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1 million dollars.

Seriously, I don't think the autographs are going to happen. Hope so, but don't count on it. I will be taking my own sharpie though just in case I can corner Inoue. Ikeda is a bit reclusive...I somehow think Inoue will shoot the shit.

keep me posted if you have one to off : )

I'd LOVE to be there. Are they now doing about 2 a year? Cave must really be rolling in it.

me 2 sadly i just dont have the time tho.

Damn it, I'm jealous. I'm trying to get back to Japan soon but there's no way I'll make it this December. If you pick up anything good for spare let me know, I'll probably buy it.

Does anyone think Cave will have stock of some currently OOP stuff there? Like the Espgaluda II superplay for example
Also, what are the odds of Mihara being there?

EDIT:I just read GP's article about the last one. I guess both are possible

What a fuck job. My cock smoking alarm didn't work. Got here at 8 and got a ticket for 12. 12:30 now, and I have at least another hour. The line wraps around the whole fifth floor. Some gear is already gone. The winner of today? Yahoo Japan.

I have to take massive pee.

HAHA Funny stuff, you lucky barstad GP!

I love your site and your posts, maybe one day ill get to Japan
to see what an arcade and a CAVE game is really like in the flesh


Harlequin

Just got out of there. So exhausted. There were slightly tweaked versions of MMP. Death Smiles, and Guwange. No video though.

A tweaked Guwange? Any idea what they did to it?

The small coins generated when the counter is 1000 happens whenever now. That's all I could tell. I dumped my shit off, and am going back now. So tired though.

A lot of the good shit sold out too quickly. One of the new posters, all the pillows, the coffee mug (which I wasn't too big on). Expect insanity to ensue online.

Some stuff is already on Yahoo

The Esprade/Guwange OST looks so nice:
http://page18.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/w18311455

I'm determined to ride this one out, I won't make the same mistake as I did with the Futari OST where I basically paid 175% the Play-asia price on Yahoo once fees and shipping were included

Did the calligraphy sell this time? The DOJ one is more expensive than last time, and the しぬがよい one just seems too pointless.

Both of them sold quickly (both sold *eventually* last time). "Shinu ga yoi" actually has more to do w/ DDP than you would think. I hate to spoil the surprise, but IKD makes mention of it in the DOJ: BL interview.

I will write a report, but not post it for a while. I didn't get any video (camera fucked, and good ones out of town). I got some pictures, but nothing to masturbate over. I didn't get tickets to the talk event, but was knackered anyway. It was WAY fucking packed. At the other ones, when you finally got to the 5th floor, you were golden. This time, 5th floor you were golden showered. It was a 2 hour queue once you got up there. Such a fist fucking party.

Anyway, here's the details on the special versions. I'll include titles for oxtsu's glorious list.

Guwange:
TITLE: Guwange: Dai Cave Festival Tokubetsu Shiyou
-Little coin juicing thing when skull counter is gold doesn't require 1000 counter
-Was there a blue meter in the right hand corner before? There is now... and it did nothing apparently
-Bullets do far less damage
-Bullets that are turned pink w/ shikigami and go back to blue, instead will flash red & blue. If you cancel another one that was in the same group as that one, it will cancel and turn into a coin.
-Bombs give coins for all bullets on screen
-5th stage boss' Ape form sprite is scaled (2 to 3 times normal size)
-Last stage boss pattern altered. More balls... crazy fucking pattern, but far less bullets. One guy cleared it... another came very close. I had to leave.

Muchi Muchi Pork:
Dai Cave Festival Special Version
After defeating the boss of each stage, you got to fight a Pink Sweets boss.
For now, you can see a picture here:
http://www.gamengai.com/okiba/mmpspecialversion.jpg

Death Smiles:
DIE Cave Festival Special Version (die is not a typo)
At each stage select, you can select Level 1, 2, or 99. Level 99 features LOTS of suicide bullets from the get go, and bosses have much harder patterns. I got to the second stage. Scores were high. Highest for the day was 1.6 billion.

I would LOVE to play this!!!!

They were selling the PCBs for 2000 yen. I bought two!

Lol I was in Hey this afternoon but the queue was a joke - glad I didn't wait in that fucker for 5 hours.

The thing is, this time they passed out tickets to do away with the queue. The result? Longer queue. So stupid. I'm still pulling the splinters from my anus. The funny thing is. Some people were there all day, and bought like 2 things.

I did meet a lurker here that introduced himself... shockingly enough I wasn't physically assaulted. Probably not my best of moments though. I've been drinking a lot... at home...alone... not exercising. Good thing I'm married.

KAMPAI!!

2000 yen? thats about $18 usd?

for a PCB?

this item made me lol..

http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h53205242

I figured most would've got the sarcasm.



These were limited to the number of drawings Joker Jun could draw during the alloted time. As such, they sold out FAST. I'm sure most people didn't want the pillow as much as the drawing. That would've definitely been my excuse.

I'm going to make love to mine and get myself on the register.

That's a pillow case, but it's so long... and thin...

rtw

Nice Chip-chan Kick poster, CIT!



There was a version that came w/ the pillow. It is a "hugging pillow" basically. Not meant for resting your head, but curling up with.

kinda surprised they dont come with a hole in the middle to be honest

There should be a mod walkthru on 2ch next week sometime.

As much as I like to snuggle up with a hugging pillow, putting pillow cases on them that depict anime girls (or any kind of ... well any life form, drawn or otherwise) is a little too weird.

Coming from me, that says a lot.