The Pre-order updates thread! (Region free crap welcome too)

[ex.machina]

Anyone knows a good place where to buy Death Smiles (US) from if you live outside the US?

[chempop]

NCSX and ncsx.shop are such absurdly un-user friendly sites it drives me nuts. Every time I place a pre order it takes me an eternity to figure out what the hell is going on. Even their whole login system seems jiggy, I wonder if they are aware...

Anyway, I got both ketsui LE and Deathsmiles 2X LE preordered from them, and Deathsmiles US LE from gamestop (which goes against my grain but figured it'll help the cause, plus there was that -$10 coupon).

[ex.machina]

NCSX and ncsx.shop are such absurdly un-user friendly sites it drives me nuts. Every time I place a pre order it takes me an eternity to figure out what the hell is going on. Even their whole login system seems jiggy, I wonder if they are aware...

I agree. Their system is a big mess. They most loose thousands of customers only because of their confusing multiple website setups.

[Ganelon]

GameStop's recent "25off" coupon for 25% off purchases of $100 is ridiculous. I've pre-ordered like a year's worth of games now. Pack Deathsmiles with any other $50+ game and you get it for basically $38 shipped. Now to pray that they don't go wrapping a delicate limited edition boxed set with bubble wrap like they usually do and ship it with the rest of the heavy parcels so that it gets smashed up...

[gs68]

Preordered Deathsmiles on Amazon with free shipping. It's gonna be a while so I may get Espgaluda II in the meantime.

[brentsg]

I don't think I've ever even used NCSX's site, and I've been ordering there since '94 or '95. They just have my shipping preference on file with my credit card info and I send an e-mail when I need something.

Perhaps that doesn't scale well though, and they might just appease me because I've been ordering stuff for so long.

[drunkninja24]

A supplier in Tokyo received a batch of X360 Ketsui Kizuna Jigoku Tachi Extra last night and shipped an allocation of the game to us. We should be able to clear roughly 3/4 of our reservations for the limited edition of the game and roughly 1/8 of our reservations of the regular edition. They received a lot more of the LE than the RE. The remainder of our shipments should arrive on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week since most of our Japanese vendors did not receive their copies of Ketsui yet.

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Hmm...I can't tell if mine has actually shipped or not...I preordered my LE along with ESPII, and jut got a notification that my order status was updated to "partially shipped." But the only tracking number in there is the one I had for ESPII...

[StarCreator]

My Ketsui LE order is still "Order received". I'm left wondering if it arrived on Friday at all, as they only mentioned the supplier shipped it out on Thursday night.

[brentsg]

My Ketsui LE order is still "Order received". I'm left wondering if it arrived on Friday at all, as they only mentioned the supplier shipped it out on Thursday night.

I don't think they received anything yet. My preorder goes way, way back and I didn't receive any notice for a shipment.

[peace4myheart]

Pre-ordered it from Play-Asia since it was first announced. Almost two freaking years of waiting. It better be worth it!!!

[brianon]

By request so that we can separate the Ketsui thread from the DDP Combo thread since it's shipped and will be available starting Monday.

Shipped ? My play-asia order still says its on pre-order !? I thought it wasn't out until the 22nd ?

[Kron]

Play-Asia Ketsui EX = Preparing order

[Dragoforce]

Play-Asia Ketsui EX = Preparing order

Same here, can't wait!

[Shelcoof]

My Ketsui order is going to be shipped out Monday!!!!

NCSX just e-mailed me to confirm this

[drunkninja24]

My Ketsui order is going to be shipped out Monday!!!!

NCSX just e-mailed me to confirm this

Yep, just got mine as well:

Dear NCS Customer,

We will receive an early shipment of Xbox 360 Ketsui Kizuna Jigoku Tachi Extra Limited Edition tomorrow and your order will ship tomorrow. Thanks.

[dmauro]

Play-Asia Ketsui EX = Preparing order

And I've got the 2-4 day shipping option.
I'm actually kind of surprised this game finally made it to console after so many roadblocks. I won't quite believe it until I'm playing it.

[StarCreator]

I'll echo the above. I chose the usual UPS Ground, which has only on one instance failed to reach me the day after entering the UPS system.

I guess I really gotta plug my 360 in... I've been binging on FFXIII and Valkyria Chronicles for the last two months.

[Kubrick]

My copy is "preparing" too, but this whole volcanic ash bullshit is gonna fuck things up.

[monouchi]

My copy is "preparing" too, but this whole volcanic ash bullshit is gonna fuck things up.

*sigh* and this time I choosed the more expensive faster shipping.....

[Fudoh]

I'm still optimistic. PA's Ketsuis are dispatching on wednesday and thursday, depending on when the pre-order came in. As long as the airports are clear by thursday, shipments by UPS and Fedex should be in before the weekend.... I keep my fingers crossed!

[Shelcoof]

YUPE!!!

My order shipped today..... :p

[EPS21]

Anyone get their emails from amiami yet?

[Shuurin]

Not yet from Amiami, but they haven't even confirmed my preorder. They sent me an e-mail saying they are unsure if they can even fill my Ketsui preorder and I might be placed on a second shipment or not at all list. One time I don't go P-A and I'm running into problems. Made the preorder like 2 weeks ago. So its late, but...they could just be trying to delay it till May 1st so I can't make use of their half shipping deal.

[apple arcade]

My copy is "preparing" too, but this whole volcanic ash bullshit is gonna fuck things up.

Look at my sig, I'm all for play-asia affiliate links, (considering I'm a broke college student, they make shmupping as a hobby possible for me to do) but you have to play by the rules too and mark them so people know.

[monouchi]

PA Ketsui Shipped.

[JOW]

PA Ketsui Shipped.

...mine too. And I've just seen a jet flying over the UK for the first time in a week

[dmauro]

PA Ketsui shipped, and from the UPS tracking page:

Scheduled Delivery Date: 04/21/2010 (Updated)

[EPS21]

Not yet from Amiami, but they haven't even confirmed my preorder. They sent me an e-mail saying they are unsure if they can even fill my Ketsui preorder and I might be placed on a second shipment or not at all list. One time I don't go P-A and I'm running into problems. Made the preorder like 2 weeks ago. So its late, but...they could just be trying to delay it till May 1st so I can't make use of their half shipping deal.

Man that'd really suck if they did so. I preorded a while ago and everything should be good, and iirc my email for galudaII came 1 day before its release date so maybe I'm just being paranoid. Although other people using the more traditional import outlets are getting theres early makes me a bit envious . Maybe I'll go ncsx next time as long as they don't charge 150% retail like they did with E2.

[emphatic]

I'm starting to worry that the soot cloud will hinder my enjoyment of Ketsui this week.

[lmagus]

Nothing from AmiAmi here either