Mushihimesama PS2 pre-orders confirmed! (was: Is this real?)

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 12:54 am

Metal Gear Okt wrote:I'd say go with the Monster or Madcatz cables, depending on how much you want to spend.

Please, for the love of all that is holy (and unholy even), DO NOT BUY MADCATZ. I worked at a video game store for two years and I can state with absolute certainty - Matcatz is crap. Their controllers are horrible, their memory cards fail, and their RF adapters (yes, even RF units) are shoddy. Save up for the monster cables, you'll be thankful you did.

BenT wrote: A bit OT. If you have some disposable income, allow me to urge you to acquire an SD (non-HD), RGB-compatible TV while you're conveniently located in Japan. There is no better opportunity to get one for us North American types.

I'd love to, but there's no way I can afford it right now. I'll have to grit my teeth and leave without one I'm afraid.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:54 am

I'd love to, but there's no way I can afford it right now. I'll have to grit my teeth and leave without one I'm afraid.

Are you not shipping a container home already? I had the comapny foot my bill... was pretty nice.

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:44 am

GaijinPunch wrote: Are you not shipping a container home already? I had the comapny foot my bill... was pretty nice.

I'm going out to California for a few days here (starting tomorrow, actually) and I'm going to do all my mailing after that. I have to pay for all my own shipping fees though.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:13 am

Why not ship a container? It's not that expensive when you think about it, and you could ship big things. I shipped my whole freakin' home (bed, sofa, big ass TV, desk, 2 computers, dining room table, shelves, a few boxes of clothes, a tons of games and everything else) for like 60-man. For 10 you could surely do a TV, a respectable amount of games & systems, some green tea, a bottle of CC Lemon and even a pair of used panties or two.

Cthulhu · Post by **Cthulhu** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:36 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Why not ship a container? It's not that expensive when you think about it, and you could ship big things. I shipped my whole freakin' home (bed, sofa, big ass TV, desk, 2 computers, dining room table, shelves, a few boxes of clothes, a tons of games and everything else) for like 60-man. For 10 you could surely do a TV, a respectable amount of games & systems, some green tea, a bottle of CC Lemon and even a pair of used panties or two.

The CC Lemon and used panties go by EMS man, EMS. Gotta make sure the good stuff gets home safely.

Actually, all my furniture is staying as it's part of the apartment, and the majority of my games are going by EMS, since the last time I sent games via non-express mail, a bunch got totally smashed.

zaphod · Post by **zaphod** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:40 pm

Kron wrote:
gunbird18 wrote:
Rob wrote: Nope, it's great and the port is adequate. People should really get over the 30 frames per second and try it out. It's totally playable, as I've been doing for a few days.
Thank you! Agreed! And the bullet curtains in Level 5 would make a Psyvariar player swoon!
If people try and justify conversions like Gigawing generations then it will simply give developers even less incentive to make future ports as good as possible.

I can't fathom how people can call something adequate when essentially it runs like a game thats badly emulated with frameskip.

Anyway its great news about Mushi and I've just payed for the pre-order

Umm, as I recall the arrcade DID THE SAME THING for gigawing generations! So the port is in fact accurate! Have any of you who badmouthed it actually played the arcade version to compare?

Metal Gear Okt · Post by **Metal Gear Okt** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:54 pm

Cthulhu wrote:
Metal Gear Okt wrote:I'd say go with the Monster or Madcatz cables, depending on how much you want to spend.
Please, for the love of all that is holy (and unholy even), DO NOT BUY MADCATZ. I worked at a video game store for two years and I can state with absolute certainty - Matcatz is crap. Their controllers are horrible, their memory cards fail, and their RF adapters (yes, even RF units) are shoddy. Save up for the monster cables, you'll be thankful you did.

Ok, maybe not Madcatz, but i've had much better results with Monster cables than stock Sony ones.

Naiera · Post by **Naiera** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:37 pm

That's because Monster has always been the top-of-the-line exclusive for teh hardcore users brand, while Sony/other first-party manufacturers are just "very good" or a sort of (often high) standard.

All other third-party labels are almost certain to be crap. They're cheap knock-offs trying to fool you into thinking they're as good as the original.

Sony has the best, by far, RGB cable on the european market. The original grey Euro AV cable is thick as hell*. Don't discount Sony's own products. If it weren't for Monster they'd be the best, by far. (And they are, in Europe, because of the thicker-than-everything-else Euro AV cable and the fact that Monster isn't on that market)

*unfortunately the black ones, designed to match the PS2, are not as thick, but still better than 99% of what else is out there

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 1:43 pm

I don't know if this has been posted already but here is the limited edition game figure.

8 1/2 · Post by **8 1/2** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:27 pm

Ord wrote:I don't know if this has been posted already but here is the limited edition game figure.

Yes! I was right! Take that language barrier!

Bar81 · Post by **Bar81** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:26 pm

Ord wrote:I don't know if this has been posted already but here is the limited edition game figure.

Well at least we now know that she wasn't born a whore

Kron · Post by **Kron** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 4:15 pm

I hope the back cover isn't an indication that Taito have omitted a Tate mode again

Naiera · Post by **Naiera** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 4:54 pm

As has been mentioned before, it is not Taito, it is CAVE that is doing the conversion. Blame Cave for a potentially missing TATE mode!

Recap · Post by **Recap** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:08 pm

Naiera wrote:As has been mentioned before, it is not Taito, it is CAVE that is doing the conversion.

Not really. And indeed, that backcover confirms that Cave is not behind this port.

Naiera · Post by **Naiera** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:23 pm

I see. What we were told up until now was a lie then.

BIG · Post by **BIG** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:30 pm

So,anyword on TATE?!?!

B-

whitey · Post by **whitey** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:42 pm

If Taito did not include Tate it will be unforgivable.

Post by **Ghegs** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:09 pm

Don't judge tateness based on that - there aren't any images in TATE in either DOJ or Galuda's backcover either.

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:19 pm

I think we should just chill. I really don't think they would release a Cave game and not have tate. Cave would pitch a bloody fit!

8 1/2 · Post by **8 1/2** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:21 pm

Ghegs wrote:Don't judge tateness based on that - there aren't any images in TATE in either DOJ or Galuda's backcover either.

True. In fact, it's somewhat rare that a vertical game will have tate screens on the back.

Anyway, again, in the Arcadia article on the PS2 port all the screens are tate. This is about as big as a shmup release gets, and I seriously doubt they're going to miss much of anything.

parodius · Post by **parodius** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:20 pm

Recap wrote:
Naiera wrote:As has been mentioned before, it is not Taito, it is CAVE that is doing the conversion.
Not really. And indeed, that backcover confirms that Cave is not behind this port.

Huh ? What makes you say that ?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 8:52 pm

Naiera wrote:I see. What we were told up until now was a lie then.

Basically. The only thing ever said was by Mihara, and even then he didn't come out and say that Cave was doing the port. He said they'd be the best ones to do the port.

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:24 am

Based on what can be seen on the back cover.

(1) It supports 2 players playing at the same time.
(2) It can save high scores.
(3) It has pratice mode.
(4) An extra option setting allow you to ??change weapon mode during play??
(5) It support dual shock 2.
(6) It is on a DVD-Rom.

At lease we can now rest assured that the game is on a DVD-Rom.

There is nothing about the TATE though, but I think a Vertical shooters on DVD-Rom would very likely comes with that feature though.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:18 am

SAM wrote:(4) An extra option setting allow you to ??change weapon mode during play??

Referred to arrange mode, I think!

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:28 pm

At lease we can now rest assured that the game is on a DVD-Rom.

That info was out months ago.

There is nothing about the TATE though, but I think a Vertical shooters on DVD-Rom would very likely comes with that feature though.

Indeed. I would bet my house on it that it does have TATE mode... I don't own a house though.

Referred to arrange mode, I think!

I don't think so. It says you can change what weapon you have equipped. First time I'm hearing this, but it's mentioned in the same sentence as the "auto-bomb" feature.

EDIT: How do I download from your site? Those ESPGaluda scores are amazing.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:22 pm

I also don't think we need to worry about tate. GWG is the only vertical shmup from japan in recent times that DIDN'T include tate. Combine this with the massive popularity of the game (for a shmup anyway), and that every port of every cave game that has ever been made has included tate leads me to the sam conclusion as GaijinPunch: namely, there's a snowball's chance in hell of it not having tate.

Oh yeah, that and the ps2 pictures of it being in tate. Yeah.

Recap · Post by **Recap** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:01 pm

parodius wrote: Huh ? What makes you say that ?

Copyright lines.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:08 pm

EDIT: How do I download from your site? Those ESPGaluda scores are amazing.

PM

japtor · Post by **japtor** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:13 pm

that its on dvd means absolutely nothing for tate mode, other than possibly having dvd video streams for yoko/tate replays (which would be pointless if it has the doj style live replay thing).

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:58 pm

I would rather just have a bunch of replays. The DVD quality of DOJ & Galuda was pretty bad.

EDIT: Wish this was happening.