New NEOGEO / Dreamcast game: "NEO XYX" NG: DEV.TEAM 2013

[GSK]

For those who didn't see it, they're now running a separate Indiegogo campaign to get Gunlord ported to Wii U/3DS (and now PC, I believe) yet they still haven't bothered with the last two things they announced. I really don't get why people keep giving them money (or, more accurately, why they keep asking for money--their indiegogo isn't gonna succeed).

[strykr]

For those who didn't see it, they're now running a separate Indiegogo campaign to get Gunlord ported to Wii U/3DS (and now PC, I believe) yet they still haven't bothered with the last two things they announced. I really don't get why people keep giving them money (or, more accurately, why they keep asking for money--their indiegogo isn't gonna succeed).

yeah I noticed that, seems a bit of a pisstake really, I feel they should be focussing all there efforts on getting the game out that many of us paid for a long time ago!
I dont give a monkeys about a wiiu/ds port of anything.....

[soupbones]

For those who didn't see it, they're now running a separate Indiegogo campaign to get Gunlord ported to Wii U/3DS (and now PC, I believe) yet they still haven't bothered with the last two things they announced. I really don't get why people keep giving them money (or, more accurately, why they keep asking for money--their indiegogo isn't gonna succeed).

Saw this as well - amazing how they have completely gone dark on NEO XYX, then have the balls to launch a Kickstarter for another game... I guess they're really busy.


Glad it's going to fail miserably. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gunlo ... nd-wiiu--2

[Kollision]

[cools]

They should post it here. Fuck Facebook.

They should simply email updates to everyone that preordered it. This isn't difficult.

Youtube snippets of recent builds would be really good too.

Requested a refund. It's nearly 6 months overdue, which is double what I was willing to wait.

[SuperPang]

Par for the course for these releases. I'm happy to wait (more time = better game) but some sort of progress updates or a more realistic release date from the start would be more courteous.

[hermit crab]

I avoid unnecessary stress by never pre-ordering anything. Plenty of already-available games for me to spend my money on... Not from NGDT though, everything sold out in their online store... Seems like if they need money it would make sense to restock and supply the demand instead of trying to get funding for future products? Well, not really any of my business to tell them how to run their business.

But the game looks great looking forward to buying it when it's available!

[cools]

but some sort of progress updates or a more realistic release date from the start would be more courteous.

This. Monthly news or something. Silence is not golden in these orders.

[emphatic]

Yeah, lots of money for customers to hand over then just sit idly waiting for way too long a time.

[TransatlanticFoe]

I avoid unnecessary stress by never pre-ordering anything. Plenty of already-available games for me to spend my money on... Not from NGDT though, everything sold out in their online store... Seems like if they need money it would make sense to restock and supply the demand instead of trying to get funding for future products? Well, not really any of my business to tell them how to run their business.

But the game looks great looking forward to buying it when it's available!

The DC versions of Neo XYX are still available to pre-order, they've already done reprints for Fast Striker and I guess Gunlord will get one soon. It's impossible to get a professionally pressed CD out there without a massive bunch of orders. But Neo XYX is still up and they definitely haven't sold out of everything on their store.

Unless you mean the NeoGeo versions, which are basically a ballache to manufacture so the run is limited.

[rtw]

Official update, love the new features

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[NGDEV] Newsletter

Dear customers,

we got a lot request recently about our yet to be delivered products.

Here is an overview:

*** NEO XYX / NEO Zaikuso MVS ***

There was radio silence about this for a long time, sorry for that. We should have done a newsletter earlier. But we worked hard on the game in the meantime. Besides heavily working on the game play aspects, we also used the last 4 month to double the amount of graphic details in the game. Like a real NEOGEO game deserves everything that moves is now fully animated. 
We raised the MEGS count from initial 202 to 264 MEGS. The current version is way way better then what we showed in the last trailer.

The graphic artist is currently designing a 16 bit style short but sweet intro. 
After this intro is finished we go into final beta testing and then in production. Production takes around 14 days.
The PCBs and shockboxes are already on stock, the wood shells will arrive within the next 7 days. Most of the printing material is already finished too.

We will be able to announce the release date in October and show a new trailer.

*** NEO XYX Dreamcast ***

As usual we will start porting after we shipped the MVS version to make sure the DC version gets the latest updates. As we are highly experience with porting it will be relative fast done.
The goal is here to ship in December.

*** Gunlord NEO GEO AES ***

Our source for the snapcases is confident to have them in latest 4 weeks. According to him they are still hold in Canadian customs (production was done in overseas) but the deal to get them is closed soon.

We will then ship them ASAP with inserts to you.

*** Fast Striker NEO GEO AES ***

Production for Fast Striker AES starts as soon as we have confirmation of the snapcases.
It takes 6 weeks to ship the first carts then.

*** Reprints MVS ***

Shipping of all reprints is done after Fast Striker AES was shipped.
Our goal is to wrap this all up in 2013.

*** The future ***

We will try to handle these things better in the future and start pre orders more close to the shipping date. 
There will be always cases where this does not work though. If we have an idea to improve the game vastly late in development we will pursue it. Like we did with NEO XYX. The quality of the final product is more important to us than early shipping. 
Big companies can solve these situations by throwing money at it, but we can't. We throw time at it :)

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Sounds like with added megabit increase from 202 to 264, it should make for a smoother overall Neo-Geo MVS shmup experience. Should be well worth the additional wait for it.

Not to mention the Version 1.6 coin-op support with the Neo-Geo MVS reprint of Fast Striker is ace as well. Inquired with NG-Dev. Team if coin-op support was feasible with the older 1st-gen 1.5v MVS FS carts and was told that it wasn't feasible at the time -- but plans to offer a seperate 1.6v upgrade via USB update is in the works indeed.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[cools]

*sigh*

Refund through, but of course because it's a normal transaction (rather than refund, due to being outside the 45 days refund window) money gets lost in fees.

[Ghegs]

Nice, thanks rtw.

[Plasmo]

*** NEO XYX / NEO Zaikuso MVS ***

再糞?

Sorry, I had to.

[soupbones]

*** NEO XYX Dreamcast ***

As usual we will start porting after we shipped the MVS version to make sure the DC version gets the latest updates. As we are highly experience with porting it will be relative fast done.
The goal is here to ship in December.

Hope this is true - would love to play this game on my break.

Good on them for apologizing for the delay -

[Fudoh]

Today's newsletter announced that shipping of the NEO XYX MVS LE starts on monday.

Pictures available at https://www.facebook.com/ngdevteam

[system11]

Finally

I've been looking forward to this, it had better be good.

[chempop]

"slow movement"

[RaidenViper]

Great news. but no new trailer?

[KAI]

Rafael Dyll

[Plasmo]

Rafael Dyll

The OST has some especially weird tracks (in a good way!) in this one. Watch out for stage 2 music.

[LFO]

再糞

[CStarFlare]

"slow movement"

I noticed that too. We'll see, I guess.

[Ed Oscuro]

再糞

Where dis?

I was laughing at "WIDE SHOT" =　ショット

Hey guys, how do you write "WIDE" in Kana????
（But at least they got "shot" right. Man, that's awkward to write in IME.)

[spadgy]

And when's that pesky DC version of Neo XYX heading to cheapskates like me that wish they'd gone for the MVS edition!?

[TransatlanticFoe]

They're still aiming for before end of the year - I guess they're pretty proficient at porting to DC by now but the screen orientation options might slow the process down.

[spadgy]

Ah - so they complete one version to the point of shipping out before they begin the port? I didn't realise they went about it that way. Of course, in this instance I can understand that the NeoGeo version is really the one that takes precedence, being the 'original format' here, so to speak.

[Jonst]

My regular importers say dc version is due around dec 16th,I hope it makes that date,I'm looking forward to this one!

[Ghegs]

I just got confirmation that my Neo XYX has shipped, so I'll be putting up vids and first impressions soon.