PC Version ESP RA.DE.

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:11 pm

I found that Cave's ESP RA.DE. have a PC version release in Korea.

Do any of you know a Korean online store, which can accept international order?

http://www.diskshop.co.kr/shop/shopdeta ... sort=order

http://hangamemall.com/shopping/goods/s ... tal&page=1

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:19 pm

Nice find! Anyone here own this?

jiji · Post by **jiji** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:32 pm

Maybe Play-Asia will stock it eventually. They carry a lot of Korean PC releases, like all those emulated arcade game multipacks. Maybe an email would help encourage them?

Naiera · Post by **Naiera** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:36 pm

Or maybe they won't because it's a bootleg.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:37 pm

Naiera wrote:Or maybe they won't because it's a bootleg.

Crud. Shoulda known.

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 5:44 pm

My friend told me all the arcades in Korea went out of business because lots of shops started selling CD's full of ROMs. These dudes rock!

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:07 pm

mannerbot wrote:My friend told me all the arcades in Korea went out of business because lots of shops started selling CD's full of ROMs. These dudes rock!

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GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:43 pm

You guys think this is a port to the PC, or just a ROM to be played in Mame? It's only 6000 won -- like $5. I can't imagine it being too particularly amazing. Still worth checking. My company has a broker in Korea. I can bother one of the guys there. He's always trying to accomodate us.

Naiera · Post by **Naiera** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:05 pm

It's probably just a version of Mame that can barely run the game (+ teh romz of course

). When I took some screens of the game about a month ago, the game ran like shit, especially regarding the sound. I think my Mame version is one of the latest... You probably get what you pay for with this "deal"!

japtor · Post by **japtor** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:06 pm

the whole packaging not looking anything like esprade's art assets (other than the character art) sorta leads me to believe its a bootleg. im guessing its just some repackaged mame that autoruns the rom or something. the korean text says 'superhuman electricity' according to macos' built in translation thingy.

i never saw this thing in korea, i was mostly looking for a white usb saturn pad and some cube stuff, leading me to find out that korea doesnt like sega (at least outside arcades), and the gamecube market there is horrible, worse than the worst stocked shops ive seen in america.

as for the arcades, they seemed decent. the machines were sorta ghetto ('crown'), but the selection of games was ok. in terms of shooters, all i saw was either psikyo or raiden fighters, and a galaga. on the psikyo games the scoreboards showed ~1-2 million at the top. on one strikers 1999 machine i played, the board was either glitchy as hell, or it was a bootleg/emulated, im not entirely sure, but it sucked to play on.

Recap · Post by **Recap** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:08 pm

That's, most likely, a Cave-licensed product for the Korean market which uses an unlicensed MAME hack and the game ROMs. PC Sengoku Blade was just this.

Kaspal · Post by **Kaspal** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:15 pm

Koreans use to sell ROM+Emu on CDs, makin them appear as a PC conversion... i wouldnt buy this ... since, i dont think cave has ported (or asked someone to port) any of their games. and for 5 bux?... it aint a suspicion, its a certainty...