ESPGaluda/Dodonpachi Daioujou PS2/Arcade

Palmer Eldritch · Post by **Palmer Eldritch** » Sun May 22, 2005 7:32 pm

How exact and close to their respective arcadeparents are these PS2 conversions?

--Michael

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun May 22, 2005 8:01 pm

I haven't played the original arcade incarnations myself, but according to most sources that I've heard the ports are very good, not to mention that they include extra modes, replays and such.

Tomtom · Post by **Tomtom** » Sun May 22, 2005 9:29 pm

I've played the arcade DOJ briefly (thanks PaCrappa

), and there is very little difference that I could see as far as I remember. Arika did some excellent work. Don't know about Galuda, though.

Post by **system11** » Sun May 22, 2005 10:03 pm

Galuda is just as good as the DOJ port. Same age almost, same hardware port, probably the same engine code.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon May 23, 2005 12:25 am

The PS2 port of ESPGaluda is perfect as far as I can tell (and I've played a decent amount in the arcades) except that they've left out that hardware limitation which happens when you get too many ingots on screen at once (thank God). You can see this in portions of Ketsui as well.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Mon May 23, 2005 4:43 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:The PS2 port of ESPGaluda is perfect as far as I can tell (and I've played a decent amount in the arcades) except that they've left out that hardware limitation which happens when you get too many ingots on screen at once (thank God). You can see this in portions of Ketsui as well.

Can you explain what this issue is with the pcb hardware limitation in certain circumstances? All I notice (from the dvd replay which is pcb based) is that some bosses explode with a static bug on the PCB...but I also herd from RFK that the PCBs are a little slower than the PS2 port in certain parts of the game (I forget which one he was talking about...probably ddpdoj). Since there is no "wait" option on the ps2 ports, I'm assuming its as close to the actual pcb timing as possible (which means wait is always on).

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Mon May 23, 2005 4:57 pm

I thought there was some kind of audio bug in ST 1 of the ESPGaluda PS2 port.

Valgar · Post by **Valgar** » Mon May 23, 2005 4:58 pm

zinger wrote:I thought there was some kind of audio bug in ST 1 of the ESPGaluda PS2 port.

Yes I could hear it every time. Also during the 3rd boss final attack some of the bullets would not appear in the PS2 version while in the "red" mode.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon May 23, 2005 8:13 pm

What's the audio bug? I assume my stage 3 pattern does not allow me to see that defect.

The one I'm referring to (which you can see in the replay DVD) is when you get too many of the big ingots on screen at once. They get all... funky. You can see this when you get a lot of 5-blocks on Ketsui as well, but it's much less noticeable there.