Ketsui for DS?!

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:01 pm

Dave.K wrote:The graphics already look quite lowres compared to the PCB, I'd guess this is what it will look like on the DS.

I don't own a DS, so I don't know what its capabilities are, but watching that movie (and owning the PCB) this looks pretty scaled down with the animations and such. The scoring system looks screwed up with those 5 boxes poping out with every single fire....something wrong there. The bullet patterns are also extremely slow, but probably due to the horizontal aspect ratio to make it easier.

Quit pissing all over my glee!

dmauro · Post by **dmauro** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:30 pm

msm wrote:and the bit where there's a few deaths in the video is quite easy in the arcade version

dpad + tiny screen versus joystick and monitor

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:30 pm

dmauro wrote:
msm wrote:and the bit where there's a few deaths in the video is quite easy in the arcade version
dpad + tiny screen versus joystick and monitor

Yeah. Taking these limitations into account they HAVE to make it easier. Remembering the DOOM clip from sometime ago, all the dodges were non-diagonals.

the allett · Post by **the allett** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:32 pm

count me in

Monk 0 Nuggets · Post by **Monk 0 Nuggets** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:07 am

Its been awhile, but i'm back. And just in time for some awesome news! I'm at work, so I can't see the vid yet, but i'm definitely checking it out as soon as I get home.

Ayanami · Post by **Ayanami** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:11 am

Looks fantastic, still keeps the original Ketsui feel very much so IMO. Can't wait to pick this bad boy up.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:13 am

Ikeda and Mihara will do a Q&A "talkshow style" during the Cave festival, answer questions and take feedback about Ketsui DS (and other topics, probably). Gaijinpunch should go and raise his hand!

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:19 am

GaijinPunch NEEDS to get his loke test pop signed by Ikeda.
Ooh, maybe he can ask him about the location test pcbs

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:48 am

http://www.arikaonline.com/download/mov ... 070907.mpg

Now we need "Hori real... DS stick pro"

Fu · Post by Fu » Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:57 am

I thinked patterns would be faster when I saw the Doom video. I'm a few disappointed

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:30 pm

Fu wrote:I thinked patterns would be faster when I saw the Doom video. I'm a few disappointed

Make sure you resize the video to be the size of an actual DS screen to get a bettr impression of how it will look. Suddenly it looks a LOT sharper, faster and indeed harder!

Shion · Post by **Shion** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:54 pm

Looks like this will be awesome! I love the music a lot. It is about time the DS got a proper shooter.

MathU · Post by **MathU** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 5:01 pm

It already has one. Unless you think bullet curtain games are the only "proper" shooters...

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:34 pm

New Super Mario Bros. has a game where you have to drag a bob-omb out of the way of fireballs, and survive as long as you can. Eventually more and more start appearing. That was one of my favorites.

Obviously would be a pretty crappy full game, but it would be a cool homebrew demo or mini-game having to draw a line through bullet hell, maybe with the same thing on top and bottom so you could see where you were going.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:50 pm

szycag wrote:New Super Mario Bros. has a game where you have to drag a bob-omb out of the way of fireballs, and survive as long as you can. Eventually more and more start appearing. That was one of my favorites.

Obviously would be a pretty crappy full game, but it would be a cool homebrew demo or mini-game having to draw a line through bullet hell, maybe with the same thing on top and bottom so you could see where you were going.

An amazing game indeed, it has a hitbox and everything. It's a shmup, basicly. And i'm hoping the upcoming Geometry Wars Galaxies can expand on this.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:41 am

Vokatse wrote:IDK if anybody else mentioned this, but it would be pretty interesting if you could control the player with the touchscreen.

I'm not saying the idea is bad--it's fucking horrible. People's hands would get in the way and cause them to be killed by shitloads of hidden bullets (behind their hands.) I'm playing Zelda: mugen no sunadokei now and my hand gets in the way all the time. It's not such a huge problem with Zelda tho, since it's a challenge to die.

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:19 am

I might buy a DS Lite just for this port??!!??!?

and i already own the pcb?!?!?

whats wrong with me?!?!?

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:28 am

Seeing as how I don't think you can carry your PCB around and play it on the bus, train, in the bathroom, or at the boring opera your gf dragged you to etc, I don't think there's anything wrong with you at all.

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:42 am

im gonna b so stoked when P-A announce the preorder..almost exciting as when Mushi/DDP/Espgaluda got announced for the ps2!

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:45 am

Likewise. I was going to post how I creamed myself when I watched the video, as even a mediocre portable shooter would make me absurdly happy (I even like Nanostray for being portable), and this game looks anything but mediocre. But I instead ended up responding to your post. My short-term memory is like the Navy. Always coming and going.

Name that movie quote for a cookie! I watched it the other night on laserdisc

I never realized how aful that movie is, but... I still like it =)

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:34 pm

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP wrote:im gonna b so stoked when P-A announce the preorder..almost exciting as when Mushi/DDP/Espgaluda got announced for the ps2!

Exactly. And for late-comers like me, this is my 1st chance to actually buy a new Cave product >_<

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:09 pm

OR, you could think of it this way: if you save the money you'd spent for a DS and the Ketsui port you are one-third of the way towards owning the PCB.

Of course you might have already bought a DS for Nintendogs and that game that's supposed to make you less dumb, but, hey, if you sell these too you get even closer to the PCB!

Then you could also sell your copies of Milestone's ports, and Trizeal, and Exelica after you've had enough swinging fun, and you'd be almost there. Or something.

fullblownaidzz · Post by **fullblownaidzz** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:19 pm

icycalm wrote:OR, you could think of it this way: if you save the money you'd spent for a DS and the Ketsui port you are one-third of the way towards owning the PCB.

Of course you might have already bought a DS for Nintendogs and that game that's supposed to make you less dumb, but, hey, if you sell these too you get even closer to the PCB!

Then you could also sell your copies of Milestone's ports, and Trizeal, and Exelica after you've had enough swinging fun, and you'd be almost there. Or something.

Yes, because the only games on DS are nintendogs and brain age.

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:25 pm

Well if there are more, and you have them, you could add them to the pile of stuff to sell, and you'd get even closer to owning the Ketsui PCB!

The only question is: "qu'attendez-vous?"

Zeether · Post by **Zeether** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:28 pm

For those of you who hate the brick DS' D-pad: Tape a quarter onto it. Diagonals will work perfectly.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:14 pm

icycalm wrote:One bare PCB of a single great arcade game > A new DS Lite and a plethora of excellent games in a variety of genres.

cody · Post by **cody** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:20 pm

DJ Rectal Prolapse wrote: Exactly. And for late-comers like me, this is my 1st chance to actually buy a new Cave product >_<

Why do you keep saying this? Arika is apparently still printing / selling brand new copies of espgaluda & DDPDOJ. Or are you using some strange definition of "new"? Even if you mean "new" as in "released this year", cave has released soundtracks for games in 2007. There are plenty of ways for you to give your money to cave w/o shelling out on a $1k arcade kit . . . or buying a ds game.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:46 pm

cody wrote:
DJ Rectal Prolapse wrote: Exactly. And for late-comers like me, this is my 1st chance to actually buy a new Cave product >_<
Why do you keep saying this? Arika is apparently still printing / selling brand new copies of espgaluda & DDPDOJ. Or are you using some strange definition of "new"? Even if you mean "new" as in "released this year", cave has released soundtracks for games in 2007. There are plenty of ways for you to give your money to cave w/o shelling out on a $1k arcade kit . . . or buying a ds game.

Already bought 'em second hand innit. Actually come to think of it, my Taito Best re-issue of Mushihimesama was new. OST's are tempting, but they're for games I've never played, let alone heard. But yeah, I'm just flapping my gums. You win.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:31 am

ZeetherKID77 wrote:For those of you who hate the brick DS' D-pad: Tape a quarter onto it. Diagonals will work perfectly.

By brick DS do you mean the non-lite DS? Because I actually really like the d-pad on the original DS. It's the lite that has the wonky diagonal problem. And I don't think taping a quarter to it would work. Maybe a dime? But even still I think the d-pad might be too close to being flush with the actual DS for that to work. I suppose it'd be worth a shot though.

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:24 am

DJ Rectal Prolapse wrote:
icycalm wrote:One bare PCB of a single great arcade game > A new DS Lite and a plethora of excellent games in a variety of genres.

sarcasm