Thunder Force IV
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Jenny

reviewed Thunder Force IV

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Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Goes hard as hell, especially the soundtrack. Definitely a fuck of a time. But as pointed out a couple times by others, it suffers pretty horribly from intense slowdown and at least on PicoDrive crashed an absurd amount of times. Some point along the line I accidentally saved after a crash instead of reloading and had to start from scratch bc I have no brain cells and only used one savestate. I highly doubt it happens on original hardware, at least.

Reviewed on Mar 29, 2022

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MagneticBurn

2 years ago

yeah the slowdown is hella weird in this game, there's a shitton of it in the jp and us versions. they specifically went out of their way to remove it from pal versions but that version also has a higher tendency to crash on real hardware. i imagine the crash is slowdown-related and some emulators don't know how to pull the brakes hard enough to compensate for it.

the saturn and switch versions remove the slowdown completely except for sections where they hard-coded it in like the stage 2 midboss