DoDonPachi Saidaioujou coming to Xbox 360 (REGION-FREE!)

[mdsfx]

At 37 yrs old, with four kids, I don't care about the lolis/art style, the SLE, etc.

Now, this is something!

Not really. As you get older you realise that it's only the games that matter, not all the superfluous junk associated with retail.

I think you hit the nail on the head. It's all about substance.

[slateman]

Which is why this entire thread (all 30-someodd pages) has been tiring. But I can't complain, I used to have the passion. It's just hard to get actual information...which admittedly, is scarce anyway.

I wrote FAQs for DOJ and DFK, and have run web pages on games for years. I just want the new game. Not looking good.

OK, continue on with the thread. I'll check every few days for news.

[Some-Mist]

I feel the same way and only buy the SE now. I bought one LE and I got an upgrade to LE for free, and I haven't touched the "goodies" with either. Waste of money imo.

I have no problem with people that want to goodies/higher value version, but I'm dying to just get a chance to play the game. The next month and a half is going to be SUCH a long wait.

[Cagar]

I bought SE just in case that it arrives faster, no matter how hard I want the goodies, everything that matters in the end is that I can play it, and the faster, the better.

[Tokyo-J]

have the option to vertical screen to maximum death ①?

Have.

Does this mean there is a 4:3 vertical mode?

[Formless God]

I got the LE this time because omgfinalcabegamesayonara and I want the boss blueprints hopefully included in the artbook.

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http://www.cave.co.jp/gameonline/Xbox360/saidaioujou/event/

Despite the difference in the bullet points all the Tokyo event has over Osaka's is the Hibachi superplay.
pls bring camera

[Tokyo-J]

have the option to vertical screen to maximum death ①?

Have.

Does this mean there is a 4:3 vertical mode?

No confirmation or a stupid question to begin with?

[Formless God]

I think the question was just about whether you can tate the game or not.

I went to 2ch for some info since the event's over.

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http://kohada.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/gamestg/1364910819/

XBOX360モードは完全にストーリー性（かなり喋る）で自機が桜夜のみ

hurr

アーケードはHD版とノービス、ver1.5があり、ver1.5はちょっとシステム違うらしい

what the hell where is my upscaled nosampling arcade mode

ミッションモードがあり、ボス撃破やコンボMAXとかあった

Some mission mode.

and some stuff about TLB from #284 onwards that I couldn't decipher.

[nZero]

what the hell where is my upscaled nosampling arcade mode

DFK/DFKBL didn't have one either.

[bydoempire]

Any new information on if this gets a PAL release or if it will be region free? Hell, I visit this particular thread daily just for these questions. And playasia has ?-marks on region info for obvious reasons.

On yt I watched many playthroughs that I feel like I own the game already. Especially the 1st stage music and the boss theme is now so familiar to me, its a part of me.

I want to buy this game so bad, for that awesome music alone. Cmon Cave and Rising Star, be friends again and do the euro release yes please.

[BulletMagnet]

Any new information on if this gets a PAL release or if it will be region free? Hell, I visit this particular thread daily just for these questions.

Trust me, the second anything concrete on this comes out somebody will post it here and the thread will become a hotbed of activity. You won't miss it.

[lemonhead]

Hi, I cancelled my order of SLE from amiami now (via message, they don't allow to do it directly). Maybe it shows on their website.

[CStarFlare]

Any new information on if this gets a PAL release or if it will be region free? Hell, I visit this particular thread daily just for these questions.

Trust me, the second anything concrete on this comes out somebody will post it here and the thread will become a hotbed of activity. You won't miss it.

I hear it was cancelled due to lack of interest. If only people had spoken up!

[O. Van Bruce]

lack of interest? did they even bothered to read western boards and forums dedicated to shmups? the interest was there, not in reddit or some mainstream social network like facebook or twitter.

[ptoing]

Couple of 100 sales = not enough interest.

[trap15]

[Skykid]

Hi, I cancelled my order of SLE from amiami now (via message, they don't allow to do it directly). Maybe it shows on their website.

Why did you cancel?

[Udderdude]

lack of interest? did they even bothered to read western boards and forums dedicated to shmups? the interest was there, not in reddit or some mainstream social network like facebook or twitter.

They couldn't get the volume on the TLB's voice high enough as they wanted.

[lemonhead]

Hi, I cancelled my order of SLE from amiami now (via message, they don't allow to do it directly). Maybe it shows on their website.

Why did you cancel?

Lost interest. Waste of money. I will buy standard edition.

[DrTrouserPlank]

Couple of 100 sales = not enough interest.

Exactly. Even if it was 1000 sales across Europe I doubt they'd be interested. God knows what the minimum print run one could do economically is, but it must be a lot more than that.

No-one is going to be announcing a localised version 1 month before release. You might get a delayed localised version, but I think the chances of that are pretty slim too. If RSG don't want this then I don't see who's going to publish it. Presumably the reason RSG don't want it is because there simply isn't the demand (in terms of actual sales) for this stuff to be worth bothering with in the west.

[Cagar]

*sigh*
RSG said they're not dealing with this.
CAVE said they're talking with different publisher than RSG (about west-release).

[DrTrouserPlank]

*sigh*
RSG said they're not dealing with this.
CAVE said they're talking with different publisher than RSG (about west-release).

Who exactly is that going to be though? there's not a single publisher who is interested in this and hasn't been stung by it from their past attempts.

I imagine talking to CAVE about releasing it and negotiating a fee is difficult. CAVE say that the game will sell 15,000 in Japan. You tell them that you'd be lucky to see 1000 sales across Europe. Cave Values their product based on what they see domestically. You value it based on a very different market. I imagine that's a massive impasse.

[dan76]

If they can't find a western publisher it might increase the chance of it being region free. If they're going out of business as everyone had been predicting the last 3 years (...) why not get a few extra sales.

Just a thought.

[trap15]

Because FUCK THE PIG-DISGUSTING GAIJIN

[Giest118]

If they can't find a western publisher it might increase the chance of it being region free. If they're going out of business as everyone had been predicting the last 3 years (...) why not get a few extra sales.

Just a thought.

Doing something that would only ever have a chance of increasing sales and has no conceivable downside ever?

Fuck that shit.

[Cuilan]

Exactly. Even if it was 1000 sales across Europe I doubt they'd be interested. God knows what the minimum print run one could do economically is, but it must be a lot more than that.

Minimum print run for a retail 360 game in Europe is around 25k.

Who exactly is that going to be though? there's not a single publisher who is interested in this and hasn't been stung by it from their past attempts.

UFO Interactive might do it. They're localizing Mamoru-kun, at least.

Doing something that would only ever have a chance of increasing sales and has no conceivable downside ever?

Fuck that shit.

But it does have downsides. By licensing it, Cave gets a guaranteed lump sum of money up-front, which is better than a gradual trickle of somewhat-unpredictable sales. On top of that, localizations increase the total number of sales for a game thanks to wider marketing/awareness and availability/distribution.

[Giest118]

Doing something that would only ever have a chance of increasing sales and has no conceivable downside ever?

Fuck that shit.

But it does have downsides. By licensing it, Cave gets a guaranteed lump sum of money up-front, which is better than a gradual trickle of somewhat-unpredictable sales. On top of that, localizations increase the total number of sales for a game thanks to wider marketing/awareness and availability/distribution.

None of which will matter if the game never gets Western'd in the first place.

[AntiFritz]

Cave just posted the finished version of the OP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdT6QnI_SI

No more extreme close ups of the gameplay footage!

[trap15]

That's significantly better. Still not as I'd like, but certainly not as bad as the other one.

[KAI]

I still can't fap to this.