R-Type I & II Winning Strategy Guide
R-タイプⅠ・Ⅱ必勝攻略法
Covers both R-Type and R-Type II.
ABOUT
A 47-page guide from Futabasha's PC Engine perfect strategy series, published in 1988 and credited to Fighting Studio, covering R-Type I and R-Type II, the two HuCard halves of the PC Engine conversion of Irem's arcade game.
A single HuCard of the day could not hold all eight stages, so Hudson's port was released in two parts: R-Type I with the first four stages in March 1988, and R-Type II with the remaining four that June, linked by a password that carried the player's power-ups across. The guide addresses this split release, not the later arcade sequel of the same name.
It is a compact record of one of the stranger compromises in shmup porting history, written while the second half was new.
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WHERE TO GET IT
Searched by ISBN, so a shop that has this exact edition will show it and one that does not will come back empty. Most of these were printed in Japan and never distributed elsewhere.