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STRATO FIGHTER/RAIGA
🕑 Added 2025-03-14 17:12:49 +0000 UTCThe final game on the JTGAIDEN core is a famous shooter: RAIGA. I have looked for other Tecmo games of around this time but they do not seem to operate on this hardware. So the core will support Ninja Gaiden, Wild Fang and Raiga.
History
Space shooter game released by Tecmo in 1991. In AD 2135, under attack from an unknown enemy, the Earth's military launched the RAIGA mission and sent two MB-OGs into the enemy colony, entrusting them with our future. Whether an American president was flying the MB-OG is not clear, though. Controls include an eight-way lever, shot and turn buttons. Notice that using the analog stick to control the ship will give you 32 directions on the core.
The turn-around button is your best ally, as enemies lurke from behind. This button is not very common in shooters. The turning around feature can be seen on Section Z and Side Arms (both from CAPCOM, and supported by JT cores). More enemies appear from above, below and behind you than from the front. So the items you choose in different stages can make the difference between victory and another coin.
As each item name is shown under it, you can identify them easily and make sure to pick up only the best ones for the situation.
Weapons
Shotgun: shots in three forward directions
Ion Launcher: strongest horizontal fire
Vertical: fires a wave in three directions: up, down and forward
Protection
Beam Rifle: Automatic enemy lock-on
Solid Shooter: sabre attacks enemies at close range
Blaster: moves to trace the ship's movement and attacks forward
Side Arms
Homing Missile: automatically tracks enemies
Bomber: drops bombs diagonally downwards
The best all-round fighting equipment might be the Vertical + Beam Rifle + Homing Missile.
Other Updates
Stack reset value fixed on jt6805
Note that MiSTerAddons released a new firmware that has addressed the phantom input issue for MiSTercade V1.X owners to solve Player 2 stick movement causing phantom inputs for Player 1
About the Sinden Lightgun, we have it working now but NY Captor does work well when the input comes from the gun. It might be that the input is shakier than when using the mouse and maybe the original software gets confused. We are still looking into it so we decided not to release it this week.
Thanks for your support.
Comments
Sp00nxl777
*(New patreon here.) Does this game needs to be installed manually? Or will it be handled thru "Pocket Sync"? I don't see it in my jtgaiden folder. This one looks fun.
HanJeSu
Thank you so much! I ran pupdate and it all works again. You guys are awesome!
JOTEGO
We resolved this issue and it's on the last Friday's Patreon post, https://github.com/jotego/jtcores/issues/1006
AllSpark_Retro
Thank you!
JOTEGO
It seems that there is a problem on the NGPC and it is not working properly. We are investigating it.
JOTEGO
Thank you for pointing this out. It is because of your suggestions that Jotego is able to improve.
JOTEGO
This game RAIGA is in jtgaiden core.
JOTEGO
Playing this game is difficult. I have only made it to the third stages...
JOTEGO
Thank you for pointing these out. We will verify them.
Bean Soup
gracias all!
HanJeSu
Awesome! Thanks for your constant game updates as always. I always look forward to your releases. Quick bug update: The Simpsons core now exhibits artifacts on the right side of the screen. This happens for all games running the core. All are still playable with the glitch except for Parodius Da, which goes to a black screen now. Sunset Riders also has artifacts on the right side of the screen. For all these games the screen is shifted left, with artifacts on the right. For Sunset Riders those artifacts are actually the screen credits. Some kind of X-axis shift?
Mando5
First, just want to say thank you for what you do. Secondly, this game is not easy lol
XC-3730C
I installed the latest jbeta but I can't see the game RAIGA on my Analogue Pocket. Please help
AllSpark_Retro
HI, I have a problem with the NGPC core for Analogue Pocket. After I start a game I have a credit roll overlay on the game. I encountered it with the previous version and now with the latest update. jtbeta.zip file is updated, core is updated. Did I miss a memo, that the development is paused/cancelled or something?
Ben
i just discovered this game,and i think it's the best!I had no idea such a gem existed.What can Isay about the exceptional soundtrack Rtype completely stole the spolight from this masterpiece
Mark Saunders
looking forward to discovering this Tecmo gem when I get to boot it up thanks team JT
PaulC23
Great work as always Jotego! Never played this game back in the day so looking forward to it 😊👍
Two Bards Productions
Wow, the quarter stealing tricks in this one are SO Tecmo. "Is this background or ...nope, it's ship..." The tiny bit of deceleration and drift..stripping upgrades AND setting you back... quarter killa!
ojwales
Great job as usual. One thing, (not a complaint) but on my set up, the analog output of the stratof core is oriented very high vertically. So much so that, even after setting the CRT V offset to -8 and enabling underscan on my monitor, information at top of the frame is still being cut off. Very minor issue, just wanted to mention it.
Gabriel S
Excited to try this new one, and appreciate you working on light gun support!
Mike Holzinger
Fantastic! I LOVE Raiga!
Carl Wright
Great Friday treat thanks. Recommend auto fire for this one.
phillai
Thanks Jotego! You are the best!! 😍
Darren Newman
Nice one, JT.
ronalvel .
Gracias por agregar estos juegos ochentosos !!!
Matthew Belshan
Whoop Whoop! Never played this one before so looking forward to it this evening. Great work Jotego and team. Lightgun support sounds great too!
Tetra
Thank you! Did not know this one or Wild Fang until now.
Leigh
Thank you kindly!
bb bostrom
awesome!
Adrien Duchemole
Great, thanks !! I didn't know that one
DPR
thanks jotego
Pixel Cherry Ninja
Amazing stuff. I love that these arcade gems are being released.
