

Why is it that on stage 4 of Viper Phase 1 NEW version, even after you destroy all the enemies on that level you can never get the 100% bonus? The schedule was very tight, so I was only able to help out with programming the ending.

I was working on another project when Raiden Fighters 2 was being developed. All I did for balancing was weapons and bosses. Saitou 2 handled most of the game balancing so it was a pretty relaxed project for me. I also programmed background bosses, as well as a raster scrolling-ish system (a first for Seibu). There were no struggles with the hardware this time, but on Viper Phase 1 I didn’t have much opportunity to optimize the game system’s performance, so I did a lot of that with Raiden Fighters.

Raiden Fighters was mostly the same as Viper Phase 1. Viper Phase 1, sometimes called “Raiden in Space.”
