oO That's confusing. But how do we define a "good" DSL d-pad?Herr Schatten wrote:Also, my launch day DS Lite was the one with the best d-pad so far.
When Schatten says "the d-pad is excellent" I think of SNES or GBA Micro pad quality. The one I had on my first one barely didn´t do diagonals at all and even regular direction pressing was stiff (snaking in Mariokart = PAIN). The one I have now is okay, but barely. As most people here I´m really anal about the quality of my button inputs, so I really want to get the solution to this caseJockel wrote:oO That's confusing. But how do we define a "good" DSL d-pad?Herr Schatten wrote:Also, my launch day DS Lite was the one with the best d-pad so far.
It really bothers me that Nintendo seemingly cut corners on the button quality (or the "quality control" or whatever). You might be tempted to think that "Well, it´s mainly supposed to be a touchscreen console and most games don´t even use diagonal button presses most of the time", but I never heard similar complaints about the buttons on the Wii, neither Wiimote nor classic controller.Jockel wrote: Just imagine: one day we get a DSL with an 8way d-pad. But I'm just dreaming :<
yeah, i'm sure it's a dude. the "dame" bit is self-depcrecating. he used to call himself Useless Player K.KZebra Airforce wrote:A rather foolish thing to say, considering Dame K.K. is one of the more insanely talented players around.regarding the difficulty, the producer mihara has said that there will be quite a few different difficulty settings to choose from. the easiest of which will mean that (and i quote) even a woman can play it
RegalSin wrote:Videogames took my life away like the Natives during colonial times.
I heard it depends on the "kind" of DS Lite you purchase.Jockel wrote:I am also very picky when it comes to controllers, and just couldn't imagine an "excellent" d-pad on a DSL.
It's because 2D games are fading out, so designers think the D-pad is irrelevant.FrederikJurk wrote:Here are two guides on how to fix pad issues with the PSP and the 360:
http://www.ufighterx.com/guides/videoga ... padfix.htm
http://www.ufighterx.com/guides/videoga ... padfix.htm
In both cases it isn´t an electronic problem, but merely the plastic not being thick enough or the buttons not having enough space to move. The problems on the DSL might be similar, I guess a mod could be possible (though that obviously would void the warranty). And while I prefer these circle shaped pads (Genesis, Saturn etc), I don´t think that this is the root of the problem. I used to play Batrider with an original SNES pad via a converter and it was golden.
But really, you would think that it should be sorted out how d-pads work by now. Instead they keep on getting worse with each console generation.
A neat trick someone taught me, add &fmt=6 to any youtube url and it has less compression.Deets wrote:New promo video on mihara's youtube channel.
Well, kind of ONE stage based on stage 5 for multiplayer. I hope it´s accesible via single player, too. Anyways, kickass trailer and the games looks a lot smoother than I expected it - the older first stage boss trailer looks a lot jerkier than this one. It looks very good for a DS game. Mihara really knows his shit!MX7 wrote:NoNecronopticous wrote:Does this mean we're getting stages, now?
dmauro wrote:A neat trick someone taught me, add &fmt=6 to any youtube url and it has less compression.Deets wrote:New promo video on mihara's youtube channel.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=OcePhK6sjHU&fmt=6
WTF? Any more details on this? Seems to work for this video (looks ten times better this way), but not others I´ve tried.http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/ ... .msg104538The words YouTube and “high-resolution” have never really fit well in the same sentence. YouTube has always greatly limited the resolution of their videos to conserve on bandwidth, but going forward that may not always be the case. As it turns out there is a little something that you can add on to the end of a YouTube URL to have it play a high-resolution version of the same video.
The thing that you need to know, however, is that not every video has been re-encoded into the higher quality. In fact, I’ve tested this “trick” on about 40 videos, and only 7 of them had a higher quality version available. I’ve been reading around about this, and it looks as though newly uploaded videos are being converted a few hours after they’ve been added. And no one really seems to be sure as to whether it depends on the format of video (AVI, WMV, etc…).
That's interesting. Can it be because there are so many nonlinear bullet trajectories (and their overall amount on the screen at any given moment is higher in URA loop compared to DOJ's second loop)?ReKleSS wrote:He says the arcade DOJ doesn't have hardware slowdown, it was all created in software. Ketsui however, is straining the hardware and the slowdown is real.
Matskat wrote:This neighborhood USED to be nice...until that family of emulators moved in across the street....
I don´t really know about the state of DS emulation, but you could always just run it on your computer using whatever input you like (if you bought the original game, of course). I mean, think about how big that controller must have been turned out in relation to the DS itself if you want any arcade-like control. I´m a d-pad player anyways so it´s not like I´m losing any sleep over this, and the more die-hard arcade players will detest it anyways.ReKleSS wrote:Mihara's latest blog post is interesting. The only part relevant to Ketsui Death Label is that there was mention of a joystick controller at the Cave Matsuri talk thing, but it's not feasible so they're not doing it.
I think that the first boss has only one airscrew because of the limited hardware power of the DS. So you can use the resources for more bullets and a smoother framerateFrederikJurk wrote: What´s a bit weird, though, is that in the new version the first level boss is actually the midboss from the original (one center airscrew instead of two left and right as the proper boss). I´ve no idea if that means additional bosses or just swapped sprites.
Argh, you were faster than my editingJet Black wrote:I think that the first boss has only one airscrew because of the limited hardware power of the DS. So you can use the resources for more bullets and a smoother framerateFrederikJurk wrote: What´s a bit weird, though, is that in the new version the first level boss is actually the midboss from the original (one center airscrew instead of two left and right as the proper boss). I´ve no idea if that means additional bosses or just swapped sprites.
I thought so too, until I realized that the one in the video is actually the midboss from the original and that the stage 1 boss initially has four airscrews but has one center one too in the second form. 
