The final boss is called Venom in this game.

All the final bosses of the Gradius games talk SMACK before/during their demise but the dialog of this Bacterian certainly comes off as very sinister compared to the others. I wonder if it's referring to *Dr. Venom* from the previous conflicts with planet Gradius? 🤔

@gjtrue I wouldn't be surprised if the giant brain in Gradius 5 USED to be Venom. Not only did he betray Planet Gradius and sided with the Bacterians during their war, but he also played a role in accidentally wiping out his own people, the Wreek.

Konami did not make this game really. Treasure did

yeah they had to outsource this one to treasure, I forget exactly what they were working on at the time but Konami were all hands on deck during PS2 era so they didn’t have the manpower. Ironic because treasure originally left Konami for creative differences.

@@kylele23 yeah poor treasure. Making amazing stuff that never sold amazing. Forcing them to take on contract work and later on port their stuff to all platforms in hope to get some money. I wonder who / who many of the original treasure people that still work in the company what they do now?

While it was recorded with an emulator, I unfortunately can't say I understand the problem you are referring to. As far as I knew, there were no significant frame rate drops when I played this. If you don't mind, I would like to know if you see the same problem in this emulation video by someone else. It is stretched widescreen, but I couldn't seem to find another 60fps video that was 4:3. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7uilrp5lt60XZc.html Also, would you be able to link me to a video that looks the way it should?

@@arronmunroe Hey bud! Sorry for the late reply, for some reason KZfaq doesn't give me notifications for replies anymore. :( I'd also like to apologize. The night I viewed this video it was on my phone which, unless I'm connected to WiFi with it, only lets me view most videos in 480p or lower. I just rewatched the video on my desktop in 1080p 60fps and the judder I described was gone. I switched it 480p like when my phone displayed it and the judder came back so it's actually not your emulator or your rom, its KZfaq's poor handling of lower quality video options. The footage NEEDS to be viewed in 60fps to get a clean and judder free experience which is only on 1080p and 720p modes here. This in no way your fault so I apologize once again for my poor assumption.

It's from an emulator.

@@arronmunroe as i suspected

Why does everything need remade? Not like this game would really benefit from a graphics boost. Rather have innovation than rehashes.

"Or new sequel"

I'd prefer a sequel. This game still looks good as it is today.

@@nobodytonobodysbusiness What are you talking about? Most games in the Gradius series kinda feel like rehashes of the same game one way or another. No wonder it was starting to feel stagnant until Gradius V came along.

It's a higher resolution because it's played with an emulator.

@@arronmunroe Ah ok, it looks great, thank you.

@@logria10 also treasure

The second player just needs to press the start button while the first player is setting the weapon array.

Yes, it's PCSX2, which I don't consider to be an overly difficult emulator to set up, but I can try to help if you ran into a problem. If you wanted to play it online with someone, that would require either something like Parsec or the special netplay build of PCSX2.

I believe it was the one called pcsx2-online by alexsharoff. This is a pretty old build and not necessarily the best way to play it online, but it did allow me to record the input of both players to make this video. If you have a good internet connection, just using Parsec for netplay might be easier. Also, there is a newer PCSX2 online version, although I don't think it's perfect either. I didn't use it mainly because I couldn't record a replay with the newer one.

@@arronmunroe so you use parsec

@@ssbgodvegeta2615 yes, but not here. Parsec is ok, but I prefer using the regular netplay option if the emulator has one.

@@arronmunroeOk can u like tell what u use to do play online

@@ssbgodvegeta2615 Like I said, to play this particular game, I used pcsx2-online by alexsharoff. www.mediafire.com/?r3c1ejv5m85ekrv I can't say that any games other than this will work with this build. I recall this build also needed a certain setting or it would crash in the second or third stage, but I unfortunately don't remember what that was.

I think the frame input delay was set to either 3 or 4. I believe this ran fairly well, but how well it would work for you really depends on how good your friend's internet connection is. In addition to the online build of PCSX2, there is also the option to try this using Parsec, which would mean no lag for the host, but the second player would have at least a little lag.

@@arronmunroe Oh wow, i noticed it seemed like everybody uses parsec and then i see it's a very expensive paid service. Not what i expected. Is the normal current build of pcsx2 capable of online? It sounds like that's what you used or is that some other build? Also thanks for answering!

@@nunyabusiness9056 Edit: No, the regular PCSX2 doesn't have this feature. There seem to be 3 different online versions. The first one listed is the one I actually used for this video. The last one is the newest, but I can't say if it's any good. The build I used crashed on stage 2 if the wrong setting was used, but unfortunately, I can't remember what that was offhand. Regarding Parsec, I think it's only for businesses that it costs. Under pricing, it does mention "personal use" as being free. github.com/alexsharoff/pcsx2/releases github.com/SmileTheory/pcsx2/releases github.com/nipkownix/pcsx2-online/releases

@@arronmunroe weird i saw no free option on their site. The cheapest option is 8 bucks a month. Also thanks! i'll check these out.

On the pricing page, it says personal use is free down where it says "features", not at the top of that page. Either way, while I would say Parsec is an option, hopefully the online PCSX2 build works for you.