Ketsui X and Daioujou Black Label X - Ports for Xbox 360

[CStarFlare]

Shit, I'd actually give a rat's about XBL if I could download BLEX, or even just BL or WL. I miss DOJ and I can't afford a JPS2 =( Getting a new PS2 and going through all the shit to mod it again to play DOJ doesn't seem worth it to me when I can still play my other two favorite shooters with no effort at all.

doesn't DOJ emulate, like, almost perfectly?

[emphatic]

and will be patching it within the year

Damn, I thought the patch was coming as early as this or next week. I'm really looking forward to being able to browse menus for hours.

[Ghegs]

Split the discussion about the future of retail games into its own thread.

[emphatic]

PATCH! PATCH! PATCH! PATCH! PATCH! PATCH!

I want the patch for Christmas, CAVE, 5PB or whoever never reads this. GIVVVVVEEE!

[adversity1]

Mihara posted up on his blog the other day that the patch will not be able to address the loading times.

Reading that I got so dissapointed I didn't even bother posting here. For me half of the point of the damn patch was to fix the loading issues.

[bcass]

That's distressing to hear. There's absolutely no need for any of those loading times at all. Just look at how quickly all the loading is done in Futari, it's practically non-existent.

[emphatic]

Mihara posted up on his blog the other day that the patch will not be able to address the loading times.

Reading that I got so dissapointed I didn't even bother posting here. For me half of the point of the damn patch was to fix the loading issues.

No more news about release dates and so on? I really like the game, but having to use the HOME button every time I make a selection in the friggin' in-game menu is ridiculous (I'm using a hacked pad that does indeed work perfectly in all other games I've tested). Perhaps some loading times were fixed but not all?

[nZero]

Mihara posted up on his blog the other day that the patch will not be able to address the loading times.

Reading that I got so dissapointed I didn't even bother posting here. For me half of the point of the damn patch was to fix the loading issues.

No more news about release dates and so on? I really like the game, but having to use the HOME button every time I make a selection in the friggin' in-game menu is ridiculous (I'm using a hacked pad that does indeed work perfectly in all other games I've tested). Perhaps some loading times were fixed but not all?

Disappointing indeed.

Looks like mid-December if all goes well.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

Hasn't somebody said that installing BLEX on the xbox's harddrive makes almost no difference in terms of loading times? This is disappointing indeed... what the heck is wrong with those people?

[dcharlie]

i wonder why a HDD install doesn't improve loading? Is the system doing something fruity like storing everything compressed and they using some god awful slow decomp?

[Jeneki]

Hasn't somebody said that installing BLEX on the xbox's harddrive makes almost no difference in terms of loading times?

That is correct. Installing on the hard drive does not reduce the load time or anything meaningful. It does reduce noise of the DVD drive spinning, if you have your volume way down. In theory it reduces wear on the DVD drive as well, but that's not the part of the 360 that typically breaks. So yea, there isn't any real gain there.

I splurged on a 120gb drive for my Japanese 360, which now that I think about it was overkill considering the number of games I will ever buy. I just install them all "because I can".

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

I splurged on a 120gb drive for my Japanese 360, which now that I think about it was overkill considering the number of games I will ever buy. I just install them all "because I can".

Couple of days ago I got myself a 120gb HDD from Ebay as well - for 49 Euros (including shipping from Hongkong) you really can't complain. And it's not even a cheap Chinese knockoff but official MS product. But yeah, overkill...

[adversity1]

Asada writes on the CAVE blog tonight that Ketsui will be shown by 5pb at the CAVE matsuri this December.

The port ever.

[emphatic]

Nothing new on Do-BLEX-patchi?

[dmauro]

Asada writes on the CAVE blog tonight that Ketsui will be shown by 5pb at the CAVE matsuri this December.

The port ever.

They'll probably just be running videos of the PCB off their dev 360.

[drunkninja24]

Asada writes on the CAVE blog tonight that Ketsui will be shown by 5pb at the CAVE matsuri this December.

The port ever.

They'll probably just be running videos of the PCB off their dev 360.

But I most certainly hope Cave got 5pb in line. Not only on just getting the damn thing released in the first place, but to make it a competent port as well.

[Geezer]

I was sort of hoping Cave would snatch it back from 5pb and port it themselves or pass it off to M2.
Better than nothing I guess.

[Skykid]

I was sort of hoping Cave would snatch it back from 5pb and port it themselves or pass it off to M2.
Better than nothing I guess.

I think 5pb own the rights to publish now.

It's going to be fucked, but that said, I can't believe it's actually coming out at all. I would've thought Cave would have tried to talk them out of it.

Region locked ftw.

[Udderdude]

Asada writes on the CAVE blog tonight that Ketsui will be shown by 5pb at the CAVE matsuri this December.

The port ever.

They'll probably just be running videos of the PCB off their dev 360.

LOVE IS OVER

[dmauro]

I was sort of hoping Cave would snatch it back from 5pb and port it themselves or pass it off to M2.
Better than nothing I guess.

I guess the good news is that it will probably come out sooner if 5pb is doing it rather than Cave starting from scratch. Assuming 5pb has done ANY work on it thus far anyways. I don't need the slowdown to be perfect since I've only even put maybe 10 credits into the PCB, but I really hope more than anything else that it doesn't look like shit on a tated CRT at 480p. I'll put up with those awful load times from DOJBLEX if it looks nice and doesn't have any game-ruining bugs.

[Cuilan]

Hopefully 5pb learned more than a few lessons from what happened with DOJBLEX. They did say that they were using a different dev to handle the Ketsui port. At the very least, it would be kinda had for the whole source code thievery to happen again, since no real port of Ketsui exists (at least not one available publicly).

[emphatic]

Hopefully 5pb learned more than a few lessons from what happened with DOJBLEX. They did say that they were using a different dev to handle the Ketsui port. At the very least, it would be kinda had for the whole source code thievery to happen again, since no real port of Ketsui exists (at least not one available publicly).

Well, should it be announced that M2 handles this port, many pants would happily be filled with crap. Please 5PB, let me soil myself!

[BIL]

At the very least, it would be kinda had for the whole source code thievery to happen again, since no real port of Ketsui exists (at least not one available publicly).

Hopefully nobody linked to 5pb was dumpster diving behind Arika HQ when their Ketsui port got canned.

[dmauro]

Well, should it be announced that M2 handles this port, many pants would happily be filled with crap. Please 5PB, let me soil myself!

That would totally make up for the DOJBLEX debacle (since I've already got DOJ on the PS2).

[PsikyoPshumpPshooterP]

if Ketsui is region locked, u gonna hear alot of cave hate from me!!!

[gameoverDude]

TG that 5pb has a different developer on Ketsui. If it's not M2, hopefully it's Arika (in that case, maybe throw in a Death Label mode). It would be horrible for Ketsui to get butchered by some unproven team.

[drunkninja24]

if Ketsui is region locked, u gonna hear alot of cave hate from me!!!

If Ketsui gets region locked, I will whore myself out if necessary to get the funds for a Japanese 360.

[Udderdude]

if Ketsui is region locked, u gonna hear alot of cave hate from me!!!

Just one Cave port gets released region free, and I bet I'll be seeing posts like this for the next 3 years ..

[orange]

uh why exactly would 5pb make ketsui region-free i thought they clarified before that it was not going to be

[hirounder]

Nothing new on Do-BLEX-patchi?

Looks like it's coming in January...
http://mihara.sub.jp/top/blog/sb203/log/eid10367.html