Official: Mushihime-sama Futari (1.0, 1.5, BLT)

JacobXScum · Post by **JacobXScum** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:32 pm

Is everyone playing this game at the arcade or on PS2 or are they emulating it? If they're emulating it are they using Mame? I'm not asking for roms i'm just asking for methods.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:34 pm

This game is only available as a PCB (arcade). No PS2 port has been announced. Don't expect it playable in MAME any time this decade.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:34 pm

yeah, mame.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:20 pm

Koma wrote:Here the 3.9Billion replay
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HZU9QCZA

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:21 pm

You guys don't have a bittorrent client or something? It's not hard to use and downloads much faster.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:24 pm

EOJ wrote:You guys don't have a bittorrent client or something? It's not hard to use.

nope, i dont download anything except the occational shmup vid actually.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:26 pm

I just use BitComet to download shmup vid torrents. It downloads them about 5-10x faster than regular downloads like megaupload.

JacobXScum · Post by **JacobXScum** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:46 pm

Damn, i sure would enjoy playing this. Are there others in this series? Possibly available for home play? The arcades here are just full of driving simulators and DDR clones now.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:50 pm

JacobXScum wrote:Damn, i sure would enjoy playing this. Are there others in this series? Possibly available for home play? The arcades here are just full of driving simulators and DDR clones now.

the first in the series "mushihimesama" was ported to the PS2, jap only.

ed: btw check out the maneuver he does at 1:40 in the counterstop vid, WHAT THE FUCK!

JacobXScum · Post by **JacobXScum** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:49 pm

neat i'll get that one

JacobXScum · Post by **JacobXScum** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:35 am

It's games like this that are the reason the Japanese don't respect the Americans as gamers, and we get Doki Doki Panic as a sequel to Super Mario Bros rather than the ACTUAL Super Mario Bros 2 that Japan got.

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:46 am

Doki Doki Panic is better anyways.

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:16 am

Dale wrote:Doki Doki Panic is better anyways.

Did that sound like a gauntlet dropping?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:11 am

EOJ wrote: -Location test will start 12/1 at HEY.

As of noon today, it was not there.

They did have a 1.0 there, w/ Ultra mode unlocked. What a waste of 100 yen that was.

Looking at the 2ch thread, looks like icycalm's site is linked in post #191.

EDIT: Fuck me in the goat ass. Looks like they cranked it up some time in the evening (long after I left). Maybe I should head back out there tonight once the little punk crashes. Looks like only one post in the 2ch thread. He says God isn't as hard as Ultra.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:15 am

Yeah, the buzz on 2ch is that it starts on sunday. Must have gotten pushed back a day. Either that or the 2ch people are full of shit again.

Cool you got to play 1.0's Ultra, but I can imagine it pretty much is a waste.

EDIT: message 931 on the 2ch thread says the location test started saturday evening. Could be BS though, of course.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:29 am

GaijinPunch wrote: As of noon today, it was not there.
They did have a 1.0 there, w/ Ultra mode unlocked. What a waste of 100 yen that was.

Was it a waste because it wasn't any good, or because your ass got handed to you so quickly? From what I've seen, I'd probably die in the first 30 seconds.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:49 am

Didn't even make it halfway through stage 1. I played a few credits on Original though, and I must say, I like it better than 1.5. I think the difficulty is just right.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:58 am

Playing for score in 1.5's Original mode is much more fun than in 1.0's. I liked 1.0's first three stages, but overall 1.5 is way better. If you want a challenge then just play 1.5 and score well. The rank really kicks up when you get 50,000+ on the counter. I don't know if there was rank in 1.0, but probably not, as the gem values were much lower, so it was hard to get the counter very high.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:48 am

I'm mainly referring to the bullet patterns... not necessarily the spead.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:12 am

2ch now says the loke test is 12.07-12.10
I'll call before I go this time.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:28 am

Yeah I saw that. Probably BS. I doubt Cave would let Hey have the game for a weekend when the game is coming out 10 days later. It's not really a location test in that instance, as there isn't enough time to change the code and reprogram the game in 10 days. For example, Futari 1.5 came out on the 19th of December last year, but the master version was dated December 8th. There was also no location test for that game.

Plus, no mention of this location test on Cave's site or any other official source. And they always advertise their loke tests somewhere.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:32 am

Did they loke test Ibara: BL? I was in Hawaii at the time, but I don't think they did.

Did anyone else here order one? I downsized the collection... got enough for BL in like 3 days. I got enough for another one a few days after that.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:38 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Did they loke test Ibara: BL? I don't think they did.

Yes, they did. Icycalm did a write up with photos here:

http://insomnia.ac/japan/ibara_black_label.php

Interestingly, the loke test was on Feb 3rd-5th, while the game was released Feb 14th. So that would give more credit to the idea that Cave may be doing a 'loke test' roughly 10 days before the release of Futari BL. But 'loke test' in this sense is really more of a 'sneak preview', in other words the product is finished and the version released 10 days later will be identical.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:27 am

Okay, it's official. Loke test from Dec 7-10th at Hey. Info was posted at am-net:

http://www.am-net.jp/

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:22 pm

EOJ wrote:Okay, it's official. Loke test from Dec 7-10th at Hey. Info was posted at am-net:

http://www.am-net.jp/

cool.

an unrelated question since youre a linguist expert..

why is it called loke-test ?

shouldnt it be loce-test from location test?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:29 pm

Technically there's no "c" in romanizing Japanese. If you just wrote the word it was derived from it would be "location test". To write the goofy abbreviation you would use the Japanese way: "loke".

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:24 pm

sven666 wrote:
why is it called loke-test ?

shouldnt it be loce-test from location test?

Good question. GP covered the reason for the /k/ rather than the /c/. But technically if it's a pure transliteration from the Japanese, it would be 'roke', since they have no /l/. However, since people here have traditionally written it as 'loke', an interesting hybrid of the English spelling and the Japanese truncated transliteration, I just use the same convention for the sake of comprehension.

Ultimately, it's a nice shortened version of the word 'location' that takes into account the usage of the word in a particular context in Japan, and it is more recognizable than other abbreviated options among the English and Japanese versions of this word, such as 'loca', 'loce', 'roce', or 'roke'. Though "Loc Test" would probably work just as well, if one does not mind losing the ability to orthographically represent the specificity of this word in Japan.

The Japanese have borrowed lots of English words in recent years. They have a tendency to truncate these words to two moras either when they borrow them or when they compound them.

Violent Ken · Post by **Violent Ken** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:35 pm

Who is ready to buy it?

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:37 pm

I already ordered mine.

Violent Ken · Post by **Violent Ken** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:54 pm

Me too!

So after ordering Death Smiles 1 month ago, my bank acount is crying...