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[General Gaming / Nintendo Japan will release a new famicom classic mini]

Nintendo Japan to release a new Famicom Mini:
Famicom Mini Jump 50th Anniversary Edition : July 7th

[General Gaming / SNK to announce new hardware ?]

For its 40th anniversary celebration SNK will announce new hardware



twitter.com/SNKPofficial_jp/status/986786502679015424

[General Gaming / Sega announces ....new hardare?!?!]

Earlier Sega held their Sega Fest and had many announcements.. one of them was: Sega Mega Drive Mini

Looks like it will be released this year in Japan. Worldwide: tba.  Games? tba

[General Gaming / There's a new mini around the corner...]

https://thec64.com/

It's 1982 and a new home computer graces the scene. Out goes the silent black and white experience and in with 64KB of RAM, colour graphics, and synthesizer sound.
Roll forward 35 years and kick nostalgia into overdrive with the release of THEC64 MINI. A tiny but perfectly formed 50% scale replica of this much loved machine.
Featuring high-definition output via HDMI, a classic style joystick and 64 built-in games including classics like Uridium, Paradroid, Hawkeye, Nebulus and Monty Mole.

• Accurate C64 operation
• Pixel filter options (sharp, CRT, scanline emulation) and Pixel perfect graphics

 

• Save game function
• 2 USB ports: plug in a USB keyboard and use as a fully functional home computer, or add a second joystick for 2-player games

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Retrogamer #172]

If anyone is interested in ordering this UK publication you can do it at the link below... It mostly covers UK retro scene but this issue features the pc engine.

myfavouritemagazines co uk/retro-gamer-print-back-issues/retro-gamer-issue-172
https://pocketmags.com/us/retro-gamer-magazine/issue-172

I'm waiting on my delivery so will post pics when it arrives.

[General Gaming / SNES mini YO Americana's get on this NAO!]

Super Mario World, Earthbound, Star Fox 2 + 18 more games? Now you're playing with super power!  #SNESClassic launches 9/29.

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System: Super NES Classic Edition has the same look and feel of the original system – only smaller – and comes pre-loaded with 21 incredible games:
 
 Contra III: The Alien Wars™
 Donkey Kong Country™
 EarthBound™
 Final Fantasy III
 F-ZERO™
 Kirby™ Super Star
 Kirby's Dream Course™
Mega Man® X
 Secret of Mana
 Star Fox™
 Star Fox™ 2
 Street Fighter® II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
 Super Castlevania IV™
 Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts®
 Super Mario Kart™
 Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars™
 Super Mario World™
 Super Metroid™
 Super Punch-Out!! ™
 The Legend of Zelda™: A Link to the Past™
Yoshi's Island™

EDIT:
EUROPE packaging

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Bad game testing and Hardware related problems....]

I don't know if there is a list of game titles that have problems with hardware but I just came to the conclusion of the following



Sol Moonarge

Damnit I really like this game, the gameplay the PSG music, controls basically everything about it I like.  But it looks like I have encountered a problem with this game running on real hardware.

Basically when you start the game for the first few hours the game runs fine but once you reach a section still early in the game when you reach a temple and witnessing some incident involving what appears to be some round mirror getting smashed.. the game just hangs.

Now I have a pc engine briefcase set-up and have different types of accessories hooked up to it.

I tried switching between different combinations of the following

super CD-Rom card, Arcade Pro Card
multi tap wireless controller,  2 button wired controller, 6 button wired controller
memory 128 either connected up or disconnected.

I  first bought the game a few months ago when I first experienced the game hanging and I wondered whether the game CD had any imperfections but couldn't find any upon inspection.  Even getting the CD-rom repaired in a game store I tried the game again and still the game just hanged in the same area.  So I purchased another copy of the game, same problem game hanged in the same spot.  A couple of months later I now own 3 copies of the game.



Between switching between all copies and hardware accessory configuration while playing the game it still hangs with blank loading screen at the same scene! 



I can only concur that this game only runs properly for Duo/Duo-R hardware unless all 3 copies of the game I own have scratches in the same data area!

Shin Megami Tensei
The game controls go out of whack when playing on a wireless controller.  Wired is the only way to go when playing with this.






Magicoal
The game manual states this supports the memory 128 back up unit.  It saves fine but I cannot load from it the game just hangs. 

Yokai Dochuki
This early game will not start if you have a multi tap plugged in.  This includes the wireless multi tap

[General Gaming / Nintendo NES mini coming!]

Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System  Bring back memories and make brand new ones with Nintendo's ultimate retro gaming experience, launching 11th November!  Relive the 80s when the Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System launches in stores on 11th November. The classic NES is back in a familiar-yet-new form as a mini replica of Nintendo's original home console. Plugging directly into a high-definition TV using the included HDMI cable, the console comes complete with 30 NES games built-in, including beloved classics like Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Donkey Kong, PAC-MAN and Kirby's Adventure.
The Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System comes packaged with an HDMI cable, a USB cable for powering the system*, and one Nintendo Classic Mini: NES Controller. And whether it's rediscovering an old favourite or experiencing the joy of NES for the first time, the fantastic collection of NES classics included with each and every system should have something for all players.


Balloon Fight™
BUBBLE BOBBLE
Castlevania™
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest™
Donkey Kong™
Donkey Kong Jr. ™
DOUBLE DRAGON II: THE REVENGE
Dr. Mario™
Excitebike™
FINAL FANTASY®
Galaga™
GHOSTS'N GOBLINS®
GRADIUS™
Ice Climber™
Kid Icarus™
Kirby's Adventure™
Mario Bros. ™
MEGA MAN® 2
Metroid™
NINJA GAIDEN
PAC-MAN™
Punch-Out!! ™ Featuring Mr. Dream
StarTropics™
SUPER C™
Super Mario Bros.™
Super Mario Bros. ™ 2
Super Mario Bros. ™ 3
TECMO BOWL
The Legend of Zelda™
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link™


I guess all those games will be emulated and the controller ports looks like wii ones.

[Off-Topic / Sir Christopher Lee gone]

so sad.  Always playing the bad guy tho..

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-11-sir-christopher-lee-dies-aged-93?utm_source=eurogamer&utm_medium=in-article-promo

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / ROM AMP for SALE]

if any one is interested there is that unique amplifier and speaker set up for the pc engine going on sale right now on eBay.

I've only ever seen this in old japanese pc engine magazines and never in the flesh !!

If it wasn't so expensive I would snatch it up but it looks pretty new!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PC-Engine-Rom-2-AMP-System-NEC-Japan-NEW-/301588538309?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_71&hash=item463813e3c5

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Monster Pro Wrestling]

Does anyone know much about this game?

How it's played?

The music is kinda luring me to buy it.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Hit the Ice - contact sport? - Puck Off!!]

formats: SNES, PC-E/Turbografx-16, Genesis, NES, Gameboy, Arcade

pc-e jpn release 1991, USA 1992.

players: 1, 2, 4

So I've had this game in my collection for a while now and most of the time whenever I put it on I always lose every time  the cpu to wondering how the heck do you play this game?? Well I started playing this again and now that I've spent some time with it.  It's actually pretty good gameplay wise.

So the pc engine version comes with 3 game modes;  arcade, championship (play against colored teams: Blues, Greens, Yellows, Blacks)  Shot Race (20 seconds to score goals).

The gameplay is pretty simple.  A team consisting of Goalie, Offence and Defence you control mostly the Offence (most of the time) and Goal player (to some extent) VS a similar team. The object is simply to score as many goals using luck, some skill and violence!

The control buttons:  I - pass/save.   II - shoot/check.

You'll mostly be using the button II for shooting and for a special attack to incur violence! (each character has their own special attack on the ice rink)  You'll need violence to win!!


Button II will also be used for slapping the puck around but hold it down for 5 seconds while the puck is in your possession and your hockey stick will turn yellow! (you'll might end up doing a super shot to the goalie)


Fights usually and randomly seem to break out, use both buttons and mash them you can also aim the direction left or right but I've still not worked this out on how to win yet. On losing your player might be weak for a little while.  (At least I think they are fighting in that pic.. or are they getting it on with one another)??


You can also do super shots, dive for the puck, score a hat trick.

Avoid stuff being thrown onto the ice, they cause you to fall !  Things like broken bottles, food and  Octopuses...

If you are losing by 5 points.  You might find a power-up called Super Drink that will give you power shots for a short time.

The effects of.... What was in that drink ??
   

Graphically well it's a step down from the arcade daddy and there are things missing graphically, smaller sprites the audio is s step down too, But at least there is scorchy but charming sampled speech and drums!
Anyway give it a go, It get's kinda hectic while the rounds are quite long at around 5 minutes, you'll need to win 3 times to win the game.




Don't get to close to the rival team's goalie, you'll get pushed over!


press both buttons I & II to dive save.

[High Score Records / Valkyrie no Densetsu high score]

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[General Gaming / Bomberman may come back]

source:

http://www.siliconera.com/postgallery/?p_gal=443859|0

With the Bomberman 3DS game cancelled a while back, we haven't seen a proper game from the series in a while, but fans of the series will have a little something to look forward to for the time being, as an official Bomberman game released for smartphone.

[General Gaming / anyone after a nintendo collection?]

don't know if this has been posted but I like his gaming set up especially those yellows


http://www.ebay.com/itm/221564569633#prclt-vbS1i61R

[Off-Topic / RIP Robin Williams]

wow another star gone to the stars...



http://uk.eonline.com/news/568331/robin-williams-dead-at-63-oscar-winner-and-comedy-legend-found-dead-at-home-coroner-suspects-suicide?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-celebritynews&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_celebritynews

[Off-Topic / Actor Bob Hoskins dies]

man what an actor !

[General Gaming / Nes nintendo world champ ebay auction]

Dunno if posted but this is going for crazy money...


http://www.ebay.com/itm/221357006206?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

[High Score Records / Mizubaku Daibouken aka liquid kids high score thread]

Gotta be some Taito fans of this classic somewhere...


Gonna start it off.

[General Gaming / ok when this hits stores.. I think it's time for the wii U]

presenting:  Super Mario 3D World

The ol' gang has never looked sooo good.. :O






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[Off-Topic / British agency using US spy data from google, facebook, apple etc]

This kinda makes me really uneasy...

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/gchq-gets-us-spy-data-from-google-and-facebook-8649914.html


Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency GCHQ has been covertly gathering information from leading internet companies through a secret US spy programme, it was reported today.

The Guardian said that it had obtained documents showing that GCHQ had access to the Prism system, set up by America's National Security Agency (NSA), since at least June 2010.

The documents were said to show that the British agency, based at Cheltenham, had generated 197 intelligence reports through the system in the 12 months to May 2012 - a 137 per cent increase on the previous year.

The newspaper said that the Prism programme appeared to allow GCHQ to circumvent the formal legal process required to obtain personal material, such as emails, photographs and videos, from internet companies based outside the UK.

GCHQ refused to comment directly on the report, but in a statement it insisted that it operated within a "strict legal and policy framework".

"GCHQ takes its obligations under the law very seriously," the statement said.

"Our work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that our activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate, and that there is rigorous oversight, including from the Secretary of State, the Interception and Intelligence Services Commissioners and the Intelligence and Security Committee."

The existence of the Prism system was disclosed in earlier reports by The Guardian and The Washington Post.

It followed the disclosure by The Guardian of a secret court order requiring the US telecoms company Verizon to turn over the telephone records of millions of US customers.

Details of the Prism system were said to have been set out in a 41-page PowerPoint presentation prepared for senior analysts at the NSA, the biggest electronic eavesdropping organisation in the world.

It is said to give the NSA and the FBI easy access to the systems of nine of the world's top internet companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and Skype.

It was said to have been established in 2007 under changes to US surveillance laws passed under President George Bush and renewed last year under Barack Obama in order to provide in depth surveillance on live communications and stored information on foreigners overseas.

According to the leaked document, "special programmes for GCHQ exist for focused Prism processing" - suggesting the British agency may have been receiving material from a part of the programme specifically designed to meet its needs.

MPs expressed concern at the report. Senior Tory David Davis said it was difficult to reconcile GCHQ's statement that it was subject to proper scrutiny with the fact that Parliament had no knowledge of the programme whatsoever.

"In the absence of parliamentary knowledge approval by a secretary of state is a process of authorisation, not a process of holding to account. Since nobody knew it was happening at all there is no possibility of complaint," he said.

"No review will be conducted by the two commissioners; the Interception of Communications Commissioner and the Intelligence Services Commissioner. Furthermore since it is outside the normal remit of UK intelligence it is hard to see how the Intelligence and Security Committee would have the resources or access to ensure the NSA behaved appropriately."

Liberal Democrat Julian Huppert, a member of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, said he hoped to force the Government to respond to an urgent question on the issue in Parliament on Monday.

"There are a lot of questions that need to be asked. I plan to table a whole series of questions and raise the issue in Parliament on Monday," he said.

"We have to understand exactly what information they have had and what the safeguards are. It's deeply, deeply alarming."

Nick Pickles of the civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch said questions needed to be asked at the "highest levels" to establish whether British citizens had had their privacy breached "without adherence to the proper legal process or any suspicion of wrongdoing".

"There are legal processes to request information about British citizens using American services and if they are being circumvented by using these NSA spying arrangements then that would be a very serious issue," he said.

[General Gaming / another japanese shmup heading to 360]

from the guys that did Raiden developer MOSS brings Caladrius to 360 in Japan..

Western release or region free pls...

[General Gaming / RIP Digihatesmakingnames]

ah well my old youtube account has been disabled.. Started with a warning from Youtube saying Sega was claiming I was breaking copyright of Shining in The Holy Ark material and removed one of my SiTHA videos and then I had to watch this patronizing youtube cartoon about copyright followed by a Q&A anyway I passed it and didn't think much of it..

A Week later I find my whole account has been disabled..  I'll miss some of those privileges given from an 2006 era..

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[General Gaming / Ebay sale just ended - biggest collection ever]

Dunno if this was already posted, I was kinda busy with PSO2 till a friend showed me this link

Sold for like 1 million dollars

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BIGGEST-COLLECTION-EVER-22-SEGA-NINTENDO-PC-ENGINE-FULLSETS-FACTORY-SEALED-/300736846867?pt=FR_Jeux_Vid#ht_163613wt_931

[Off-Topic / Japan to ban video sharing sites]

I am basically going by what Kotaku has posted but come October...


Japan has recently passed a stricter revision to its copyright laws making, among other things, the download of illegally uploaded materials punishable by a prison sentence of less than 2 years and/or a fine of up to ¥2,000,000 (US$25,106).

The House of Representatives quietly passed the revision with virtually no coverage and almost no public announcement, second, the revision was rushed through and passed without council or discussion. Members of the Ministry of Education who could potentially place a vote against the revision have been switched out so there is no opposition in place. Of the public, the only major group of people who are aware of what is going on are the 2-channel using sub-culturalites, a group often spoken of by the mass media as social outcasts and potential criminals and as such does not have much political swaying power in the public eye.

As to the actual effects of the revision, attorney at law, Toshimitsu Dan recently spoke on what Japan can look for in the future.

The Effects:
1. Ripping and copying of copy-protected and encoded materials like DVDs and games is no longer considered "for personal use" and is punishable.
2. The sale of software and hardware that circumvents copy protection and access protections is forbidden.
3. The intentional download of illegally uploaded materials is now punishable.

Basically, according to Toshimitsu Dan, video sites like YouTube and Nico Nico Douga that download temporary data to your computer will potentially be targets for regulation in Japan. That, and/or anybody who uses those sites could face prison time. Not only that, but thanks to the arbitrary wording of the revision that leaves it wide open for abuse by the authorities, the law can even affect Japanese citizens outside the borders of Japan. Even a Japanese citizen in America who watches a video on YouTube could potentially be a target for criminal proceedings.

http://kotaku.com/5920140/come-october-dont-use-youtube-in-japan


http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1206/20/news015.html

[General Gaming / FEZ]

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Is anyone interested in picking this up ?  demo and full game will be up in a few days...

As far as I know it's XBLA for now but who knows maybe psn and steam release someday..

Basically a 2D platformer in a 3D world

....and looks like music will be available to purchase too although I would love a hardcopy media of this !

http://disasterpeace.com/album/fez

I'm kinda getting pc engine vibes from this:
http://disasterpeace.com/track/forgotten

Getting some good scores too:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-04-12-fez-review

[General Gaming / sorry xbox 360 haters sega got some lovin' comin']

for da Monster world fans ..

Bring peace back to Monster World in these three classic action RPG titles: Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Wonder Boy in Monster World, and for the first time outside of Japan, Monster World IV! Now available for download on Xbox LIVE, the Monster World saga features all new achievements, challenging new trial modes, Xbox LIVE Leaderboards, and recordable and downloadable game sessions!









not sure when and if psn or wii market versions arrive but 360 gets these in april as one package.

[Off-Topic / megaupload site is no more..]

I'm so sad...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369


Megaupload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials in the US.

The site's founders have been charged with violating piracy laws.

Federal prosecutors have accused it of costing copyright holders more than $500m (£320m) in lost revenue. The firm says it was diligent in responding to complaints about pirated material.

The news came a day after anti-piracy law protests, but investigators said they were ordered two weeks ago.

The US Justice Department said that Megaupload's two co-founders Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz, and Mathias Ortmann were arrested in Auckland, New Zealand along with two other employees of the business at the request of US officials. It added that three other defendants were still at large.

"This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime," said a statement posted on its website.

Third-party sites
The charges included copyright infringement, conspiracies to commit racketeering, copyright infringement and money laundering.

A federal court in Virginia ordered that 18 domain names associated with the Hong Kong-based firm be seized.

The Justice Department said that more than 20 search warrants had been executed in nine countries, and that approximately $50m in assets had been seized.

It claimed that the accused had pursued a business model designed to promote the uploading of copyrighted works.

"The conspirators allegedly paid users whom they specifically knew uploaded infringing content and publicised their links to users throughout the world," a statement said.

"By actively supporting the use of third-party linking sites to publicise infringing content, the conspirators did not need to publicise such content on the Megaupload site.

"Instead, the indictment alleges that the conspirators manipulated the perception of content available on their servers by not providing a public search function on the Megaupload site and by not including popular infringing content on the publicly available lists of top content downloaded by its users."

Before it was shut down the site posted a statement saying the allegations against it were "grotesquely overblown".

"The fact is that the vast majority of Mega's internet traffic is legitimate, and we are here to stay," it added.

"If the content industry would like to take advantage of our popularity, we are happy to enter into a dialogue. We have some good ideas. Please get in touch."

Blackouts
The announcement came a day after thousands of websites took part in a "blackout" to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa).

The US Chamber of Commerce has defended the proposed laws saying that enforcement agencies "lack the tools" to effectively apply existing intellectual property laws to the digital world.

Industry watchers suggest this latest move may feed into the wider debate.

"Neither of the bills are close to being passed - they need further revision. But it appears that officials are able to use existing tools to go after a business alleged to be inducing piracy," said Gartner's media distribution expert Mike McGuire.

"It begs the question that if you can find and arrest people who are suspected to be involved in piracy using existing laws, then why introduce further regulations which are US-only and potentially damaging."

[General Gaming / HALF Minute Hero Super Mega Neo climax - XBLA]

anyone with a 360 gonna grab this title off the arcade marketplace??

Based on the psp game and has 4 player online co op. and if you don't like the updated graphics you can change it back to the original 8bit stuff.

https://www.marv.jp/titles/cs/644/
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/half-minute-hero-super-mega-neo-climax/C22TH902K6G2


   

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Yokai Dochuki - 妖怪道中記]

ooookay...  So lately I've been itching to play this game for a while (since I have great fondness for this game considering it practically sold me on the pc engine and was one of the first games I purchased alongside my spanking cute console back in 1987) so inserting the game into console behold.. I was greeted with a black screen..

This only seems to happen with this particular title all the other hucards seem fine.. so thinking that this particular card has died (and trying this on another pc engine and still having no luck) .. I pop onto ebay and purchase another.

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about 2 weeks have passed and a new copy arrives... pop it into the console and guess what? a black screen appears..  

Black screen of death ??
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anyway.. while switching between the pc engine's and inserting the yokai game guess what.. upon powering up the title appears, "YAY! SUCCESS"!..
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So I plug in my multi tap and to my shock.. the screen goes black... unplug the multi tap the screen re-appears.. so I try it with the single controller and hey presto it works..

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What is with this title and having compatibility with this particular multi tap?? I can't try it with any other since this is the only "tap" I have. Yokai Dochuki seems to be the ONLY game that has issues with a multi tap (I tried it with other early Namco games world court tennis, galaga 88, dragon spirit which all seem to run fine)so beware folks...

this is a NO! NO! for Yokai D!!
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End of rant.. Back to the monster's path

[General Gaming / Guardian Heroes coming to XBL!!!]

the sega saturn classic will be heading to XBL hopefully later this year with online co-op

I really dislike those filters but I be picking this up again
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_guardian_heroes_for_xbla-11015_en.html

[General Gaming / Trouble Witches Neo! on XBL]

anyone tried this yet ??

Kinda like the XBL version of Magical Chase

english VA and music is a bit poo tho but gameplay feels Magical Chase-ish meets CAVE shmups

[Off-Topic / sega of america SEGA rare stuff for sale on eBay]

if you got the money... well you can spend it on some rare sega stuff and do a bit for charity


http://shop.ebay.com/segaamerica/m.html

[General Gaming / PC原人 making a return]

while I was watching the japanese Inside Xbox TGS 2010 coverage on the japanese XBL I noticed on the vid report one of the xbox famitsu staff playing in the xbox live arcade section:

I guess a XBL pc kid is coming ? don't know about any other platforms for now.. Is this a port of the gamecube game ?

[General Gaming / *gasps* another Treasure SHMUP coming to XBL]

at the Tokyo games show 2010 MS' s conference announces for xbox live marketplace in 2011 ..

with Xbox Live and local co-op play, downloadable replays, improved graphics from the original saturn release....

[General Gaming / Bangai-O blazing missile fury on XBLA]

coming autumn fall on XBL for 800 MS points



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[General Gaming / another cave shootie coming out]

should be available on XBL marketplace sometime this year with western translation and worldwide release. GUWANGE!!!!!!

http://cave-game.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/2010/07/08/gu2.jpg


https://web.archive.org/web/20101127034155/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/10/cave-shmup-guwange-to-be-released-worldwide-on-xbla/

[General Gaming / parodius finally comes to the states.. well sorta]

Otomedius Excellent coming this fall on 360

and don't forget Europe Konami!!   

http://kotaku.com/5565485/otomedius-excellent-combines-xbox-360-gradius--boobs

[General Gaming / RAYSTORM HD is up and up!]

XBL on 5th 1200 MS points and about 408MB

6th on PSN price TBC

[General Gaming / EspGaluda II JPN Xbox 360 will be region free.. well sorta]

Cave will be bringing this arcade bullet hell shooter in Limited Edition and Standard Edition. For those players living outside Japan, which should they buy?

"The Limited Edition of EspGaluda II will be region-locked to Japan because we didn't have enough time to get the application in before pressing," says Cave producer Makoto Asada. "However, we were able to make the standard edition region-free in to show our appreciation for the support we have from overseas fans."

So to review: If you do not have a Japanese Xbox 360 and want to play EspGaluda II, then get the Standard Edition. If you do have a Japanese Xbox 360, get whichever edition you like.

http://kotaku.com/5471899/if-you-want-to-play-espgaluda-ii-read-this-post


trailer here

EspGaluda II will be released on February 25. Bundled with a two disc soundtrack, the game will be priced at ¥7,329 (US$85). There is a limited edition bundle with a faceplate — yours for ¥9,660 ($111).

[General Gaming / Deathsmiles coming stateside]

finally a Cave shooter looks like it will get an official release sometime later this year on the ol' X360

keep a look out for Deathsmiles guys & gals'

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/01/15/deathsmiles-magically-gets-stateside-release/

[General Gaming / Forza motorsport 3 decals (some big pics: warning)]

guys if your 360 is gathering dust you should try the art tools in  Forza III... Its all about using layers and modifying select shapes....



I been messing around with it this week (and although it's a little frustrating, and I can bet you will spend hours in this...) well this my first attempt..

Couldn't quite get the right font so had to create something to that "t"


Been dying on working on a Magical Chase project XD




maybe it would look better if it was placed on the other side?


working on some other pc engine games *cough* konami ones...

EDIT
updated with this new pic thats goin on my youtube home page

[General Gaming / Mushihime-sama Futari Xbox 360]

If anyone is interested

this cave shooter is coming out this fall; Nov 26..interesting thing about this is that it is gonna be region-free (and I hope that is correct)



can read about it here:
http://kotaku.com/5368190/bullet-hell-shooter-creators-cave-going-region+free-for-next-xbox-360-game


and u can watch the trailer here:

EDIT

also forgot to mention that apart from the standard release there will be a limited edition version with music cd that will probably be hella expensive!!

oh and an arcade joystick too

[General Gaming / Another Raiden game coming this year to US of A]

yup you lucky 360 owners can get another slice coming this August



http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174377

[General Gaming / Raiden Fighter Aces - Western release]

you guys/gals who own a X360 might wanna pick this up before its gone and prices might shoot up (or down)

http://www.amazon.com/Raiden-Fighters-Aces-Xbox-360/dp/B001PA0FBS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1241892507&sr=8-1

and its going for $20 USD too !!

[General Gaming / Hudson Soft games coming to XBL??]

not sure if these really are Hudson Soft but they are getting an update on Xbox live arcade marketplace.. Earlier today Microsoft held a spring conference in japan to annonce new games.. Two of those were:





wayback.famitsu.com/image/951/ Hudson's classic Nectaris Military Madness coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade
wayback.famitsu.com/image/951/

and the other is....





hmmmm Hudson Soft please give up Dungeon Explorer with online co-op!!!

[High Score Records / "Mr. Heli" High Scores]

"Mr. Heli" High Scores

215,840 - Tatsujin
214,850 - Digi.k


bah was trying to beat this game on one credit..but it ended in tears while I was video capturing it oh well this my current high score:

214,850

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BTW when you complete this game you get to try the special stage...  its basically the same thing on harder difficulty

[Off-Topic / Obama pass new law.. is this for real ???]

Obama passing new law to allow searching of PC's, Laptops, and media devices!!

[Off-Topic / Good Samaritan faces lawsuit]

only in America..

A court in the United States has ruled that a would-be Good Samaritan accused of rendering her friend paraplegic by pulling her from a wrecked car can be sued.

The Supreme Court of California has declared that the state's Good Samaritan law only protects people from liability if they are administering emergency medical care.

Justice Carlos Moreno ruled that a person is not obligated to come to someone's aid. "If, however, a person elects to come to someone's aid, he or she has a duty to exercise due care," he wrote.

According to the lawsuit, on 1 November 2004 Alexandra Van Horn was in the front passenger seat of a car that crashed into a lamp post at 45 mph. Lisa Torti was a passenger in a car that was following Van Horn and stopped after the crash.

According to Torti she feared the wreckage was going to explode and she therefore pulled her friend out. Van Horn has testified that Torti pulled her out of the wreckage 'like a rag doll' and blamed her for her paralysis.

Torti argues that she should be protected from a lawsuit because she was giving 'medical care' when she pulled Van Horn from the car.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/9758/

[High Score Records / "Raiden" (HuCard) High Scores]

Raiden (HuCard) High Scores



What a cool monitor TV thingy !!


1,735,800 - RoyVegas
1,388,600 - shubibiman
538,950 - Digi.k



arggh trying to 1cc this.. currently scored:

538,950