soundtrack doe man, it's stuck with me since I played it in the early 90's. You would hear less of it and that, imo, would have been a travesty.
@@Arycke No, the lack of sound effects takes me out of the game. It makes the game seem unfinished, like they didn't have time to program all the audio. I want the satisfaction of listening to my lasers and missiles being fired from my cannons and turrets as I shoot my enemies full of holes. Imagine if Doom didn’t have any sound effects for the guns and missiles being fired. Or GoldenEye 007. Or Half-Life.
The GBA port did it right by putting them in. If a game had to make me choose between music and sound effects (looking at you, Zool and Zool 2!), I'll definitely pick the sound effects every time. If I want to listen to the music, I'll just find a RUclips video of the soundtrack.
Nerd brought me here! No banjo guy, so disappointed!
What’s the password do at the end? How do you use it?
What the fuck, where is the banjo guy?
It's the classic bait and switch. Advertise banjo guy to cynically lure the player into the game just to discover that it was all a lie.
I paid $50 at Toys R Us and took it home to play it and cried like a little girl once I realized there was no banjo guy in the game =(
the prequel to banjo kazooie
Where's the banjo guy
Dam so why i didn't played it back than ...as a kid!?
Looking fucking awesome need SNES now ;) or at least
Emulator is my choice i think cheper,. ;)
Why the soundtrack reminds me of X-Zone?
So, did you give it the letter?
I dont get people; when they can do a no damage run on gradius or r - type why can do for this one also
So, what the hell is going on in game actually? The plot?
Holy fuck 30 minutes to kill that boss at 49:30
he's farming points, It actually doesn't have that much health. Unless you're some sort of insane God gamer, or you're cheating with safe States, you're going to need those lives if you want to ensure you make it.
this is a hidden easter egg in Zero divde on ps1
Verdammt und ich konnte damals nur Axelay, Super R-Type und Darius Twins spielen.
Easy for you to say.
Puta que era difícil este juegazo 😅
Check out the Sharp x68000 version of this when you get a chance. Nice gameplay by the way..:)
***** Yeah I've looked at some of your vids for the x68000 version, it looks and sounds a lot better than the SNES version. Still I think they did a pretty good job porting the game to the SNES all things considered.
What does the password at the end do?
Wait this exists?
there is no way in hell he didn't use save states through emulation... and he likely slowed down the speed while playing, then readjusted it before posting this video... it is not possible to react that fast to the bullet-hell in Funny Mode, and the color of the bullets make it very hard to see them in many parts of the game... there should be a $1,000,000 prize for beating Funny on real hardware with multiple witnesses, but nobody would even pass the 1st level.
If the action of the game is faster, this game might actually be good.
Este juego yo lo recuerdo un poco diferente solo un poco pero yo tengo una PSP y lo tengo ahí los sonidos son un poco cambiados los soundtracks también en si son los mismos pero como mejorado el audio y algunas cosas gráficas pero sigue siendo el mismo juego
Christ man, how many times have you played this? And how old are you? I'm 34 and love this game, but shut...
I'll quote myself from an earlier response:
"I practiced this game for about 2 weeks straight (logging many hours
almost every day) before I cleared it on Funny difficulty. I do use
emulators for some practice sessions, mainly for doing single stage runs
or practicing boss fights or finding safe spots (this is how I
discovered the ability to milk the stage 7 boss for points).."
The main thing is this game is extremely generous with extra lives, so you can die a lot of times and still clear the game. I still find Super R-Type and Strike Gunner STG on the highest difficulties to be harder than this game.
Bio cave was my least favorite lvl and i beat this game never knowing each weapon had a special
Turn down the music to the game and play banjo music over it. It fits!
They must do a auto enemy hp scan for every video game cause it fuken takes forever to kill a boss 🤬
This game on the SNES is alright, but it felt rather generic (presentation, graphic looks bland, and sounds very generic) compared to its X68000 original (has better graphics, kickass opening and great music). Also the X68k version is much easier than the SNES version since the default difficulty on the X68k original was set on easy.
Was a robot playing this run?
Man, talk about not judging a book (Or video game) by it's cover. Also: "Funny" difficulty? What, did "So hard you'll sweat your balls off" difficulty scare people away? I didn't see anything to laugh about in there..............and I still wish the banjo guy was the last boss dammit.
I hate bullet-hell shooters like this, mostly because seeing so many bullets on-screen just looks wrong to me. It's graphically--and I mean in the graphic design kind of way--just clumsy and awkward. Compared to something like U.N. Squadron, Phalanx' more bullet-hell approach just doesn't look right to me (it's constantly visually cluttered): ruclips.net/video/_Fsmcvt8ftk/видео.html
There is actually a reason for this. This is a port from the sharp system, and in the original version, there is no funny difficulty. They added this in as a joke, not knowing that this would actually become its own genre shump later on. But you aren't wrong of the fact that the bullets are butt ugly, and apparently the reasoning for that is they were trying to stick to an art style. Personally, they could have easily just gone with something like pearl white.
it is no possible thi game play, it is tas, but congractulations, nao é possivel alguem jogar assim, sem bem que eu ja vi, hehehe.
it's not a TAS. There are no fake runs on my channel, this was played and captured from a real SNES.
I dont understand that mission 3 boss..Its just that.The boss is covered And its pretty weird but you got an.
...INSTANT KILL
It was nearly an instant kill on the 3rd boss, because he sacrificed his transformation for a special attack.
I love this game but level five is just stupid.
whats with the password?
Unfortunately nobody seems to know what it's used for. I've heard rumors that you
were suppose to mail that code back to Kemco for some reason but it's still a mystery. I don't know if we will ever have an answer to this long standing question. Too bad.
www.gamefaqs.com/snes/588567-phalanx/answers/162214-how-do-you-use-the-quotspecial-passwordquot-and-what-does-it
maybe....
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ouaip en fait bof Phalanx surcoté. Hormis les paralaxes, impact 0, musiques bof.
Nice Game ,but This shit ain't funny :(
Descarate copy of a Konami game (Castlevania and Contra Stile)
Youareaidiot
I have no idea what you are prattling on about, but a copy of a Konami game this is not.
Wow this game looks almost as shitty as the box art...almost.