Stellar Assault FAQ
by bakudandan
8/1/2012 - submitted to GameFAQs
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Here is a short and lazy guide for Stellar Assault SS for Sega Saturn. I think
this game should have been released in English. I was going to explain some of
the story, but I got bored of writing about it. So you'll have to make do with
this. This is a fun game but there's no reason to replay after you beat it
once. Also you can't skip the level cutscenes which is really annoying. You
can skip the mission briefings with B.

You should use the Type B ship. Type A has weak weapons and cant shoot down
bullets. So if you don't use the Type B it's on you. I will be referring
to the Type B in this guide.
Difficulty - it doesn't matter which difficulty you set it to since the game
is fairly easy no matter what especially with the Type B ship. I would say set
it to Easy until you learn the ropes, maybe beat it once and then you can skip
to Hard without any trouble.

On Mission 3, 9, and 15 you have to complete the secret objectives otherwise
you will see the bad ending.

Mission 1
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Boost towards the green crosshair with the R button until it auto pilots.
Press R twice and hold it to boost faster. You needn't worry about your energy
at this point.
Now you will be attacked by ships. Hold L to brake and just look around and
blast all the ships with the A button. The solid red rectangles on your radar
indicate where the ships are, so you can find them very easily.

Mission 2
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Shoot all the thingies on the asteroid. You will be attacked by ships, so do as
the last mission and blast all the ships. Then just blast all the pieces of the
asteroid.

Mission 3
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This is your first encounter with the battleships. On your radar the
battleships are hollowed out rectangles instead of solid ones. You can ignore
the regular small ships on this stage since they respawn forever.
This is how to beat the battleships. Just head towards it until the whole ship
fills your crosshairs. Then press L to slow down so you approach it slowly.
If you're using the Type B ship you can shoot the bullets, but you don't
have to since they don't do much damage. You can also use your shield with
the C button once you get close, so you don't take much damage from the
bullets. But again you don't have to use it unless you suck at this game.
Now you will use the plasma launcher on it. The way to use the plasma launcher
is hold B until the circle stops growing smaller. This will concentrate your
shots, otherwise the shots will go all over the place if the circle is big.
Then just aim at the battleship and press B again to fire. The shots will deal
heavy damage to the battleship. Now just fire your lasers at it with the A
button to finish it off. You don't have to use the plasma launcher more than
once because it just wastes your energy.
After you destroy the battleships you have to destroy the big accel gate. Just
fire at it until it goes down. I don't think it matters where you hit it.
The secret objective is to destroy all the 4 battleships first. If you take out
the accel gate first you will fail the mission.

Mission 4
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You have to take out the battleships and the regular ships on this stage. You
also have to blow up the engines which are attached to the back of the
asteroids. Just concentrate on the battleships and asteroids first then hold
L and just look for ships to blow up until you kill them all. Shortly
afterwards there will be more ships coming in but you will leave automatically.

Mission 5
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You will notice that there are two kinds of targets on your radar, red and
yellow. You only need to take out the red target battleships.
After that, you will warp to the crevasse in the asteroid. You have to blow up
the core shield. The pieces of the shield rotate around the core and you have
to blow up all the pieces. Use your regular lasers because the plasma launcher
isn't very effective. You will probably have to make 2 or 3 passes, just go
slow and shoot the bullets that are coming at you. Afterwards the core will be
revealed, blow it up to finish the stage.

Mission 6
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Just blow up all the ships like you did in Mission 1. You may notice that the
ships are starting to crash into you on purpose, it's annoying but just shoot
all the ships and you'll be fine.

Mission 7
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This is annoying, when the display comes up, you have to steer it to the center
of the ship and keep it around there for about a minute. However the center
is not where you think it would be, it is actually slightly below the top
of the ship. If you go too far out you will start losing health very fast. In
any case the stage will end after about a minute.

Mission 8
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Just blow up all the ships like you did before.

Mission 9
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Again, just blow up all the ships until they stop coming. If you blow up one of
the missile silos you will fail the secret objective. If you blow up all the
ships first then the silos will blow up on their own.

Mission 10
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You have to blow up the missiles within the time limit. Pull up next to the
missiles, past the part where the bullets are coming out, so the bullets will
never hit you. Now blast the engines with your lasers (the 4 big white things
spinning around in front of the missile.) You have to shoot at a specific part
of the engine which is the part closest to the missile, this is the weak point.
You'll know you hit it because you'll see explosions instead of sparks. Once
you blew up the engine you have to shoot it some more until it blows up. I'm
not sure where you have to shoot it but try the very front and back parts and
then I guess just shoot around until it dies.
Now do the other one. Keep shooting it and when the captain starts talking you
don't have to shoot it anymore and it will blow up on its own.

Mission 11
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First you have to take out the battleships so do that.
Now take out the triangular things surrounding the tower which are shooting
at you. I recommend slow down and go behind the things, staying close to the
tower, and circle the tower slowly while shooting them from behind. Then
the tower will fall down and reveal a hole.
You have to travel through the hole. Be careful because this is the most
dangerous part of the game. If you mess up your entry there is a chance that
you will bounce off the tunnel walls endlessly until you die. Slow down with
L and hold C to activate your shield, then just ease in to the tunnel. Once
you're in, boost through and keep going until you see the other end. Slow down
before you pull out because there's a bunch of stuff on the other end.
Now you have to blow up these things that are shooting at you. Once you blow
them all up the screen will turn red and you will start losing health. Now
just go back up the tunnel the way you came in, and go through at max speed
to burst through the wall.

Mission 12
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Another easy mission where you just blow up all the ships. I guess if you take
too long you might lose the mission on this one but I don't know since I
always finished it quickly.

Mission 13
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There's a lot of battleships and you have to blow them all up. Actually you
only have to blow up the red targets and ignore the yellow ones. In this
mission there are big battleships that have what looks like spikes on them.
These have more health so you have to use your plasma twice instead of once.

Mission 14
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Ignore all the battleships and go towards the carrier in the center. The ships
will definitely try to crash into you so hold C once you get close to the
carrier.
Now blow up the long part on the bottom of the carrier. This will reveal a
hole. Now go to the top of the carrier and blow up the top part to reveal the
other end of the hole.
You have to travel through this hole while activating your C button shield.
Go through and when you're inside shoot the core to complete the stage.

Mission 15
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You may recognize this boss, it's the final boss of Stellar Assault for 32X.
There's a core unit and a bunch of slave units orbiting it. First you have to
blow up all the slave units. On the side which faces the core unit, there are 2
weak spots, take out both spots to blow up the unit. Once you blow them all up
(you may have to wait for the talking to end) more slave units will come out
and the core unit will reveal its weak spots which are exactly the same.
Just take out all these weak spots on the core and you will finish the stage.
You can blow up these secondary slave units if you want to, in order to stop
the timer, but if you do this you will fail the secret objective.
If you failed Mission 3, 9, or 15, you will see the bad ending here.

Mission 16
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A ship will come and destroy your helper AI and bring you down to 15% health.
Just shoot it like you would any other ship (don't try chasing it, just hold
L and track it around and shoot it with your lasers.) It takes a lot of hits
though. And get out of the way if you see it coming towards you. Don't hold
C to activate your shield because it will waste your shield energy which you
may or may not need if it crashes into you.

Mission 17
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You will be going through a lot of tunnels like you did in Mission 11. Don't
shoot your lasers too much, so you can conserve energy. Just shoot them when
you need to blow something up. The most dangerous part is going through the
tunnels, take your time going through them so you don't mess up and start
bouncing off the walls.
Once you get inside you have to blow up the pillars which are interfering with
your radar. Blow them up until you can see the red target on your radar. This
red target is another tunnel so head there and go through it. Don't boost
through because the tunnel is fairly short. Notice that the tunnel you came
through is marked by a yellow target, remember this because you will have to
go back through the way you came later.
Now you have to blow up the pillars again until you see the red target. This
time there are a bunch of fake dummy tunnels. Just go from target to target and
shoot the things covering the tunnels until you find the real one.
Go through the tunnel and when you emerge you have to blow up the pillars
again until the red target appears. You have to find the real tunnel again but
this time it's being covered by a big boss thing which is surrounded by guns.
Ignore the guns which are invincible, and hold C and shoot the 4 things
sticking out from the boss to blow it up. The guns will blow up and you can
go down through one of the tunnels under them.
Finally, the last room. Just blow up the shield generators and then shoot the
core in the center of the room. Now you have to go back out the way you came,
follow the yellow targets to find the exit.

Congratz! you beat the game. Now you can access the voice test in the sound
menu and listen to all the voice acting in the game.

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