Contents. Gameplay Skull Fang is similar to the series' first Vapor Trail. Players choose one of four jets set among the flying aircraft carrier Skull Fang, as well as a pilot to fly the jet and attack enemy squadrons and battalions worldwide. Jets Players start the game by first selecting their jet, each jet containing a different bomb or special attack. F/AV-1B Silph II, US Navy - A jet with average speed and strength. Its special attack consists of an impenetrable shield that can allow the jet to into other vehicles.
AV-02A Mega-Valkyrie, US Army - A jet-plane with slow speed and maneuverability, but good strength. It carries a large bomb that can clear the screen of most enemies.
FV-03C Seylen-Ex - The fastest jet in the line-up, though the weakest. It has guns mounted near its tail allowing it to fire in two directions. BV-04 SIF, Sub-Space Development - A recently developed space-jet with the best handling over the others. Pilots Players then choose their pilot, all known only by each other's code names.
Hawk - A hot-headed and moody male fighter pilot. Raven - A caucasian, smooth-talking and unusually calm male bomber pilot. Sparrow - An easy-going and somewhat cheerful, English speaking female fighter pilot.
Crane - A diligent and patriotic Japanese female bomber pilot. Weapons The weapon pick-ups include the following. Vulcan - Standard-automatic firing machine gun that fires straight forward in a hail of bullets, but can also fire backwards (depending on the jet selected). Covers a wide range of fire, but is significantly weak. Cluster shot - A weapon consisting of green circulating shots that proffer a 'shot-gun effect' type of fire in that it spreads the further it travels.
Missiles - Multiple homing missiles that fire from six different directions on the jet. Laser gun - A dual, straight firing laser weapon that increases in strength with upgrades, but does not cover a wide range of fire. Players also can pick up a weapon attachment that increases weapon strength and ability depending on the jet known as the S-Unit. The S-Unit can charge its strength and ultimately change its attack pattern when the players use the manual five-speed option whereupon reaching the jet's highest gear, the weapon will temporarily change to a homing weapon known as H-Unit mode. However, the S-Unit attachment can be removed and thus detonated once players hit the Bomb button. Plot Seven years have passed since the events of in 2001, where the militant/terrorist organization Ragnarok was quelled. Though and the United States were successful in their efforts, a significant number of mechs had secretly escaped destruction and after the seven years of silence finally reappear.
The strongest of the mechs appears and begins decimating American cities at random, signifying the Ragnarok's latest assault on society. During those seven years however, an air force unit based on the success of Operation Vapor Trail had been assembled; known as the Skull Fang squadron, the unit was founded in case the organization ever re-appeared. Consisting of four talented pilots whose personal backgrounds and information are withheld from each other, the team is sent to deal with the latest threat and to protect the terrorist's suspected target, the headquarters that house their unit leaders. Ports and related releases Skull Fang was later ported by both Data East and Aisystem Tokyo to the in 1997. This port adds several new features, such as a trial mode, a boss rush mode, a tutorial video and an additional speed mode which has two settings rather than five.
Occasionally, the sprites suffer from flickering. Some arranged versions of songs from Vapor Trail are also included in the game disc as. On February 26, 1996, and added the arcade version's of Skull Fang with the background music of another Data East MLC System title, both into an album titled Skull Fang / Avengers in Galactic Storm, which was released exclusively in Japan. This version also includes two exclusive arranged versions of the songs 'Skull Fang' (Stage 1 theme) and 'Over Boost' (Stage 2 Boss theme). On July 21, 2010, added the background music of the arcade version with the background music of the first two Kuuga games, plus three other Data East shooting games (, and ), into one album titled Data East Retro Game Music Collection, which was distributed exclusively in Japan. Reception A reviewer, while acknowledging that the chase mode and back and side thrusts are variations in the shooter formula, concluded Skull Fang to be 'a shooter in the most generic sense.' He scored the arcade version two out of five stars.
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Recently I decided to set up a instance to make some of my favorite games easy to launch and get up and running. I've been working my way forward through time (2600, 5200, NES and so on) and have finally made it to the Sega Saturn. I tried emulating the Saturn years ago with MESS and it was a pretty sad affair. After a few hours fighting with the Yabause core I decided to give MESS another try. Fortunately to the rescue. It took a while to download and unzip the absolutely enormous Saturn CHD library (it's north of 600GB!).
Note: no other emulators can use the CHD files which is a shame since archive.org is making it stupid easy to get pretty much the entire library. It took some fuss to figure out how to run the games. One early problem was that I didn't realize I was trying to run games from one region with the bios from a different one - and the Saturn has region controls. So for example, I was frustrated nothing from Japan would run with my USA bios - I thought for almost a day that this was just due to limitations with the Saturn emulation under MESS. It turns out that quite a few games at least boot and start to run if you use the right region's bios with the region the game is from!
Hint: an example of one of the magic command lines I used to run Japanese games is mame64 saturnjp -cdrm It turns out a great many of the amazing Japan-only 2d shooters and even many of the 3d games will run now! Even though MAME/MESS warns you that Saturn emulation doesn't work, it does, even thought there's still tons of graphical and audio glitches, and some games, like Sonic-R, run too slowly to be playable. I've only done some initial testing on some games and here's a list of ones I was able to at least get running and played with for a couple minutes:.
Akumajou Dracula X (Symphony of the Night and it's different than the Playstation version!). Batsugun. Bug Too!. Clockwork Knight.
Clockwork Knight 2. Cotton Boomerang. Crime Wave. Darius Gaiden.
Darius II. Detana Twinbee Yahho!
Deluxe Pack. Die Hard Arcade. Fighters Megamix. Fighting Vipers. Galactic Attack. Gokujou Parodius Da!
Great guide, thanks for posting it again! I really wish SSF supported images (and CHD files) and I'd probably give it more of a shot.
Right now I just want a quick and dirty launcher to dive in and play for a few minutes. Mounting/unmounting disc images and mucking around with SSF probably isn't what I need. Since the Saturn library (via CHD files) is almost entirely available via archive.org, I'd urge emulation authors to start supporting that format, or for the MAME/MESS devs to improve the Saturn emulation myself. Yeah, all those reasons were the ones that caused me to skip SSF - along with the requirement to mount/unmount disk images all the time.
One of the points of what I want to set up is a quick launcher so I can just dive into a game. Getting the emulation running with English emulators is enough of a PIA. Considering literally everything you need to get going is ready to go from archive.org I figured this would be a quick way to get up and going for people. Frankly I was surprised that the MESS emulation was as good as it was. Most of the games I want to play seem to work fine with it. Of course there's quite a few that don't also, and SSF might be the only way to get it going. However, I'd urge anybody interested in Saturn emulation to urge the MAME/MESS devs to continue work on improving it since the game archive is easily available and nobody else supports CHD files.
All Consoles. 3DO. Atari 2600. Atari 5200. Atari 7800.
Atari Jaguar. Atari Lynx. Coleco Colecovision. Dreamcast.
Game Gear. Gameboy / Color. Gameboy Advance.
GameCube. GCE Vectrex. MAME. Mattel Intellivision.
Memotech MTX512. MGT Sam Coupe.
MSX1. MSX2. Neo Geo. Neo Geo CD.
Neo Geo Pocket. Nintendo. Nintendo 64.
Nintendo DS. PC-Engine.
PlayStation. PlayStation 2. PSP. Sega CD. Sega Genesis.
Saturn Bios
Sega Master System. Sega Saturn. Super Nintendo. TurboGrafx-16.
WonderSwan / Color Search.
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Skull Fang: Kuhga Gaiden (スカルファング ~空牙外伝~?), known outside of Japan simply as Skull Fang, is a 1996 vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published by Data East. Skull Fang is the third and final game in the unannounced Kuhga trilogy. Skull Fang brings back the gameplay of Vapor Trail.
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Players choose one of four jets set among the Skull Fang - a flying aircraft carrier - as well as a pilot to fly the jet and attack enemy squadrons and battalions world wide. Players start the game by first selecting their jet, each jet containing a different bomb or special attack. F/AV-1B Silph II, US Navy - A jet with average speed and strength. Its special attack consists of an impenetrable shield that can allow the jet to Kamikaze into other vehicles. AV-02A Mega-Valkyrie, US Army - A jet-plane with slow speed and maneuverability, but good strength. It carries a large bomb that can clear the screen of most enemies. FV-03C Seylen-Ex - The fastest jet in the line-up, though the weakest.
It has guns mounted near its tail allowing it to fire in two directions. BV-04 SIF, Sub-Space Development - A recently developed space-jet with the best handling over the others. Players then choose their pilot, all known only by each other's code names. Hawk - A hot-headed and moody male fighter pilot. Raven - A caucasian, smooth-talking and unusually calm male bomber pilot. Sparrow - An easy-going and somewhat cheerful, English speaking female fighter pilot.
Crane - A diligent and patriotic Japanese female Ganguro bomber pilot. The weapon pick-ups include the following. Vulcan - Standard-automatic firing machine gun that fires straight forward in a hail of bullets, but can also fire backwards (depending on the jet selected). Covers a wide range of fire, but is significantly weak.
Cluster shot - A weapon consisting of green circulating shots that proffer a 'shot-gun effect' type of fire in that it spreads the further it travels. Missiles - Multiple homing missiles that fire from six different directions on the jet. Laser gun - A dual, straight firing laser weapon that increases in strength with upgrades, but does not cover a wide range of fire.
Players also can pick up a weapon attachment that increases weapon strength and ability depending on the jet known as the S-Unit. The S-Unit can charge its strength and ultimately change its attack pattern when the players use the manual five-speed option whereupon reaching the jet's highest gear, the weapon will temporarily change to a homing weapon known as H-Unit mode. However, the S-Unit attachment can be removed and thus detonated once players hit the Bomb button. Skull Fang was later ported by both Data East and Aisystem Tokyo to the Sega Saturn in 1997. This port adds several new features, such as a trial mode, a boss rush mode, a tutorial video and an additional speed mode which has two settings rather than five.
Occasionally, the sprites suffer from flickering. Some arranged versions of songs from Vapor Trail are also included in the game disc as redbook audio.
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