Craft Passwords Thread (2021.07.22 Update: TP-3 Mr. HELI on PS4!)

[TouyaShiro]

Brief backstory: R-TYPE FINAL locked four of the game's craft behind passwords. Judging by how far people have gotten with R's Museum thus far, it seems that those same four craft are once again locked behind passwords.

The craft list and their corresponding number in R's Museum is here:

• #3 R-9A3 LADYLOVE - Password: loveandpeace
  
• #24 R-9B STRIDER - Password: granzella
  
• #59 TP-3 Mr. HELI - Password: mrheli. Currently only available on PS4.
  
• #100 R-100 CURTAIN CALL - Current status: Requires #99 R-99 LAST DANCER to be built, which only shows up in R's Museum once the other 98 craft have been made. Follow the update roadmap to know when we'll have the chance to obtain the Ultimate Fighters.

Use the numbers to find their position in R's Museum, if you wish to not be wasteful on your resources trying to find them - though I guess that only really matters in the case of the Mr. HELI.

Right around or just before the game's official release, a Japanese player managed to brute force the password for #24 in R Museum: R-9B STRIDER.
https://twitter.com/bandana5656/status/1387797953566298114
As for #3, R-9A3 LADYLOVE's password, that was actually found within the R-TYPE fan Discord community! Shoutouts to @Arlen002 over there for that one.
Granzella planned to release these passwords through social media, something they followed up on shortly after they replied to someone who asked about said passwords in an email - look out for the other two when they become available!

When I first tested this password out, it initially didn't work because I didn't realise until modifying a few things that I had to enter the password in all lowercase. It's not to say that the passwords to the other three craft will be as simple, though...

By the way, for those curious, the password of R-9A3 LADYLOVE is probably the most important password of them all because, both directly and indirectly, it's responsible for sealing off a huge chunk of R's Museum until it's unlocked! To wit, the original sentence I wrote here listed a particularly lengthy amount of craft requirements that end at the R-11S2 NO CHASER to develop RX-12 CROSS THE RUBICON (Edit: A grand total of 19 (!!!) craft need to be built!), which is the only way you can progress to the R-13 Series as well as start getting craft from the B-Series with #74 BX-T DANTALION, according to the original version of R's Museum in R-TYPE FINAL. The linchpin of the entire chain leading to CROSS THE RUBICON is LADYLOVE, since the R-11S2 NO CHASER requires the R-9A4 WAVE MASTER to be developed first.

[TouyaShiro]

Originally posted by Johnny Wang:

All I want is my R-9E Midnight Eye

First ship I used to 1CC the original R-Type Final on PS2.

It's relatively cheap on resources, last I remember, and you could even use it in the demo that was present on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. All it'd take is beating a single stage to build up enough resources, I'd say, and then you can get started working on the R-9E line (though you won't be able to develop the R-9ER POWERED SILENCE or R-9ER2 UNCHAINED SILENCE as they're not yet present as of the current patch on consoles, it seems).

Damn, though, you 1CC'd R-TYPE FINAL with the Midnight Eye? That's gotta take some guts considering how it performs (that is to say, it's not exactly the greatest for combat)...

[Graeystone]

Originally posted by TouyaShiro:

Damn, though, you 1CC'd R-TYPE FINAL with the Midnight Eye? That's gotta take some guts considering how it performs (that is to say, it's not exactly the greatest for combat)...

What about that one ship that had the 'Bunker Buster wave cannon that you had to get practically in the target's face to use it. If you wanted a no-wave cannon challenge that was the ship to use or select it for Ship 101.

[TouyaShiro]

Originally posted by Graeystone:

What about that one ship that had the 'Bunker Buster wave cannon that you had to get practically in the target's face to use it. If you wanted a no-wave cannon challenge that was the ship to use or select it for Ship 101.

The R-9DP series? Those are available from the get-go, I think. They use the Pile Bunker in place of a Wave Cannon, and successive evolution grants the Tesla Pile Bunker and Hyper Tesla Pile Bunker for the R-9DP2 and R-9DP3, respectively. They also run with the Defensive Force DX, last I checked, so they're actually really good for that. They had power, for sure.

The R-9E series doesn't really have that, and they also run with the Camera Force - which isn't anything to write home about for power. The Recon Wave Cannon doesn't last - it's literally just a camera flash compared to, say, the Shock Wave Cannon whose hitbox lasts until the AOE dissipates.

Originally posted by Johnny Wang:

Never underestimate AWACS drivers. XD

They are the Early Warning System, after all - they gotta be there first so they can alert the rest of the squad to finish what they cannot.

[- Abby Sciuto]

Not gonna lie, it's pretty bad of them to have sealed off ships to people that paid more money during the kickstarter, I backed it when it was on there but I just went for the Digital copy tier, you can f*cking f*ck off if you think you're getting me to pay more for ships that Final just gave us after the requirements were met, not how much how money we spent during a certain period of time.

[Butt Force]

Originally posted by - Abby Sciuto:

Not gonna lie, it's pretty bad of them to have sealed off ships to people that paid more money during the kickstarter, I backed it when it was on there but I just went for the Digital copy tier, you can f*cking f*ck off if you think you're getting me to pay more for ships that Final just gave us after the requirements were met, not how much how money we spent during a certain period of time.

the fact that they're password locked means there is a 0% chance a backer will have a ship to lord over you for longer than the 10 minutes it takes for another one to post the pass here for eClout

[TouyaShiro]

Originally posted by - Abby Sciuto:

Not gonna lie, it's pretty bad of them to have sealed off ships to people that paid more money during the kickstarter, I backed it when it was on there but I just went for the Digital copy tier, you can f*cking f*ck off if you think you're getting me to pay more for ships that Final just gave us after the requirements were met, not how much how money we spent during a certain period of time.

I would understand that if you were talking about the R-9uso800 APRIL FOOL'S and TW-3B BLUE SYMPHONIES, but that's not the case. Two of the four password-locked ships above correspond to the same ones that were locked in R-TYPE FINAL, so it's safe to assume the other two are also locked just like them. The passwords for those four were originally revealed in things such as guides and magazines, so it's safe to assume the release of the four passwords in FINAL 2 will be done over social media.

In case you're wondering what those two special ships are, by the way, you had to pledge about $500USD for the privilege - for those few backers exclusively, they were granted access to two exclusive R-Craft. A vote was done early on to decide between four ships for inclusion, and the APRIL FOOL'S and BLUE SYMPHONIES were the ones that were decided upon by Granzella.

Seriously, if any of you think the game's ridiculously overpriced as-is, just read what I said above one more time...

[- Abby Sciuto]

Oh I don't think the game's too overpriced*, I was just under the impression that the only ones that have access to these codes are ones that paid more during the kickstarter.

*I do think £34.99 for a shmup is a little much these days, considering the "simplicity" of them, further down the line when there's more content though it'll probably be worth it.

[TouyaShiro]

Well, I was moreso just saying that as a general statement, that last sentence - those who paid that much have those two ships as an exclusive symbol of their status, more or less, haha. I'm just wondering if people who do think this game is overpriced can comprehend such a statement.

And no, nobody - not even the backers - have any of the regular passwords for R Museum aside from STRIDER's own, and I'm willing to bet that STRIDER's password was found by pure coincidence thanks to the fact that it's "granzella" in lowercase. It seems obvious in hindsight since it does correspond to the developers, but it's case-sensitive - so I have to commend whoever found out about that code for managing to find it without anyone official giving a vague hint towards them.

[Algester]

Concerto Master :3 I like my chonky beam boy

[Runi]

Is there an intended way in-game to discover the passwords to the ships? It seems crazy to lock an entire branch behind a password otherwise.

[TouyaShiro]

Originally posted by Runi:

Is there an intended way in-game to discover the passwords to the ships? It seems crazy to lock an entire branch behind a password otherwise.

As far as I'm aware, nope. From what I can tell, the passwords are intended to be revealed by the devs with time, at least going by how the passwords were distributed back in R-TYPE FINAL through magazines and guidebooks. Since LADYLOVE is the gateway to some really powerful ships, both directly and indirectly, Granzella will probably hold onto this one for a little while, at least, before they finally reveal it.

[Somali Pirate Radio]

That or someone will decrypt the data files and mine the passwords inside a week.

[Truder]

My gawd.... Need that password for the Ladylove :'( I want my Cerberus! :'(

[Charade]

I want sexy dynamite

[TouyaShiro]

Originally posted by Somali Pirate Radio:

That or someone will decrypt the data files and mine the passwords inside a week.

While I won't lie when I say I do hope said passwords are found relatively quickly... I've not heard anyone try yet. I'll just be waiting on the sidelines, I guess, until word comes in.

Plus, we can't even punch in Mr. HELI's password - the TP-2 POW ARMOR is locked, so you can't go down to the path it's on.