Ketsui for DS?!

pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:29 am

moonblood wrote:also people trying to get ketsui closer to emulation will probably be killed by arika & cave ninjas unfortunately

all limbs intact so far...

-Bridget- · Post by **-Bridget-** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:24 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Playing any shooting game on a handheld (especially Ketsui, and especially the DS) is simply perverse and disgusting.

I hate to say it, but I have to agree on that.

How could a game of that type..... or ANY of Cave's games for that matter...... possibly be doable on that thing?

Dont get me wrong, I like the DS alot, I have one myself, use it often.....

But, it's just not really made for shmupping, at least not for ports of arcade games.

If there's gonna be shmups on it, they need to be the type designed specifically for it, or it just wont work.

And unfortunately, there really arent many of those.......

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:32 am

Remember, this isn't a port. It's a "re-mix" or whatever. Hopefully it has been redesigned with the ds in mind.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:48 am

If this actually comes out, I think it's pretty awesome. Who wouldn't want to whip out Ketsui DS when on a bus, train, or airplane? I wouldn't sit around at home playing it, but for $40 or whatever, it would be well worth it for some travel-time entertainment, Cave-style.

EDIT: I just read Mihara's newest blog entry. This game IS coming out soon. Unbelievably awesome. Here are some pictures from the incomplete version:

http://sazanami.net/#20070902

It shows you fight the stage 3 midboss, and at the end of the level it shows your level stats. The high score on there is 129mil!

DS GOTY!!

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:11 am

DS GOTY!!

Agreed.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:58 am

Between this and Contra 4, will you handheld haters please stop griping and pick up a DS

It's really great here in handheld world, here Sonic is only halfway as good as he was in the Genesis days, but that's way better than totally worthless. I don't even have to mention Castlevania...

Radiant · Post by **Radiant** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:14 am

EOJ wrote: EDIT: I just read Mihara's newest blog entry. This game IS coming out soon. Unbelievably awesome. Here are some pictures from the incomplete version:

great news!

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:43 am

That's it, I'm getting a DS.

This shit convince me.

Kaede · Post by **Kaede** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:23 pm

Fuck yes. DS is turning out to be one of my all time favourite consoles.

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:38 pm

Nice! Will keep people busy until the rom is dumped end emulated;-)

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:56 pm

Is it still a boss rush sort of game, or did they expand on that?

eight · Post by **eight** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:17 pm

As far as I understand it, it won't stay a Boss Rush game.

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:24 pm

well, fuck...this may be the best reason i've had to even care about the DS. Hopefully if this goes over well(which I doubt, but still) maybe Arika will get to work on porting Ketsui to the Wii.
BTW, DS games are region free, right?

Wang_MacTavish · Post by **Wang_MacTavish** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:29 pm

Never_Scurred wrote:BTW, DS games are region free, right?

Indeed they are!

taresk · Post by **taresk** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:38 pm

it's great news....

when arrive THIS AMAZING GAME OF DS?

when when when?

thanks

taresk

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:12 pm

Wang_MacTavish wrote:
Never_Scurred wrote:BTW, DS games are region free, right?
Indeed they are!

Just another great thing about handhelds! Even the original Game Boy was region free.

Zeether · Post by **Zeether** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:14 pm

FUCK YES I CAN'T WAIT! Ketsui on the go = win. I don't care about the quality of the port.

Nakano · Post by **Nakano** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:34 pm

Now is time to port all the others as well! Maybe this time on the psp as well? I know its a bit early but I can dream.....

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:39 pm

we get this.... but no PS2 port?! how lame is that, I could have easily delt with some extra slowdown ect. i'd take a less than perfect port on a real console versus a not perfect port on the DS???

what the hell is arika's train of thought on doing a DS versus PS2 port? i thought it was b/c that guy was a perfectionest but now that really must not be the case....

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:42 pm

Ketsui DS is not a port of Ketsui.

It's a portable game with boss fights and other stuff from ketsui. And the reasons why Ketsui PS2 wouldn't work have been talked about ad nauseum.

Anyway, we just have to wait for Mihara's announcement on friday. No telling what it could be, could be more than just Ketsui DS (a full Wii port of Ketsui? Wouldn't that be nice).

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:07 pm

ok, now instead of byuing the expensive ketsui pcb, i´ll get this DS-thingy, and order a mushi pcb

GREAT, NOW I CAN HAVE 2 GENIOUS CAVE GAMES, NO MATTER IF THAT DS-GAME IS A BIG JOKE IN A COMPARISON TO THE PCB AND CANCELED PS2 VERSION.

*looks at his DS with wet eyes*

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:14 pm

elfhentaifan wrote:mushi pcb

Do you really want to?

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:15 pm

A mushi PCB is a great thing to have.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:22 pm

This is the best news i've heard for ages. My advice to all is keep an eye on Play Asia: I have a feeling this might well sell out very quickly... I like the fact it's now unofficially 'Ketsui DS' rather than 'Black Label'. While a full port would be folly, I still think the DS is capable of producing somthing more than a boss rush.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:24 pm

EOJ wrote:
http://sazanami.net/#20070902

Here are some differences between Ketsui and Ketsui DS mentioned on that page:

1)There are now gold chips you collect, which act as an additional (larger?) multiplier. They are still numbered like the regular green chips (and of course the green chips are still in there).

2)There is an autobomb feature. Basically if you have any bombs in stock and you get hit, ALL of your bombs go off, leaving you with no bombs left, but the trade-off is it saves you from losing a life.

3)So far, all 5 end of stage boss fights from Ketsui are in it, plus the stage 3 midboss and Doom.

seattlexc · Post by **seattlexc** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:32 pm

off topic: Hey EOJ, what happened to TWE?

On Topic: I had a dream about this game a while ago, and I woke up and thought 'man, that was a cool dream, too bad it probably won't happen'. Then I saw this update and now I'm pumped.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:14 pm

My only (slight) worry is that the DS D Pad won't be up to the job. I've been practicing for ages on Bullet Hell GBA in tate mode and Recca on PocketNES, but diagonals are still pretty tricky for me, and often I find myself limited to the X and Y axis. I just hope I'm blaming my tools

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:49 pm

I guess I'll buy this to show demand for Ketsui. If this title sells at least decently, Ketsui may also be going somewhere else (Wii?). Problem is that Sony and Microsoft may not want a straight up port of Ketsui on their current gen systems outside of PSN/XBLA unless the graphics were re-rendered for HD.

It seems auto-bombing is OK on the stage 3 mid boss as far as getting the 1UP.

from Babelfish translation- "Speaking honestly, we want the lever, is, but it is designed in such a way that it can be operated sufficiently with the cruciform key"

I'd rather not have to use the cross key. That sort of D-Pad is the worst, especially the broken one on a PSP (screw the analog nub for shmups, also). This is one time I wish there was a mini-joystick for DS, similar to Arkanoid DS' paddle which goes in the GBA cart slot- hell, maybe even a D-Pad cover like the one that came with the Japanese version of PSP Tekken Dark Resurrection.

It's a shame there wasn't a RAM expansion made for the PS2, similar to the Saturn's 4 MB cart. If stages 1-4 were pulled off without a hitch, then doubling the RAM to 64 MB probably could've nailed it.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:04 pm

KETSUI DS IS NOT A PORT OF THE ARCADE GAME
IT IS DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR THE DS
K THX

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:10 pm

No Shit