DoDonPachi Saidaioujou coming to Xbox 360 (REGION-FREE!)

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Because you destroyed him a different way and didn't realize it. If you put most of your fire on his arms you can pop them before the body for extra hypers. You can do something similar in DOJ.

[Shalashaska]

Damn, arcade is rough. The second boss fucks me over every time; I just can't seem to consistently dodge its' second and third attacks. Novice expert is really fun as well as the 360 mode.

[Jeneki]

The challenges are actually a pretty good way to learn boss attacks. I picked up a couple "safer" ways of handling a few patterns this way.

[Astraea FGA Mk. I]

I am really good at novice expert, but I abuse Saya's shot slowdown so maybe it isn't much of an achievement.

[ACSeraph]

Heading for Tomorrow GET!

The CD includes the full version of Heading for Tomorrow, a song called infinite wish that is apparently the ending theme for the new Phantom Breaker fighting game, karaoke versions of both songs, and a DVD with live performances of Re:Set and some other song.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Are you going to pick some copies to sell here on the Trading Section, ACSeraph? I'd be interested in a copy for my personal shmup collection.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[rtw]

I'd be interested in acquiring this as well!

[ACSeraph]

I could get copies off of Amazon Japan if people wanted them, but I don't know what shipping would be. I think the CD was something like 1600 yen from amazon, so plus international shipping it might be like 2500 yen or so. If you are seriously interested feel free to PM me.

EDIT: Apparently it was 1470 yen; it's written right there on the corner of the CD.

[AntiFritz]

If it's on amazon.co.jp they could buy it themselves...

[ACSeraph]

Didn't realize you could buy things internationally on amazon.jp

[MSZ]

Didn't realize you could buy things internationally on amazon.jp

Not all items though.

[ratikal]

Wait, who's piloting Saya's ship if shes right there? Did they not see that?

[AntiFritz]

Didn't realize you could buy things internationally on amazon.jp

You can buy music and doujin pc games, but no console games or anything 18+. I don't know about dvd's.

[ACSeraph]

Wait, who's piloting Saya's ship if shes right there? Did they not see that?

Maybe Nameless-Pilot-Guy got sick of all the loli-chatter and decided to solo it Donpachi style

[MSZ]

Didn't realize you could buy things internationally on amazon.jp

You can buy music and doujin pc games, but no console games or anything 18+. I don't know about dvd's.

Some 3rd party sellers at amazon.jp do ship games and porns to other countries.

[Jeneki]

Isn't Heading for Tomorrow a Gamma Ray album?



I saw this (the Saidaioujou version) pop up on CD Japan recently. Amazon is probably cheaper though. *edit* Yea, Amazon.jp has a discount, it's ￥ 1,283 right now.

[finisherr]

Damn, arcade is rough. The second boss fucks me over every time; I just can't seem to consistently dodge its' second and third attacks. Novice expert is really fun as well as the 360 mode.

When the pink bullets start coming out on the second pattern? I recommend doing U motions at that point. For some reason just going left and right won't open any holes (at least for me).

The third pattern sucks. Just try to stay still and only move only when absolutely necessary. Focus mostly on those giant X patterns that layer over it because that's when the openings are the smallest.

The last pattern isn't so bad. Just slowly go left and right and move up if you're getting cornered by the patterns that look like / \

[chempop]

I'm making some progress in Arcade mode, still a ways off from the clear. I've switched from C-L to the popular A-S, it's rather nice that this ship type is finally worthwhile!

My basic plan is:

lvl 10 hyper on stage 3 midboss (get 1 extend, if not both on this stage)

hyper stage 4 midboss with at least a lvl 4 and get the 1up

bomb the heck out of stage 4 boss

start stage 5 with plenty of lives and just bomb/hyper spam for survival till the end

I think I can do it with a little more practice

[brentsg]

The regular edition is below 4000 yen at AmiAmi.

[Cuilan]

The regular edition is below 4000 yen at AmiAmi.

It's been at that price for at least a week iirc.

Hmm...Cave said that SDOJ sold a lot better than they expected. It's known that SDOJ has sold at least 14k copies by the end of June (via Famitsu). I wonder if it sold enough to get a second shipment.

[NeoStrayCat]

The regular edition is below 4000 yen at AmiAmi.

It's been at that price for at least a week iirc.

Hmm...Cave said that SDOJ sold a lot better than they expected. It's known that SDOJ has sold at least 14k copies by the end of June (via Famitsu). I wonder if it sold enough to get a second shipment.

Would be real nice if they did a reprint as a Plat. Collection/Cave the Best thing, but those take a while. so yeah...>_>

[Cuilan]

Would be real nice if they did a reprint as a Plat. Collection/Cave the Best thing, but those take a while. so yeah...>_>

Well, the current AmiAmi price is pretty much what the price of a Platinum release would be.

SDOJ has sold about the same as the DFK and Ketsui 360 ports so far, and DFK got a Platinum yet Ketsui didn't, so who knows. Since it was supposedly MS who begged for this port and the current sales rate seems fairly decent, I think there's a good chance it will get a Platinum release.

[NeoStrayCat]

Would be real nice if they did a reprint as a Plat. Collection/Cave the Best thing, but those take a while. so yeah...>_>

Well, the current AmiAmi price is pretty much what the price of a Platinum release would be.

SDOJ has sold about the same as the DFK and Ketsui 360 ports so far, and DFK got a Platinum yet Ketsui didn't, so who knows. Since it was supposedly MS who begged for this port and the current sales rate seems fairly decent, I think there's a good chance it will get a Platinum release.

Yeah, but I'm not import happy, and rather get it from specialty stores (Like VGNY that sold it at AX, lol. But at expensive retail...>_>), so yeah...

[Danny]

The regular edition is below 4000 yen at AmiAmi.

Thank you for this, I picked up a copy!

[Bonus!]

Could anyone possibly post a picture of the "bookstore card" Ami Ami offers with DDP SDOJ? What exactly are those, are they bookmarks? How large are they?

[brentsg]

Could anyone possibly post a picture of the "bookstore card" Ami Ami offers with DDP SDOJ? What exactly are those, are they bookmarks? How large are they?

same size as a credit card

[Tokyo-J]

I keep getting to the boss on 1 cred and dying. I refuse to continue!

[finisherr]

Stage 3 boss, second pattern. WTF. everything else is manageable, but that second pattern is just brutal right now.

[guldberget]

How'd you guys like this game in the beginning? For me it's just too much clutter on screen so I can't even easily determine where I am in the playing area (arcade mode) and that's never happened to me in any other game. It's quite offputting me thinks. Otherwise I'm liking this games' DOJ style as opposed to the DFK style.

[chempop]

How'd you guys like this game in the beginning? For me it's just too much clutter on screen so I can't even easily determine where I am in the playing area (arcade mode) and that's never happened to me in any other game. It's quite offputting me thinks. Otherwise I'm liking this games' DOJ style as opposed to the DFK style.

I felt the same way... at first! Give it a week and you shouldn't have any issues. Once I adjusted I really started to enjoy it.