I'm looking for a good shmup for PC that is somewhat high quality, and no I'm not talking about Touhou games.

Something high budget like Mushihimesama Futari, Ikaruga, Crimzon Clover, DoDonPachi, or Death Smiles but for the PC and with controller support.

Share some suggestion because I'm looking for a new shmup to play without having to buy it for a console.

Edit: People are starting to cry about the links I post saying it is "piracy" so I removed the links to those games. But I will still leave you with a link to one of my favorite sites to find shmups here. Enjoy!

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Well, I'm not sure if this would fit your high quality requirements, but Jamestown is a good one.
It's on sale for $4 (game only) and $6 (complete pack) on Steam. Plus you can play with three other friends as well.

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Have it, great game and good choice.

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What do you have against Touhou? The fact that it's an indie game, because even for one it's pretty high quality (actually, even for a normal Shmup it's pretty high quality).

Also, there's Trouble Witches (the original), and it's not bad for a sideways Shoot 'Em Up. Other than that, Jamestown, and the ones already listed (and barring console titles like Akai Katana), and Touhou, there aren't many others I can think of.

EDIT: found this - http://www.shmups.com/xenocidefiles/pc.html

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I don't have anything against Touhou, I'm a shmup whore and will play anything. I just said that because I own them all.

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Oh, sorry :P.

Well there's also an Indie/Doujin database I know of that has a bunch of rather high quality shmups included, one such is called "Exception", which is a rather unique take on shmups. There are actually quite a few good quality ones in the mix (and some not so good quality).

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Trouble Witches looks interesting I'll look into that one, thanks.

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the http://www.shmups.com/ def kicks ass, found some good games on there

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I love Gunstar Heroes.

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And I love you for loving my favorite Genesis title!

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Truely one of the gems of the sega genesis. If only Sega would give it the sequel it deserves, with full 4-player online co-op and HD retro sprites.

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Hell yeah, Gunstar Heroes! Best game ever.

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Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer seems really good from what I've played of it.

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That's on PC? Damn I thought it was a PS3 exclusive.

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Yeah, might be tough to find though. I played a bit of it on PSN, though it was released on PC first.

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Yeah I bought the Collectors Edition from PlayAsia a few years back. Decent schmup.

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I like shmups but I suck at them, haha.

Anyway, I don't know how good they are, but the Gundemonium games are on Steam. They are Gundemonium Recollection, GundeadliGne (however you pronounce that), and Hitogata Happa. They're Japanese indie shmups.

Another shmup on Steam is Satazius; I've heard it compared to Gradius before.

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Got Gundemonium from the recent bundle(Great games), Satazius is diarrhea bad! Stay far away from this game!

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I actually have that last one in my bookmarks so chances are I have every game they have listed. <3 Shmups!
I'll check out the others, thanks for the links.

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Didn't understand any of this.

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They're looking for good Shoot 'em Up games.

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Geometry Wars

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Jamestown

I highly recommend it

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Have it, good game.

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Its only good in multiplayer.

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BTW ExzoSSG i see in your win list 2 times portal...

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Go report me like most other people if it's such a concern.

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http://ethervapor.com/ - awesome game that got updated relatively recently, this is super worth it.
http://www.locomalito.com/hydorah.php - ludicrously good free shooter in the vein of Gradius. not like the games you mentioned, but too good not to mention.
http://db.tigsource.com/games/cho-ren-sha-68k - classic, and free

of course, whenever you talk about pc shooters you have to mention Raptor and Tyrian. You can get Tyrian 2000 for free on gog, and you can get an updated version of Raptor their too for like 6 bucks. Totally worth it.

I could name a lot more, but nothing really similar to the kinds of games you like.

Also, you could always download MAME or other emulators and play the classics but I assume you already have done that. Check out Pro-Gear if you haven't played that yet. One of my personal favorites.

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I do have Mame but my issue with Mame is that there are so many shmups from older systems that I have no clue where to start and what to get. I did get most of the games from Cave. Thanks for the suggestions you had some good ones.

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a good place to start with arcade shooters is by looking through the catalogs of famous companies or series. Konami, Taito, Data East, Capcom, Psikyo, Compile, Cave, Sega. Gradius, R-type, darius, Twinbee, parodius, Thunder Force etc. A lot of bad games, but enough amazing ones to make it worthwhile. if you want a really easy place to start though, Konami is the company to go with. They will always be the undisputed king of shooters.

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i love shmups! Glad you posted here, im interested in the comments as well, going to check a few of them out that everyone has suggested, thanks

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Ikaruga on PC? I would sell my kidneys. I have Jamestown and Beat Hazard (in as far as that counts). I'll definitely be taking note of other comments here.

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naomi emulation works perfectly and is very easy to use.

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Sweet, I'll put that back-alley surgeon on hold.

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Hope for Sine Mora to come to the PC and you are set.
Or if you have an 360, get it there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PmFi0qSKm4
take a look at it here, even if you can't get it

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YES! I want this soooo bad and for being an Xbox 360 exclusive I'm surprised it didn't get a GFWL release. I hope this comes to PC!

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Maybe it's just timed exclusive. We can only hope.

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Right now i'm emulating Ikaruga on my pc, great game

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You could always use Dolphin to emulate Ikaruga, I doubt it's that powerful of a game to run.

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I have it for Dolphin and Gamecube (the real thing).

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You didn't mention Tyrian 2000. It's old, it's free, it's awesome and its replay value is huge, imo.

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Whenever there is a thread about games people want on PC, I mention CAVE games.

I'm not sure if you know that one, but there is a freeware shmup called Genetos. Pretty easy for that genre, but still fun.

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I'm not really talking about games I want to be on PC, I'm just looking for a good shmup already on PC. I own most of Caves games but they're console games and I was looking to find something similar to the Cave style quality shmups on PC.

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Didn't mean to say you said that, but OK.

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No one mention zeit square?

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Got that one, I own most of the shmups released for Steam except for Satazius(which is a terrible game) and Ion Assault (I'm not big on arena shooters).

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I played a ton of Raiden on my Genesis. And you can use an emulator for that. I think there are arcade versions, as well. There are a lot of raiden sequels.

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