Death Smiles: Countdown to North America Invasion

mistcore · Post by **mistcore** » Wed May 13, 2009 9:46 am

Sorry, but JanLine was full of bugs on it's release. To call it a JP mahjong game is a joke.
Then a 'patch' was released...except it fixed nothing and added more bugs.
It was a contender for Worst Game of the Year 2008 in Japan.
To quote the article, "This isn't mahjong, this is JanLine."

Sorry for derailing this thread.

kemical · Post by **kemical** » Thu May 14, 2009 3:44 am

MBL.. anyone having an issue where after purchasing and downloading, when you try to select either Arcade MBL or 360 MBL it takes you to the DLC screen that you started with? I bought it in-game but it wont run it just brings up the list of free movies, themes and the MBL... And if I select MBL it detects I purchased it and asks if i want to download it again, which i do and it does the same thing..
Guess I will try deleting it and redownloading.

brokenhalo · Post by **brokenhalo** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:10 am

you might want to try deleting your save. i had to do that to get the voice card dlc to work.

kemical · Post by **kemical** » Thu May 14, 2009 5:07 am

that seemed to be it, got it working now !

kemical · Post by **kemical** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:21 am

wow DS MBL is so tight..finely tuned

you guys are right about not wanting to go back to regular DS. I don't think any of the few Cave games i've played have hooked me like this before

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:47 am

Did they remove the Uroon safespot in MBL? Or any other safespots for that matter?

Chi_Ryu · Post by **Chi_Ryu** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:54 am

Elixir wrote:Did they remove the Uroon safespot in MBL? Or any other safespots for that matter?

The safe spot for the final form of Bavaria (C-2) still exists. Whroon's final pattern has been beefed up, I'm not aware of any safe spots in MBL.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu May 14, 2009 8:50 pm

for those of us who dont have th eport, heres a nice vid of 1.1 in action.. the scoring potential is absoluteley ridiculous, whats the top score for this mode right now? anyone know?

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6950308

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu May 14, 2009 11:16 pm

sven666 wrote:for those of us who dont have th eport, heres a nice vid of 1.1 in action.. the scoring potential is absoluteley ridiculous, whats the top score for this mode right now? anyone know?

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6950308

12+ bil for Windia I believe is the highest on the score boards. There was a 10 bil & change replay of Follett there the first week, but it's down for some reason (it would still be in the top 3 or 5 though...not sure why it's down). I have it on my HD. It's nice. Getting to the Castle via the Canyon w/ a high multiplier is hard.

The safe spot for the final form of Bavaria (C-2) still exists. Whroon's final pattern has been beefed up, I'm not aware of any safe spots in MBL.

The tree went from the easiest boss to the hardest, definitely. Bavaria's hit detection has been masively altered, so don't break your controller the first 20 times you run into him and lose energy.

Rebel Ninja · Post by **Rebel Ninja** » Fri May 15, 2009 7:56 am

Finally got a 1CC.....even if it was with Rosa playing on level 1

msm · Post by **msm** » Fri May 15, 2009 5:25 pm

i keep forgetting to do the stuff to make the score saving work so i've been saving replays as that also records the score.

not really getting on with mbl, prefer the 2 modes on the disk at the moment

genetik · Post by **genetik** » Fri May 15, 2009 6:36 pm

kemical wrote:MBL.. anyone having an issue where after purchasing and downloading, when you try to select either Arcade MBL or 360 MBL it takes you to the DLC screen that you started with? I bought it in-game but it wont run it just brings up the list of free movies, themes and the MBL... And if I select MBL it detects I purchased it and asks if i want to download it again, which i do and it does the same thing..
Guess I will try deleting it and redownloading.

From the looks of it, that particular feature wasn't thoroughly TCR (Technical Certification Requirement) tested. I've seen this behavior in other DLC.

1.Maybe you're playing with the profile who bought the DLC signed in onto controller 2, 3 or 4.
Workaround: Try to sign the main profile back onto controller 1 to fix this.

2. Maybe you selected a Memory Unit as the storage device but the MBL DLC is actually located on the hard drive.
Workaround: Move your saved game onto the hard drive and select that as the active storage device.

Just to be sure, I would advise you to do both workaround to fix the issue. Those kind of TCR issue happens often during production. Usually, they get fixed before a build is sent to MS or MS catches the issue and requires the dev to fix it. Usually, a title should let the user play with any controller without affecting gameplay and should automatically detect any DLC on any connected storage device. I get a feel that maybe the Japanese MS certification might not be as thorough as the US/European one.

brokenhalo · Post by **brokenhalo** » Fri May 15, 2009 10:37 pm

^^^^i figured it out a few posts above

kk1030 · Post by **kk1030** » Sat May 16, 2009 2:20 am

wow, lvl999 is fun.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:56 am

Anyone else finding ver. 1.1 far more fun than vanilla DS? There's something about Option control and massive amounts of bullet canceling that make that mode far more interesting.

Suicide bullets are a pain in the Normal death modes. They're actually fun in 1.1.

l_enfer · Post by **l_enfer** » Mon May 18, 2009 4:33 pm

I agree. 1.1 is awesome and makes the game interesting

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:49 pm

1.1 reminds me an awful lot of Guwange, which I loved.

I don't know why exactly, but vacuuming up point items is so compelling to me.

antron · Post by **antron** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:51 pm

but why no co-op with 1.1?

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:34 pm

How would co-op with 1.1 work? It would lag pretty badly with the amount of content on the screen.

I pretty much enjoy 1.1 over both vanilla DS and MBL combined. It's just fun.

antron · Post by **antron** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:40 pm

Elixir wrote:How would co-op with 1.1 work? It would lag pretty badly with the amount of content on the screen.

I pretty much enjoy 1.1 over both vanilla DS and MBL combined. It's just fun.

Not online co-op, just 2-player.

DodonDon · Post by **DodonDon** » Tue May 19, 2009 1:58 am

Anyone know a good place to buy a microsoft points code besides eBay? I want to get the DLC, but I am not too crazy about dropping 30 bucks for 1200 Japan points.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Tue May 19, 2009 2:26 am

DodonDon wrote:Anyone know a good place to buy a microsoft points code besides eBay? I want to get the DLC, but I am not too crazy about dropping 30 bucks for 1200 Japan points.

Both Play-Asia and NCSX sell Space Yen, but the going average for a 1400 pt card is around $25.

DodonDon · Post by **DodonDon** » Tue May 19, 2009 2:30 am

Kiken wrote:
DodonDon wrote:Anyone know a good place to buy a microsoft points code besides eBay? I want to get the DLC, but I am not too crazy about dropping 30 bucks for 1200 Japan points.
Both Play-Asia and NCSX sell Space Yen, but the going average for a 1400 pt card is around $25.

Hmmm...I guess I will just have to drop the extra few bucks to get it. The Level 999 difficulty has me psyched.

l_enfer · Post by **l_enfer** » Tue May 19, 2009 1:55 pm

I got mine from japanvideogames.com since they have stock.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue May 19, 2009 4:57 pm

Kiken wrote:
DodonDon wrote:Anyone know a good place to buy a microsoft points code besides eBay? I want to get the DLC, but I am not too crazy about dropping 30 bucks for 1200 Japan points.
Both Play-Asia and NCSX sell Space Yen, but the going average for a 1400 pt card is around $25.

Well, they cost about $22 in Japan assuming you can change money for free (which nobody can). $25 is not a bad price....at all.

originalz · Post by **originalz** » Tue May 19, 2009 11:54 pm

I can buy people point cards and send them immediately if they want.

brokenhalo · Post by **brokenhalo** » Wed May 20, 2009 3:03 pm

originalz wrote:I can buy people point cards and send them immediately if they want.

you should set up a thread in the selling section advertising this service. i just spent $30 on ebay for 1400 points

Geezer · Post by **Geezer** » Wed May 20, 2009 5:00 pm

Does anyone know the install size for this game?
(I'm aware of the bug)

Kubrick · Post by **Kubrick** » Wed May 20, 2009 6:14 pm

3.4GB / 3.9GB incl. MBL

Geezer · Post by **Geezer** » Wed May 20, 2009 7:36 pm

Thanks