It's over, CAVE is dead... or maybe not...

[Shepardus]

They've made silly videos like this for years and years.

Yeah it's not even as weird as the Muchi Muchi Pork and Pink Sweets PVs they did before. Though this one's not as... interesting... to watch.

[AntiFritz]

They've made silly videos like this for years and years.

Yeah it's not even as weird as the Muchi Muchi Pork and Pink Sweets PVs they did before. Though this one's not as... interesting... to watch.

Or the awful espgaluda 2 tv commercial.

[Mr Halibut]

OST albums are now up on Amazon UK MP3 store @ £7.99 each. I think this is all of them so far, don't know if they're planning on adding more.

Akai Katana
Dangun Feveron
Deathsmiles
Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu
Dodonpachi Daioujou
Espgaluda II
Ibara
Ketsui
Mushihimesama
Mushihimesama Futari
Pink Sweets

edit: they now added:
Dodonpachi Saidaioujou
Muchi Muchi Pork

[Shepardus]

The app's now released for iOS.

Rated 12+ for the following:
Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity

[Furry Fox Jet Pilot]

The app's now released for iOS.

Rated 12+ for the following:
Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity

I just installed it and I get a pop up that prompts me to press ok and then the app crashes... Not cool

[astroid]

So, there are the live screens. Looks and sounds nice Keep playing... Ship is too weak from beginning. Upgrades for coins, coins from enemies and cards for ads videos. Upgrades menu translation strongly needed.

[astroid]

[trap15]

pay2win sdoj lol

[Despatche]

when's sdoj on steam

[GSK]

pay2win sdoj lol

I haven't played it yet but from the looks of things it's all free with no IAP, so you're not actually paying for any of this stuff, you're just expected to grind for it (but it's basically a caravan game so "grind" just means "play it a lot").

[trap15]

Played it for a couple minutes, starts you out really underpowered and helpless feeling. Not going to deal with that even if it does get better. Seems to me they couldn't afford new assets so they said "hey make a game with all this art we already have".

[astroid]

There are no in-app purchases menu, only ads videos in the end of level.

Sooo, i'm leveled up

[GSK]

Played it for a couple minutes, starts you out really underpowered and helpless feeling. Not going to deal with that even if it does get better. Seems to me they couldn't afford new assets so they said "hey make a game with all this art we already have".

I imagine it's probably meant as a promo for a SDOJ PC port.

[Mr Halibut]

Worked for me on iPhone 6, got the crash after 'ok' on startup on iPad mini. I'll see if I need to upgrade the iOS version, maybe that'll help

You don't have to watch a video ad at the end of a run, but if you do you get an extra coin.

Does anyone now how to deploy a bomb? Or use laser? I guess maybe laser is going to be a shot upgrade and I assume autobomb will become available at some point, but I don't get why I can buy bomb upgrades / increase number of bombs and have no way to fire them

[astroid]

I'm playing it on iPad mini 2, ios 7.02, no crashes! No server checking, no network needed, no inapps, easy upgrades, coins getting well - this is NOT A PAY2WIN GAME, its really free May be its really promo for something bigger But why only in Japan Store?

[Tatsuya79]

So... why the name Ichimen banchou?

[trap15]

Probably because you need to play stage 1 over and over to get anywhere in the first place.

If this is to build hype for an SDOJ PC port, they sure are wasting an insane amount of money and effort on not the port

[Mr Halibut]

Also if they're not going to put in IAPs, they may as well have just made this a 'vanilla' port, it seems incredibly wasteful to turn it into this whole F2P grinding thing and then not actually monetize it properly.

edit: unless it is just to promote a PC version, then I suppose they don't really want to be giving away the exact same game. It's still all a bit weird though.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Am using an mini iPad 2 with retina display with 16gb of memory + ios 9.1 with this newfangled Ichimen banchou shmup. Proceeded to start up the game after hitting the ok button and it just simply returns to the main apps screen without booting it up.

Hmmm...I wonder if it has "non-booting issue" due to using the latest ios version setup?

Anyone else manage to get it to run without any problems on an mini iPad 2 with ios 9.1 setup?

After looking at the actual file size of Ichimen banchou on the mini iPad 2, it says that it takes up a mere 85.8mb of memory allocated to it. Tried deleting some valuable "real estate" memory space to see if it'd boot up properly and still no dice. I realize trying to make do with just a mere 16gb of internal memory (plus the fact that there's no proper way to add more additional memory whatsoever -- {aside from buying an ample larger-sized memory endowed iPad setup}, that is a real challenge unto itself {especially when running bloated & memory intensive ios game apps that end up taking a serious chunk of memory alone + auto d/l'ing of app/game updates, again, eats into precious memory}).

At least with 'em android powered tablets, a simple solution to remedy a small internal memory situation at hand, is to get a larger microSDHC card -- easy as pie. I know Apple still sells 'em mini iPad2s with the larger 32gb of memory size (and can be bought for $279.99 USD at Costco {which I saw over there at that attractive pricepoint just the other day}).

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[astroid]

Just unlock stage 2 and other ships PLUS Double play in main menu (AI helper)

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

It just exits after a Japan language notice screen for me on my old iPhone 4S. It's running ios 9.2 though. I wonder if it needs to be installed on a Japan language account to work. It showed up in the app store even when logged into my US account so I don't think it matters.

[Bananamatic]

WHENS SDOJ

[Mr Halibut]

I'm running on a UK account without doing any weird stuff to change app store location, and it runs on iphone 6 (but not ipad mini 1) for me. Currently updating iOS on the ipad, but not getting my hopes up :/

So, from that screenshot showing "stage 1-2" it looks like after grinding through stage 2, instead of unlocking stage 3 it gives you the ability to play stage 1 and then 2 in a single run? Ugh...

[qmish]

Able to run it on my iPad 3 (2012) with iOS7

Not sure, if it has low FPS or just ship is slow at start.

[Cagar]

Oh god, I'm such a CAVE slave.
All I need is bright bullets, shooting and dodging and I'm addicted. At first I thought that this was terrible, but I still kept playing it long enough for the game to brainwash me.
I'm ashamed of myself.

[rtw]

I get this:



When I hit OK the application exits, the app is still running in the background though.

Anyone care to translate the message shown ?

This is on an iPhone 4S, iOS 8.4.1.

[CloudyMusic]

I believe it says that your device isn't supported.

[Strikers1945guy]

So no Android version?

[rugdoctor]

Worked for me on iPhone 6, got the crash after 'ok' on startup on iPad mini. I'll see if I need to upgrade the iOS version, maybe that'll help

You don't have to watch a video ad at the end of a run, but if you do you get an extra coin.

Does anyone now how to deploy a bomb? Or use laser? I guess maybe laser is going to be a shot upgrade and I assume autobomb will become available at some point, but I don't get why I can buy bomb upgrades / increase number of bombs and have no way to fire them

Double tapping on the fighter released the bomb for me, not sure about laser or any other easier method of deploying the bomb?

[astroid]

Bombing works not always, i'm use slow double tap upper than ship or just use auto (at max upgrade). Opens all difficulties: normal, hard, maniacs, god. But HOW to unlock stage 3?! I know it is here