Early CAVE cellphone games

[majik989s]

Does anyone have any information (or footage) of the cellphone games made from CAVE properties prior to their smartphone launches? I know there was a Ketsui game and Taisen! Rose Sisters and I'm sure a few more but I haven't seen the information aggregated anywhere for reference.

[trap15]

There are some videos of them on Youtube and probably on nicovideo. Let me see if I can find the ones on YT real quick.

I'm interested in knowing more about them too; I wish somebody would dump them.

[KAI]

Is there a list of all those phone games? I've only heard about Switch, DDP DOJ DX, Espgaluda II, MushiFutari Kanzenban and DSII Lost Dreams.

[Xyga]

I think there's a DodonPuchi or something. http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20020917/cave.htm

Oh and what about that one ? http://www.ge-sen.com/news/1605/

Pics of the Ketsui here: http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/20030716/cave.htm

Guwange: http://www.famitsu.com/k_tai/news/2004/ ... 5,0,0.html

ESPrade: http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/ ... 12733.html

So cute.

[Cagar]

Man, it would be so cool to play these with zoomed resolution.

[trap15]

Ok, so here's some stuff, not all CAVE.

Darius Ocean (i-mode Darius game) playthrough (part 1): http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5223816 The rest is linked on there. Pretty shitty looking game.

Espgaluda2 i-mode:
Seseri fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI0S_0tzHG4
Special mode?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaeI9vVjOyU
Normal mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF-RR_02yMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPu9w2xsfXI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNoG6VT5_64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaUBHfOlEZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifl3S7rNSoA

Dodonpachi Daioujou i-mode:
Hibachi death-mode?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_IY_En8lOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuFKNFSbjb0

Dodonpachi i-mode:
Trial version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjmxwAsMQko

Ketsui i-mode:
Doom death-mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZmXFBtKyRo This looks really damn fun.

SWITCH:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4939687
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4984933
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5083938
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5104684
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5243319
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5385725
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5499586
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm5600609
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6155894
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4894734

Most of the Youtube footage is by one user, samchay. He's got lots of good stuff.
I wish there were soundtrack releases of these, they sound great in a weird way.

[trap15]

Some more, stuff only on nicovideo:

Dodonpachi Plus:
1-ALL: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7329938
Last boss fight: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7444268
Special? 1-ALL: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8773015

Mushihimesama Gaiden (precursor to Bug Panic):
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3610673 http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3610884

Mushihimesama Futari i-mode:
Abnormal Reco, HARD difficulty: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2942205
Trial version: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2551023 http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2548492 http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2477672

Daioujou i-mode:
Hibachi death-mode: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1360144

[trap15]

Additionally, the old CAVE mobile game website is no longer, but it's available through archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20081205075 ... index.html

[cave hermit]

Those dodonpachi ports are pretty impressive given they're done on old mobile phones, but those MIDIs man...

[Xyga]

Some of those FOMA machines looked pretty awesome too, full metal, keyboard, rotatable screen, TV.
Basic smartphones today are just... a screen.

[cave hermit]

man fuck touch screens; I need something precise and tactile...

[mehguy]

Is it still possible to download these?

[trap15]

As far as I can tell, no. I searched pretty hard, but it's possible that the language barrier was the reason for me not being able to find any. Last time I looked, the only one still available was Mushihimesama Futari. It's been a few years though, so it's possible that even that one is now gone.

[KAI]

I found the jap wiki of Ge-sen Yokocho
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ゲーセン横丁


ESPPinball lol

Star Soldier vs Dodonpachi Daioujou looks so fucking awesome

[cave hermit]

Star soldier X Dai Ou Jou was a thing?

[_rm_]

Star soldier X Dai Ou Jou was a thing?

Yup, apparently you could use the Dodonpachi ship on Star Soldier levels and vice-versa

[Patashu]

Woah, I didn't know these existed I'm digging the midi remake of the Dodonpachi soundtrack, LOL. Too bad no one superplayed these, huh? I'd try it myself if, well, you know...

[BPzeBanshee]

Pretty sure the music for two separate incarnations of mobile phone Ketsui were included in ~CUTTING THE BONDS OF HELL~ soundtrack album.

[AntiFritz]

Anyone got any stuff on Dangun Feveron i-mode?

[lilmanjs]

Pretty sure the music for two separate incarnations of mobile phone Ketsui were included in ~CUTTING THE BONDS OF HELL~ soundtrack album.

yes they were on the soundtrack that came with the superplay dvd, and man are those still cool as hell sounding. Interesting versions since the original soundtrack includes a good bit of Drum n' Bass music.

[Vetus]

The Dodonpachi pinball game and Switch look neat, expecially the second one.
http://japhei.blogspot.gr/2008/10/caves ... -game.html
Such a shame that Switch never got a DS port or at least a smartphone remake.

[rancor]

I had access to an i-mode phone about a month ago.. none of the CAVE stuff is on there anymore, and there was only one shooter as far as I could find.

[trap15]

Yes, unfortunately i-mode shut down about a year ago. At this point, the only possibility for survival is basically have someone who worked on them. So either a CAVE employee, or a DoCoMo employee that did i-mode server stuff. Both chances are very very slim, so I'd say they're lost aside from videos.

[z0mbie90]

I seen some of these before, cool looking for sure. It would be cool if in some way someone could get an hold of these and emulate them in some kidn of way.
That Star Soldier vs Dodonpachi Daioujou looks way to cool to just get lost in time

[Tatsuya79]

We are in the disposable games era, what a shame.
They don't even update their latest games which are incompatible with the latest android OS versions.

People who bought Deathsmiles for 13€ + DLC will appreciate.

[majik989s]

So recently on PlayStation Mobile (accessed by my Vita), there have been a number of Japanese cell phone games released under the "Appli Collection." It's quite interesting to see, and there are a number of videos of them on yt. Some of the more obscure adventure type ones even have virtual number pads on the screen for input.

This makes me wonder more and more about this kind of emulation as I've never seen games from cell phones emulated. I mean here it is! Could we see more of this? Maybe get those Cave games out there for us to play?

[trap15]

There are simulators that can run those phone games typically without any issue. But the issue is there aren't any dumps of these. If Hamster can manage to get them, they could certainly be released.

[Doctor Butler]

There are simulators that can run those phone games typically without any issue. But the issue is there aren't any dumps of these. If Hamster can manage to get them, they could certainly be released.

That would be pretty awesome.

[S_Fang]

Mushihimesama Gaiden (precursor to Bug Panic):
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3610673 http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3610884

Cool, they had the idea at the time.
That make me think of a game like Legend of Zelda with bullets, but there's something like that and is Legend of Sayuki for PS2.

[Patashu]

Checking on a whim; have any of these been dumped yet?