(PC) Gわんげdash (GuwangeDash)

[mjclark]

I have no clue about reverse engineering, judging from the general state of things, it's probably not the nicest game engine to start modding.
If anyone does this, it'd have to be the original developer, IMO.

Aww shucks!

[Udderdude]

I'm not saying it's impossible, just the chances of finding someone who can do it and has the time/motivation to are fairly low. (Obviously I'm up to my ears in projects I'm working on myself!)

[Tetsuo]

One of the most interesting shooter threads ive read so far

[mjclark]

This has just appeared on the 2ch board but I can't work out if it's relevant or not:
"833:あのさｱｯｰ!：2011/05/03(火) 12:03:12.79 ID:OPtnO7Mr0
俺が本物かって？
そいつはこいつを見て判断してもらおうか！
http://www1.axfc.net/uploader/F/so/56315
ぱすはぐわ。

さあどうかな。
一応「完成」と言っても通じるとこまで持ってきたつもりだが。

しかしまさかケイブから警告がくるとは…たまげたなあ。
完☆全☆再☆現が仇となっちまったか。
わかっちゃいたつもりだがやっぱり実際喰らうと、ショックだよなあ。
うちのスザクも完全にアウトじゃないか…まあ最初からアウトなんだが…
どうすればいいんだ。
最悪モザイクかけるか？

＞Dash
お美事にござりまする。
細かい芸の数々、感服致しました。
この度のことは真に残念であるといわざるを得ません。

＞あのさあ
音楽まだ～？"

There's a download link but (once again) can't work out the key or even what the download's for but it's quite a large one.
Japanese speakers please help!

[KennyMan666]

Seems to be relevant, he talks about "although I said I was done", and mentions a warning from Cave. Unless I misread that part, he says that "the pass is guwa", but I can't get any kind of iteration of that in hiragana, katakana or romaji to work at all. I tried ぐわ,　ぐわんげ,　グワ,　グワンゲ, guwa, guwange, GUWA, gwange, g-wange, G-WANGE, G-Wange, Gわんげ...

[hzt]

It's the original G-Wange[longname], not Dash. Pass should be GWA.

[BPzeBanshee]

Holy shit, the filesize is something shocking compared to Gwange-Dash. Does this have inbuilt movies or some fancy junk like that?

I hope someone besides me is downloading this for prosterity's sake, if it gets taken off I'd hate to see it just disappear into the darkness like GwangeDash Final did.

[mjclark]

It's the original G-Wange[longname], not Dash. Pass should be GWA.

Thanks- I think you mentioned this version before.
It's a pity this didn't get any further cos it's lots of fun (but very unbalanced) and it's got that analytical scoreboard that GwangeDash needs so badly.
Wonder what's coming next

[Tetsuo]

Excuse my ignorance but what words go to what boxes, ive tried a few ways but just keeps bringing a new PW box up

maybe someone could simplifiy it for us mere mortals

[mjclark]

Excuse my ignorance but what words go to what boxes, ive tried a few ways but just keeps bringing a new PW box up

maybe someone could simplifiy it for us mere mortals

"GWA" in upper box and whatever's displayed in the captcha panel (to the right of the lower box) in the lower box.
As has been said before, getting the game is a game in itself

[Thjodbjorn]

Hopefully I'm not just plain stupid, but is there really no way to continue in Gwange-dash? I'm not good enough to get very far at all.

[mjclark]

Hopefully I'm not just plain stupid, but is there really no way to continue in Gwange-dash? I'm not good enough to get very far at all.

As long as you get to at least Stage 2 a Continue option appears in the main menu but you have to start from the beginning of your last stage every time.

[Krimzon Kitzune]

The original G-Wange is not worth wasting your bandwidth on. It's pretty lackluster and unremarkable, and it has absolutely nothing to show for the obscenely large download size. Dash is better in every single aspect than its predecessor, and the download size is very economical.

Bottom line:
If you can get access to a copy of Dash, go play that instead.

[BPzeBanshee]

The original G-Wange is not worth wasting your bandwidth on. It's pretty lackluster and unremarkable, and it has absolutely nothing to show for the obscenely large download size. Dash is better in every single aspect than its predecessor, and the download size is very economical.

Bottom line:
If you can get access to a copy of Dash, go play that instead.

I've yet to have gotten hold of GwangeDash Final but I've got v0.999 with most if not all of the patches installed on it so I guess that's as good as I'm gonna get.

Good thing I didn't finish downloading that old waste of space GwangeRugaLongname, no reason for being 400 MB is quite shocking indeed.

[BPzeBanshee]

Double posting, but I thought this deserved it.


Go figure.

[Udderdude]

What the hell am I looking at D:

[BPzeBanshee]

What the hell am I looking at D:

Yeah, exactly.

[mjclark]

So,any luck with the "cipher" or the 400 MB file?
I really want this game ^_^
why?
See my username.

If the link for the 400mb file still works the pass is "GWA" but it's not really worth it except out of curiosity cos it's very unfinished and very unbalanced.
The link for the much smaller GwangeDash final version which is one of the best PC shmups for many years has been withdrawn by the author due to xenophobia and fear of pressure from CAVE.
If you want it you'll have to find a mirror

[mjclark]

I tried,but i was aiming to ask if anyone here already has it,so he/she can upload it and I/we can download it.

People here would be unlikely to post links to this as that might contravene the forum rules, since the author holds copyright on the game and requests that it is no longer distributed.
This issue would be better discussed via PM

Also have we established yet whether it's OK to have a hi score thread or not? The author's injunction was against distributing the game, not downloading and playing it so that suggests that a hi score thread would be legit, but I don't want to get into any more trouble eh?

[Tetsuo]

not sure if i can link but found the 1.0 version for anyone struggling to find the file, how long it stays up is anyones guess, if i cant you can PM me if you want.

if ive broken any rules which i hope i havent i do apologise

Peace

[brotherhack]

Clearly, I hope that us "foreigners" can play the game anyway, but still, coming back to this sad news after watching out for GuwangeDash, made me lose interest on the entire game itself. So yeah, it almost makes me want to just beg for the raw archived files, which I won't really do on here, since I'm not going to whine about this anymore.

But still, it would be nice, y'know.

[ZOM]

Anyone played with the Gemini Wing ship? It's loads of fun.

[mjclark]

Anyone played with the Gemini Wing ship? It's loads of fun.

yeah-it's one of my faves along with that Red Wasp and Solvalou.
That's one of the great things about this game is that a lot of the ships have radically different scoring mechanics, effectively making this into lots of games in one.
No-one's even attempted a hi score table yet and it would have to incorporate separate table for each of the 20 ship types but I hope that's coming soon to generate even more enthusiasm.

[ZOM]

Yup, I usually played with the Twin Cobra which lets the game feel like a much more forgiving form of DDP chaining, but switching to the Gemini Wing and the game feels completely different. It's a true bombfest.

Btw, you reminded me that I have yet to try the Solvalou out. Might be an interesting ship to play with. (and I like Xevious a lot).

EDIT: Just had a go at it. Survival is obviously a bit easier because of the side shields, but hell keeping the chain going is a pain in the rear!
I'm wondering if the popcorn/ground-target ratio and interval at which they appear is balanced enough to be able to chain entire stages with the Solvalou..? Can't test because of sucky skills.

[mjclark]

Someone just uploaded an All Clear! replay with the Vic Viper:
http://www1.axfc.net/uploader/File/so/64075
Password is "DL"

[BPzeBanshee]

D:

I made it to Hiseki with Vic Viper but didn't clear. It's so damn hard. I'll download later.

Did he verse MAD?

[mjclark]

Havn't actually watched that replay yet but in shocking news, someone's posted a mirror for the last version on the 2ch developer's thread!!

[BPzeBanshee]

Havn't actually watched that replay yet but in shocking news, someone's posted a mirror for the last version on the 2ch developer's thread!!

Looks like even the Japs don't agree with the current dev's view of things. WINNING.

[Krimzon Kitzune]

The uploaded version is not the final one. 1.0st is the final version, but the one uploaded is 1.0/, which is an earlier version of the game.

[mjclark]

OoooH! GD's got it's own tvtropes page now: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GwangeDash
Kennyman666 may have something to do with this