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[Muchi Muchi Spork]

It's their own fault, should have just charged a one time fee and gotten infinite AP. I think more and more players are wanting this type of model and more and more games will eventually head back in that direction.

I was right about the countdowns, a whole set of levels ran out of time and have disappeared. So you're either playing this game now or you'll never get the same experience/levels.

Another thing I noticed, if you get 100 gems of one color piled up it forces the "star shower" which essentially accelerates you right into another RPG battle.

[Dave_K.]

(Mod edit: split free to play discussion to development forum)

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Best ios game of all time. I'll murder everybody here in cold blood if you don't download it. Feel free to move this to the I am drunk thread but it's for your own good because you're lazy and I will straight up beat you in cold blood if you don't open a Japan account and install this.

[xfullmetal17]

Cave's secret mission to convert casual RPG players into danmaku players.

TRIS-GRAM beat them to it... Stellavanity already has that element, and I'd been playing that before learning about Don Paccin.

[emphatic]

I'll murder everybody here in cold blood if you don't download it.

[Cagar]

Best ios game of all time.

Yeah i'm feeling it too. All the time, no matter what I'm doing, it's at the top of my subconsciousness
It's like I can never get bored while I have this thing in my pocket as a safety-net

[Laurel_McFang]

I'm now level 5 and in the forth or fifth zone. Starting to see the charm in it. Love the power up that occurs if you take your hands off the iPad. Really nice to see idle time being used as a mechanic especially in a genre all about twitch reactions. Sorry about dissing on the game earlier, but hmmm, not as impressed with this as death smiles or others. Still for something made under the constraints it was (free to,play mobile model) it's not bad. Can't wait to see the later levels.

[Special World]

Damn, wish I could play this without having to go through a huge runaround :\

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Just do it dude, I don't want anymore blood on my hands. I'm tired of murdering everybody around here. It gets old. I made easier instructions. Do or die.

on iphone, load app store
click featured button on bottom left
scroll to bottom
click apple id
sign out of account
search for "cave co ltd", find game
click install
create new apple id
scroll the flippy thing to the bottom until you reach 日本
click next
click agree
answer the questions, use a real email address
next

When it asks you for your address, you can use fake info for everything except it has a checker to see if you are lying about your prefecture and zip code. You use hokkaido for prefecture and 0600000 for zip code. The rest of the stuff like first and last name can be made up. There should be a "none" option for credit card.

do verification crap, login

[Dave_K.]

It was as simple as spork states, took me about 5 minutes on the iPad.

[monouchi]

You can get trouble with not getting the "none" option on credit card.
Then you have to go into the app store, choose a free app and create your account from there.

I now have Donpaccin running on Iphone 4. No problem there.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

I rearranged my instructions based on that. Hopefully it is correct now or else the murders MUST continue.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

There was a temporary level this morning where you could move freely in all directions instead of just L/R. When you held shot down all the enemy bullets traveled faster, and there were way more bullets than normal and they had patterns similar to Mushihimesama and Ketsui. It was brutal and 1 shot in the 2nd round killed you instantly. Did anyone else catch it?

[Cagar]

There was a temporary level this morning where you could move freely in all directions instead of just L/R. When you held shot down all the enemy bullets traveled faster, and there were way more bullets than normal and they had patterns similar to Mushihimesama and Ketsui. It was brutal and 1 shot in the 2nd round killed you instantly. Did anyone else catch it?

O_______O didn't catch it... damn!

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

It was insane. When I woke up it appeared and only 1.5 hours left to play it. Makes you wonder what's coming though, definitely more levels like that and reuse of the bullet patterns. There were other changes too like the block walls were destructible with normal bullets.

[Cagar]

It was insane. When I woke up it appeared and only 1.5 hours left to play it. Makes you wonder what's coming though, definitely more levels like that and reuse of the bullet patterns. There were other changes too like the block walls were destructible with normal bullets.

What did the event map look like? I mean the appearance/theme of the stage select screen, so I can keep my eyes open for that kind of event maps

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

On the expanded map screen where right now you see the main alien course and then the 2 other options, one is new year special and the other is probably daily, there was a 4th icon up there that shot you to it. It was placed next to some other islands but instead of having the green/orange/red oval it had a jagged gold explosion one and a clock icon and when you went to look at the stage details it had an 8-way movement icon in there. If we could translate stuff you can see it announced actually, on the main screen hit settings on the bottom right, choose the top right button, click the top line and scroll down, that will show a couple of the icons. The stage was different boss and background to anything I've seen yet on top of the other changes. I imagine I would need a much more powerful team to clear it as well as practice on it. It was much more danmaku like than the game normally is and there were bullet spreads that "followed you" like in Ketsui.

[Dave_K.]

I'm not surprised hearing about this new island with different controls, bullets, bosses, etc. One of the more interesting things about Free to Play games like this is it gives the company a chance to try out new ideas on targeted users, gather metrics, and then iterate as they find new ways to meet their conversion numbers.

I haven't had time to play in few days, but will now check in more frequently to look into these daily missions.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

BTW this is the best scoring strategy I have found for when you go back and try to 3 star old levels:

-Make a team with your best characters of 2 colors, 1 of them being the color of the stage you are entering
-For your bonus member chose one that matches 1 of your 2 colors
-Avoid stars and x2 as much as possible by dodging and letting go of the screen when possible so they don't suck in (gems will still suck)
-Try to get both gem colors as close to 100 as possible before entering the RPG battle mode

[But a big part of it is simply having your characters powered up enough to produce the points - the higher their rank, the more they will pull per gem, pretty much]

Theoretically you could keep expanding with more colors on this but in practice 2 color fills is all I ever achieve before the star meter is full, even when you try avoiding them.

Also, whenever you see friend icons pop up in the map area click on them and see if there is an orange button, with that you can get a bunch of free AP per day. The AP bonuses come back day after day.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

FWIW the special stage is there now for the next 8 minutes if you can catch it.

[Cagar]

FWIW the special stage is there now for the next 8 minutes if you can catch it.

Yeah that was neat

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

BTW I've found out if you really nail the first (15 AP) level in the green daily course you can get it to release the 99 EXP robos after each run (play it over and over), making it the quickest way to build your teams. By nail it I mean use 2 different colors and hit 100 gems with 1 and a high number with the other each time you RPG mode a boss.

[Uzumakijl]

Is there any other way to get the Android apk?, I try that website someone posted earlier but it doesn't work at all

[Cagar]

Ok so I'm rank 20 and i'm fucking tired of these beginner robos that drop from every stage. I've mostly got R-type teams (pun not intended) so am I supposed to sell them? Upgrading costs wayyy too much when you got over 10lvl robos, compared to what you can do with the EXP-robos

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

It quickly becomes somewhat of a waste to do anything with N robos except for selling them for 220. But if you find N robos with a 7 base instead of 4,5, or 6, those have some special upgrading power for certain characters of the same color too, you can see a flashing red sign when they are available and you are upgrading so I save those for those occasions.

The fastest way to build characters is keeping playing the 15 AP green daily special over and over and destroying it with high gem counts before rpg battles. You can sometimes get several 99 EXP robos in 1 game. I've also gotten some R 99 EXPs and they upgrade you like crazy. I think another thing is using the 99 EXP robos on upgrading robos of the same color probably helps more too, but the problem is that the bonus daily levels only let out 1 color per day and it's never the color I need for beating a current boss so I just use them on whatever I need at the time.

If someone could translate the missions our lives would also be a lot easier - there are SR and SSR characters you can win by completing some of the missions but I can't read what they are. I saw some guy earlier only on Rank 5 and already had a SSR but he might have bought it somehow, I guess.

[Casey120]

I'm following Muchi Muchi Spork's tutorial by the letter but when I'm logged out, in itunes and looking at CAVE's offerings I cant find Don★Paccin
I am looking at the offerings for iPhone and iPad and all the other CAVE games are there

I'm going to get killed !

[Jenseits]

I'm following Muchi Muchi Spork's tutorial by the letter but when I'm logged out, in itunes and looking at CAVE's offerings I cant find Don★Paccin
I am looking at the offerings for iPhone and iPad and all the other CAVE games are there

I'm going to get killed !

Fear of death struck me too. So i think i can help you out.
(Actually fear struck that hard that a long time lurker registered here )

You should create a new Japanese iTunes account first (like described earlier). After doing that the search will give appropriate results...
BUT: For me that would have been an impossible task because all registration dialogs were in japanese! (not english as mentioned somewhere else...)
I solved it by changing my iPhones system language from german to english.
Et voila: Registration of a japanese account with english dialogs
(As a Dutch'o'nean you might face similar problems )


Even managed to buy a lil stuff in Don Paccin...
Wasn't really worth it but whatever.....

[coin]

I had the same problem, I got around it by starting to create a new account and picked japan, then the app store search showed the Don Paccin game.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Exit iTunes and enter the App Store.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

OK I have figured out how to get your first SR release. You have to power a robo up to level 40.