i love Ketsui

zlk · Post by **zlk** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:20 pm

Dylan1CC wrote:All that rare poster value down the drain. That is some hardcore hatin.'

For quite some time, multiple copies of that poster were available on yahoo.jp for a buy it now price of $5.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:27 pm

Icarus wrote:
Dylan1CC wrote:All that rare poster value down the drain. That is some hardcore hatin.'
Nah, I'd doubt J2D would shred up a Ketsui poster unless it was already damaged, spare or fake. Which reminds me of Mode7's April Fools joke on the old Gamespy forums. ^_-

I know, I was being melodramatic.

bpe · Post by **bpe** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:01 pm

What's not cool about Ketsui is that unless you make it into the highscore, your score is gone and invisible the moment you die. It's gone in the continue screen, in the game over screen, and there's no password

So you get to choose between
- not living in Japan, and not having Ketsui
- living in Japan, and only seeing your score when you make top 5, yeah right.

Am I missing something obvious :\

sffan · Post by **sffan** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:51 pm

bpe wrote:What's not cool about Ketsui is that unless you make it into the highscore, your score is gone and invisible the moment you die. It's gone in the continue screen, in the game over screen, and there's no password
So you get to choose between
- not living in Japan, and not having Ketsui
- living in Japan, and only seeing your score when you make top 5, yeah right.

Am I missing something obvious :\

Most Cave shmups are like this. I've always found it odd that games which are meant to be played for score don't show you your score at the end. What if two sucky players want to compete? They won't know who won! Or even if two good players wnat to compete and the scoreboard is filled up with great scores, same problem. I can't imagine why Cave would want to keep this glitch in their games.

~Kid Icarus~ · Post by **~Kid Icarus~** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:30 pm

I can't check right now but doesn't it keep the score in the top left of the screen when it goes back to atttract mode?

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:34 pm

But... if you keep a chain, you can break the default #1 high score about 40 seconds into the first level or something.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:14 pm

iatneH wrote:But... if you keep a chain, you can break the default #1 high score about 40 seconds into the first level or something.

Not if you are playing DDP DOJ on PS2 (saves your highscores). So for Ketsui and DDP PCB's I never had a problem with beating the default high scores. But for DDPDOJ, I hate that it never tells me what my score was if I don't break any of my old records.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:23 am

Yeah, I was referring to the Ketsui PCB...

I suppose it hasn't bothered me since I mostly just care about the maximum score. But there aren't really any unlockables on the PS2 Cave games are there? Can't you just delete the save file every once in a while (and then re-save your screen/control settings)?

bpe · Post by **bpe** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:30 am

The problem is playing at the arcades surrounded by guys who finish the loops for breakfast. I try to get by with a quick glance now and then, but even then the best I could submit to the highscore thread would be "uhmm, something like 45 million and something". The attract replay /demonstration shows the score as it goes up in the replay itself, so that doesn't help

Yep now that you mentioned it, since it's all about score, this is simply a huge design flaw. Doh.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:32 pm

SuperPang · Post by **SuperPang** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:36 pm

I bet you don't love Black Label

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:41 pm

krispyfi · Post by **krispyfi** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:41 am

i love ketsu

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:00 am

Why am I aching for Ketsui so badly? It isn't as if I don't have 300+ hours worth of DOJ and ESPGaluda and Ibara to keep me busy, already.

Heh, maybe it'll be available when I'm done with 'em!

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Fri May 16, 2008 2:08 pm

Well, thanks to the upcoming port it will soon be readily available.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Fri May 16, 2008 2:50 pm

sven666 wrote:
Twiddle wrote:this thread is pointless without an image of the game and your score
he plays on VERY-HARD fool! he cant post scores then...

pls, add this quote to next shmups.com poster

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Fri May 16, 2008 3:30 pm

I love chicken katsu.