- There are 25 stages and 5 bosses you will have to face if you want to beat the game. All the stages are short. You usually can tell when they are about to end when the money pod shows up.
- Stray enemy shots take 1/8 of your life, while collisions take 1/4.
- Meteors plain suck. Not only are they hard to see they are also indestructible - If you can't see them, adjust your screen settings, or turn off your lights in your room.
General Tips
* One of the oddest, yet useful, aspects in the game is that you are able to move your ship off the side of the screen and it will appear on the opposite side of it. Very useful in tight situations and boss battles. - You have unlimited continues in the game; and you don't lose money or the upgrades you've purchased when you choose to continue. However, when you submit your score it will end the game.
- Don't buy health packs, nukes, or extra lives till after you purchased all the upgrades. It's a waste of time and money if you buy them early on.
- During any stage, concentrate on destroying large enemies. They give out more yellow money orbs than smaller ones.
- Because of the way the continue system works in the game you can grind on any stage to earn unlimited money points. Keep in mind, later stages give out more than earlier ones.
- Boss stages (5, 10, 15, 20, 25) are good places to grind for money. And you don't have to worry about the stage ending suddenly either.
Bosses
1st boss
Little harder than the first, but not by much. Best way to approach this boss is to attack it while avoiding the stray shots, then move away when it throws a barrage of missiles from it's entire body. Use the time warp button to slow things down if you're having trouble dodging. 3rd boss
No harder than the first boss. Use the same method you used on the first. Avoid hitting it when it turns red (Your shots heal it when it's that color), then attack it for a few seconds when it's not red - you have about a 5 second window of opportunity to damage it. 4th boss
The best way to handle this boss is to stay in the center of it and attack. You might get hit by a few stray shots in the center there (they don't do much damage), but staying in the center will allow you to avoid messing with the barrage of missiles that occasionally shoot out from the bosses sides turrets. 5th and final boss
The hardest boss in the game. This boss continuously shoots stray bullets that leaves you little choice but to dodge them. Try to stay near the bottom of the screen. I usually like to do that and aim at the center of the boss for the most effectivness. Occasionally, the boss will shoot a barrage of missiles from it's entire body that you will move out of the way of. The use of the time warp feature will probably help you here.
Medals
Boss killsHopefully the above advice will help you to defeat each one for their medals. Enemy kills
If you go through all the stages you should easily be able to get the medals if you kill most of the enemies in them. Star Ranks
To get the highest rank, the 5 star, make sure you upgraded everything to the max by the end of stage 15. Make sure you have some extra money left so you can buy lives (5 maximum), health, and nukes. Later levels, though, well give out enough money to max out those things at the end of them, so you'll have little to worry about. If you don't continue through the next 10 stages you should get all the rank medals.