Last night I went back to playing Tatsujin using ME. I had this craving for more punishment. The last time I played this I got my ass handed to me by minibosses in this game. Jeez, minibosses are more dangerous than the stage boss. They come in groups of 2s and 4s, and have to use all my god damn bombs on these guys. I end up dying on purpose just so I can replenish my bomb supply for the next group.
Well, when I started playing I died fighting the first miniboss in stage 1 and got so pissed I restarted the game. I wanted to swtich the difficulty of easy mode because the default normal mode is just to hard. Anyways, at the title screen reaching the hidden option mode requires you to press Select + RUN buttons together. When the option menu came up I saw a new option list that normally isn't available before.
The first time you access the option menu you're able to change the difficulty, score levels, and autofire. This time I'm treated to new list of options. I can change number lives, bombs, and credits. I can also listen to the game's music and sfx. I think the best option here is the screen mode which can swtich to normal and slim. Slim compress the screen vertically, and it really does help in giving me few extra distance between the enemies, or at least it helps me.
Anyways, to access this other hidden menu do this...
1.) Start the game as always
2.) Kill all the lesser enemies to obtain 7100 pts
3.) When you reach 7100 pts, press RUN + Select
4.) You'll be at the Title screen now, so press Select + RUN
5.) New hidden options screen!