Sounds is much better after my bug report 03275 was fixed

Works with some graphic problems, can run very slow when lots of polygons are on displayed

(Even More Countdowns)

Gradius Home World Discord

https://discord.gg/H6SZ3SK

Here's the sixteenth and final logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

Based on the arcade title screen logo from Gradius.

Well 35 years ago Konami released Gradius in the arcades, that was the start of a this great adventure.

The game that started it all... just one more credit... Vic Viper go for launch...

I also made font sheets while making all the sixteen different types of font logos.

Gradius Wings 85

Here's the fifteenth style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th NES Logo, Box logo for Gradius on the NES.

Here's the fourteenth style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th PS2G4 Logo, based on Gradius IV Fukkatsu on PlayStation2 and Arcade.

Often overlooked but well worth playing.

Here's the thirteenth style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th PSGG Logo, based on Gradius Gaiden on PlayStation.

My favourite game in the series, excellent music, speech and a choice of 4 ships, Falchion β is my favourite.

Here's the twelfth style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th ACG3 Logo, based on Gradius III ~Densetsu kara Shinwa e~ arcade poster.

Great addition and also the hardest game in the series.

Here's the eleventh style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th PS2GV Logo, based on Gradius V on PlayStation2.

Now this needs a remaster, also widescreen support would be great.

Here's the tenth style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th GBA Logo, this is based on the Gradius Generations, Gradius Galaxies and Gradius Advance on the Game Boy Advance.

Playing this on a large TV, it holds up and is still a challenge.

Here's the ninth style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th ACG2 Logo, this is based on the Gradius II GOFER no Yabou on Arcade.

Vulcan Venture (the western name for the game) was the second arcade PCB I owned back in 1992 and it's still my favourite arcade release.

逆ディウス Gyakudius (translates as Reversedius) a fan made music CD by kaguyadepth, it contains some nice 8bit style music.

Also here's the eighth style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th SFCG3 Logo, this is based on the Gradius III on the Super Famicom (SNES).

Here's the seventh style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th MSX2 Logo, this is based on the Gradius 2 on the MSX (Instruction Manual).

Here's the sixth style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th MSX2 Logo, this is based on the Gradius 2 on the MSX.

Here's the fifth style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th GB2 Logo, this is based on the Gradius II and Nemesis II on Game Boy.

Here's the fourth style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th GB Mono Logo, base on the UK release of Nemesis on Game Boy.

Here's the third different style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th MSX Mono Logo.

Here's the second different style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

GameStone Gradius 35th MSX Logo.

Here's one of the different style logos I've made to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Gradius on 29th May 2020.

I'll be posting them over the next month and on the anniversary I'll post the actual font image sheets I also made.

GameStone Gradius 35th GB Logo.

More hi-res scans, almost all the C64, Spectrum and Amstrad games I own (still got some cardboard game to do).

C64 - Konami Arcade Collection - 10 Games by Imagine - Cassettegamestone_35th_anniversary_gradius_font

C64 - Konami Arcade Collection - 10 Games by Imagine - Disk - German

C64 - Nemesis - The Hit Squad 16 - Cassette

C64 - Salamander - Cassette

C64 - Salamander - Disk

C64 - Salamander - ERBE - Cassette - Spanish

C64 - Salamander - The Hit Squad 17 - Cassette

CPC - Konami Arcade Collection - 10 Games by Imagine - Cassette

CPC - Konami Arcade Collection - 10 Games by Imagine - Disk

CPC - Nemesis - The Hit Squad 15 - Cassette

CPC - Salamander - Cassette

CPC - Salamander - Disk

CPC - Salamander - The Hit Squad 16 - Cassette

ZXS - Konami Arcade Collection - 10 Games by Imagine - Cassette

ZXS - Konami Arcade Collection - 10 Games by Imagine - Disk

ZXS - Nemesis - The Hit Squad 15 - Cassette

ZXS - Salamander - Cassette

ZXS - Salamander - Disk

ZXS - Salamander - ERBE - Cassette - Spanish

ZXS - Salamander - ERBE Especial 8 - Cassette - Spanish

ZXS - Salamander - Konami - Cassette

ZXS - Salamander - The Hit Squad 16 - Cassette

ZXS - Salamander - The Hit Squad 16 - Cassette - Alt

I just bought this release so I thought I'd scan it to complete the DS game scans.

DS - Konami Classics Series Arcade Hits - NTR P ACXE - NTR-ACXE-USA

More hi-res scans, Game Boy and DS.

DS - Konami Arcade Classics - NTR P ACXP - NTR-ACXP-EUR

DS - Konami Arcade Collection - NTR-P-A5KJ-JPN

GB - Konami GB Collection Vol.1 - DMG-AJIJ-JPN - RK140-J1

GB - Konami GB Collection Vol.2 - DMG-AJJJ-JPN - RK141-J1

GB - Konami GB Collection Vol.3 - DMG-AJKJ-JPN - RK142-J1

GB - Konami GB Collection Vol.4 - DMG-AJLJ-JPN - RK143-J1

GB - Nemesis - DMG-NMA

GB - Nemesis II - DMG-NEA

GB - Parodius da! - DMG-PVJ

GB - TwinBee da!! - DMG-TDJ

More hi-res scans, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance.

GB - Nemesis - DMG-NM-UKV

GB - Nemesis II The Return Of The Hero - DMG-NE-UKV

GBA - Gradius Advance - AGB-AGAP-EUR

GBA - Gradius Galaxies - AGB-AGAE-USA

GBA - Gradius Generation - AGB-AGAJ-JPN - RK256-J1

GBA - Gradius Generation - AGB-AGAJ-JPN-1 - RK256-J2

GBA - Konami Wai Wai Racing Advance - AGB-AKWJ-JPN - RK212-J1

GBA - TwinBee (Famicom Mini 19) - AGB-FTWJ-JPN - RC807

Thanks to Gradian for supplying some USA Game Boy and NES manual scans.

GB - Nemesis - DMG-NM-USA

NES - Gradius - NES-GR-USA

Last of the hi-res scans for the X68000, all the MSX games I own and one Windows game.

MSX - GOFER no Yabou ~Episode II~ - RC764

MSX - Gradius - RC742

MSX - Gradius 2 - RC751

MSX - Parodius ~Tako wa chikyuu o sukuu~ - RC759

MSX - Salamander - RC758

MSX - Space Manbow - RC768

MSX - TwinBee - RC740

WIN - Gradius Deluxe Pack - ME203-J1

X68 - Salamander - CZ-218AS

X68 - TwinBee - CZ-217AS

More hi-res scans added, X1 and X68000 games.

X1 - Gradius - RA900

X68 - Detana!! TwinBee - RA958

X68 - Gradius II ~GOFER no Yabou~ - RA957

X68 - Nemesis '90 Kai - GS-166

X68 - Parodius da! -Shinwa kara o-warai e- - RA955

More hi-res scans added, NES and a start on the X68000.

C64 Gradius US Disk version, Gradius Board Game, three more NES games, Life Force Salamander UK and Korean versions, Parodius UK version and the X68000 of Gradius.

Hey, I finally got around to doing something Gradius related.

I've scan the UK edition of NES Gradius manual, box and cartridge scan, 600dpi and a few 1200dpi scans too.

Also scanned the Japanese release too, I was inspired.

It's in the Downloads - Hi-Res Scans section.

Otomedius English Translation update, nothing added to the game, however I've decided to add some of my source help files and scripts on how I made the translated version patch files (also included in the download), these may be of use for others to follow in patching the game further, I may add more in the future.

Now that Otomedius original arcade game no longer works in Windows 10 (worked fine in Windows 7), this is not that much a surprise as the original game run on Windows XP Embedded, this make make it impossible to continue the translation effort until MAME catches up or I have an old machine for just one game.

Otomedius has been in MAME for some time (not working), hopefully once it's working it should be a little more easier to progress with the translation effort.

Cleaned up the downloads game section, added some game ISO images for the Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation2 and PlayStation Portable.

Added all the demo and beta release roms I could find for various systems.

Cleaned up some broken links, removed some no longer needed thumbnails, made the whole site wider (it's now 1200px rather than 1040) as screens have got bigger and wider over the years.

Changed all the magnet links to torrent files, hopefully this will sort out the downloading issues.

Last year I bought a secondhand VHS video recorder with a build-in DVD recorder, I then spent a few weeks capturing all the Gradius videos I have.

In April 2019 I encoded all those videos on the PC to h265 HEVC, as they are still a little too large for the site, there will be torrents just like the Salamander anime I put up earlier.

These releases also include 300dpi scans of all the artwork with each release.

They are in the Downloads - Movies and Music - Game Simulation Videos section

Well today I thought I would go through the site code and clean up a few things.

So I've archived some of the What's New section.

Also moved the GHW site back to the GameStone domain (I have an SSL certificate for GameStone), the gradiushomeworld.co.uk links will still work however they will get redirected to the GameStone - Gradius Home World section..

GameStone has always been the master domain anyway.

R-Type Final 2 Kickstarter has started.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/granzella/r-type-final-2-aiming-for-a-brand-new-the-best-shmup-ever

Fans come to the rescue again.

Imagine playing Gradius III on the Super Famicom (SNES) without slowdown!

Well now you can, amazing work on (in my opinion) the best version of Gradius III has just got better.

https://twitter.com/HackerVilela/status/1126003826614513665

https://github.com/VitorVilela7/SA1-Root

How can Konami mess such a simple thing up.

The Arcade Archives (PS4) games contain all the different releases of a game (Gradius II GOFER no Yabou also has Vulcan Venture as well as other minor rom revisions).

So this version in the UK will only have Vulcan Venture and not Gradius II GOFER no Yabou.

So, the collection doesn't have all the different releases of each game, no physical release and as a collector I have other ways of playing these games legal or otherwise (eg. Gradius II GOFER no Yabou - JAMMA PCB, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Windows 95, PS4 Arcade Archives, MAME and probably many others).

All they had to do is package the Arcade Archives games with a 'choose your game' select screen and that's it but they chose something else.

So I don't think I'll be buying this unless something changes.

I've re-encoded the Salamander Anime in a more up to date codec (h265), files are much smaller.



However as they are still too large for the web server so I'm using a torrent magnet link again, if this works out a have a few of the game simulations videos too.

UPDATE:Fixed the magnet link as I copied it wrong from the older release (wrong hash).

salamander.anime.-.dvdrip.h265.aac.japanese.-.english.subtitles.-.720x480 - 887MB

Encoding Date....: 7th April 2019

Source...........: DVD

Runtime..........: 1x01 54.03 min - 1x02 51.43 min - 1x03 52.12 min

Size.............: Varies

Video Codec......: H.265/x265/HEVC

Video Bitrate....: Constant Quality 20 RF

Framerate........: NTSC 29.970 fps

Resolution.......: 720x480

Aspect Ratio.....: 4:3 (1.500)

Audio Codec......: AAC - 2 Channel - 160Kbps - 48KHz

Audio Language...: Japanese

Subtitles........: English - updated 4th March 2010

Genre............: Anime

Anniversary Collection Arcade Classics for PS4 Xbox One, Steam and Switch.

アニバーサリーコレクション アーケードクラシックス

Haunted Castle, Typhoon (A-Jax), Nemesis (Gradius), Vulcan Venture (Gradius II), Life Force (Salamander), Thunder Cross, Scramble and TwinBee

Released as digital only on 18th April 2019 for ¥3000 or $19.99.

I've notice some old forum members are joining the John Smith Legacy Discord server I also run, you're more than welcome to join but please note that that section is really only for the John Smith Legacy Minecraft Resource Pack, if your a Minecraft player and use the JSL pack welcome.

However so as not to confuse the current members of the John Smith Legacy Discord, I've decided to start a Gradius Home World Discord too as I guess the forum wont be coming back anytime soon.

https://discord.gg/H6SZ3SK

All dynamic scripts have been updated to the newer way of doing things, so the site should be back to where it was (minus the forum).

Remove lots of external broken links in the Fan Games and Links section.

I'm thinking about maybe starting a Gradius Home World Discord, that would be much easier to manage than starting another forum and it does allow real time chat too.

Sadly the forum has been taken offline, my host no longer supports PHP 5.6 which the old version of vBulletin used, also it's not compatible with the newer PHP 7.2.0 or higher.

Now the choice is to find some new forum software or just shut it down, I've decided to go with option two as the forum was pretty much abandoned anyway, with Konami all but given up with Gradius it's hard to update a forum with very little posts or user interaction.

Also some of the site is broken too, I'll try to sort the scripts out over the next few weeks, this is quite a pain.

UPDATE: Fixed the download script so at least you can still get the games, as for the rest this will take some time to learn the new way of scripting.

Gradius Home World - Site History