R-Type II
Game Boy
Developer: Bits Studios Publisher: Capcom
By: GammaBetaAlpha
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Table of Contents
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How to Play [HOWT]
Walkthrough [WALK]
Donations/Amazon [DONT]
Contact Info [CONT]
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How to Play
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[HELP]
R-Type II is a built-from-scratch title in the famous R-Type shoot-em-up
series. It is a horizontal scroller, meaning it goes from left to right, and has
five levels with a boss battle at the end of each level.
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Power Pod
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In each level, you will get an accessory called the 'Power Pod', which
attaches to your ship, either on its front side or its back side. When attached,
the Power Pod is capable of stopping any type of enemy bullet fire except for
larger bullet fire (such as missiles or energy balls) by simple contact.
Overall, it seems to be far more useful to keep it on the front of your
ship as opposed to the back side, not the least because while you can shoot your
Power Pod away from you and collect it on your backside, it is rather more
difficult to get it from the back to the front, as it will first shoot back and
then retract a bit. Keeping it on the front side is particularly useful for
taking out bigger enemies, where you can 'damage' them several times in a second
and destroy them far quicker than with normal bullet fire.
The Power Pod also will fire bullets separate from your R9 ship.
Although it normally fires pellet bullets, if you find an air-to-surface bomb
power-up it will start firing those instead.
For the first level, the Power Pod will shoot out from the left side
shortly after a Shuttle enemy that will give you your first power-up.
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Power Ups
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Power-Ups work slightly different in this game than you may be used to,
as one of these applies specifically to your R9 ship, while all the others are
used for the Power Pod.
Air-to-Surface Missile
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This looks like a sideways rectangle and circle next to each other. When
equipped, your R9 ship will start firing out missiles that lurch downwards at a
slight angle.
Air-to-Air Laser
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The icon for this vaguely looks like a sideways key. When picked up,
your Power Pod will start firing out crescent-shaped waves of energy that are
extremely tall and thus can pick off lots of smaller enemies at once.
Reflective Laser
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Has an arrow-shaped icon. Lasers will go out diagonally from the Power
Pod ship. If they do not strike an enemy by the time they hit a surface, they
will bounce off the surface at a 90 degree angle and continue on for a duration.
Air-to-Surface Laser
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Has a C-shaped icon, and can be incredibly devastating. Your Power Pod
shoots two series of rock-like energy pellets up and down of it. When they hit a
surface, they will travel right along that surface until they hit the edge of
the screen, strike an enemy, or dissipate in something such as water.
Bits
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A single, orb-shaped icon. This is not a weapon, but rather a protective
shield that consists of a ball above your ship which deflects most enemies and
bullet fire, much akin to your Power Pod. Acquiring a second Bits power-up will
put a second orb on the underside of your ship.
Speed
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Fireball-shaped. This is purportedly supposed to increase your speed for
a short duration of time but I have not seen this to actually be the case.
One-Up
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A +1 symbol. Gives you an extra life.
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In-Game Code
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On the title screen, press Select + Down to access a screen that allows
you to change the difficulty between Easy, Medium and Hard. This only alters
the amount of abuse a boss can take, and not the proliferation of enemies on
stages themselves.
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Stage One
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•You will initially have a wave of the most common enemy ship type, the
Clerk. Blast through them for a while.
•Shortly in, once you approach the enemy base, a Shuttle ship will come
out. Hit it and it will leave you a Reflective Laser power-up. Do NOT pick this
up until you equip your Power Pod or else it will not properly work.
•At approximately the same time, your Power Pod will come on-screen from
the left side. Do NOT attempt to pick it up on your back-side: instead, allow it
to move in front of you before picking it up so you can get it attached to the
R9's front end.
•Once you get closer to the base, Ironclaw ships will come out and
converge on one point. This is a good time to see how the Power Pod is capable
of instantly destroying enemy ships on contact by moving forward to where the
Ironclaws converge and touching them with the Power Pod.
•After another Shuttle which drops a Speed, some more Ironclaws followed
by a wave of Clerks. The Power Pod will eat up small bullet pellets from the
Clerks, but not larger missiles or energy beams.
•Stick way to the left side of the screen when shooting the Clerks.
Snail-like enemies will pop out from the water, but as they (like other enemies)
always jump out at the exact same time through every playthrough, your Power Pod
can quickly destroy the first one as long as you stay at the far left end of the
screen. These snail enemies shoot out missiles, so do not attempt to block their
attacks using the Power Pod.
•When coming to the three presses, a Shuttle will come out from the
right side. It will drop an Air-to-Missile power-up for your R9, but do not go
down into the press if the power-up is low on the screen.
•Continue on for a while through more enemies. Another Shuttle will drop
an Air-to-Air Laser on the way, then another one with a Reflective Laser shortly
following that.
•A Mangler enemy will top off the inside of the base area. It shoots out
enemy beams, which you can only dodge, not negate with the Power Pod.
•Once you get to the three doors at the end exiting outside, quickly
rush through as the doors will close, and can destroy your ship if it comes in
contact with the doors.
Boss: Zabtom
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•The only weak spot of Zabtom is on its chest area, where a bulging ball
of cytoplasm is exposed every so often once the metal flap opens up. Charge your
ship laser up when the flap is closed, then let a shot go once it opens up its
flap to blast it. You can also just park your Power-Pod right over top of
Zabtom's weak-spot and kill it incredibly quick, though you may consider that to
be cheating.
•Occasional bubble-like bullets will come in from above and below the
center of Zabtom. These CAN be nullified by the Power Pod, so do so while
charging your laser at the same time to keep them from becoming a nuisance.
•Battling with Zabtom also has a time limit, as doors will continue to
come in and close on the left side of the screen. Avoid getting chomped by the
doors, and move right as your room for maneuever narrows.
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Stage Two
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•Watch out when shooting the initial wave of enemies, as they will
explode when shot, leaving an aftereffect with a large radius. Do not approach
them to destroy them with the Power Pod. Some of the explosion blasts can
actually travel left, so keep an eye out for them as well.
•A Shuttle will follow this wave shortly that will give off an Air-to-
Surface Laser power-up, an incredibly devastating laser that sends firepower up
and down, and then right along the walls until they hit an enemy, disappear off-
screen or dissipate in the water.
•Stick to the left side shortly thereafter and start spamming your
lasers and Air-to-Ground missiles to clear out the enemies as you go along.
•Once you get to the waterfall, quickly rush through past the waterfall.
If you stay in front of the waterfall, it will pull the R9 ship down slowly with
some drag.
•Continue spamming your lasers as you go through. Watch out for the
enemies in here that float out of the water. If they hit a roof, they will
'pop', releasing three bubbles.
•Stick to underneath the waterfall spray as you continue on a bit, and
watch out for enemy ships that drop from above the waterfall. You should also be
able to pick up a Bits power-up, which gives you basically an additional shield
above your R9 that acts much like the Power Pod insofar as stopping bullet fire
and destroying foes.
•Soon, a big, immobile floating enemy robot called a Crawlgar will
appear, part in the water and part out. Do not try to block its shots, as it
will go through your Power Pod. Instead, move underneath it as you go past, and
be sure to spam your firepower to destroy its bullet capabilities before you
come out the right side of it.
•The boss fight follows soon, right after a Shuttle carrying a
Reflective Laser power-up.
Boss: Barakas
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•Barakas has a single weak point, in the center of its body, a mushroom-
shaped ball that travels up and down the spine-like center and hangs out either
at the top or bottom end. You can fire at it normally, or again using your Power
Pod. This latter is not recommended in this battle as Barakas is not immobile.
•Barakas will move left and right, going down and then back up. While it
is moving down an up, it shoots lasers out of its shoulders next to the 'head'
which will destroy the R9 if it makes contact. It will also spit two bullets up
when it comes back up, but these bullets are fairly negligible - it will be the
very odd person who finds his ship being destroyed by these bullets. However,
they will come back down and disappear off the bottom side of the screen, so
watch out for it if you are hanging around the bottom side.
•To avoid getting hit by Barakas moving up and down, you can attempt to
stick to the very top of the screen, just under the roof, and the space will be
wide enough so that only the lasers can hit you - neither the projectile nor the
mushroom shaped ball can damage you then.
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Stage Three
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•If you had the Bits from the last level, you will keep it until your
ship gets destroyed.
•The first two shuttles here will drop a Air-to-Ground Laser and an Air-
to-Ground Missile for the R9. Definitely grab this if you did not get the
missile the first time around in Stage One or lost it due to your ship being
destroyed.
•Do not stick to the left side of the screen, as enemies will start
coming out from that direction once you begin to go past the underside of the
overhead of the large enemy vessel on the top of the screen.
•With the second enemy vessel, it will move right to keep with your
ship. Stay underneath it at at all times as it will shoot out worms to the left
side. While fighting the enemy ships underneath the large vessel, another
Shuttle will come out carrying a Bits, so blast that to pieces. If you already
have a Bits on the top side of your ship, you will get a second one on the
bottom side.
•You should encounter a pair of enemy vessels next. While the top one is
negligible, as it stays immobile throughout, the second one will move right with
you for a while, disappear off the bottom of the screen later, and then reappear
and drift up to the top side of the screen while going past another grounded
large vessel. When it reappears, you MUST get to the underside of it as soon as
you can or you will be crushed between the vessel and the top border of the
screen. Stick to the left side during this time and keep your Power Pod in front
to eat up enemy bullets.
"The wave of enemies right after this has a 1-Up.
•Of the next two large enemy vessels, the upper one will occasionally
fire down long, slow laser beams. Slip in between them if you can (again, they
are incredibly slow-moving). The pods that fire out the lasers can be destroyed
by bullet fire.
•The bottom ship will move right along with your R9 for a bit, before
drifting south. Make absolutely CERTAIN you grab the Reflective Laser power-up
floating around. The boss fight follows thereafter.
Boss: Colbert
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•Colbert will float around left and right, up and down through the
fight.
•During the initial bout, you should attempt to destroy the two bullet
shooters on top of Colbert. They do not take much damage to eliminate, but more
importantly, if you do so, you can park in the very upper-left corner of the
screen and be untouchable for the rest of the fight.
•The sacs on Colbert's side, right above its 'feet' shoot out pods which
can be destroyed by the Power Pod.
•Colbert has two weak spots: these are the sacs that spit out the pods,
but also the inner part of the machine. If you can send Reflective Lasers down
its internals, you can cause a large amount of damage. Conversely, if you park
in the upper-left corner and have Air-to-Ground missiles, you will also have the
chance while it is at the top end of the screen in its movement cycle to damage
it simply by spamming away.
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Stage Four
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•Enemy ships right from the start will fly around, attempting to create
walls and ceilings to narrow your route of travel. You can blast your way
through the makeshift walls, but try to clear out the enemies instead where you
can through use of your Bits and Power Pod in addition to your weapons. Keep a
charged shot handy during the brief lull periods.
•Following a significantly long initial wave of these enemies, you will
face a Mangler enemy. Recall that you cannot negate its energy blasts, so go
around the energy shots while battling it.
•Right after the Mangler you will encounter solid walls. You need to let
the Clerk enemy eat through a small block on each and then navigate up and down
through the narrow spaces.
•Save a charge shot when you exit the maze, as you will get a couple
more wall-creating foes.
•Be sure to pick up the Reflective Laser power-up from the Shuttle
following shortly thereafter, as it will be incredibly useful for the upcoming
boss.
Boss: Blendor
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•Blendor is basically the right wall on this screen, and its weak point
are the three sacs tucked inside. It does not shoot any big enemy fire, only
small bullet pellets, so the Bits and Power Pod can eat them up easily.
•Blendor will send out four long blocks at the R9 ship that will drift
to the left side of the screen. If you shoot the middle two, they will flip
around horizontally, giving your ship enough room to skirt through them.
•If you have the Reflective Laser, you can hit both of the middle blocks
at once, but you also need to quickly move through them before the lasers bounce
back and hit the blocks again, putting them back into vertical position.
•Again if you have the Reflective Laser, you can quickly make mincemeat
out of the boss.
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Stage Five
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•In addition to the regular, small Guardgoyle enemies, who you can try
fending off by going left and right using your Bits, you will also get long
snake-like enemies, called Slimeys. These can only be destroyed by hitting their
heads, although this is made significantly easier if you have the Reflective
Laser power-up.
•A Shuttle that appears during the initial swarm will be carrying a Bits
power-up, useful if you do not already have two equipped.
•After a lengthy amount of enemies have come by, Ironclaws will appear
trawling horizontally along the screen instead of vertically. When this occurs,
move towards the center of the screen, as Ironclaws will also appear from the
left side and go right.
•Finally after some more time, you will enter a narrow tunnel. Be sure
to grab a Reflective Laser from a shuttle, and press against the right end of
the screen and then go down once you leave the tunnel to escape a few enemies
that come in from behind.
"The boss battle begins very shortly after.
Boss: Uom
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•Two fireballs will come out from the right side of the screen, one from
the top end and one from the bottom end. Once they get past the shell of Uom,
they will zig-zag to the opposite height of the screen. Meanwhile, small enemy
ships will occasionally come out from the bottom and top of the screen.
•If you park on the upper left or upper right corner and have both Bits
and the Power Pod equipped in front, your ship is invulnerable in that position
to any incoming fire.
•Uom itself has two points that must be hit, the two spots that look
almost like fetuses curled in upon themselves. One of these is inside the boxed
cage in the center of Uom's body. You must wait for the left side of the cage to
open up before you can attack it. Once that weak spot has been destroyed, the
fetus-like apparition disappears.
•The second weak point can be a bit trickier. Normally, you must wait
for both the left side and the right side of the cage to open before you can
fire at it. You can also travel into the cage when the left side is open and
stay there for the duration of the battle, pummeling the boss when the right
side of the cage is open.
•If you have the Reflective Laser equipped (which you most likely do,
given that it was dropped in the narrow tunnel right before this boss battle),
you can move up or down right up against the ceiling or floor and spam the
Reflective Laser. It will reflect itself alongside the cage and ceiling/ground
around to the back side to hit the fetus.
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[CONT]
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