The game supports multiplayer for 2 players, which is less than on Arcade version, on same screen both in cooperative mode and competitive one. To play competitive mode, just select "Versus" mode. The game will be played in few rounds, arenas changing slightly. Each player has a health bar and much lower rate of fire than in normal game, while a bird periodically coming in to drop extra items. Players have to shoot each other down in this mode. To play cooperative mode you can either select "2 Players" mode or start the "1 Player" game and press Start on controller of the second player. Though the first method is preferable, as it doesn't take away a continue point. There is no friendly fire and continue points are shared. However, due to bug, if both players have Six Button Control Pad then "Versus" and "2 Players" modes will not be selectable, despite being higlighted in menu. Another player can still join during "1 Player" mode play. Hold Mode button when booting up the system to switch to 3 button mode and fix this issue.
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