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

[roker]

Man- hopefully this means the patch will be underway soon haha.


Also- someone should tip off the Aksys guys- if they released a compilation disc (Ketsui/DOJ (patched)- it'd sell okay here (US) I think. Here's hoping

I think it'll happen if Deathsmiles can be a modest success (i.e. not end up at your local Kohl's bargain bin)

[OmniGLH]

If Death Smiles sees any moderate success, it will be attributed to the limited edition packaging and/or Touhou fanbase drawn into it's loli theme…

It seems doubtful we'd see a localization of Ketsui or Dai-ou-jou considering their age as well as general lack of the loli theme - sure there are the dolls in DOJ, but the game play theme is still industrial and you still pilot a plane.. just sayin.

[roker]

If Death Smiles sees any moderate success, it will be attributed to the limited edition packaging and/or Touhou fanbase drawn into it's loli theme…

It seems doubtful we'd see a localization of Ketsui or Dai-ou-jou considering their age as well as general lack of the loli theme - sure there are the dolls in DOJ, but the game play theme is still industrial and you still pilot a plane.. just sayin.

there were no lolis in the Raiden games and those made it here ...

[Chacranajxy]

Will Cave actually be able to shop Ketsui or Daioujou out to US publishers? Cuz they didn't develop the ports, so maybe that complicates things? I dunno. I'm just gonna get an import system.

[roker]

Will Cave actually be able to shop Ketsui or Daioujou out to US publishers? Cuz they didn't develop the ports, so maybe that complicates things? I dunno. I'm just gonna get an import system.

Maybe it does. But I happen to think Ketsui will make it here. I dunno. I could be wrong. But I'm not going to import the game just yet, at least not until I get a 360 J-tagged.

[emphatic]

I don't know if this video has been available for long, but many slag off the X Mode for DOJ-BLEX before even trying it.

http://5pb.jp/games/div2/ddpdojblex/media_xmovie.html

Totally worth your time to unlock if you have the game and for some stupid reason think that the port is bad. It's only the loading times and the replay playback that bothers me...

[yosai]

I don't know if this video has been available for long, but many slag off the X Mode for DOJ-BLEX before even trying it.

http://5pb.jp/games/div2/ddpdojblex/media_xmovie.html

Totally worth your time to unlock if you have the game and for some stupid reason think that the port is bad. It's only the loading times and the replay playback that bothers me...

First time I have seen the X mode. All of the youtube videos got pulled for some reason.

So the normal shot is a hyper and the hyper shot is green and cancels bullets?

[StarCreator]

So the normal shot is a hyper and the hyper shot is green and cancels bullets?

It depends - Piper (the added 4th character for X mode) plays as described - she is in normal hyper mode full-time and her shot and laser become bullet cancelling when a hyper is activated, but she has no bombs whatsoever. The main three character's non-hyper shots are pretty much as they were in the arcade version, but they have slightly different properties otherwise - Shotia will autobomb for as long as she still has bombs, and her hyper's shot (but not laser) bullet cancels; Leinyan will autobomb once per life and her hyper's laser (not shot) bullet cancels; I'm honestly not sure if Exy changed at all.

[nZero]

I'm honestly not sure if Exy changed at all.

Exy can activate a normal hyper with 1 hyper item and the bullet cancel hyper with both shot types with 2+ hyper items in stock.

Also, Piper's (Type-H) hyper only lasts half as long as the other characters.

[Special World]

What exactly do you have to do to unlock X mode?

[Jeneki]

What exactly do you have to do to unlock X mode?

Just keep playing and wait a bit.

I pulled mine out of the shrinkwrap at a convention, tossed it in, and let people play it all weekend. Everything was unlocked when I brought it home. Based on the high-score list, nobody ever got past stage 2 on one credit so it's definitely not something unlocked by skillful play.

[StarCreator]

If I recall correctly, you have to either have 4 hours of gameplay time on the clock, or a certain number of achievements unlocked.

Once you unlock the No Bullet EX option, it gets pretty easy to rack up gameplay time since you can just sit at all the various bosses waiting for them to time out.

I also tried running DOJBLEX at a convention... every time I looked away, someone went back into my dashboard and launched Ikaruga instead. --;;

[Special World]

Is there any way to know if it's actually logging my playtime?

because it resets my high scores and possibly my settings every time.

I have auto save on but I dunno.

[nZero]

It keeps track of overall playtime, number of plays, and various other stats in the achievement tracker IIRC.

X-Mode is supposed to unlock after 6 hours of total playtime.

[bcass]

It does forget your settings sometimes. That's one of the bugs. Not seen it reset scores yet though.

[apple arcade]

dumb question but it's pre-patch planning.

if you don't have online is there any other way to obtain a patch?

[CStarFlare]

Are you on dialup or something?

Otherwise you can go online and get patches and use leaderboards and DLC and all that stuff. Generally you only have to pay to play online.

EDIT: But to answer your question, if you are physically unable to access the internet then yes, you are out of luck on patches.

[yosai]

Are you on dialup or something?

Pirated copy on a banned console?

[apple arcade]

i just dont have a way to hook up the internet to my console.

[StarCreator]

Yeah, internet access is going to be required to download patches - you have to be signed in to Xbox Live (any region should be fine, and it doesn't matter whether it be silver or gold).

That is, if the patch ever even comes out.

[General Martok]

Connect the 360 hdd to your pc , transfer the patch to the right partition , done. (patches are unsigned content as opposed to dlc afaik).
Haven't done this myself , you'll have to look up the specifics.

[Evrain]

Connect the 360 hdd to your pc , transfer the patch to the right partition , done. (patches are unsigned content as opposed to dlc afaik).
Haven't done this myself , you'll have to look up the specifics.

Precisely like that, to the point that for a while patch packs were released - utterly stupid if you ask me, why ruin a perfectly good console just to play on the cheap? Just don't buy it first place.

[SFKhoa]

Some new information came to light regarding "the patch never".
Source: 5pb games' Homepage

Xbox 360「怒首領蜂 大往生 ブラックレーベル ＥＸＴＲＡ」アップデートプログラム配信について
「怒首領蜂 大往生 ブラックレーベル ＥＸＴＲＡ」のアップグレードプログラムを心待ちにして頂いておりますユーザーの皆様に、まずは配信が大幅に遅れております事を深くお詫び申し上げます。
また、これまでアップデートプログラムについて随時情報発信が出来なかった事に対しても深くお詫びを申し上げます。
今後の情報発信については随時更新してまいります。

さて、アップデートプログラムですが、只今社内、社外含めて念入りに最終確認を行っているところでございます。
修正確認が出来次第、配信手続きに入る予定です。

アップデートプログラムの配信までもう一息の所まで参りました。
ユーザーの皆様には大変ご迷惑をお掛けしておりますが、もう少々お時間を頂けますようお願い申し上げます。

If someone can elaborate on what the summary of that post is, it would be nice.

[bebop78]

Xbox 360「怒首領蜂 大往生 ブラックレーベル ＥＸＴＲＡ」アップデートプログラム配信について
「怒首領蜂 大往生 ブラックレーベル ＥＸＴＲＡ」のアップグレードプログラムを心待ちにして頂いておりますユーザーの皆様に、まずは配信が大幅に遅れております事を深くお詫び申し上げます。
また、これまでアップデートプログラムについて随時情報発信が出来なかった事に対しても深くお詫びを申し上げます。
今後の情報発信については随時更新してまいります。

さて、アップデートプログラムですが、只今社内、社外含めて念入りに最終確認を行っているところでございます。
修正確認が出来次第、配信手続きに入る予定です。

アップデートプログラムの配信までもう一息の所まで参りました。
ユーザーの皆様には大変ご迷惑をお掛けしておりますが、もう少々お時間を頂けますようお願い申し上げます。

Translated

Xbox 360 "Black Label peaceful death DoDonPachi EXTRA" update program for the delivery
"Black Label peaceful death DoDonPachi EXTRA" user experience for everyone We have been looking forward to the upgrade, and I deeply apologize to our first delivery is significantly delayed.
Also, I would like to apologize even for things that could send information about the program at any time to update it.
For further information dissemination will continue to update regularly.

Now, the update program, company now, but we are our final confirmation, including carefully outside.
The modification made upon confirmation, will be delivered into the process.

Place to deliver just one more effort to 参Rimashita update program.
User experience for everyone, but we have put you through so much trouble, thank you for your time as you give me a little longer.

[bebop78]

Above translated from from http://japanesetranslator.co.uk/

[drunkninja24]

Hmm...that actually seems to make a little more sense than your typical machine translations.

So basically it's "no really, we're working on it, just a little longer guys".

[StarCreator]

Yeah, that's a lot better than Google did. I will have to keep that translation site in mind.

Here's what EOJ translated it as over at CAVE-STG:

Basically they apologize for the 1000th time, then say "we are currently in the final testing phase of the patch, both inside and outside our company. As soon as it is confirmed to work properly, we will make it available for download. It should be just a short time from now."

...

[Phellan Wolf]

Just when I saw the thread at the top I was crossig my fingers to hear that the patch was already on live. But not, just another apologieof 5PB. I think I can wait, plying Ketsui

[Battlesmurf]

Yeah, internet access is going to be required to download patches - you have to be signed in to Xbox Live (any region should be fine, and it doesn't matter whether it be silver or gold).

That is, if the patch ever even comes out.

Random- but damn do I wish there were a way to save patches for games. I think it's stupid I do not have that option : /

[Fudoh]

You can download all the game patches to your PC.
Isn't is possible to simply copy those from a USB stick to the Cache folder on your 360 ?

EDIT: works, on the PC you have to use a small app called XTAF to move the files to the USB Stick.