Just got my ST-V board & Terra Diver!

kitkit.com · Post by **kitkit.com** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:45 am

I just received my ST-V board today and have been playing Terra Diver.

I must say I am very happy with it and the gaming experience is completely different from playing the Saturn and Playstation version. The Saturn version is pretty close to the ST-V version but the PSX version suffers some major slowdown.

Now, I understand why people go for original PCB for some Cave shooting games instead playing the PS2 version.

shinsage · Post by **shinsage** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:30 am

can't say I was ever a fan of souky.
Maybe it was because it's a vert on a horizontal screen and I just found all the stages to be so boring looking.

overkill55 · Post by **overkill55** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:15 am

I just got Souky for Saturn and love it. Pretty dang hard though, the 5th level or so destroyed me lol.

It's weird sometimes how PSX and SAT/ST-V versions are better than each other. Most SAT 2D games are far better, DoDonpachi and others being the exceptions on PSX

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:55 am

Sou kyu gu ren tai

You don't say R-Ty instead of R-Type either, do you?

Soukyugurentai is a great game with a slightly unfortunate rank system.

D · Post by D » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:39 am

Ceph wrote:Sou kyu gu ren tai

You don't say R-Ty instead of R-Type either, do you?

Soukyugurentai is a great game with a slightly unfortunate rank system.

Don't be so negative all the time. Relax, nobody wants to deliberatly offend you by not mentioning the full names of every game. So now we have to be on our guard for your type of responses whenever we post anything? Another nice little thread hijacked by evil. Maybe it is just me, but your post comes across as angry, negative and hurtful. Maybe it wasn't intended that way at all.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:52 am

D wrote:Maybe it is just me, but your post comes across as angry, negative and hurtful. Maybe it wasn't intended that way at all.

It's just you.

Most of my posts are completely void of negative emotions, like the one above. Just a neutral explanation how the name is written in kana, 'coz calling the game "Souky" irks me; hence the comparison with "R-Ty". Maybe I should use 10-50 emoticons in every post to prevent misinterpretations by the easily offended.

On second thought, maybe not. Don't be such a wuss.

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:46 am

D wrote:Don't be so negative all the time. Relax, nobody wants to deliberatly offend you by not mentioning the full names of every game. So now we have to be on our guard for your type of responses whenever we post anything? Another nice little thread hijacked by evil. Maybe it is just me, but your post comes across as angry, negative and hurtful. Maybe it wasn't intended that way at all.

Y'know, a lot of Ceph's posts come across as arrogant and confrontational. But that's okay.
Perhaps he is just unaware that:
- a lot of people might like typing Souky instead of Soukyugurentai to save a little time
- a lot of people might have trouble spelling Soukyugurentai

It's okay Ceph. We know you're ignorant.
You don't need to continually point it out to us in every post you make.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:04 pm

Icarus wrote: We know you're ignorant.

I've been called a lot of things, but that's new.

EDIT:

<- emoticon

overkill55 · Post by **overkill55** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:12 am

Hey Kit, did you see the Cotton 2 ST-V cart for sale on the neo-geo.com forums? There's another shooter if you are after one, though it is a lot different than Souky.

kitkit.com · Post by **kitkit.com** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:55 am

Icarus wrote: a lot of people might have trouble spelling Soukyugurentai

Wow, I didn't expect my little thread would turn out like this

I am one of those people who have trouble spelling Souky, so that's why I wrote Terra Diver in the title

overkill55 wrote: It's weird sometimes how PSX and SAT/ST-V versions are better than each other. Most SAT 2D games are far better, DoDonpachi and others being the exceptions on PSX

I used to dislike playing shooters on PSX since most shooters on SS version are better (ie Darius Gaiden). But PSX has some great 2-D exclusive titles such as Harmful Park and Raiden DX & Project.

overkill55 wrote:Hey Kit, did you see the Cotton 2 ST-V cart for sale on the neo-geo.com forums? There's another shooter if you are after one, though it is a lot different than Souky.

Hey ____, yes I saw the Cotton 2 and Groove On Fight carts for sale. But I am after Cottom Bommerang. I am actually looking for some other low end ST-V carts as well.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:53 am

The Saturn version is pretty close to the ST-V version

I thought it was exact?

kitkit.com · Post by **kitkit.com** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 4:46 am

Strider77 wrote:
The Saturn version is pretty close to the ST-V version
I thought it was exact?

Except for the loading time

slugnoid · Post by **slugnoid** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:39 pm

kitkit.com wrote:
Strider77 wrote:
The Saturn version is pretty close to the ST-V version
I thought it was exact?
Except for the loading time

Man I miss this STV cart! need to pick it back up again soon! Brilliant game!

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:16 pm

kitkit.com wrote:I used to dislike playing shooters on PSX since most shooters on SS version are better (ie Darius Gaiden).

In what way? There's been a lot of discussion about wether the SS version is better, or pretty much the same as the PS game, and those few members who had actually played both versions couldn't agree with each other. The Saturn version is close to the arcade game, what about the PS version?

Off topic, I know, sorry. I just figured the harm was already done.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:46 pm

Ceph wrote:Sou kyu gu ren tai

You don't say R-Ty instead of R-Type either, do you?

Soukyugurentai is a great game with a slightly unfortunate rank system.

It pisses me off is when people correct others with a wrong correction...

Soukyuugurentai

or

蒼穹紅蓮隊

or

そうきゅうぐれんたい

are OK. Souky, Soukyugurentai, suck my... are not.

overkill55 · Post by **overkill55** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:32 am

kitkit.com wrote: Hey ____, yes I saw the Cotton 2 and Groove On Fight carts for sale. But I am after Cottom Bommerang. I am actually looking for some other low end ST-V carts as well.

I'll keep an eye out and let you know if I find any

-Josh

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:49 pm

UnscathedFlyingObject wrote:
Ceph wrote:Sou kyu gu ren tai

You don't say R-Ty instead of R-Type either, do you?

Soukyugurentai is a great game with a slightly unfortunate rank system.
It pisses me off is when people correct others with a wrong correction...

Soukyuugurentai

or

蒼穹紅蓮隊

or

そうきゅうぐれんたい

are OK. Souky, Soukyugurentai, suck my... are not.

Yes, the kyu (きゅう) is a long syllable, but when transcribing long vowels from kana into Roman letters a macron is used (that means a diacritic mark is placed over the vowel): āīūēō (Hepburn romanization; traditional and revised/modified Hepburn). Otherwise it would be impossible to tell where one kana syllable ends and where the next begins just by looking at the romanized Japanese. Using JSL (which is unpopular) it would be "Sookyuugurentai" - but after all it's not pronounced So-o-kyu-u-gu-ren-tai (which one might mistakenly assume when reading "Sookyuugurentai"), but Sōkyūgurentai. Because diacritic marks are sometimes unavailable (or simply out of laziness) they are at times omitted, as is the the case with "Soukyugurentai", which appears to be the official transcription and which I therefore use.

UnscathedFlyingObject wrote:It pisses me off is when people correct others with a wrong correction...

Yeah, that sucks, doesn't it

shinsage · Post by **shinsage** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:01 am

I just type souky because I'm a lazy ass.

califoreigner · Post by **califoreigner** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:43 am

i like souky souky

overkill55 · Post by **overkill55** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:30 am

Souky rolls off the tongue

PooshhMao · Post by **PooshhMao** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:36 pm

You guys need to have sex more frequently.
This discussion might appear important to you until you do.