Note: This is a HTML version of an unattributed document.
No claim is made towards the content.
Preface Use the F8E until you can afford an Efreet
First board (Tank) No weapons. Shoot at the tank treads and dodge the rockets.
First Air board (Big Stealth) Hit the big Stealth with three clusters as soon you can see
it. Be sure the grab the (3)power-up after the first cluster.
You have to be at least half way up the screen to get it. Next,
hit the Stealth with bombs until it rises too high then launch
your megacrusher. Get behind the Stealth and fire away, staying
between the air charges and away from the center of the Stealth
Sub No weapons. Stay in the upper left part of the screen when
you are not shooting the Sub. (I think it's worth buying the
bombs just to get the board over with more quickly.)
Land carrier Two of the small caves in the early part of the level contain
power-up items: one that opens to the left contains a Smart Bomb
item, and one that opens to the right contains a $5K star. You
don't need weapons. Take bombs though. Get low on the deck.
You can shoot out the aircraft launchers and the rocket ports,
but you have to change elevation a little and dodge around. You
don't have to raise up until the end. You will be below the big
rocket fire. Once you have disabled everything except the big
rocket launcher, raise up to just above the mountain line and
fire at the top edge of the big rocket launcher. He'll die fairly
soon.
Second Air board (Small Stealths) Bombs and megacrusher. Use bombs to take the guys behind you.
Get above them. You have to keep up or you're dead. Use the
megacrusher on the three Stealths. They are weak now. Shoot-em-down.
Minks battleship This guy is hard. Take all the weapons. (There's a $5K star
between his stacks, and a weapon power-up on the far right end
of the ship.) Fire at the small gun on the front. Raise up to
the top of the screen before you get too close or the Unicorn
will pass. Be sure to get the Unicorn. Try to hit the stacks
until you get to the middle of the ship and then launch your megacrusher.
It will knock out all the small arms in the central part of the
ship. Drop bombs on the rear big guns. Get below the deck for
the turn around. Raise and knock out he back small guns. If
you have enough fire power you can target the two big guns and
still stay away from their fire. You have to get just high enough.
Once the big guns are gone, fire into the stacks (he'll flash
when you hit the right spot). He'll die. You don't have to knock
out the front guns.
Forest Fortress Take all your weapons, just in case... There is a Unicorn
just before the fortress, immediately after the ground-based missile
launching grids, but I can't figure out exactly where it is. Get
to the level where you can hit the front cannon and the aircraft
launcher at the same time. You can stay here and clear out the
whole front of the fortress. Don't move until you knock out the
last cannon. Raise up and hit the big cannon low. Use you cluster
bomb or regular bomb to take out the last aircraft. The cannon
will blow up if you hit it hard. Next, hit the rocket launcher.
Drop a few bombs on it at the same time you shoot at the second
large cannon. Get the fuel-up at the end. Take out the rear
small cannons the same way you did the front cannons. Go back
to the rocket launcher and take'em out. (When you turn around
for a second pass, there's an Energy power-up at almost the same
height as the small turrets. Shoot the end one from the right,
and it should appear.)
SR71 Blackbird One of the rock towers contains a $5K star. Take all the weapons.
Use napalm to get the rocket launchers. Use the gunpod once the
air battle starts. Get below the Blackbird with the gunpod and
go to work. That's all it takes.
Cave Fortress There's a Smart Bomb item in the area with all the ledges
and planes, shortly after the first vertical ascent. This one
is pretty hard. I've only beat it once so far. Take cluster,
phoenix, gunpod and megacrusher. Shoot down everything until the
second ground machine gun then use phoenix, until you get to the
vertical ascent. Before entering the column launch a megacrusher.
Get up and over to the upper middle cavern, and launch a second
megacrusher. Use cluster until the vertical descent where you
go back to phoenix. Use all your phoenix up. Too many weapons
get in the way at the end. There is a Unicorn at the upper right
when you get to the one-eyed-machine. Get the Unicorn, and keep
the conveyer belt clear with your gun and clusters. Shoot the
crap out of the eye (up close) with the gunpod. The eye turns
red and he dies.
Final level I use phoenix, gunpod, megacrush, and cluster. Use the phoenix
in the early part until you shoot the red cannon in the narrow
tunnel, make sure you are on cluster at that point in time to
use it to take out the blue planes that come from behind. Switch
back to phoenix. Rocks will come up from the ground. You can
blast them with your normal gun. Use the phoenix to take out
any planes that come around and the missiles that drop from the
ceiling. Next two tanks and more planes and helicopters come.
You can take them out with the phoenix or clusters (or normal
guns).
After this you fly through a narrow winding corridor and there
is a weapons recharge, get it! Use your phoenix to take out more
of the dropping missiles. Keep your phoenix and use them to take
out the guns that move on a grid. There will be a weapons recharge/damage
recharge item in the lower right section of this area. Next you
go into another narrow corridor and there is a unicorn in the
cut away section on the top. After this you come to a "mini
ship". I just blow him up with my normal gun dodging the
missile that he shoots. Next is the mother ship. First blow up
the nose-cone and then take out the top cannons with your guns
and all 3 megacrushes (assuming you got the weapon recharge token).
This should have blown open the middle of the ship showing you
the inner mechanics and also have blown up the top tail fin.
You'll now be past the ship and will want to switch to the gunpod.
You'll pass under the ship. Take out the bottom tail fin with
your normal gun. Then take out the first underside cannon with
your gunpod. Next, blow open the underside of the ship with the
gunpod. You'll now turn around and pass over the ship again. Try
to shoot the front of the ship to take out as many pistons as
possible, as you pass overhead use the cluster to blow up the
remaining top pistons and the main piston. Finally you'll pass
underneath again and use the gunpod to finish her off. If you
do it right, you won't even lose the shield that you got from
the unicorn.
