https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/videos/watch/a9ee6638-9745-49ee-96d4-e5a15f4cc4fb Close to the highest adaptive difficulty level in which it's possible to consistently capture all 6 minibosses without rapidfire cheats. Darius Gaiden has an adaptive difficulty system which makes the game harder as you destroy boss body parts. It also increases when power-ups are collected at max level (5000pt bonus), and by some other factors, but most of these are minor compared to blowing up boss body parts. As the difficulty increases, miniboss control orbs and bosses have more health, bosses fire larger and faster bullets, enemies in general fire more bullets, and enemies appear in larger waves. You may have heard the myth before that shot power level also affects the adaptive difficulty, but this is simply not true. You may still want to regulate your shot power to make capturing minibosses easier, however. White bullets do more damage than the green, penetrating ones, which also happen to pass through control orbs and damage the minibosses' bodies. This makes a huge difference for the minibosses of stages 6 and 7. The trick to capturing all the minibosses is to keep the difficulty down until the final zone. When too high, their control orbs have too much health compared to their bodies and it can become impossible to dislodge it without killing them. I have carefully attempted to destroy almost exactly as many boss parts as I could get away with without increasing the difficulty modifier so much that capturing the final miniboss in Zone V becomes too inconsistent. I probably could have destroyed at least one more of Folding Fan's parts. Captured minibosses are worth enough points that it can be worth it to skip destroying some boss body parts (which are worth 30,000 points apiece) to ensure you can capture all of them on certain routes... However, on ACEHLQV you can get more points by skipping the stage 7 miniboss in favor of more body parts. Recorded in MAMEUI 0.140u2 using the ROMset found in the PC version of Taito Legends 2. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:21:31 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.linuxrocks.online https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/videos/watch/a9ee6638-9745-49ee-96d4-e5a15f4cc4fb All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.