****************************************************************************** SUPER R-TYPE - SUPER R-TYPE - SUPER R-TYPE - SUPER R-TYPE - SUPER R-TYPE ****************************************************************************** [ Game ] : Super R-Type [ System ] : SNES [ Author ] : Anthony M [ E-mail ] : MixedInception yahoo com [ Version ] : 1.1 [ Date ] : April 24th 2003 *Version(s)* - Version 1.0 the first submit and basic walkthrough. (4-24-2003) - Version 1.1 the breaking up of big paragraphs to make it easier to follow, and proofreading and fixing spelling errors. ©/Copyright 2003 Anthony Martinez This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. If you want to use this guide for your web site then simply email me at MixedInception@Yahoo.com and ask for my permission. All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their respective trademark and copyright holders. _________ CONTENTS _________ I.-Introduction II.-Walkthrough III.-Closing IV.-Credits ________________ I. Introduction ________________ This walk through is for one of the hardest games for the Super Nintendo, and one of the hardest games of all time being labeled by others. As you all know Super R-Type is extremely challenging. This FAQ will be to help you finish the game. Later the FAQ will be updated with a list of all power ups. Now this game is really enjoying and fun, but it will be even better knowing you can beat this game. So let’s get ready and have fun =) ________________ II. Walkthrough ________________ ******** STAGE 1 ******** When you start off I suggest you get a feel for you ship, take the time to test out the level first. Once you get a feel take out the first wave of red ships with you normal attack. Soon after the wave you should see a power up, pick it up. Get ready for another wave of red ships. Keep your ship in the middle only moving up and down for the time being and destroy the red ships. With that wave gone, you approach further down and a different type of ship appears and a wave comes from the ground, do not worry still just fire your normal attack. Now they are gone and you see three other types of ships, there a little bigger but you can still destroy them with your normal attack. Do that and be ready for bombs. Now you can either destroy these or just avoid them, I suggest you only destroy the ones in your path as there is no need to risk losing a life. Now if you decide to just avoid them, keep your distance because these things do blow up after a given time. Now after about the first ten of these bombs, there will be bombs and ships, stay in the middle and fire like crazy, just clear a path, nothing else. Just keep firing, I do not suggest using your charge up because it take to much time and you may find your self blowing up so just keep your normal attack and fire a clear path. Ok so your past the bombs, now you see lots of little alien balls flying around, but in two rows going away from you, now would be a good time to charge your short (By holding down your normal attack button) and waiting until it reaches the end on the meter on the bottom of your screen. Now these balls can not be destroyed so just go in the middle of them and avoid getting to close. Now as your trying to avoid these rows of balls be careful because they shoot out orange little bullets that will destroy your ship, and you do not want to lose any lives in the first level. Ok, so you pass the balls and you have a charge up ready to go right? Now sink to the bottom without touching and let it go, it will destroy the whole bottom row of enemies for you so you don’t have to worry. Now upon going further you see a big ship, do not worry this is not a boss, simply avoid its shots while charging up yours and hit him with it a couple times and he is destroyed. After defeating him you boost up and go onto the boss fight. ********* BOSS ONE ********* This boss is quite simple. What you want to do is first charge up a shot, not to the second level but to the first, let it go in hopes of hitting his four spawn on him. This will reduce his firing at you. Now just repeat this until all four are off. Now, just keep moving in a circle and avoid his charging at your ship and fire like crazy normal shots. Doing this he will fall with in two minutes. ******* STAGE 2 ******* Ok when you start level two there will be a mass wave of them red ships, easily shoot your normal attack and destroy them until you reach a power up. Once you get that power up quickly pick a side of the screen, In other words lots of ships are going to come and you either pick top or bottom because staying in the middle will only get you killed. So now that you picked shoot your normal attack and destroy the next wave of ships. Ok so now you are moving towards some sort of a space station, this is where it can get tricky. As soon as you enter you will have to fight off two waves of ships pouring out your only entrance, do this quick to avoid a lost life. Ok so now that you’re in you need to be careful because big ships are popping out from the ground and they take more then one shot to destroy, your best bet is to avoid and only destroy the ones you absolutely have to. With that said, get ready and continue on forward. These ships shoot long missiles at you so you need to be ready to move quickly. Like I said just avoid them, don’t try and destroy them. Now after the first wave there will be a pink power up at the bottom of your screen, make sure you pick this up, you don’t want to miss it because this will help you kill the rest of these things with one shot. Now that you have this avoid the missiles still and clear a path. Ok so you have a path now and you see some reactors moving up and down, this can be hard but you need to time it and jam forward to make it through with out them crushing your ships. So time it, when you think its safe just jam forward and make it through. Also watch out behind you because they will be shooting little orange bullets that will destroy ship. You’re through that now and you should see another power up that is light greenish/bluish with an "M" entitles on it, pick it up and continue on forward. This power up will drop bombs from the bottom of your ship and this proves to be very helpful. While still avoiding the orange bullets prepare for a couple more waves of ships. This shouldn’t be hard, all you need to do is don’t stop firing and constantly move. Now that you’re out of harms way for the time being continue forward. Now you will see a lone soldier ship come along, shoot it and get the power up. As soon as you get this power up start firing your normal shot like crazy because more waves of ships are on the way. The best way to go now is to stay on the bottom path and just clear a path while not moving to the top or middle. The top ships will not move down to you but only drop a few orange bullets that wont be hard to avoid at all. So continue on the bottom and don’t take your finger off that fire button. Ok so you clear you way through and now you see another big ship identical to the one right before the first boss. Do the same and avoid his big lasers while charging up your big shot and fire that at him a couple of times. Now after he is destroyed pick up your new power up that lets your shots reflect off the walls. Now continue forward firing like crazy. Try to pick a spot and fire; don’t move around to much as that will sometimes recklessly result in a lost life. With only one wave of ships, you destroy them and head onto the boss. ********* BOSS TWO ********* This boss is huge but don’t worry because he does not move. Now the first thing you need to notice is the wall closes so you don’t have much room to squirm around. So pick a spot and just fire as best you can. I don’t suggest using the power up shot because it takes to much time and this boss shoots stuff that bounces around so you need to get your shots in quickly. So when the boss shoots his beams just move but don’t jam up or down because you don’t have much space. So when he shoots you keep firing like crazy and crazy. Do not stop shooting. Doing this should bring him down in no time. If however you do choose to use power up shots, then power up, move up let it off, and quickly but safely move to the bottom screen, see where he shoots his beam then back off and avoid it. (While of course charging a new shot) and repeat this. This takes longer, but for some it may prove to be easier. ******** STAGE 3 ******** The game starts to get a bit harder here, more swarms of enimes and the need to move around a lot. So when you start this level hurry and go right to the top of your screen. Why? So you can get the attachment to your ship on the front where it will be more useful rather then on the back. So now that you have that out of the way, start firing like crazy because lots of ships are going to be crashing down from the stop of your screen. Just get through this and keep firing. After the first dozen or two you will see a power up, get this and continue on. Now the first wave is over with and you come to what looks like a waterfall, get your ship up high and continue forward because the waterfall pushes your ship down. Now as soon as you pass that kill the only ship coming and get the power up. This power up will let you shoot fire beams up and down the screen. Now here comes a huge wave, and it will be tough. The best thing you want to do is fire up and down. Don’t stay in one spot because these ships are going to be coming from all over the place. So keep moving and fire like crazy yet again. Now as you fight off the first small wave you should see a pink power up right before another one of those water falls, pick that up and do the same as the last waterfall. Now when you pass the waterfall you will be able to choose a path, up or down, choose the up path and fire the whole way through, make sure you stay low to the ground because water sprouts will be popping up and try to make your ship crush at the top of the screen. So continue on and fire through. On your way out that path watch your back because some aliens will be behind you, Just hurry forward and be ready to fire some more. Now watch the bottom of the ground because some alien type sea worms will be coming out from the bottom, so don’t go fast just take it slow and keep on firing. As your firing gradually go up to the top of your screen, upon killing an enemies up there will be another power up, get this and continue on. Now there will be a ton of enemies and it gets really hard, what you want to do is take your time and slowly go back so you have more screen to work with. Now the red alien ships are coming out from the ground and the little other aliens are tagging along following your ship. So mixed in with luck go slow and fire like there is no tomorrow. After a huge wave of them you will come across a big alien ship. Nope not the boss yet, but watch out because this one is fast. Just fire and kill everything around it first, then after that start to avoid him and charge up your shot. Make sure not to charge up until everything around him is gone. Defeat him and fight a very small wave of easy red ships. After this wave get ready, you have a boss to fight. *********** BOSS THREE *********** Ok this boss is easy, be lucky you get this tip because I sure didn’t and well, lets just say it took me a while. First off don’t pay much attention to the two worms like creatures he sends out, those are just to distract you. I was shooting at them forever until I realized it made no difference. Ok now that you know not to fire at them, look at the boss and every once in a while a blue like eye will come up, have a power shot saved up and blast it at him each time. So just charge up your shot while avoiding the worms and blast his eye when it comes out. Also know that the eye comes out not only in the front but the back. So always look at what side it pops out from. Continue doing this and you should be fine. The best way to avoid the worms is to stay in the middle and see which way they go, there not to fast so you should be able to judge on where to go once they start to come, that is why staying in the middle is important. ******** STAGE 4 ******** Ok to start off this level you will see the attachment coming from behind you and then you will a power up come by also, first go for the power up and get that, then get the attachment and hook it to the front of your ship. It will help you much more this way again. Ok there will be a small wave of ships after this but just shoot and continue. Then you will see a big red ship, not a ship you will have to fight but the level, but you still need to watch out because the ship fires blue beams. Now as you approach the ship you need to know that there will be a ton of aliens on the bottom of your screen, not only that but the ship will be firing a lot also. The best way to go about this is to stay on the bottom and fire a path the whole way through. Make sure you stay on the bottom and fire a lot because you do not, I repeat to not want to die because you will be stripped of all your power ups and this is one level you will be glad you have them. So now start to fire at the bottom and clear a path for your self. Oh and you need to watch out because not only will this ship be firing blue beams it will also be dropping little bombs. So watch the ship and move from the bottom only when you need to avoid the bombs the ship drops. Sorry there is not much to explain in this level like the others because this level is just really short, all you do is fly through these big red ships. So follow the above advice until you reach the boss. ********* BOSS FOUR ********* Ok this boss is a little tough. The basic strategy for this boss is the power up shot. The ship takes these clear lenses and uses them to fire these beams all across the room, basically while he is getting these lenses you charge your shot and then blast him. Then avoid his beams, it gets a little hard but nothing really you can explain. Like I said if you charge your shot and blasts him every chance you get, he should go down quick and fairly easy. Also you need to watch out for the little orange bullets, but they are not much to worry about because they are easy to avoid. ******* STAGE 5 ******* First off let me tell you this level has some great music in it, and it makes it all the more fun. Ok with the personal issue out the way let’s get on with it. The level starts off with your ship attachment coming from behind, go up and make sure you get it on the front. Although this wouldn’t be a bad time to test out how you like it on the back, this level isn’t swarming with tons of enemies like last level. Ok so now that you have your ship equipped, move to the bottom and destroy the first couple of ships that come your way. Now watch out for the top because there will be sips on the top too shooting them orange little bullets. Now when you destroy the first couple of ships a power up will come along, get it. Continue on and you see the level moving with you, well now here is the tricky part, you have to take the right ups and down to avoid being smashed. I will list from the first point on weather to go up or down, they are as follows: Down Middle on your way up from down hit the middle but only for a little bit and then head; Up Ok so you’re out of the maze now and you see a wave of ships coming, destroy them and take the power up. Now there are going to be a new type of ship that takes more then one normal shot to bring down and they are a little bigger. What you do not want to do is charge up your shot, I know it's tempting but don’t, just take the time and shoot off a couple extra shots it will save you believe me, because you don’t have time to charge you need to kill off all the little enemy ships coming too. Any way’s so kill these ships off and continue on forward. Now you will enter another one of those mazes but this one is so easy I don’t even need to type it, I mean you can just keep going forward and get out of it. But go to the top of your screen so you can destroy the enemy ship for another power up. After you get that continue on forward and you get out and you see those ships that take a couple shots to bring down greet you. So do the nice thing and greet them back with tons of shots. Once you pass this wave of ships there will be an another power up for you. Get this and continue forward, take out the second wave of ships and get the last power up before the level ends. Now its boss time. ********* BOSS FIVE ********* Well there is not much to say on this boss, he is probably one of the easiest bosses in the game, the only thing you need to do is avoid the obstacles when chasing him, and hit the eye that pops out. Since this level is at a pretty high speed just make sure your reaction time is up to snuff. Avoid the obstacles and hit his eye with your charged up blasts and you bring this boss down in not time. ******** STAGE 6 ******** Start this level by moving to the top of your screen so you can get the ship attachment. After that continue onwards and take out the first wave of them red ships. Mid way through the wave you should find a power up, get that and keep on shooting. Now some more ships are going to come from tubes, from the top and bottom of your screen, but don’t worry just keep on firing all the shots you can. Take then out and be ready for a second wave of red ships. This time there will be a couple ships on the bottom of your screen but you don’t really need to worry about them. As you go forward your going to see a platform lowering down aliens. Kill the aliens and time it so you make it right on through. Do the same for the second one, after the second one there will be a power up, get that and continue. Now from the top of your screen there will be some more aliens dropping from the top and into red slime if you don’t take care of them on there way down. So wipe out these guys and pick up the power up at the end. Now get ready to pass a third platform and fight some ground aliens. Just shoot them with your normal shot and keep on going and pick up the power up. Now here comes a tricky part, it is going to be a straight turn, better to explain like as soon as you get the power up your going to want to jam up on your up arrow key and then hit right on your arrow key as fast as you can while shooting. Do exactly that so you don’t loose any lives. Now that you’re on the top of your screen fire at the ground aliens and enemy ships until you clear them out. Now your going to see a ton of enemies from behind you, dropping from the top and ones flying, this gets tough but what you want to do is move around as much as you can and fire in all different directions. About half way through this wave you will see a yellow power up, get that and your life will be much easier because this fires up and down and will take care of anything dropping on your ship. Now continue to fire all over the place and clear all these ships and aliens out. Now you see a big ship with a beam forcing you to lower your ship to the ground, do not worry and go as low as you can and when his beam breaks up jam up and go to the top of your screen. Now just go right above him and fire with the power up you got with the flame that just goes up and down. Destroy him and get ready for the boss fight. ****** BOSS 6 ****** Ok this boss is really easy, all you have to do is watch how low you are to the ground and your movements. Now when you’re at the boss stage watch out because the boss this time comes from behind so stay at the top until he passes by. After his passes go under him and hit his eyes with the beams of flames. There will be no point in charging up any shots for this boss. So just go under him and destroy each part one at a time until they are all gone. ******* STAGE 7 ******* Ok like all other levels start this off by going to the top so you can hook on your ship attachment to the front of your ship. Ok so now that you have it get ready to start to fire, alien snakes are going to start to fly around all over the screen so just keep shooting and then the little ships will start to come, just fire, fire, and fire. There will be a power up after the first about three ships/ and one snake get that and after about two more snakes there will be another power up, get that and continue on and keep firing until they are all destroyed. As you are still fighting off this huge wave another power up will be in the middle, get that and keep on firing. Now go to the bottom of the screen because soon there will be another power up that will try and sneak by you, of course get the power up and keep on firing. Then move back up to the middle of the screen and get the pink "M" power up and yet again continue to fire. After a lot of them snakes and ships you will start to come across these yellow type aliens, they take a lot of shots to bring down so I suggest to just avoid them and only destroy the ones you need to. So now just fire and get by all of these yellow aliens and other ships. Now you will soon approach a reactor of some kind with only one way in, so you know what the means, you are going to have to fire a lot so you can get through and get through alive. So make your way in the reactor and soon you will be taken to the final boss of the game. ********** BOSS SEVEN ********** Ok you have got this far, you are now at the final boss and he is pretty tough. The first thing you want to do is charge up a shot the second form that sprays fire all over and take out all of his tentacles, this will make it much easier. From there on out you want to avoid his shots and fire at the fetus when the hatch opens. So once you destroy his tentacles just keep charging your shoots and avoiding his and then blasting him each time the door to the fetus opens. Soon he will be destroyed and you will have conquered Super R- Type. ________________ III. Closing ________________ I really love this game and I remember how mad it use to make me, not knowing what to expect and then all of a sudden dieing and having to start all the way over. So I hope this FAQ has helped you complete this game because this is one hell of a game and one hell of an accomplishment. Now this FAQ is not done because I still plan on making a list of all the power ups and what they do, and also a more detailed boss section. With that said if any of you have anything you would like to add, or new strategy’s or even some ways to make this FAQ better please email me at Droptopbently@Msn.com just title it FAQ issues or something like that. Also any and all comments are welcome just send it to the email above. Thank you for viewing this FAQ and I hope you had fun with this game because it is one of the best shooters to date =) ________________ IV. Credits ________________ -CjayC- For letting this FAQ be on his site and hosting all my other work. -Ricky H- My friend who told me about this great game, if it wasn’t for him I would have missed out on a classic game. -Matt M- My brother, for just being, well my brother. -Version 1.0- the first submit and basic walkthrough. End. -Version 1.1- breaking up of the big paragraphs to make it easier to follow and proofreading and fixing spelling errors.