Welcome to the Gunstar Heroes walkthrough!

TheFadedWarrior already did a guide showing the different weapon combinations so you should check it out. Also note that one of the buttons can cancel out certain parts of the weapon combination you are using so remember that. Figure out what you set it to by pushing all your buttons. You can also choose between free shot and fixed shot. Free shot plays like Contra and fixed shot plays like Bass from Megaman. I prefer fixed but you can choose whichever you like.

With that out of the way, let's get started.

Stage 1: Pink's Stage

When you start out, run and shoot your enemies. Now, I'll go into the enemy types.

There are soldiers that can do things like kick you. Some of them do poses and can throw you for 20 damage. The helicopter enemies just kind of fly around and shoot at you.

You then fight a phantom. I'd recommend throwing these guys but do whatever works. Later, these guys will throw skull bombs at you and do quite a bit of damage. Once you've defeated him, pickup the health he drops by ducking and shooting and head off to fight your first boss.

BOSS FIGHT: Papaya Dance

This asparagus looking thing wiggles around and drops dangerous balloons on you. On normal and up, it also spawns weird insects. Destroy them or avoid them, whichever you can. Shoot the top part enough and it dies.

There will be a soldier setting fire to a house. You can ignore him if you want but when the house is destroyed he acts like other soldiers. Fight another phantom and head on to a pyramid.

Soldiers with helicopter pack things will shoot at you. Just ignore them, as there are an infinite amount of them. There will be two item birds. One has weapons, one has health. Be sure not to shoot them until they are out of the pyramid or you will be unable to get the item. Head up to the top to fight...

BOSS BATTLE: Bravoo Man.

I'm not really in to super heroes, but If there had to be an exception, Bravoo Man would take the cake. He makes his body parts become green and those parts can actually hurt you. Be sure to kill him before he uses his special healing attack and gets his Vitality back!

The floor breaks and you slide down the smoother side of the pyramid. Soldiers bounce at you, so shoot them. Some green legged ones appear too, they will shoot at you so be sure to avoid their attacks.

You will now be in a forest. A claw will try to grab you, so it should be obvious to avoid it. The bees that come from the bee hives just follow you and hover over your head and only hurt you if you jump into them. Eventually the claw will go crazy and you must defeat some soldier enemies. Once that is over, prepare to fight the...


BOSS BATTLE: Pinky Roader


I'm not sure how something that travels on legs is a roader. I was thinking a giant motor bike. Now, this machine holds one of Pink's henchmen as he shoots at you. It's rather easy to avoid really. Pink will then... Cheer? I don't know, but point is it starts shooting homing bombs and may jump at you on higher difficulties. It also has an attack called "Iron Knuckle" (Zelda reference FTW), but I have never seen it in action because I had already won. And unless you just wait to see what Iron Knuckle actually IS, I bet you will have too.

When you Win, you get the Blue Gem as Team Rocket blasts off again.


You should probably go for Orange next since your starting vitality increases when you beat a stage and seven force is HARD.


This walkthrough will be done in parts. Please give feedback on whether I should continue doing this or not and the next part should come soon.

Seven Force is one of my favorite bosses from any game ever. I would recommend people play this game, if but for this boss fight.

I'm so glad you're doing this walkthrough! I can't wait to see the next part!

Thank you for responding. Here is part 2.

Stage 2: Orange's Stage

You will start off in a scrolling segment that scrolls up. This is the only one I've seen that does not involve an elevator. You must chase Orange's flying battleship. There will be some soldiers shooting at you. Try facing towards them, shooting and jumping. They shouldn't be much of a problem. Eventually, you will have the chance to jump onto the battleship, so do so. Then you will face the dreaded helicopter skull bombs. They explode when they touch the ground and deal 20 damage! You can throw them away, but if you're playing for the first time I suggest you just avoid them. There will also be helicopter soldiers that shoot at you, again there will be an infinite amount so you can just ignore them if you like. The battleship will then fly up as Orange does a thingie.

When the battleship comes down, Orange no longer exists for some reason. You then fight the one of a kind Heli-Phantom!!!... And all he does is a kick move that you can easily jump over. Just don't kill him when he's over the pit, otherwise you can't get the health powerup. You then blast your way through some soldiers. There are also strange circle things (Turrets?) that shoot at you. Be sure to destroy them, as they drop powerups. Move on and fight...

BOSS BATTLE: Swapping Reg
This guy doesn't swap anything. And it's body is made out of turrets. So is it's feet. You will see him jump at you and you want to get under him. While you could go under him when he jumps, but you can just go through his legs. When you are under him, he will shoot a flurry of bullets at you. Some close range weapons can destroy these bullets, (And make the Swapping Reg look like it's on fire) but if you don't have them, I just simply wouldn't worry because each bullet does one damage and the combined total is about 5. But if you are doing a no damage run, I guess you could go through the legs to get out. Remember to shoot the body and when he is on low health, he will put his feet up and shoot bullets out of there. Just go ahead and destroy it.

Move on ahead and fight some very... Strange enemies. Turrets on bendy stalks piloted by soldiers. Destroy them to get health powerups. You will then battle with Smash Daisaku, who is not the dictator, just a person of power in the empire. The american manual REALLY bends the story. And no, I did not forget about the part where you fight M. Bison, this IS the part with M. Bison. He has a vitality meter, but no warning, so I don't count him as a boss. He will jet pack around and drop bombs that DON'T deal 20 damage. That's it. Defeat him and fight...

BOSS BATTLE: Orange
It's time to fight Orange, but be sure to let him show off his muscles first! It will then be time to battle. You can throw him, but be careful as he can throw you if you aren't careful. I think we are in Soviet Russia and not in Soviet Russia at the same time. But again, don't try this if it's your first time playing. Throwing him on the plane does more damage then off the plane. Don't ask why. But you should probably try not to fall off, or you will take 20 damage. One of his other moves involves Orange grabbing on to the helicopter blades and trying to land on you. Duck and shoot to hang off the plane to dodge this. But if you go under him like that, he will proceed to... Fart on you. A blue fire fart, to be precise. Defeat him and he will fall off the plane and be on fire AT THE SAME TIME!!!! Amazing!

The plane explodes, you fall to the ground and obtain the white gem. Wait, how come we fall from hundreds of meters in the air and are completely unharmed, yet Orange over there has everything above his legs in the ground? Never mind, it's a video game.

Tune in next time for the Silly Dice Maze a.k.a the Strange Fortress a.k.a the Dice Palace.
(Professor White calls it a Silly Dice Maze, Yellow calls it a Strange Fortress and the random text calls it the Dice Palace. This place has a lot of names.)

I was hesitating to post because I didn't want to sandwich post, but it's been a while. I love the Orange boss fight. While my favorite boss fight is against Seven Force, his is still fun, and is probably the easiest of the initial four bosses, imo.

Part 3:

Stage 3: Black's Stage

You will start out on the outside of the Dice Maze, which has those giant telephone structures. Attack your way through some enemies and destroy a turret thing. After some platforming, you get to another turret: This one, however, does nothing. You could ignore it if you like, but it's death is just so satisfying. Defeat a phantom and enter the dice maze.

YOU CANNOT GET AWAY!

Oh no! What will we do? Wait a minute, that's the whole point to this guide. Anyways, here you must throw a die and move spaces. There are many boss fights here. There are also item rooms and a special space before Black. I shall talk about them all. Remember, with the boss fights, it generally goes:

Blue = Easy
Yellow = Medium
Red = Hard
No Gun = Get off Curry And Rice's lawn before he kills you!

This stage is a chameleon and borrows music from other stages. Green's stage for the item rooms is really unfitting in my opinion. With all that said, let's get started.

Space 1: Valvalion

Valvalion looks like Botwoon and tries to charge into you. That's it. Kill him and he dies in a way similar to the Vulture Dragon from Gradius III except it DOESN'T kill you. (1% percent of people who read this guide get the reference. The fire stage is just cruel.)

Space 2: Item Room

Happy Item Room!

What, is the Item Room now a public holiday? Well, it does give you presents, so... Take the heart and one of the weapons if you so choose and leave. All item rooms are like this and only differ in items (one of them has TWO hearts!) and weird backgrounds so I won't give anymore descriptions. FUN FACT: In the Prototype, this room had a door which could not be entered on the left which a sign claimed to be "Heaven".

Space 3: Timeron

Timeron drops bombs on you, which have large explosions, so watch out. When the clock strikes ten, He reverses time and the explosions happen again. Beat him and he becomes a rocket ship(!!!).

Space 4: Rush and Go!

I can rush, and I can go, but the same time?! Are you crazy!? Unless you are going for a high score or are speedrunning, you should just stay where you are and not run into the balls of doom on normal and up.

Space 5: Minion Soldier

In the prototype, throwing this guy did so much more damage. He can throw you, jump on you, use an energy ball or split into fake versions of him. Not sure why people think he's so hard.

Space 6: Melon Bread

Best boss ever. Attack him and he dies. Or you can just stand there and get killed by energy balls that he takes 1 minute to spit out. That doesn't work as well though.

Space 7:  That

I think this is a Street Fighter 2 car parody. Destroy that box for health first.

Space 8: Pit

I thought Pit was an angel, not some heads and a panel. Just don't get crushed, the panel which inexplicably grows and shrinks  won't go to the edges of the screen.

Space 9: Rush and Go Again!

Just some hallways and soldiers. You can choose if you want to finish this or not.

Space 10: Item Room

Space 11: Just a Phantom

Space 12: Vortex Base

This thing shoots lasers at you which bounce off of the orbs. He can also move around! Get down there and fire at him.

Space 13: Curry and Rice

You chose not to get off his lawn, now you pay the ultimate price. You can't use guns, so I recommend sliding into him. You can also throw him. He can easily hurt you, however. I don't think it's possible for a no damage run of this boss. Fitting how he is on space 13.

Space 14: Abarenbou Gel

Weirdest part n the game for me. The game says it's a yellow rating of difficulty, but he really doesn't throw his bombs in the right way to actually kill you. Easy.

Space 15: Super Gondola

The designer for bosses has no idea what a gondola is. There are a bunch of turrets you need to destroy. There are a lot of them, don't stand under the fiery one.  The one I'll talk about is the skull bomb dropper. It does what you imagine, but also makes holes in the floor. Hit a lever to make it go away.

Space 16: Item Room with Double the Health! ©

Space 17: The Way Back

If you land on this, you get sent to the start, but you don't have to fight any bosses again that you already beat.

Space 18: Final Space

I have no idea what soul bonus is, but hey look there's a cow!

BOSS BATTLE: Black Beat Stepper

CARE TO BET ON BLACK!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!

Wait no, that's the GBA loose sequel which I will probably never talk about.

This boss can take a beating, but takes forever to do his things, so it's okay! Whatever space he lands on, he will do a different move. What, you expect me to tell you them? I'm going o pull off a Prima Pokémon Black and White guide underwater ruins place and make you find out yourself! (I couldn't remember them.)

Beat him and he will give you the ge- BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

That got me the first time. And killed me.

Beat him all you like and when you let up, he gives you the real gem.

Tune in next time for...

Hey, anyone know how to upload a picture?

Oh well. Next time, Mine cart level. We shall fight one of supernerd117's favorite bosses from any game ever. And he will step on us. And we will cry. Unless we play on Easy.

See you next time and remember to be aggressive!