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A 1-credit clear of the arcade game Takeda Shingen! Played with WolfMAME 0.251, score 89,250. It's an early beat-em-up that feels more like Renegade than TMNT. It's got some cool touches but it's pretty jank. This is the Japanese romset [tshingena] - the US version [tshingen] crashes frequently for me after the first bonus stage. What game is next on the list? Maybe Gunbird!

If you for some reason decide to play this, here are a couple of tips.

You push buttons 1 and 2 to attack left and right. Your sword swing goes MUCH further when you attack away from the direction you're facing. If you attack to the left, you'll stay facing left even if you move to the right. So, to repeatedly use the good attack, you need to move up or down.

You can trick the AI into getting stuck on, or falling off of, pits in the middle of the stage - just don't fall off yourself!

Getting the four power-ups together grants you throwing knives (amazing!), but once you do that your power-ups will go away at the end of the current fight. I made a point of going into stage 3 with 3/4 power-ups so that I could more easily the throwing knives for one of the difficult fights with gunners. I think it's best *not* to get all 4 power-ups on the last regular battle, even though it's tough - better to keep some power-ups (such as the speedup) for the final 2 bosses.