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Hey y'all,

I felt the need to make a new topic because I couldn't find anyone really talking about it. That being the best method of playing Dodonpachi SDJ, I looked into lots of options like Xenex, RGH XBOX360, etc but non of them seem viable. For those who've played I'd like to know your method of playing it because it seems extremely hard to do. I'd also like to use this to tell you all about a tweet Live Wire (the company porting CAVE to Switch, titles such as Espgaluda II) tweeted out awhile back "We wonder what to develop next" and a majority of the comments were either related to Ibara, Muchi Muchi Pork, or the previously mentioned Dodonpachi SDJ. If I had to guess the next CAVE port will be SDJ or Ibara this year for Nintendo Switch. They haven't said anything official though but they said they're considering all options and they liked my tweet mentioning the topic. Anyways,

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Bros .. he doesn't know. >_>
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Udderdude wrote:Bros .. he doesn't know. >_>
Could just, you know, pass on knowledge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Kd0B0YvRQ
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Welcome to the forum. It might be best to use the Search feature, as there has been a lot of discussion about SDOJ in the years since it was first released. In short, SDOJ is kind of a sticky subject, being the rarest CAVE arcade game due to its relatively small original run. It's also currently licensed to exA-Arcadia for a second arcade run, further reducing the odds of the game being released to consoles again in the near future. The Xbox 360 port is probably all that will exist of this game outside of arcade markets or emulators for a long time to come.
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Jonpachi wrote:
Udderdude wrote:Bros .. he doesn't know. >_>
Could just, you know, pass on knowledge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Kd0B0YvRQ
no need to link to this video, since it only has the romhack with all the meme shit, and not even the GOOD romhack of SDOJ with the meme shit.

Mont, the honest-to-goodness arcade rom is floating about in the wild, meaning you can now practice with savestates. The catch is that you need to adjust the blitter and cpu settings in mame to get accurate slowdown... or play without any slowdown!
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Jonpachi wrote:
Udderdude wrote:Bros .. he doesn't know. >_>
Could just, you know, pass on knowledge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Kd0B0YvRQ

Yeah I saw dis Electric Underground video. I wasn't able to find the ROM and I'm guessing this forum cannot provide it either. Thank you for sending the video but I was more asking how other people were playing it. Outta curiosity.
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EmperorIng wrote:
Jonpachi wrote:
Udderdude wrote:Bros .. he doesn't know. >_>
Could just, you know, pass on knowledge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Kd0B0YvRQ
no need to link to this video, since it only has the romhack with all the meme shit, and not even the GOOD romhack of SDOJ with the meme shit.

Mont, the honest-to-goodness arcade rom is floating about in the wild, meaning you can now practice with savestates. The catch is that you need to adjust the blitter and cpu settings in mame to get accurate slowdown... or play without any slowdown!
Yeah I saw in the comments of the video he mentioned the legit ROM is out there. Dayum gon havta go on an omega search. Also unrelated but what I think is funny is that Limited Run did a collection on the SDOJ OST and not the game. Truly unfortunate yo.
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MontTheMonkey wrote: Also unrelated but what I think is funny is that Limited Run did a collection on the SDOJ OST and not the game. Truly unfortunate yo.
Limited Run doesn't develop anything, so there's no "game" for them to release until someone does a new port.
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MontTheMonkey wrote:

Yeah I saw dis Electric Underground video. I wasn't able to find the ROM and I'm guessing this forum cannot provide it either. Thank you for sending the video but I was more asking how other people were playing it. Outta curiosity.
I played it using Xenia.
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Jonpachi wrote:
MontTheMonkey wrote: Also unrelated but what I think is funny is that Limited Run did a collection on the SDOJ OST and not the game. Truly unfortunate yo.
Limited Run doesn't develop anything, so there's no "game" for them to release until someone does a new port.
Yeah, we just gotta hope Live Wire comes in clutch. Also I found the Rom and a usable version of MAME to play it. I heard Xenex was a bit janky and had a bit of lag so choosing MAME was probably my best bet. Although the rom is a bit LQ it's perfectly playable and it's not the meme rom, pretty sick.
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I thankfully bought a copy for 360 when it came out. Is it crazy expensive now or something?
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Yikes. I'm seeing $200 USD. Sucks.
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I bought a Japanese xbox 360 which aren't too expensive and bought the Limited Edition big box version when it was under $200. You can have the disc drive on the xbox 360 JTagged for pretty cheap and then just play backups of all the games if that's the way you want to go.
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FYI: The Xbox 360 version is region free, you don't need a JP region 360 or a modded 360 to play it.
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As long as you can get access to Japanese XBLA points, you can buy the XBLG version pretty easily too. So the game is still reasonably accessible if you have a 360.
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Yeah, it's Y2800 on the download shop. Really affordable. Physical copies were convenient to avoid messing with multiple region accounts when they were affordable, but when the price difference is that much... https://marketplace.xbox.com/ja-JP/Prod ... 02435a07e7
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Hey cool, Surugaya has a PCB for sale.

https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/180903809

If you have 798000 yen and nothing better to spend it on, here you go.
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Pfft, come on. It's emulated now. They should try selling it for 798 yen instead.

(The above is in massive sarcasm quotes).
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Steven wrote:Hey cool, Surugaya has a PCB for sale.

https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/180903809

If you have 798000 yen and nothing better to spend it on, here you go.
mfw over 8000 canadian dollars :shock: and please tell me who has that laying around for SDOJ LOL
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Do you even RGH3 bro?
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MontTheMonkey wrote:
Steven wrote:Hey cool, Surugaya has a PCB for sale.

https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/180903809

If you have 798000 yen and nothing better to spend it on, here you go.
mfw over 8000 canadian dollars :shock: and please tell me who has that laying around for SDOJ LOL
I mean for that amount of money, you can buy an Exa and SDOJ and still have a few thousand left over...
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digitron wrote:Do you even RGH3 bro?
I know of it but I don't have the time or equipment to hack my 360, only thing I've used it for in recent is halo LAN parties for Reach.
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