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| − | + | Starting bomb - On the course select screen, the lightning bolt in the DX logo alternates between red and yellow. When you select a course, the color of the bolt will determine which bomb type you'll carry at the start of the game and after each death. | |
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| + | - Training mode Loops - Upon completion of the Training mode/stage, the game will calculate your bonus & determine if you "advance" to the next mission through the following requirements: | ||
| + | - No miss & no-bomb | ||
| + | - >99.0% enemy destruction rate | ||
| + | - Destroying all 6 gold radars | ||
=== Characters / Ships / Styles === | === Characters / Ships / Styles === | ||
Revision as of 00:01, 2 January 2026
Title screen
| Developer: | Seibu Kaihatsu |
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| Music: | Go Satou Akira Satou[1] |
| Program: | Tetsuya Kawaguchi |
| Release date: | July 1994[2] |
| Previous game: | Raiden II |
| Next game: | Viper Phase-1 |
Raiden DX (雷電DX) is an arcade game developed and published by Seibu Kaihatsu in 1994. It is an updated version of Raiden II, featuring the same 8 stages but with updated mechanics, enemy placement, bullet patterns and item locations. Additionally, three game modes and two new stages were also introduced.
Raiden DX has been ported to Playstation by Hamster.
For replay videos, visit the Video Index.
Contents
Gameplay Overview
Raiden DX uses 2 buttons. There are 3 different difficulty modes: Training, Novice, and Expert. Training has 1 stage, & allows the player to play Novice & the last 3 Expert stages upon meeting certain requirements. Novice has 5 stages. Expert has 8 stages with infinite loops along with a secret 9th stage if the player has not used a bomb or lost a life.
Controls
- A button (Press): Fires the player's weapons.
- B button (Press): Activates the player's bomb.
Unlockable Secrets
Starting bomb - On the course select screen, the lightning bolt in the DX logo alternates between red and yellow. When you select a course, the color of the bolt will determine which bomb type you'll carry at the start of the game and after each death.
- Training mode Loops - Upon completion of the Training mode/stage, the game will calculate your bonus & determine if you "advance" to the next mission through the following requirements: - No miss & no-bomb - >99.0% enemy destruction rate - Destroying all 6 gold radars
Characters / Ships / Styles
This section should include the characters or ships, if any, that the player can select in the game. Ideally, different "styles" (for games that use them, such as DoDonPachi) would also be included here.
If there is only one playable character and no elements to augment/customize your ship, this section can be omitted from the page.
Weapons
There are 3 main weapons, 2 secondary weapons and 2 types of bombs the player can use in Raiden II. These are obtained almost exclusively from item carriers.
Main shot
These are the most frequent items and determine the player's main shot. In order to power up any of them the weapon item picked up must match the one the player currently has. For example, going Red->Blue->Red->Blue->Red, or any pattern where the items don't match essentially the weapon won't strengthen at all.
Vulcan
This is the weapon the player starts with. The shots are fired in sets of 2, 3 then 4 as it is upgraded along with gradually gaining a wider range. Vulcan is considered the best choice for the vast majority of situations due to its wide coverage and pointblank damage. It primarily suffers from excessive mashing needed when not using autofire (one tap fires one volley).
Laser
A concentrated narrow laser. It starts as individual shots, turning into a thick beam at max power. Deals respectable damage even from far away and light tapping will provide a consistent stream of fire unlike Red. High autofire frequencies fire the laser in smaller "chunks" with gaps in-between, but they are higher damaging than tapping at a slower speed. Laser is generally saved for targets that are small and/or difficult to get up close with vulcan, not much use outside of that as it is severely inefficient at dealing with popcorn enemies even when paired with homing missiles.
Plasma Laser
Added in Raiden II. Initially, it's fired as individual shots that grow thicker when tapping fast enough, eventually morphing into a purple laser. As a laser, it has the ability to attach to enemies with a high enough HP and can bend to hit other targets nearby. Out of the 3, plasma laser has the least damage difference when used at pointblank range (non-existent aside from missiles), can suddenly detach from enemies and has similar shortcomings to laser in regards to popcorn control. The damage is slightly higher when fired as regular shots but only by a small amount.
Power-ups increase the number of shots fired (similar to laser again), make the purple laser thicker and improve its lock-on capabilities.
Missiles
Missile items are in fixed locations inside a cage and follow the same rule when upgrading as the weapon items. Usually 2 of them appear per stage.
Homing
Missiles with homing behavior. Subsequent power-ups increase their speed, homing capabilities and the number of volleys that can be fired is raised from 1 to 2 when maxed.
Nuclear
These missiles move forward and release a sizeable explosion upon impact, increasing their size and explosion radius with every power-up that is picked up. They have a slower travelling speed compared to homing but outperform them at pointblank range.
Bombs
Normal bomb
Obtained by picking up the red bomb items, this is the bomb from the first Raiden. Detonates in front of the ship with considerable delay into a wide circular explosion.
Spread bomb
A new type of bomb added for Raiden II obtained by picking up the yellow bomb items. The spread bomb releases several smaller bombs around the player that proceed to detonate, with a much shorter delay compared to red bombs. Unique to them is that the small bombs have actual collision before exploding. When used close to a flying enemy with an enough amount of HP, it can cancel the blast of whatever bomb it collided with, instead causing it to explode similar to a nuclear missile.
Items
This section describes any and all collectibles that you acquire in the game. An example being any Power Up items or Medals from Battle Garegga. Include secret items such as extra lives as well.
Rank
If the game features a relevant rank system, use this section to discuss it in more detail. Otherwise, this can be omitted.
Loops
If a game features a loop system, elaborate on it in detail here. Otherwise, omit this section.
Scoring
This section should cover a general breakdown of the scoring system of the game. Feel free to put the meat and potatoes here. A great example of a scoring section is the DoDonPachi page.
Strategy
See Raiden DX/Strategy for stage maps, enemy and boss descriptions, walkthroughs, and advanced play strategies.
This section details some particular strategic information about the game and its gameplay, such as hidden 1UPs and some basic scoring tricks. For anything particularly deep or highly complex, you can probably leave it in the Strategy page.
(Currently evaluating whether or not this specific section should even include information outside of the separated Strategy pages. Worth thinking about as a community.)
Story
Basic story breakdowns, plot information, and endings are included here.
If there is no story at all, or any information about the setting, then this section can be omitted. Try to include at least small things here when you can.
Development History
If available, you can include information here about the hardware, the development of the game, and its general reception. Try to have as much information in this section cited as possible.
Version Differences
- Include information here about differences in a game between various versions. This includes regional differences, patch updates/bugfixes, and the like.
Trivia
- Cool facts and random tidbits go here!
Gallery
See Raiden DX/Gallery for our collection of images and scans for the game.
References & Contributors
