Throughout the game you are going to encounter a bunch of animated characters that won't hurt you.

These friends actually do something, if you have enough coins on you.
And I'll show how to make them EVEN MORE helpful!

(Just to be safe: to activate the roulette, you have hit the roulette guy with your melee attack).

Now to always get the prize you want you'll have to take a look on the last digit of your coin counter.
(The more accurate way is to look at the 10s digit of your score. The above option won't stay true once you go over the 999 coin cap).

The number that's currently shown there will decide your roulette prize!


300 coin roulettes will always give you a 1-UP, so I didn't felt the need to list them.

Big thanks to Sumez (on shmups forum) for finding these numbers and putting in the work to make a nice formatted table there, back when the game first released!