Nanostray 2 - it's finally out in the stores

Stadic · Post by **Stadic** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:36 am

Kaspal wrote:
Stadic wrote:This game looks great. Looks like they tried to go with the whole Border Down thing. But yeah, I have the first one. But from some reason when when I play ti and then I turn it off, all my data get erased. I donno why it happens, just one day when I decided to play it all my data was gone. :sign: but anyway... can't wait for this one.
thats weird... i usually play the game, go to the main menu and then turn off the console, and every time i come back to paly, my scores and all are there... so, try it that way... but, still weird, since, thats not volatile memory, so your saves shouldnt get erased! (actually, im still wondering if theres a way to reset the challenges... the scores its possible, i think, but the challenges, are not...)

i remember buyin this one prettty cheap, for the palce i live in (17 bux, when normally, a DS game cost 50)...........

Yeah I'm pretty sure thats how I do it every time, but whatev, I'll just try again. I don't understand how my date got erased neither though. I really don't get it. I don't think it has anything to do with the DS. I think there is a problem with my game. Hopefully I can find one for cheap... cause I really don't wanna spend 30 bucks on this again.

Kaspal · Post by **Kaspal** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:51 am

it should be at a bargain price now, since the game its kinda old and unpopular...

now, you're talkin about data erased from your console?... you meanin tha t you have to set up your bDay and all that (like it was the 1st time you're turnin on the NDS)?... if so, call nintendo user service or somethin...

eretsua · Post by **eretsua** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:32 am

Stadic wrote:I think there is a problem with my game. Hopefully I can find one for cheap... cause I really don't wanna spend 30 bucks on this again.

try contacting nintendo, if your game is still within 12(?)months of purchase they will replace it for free proabably and if not they might do so for a small fee. you do have to have the game that belongs to your region and it needs to be an original (no fake one), ofcourse.

~eretsua.

Kaspal · Post by **Kaspal** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:27 pm

eretsua wrote:
Stadic wrote:I think there is a problem with my game. Hopefully I can find one for cheap... cause I really don't wanna spend 30 bucks on this again.
try contacting nintendo, if your game is still within 12(?)months of purchase they will replace it for free proabably and if not they might do so for a small fee. you do have to have the game that belongs to your region and it needs to be an original (no fake one), ofcourse.

~eretsua.

are there fake copies of NDS games (Slot1 based and all)?? ... cuz, i've seen fake copies of NDS games around, but they are Slot2 based, and they need the NDS to be flashed to work (i wont EVER do that to my lil polar white)....

Stadic · Post by **Stadic** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:59 pm

Kaspal wrote:it should be at a bargain price now, since the game its kinda old and unpopular...

now, you're talkin about data erased from your console?... you meanin tha t you have to set up your bDay and all that (like it was the 1st time you're turnin on the NDS)?... if so, call nintendo user service or somethin...

No... just the game. The game erases the memory every time I shut it off. I tried it again last night and still had the same problem. The game is way over a year old, I got this around the time it came out. I donno how this happened.

Necronom · Post by **Necronom** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 12:19 am

There are some new screens on the official page of NS2. Nothing special, but well...better than nothing. Looks still kinda promising.

http://www.nanostray2.com/about/screens/

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 12:48 am

I want to play this. This is what will make me buy a DS.
While i'm not a big fan of shoot 'em ups on handhelds, this looks like its gonna be a winner. I hope Arika/Cave is taking notes.

grahf · Post by **grahf** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:48 pm

This is looking really good. I really enjoy the first one. Dont really know why it get so much slack around here.

Lawfer · Post by **Lawfer** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:40 pm

I played the first one and beated it in like an hour, it was really bland lol

moonblood · Post by **moonblood** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 11:36 am

new screens look really good imo, especially the last row of the new ones

Kron · Post by **Kron** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:35 pm

Wii version?

http://www.game.co.uk/ViewProduct.aspx? ... mid=330166

Tigershark · Post by **Tigershark** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:26 pm

It looks great and I'll definitely be getting a copy. The first game was ok but the challenges were stupidly hard.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:35 pm

Never_Scurred wrote:I want to play this. This is what will make me buy a DS.
While i'm not a big fan of shoot 'em ups on handhelds, this looks like its gonna be a winner. I hope Arika/Cave is taking notes.

+1

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:01 pm

Kron wrote:Wii version?

http://www.game.co.uk/ViewProduct.aspx? ... mid=330166

I bet that they just placed it into the wrong console section. And it says "release Q1", which isn´t correct either.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:47 pm

Screens are nice and all, but I hadn´t seen that trailer before either (missed out on this thread I guess).

And to put it mildly: I am impressed with what I see!

Especially the horizontal stages look extremely well (and fun) and are a most welcome addition to the game as far as I can judge from the video.

If they get the weapon selection thing right this time (no touchscreen) and manage to make it a little more challenging this could be a winner.

Ayanami · Post by **Ayanami** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:34 am

grahf wrote:This is looking really good. I really enjoy the first one. Dont really know why it get so much slack around here.

Same here. The second one is looking a hell of a lot better though.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Tue May 01, 2007 4:11 am

I finally got around to watching this trailer.

Firstly, I must say I loathed the first Nanostray. However, I admit this trailer looks to have fixed many of the problems of the first one, good enough that I may (very likely) give Shin'en a second chance with my cash. Looks like I may have to pre-order again if I want the local shop to get any copies at all..

MathU · Post by **MathU** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:11 am

New trailer up on Gametrailers, before their own website:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/27510.html

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:12 am

Looks really good. Obviously they listened to suggestions from shmup fans and ditched the pseudo-3D view.

PFG 9000 · Post by **PFG 9000** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:38 am

January 2008, huh? I'll definitely pick it up on release day.

eretsua · Post by **eretsua** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:38 am

wow, i'm impressed. the backgrounds look really good! it's very reminiscent of games like gradius (v) and r-type. am a bit worried about the changing orientations but it does seem like a fun game. also an arkanoid-ish mini game?

i'll be pre-odering this, yes, looking forward to this game!

btw, anyone if japan will get their "danshaku 2"?

Post by **Ghegs** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:19 am

Herr Schatten wrote:Looks really good. Obviously they listened to suggestions from shmup fans and ditched the pseudo-3D view.

About the damn time. Looks like I finally have enough reasons to get a DS.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:12 pm

And it really has a nice chunky bullet ratio. Iridion 2 had some nice bullet patterns once in a while already. Looks manic enough for me!

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:20 pm

FrederikJurk wrote:Graphics and music are the least things we have to worry about. If anything, Nanostray and Iridion 2 were technically perfect in this department.

Massive agreement. Best music I have ever heard in a GBA game. Too bad I got rid of my Nanostray. The controls and scoring were driving me a bit mad, I could not get over 300000 points, even if I tried for Valor.

Lawfer wrote:I played the first one and beated it in like an hour, it was really bland lol

Adventure mode sucks. Once you beat the Challenge mode, the best part of Nanostray is it's Arcade mode. That's the true scoring mode and what you put on the worldwide scoreboards (game gives you a code after beating the level). Now if you know all of this, pay no attention to this message.

eretsua wrote:btw, anyone if japan will get their "danshaku 2"?

A month later probably, but yeah.

PFG 9000 wrote:January 2008, huh? I'll definitely pick it up on release day.

And I with you. We kick this game's ass, ya?

MathU · Post by **MathU** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:04 pm

They have a developer's blog up on IGN now too:

http://blogs.ign.com/Nanostray2/

sfried · Post by **sfried** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:07 pm

MathU wrote:New trailer up on Gametrailers, before their own website:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/27510.html

*In husky German voice: "Excellent."*

Regulus · Post by **Regulus** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:35 pm

Heh, I like the heading on the third section of the dev blog.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:51 pm

Peter Weiss wrote:Because of technical constraints, displaying the level across both screens would have meant a frame rate reduction to 30 instead of the planned 60 frames per second. We would have also had to sacrifice 50% of the video memory and that would have adversely affected the texture quality. We believe that fast shooters only work properly with a fluent 60 frames per second. Because of the gap between the two screens, perfect and seamless gameplay would have been hard to achieve.

Just reading this makes me very confident that this game is going to be good. This guy really cares about quality.

Regulus wrote:Heh, I like the heading on the third section of the dev blog.

ARMS INSTALLATION COMPLETE. We don´t know how deep they are into modern top-class shmups, but at least they have the classic down. Mentioning Ikaruga, R-Type and Gradius V is good enough, but hinting at the (lesser-known) Axelay is saying "Look here guys, we really know what shmups are".

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:01 pm

FrederikJurk wrote:
Peter Weiss wrote:Because of technical constraints, displaying the level across both screens would have meant a frame rate reduction to 30 instead of the planned 60 frames per second. We would have also had to sacrifice 50% of the video memory and that would have adversely affected the texture quality. We believe that fast shooters only work properly with a fluent 60 frames per second. Because of the gap between the two screens, perfect and seamless gameplay would have been hard to achieve.
Just reading this makes me very confident that this game is going to be good. This guy really cares about quality.

That's Shin'en. Though at times they try for graphics and sound, they are still quality. And apparently this time for round 2. They seem to have done the same for Iridion.

Regulus wrote:Heh, I like the heading on the third section of the dev blog.

ARMS INSTALLATION COMPLETE. We don´t know how deep they are into modern top-class shmups, but at least they have the classic down. Mentioning Ikaruga, R-Type and Gradius V is good enough, but hinting at the (lesser-known) Axelay is saying "Look here guys, we really know what shmups are".

That's true. Now if they start talking Parodius...

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:27 pm

It´s also interesting to know that while Nanostray was their first game for the DS, NS2 is actually going to be their FIFTH. The games between the shooters are mostly licensed, more kid-oriented stuff, so they are going the "get money from well-known licenses to afford developing niche games" route.