TIPS
- If you die during a warp malfunction, the game skips the tax-free shop and
the next level. You can use this to your advantage in the harder levels,
especially in the Big Trouble stages. So make sure you have plenty of lives left.
When you get to the level you want to skip, especially Big Trouble, just pray for
a warp malfunction! If you get a warp malfunction, just kill yourself once (It's
a good idea not to do this until there's only one alien left on the screen).
- If you buy extra lives when you already have four, you will get armour
instead (but for 400 credits instead of 600).
- It is generally not a good idea to spend any credits until you have 500.
When you get 500 credits, buy the Super Weapon.
- If you hold down the fire button (make sure to disable autofire if you have
it on) from the moment you grab the Meteor Storm icon right up to the end of the
Meteor Storm, you will get the secret $5000 bonus (This only works in version
2.4+)
- On Version 2.4, it is not a good idea to buy the $3000 weapon until you're
in levels 51-75.
- The weapons that cost $750 and higher are generally not very handy unless
you have autofire (Ver 2.4). If you do have autofire and have one of these
weapons, what you have is an incredibly nasty weapon!
- You can also "cheat" by using a hex editor and editing the main program. Just
find the part of the code that lists all the prices in the tax-free shop (make
sure they are not part of the menu, if you modify the menu in any way the game
won't run!) and change the numbers to whatever you want. This way, you can make
everything cost nothing if you want! However, you'll still need $50 to enter the
shop, and $400 for continues (or $200, in version 2.3).
GAME SECRETS
- Catching a skull will add to the chances that extra life and cash multiplier
bonuses appear.
- By shooting the hurry-up ship, you can collect the rank marking that you are
missing.
- When a smart bomb have exploded and the gems are falling. You can collect
them by holding down the joystick.
- If you have a multiply when entering the meteor-storm, you may get a lot of
points.
- Catching a warp icon in an alien stage with a bonus level will give you a
perfect score.
- Red, Green and Blue skulls will give you a very good weapon. Full fire power
and the best ship speed.
- When a hurry-up ship has appeared 8 times. A money ship will appear. Shooting
this will give you a lot of money.
- If you have a weapon type, and catch the same weapon, you will get more
firepower.
- Completing the Meteor-storm will give you 100,000 points and 1,000 in cash.
- You can figure out what skull you have not taken by looking at the colour of
the meteors in the meteor storm.
- If you have caught 2 aliens and the scope is active. You can get a lot of
points by the aliens off the screen.
- If you have the rank of Admiral and you buy more rank markings, you will get
1,000,000.
- Having a multiply active when completing the game will give you a lot of
points.
- If you have all the rank markings for a new rank, and then buy more rank
markings, you will instead buy a new rank.