After a lengthy investigation, it became clear that someone was sending great masses of material into the past. The Colonel was not one to let even a minor time-space disturbance pass without investigation. Six years after later the Dodonpachi Corps detected a time-space anomaly from their moon base: a slight time-space rift, one normally occurring when using a Jump Gate to travel through time-space. Shortly after the conclusion of the “Blissful Death Wars”, a one Colonel Godwin Longhena was appointed commander of the entire Dodonpachi Corps. The gameplay and scoring sections of this article will use the updated 1.5 version of Daifukkatsu, but a majority of the information presented will be applicable to both versions of the game. 1.5 also saw the return of the Type-B helicopter from previous Dodonpachi games.
The update added two additional digits to the player’s score, remove the TLB safe spot in addition to making the fight harder as punishment. This prompted Cave to release an updated version a month later known as Ver. It was a very serious matter for Cave, so imagine how they reacted when they found out that the updated “Version 1.0” of the game still had a counter-stop, and a safe spot during one of the TLB’s attacks. This prompted Cave to intercept the finished PCB’s before they were delivered, remove the PCBs, reburn the ROMs, repackage and seal the PCBs and then drop them back off at the distribution center. If the player scored high enough, the first digit would disappear off the screen.
After Cave had shipped the game, but before it was distributed to the public, some of the staff were playing the game casually when they noticed something…there was a scoring bug on the Player 2 side. The new SH3-b boards were similar to the SH3 boards powering all Cave shoot-em-ups released after Mushihimesama, but featured more RAM than the original SH3 hardware. The game was released on the Cave CV1000-D, or the SH3-b PCB.
“Angry Leader Bee Great Resurrection”) was developed in an incredibly short time span of around five months.