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Life Force
Life Force | |
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Developer(s) | Konami |
Publisher(s) | Konami |
Platform(s) | Virtual Console, NES |
Release date(s) | Famicom JP September 25, 1987 NA August, 1988 EU November 22, 1989 Virtual Console JP December 24, 2008 NA February 16, 2009 |
Genre(s) | Shoot 'em up |
Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer (2) |
Input methods | Wii Remote, GameCube Controller, Classic Controller |
Compatibility | 5![]() ![]() Perfect |
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See also... |
Dolphin Forum thread |
You've saved the innocent people of Gradius from the vile Bacterions. But in Life Force an even deadlier plague has slimed into the neighborhood. It's Zelos, an all-engulfing, planet-eating alien who's hungering to take a bite out of you! Only this time you don't have to rescue the millions of Gradians alone. You can call on a starfighter friend from the planet Latis, who'll fight beside you in his RoadBritish space destroyer. You'll both be gunning for max power-ups, with ripple lasers, plutonic missiles and impregnable force fields. But you better be on target. For this isn't your ordinary space scum. And to crush him you've gotta soar through his guts, blast past his death traps and ultimately blow out his heart. Good luck, Commander. The galaxy's counting on you!
Problems that may occur with any NES title on Dolphin are listed below.
DirectX with NES Games
Most NES games suffer strange graphical issues when using the DirectX backend with some graphics drivers; notably NVIDIA. This is a driver bug.
As of 5.0-4869, the D3D driver bugs can be worked around by setting Ubershaders to Exclusive/Synchronous (Ubershaders). It's unknown what exactly is going on with the driver that's causing Exclusive Ubershaders/Synchronous (Ubershaders) to work properly.
This seems to have been rectified at some point, though it's unclear what resolved it.
Problems
This title does not have any additional game-specific problems.
Configuration
This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with Life Force since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.
Testing
This title has been tested on the environments listed below:
Test Entries | |||||
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Revision | OS | CPU | GPU | Result | Tester |
4.0-8445 | Windows 7 | Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.8 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 | Works OK. Requires EFB2RAM. | JMC47 |
Gameplay Videos
- Konami (Developer)
- Konami (Publisher)
- Japan (Release region)
- North America (Release region)
- Europe (Release region)
- 1987 (Initial release year)
- Shoot 'em up (Genre)
- Single-player (Game mode)
- Multiplayer (Game mode)
- 2 (Players supported)
- Wii Remote (Input supported)
- GameCube Controller (Input supported)
- Classic Controller (Input supported)
- 5 stars (Rating)
- Tested On (Release): 4.0
- Tested On (OS): Windows
- Tested On (CPU): Intel
- Tested On (GPU): NVIDIA
- Tested
- Untested for 10000+ revisions
- Virtual Console games
- NES games