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How much of the play area will be visible on a 4:3 screen in Arcade mode will vary based on how much overscan is on your display. Most CRT displays cut off between 5 and 10 percent from each side.

Would be nice to finally get a fix for this issue. As far as I know the issue was never patched out of the Japanese version.

1. AFAIK, you will see it in Australia.

2. I've asked about 4:3 and am awaiting a response. Will chase.

Yay. Thanks torisu.

Wow, can't say no to that.

Any idea of when it'll show up on US sites?

Not yet - we're working on that.

I've just had a sealed Akai Katana turn up from Amazon UK, and it has a "REGION FREE PAL / NTSC COMPATIBLE" white sticker on it. Looks like it's been shipped out from Canada.

Bit of a surprise.

At under £6 new on Amazon UK Akia Katana has gotta be the cheapest 360 game I've ever seen, still it's good to see the other RSG shmups aren't quite so cheap at £13+.

I've even thought about getting my CoD and Fifa loving friends copies of AKS, but I doubt they'd even bother taking the wrapper off, as nowadays they automatically dismiss my taste in Japanese games as wacky. A word of warning for folk trying to introduce Japanese games to mainstream gamer friends, don't lend Deadly Premonition out, it's prologue will give you a bad rep for life!

Lol @ the Raiden Fighters pre order still on there

£5.98 plus delivery. Bargain. Purchased.

Under Defeat went down to about £13 the other week, but then slid back up. When GAME took a nose-dive, you could get Death Smiles for about £2.50.
Hopefully I can find a pre-owned PAL AK dirt cheap somewhere offline, and just add this NA one to the sealed pile. Noticed Cash Converters were churning out PS2 and Xbox1 games all a quid each yesterday. Found plenty of £10+ eBay enders. All going into the Pink Sweets credit union fund lol, shame that one never got a shot here, or region free.

The Muchi Muchi Pork/Pink Sweets double pack on the 360 is region-free, mate! You'll be able to grab it for about £25 soon; the budget release is available to pre-order here.

It's a sad thing what happened to this fine game.

£5.98 + £2.03 = £8.01

I hope it's 2nd hand eg no factory sealed and your Xbox 360 RROD's.

Now now!

Wow, haven't seen this thread in a while.


Well, you got 1 right. Displays in 4:3 - not available anywhere locally at retail.

On a more positive note: now that it is going bargain price there's no excuse for anyone to NOT buy it - and it is definitely a worthwhile purchase. Shin mode is amazing with a HDMI cable and decent flatscreen, while Arcade mode is perfect with a 4:3 CRT.

I've yet to remember what they renamed the modes to in this. I was quite fine with the original names, and although the replacement names aren't too bad per say it gets me a bit muddled up. I'm sure newcomers will figure it out in 2 seconds though so don't let that stop you from buying it.

As I've said before you can get akai katana locally. I've seen it for sale at atleast 3 ebgames stores here.

Sounds great there's an old and new TV mode. I mainly game in razor sharp ultra low ping HDMI 720 these days ever since the new VF came out. Seems a long time now since I first flipped a small, almost square '80s TV to play the Jap Layer Section on Saturn.

Laugh at that PlayAsia banner. Been a while since I've had anything from there, wow, looks like they have some Cave 360 games cheaper new than the used imports on eBay

And as I've said before I didn't and still am not seeing it anywhere here. We have 2 EBGames stores where I live and none of them have it, yet KOFXIII appeared here *before release date* at JB-Hifi with plenty of stock and front-shelf display.

Missed the point though: saying it's "getting distributed in Australia" and missing whole capital cities of said Australia is a complete joke no matter how you look at it. I'd be more inclined to understand if it were a small town with a single store, but not a capital city. It's like saying "Hey let's bring a new brand of cheese to France and ignore Paris!".

Arrived today. Absolutely no idea what I'm doing.