V-5 MD/Genesis manual translation

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:32 am

I always wanted to know what the Project Leader of the V-5/Grind Stormer MD/Genesis port was talking about. It's looks very interesting, but too bad it's in kanji.

So is there anyone out there who can translate this?

Here's the scan (warning, it's huge):

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/7006/v5manualba1.jpg

UnscathedFlyingObject · Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:41 am

I'd give it a try but I'm too busy right now.

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:07 am

UnscathedFlyingObject wrote:I'd give it a try but I'm too busy right now.

Thanks.

Try if possible.

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:56 am

In summary... He is "ultra" bad at shmups, and yet he worked on porting this Toaplan vert. There was concern that going from the 40-character high display (vertically oriented arcade monitor) to the 28-character high display (horizontally oriented TV) would upset the game's balance. But rather than dwell on the technical hurdles (like the arcade machine's greater number of sprites, the Megadrive's limit of 4 color palettes, etc.) he would rather tell the embarassing story of how, on the return flight from CES, he payed for JAL's executive class just so he could play their Sega Megajet. So, during the flight he got to the 2-4 boss on 1 credit [I think?] and then listened to the BGM in sound test mode. The stewardess became nervous when he got the unit wet [?] and also asked about "closing the lid" or something while handling the "game cassettes." Lastly, if the game is too easy, than try playing it left-handed (or vice versa)

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:07 am

ED-057 wrote:In summary... He is "ultra" bad at shmups, and yet he worked on porting this Toaplan vert. There was concern that going from the 40-character high display (vertically oriented arcade monitor) to the 28-character high display (horizontally oriented TV) would upset the game's balance. But rather than dwell on the technical hurdles (like the arcade machine's greater number of sprites, the Megadrive's limit of 4 color palettes, etc.) he would rather tell the embarassing story of how, on the return flight from CES, he payed for JAL's executive class just so he could play their Sega Megajet. So, during the flight he got to the 2-4 boss on 1 credit [I think?] and then listened to the BGM in sound test mode. The stewardess became nervous when he got the unit wet [?] and also asked about "closing the lid" or something while handling the "game cassettes." Lastly, if the game is too easy, than try playing it left-handed (or vice versa)

That was nice of him about messing up the MegaJet.

Thanks!

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:54 am

ED-057 wrote:The stewardess became nervous when he got the unit wet

I just hope his pants were on.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:30 am

WHAT? That's really funny.

The thing about the lid, could that mean he brought a bare PCB of the yet unreleased MD port of V-V, on to the plane?

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:45 am

I just read it. First he got the Mega Jet wet (presumably he spilled his Old Parr scotch whiskey over it), which worried the stewardess, so he explained that it would play fine again once it was dry.
Next, the stewardess thought he had opened the game cartridge and asked him to put the case back together, but he hadn't opened it; it was really a bare prototype Mega Drive V-5 pcb which he had brought to play on the Mega Jet.