[firenze]

Visiting Texas and had a chance to stop by Arcade UFO in Austin and encounter a Daifukkatsu 1.5 machine in the wild (also played a good bit of SSF4 AE). Great little arcade, and playing it in its native environment got me really hooked on Daifukkatsu again now. Playing on my iPod while traveling to get me through, can't wait to get home and practice up for real.

FWIW, playing mainly for survival I made it to the middle of Stage 5 on my best run (after a couple practice runs to get used to the machine). Used Type A ship, bomb mode, scored something in the neighborhood of 1.5 billion points. I know, nothing too impressive - but I had a blast :)

Oh, and Pinballz arcade north of downtown Austin is really a great pinball arcade. They had EVERYTHING, along with a selection of older arcade machines.

[boojiboy7]

I've been playing a lot of the MMP/PS compilation lately. PS is pretty fun, actually, though the arcade mode just feels really obtuse. The arrange mode is a blast to play. PS is such a strange follow up, aesthetically, to Ibara. Much more sunshine and fun, versus Ibara's METAL.

Have only messed around with the MMP arcade mode, but also enjoying that a lot.

I need to get around to importing the other Cave region-less games soon.

[Rud31]

firenze ;_;

Pinballz is super awesome though.
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[firenze]

[Rud31]

SHIT DUDE

I LIVE IN SAN ANTONIO.
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[Loki Laufeyson]

i just read on the hg101 forum that dodonpachi ressurection/dai-fukkatsu is getting a europe release later this year
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[Rud31]

In a Retro Gamer interview I learned very important things:

There is no cost associated with making a game region free.
Cave region locked their games because of the possibility of a foreign publisher picking them up.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

Nothing we didn't know about Cave.

Otomedius was pushed back yet again for the US, landing at Sept. 20 this time (Gears 3's release date!). This is getting ridiculous. At the very least, I'm pretty sure someone from Konami has said they're definitely going to have it out before 2012.

[Sniper Honeyviper]

Crossposting from the news thread:

Dodonpachi Resurrection is coming to Europe via Rising Star. Black Label will be paid DLC, instead of a separate disc. Americans like myself should let them know we want it region-free.

[Dracko]

Seems Cave have a Windows 7 phones exclusive in the works.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

Word is that the PAL DDP Resurrection will definitely be region-locked. Shit.

I'm sure it's Cave's fault, though, Deathsmiles US was also locked.

[kiken]

[Sniper Honeyviper]

Ah, I get it. Any official source for the game being region-locked?

[kiken]

[Dracko]

[Loki Laufeyson]

just 360, it seems.

the deathsmiles region lock was really stupidly done, as for some reason, xbox live counts the different regions as entirely different games.
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[Dracko]

That works out for me. Hope it's not bullshit.
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[Loki Laufeyson]

do you mean the news or the game? because the news was confirmed in rsg's announcement yesterday, along with king of fighters xiii and a few harvest moons
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[Dracko]

The news.
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[kiken]

[Dracko]

No.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

Some people who visited Konami's Comic-Con booth have reported that all the Otomedius delays are due to Microsoft rejecting approval. They really have no solid date for the game, even though the translation has been done for a while and it was playable in English there.

There's an official Facebook page for the game up now, which might be a good sign?

[Loki Laufeyson]

they should release a european version without region lock, since i think console manufacterers aren't allowed to do that here (hence all the neogeo ports and simple 2000 games we got on ps2)
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

I wonder if the approval concerns had to do with the sexualized, underage moe girls...the English announcement trailer for the game had censorship stars over everyone's cleavage.

[dementia]

I doubt it.

The approval concerns probably stem from the fact that Xbox 360 titles must now have minimum print runs of 50,000, and there's no way this will sell that many.

[Sniper Honeyviper]

I assume that requirement number only applies to the US? That's incredibly assholish, and pretty much ensures that publishers will never bother bringing over guaranteed-to-fail curiosities on the 360 like Zoids Assault and Culdcept Saga again.

Reminds me of a new beer industry regulation that's going into effect in my state, where breweries will only be able to use hops grown locally. Since most independent brewers here have to import nearly all their ingredients across state lines, it's going to shut them down almost overnight.

long live calla duty, madden, and bud light

[boojiboy7]

Actually, depending on what state you are in, that could drastically reduce the amount of bud light around. If they did that in Ohio, the AB plant in Columbus which supplies most of the state would be FUCKED.

Still, it is a stupid rule, given how much affect hops have on flavor of beer in general, and the weather conditions needed for good growth and all that. Good job killing beer variety, Sniper's state, if nothing else.

[Sniper Honeyviper]

[boojiboy7]

Well that is fine, but doesn't really address what I was talking about. See, AB owns this giant plant, and even with the ridiculously low amount of hops they use, they still need a ton of hops. If they are no longer allowed to import over state lines to get those hops, they are going to have a big problem. If the small farm owners in the state won't sell to them, you get a lot less Bud Light on the shelves, unless somehow AB has special importing rights (which they probably do, since lord knows they have the lobbysits for it, I'm sure). So actually, this kind of law could end up having the opposite affect of what you forecast, except that the farm areas in NE (which state?) aren't going to necessarily be conducive to growing different types of hops and such, so they will be much more limited. Still, it could really fuck over any big brewers, if it was properly done (which it won't be, so).

[Sniper Honeyviper]

The focus of every article I read about it was small, independent brewers lamenting their business' imminent collapse. It really isn't going to affect Bud and Coors at all.

Anyway, I think we're getting too off topic. Someone can start an axe thread if they want to continue this.

[boojiboy7]

Well, like I said, it depends on how it is worded. If AB is restricted just like the smaller breweries are, they will be fucked. Unfortunately, the law is probably worded so that it only applies to companies solely based in the state (I think it would have to be), so it won't work out that way. Still, what it eventually means is that those brewers will either have to start working to develop their own farms (something like what the GLBC in Cleveland has been working on for awhile) or move out of state/open up shop outside of state to make themselves able to circumvent the law.

And of course nobody is going to go try to get sympathy for AB or Coors, since nobody feels pity for them at all, even if they are affected by this. It is really interesting how Coors has shifted over the past 30 years or so since they went national and lost a lot of that goodwill directed towards them that led to them being a major plot point in Smoky and the Bandit and such.

[Moogs]

I wouldn't be shocked if Otomedius ends up being a digital release.

Also, kind of curious that Amazon pushed the date back before everyone else. Gamestop was adamant that it would be out by now up until, what, a week before it was due to release?

[kiken]

[sponkmonkey]

Jamestown is 50% off on Steam right now!
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[kiken]

Gameplay from Sine Mora.

Guys, I'm playing ESPGaluda II again. Got my first All Clear on my PCB last night (I had beaten the 360 port prior). Came out with 360 million.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

God, Sine Mora looks like shit. Might as well be Aegis Wing 2.

Why is Grasshopper shaming their name yet further with this trash? I know that Digital Reality actually developed it, and what have they done--WWII and space sims? Who thought this was a good idea?

Someone needs to get the guy who made Hydorah working on a full-budget XBLA shooter.

[Schwere Viper]

I think shit is a bit harsh. It looks all right. Competent, at least. But yeah, when you've got finely polished work coming out of the indie scene like Hydorah and Jamestown - the former even being free - "all right" starts looking worse than it really is.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

Aegis Wing is undeniably shit, and I can't forgive it simply because it's free and made by interns. Its design lacks any semblance of consciousness whatsoever, which most Euroshmups at least have. It convinced me that those interns would make shitty games even if they were hotshot full-time programmers with huge budgets. If anything, it just diverted attention from Space Giraffe.

From Konami's Facebook page for Otomedius:

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Aegis Wing put me and two friends in a coma