#### # # # # ##### # # #### #### ### # # # # # # # # # # # # # #### ### ### # # # # # # # # # # # # # #### # ### ## # # #### #### ### # THE LOST PLANET ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯#¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ for Playstation 2 by Game Arts/Treasure Working Designs FAQ/Walkthrough by DvD davedigiorgio no spam at hotmail dot com Version: 1.1 August 17, 2007 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Table of Contents ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ HISTORY/DESCRIPTION WEAPONS/SHIELDS TIPS FOR USING 2 OF THE SAME GUN THE CHEAT WALKTHROUGH VERSIONS THANKS COPYRIGHT -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- HISTORY/DESCRIPTION Silpheed is an overhead shooter game series made by Game Arts, of "Lunar" fame. The original game in the series, "Silpheed: Super Dogfighter" Game Arts made for the popular Japanese 8-bit PCs of the time such as the PC88 and the FM77. It was ported to the IBM PC and the Apple II by Sierra for US audiences. Game Arts' second game in the series, simply titled "Silpheed," was released in Japan and the US for the Sega CD. It combined pre-rendered backgrounds and animated characters and also included CD audio. It looks cool and was more highly rated than this game, and so I'm planning on playing it someday. "Silpheed - The Lost Planet," made by Game Arts and Treasure, was released in the USA by Working Designs. You can play the game on Normal or Hard and play with 10 or 5 shields. For the purposes of this walkthrough, I've only bothered with the easiest combination of Normal/10 shields. When I later played the first few levels on Hard, they didn't really seem any harder. The back of the box says it has "eight levels" but as far as I can tell, at least on Normal, it has only 6 levels. You can save your setup and high scores but you can't save your game, for some dumb reason, since you have infinite continues. I had to leave my PS2 on for four days when I finally made the push to pass this game. If I could have saved, I could have saved electricity and wear on my PS2. One thing you can do if you are taking a break is to eject the disk, when on the weapon selection screen, so as to give the DVD drive a break. Recently, "Project Sylpheed" was made by Game Arts for the Xbox 360. It was released in Japan by Square-Enix, since Enix has been releasing most of Game Arts' games these days, such as the "Grandia" series. This game is a 3D 1st-person shooter that resembles many of the Lucasfilm Star Wars games. Thus, it plays much differently from the earlier games in the Silpheed series. Game Arts' earlier platformer/shooter "Thexder" may also be related to the Silpheed series. Since Sierra also ported it for the US market, many claim it to be the precursor to Silpheed. It is then interesting to note that Square's very first game for the Famicom (the Japanese NES) was a port of "Thexder." So this game series has started and ended with Square. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WEAPONS/SHIELDS As in previous Silpheed games you get 2 guns to place on your ship, 1 on the left and 1 on the right. The two guns can be the same or different. Halfway through each stage you get to change your guns and 4 of your destroyed shields will be repaired. You start the first stage with a choice of 2 different guns. If you lose all your shields the game is over, but you can continue at the beginning of the stage. If you pass a stage, based on how many points you've earned on that stage, you will unlock 1 or more guns for use on the following stages. Again, when trying to unlock guns, you are NOT penalized for continuing, since only your score for the current stage matters. You get a points multiplier of x2, x4, x8, or 16 the closer you are to an enemy when you kill it and bonus points when you kill all of the characters in a group. These are your weapons in the order you get them. The only really useful ones are the first 4: Vulcan - Standard machine gun. Fires 1 column of weak bullets in a straight line. Vvulcan - Fires two columns of weak bullets in a V formation. Better than Vulcan since it shoots twice as many bullets and when bullets shot at an angle are useful. Optics Laser - Fires a strong beam in a column. It is the strongest gun that you can use when you want to shoot straight ahead, but unlike the Vulcan does not shoot a continuous stream of fire. But, if you use 2 of them.... see below Napalm Bomb - Shoots 3 groups of 2 bombs. One group behind you and 1 to the left and right at 30 degrees from center. Napalm is the strongest weapon, period, but it doesn't shoot straight ahead and the bombs only go a short distance until they explode. Not an easy weapon to use when first playing a level... see below for more information 7 Type Beam - Like the Vulcan but stronger. The direction you move your ship affects the direction you fire. Useless by the time you get it. Falsion Wiper - A large continuous beam that shoots somewhere between straight ahead and straight to the side you put the gun on. When you push forward it moves to the side and when you push backward it moves forward. Might actually be useful if it worked the opposite way... Useless. Star Bow - Again, this is like the Vulcan, but it is more random in the direction that it shoots. It's not strong enough to be useful by the time you get it. Plasma Ball - Charges and then shoots a large purple ball that plows through enemies. You can shoot up to 3 balls. Seems useful, but they don't shoot perfectly straight and I always did better with the Optics Laser or Napalm. Probably useless. Thunder Arrow - Holding the button makes 4 balls extend to the side of your ship that the gun was attached on. When you release the button the bullets fly forward. A pain in the butt, since you have keep releasing the button to shoot. It's also not powerful enough to be useful. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TIPS FOR USING 2 OF THE SAME GUN I'm sure you've asked yourself why they bothered separate buttons for shooting the left gun and right gun, when you usually just want to shoot both your guns: • When using 2 Optics Lasers, press the left or right fire button once, just as the beam has finished shooting out, hold down the "both" fire button and now your shots will alternate between the two guns so that you practically have a constant single stream of Optics Laser. • Do a similar thing when using 2 Napalms to time your shots to space them out evenly so that there aren't big gaps between the explosions. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- THE CHEAT There is only one known cheat for the game. It could have really used a stage select. Anyway, if you want to cheat enter the following name: Japanese version: XACALITE (I haven't tried the Japanese one.) USA version: GLOIRE This will get you all 9 weapons from the start of level 1. Still, this cheat is useless since you'll probably get Optics Laser at the end of stage 1. And Napalm by the end of stage 2. Both of these names are listed in the high score table. From what I can tell of the story... XACALITE is the name of the main enemy in Silpheed 1. GLOIRE is the name of the ship XACALITE stole. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WALKTHROUGH Note that in all of the game, blue enemy shots from enemies can be shot, yellow ones cannot, and green not only can't be shot but they also track you. Stage 1 - Part 1: Use Vvulcan/Vvulcan • If you can't pass stage 1 without this guide, you should play different game. • First you'll encounter a few groups of easy guys. These guys are typical of shooter games. Shoot them all for the group bonus. • 4 birds will come from the middle of screen, shoot them all. • Big Enemy: Tan Crab The Crab will come and shoot at you. Just shoot it and kill it. • 1 group of easy guys Stage 1 - Large Craft - Midboss: Purple Insect • It has 4 legs and 2 arms • Its right arm shoots green balls which can be avoided. • Its left arm will swing out in front of it. The arm can hit you and it also will deliver an attack of some blue balls which can be shot. Just before it swings a green cloud of smoke comes out of it. • You need to take out its body, but both arms can be shot off too. I generally take out its green ball arm before its body. Stage 1 - Part 2: Use Vvulcan/Vvulcan • 8 large red guys with two arms that shoot blue shots. Easily destroyed by moving back and forth on the bottom of the screen. • 26 enemies that are attached to rolling pieces of debris that slowly shoot out slow yellow shots. They are easily shot and the debris will not hurt you if you touch it. Stage 1 - Large Craft - Boss: Tan Ship • First Part: It alternates between shooting blue shots and spread shots of yellow shots. Shoot the blue ones while avoiding the yellow ones. Part of the enemy will blow up. • Second Part: It shoots out black balls which stop and then move horizontally across the screen, avoid them. It also shoots a spread shot of yellow shots which are tough to avoid completely. Another part of the ship blows up. • Third Part: It shoots out a spread of yellow shots, you can avoid them if are in the middle bottom of the screen. • Forth Part: It'll barrel roll left than right shooting pink blasts, avoid them. It should be dead before this part is done... • Fifth Part: It'll fly to the bottom of the screen and shoot up at you with the black balls. If you have Vvulcan, you can hit it from the side, the black balls won't hit you. • Sixth Part: Now it shoots with the blue shots. If you have Vvulcan, you can shoot it from the side, even though it can now hit you, as it must be almost dead by now. • If for some reason you haven't killed it yet (I think it's impossible unless you haven't been holding down the shoot button) it'll repeat starting from the third part. Personally, I never went past the fourth part until I made this FAQ. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since you are reading this walkthrough, I'll assume you haven't picked up Napalm yet; I often didn't. If you have, you might rather use Napalm/Napalm during stage 2, but it isn't necessary. Stage 2 - Part 1: Use Optics Laser/Optics Laser • 6, then 10, then 10 small Pie Plate Octopi attack. Shoot them all. If you miss one, it's okay; I usually miss 1. Stage 2 - Large Craft - Midboss: Octopus Pie Plate • Just focus on its main body, it'll die before doing anything else. But if you don't shoot it quick enough or you are using a weaker weapon like the Vulcan, it'll start to charge up to shoot a bolt of lighting wherever you currently are. When it shoots, move so that the shots don't hit you. Then it'll do it one more time. You can shoot its arms too, but there is no reason to do so. Stage 2 - Part 1 Continued: • 4 or so groups of easy guys attack. • Green-red guys attack. They are easily killed. • Big Enemy: Red Guy that grows tentacles If it grabs you just make sure it doesn't shoot its large blast into you! Otherwise, avoid its small shots and take it out as soon as possible so as to be able to get a clean shot to shoot the other guys coming next. • 3 green-red guys attack on the left, then on the right; just shoot them. • 3 red fish guys attack on left, then the right; just shoot them. • 1 group of easy guys on the left • 2 birds from the middle • 2 groups of easy guys on the left and a mushroom on a building. Shoot the easy guys, then the mushroom, then the next group of easy guys, then finish off the mushroom making sure to shoot the spores it releases. • A vertical blast shooting insect from the left, then one from the right Avoid its shot. • 1 group of easy guys on the left • A falling building, if you touch the fallen building your shield will be damaged, so don't crash into it. • 2 blast insects & 2 more mushrooms, shoot them all. • More falling buildings to avoid, 4 blast insects, and 2 mushrooms. You don't have to shoot both of the mushrooms. • Lots of easy guys. Shoot from the middle to take them all out, or just concentrate on one side. • Big Enemy: Two large airplanes assimilated by the aliens Take each out making sure to not get shot by their continual yellow shots and occasional blue blasts. Avoid them when the perform their barrel roles or their guns will hurt you. Stage 2 - Part 2: Use Optics Laser/Optics Laser • 4 groups of easy guys Stage 2 - Large Craft - Midboss 2: Snake • To defeat it, you need to take out both its head and the tip of its tail even though its the scales on the body that shoot you with yellow and blue shots. So, when it comes, take out it's head. Then take out MOST of the scales then focus on the tip of the tail. If you take too long and its scales reform, take out MOST of them again. Stage 2 - Part 2 Continued: • 6 birds from the middle, kill them all • Lava flame spurts, I find it's best to attack them from almost at the top of the far right side of the screen. • 6 green-red, 1 bird, and 3 fish attack; shoot-em! Stage 2 - Large Craft - Boss: Turtle Shell • The first thing that will happen is fire spurts will arise from the lava from the top to the bottom of the middle of the screen. Avoid them or they will hurt you. • Second, the boss will rise out of the lava and will knock down buildings, which will fall and can hurt you. Shoot it. • Third, it will shoot some small bullets at you. Shoot it. • Forth, if you haven't killed it by now, it will summon up more fire spurts, avoid them. Guess what, shoot it. • If you haven't killed it by the end of this part, it has probably killed you. If somehow you've both managed not to kill each other, it will repeat it's attacks with the third part. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 3 - Part 1: Use Napalm/Napalm (or Vvulcan/Napalm) • 4 easy groups coming from up high, so that they look large at first • 3 groups of green red • Big Enemy: Tan Crab Same guy as before, but this time it moves very slowly shooting some bombs behind it, which really don't stand a chance of hitting you if you move to the side. While shooting it, it will shoot some really deadly bombs, except they will all go off the screen in this stage, so you don't have to worry about them. • 2 groups of tiny disks attack while you are fighting the Tan Crab, but since they don't shoot at you on this stage, they are easy. • Down the large vertical tube we go... • 3 small craft attack shooing blue shots, take them out. • 3 more attack while 3 large machines stuck to the walls (the Intercept System) shoot yellow shots which you must avoid. Again take out these 3 small craft then focus your attacks on the large machines taking out the little guys that get in the way. • Next comes 4 guns around a ring shooting slow yellow shots; take them all out quickly starting from one side. Their shots bounce off the ring, so you want to take them out ASAP. • Next comes 4 yellow laser shooters at 90 degree angles around a ring, after appearing they will turn their lasers on and start rotating counter clockwise around the ring. Start out in the upper left and follow them to the right while shooting at the same one to kill it. Soon they will slow down and start rotating the other way. With 2 Napalms they will soon be dead. Stage 3 - Part 2: Use Napalm/Napalm • 2 easy groups • A horizontal row of flowers will appear. They each shoot a powerful laser down at you. You need to destroy at least one to have somewhere to stand when they shoot. They will be followed by two vertical groups, 1 on the left and then 1 on the right. If you just stay at the top of the screen they can't hurt you. • Big Enemy: Red Scorpion It attacks while more flowers shooting down appear. • In its first form it shoots green shots which are not homing shots and can be avoided, it's just tough because the flowers are there too shooting down at you. Just keep your eye on the flowers to make sure you avoid their shots. • In its second form it will shoot a lot of lasers at you. The first group of shots can be easily avoided. The second group is much tougher to avoid, especially with the flowers shooting down at you. So, you may want to take a hit if you can focus on taking out the ship ASAP. • Big Enemy: Tan Crab. This guy again. He's easy, even though some other easy guys appear at the same time. A second one appears with 2 birds. Then a third one appears with 2 birds. • Now you have to fight the defense system robots. They are pretty easy. Large ships will send out some small ships on a yellow beam of light. Just take the small ships out. You can touch the beams without getting hurt. You can't hurt the ships which are making the beams of light. Stay close to them to easily get x16s on the first and second groups. The third and last group is of two large ships, be sure to take out all the small ships from the ship on the right as they rotate clockwise. Make sure you miss the shots from the other ships and take them out too if you have the shot. Stage 3 - Boss: Hamster Wheel • The boss can only be hurt by shooting the creature in the center of the wheel, not from shooting the wheel itself. He's quite tough, none of its attacks can be shot with your guns, and you need to kill it quickly before it gets to the explosions, so a strong offensive weapon is the key to killing it quickly. That's why Napalm/Napalm is by far the best combination. • At first, before it appears, start on the left of the screen and let your Napalm do most of the damage when it is next to you or in front of you. • Avoid it when it rolls back at the middle of the screen. I stay on its right side when it does this, but just make sure you stay to one side. Keep shooting it from the side with the Napalm. • Now it'll start shooting green shots. Don't worry about avoiding them. Worry about killing it. It's about to get much tougher if you don't take it out soon. • When large white explosions appear on both sides of it, things get tough. Ideally being aggressive with the double Napalm would take it out before this point. It's pretty hard to avoid the explosions. Just shoot it as constantly as possible and hope dies before you do! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 4 - Part 1: Use Optics Laser/Optics Laser • All you do is fight 5 groups of previouly encountered Big Enemies or Midbosses. I would say they are about 20% harder here, but you kill them the same way you did before; so refer to the strategies listed when they were encountered the first time: • Stage 1's: 2 Tan Crab Big Enemies They are much harder now. They launch bombs in the air that cause explosions. Each bomb lands close to the last one, so moving across the screen the explosions will slowly chase you. Avoid the explosions and take out them both out! • Stage 2's: 1 Octopus Pie Plate Midboss You won't take it out before it's lightning blasts are shot, so you'll have to avoid them. • Stage 2's: 2 Assimilated Airplane Large Enemies • Stage 2's: 1 Snake Midboss You won't be able to take out it's head right away; so, instead, first you will have to take out a lot of it's scales. Then go after the heads. • Stage 3's: 1 Red scorpion Large Enemy with shooting flowers Stage 4 - Part 2: Use Optics Laser/Optics Laser or Napalm/Napalm Boss: Supply Ship • After refueling you immediately fight the final boss. • First you must defeat both of the thrusters. • If they shoot out a blue flame avoid it. • If they shoot out blue blasts dodge them. • If they shoot out yellow shots, these can actually be destroyed. • Now you must defeat the center part of the ship. • If the ship starts to charge up, it is going to shoot a large laser in vertical line; just avoid it. • If the ship shoots out 6 green homing bullets, just get hit by them and keep shooting the boss until it explodes. You should only get hit once before it explodes. • Now the head flies around trying to hit you, dodge it as best you can. The first time it will fly at you from the top middle of the screen. • Once it stops flying, you'll either be shot with • 6 blue shots that shoot in straight lines; they can be easily avoided • 6 green shots which are homing; they are difficult but possible to avoid either avoid them or keep shooting at the head until it explodes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 5 - Part 1: Use Optics Laser/Optics Laser • The level starts out with some simple enemies shoot them all. Of the large rocks flying on the scree, two of them are special. If you shoot them, they will produce one of the larger enemies, but it is easy to just shoot the larger enemy and kill it. • When you get to the rotating rocks with lasers or bullets being shot out, shoot them all. The pattern to take them out is pretty nartural. The only suggestion I think you need is: on the last two rocks shoot the last of the guns on the left rock before you take out the last two guns on the last rock on the right. Stage 5 - Midboss: Commander's Ship • The midboss is really easy if you have two Optics Lasers and you don't mind possibly being hit 1 time. • Simply get as close to the rose in the center of the ship and shoot constantly. You will have to move slightly left and right to stay centered on it. • The only way you will get hit once is if it shoots a group of yellow and blue bullets. Just ignore them and take the hit. You'll destroy the boss before being hit anymore, and you'll get at least an x8 when doing so... useful for unlocking those last two (useless) weapons. Stage 5 - Part 2: Use Vvulcan/Napalm • Shoot the 2 big red 2 armed squid enemies close and then back away when they explode to avoid the pink dots. • Shoot the tiny disks ASAP. Unlike when we saw them on stage 3, if you don't take them out immediately, they let loose a barrage of bullets that you won't be able to avoid. • Shoot the 2 big red 4 armed squid enemies close and then back away when they explode to avoid the pink dots. • Having these two guns really helps on this part, stay towards the middle of the screen shooting enemies with the Vvulcan and letting the Napalm destroy the larger ships. I always lose the most health here. Stage 5 - Boss: Green Claw • First part: Stay close to it like you did for the midboss, but avoid the green shots when possible. Do this until you take out both of its arms. • Second part: It will shoot massive blasts in a straight line, but they are not that hard to avoid. I fly one way for two shots and they cross the other way for the next two shots and repeat this process until it shoots out a red ball. • Third part: Shoot the red balls when the come out. Try to shoot the boss at the same time with your other Vvulcan when possible. It will rotate clockwise once. Just rotate with it and make sure it doesn't hit you as you take out the red balls as quickly as possible. • Then return to the second part. I killed it the third time I saw the second part. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 6 - Part 1: Use Napalm/Napalm • STAY IN THE MIDDLE of the screen's X axis for the first 5 sets of enemies. If you don't kill all or most of them you are too high or low. Also try to get your Napalm shots spaced out correctly at least by the 2nd set of enemies. • Stay 35% down from the top of the screen for the first group of easy guys flying from both sides. Kill them all. • The next group will swarm to the top of the screen. Take as much out as possible moving to one side (ok, you don't have to stay in the middle for these guys) but then pull back to avoid the yellow shots. • Take out the 3rd group like you did the first group. They are the easy green-red aliens from the beginning of stage 2. • Pull down to 50% from the top. Your goal here is to shoot all the birds but if you miss 1 you shouldn't have much trouble avoiding its shots. • The first really hard part. Make sure you stay in the middle only moving up or down for these guys. I use the joypad for this part. 5 groups of 2 tiny disks from Stage 5 are here now. Remember that if you don't shoot these guys immediately they cover the screen with bullets. Napalm is essential here for taking them out. I start out about 55-60% from the top and move up and down to avoid shots and hit as many groups as possible. • Now, the 2nd group of enemies repeats their attack. • 3 groups of 3 groups or 5 laser shooting flowers will attack now forming a line at the right, left, and then top of the screen. Just fly to the absolute top of the screen. Only the flowers on top can hurt you and there are none on top for the 3rd group. Just move left and right to take out some of the guys on the top so they don't hurt you. • These guys are the next hard group of enemies after the tiny disks. As you are hanging out at the top of the screen with the 3rd group of flowers move to the right so as your attack is aimed for the middle of the screen to take out the first set of birds who shoot corkscrew patterned vulcan shots. Go below the horizontal shots of the 2nd group. Go right of the next group. Go left of the next group. Go to either side of the last group. You are trying to stay as close to the middle as possible to not get pinned down. • Big Enemy: 3 Tan Crabs Move to the lower right, take out the guy on the right. Then fly up to avoid the pink and yellow shots of the other guys. You might take out the middle one in the process. • For the next 2 groups of 2 red guys don't shoot at all! Just move left and right on the bottom of the screen to avoid their shots. You can shoot to destroy their blue shots if necessary. You might do this just as they are leaving, but try not to make them explode into tiny pink bullets. • Now you fight the first set of earwig sperm. Make sure your shots are alternating again. This group is MUCH easier than the later one because it is so much smaller. Still, when they explode their explosions hurt you, so start at the top and pull back every time so they don't explode on top of you. • Now stay at the top of the screen to take out the tiny umbrella laser shooters with high defense. The Napalm is a big help here. • As the previous group is ending, a small group of glowing pink guys with really high defense (that practically can't be killed with weaker weapons) will surround your ship and then eventually start shooting at you... unless you have Napalm which will take them out before any of this ever happens. • Next a large group of earwig sperm will attack. Fight them as before, but stay to the far left or right of the screen. Pulling back to avoid their explosions and moving forward when the explosions disappear. These guys can be hard, but if you follow this procedure and only try to kill the ones on your side of the screen they aren't that bad. • Lastly a large group of glowing pink guys come. You must kill them all. They are a joke if you have Napalm... which you have! If they happen to get a shot out, just avoid it. Stage 6 - Midboss: Sword • First part: Start to the lower right or left of it so your Napalm can hit the handle of the sword. It shoots the typical yellow and blue bombs. Avoid as many as you can shooting the blue ones and/or moving to the other side of it. • Second part: It does one of two different attacks as a sword. • It swings itself as a sword 4-5 times. I really can't say how to avoid it. Many times it looks like it hits me but I don't get hurt. I'm not sure how the game determines a hit. But just try to avoid the blade of the sword. Shoot the handle of the sword if you can but don't make it a priority. • It spins around as a rotating blade. This is more obvious when it is going to hit you. Avoid and shoot just like in the other attack. • Third part: It shoots homing missiles at you. It is possible to avoid them. • If it's not dead by now, which it often isn't, it will repeat all these parts. Stage 6 - Part 2: Use Optics Laser/Napalm Boss: Core Alien • First form: Ship Just shoot the center of it as much as possible. Don't aim at its guns, but if you have one Napalm attached you will destroy them before you destroy the center. It'll attack with lasers from these guns before they are destroyed. Since you will destroy its guns, after doing so you will need to stay away from the area they used to be when it shoots a barrage of bullets from that area. At that point, go to the absolute center of it, close to it, so the bullets will shoot on either side of you. It may also shoot charged shots from some poles that stick out from it. When it moves left and right, it will shoot multi-shots from multi-barrel guns on the sides, and homing green shots, both of which you can avoid. • Second form: Alien Shoot its tail, but when the tail descends don't touch it or you'll get hurt. Just avoid its shots and shoot its main body with your laser while taking out segments of its tail with your Napalm. When it moves up shoot what's left of its tail with your laser. Now that its tail is gone, just try to avoid its shots: shoot its blue shots, avoid its homing missiles and fly around avoiding its body while shooting its body. The first time I tried Optics Laser/Napalm (instead of Optics Laser x2) I killed it so that's the best thing I can suggest to use. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- THANKS Thanks to Game Arts for making the game. Thanks to Working Designs for localizing it, adding analog control, and removing slowdown present in the Japanese version. Thanks to the two existing FAQs on GameFAQs. Without them, I would have given up thinking the game actually had 8 levels... Thanks to Costco for offering this game in a 2 pack with Jedi Starfighter, else I would have never gotten it. Thanks to my wife for doing something which made me choose to force myself only to play games I had started but hadn't passed. I first played this game when I bought it on March 7, 2003. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- VERSIONS Latest Version: I fixed gramatical errors, vague, and missing words that I didn't find the first time it was proofread. 1.0: July 15, 2007: This was the original complete version. This is the first full FAQ/walkthrough that I have written and I did it since all the other FAQ writers never finished their walkthroughs. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- COPYRIGHT 2007 by Dave V. Di Giorgio (DvD) This FAQ/Walkthrough may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site except GameFAQs 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. The name Silpheed is copyright Game Arts. 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