The History of Cave Arcade Games That Were Never Sold

[trap15]

Well shit! Always glad to be proven wrong

[-S.L-]

Great vid MMS !
God I want want several of those.
Please let -S.L- go to Japan more often, he might purchase some by accident.

I AM actually in Japan right now

Bought 3 Cave PCB, maybe one of them is magic ?

Nice job MMS !!

[SuperPang]

Fantastic work MMS. Now that the Cave we know and love is all but dead, it's more important than ever to preserve this sort of info. I wish I'd taken down a few notes and saved a few things over the years as my memory is terrible.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

I'd really like to get better quality footage of Dodonpachi Campaign in the next version so if anyone has the superplay database download or more preferably one of the VHS tapes with Campaign footage and and can get me some high quality encoding snips of it please do it.

[brentsg]

Fantastic work MMS. Now that the Cave we know and love is all but dead, it's more important than ever to preserve this sort of info. I wish I'd taken down a few notes and saved a few things over the years as my memory is terrible.

Did anyone successfully archive Cave-STG before it went dark?

[rtw]

I'd really like to get better quality footage of Dodonpachi Campaign in the next version...

The original filename at SuperPlay was: SOFWTN_DodonpachiCampaignVersion_Twocompleteruns.avi

[rtw]

I'd really like to get better quality footage of Dodonpachi Campaign in the next version...

The original filename at SuperPlay was: SOFWTN_DodonpachiCampaignVersion_Twocompleteruns.avi

Now I am being silly, I have this file it was called something else, but SOF-WTN matched it, so should I stick it on MEGA ?

edit: typo

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Yeah definitely, thanks. Still though if anyone has a VHS with it and the ability to encode, a much higher quality version could be made so if anyone can do that thanks. But yeah even with just the original superplay download, I will be able to increase the quality some for version 1.1. Thanks.

[sven666]

sadly, the HDD with pics and videos from the first matsuri broke a few years ago, all lost except for whats on youtube

pretty sure i had some video of futari red label and certainly several pictures (of all the games at that event).

[Xyga]

sadly, the HDD with pics and videos from the first matsuri broke a few years ago, all lost except for whats on youtube

pretty sure i had some video of futari red label and certainly several pictures (of all the games at that event).

It's always like that with rare stuff, always disappearing by accident.
What if someone at Cave whispered "this swede guy here knows too much. find where he lives. you know what to do."

It's like that info page about Cyvern Plus, remember it went offline after people asked too many questions ?
Japanese Illuminati...

[Patashu]

sadly, the HDD with pics and videos from the first matsuri broke a few years ago, all lost except for whats on youtube

pretty sure i had some video of futari red label and certainly several pictures (of all the games at that event).

This is why we make backups/torrents ;_;

[colour_thief]

I can't wait for the blue label version of this video.

[rtw]

As promised, Dodonpachi Campaign version, 2 runs by SOF-WTN

https://mega.co.nz/#!4RswyRCL!hRCwzY_iC ... oE3QcyXwaA

pass: my nick

[1up]

Great video. That Propeller Wars game looks fun. Vertical Progear and it looks like one of the planes have that Ketsui red shot.

[Patashu]

Great video. That Propeller Wars game looks fun. Vertical Progear and it looks like one of the planes have that Ketsui red shot.

Obviously some indie shmup dev should actually make it

[Xyga]

Propeller Wars reminds me of Flying Red Barrel.

@rtw: Thank you for sharing but for some reason the download is unbelievably slow (10KB/s, 70KB/s at best) and sometimes stops giving an 'error try again later'... first time I'm seeing this with Mega.

[aoiddr]

That Propeller Wars stuff... wow, I definitely didn't expect to see a vertical Progear, nor had I ever heard about anything of the sort before today.

By far the highlight section for me in an excellent video. Bravo! ^_^

[gray117]

Propeller wars - bizarrely their only western friendly title... could have maybe stolen the 1940's shooter fans away... shame.

[djvinc]

Excellent video, quite thrilling, exciting, and with lots of implied mysteries like if Cave still has the code
I was there at the dec. 2006 Matsuri, and I feel kind of crappy not to have taken a video of this infamous Futari 1.5 Matsuri.

[jhonny_d]

that's an awesome video, a real fine piece of videogame archaeology!

edit: can someone let me know where I can find a list with all the commercially released cave pcb and their revisions?

[Xyga]

That list lacks per-game revisons but here you go: http://cavedb.com/arcade-games/

[Dave_K.]

The "inbetween" version of DOJ White label and Black Label given out at the score trials was actually released as the export version of DOJ ("DoDonPachi III"). I thought this was clearly mentioned in one of Ikeda's interviews. It must have been an extremely limited release as no videos or screen shots have been seen, so most here considered it a false rumour until that Ikeda interview spoke about it.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

What I read said the export DDP3 was planned but never released. If it was released then where is it? No way it was released. Cave releases do not get lost.

[Pretas]

Not arcade, but wasn't there an aborted Working Designs localization of the PS1 port of DDP that was shot down by SCEA's anti-2D policies at the time?

[monouchi]

Propeller Wars <3

Lots of fun info from that movie, great job.

Futari 1.5 red label... *drool*

[jhonny_d]

That list lacks per-game revisons but here you go: http://cavedb.com/arcade-games/

Thank you xyga, exactly what I was looking for

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

I need:
-DFK video game show version video posted via torrent by Twiddle in early 2008 that was removed from youtube etc. by Cave or other video of it from that game show (AOU)
-any video from the 4.4.2008 location test (again all seems pulled by Cave)

Some people here should still have these saved on their hd somewhere. One of them was last mentioned/uploaded at the bottom here:

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... start=1080

I must have this cock lasers video.

There were also location test videos posted here of other games like Pork, and all the links are dead. If anyone has any of these videos of any Cave tests, please send them to me (but I already have all the icycalm stuff).


...
Update. My friend found a file on his drive that should be the cock lasers video so balance will probably be restored to the force.

[Imhotep]

thanks for doing this, I really enjoyed both the infos and the editing. As a suggestion, I'd cut some of the SDOJ loke test material as it's unproportionally long compared to the rest, maybe you could add it to your channel as a separate vid in full length.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

I agree it doesn't fit in regard to length in Version 1.0, but the upcoming replacement version (Black Label) has more footage on other games, and will have a table of contents menu in the description so you can skip around or pick it back up later.


Edit - updated top post

[Sir Arthur ahf]

Congrats!!