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Thunder Force V

System(s): Sega Saturn

Publisher: Technosoft

Developer: Technosoft

Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (28/11 tracks)

Peripherals supported: 3D Control Pad

Genre: Shooting^[1]

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1997-07-11^[1]	¥6,800 (7,140)6,800e^[2]	T-1811G
JP (Special Pack)	1997-07-11^[3]	¥7,800 (8,190)7,800e^[3]	T-1812G
JP (Satakore)	1998-09-17	¥2,8002,800	T-1814G

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Thunder Force V (サンダーフォースＶ) was, for nearly a decade, the final entry in the Thunder Force series of shoot-'em-up games by Technosoft; it was also the last entry developed by them.

It has become the most expensive Thunder Force game on Sega systems.

Gameplay

Controls

There are two types: Select mode to switch weapons, and Direct mode in which a button is assigned to each weapon. Each button layout can be changed.

Select mode

Move list
Name	Command	Description
Shot
Arms change [L]		Switch weapons in the order Twin, Back, Wave, Free range, Hunter
Arms change [R]	none	Switch weapons in the order Twin, Hunter, Free range, Wave, Back
Over weapon		Shots an enhanced version of the currently weapon. The craw's durability is reduced during firing, and when the durability is at a minimum, it cannot be fired.
Ship speed		Change the speed. It changes by 25% each time you push it, and you can make fine adjustments by 1% by holding.
Window disp		Switch the display / hide of the menu at the top of the screen.

Direct mode

Move list
Name	Command	Description
Twin
Back
Wave
Free range
Hunter
Over weapon		Same as Select mode.
Ship speed		Same as Select mode.
Window disp		Same as Select mode.

Weapons

Twin (Blade): Standard equipment, Twin shots forward. After changing own ship, it is strengthened by a blade-like forward shot.
Back (Rail gun): Standard equipment, Single shot forward, twin shots backward. After changing own ship, it is strengthened by a rear laser.
Wave: Widely attacks the front. Its power is weak, but it can attack through background.
Free range: A green laser that displays a quadrangular pyramid-like range and automatically attacks the target when a destructible object enters it. The range can be rotated 360 degrees, and the direction is fixed with the shot button.
Hunter: Homing orbs

Stages

The first three stages can be played in any order; the order listed here is the default.

Stage 1: No Blue

“	The old town that was submerged after the first battle with the Guardian.	„

Stage 1 Boss: Deep Purple

“	I saw the messenger of the new god there.	„

Stage 2: Wood

“	The forest zone where the Guardian experimented on living creatures.	„

Stage 2 Boss: Iron Maiden

“	She was dead, but alive at the same time.	„

Stage 3: Human Road

“	The multi-level city that is being newly developed.	„

Stage 3 Boss: A3 (Armament Armed Arm)

“	It died three times and was reborn twice.	„

Stage 4: Guardian's Guardian

“	The large, uninhabited artificial island of Babel, the research and development facility for Vasteel Technology.	„

Stage 4 Boss: Gurdian's Knight

“	For whom is the sword drawn?	„

Stage 5: Judgement Sword

From this stage, own ship is strengthened. It starts RBR-02B "BRIGANDINE" equipped with a support enhancement unit, and after taking an amount of damage, changes to RVR-02 "VAMBRACE".

“	Above the earth.	„

Stage 5 Boss: Vasteel Original

“	That was when it all began.	„

Stage 6: From The Bottom of One's Heart

“	The giant battleship Judgement Sword and the interior of the Guardian, the autonomous artificial intelligence.	„

Stage 6 Boss: Unknown

“	The end is now here.	„

Last Boss: Unknown

You can see the true ending by defeating it within the time limit.

“	Unknown..........	„

History

It was originally released for the Sega Saturn in 1997, and only in Japan. A port with some changes, Thunder Force V: Perfect System, was released the following year for the PlayStation, which was released also in North America; the localization of this version, created by Working Designs, is notable in that it contains certain changes to gameplay, a staple of Working Designs releases.

As you might expect from a PlayStation/Saturn-era shooter, Thunder Force V grafts 3D graphics onto a 2D gameplay engine.

Sequels and re-releases

The sequel Thunder Force VI borrows many design elements from this game, such as the menu and weaponry.

Production credits

Planning & Game Design: OPA
Game Main Program: Mirror
Library: Pen Knife
Enemy Main Program: Godzy
Polygon Enemy Program: Pen Knife, Nage Hameeru, Wahrsager, Cyber Yumimint, Noritaloon, Zako, Chinpui, Nincompoop
Rendering Enemy Program: Wahrsager
Area Guard Program: Godzy, Pen Knife, Nekoon
Map Object Program: Wahrsager, Nincompoop, Noritaloon, Nekoon
Opening Movie Program: Pen Knife
Ending Program: Zako, Takohai Ssu
Ranking & Name Entry / Title Program: Zako
Option Program: Zany
Development Tool: Chinpui, Godzy, Pen Knife
My Ship Graphic: OPA, Sanzenten, Quicksilver, Pei Crash
My Ship Program & Demo: Zany
Polygon Enemy Design: OPA, Pontarou, Sanzenten, Alice De Alince, Quicksilver, Breath, Pei Crash
Polygon Enemy Modeling: Wahrsager, Cyber Yumimint, Noritaloon, Alice De Alince, Kusuko
Polygon Enemy Texture: Quicksilver, Pontarou
Rendering Enemy Graphic: OPA, Onibi, Breath
Area Guard Design: Alice De Alince, OPA, Sanzenten, Kukuko
Map Design: Pei Crash, Sanzenten, Sokushinbutu, Pontarou, Breath, Nohohon
Enemy Setting: Pei Crash, Nage Hameeru, Sokushinbutu, Pontarou
Opening Movie: OPA, Sanzenten, Quicksilver
Ending: Quicksilver, Nohohon, OPA
Option Design: Zany, OPA
Character Design: Quicksilver
Story: Nohohon, OPA
System Design Adviser: Ten Stick
Sound & Se: Tsukumohyakutaro, Tek Tek, Tomomi Ootani
Manual: Ten Stick, Kusuko
Publicity: OPA, Ten Stick, Kusuko
Works: Neptune, Ennoshita, Semi, Sake
Special Thanks: Tetsuya Umeda, Daishi Sakamoto, Hidekazu Juuni, Hiroyuki Iida, Jun Abe, Jun Katsumi, Kazukiyo Tamakoshi, Keisuke Kimura, Kenichi Oota, Kikuo Komatsu, Makoto Sakuma, Manabu Wakatsuki, Masato Ichinowatari, Naonori Miyata, Satoru Hosono, Shinichi Magome, Shinichirou Kaneko, Shujirou Yamaguchi, Taishi Ootsubo, Takeshi Kusunoki, Tomohiro Inoue, Toshiharu Nagaike, Toshiki Tanaka, Yasuhito Koga, Yukinari Sasaki, & All Players
Project Leader: Pen Knife, Chinpui
Director: Yunker Matai
Producer: Shigotonin
Presented by: Technosoft

Source:

In-game credits (JP)^[4]

Magazine articles

Main article: Thunder Force V/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Flyer

Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1997-11: "1997-11 (1997-04-11)" (1997-03-28)

Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1997-14: "1997-14 (1997-05-02)" (1997-04-18)

Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1997-16: "1997-16 (1997-05-16,23)" (1997-05-02)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Ação Games (BR)

90

^[5]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

50

^[6]

Edge (UK)

NTSC-J

60

^[7]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

70

^[8]

GameFan (US)

NTSC

93

^[9]

MAN!AC (DE)

NTSC-J

81

^[10]

Mega Force (FR)

NTSC-J

74

^[11]

neXt Level (DE)

NTSC-J

85

^[12]

Saturn Fan (JP)

NTSC-J

78

^[13]

Saturn Power (UK)

NTSC-J

88

^[14]

Sega Magazin (DE)

NTSC-J

90

^[15]

Sega Saturn Magazine (UK)

NTSC-J

91

^[16]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

94

^[17]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

80

^[18]

	80
Based on 14 reviews

Thunder Force V

Saturn, JP
Cover

Saturn, JP (Special Pack)
Cover
Spinecard Disc Best of Thunder Force

Saturn, JP (Satakore)
Cover
Spinecard Disc

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

548,994,432

1997-06-06

CD-ROM (JP)

T-1811G, T-1812G V1.002

?

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

784,980,000

Audio-CD (JP)

T-1812G (Disc 2)

Track list

Game disc

1. Data track

2. Attack Point (00:32)

3. Legendary Wings (01:38)
From: Stage 1

4. Beast Jungle (03:29)
From: Stage 2

5. Rising Blue Lightning (03:09)
From: Stage 3

6. Cyber Cave (03:15)
From: Stage 4

7. Steel Of destiny (02:18)
From: Stage 5

8. Electric Mind (03:52)
From: Stage 6

9. Warning 1 (00:08)
From: Stage 1 Boss

10. Warning 2 (00:08)
From: Stage 2 Boss

11. Warning 3 (00:08)
From: Stage 3 Boss

12. Warning 4 (00:08)
From: Stage 4 Boss

13. Warning 5 (00:08)
From: Stage 5 Boss

14. Warning 6 (00:08)
From: Stage 6 Boss

15. Warning 7 (00:08)
From: Last Boss

16. Deep Purple (02:36)
From: Stage 1 Boss

17. Iron Maiden (02:32)
From: Stage 2 Boss

18. A3 (02:52)
From: Stage 3 Boss

19. Guardian's Knight (03:51)
From: Stage 4 Boss

20. Duel Of Top (03:18)
From: Stage 5 Boss

21. Fatherless Baby (03:08)
From: Stage 6 Boss

22. The Justice Ray Part 2 (04:56)
From: Last Boss

23. Game Over (00:08)
From: Game Over

24. Last Letter (02:23)
From: Ending

25. Please Seal It Up ! (00:47)
From: Bad ending

26. Count Down To Die (00:22)
From: Continue

27. Record Of Fight (01:02)
From: Ranking

28. Tan・Tan・Ta・Ta・Ta・Tan (01:02)
From: Name entry

29. Return To Blue Sky (00:55)
From: All clear

► Running time: 49:01

Best of Thunder Force

1. Back to the fire (03:19)
From: Thunder Force III

2. Venus fire (04:00)
From: Thunder Force III

3. Truth (04:15)
From: Thunder Force III

4. His behavior inspired us with distrust (03:37)
From: Thunder Force III

5. Fighting Back (03:48)
From: Thunder Force IV

6. Battle ship (04:31)
From: Thunder Force IV

7. Metal squad (04:08)
From: Thunder Force IV

8. Silvery light of the moon (04:38)
From: Thunder Force IV

9. Feel the Groobe of TF II (powered by 68K Remix) (16:02)
From: Thunder Force II

10. Rave to clarcing TF III (King of MAGA DRIVER Remix) (14:49)
From: Thunder Force III

11. Crazy and Hot beat of TF IV (Legend of MD road master Remix) (11:03)
From: Thunder Force IV

► Running time: 74:10

Extra content

This game has extra content which can be viewed when accessing the disc on a PC.

Saturn (JP) Extra files
Folder / File	Type	Size	description
\OMAKE\16M	Folder	6,451,592	It contains 7 wallpaper images of truecolor.
\OMAKE\256	Folder	2,465,072	It contains 8 wallpaper images of 256 colors.
\OMAKE\KAISETU.TXT	TXT	5,732	Supplementary explanation about this game.
\OMAKE\REPORT.TXT	TXT	8,900	Supplementary explanation about this game.
\OMAKE\THANKS.TXT	TXT	1,293	Special thanks
README.TXT	TXT	84	Copyright
TF5_ABS.TXT	TXT (Abstract)	817	About this game.
TF5_BIB.TXT	TXT (Bibliographiced)	847	About this game
TF5_CPY.TXT	TXT (Copyright)	41	Copyright

References

Thunder Force games for Sega systems / developed by Sega
	Thunder Force II (1989) \| Thunder Force III (1990) \| Thunder Force IV / Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar (1992)
	Thunder Force AC (1990)
	Thunder Force: Gold Pack 1 (1996) \| Thunder Force: Gold Pack 2 (1996) \| Thunder Force V (1997)
	Thunder Force VI (2008)
	Sega Ages Thunder Force IV (2018) \| Sega Ages Thunder Force AC (2020)
Thunder Force related media
	Best of Thunder Force (1997) \| Thunder Force VI Soundtrack Demo (2008) \| Thunder Force IV (2019) \| Technosoft Music Collection: Thunder Force III & AC (2020) \| Technosoft Music Collection: Thunder Force IV (2021) \| Technosoft Music Collection: Thunder Force I & II (2022)

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20200320230533.2Fhttps:.2F.2Fsega.jp.2Ffb.2Fsegahard.2Fss.2Fsoft_licensee3.html-1] 1.0 ^1.1 https://sega.jp/fb/segahard/ss/soft_licensee3.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-03-20 23:05)

[:File:SSM_JP_19970502_1997-14.pdf_p6-2] Sega Saturn Magazine, "1997-14 (1997-05-02)" (JP; 1997-04-18), page 6

[:File:SSM_JP_19970516_1997-16.pdf_p6-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Sega Saturn Magazine, "1997-16 (1997-05-16,23)" (JP; 1997-05-02), page 6

[:File:ThunderForceV_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf_p-4] File:ThunderForceV_Saturn_JP_SSEnding.pdf

[:File:AcaoGames_BR_131.pdf_p49-5] Ação Games, "Setembro 1998" (BR; 1998-xx-xx), page 49

[:File:CVG_UK_190.pdf_p78-6] Computer & Video Games, "September 1997" (UK; 1997-08-13), page 78

[:File:Edge_UK_060.pdf_p100-7] Edge, "July 1998" (UK; 1998-06-18), page 100

[8] Famitsu, "1997-07-18" (JP; 1997-07-04), page 1

[:File:GameFan_US_0509.pdf_p27-9] GameFan, "Volume 5, Issue 9: September 1997" (US; 1997-xx-xx), page 27

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_1997-09.pdf_p66-10] MAN!AC, "09/97" (DE; 1997-08-06), page 66

[:File:MegaForce_FR_59.pdf_p56-11] Mega Force, "Septembre/Octobre 1997" (FR; 1997-0x-xx), page 56

[:File:NextLevel_DE_1997-09.pdf_p75-12] neXt Level, "September 1997" (DE; 1997-08-22), page 75

[:File:SaturnFan_JP_1997-17.pdf_p84-13] Saturn Fan, "1997 No. 17" (JP; 1997-08-29), page 84

[:File:SaturnPower_UK_05.pdf_p78-14] Saturn Power, "October 1997" (UK; 1997-08-22), page 78

[:File:SegaMagazin_DE_47.pdf_p72-15] Sega Magazin, "Oktober 1997" (DE; 1997-09-10), page 72

[:File:SSM_UK_30.pdf_p70-16] Sega Saturn Magazine, "April 1998" (UK; 1998-03-11), page 70

[:File:SnGwSISDRZK_Book_JP.pdf_p10-17] Sega Saturn Magazine, "Readers rating final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 10

[:File:SSM_JP_19970725_1997-25.pdf_p188-18] Sega Saturn Magazine, "1997-25 (1997-07-25)" (JP; 1997-07-11), page 188

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-| desc={{quote|She was dead, but alive at the same time.}}
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-{{SectionsNew
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-| desc={{quote|The large, uninhabited artificial island of Babel, the research and development facility for Vasteel Technology.}}
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-{{SectionsNew
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-| desc={{quote|The giant battleship Judgement Sword and the interior of the Guardian, the autonomous artificial intelligence.}}
+| desc=
+{{quote|The giant battleship Judgement Sword and the interior of the Guardian, the autonomous artificial intelligence.}}
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-{{SectionsNew
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-| desc={{quote|The end is now here.}}
+| desc=
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-{{SectionsNew
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-| name=Last Boss: Unknown
+| title=Last Boss: Unknown
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-| desc={{quote|Unknown..........}}
+| desc=You can see the true ending by defeating it within the time limit.
-You can see the true ending by defeating it within the time limit.
+{{quote|Unknown..........}}
+}}
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-|}
 ==History==

Difference between revisions of "Thunder Force V"

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Contents

Gameplay

Controls

Select mode

Direct mode

Weapons

Stages

History

Sequels and re-releases

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

Track list

Game disc

Best of Thunder Force

Extra content

References