Cave Festival 2006 : end of the year party in Akihabara!

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:14 pm

Yea I noticed the crustiness of a couple of the cabs. One of the Futari 1.01 monitors was so blurry as to be unplayable...kind of makes one think about how they handled the PS2 port of the first game the way they did. "You mean people want to see Mushihimesama? No way!"

I agree about Cave under-estimating the demand. They could have sold so many Ibara and DOJ posters, but I guess they thought only like 5 people were interested? Christ...I hope they slapped themselves after they saw the 100-person-long line on the first day.

Dann · Post by **Dann** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:10 pm

NTSC-J wrote: I expected there to be a big last-minute rush of challengers for the contest but it was pretty quiet all the way to the end. I was unable to compete with the insane 600 million+ scores but it was fun participating. I saw a guy get to 2-5 in DDP Campaign, that was pretty gnarly.

yeah, i appreciated seeing the two DDP cabs there. i forgot to grab a free light-up toy, though

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:17 pm

I need to get one of those costumes

oxtsu · Post by **oxtsu** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:50 am

Would one of you who attended please confirm the following description?

For the chronology of shooting thread:

Mushihime-sama Blue Label <---is 'ver 1.5' written in-game? Ketsui style?
Mushihime-sama Futari ver 1.5 Red Label <--festival score trial ver - Ketsui style? 3 PCBs awarded to top scorers
Mushihime-sama Futari ver 1.01 <-- gives the player two extra bomb stock

Many thanks to GP, sven, Kaneda, et al, for reporting of this event!

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:37 am

Re: The term counter-stop.

Yes, it has to stop, and it works for anything type of counter. Score, stat, whatever.

oxtsu wrote:Would one of you who attended please confirm the following description?

For the chronology of shooting thread:

Mushihime-sama Blue Label <---is 'ver 1.5' written in-game? Ketsui style?
Mushihime-sama Futari ver 1.5 Red Label <--festival score trial ver - Ketsui style? 3 PCBs awarded to top scorers
Mushihime-sama Futari ver 1.01 <-- gives the player two extra bomb stock

Many thanks to GP, sven, Kaneda, et al, for reporting of this event!

-Mushihime-sama "Blue Label". There's no 1.5 or Blue label written in game. I might have some video of the title screen somewhere. I hae to dig up my laptop. I do not think it has the KEtsui scoring style. It starts the player off w/ two options though, w/ different colors than the standard

-Mushi Futari 1.5 (Red Label). Yes on all accounts

-Futari 1.01 -- not sure at alll Didn't really play it.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:59 am

oxtsu wrote:Mushihime-sama Futari ver 1.01 <-- gives the player two extra bomb stock

Yep, that's it. I've spent much time with 1.0 and this version was no different apart from the added bombs.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:10 am

Here is the Arcade is God handout. Pretty cool. Wish it was color though.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:12 am

Translations pending, we hope?

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:54 am

Minzoku wrote:I need to get one of those costumes

i thought about it but Ken said i would never fit so, no sale..

about mushimesama blue label.. i think it had a little "blue label" sign floating around the titlescreen just like futari 1.5 does...

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:04 am

My thoughts on the whole thing, w/ some pictures and an Mushi 1.5 Ultra video on the last page.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:34 pm

Nice report, GP. Too bad the player in that 1.5 ultra video sucked.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:07 pm

Megaupload is definitely not working for me. It's impossible to perform the trick zlk suggested because I don't see any code

Anyway, I'm pretty sure the counter-counter stop is only possible in blue version. Ram mentioned a counter of 1 bil at the 5th mid-boss, and with that you can score A LOT of millions every second. I haven't see this vid but a counter like that on the normal version would have gave to the players billions of points, way more than 2,6 at the end of the game.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:56 pm

LUNardei wrote: Ram mentioned a counter of 1 bil at the 5th mid-boss, and with that you can score A LOT of millions every second. I haven't see this vid but a counter like that on the normal version would have gave to the players billions of points, way more than 2,6 at the end of the game.

Well, if you got a 999,999 counter at the midboss, it would fall like rain throughout the rest of the level. I don't care how good you are, your counter after the 5th stage midboss is going to fall throughout the 2nd half of that stage.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:12 pm

twe wrote:Well, if you got a 999,999 counter at the midboss, it would fall like rain throughout the rest of the level. I don't care how good you are, your counter after the 5th stage midboss is going to fall throughout the 2nd half of that stage.

I don't get your point. Sven talked about a 999,999,999 counter (sadly I just can't download the vid, if someone could host it in another place I'd be a happy bunny!). Even with a huge fall with a starting counter like that you're going to score crazy points, way more than what is possible to score with the normal game (even if hacked in some weird ways).

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:14 pm

Oh, sorry. The vid Sven showed was a 999,999 counter. I don't think 999,999,999 is possible, but I'd love to see it if it's for real.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:22 pm

twe wrote:Oh, sorry. The vid Sven showed was a 999,999 counter. I don't think 999,999,999 is possible, but I'd love to see it if it's for real.

Oh errr, 999,999 is another thing

That's interesting. My opinion is that they allowed the players to reach similar counters in Blue Label easily just to have a show-time during the event. Taking inspiration from what SWY did, of course. I don't think any kind of auto-hack stuff was involved in Blue Label... But still, who knows?

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:36 pm

http://www.mrmonkeyman.com/IMGP0047.AVI

Have fun.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:38 pm

Thanks so much!

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:11 pm

NTSC-J wrote:Nice report, GP. Too bad the player in that 1.5 ultra video sucked.

LOL... he/you did better than me.

And cheers, MMM. I couldn't get Mega Upload to work either but didn't feel like bitching about it.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:26 pm

MrMonkeyMan wrote:http://www.mrmonkeyman.com/IMGP0047.AVI

Ok, here we are:
- the score goes over 1 bil during the vid
- he is tapping with his own hands, no autofires are involved. It's a default run.
- the counter goes over 800K just by tapping A, and you can't see the counter flash red (edit: this actually happens but only twice, weird. He is probably wrong in his positioning/tapping frequency, but he's still able to get that counter)
- the counter is not counter-stopped
- with laser counters around 3700 he should be able to get way more than that counter with C tapping

So Blue Label is totally different from normal Mushihimesama even in the counter management.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:16 pm

does anyone happen to know who won the three futari special PCBs?

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:52 am

jpj wrote:does anyone happen to know who won the three futari special PCBs?

not unless theyre announced on caves website.. there was no winners ceremony, you just filled out a form with your score and adress on it...

MagicKnight · Post by **MagicKnight** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:16 am

I got the impression from Arcadia Magazine that the competition is open to more than just those who were there on the day, given that there's a coupon to fill in with your score, name, address and so on. There's a big six page article on version 1.5 too. I'll see if my Japanese girlfriend can explain the competition details to me.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:11 pm

How can they compete in the competition if there's no PCBs to play on?

kotaro · Post by **kotaro** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:03 pm

My japanese'e friend said to me that the only difference between the Futari's 1.1/1.01 ver and tha old 1.0 version is the correction of the 4° boss last transformation bullet pattern!!!

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:44 am

jpj wrote:does anyone happen to know who won the three futari special PCBs?

Results here. The second place score Gaijin Punch and I actually watched happen. Once I saw his counter go past 90k I said to Paul, "Well, he got one [of the boards]."

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:08 am

Figures that GFA-ISO got first place (by nearly 100 mil).

Would be nice if they ported Mushi Futari to some console and had this extra mode as the "arrange mode". Pretty sure it won't happen though.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:21 pm

The second place score Gaijin Punch and I actually watched happen

Yeah... what an asshole he was.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:54 pm

twe wrote:Figures that GFA-ISO got first place (by nearly 100 mil).

Would that be the same ISO from the Ikaruga Appreciate DVD (Easy Mode player)?

Plasmo · Post by **Plasmo** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:58 pm

and the same who has espgaluda 1 and 2 and psyvariar and and and WR yes