Operation Night Strikers

I can’t get the games to work with my Sinden light-guns or Retro Shooter RS3 Reaper 4IR setup. Bummer. Back to MAME. I keep buying these reissued arcade games to support this type of product but MAME emulation is usually superior. Did M2 not realize that people would want to play light-gun games with light-guns? Until light-gun support is added, I don’t recommend purchasing.

I posted this fullscreen fix in the forums earlier, but I figure it would be good to include in my review as well for others to see. To have the game always open in fullscreen, go to your game directory folder and in there you should see a folder labeled "winbackup". Go into that folder and create a new file and name it "savecfg.txt". Open that file to edit it and then paste in the following: LAST_CLIENT_SIZE_ENABLED = 0 LAST_WINDOW_POS_X = 0 LAST_WINDOW_POS_Y = 0 LAST_WINDOW_POS_ENABLED = 1 BOOT_FULLSCREEN = 1 Save and close out of the file. The game should now open in fullscreen every time afterwards. If you want to change the resolution to something different than your desktop you can also add the following lines. LAST_CLIENT_SIZE_X = 1920 LAST_CLIENT_SIZE_Y = 1080 Obviously replace the 1920 & 1080 numbers with whatever resolution you want. Outside of the inconvenience of implementing that fix, I am having a good amount of fun with the games. I don't have a Cyber Stick so I can't test that, but using a mouse or controller feels good. It's not M2's best work, but there was care put into this. They added a good amount of options for the games so you can find a look and control scheme that works best for you. Also, for those who are interested they included "easy" versions of the lightgun games as well, which are great if you just want to have some low pressure fun with a couple drinks. For some reason they don't mention those features on the Store Page... Unfortunately, people have reported that the newer light guns of today that use absolute positioning mouse input do not work. I don't have one myself, but I still hope the devs can work on a patch to add the option to use those. Similar to most compilations we have seen lately, if you love the original games themselves I think the current 10% discount price is well worth it. If you're not as big of a fan of the original games and/or are on the fence with this one, you may want to just wait for the winter sale.

ナイトストライカーは手放しでおススメなのですが 現状、3種のガンシューティングがRaw Inputに対応しておらず SindenLighntgunなどのライトガンデバイスで遊ぶことができません 同様にSteamVRのシアタースクリーンでもカーソルを動かせません 個人的にマウスで遊ぶガンシューほど虚無を感じるものはないので アップデートでRaw Inputに対応して頂けること強く願ってます 何卒、お願いします……！

Due to how this collection handles the mouse, 3 out of 4 games don't work with the intended input method through modern lightguns like the Sinden, Gun4IR, Retroshooter, etc. which is the most disappointing aspect of the whole package. Those literally work like digitizing tablets and other PC pointing devices controlling the mouse cursor, nothing special needs to be done, but I can guarantee you M2 will never fix this because ♥♥♥♥ PCs, am I right Japanese dev bros? A weird UI and some baffling issues makes this a no-rec unless you really really want to play Night Striker officially for some reason. This is real sad because usually M2 games go above and beyond public emulation, with better emulation accuracy and neat extra features and gadgets. But here, MAME still reigns supreme.

Beautiful package with lots of options and care, recommended for fans of the featured games or Zuntata music. The highlight is definitely Night Striker, seeing as we've never had an arcade perfect release of that game available at home - and it's still an impressive scaler game in 2025.

ポートは最高！！でも、家庭用版がまるごと全部カットされてDLCで売られてるのはちょっと残念。M2は応援したいけど、こういうのはたぶんTAITOの方針だよね。みんなが1CC目指して楽しんでくれたら嬉しいな！

Terrible overpriced hackjob. Scam too, I bought the book dlc and it is simply not there at all. Refunded, and went back to MAME.

If you just want to play the 2D lightgun games with a mouse then consider this a positive recommendation. However, I only bought it because of Night Striker and I'm not happy with the game as it is in the release. The car returns to the center of the screen all the time, if enemies are in the corners/edges I have to keep fighting with the directionals to reach them. It needs an option for free control like in the Sega Saturn, PSOne and Sega CD versions. If the future Night Striker Gear turns out to be this same auto-centering nonsense I've lost interest already... Another thing that frustrated me was that there is an option to change the colors of the bullets, which in theory could reduce the confusion between your bullets and those of your enemies, but it's not working. For the game to start in full screen mode you will need to edit a txt file inside the installation folder. And scores are not being saved, unless you use save states for that. And since I'm already firing off complaints, I also think that better companions for Night Striker would be Aqua Jack and Galactic Storm - both Taito games in the same vein.

This is one of M2's better efforts. It isn't lightgun compatible.

I picked it up for Night Strikers, but the other games in the bundle are good. If I paid $0.50 a credit I spent playing these games like I would in a real arcade, it would cost more than I paid for the bundle on sale. I'm very happy to have these games and play them when I don't have a lot of time to play videogames.