Dreamcast Guides : Geist Force Controls & Hints

Gameplay Controls
joystick: move ship
d-pad: switch between different B button bomb attacks
tap A: shoot lasers
hold A: allows you to lock on to multiple enemies, releasing A after targeting fires homing shots at the locked on enemies
B: shoots multiple missiles in a burst
X+A: another multiple missile attack
X: short speed boost
tap X: barrel roll
Y: short slow down ability
L or R: bank left and right respectively, L doesn't work exactly as R does (sometimes you have to press R and then L to get the L bank to work)
L and R at same time: move ship up in elevation very quickly
L + R + Start simultaneously: pauses the game, pressing this combination unpauses the game again
at the 'level select' mode unplug and re-connect the controller twice, in order to autostart the game without a debug menu present

Debug controls (plug keyboard that has "S3" button into P2, this is most DC JPN keyboards, and some, but not all other keyboards)
S3: open up debug/user menus
D: Opens debug options
U: Opens user options
S: pause game
T: Button toggles menu screen
Arrow keys: navigate menu (after pressing a letter)


F12: suicides player ship
F1: Gives player ship 9999 shield points
Z: rapid fire laser for player

Other Bits of info

The game does not support RGB SCART but does support VGA

Firing your laser less frequently prevents random crashes due to lessening the CPU load

JP BIOS on your system will cause less frequent crashes and a region mod can be easily done with only a one wire solder job and DC-Swat's DC Region Changer

See here for a region swap mod that anyone can do, http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/dreamcast-region-change/

Rev0 Dreamcast tend to handle the game better then v1 or v2 systems, simply look on the bottom of your system to see which number you have.

Will not run from SD card as SDISO

Start a game with no control pad (Boot the DC with no control pad connected) then the menus will appear in the center of the screen using a finer
font and you don't need to press U or D to access the USER or DEBUG sections.

When overclocked to 240mhz tends to cause more problems then good, I experienced more random crashes when running my DC overclocked

IP.BIN is protected do not touch if attempting a rebuild, use DATA/DATA selfboot method @ 45000 so no tagging disc for test builds or even a cool logo or your game will not boot. This is a very delicate hack and the 1ST_READ.BIN and IP.BIN can not be altered in anyway.