Raiden Fighters Compilation heading to the Xbox 360

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:09 am

I don't even own a 360 yet, but I'll probably try to get this. I don't want to have to go through the "OMG RARE L@@K!" $90 price gouging bullshit a year or so from now.

Maybe I'll luck out, and someone will get an PC EMU going for the less graphically intense games (yeah right

).

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:40 pm

BulletMagnet wrote:
Elixir wrote:What are the chances of this being region locked (ie. doesn't work on JP consoles)?
Not sure of "the chances," but most US games released thus far (though not all) will work on a JP console, so if I had to guess I'd imagine that the odds weren't too bad for this one to do the same. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Actually, Valcon confirmed that the game is NTSC U/C region locked.

Other things to note that Valcon pointed out in their forums:

The game will include the ver 1.1 patch on the disc.

Also, the US version will have its own ladder boards (they won't be integrated with the existing Japanese ones).

bcass · Post by **bcass** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:10 pm

From those forum posts, it sounds like they are looking for a European partner to publish in Europe though.

OdiousTrident · Post by **OdiousTrident** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:03 pm

Any chance we'll see a US demo, or this too low profile for Microsoft to acknowledge?

PepsimanVsJoe · Post by **PepsimanVsJoe** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 3:34 pm

Just a reminder to doublecheck wherever you ordered RFA US from and make sure the price has been changed to 19.99.

Also if I hadn't changed my address I still would have qualified for free shipping from Amazon.

lilmanjs · Post by **lilmanjs** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:25 pm

are all the secret ships in RF2 gonna be in this port?

agustusx · Post by **agustusx** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:13 pm

PepsimanVsJoe wrote:Just a reminder to doublecheck wherever you ordered RFA US from and make sure the price has been changed to 19.99.

Also if I hadn't changed my address I still would have qualified for free shipping from Amazon.

OMFG can't believe the price went down

I can confirm that amazon has changed the price of my order.

Square King · Post by **Square King** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:32 am

Drop in price = preorder.

Alec · Post by **Alec** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:21 am

$20! cool. i'm sold.

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:55 am

I'm scooping up two to support these guys (Amazon, pre-order). The Japanese one is amazing- and pre patched goodness on the US one and 1/4 of the price means that anybody on the fence needs to straight buy a few already.

I really want to see this do well.

antron · Post by **antron** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:56 am

I don't have a US 360, but I'll be sending some of these to some friends.

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:00 pm

Sorry if this was already answered, but will this work on a JP 360? The Valcon thread explicitly said it won't work on PAL consoles, but I haven't seen anything definitive about JP consoles.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:15 pm

Check Kiken's post near the top of this page.

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:43 pm

I did. But I didn't see anything about JP consoles addressed in the thread he linked to, it's all about PAL. Valcon's response was literally just "Region locked." I wasn't sure how to interpret that in regards to NTSC-J since the entire discussion was about PAL. It seems like it's NTSC-U/C only based on the post right above it, though (my knowledge of region locking is sketchy since I'm primarily a MAME pirate, which is probably why I'm confused).

Sonic R · Post by **Sonic R** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:48 pm

Hey Davey,

IF the US version is locked out of Japanese consoles, I'll let you "adopt" my Japanese copy. I am really only holding on to it for the DVD which I like to reference on occasion.

Even though one of the features I was looking forward to was competing on the leaderboards…

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:55 pm

I might just take you up on that, we'll see. I don't really care about the DVD, even though it'd probably be really useful for this game.

Doctor Fugue · Post by **Doctor Fugue** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:23 pm

I just started playing this a few days ago; I've got a question about the leaderboards. There seems to be very few people on them (less than 500 in RF1). Is it all or some of these reasons?
-the leaderboards were reset after the major patch
-the game is not popular
-people don't play the Xbox Live option
-I'm completely blind and am looking in the wrong place

antares · Post by **antares** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:52 pm

Before the patch there where maybe twice as many players in the leaderboard. The game sold about 7,000 copies in total so I guess you're right, it's not very popular. Which is a shame really as it is easily the best shmup release on the 360 so far (haven't played Deathsmiles yet).

Gozer · Post by **Gozer** » Fri May 01, 2009 6:31 am

Today I noticed this is getting a US release.

Only $20!! I'm preording this tomorrow.

A few weeks ago was the first time I played a Raiden fighters game. I drove up to Reading PA to check out Challenge Arcade. They had Raiden Fighters Jet there. I dropped about $15 (25¢ per play). I enjoyed it so much I started looking at PCB prices for it. I'd rather just drop $20 on the port and also get RF 1 and 2 as well. I look forward to checking out the rest of the ships I didn't get to try.

Kron · Post by **Kron** » Fri May 01, 2009 8:36 am

Are you sure? Its says May 19th on Amazon.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Fri May 01, 2009 8:42 am

Kiken wrote:Actually, Valcon confirmed that the game is NTSC U/C region locked.

Other things to note that Valcon pointed out in their forums:

The game will include the ver 1.1 patch on the disc.

Also, the US version will have its own ladder boards (they won't be integrated with the existing Japanese ones).

All of these points are pretty stupid. Why region lock the game, as well as the leaderboard?

agustusx · Post by **agustusx** » Fri May 01, 2009 11:49 am

Elixir wrote:
Kiken wrote:Actually, Valcon confirmed that the game is NTSC U/C region locked.

Other things to note that Valcon pointed out in their forums:

The game will include the ver 1.1 patch on the disc.

Also, the US version will have its own ladder boards (they won't be integrated with the existing Japanese ones).
All of these points are pretty stupid. Why region lock the game, as well as the leaderboard?

its related to licensing. On the forums Valcon had a rep that stated it would be nice to be region free, but it made no business sense. They want to be able to pursue a relationship with a distributor in Europe and that will not be possible if they made the US version region free.

E. Randy Dupre · Post by **E. Randy Dupre** » Fri May 01, 2009 4:38 pm

Tha's fine, but there's no good reason why the leaderboards shoudn't be integrated with the existing Japanese ones.

agustusx · Post by **agustusx** » Fri May 01, 2009 5:14 pm

E. Randy Dupre wrote:Tha's fine, but there's no good reason why the leaderboards shoudn't be integrated with the existing Japanese ones.

are you familiar with any games that have been released in different regions by different publishers and they share a common leaderboard? If this is normal practice then I could agree there is no reason for them not to share a leaderboard.

E. Randy Dupre · Post by **E. Randy Dupre** » Fri May 01, 2009 5:38 pm

Namco's games - Ridge, Beautful Katamari - are published in Japan by Namco themselves and in Europe by EA, but they have consistent, wordwide scoreboards.

The two current gen Armored Core games have both been released in Europe by different publishers than in Japan and have worldwide multiplayer and rankings.

There must be others, but those are the ones that pop into my head immediately.

antares · Post by **antares** » Fri May 01, 2009 6:00 pm

It's also quite strange why they won't include the scanlines patch in the us version.

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Fri May 01, 2009 6:26 pm

antares wrote:It's also quite strange why they won't include the scanlines patch in the us version.

they said that? I thought the very first patch for RF Aces was the scanline patch?

antares · Post by **antares** » Fri May 01, 2009 9:32 pm

No, the first patch fixed all the bugs (and there were plenty of them).

Scanline Options came with the second patch.

Kiken wrote: The game will include the ver 1.1 patch on the disc.

I guess this means they will include only the first patch but maybe I'm wrong.

sjewkestheloon · Post by **sjewkestheloon** » Fri May 01, 2009 9:51 pm

I do hope this comes to the UK. Would be nice to try these games out properly and I would definately pop for a nice boxed copy over a rom.

Battlesmurf · Post by **Battlesmurf** » Fri May 01, 2009 10:27 pm

antares wrote:No, the first patch fixed all the bugs (and there were plenty of them).

Scanline Options came with the second patch.

Kiken wrote: The game will include the ver 1.1 patch on the disc.
I guess this means they will include only the first patch but maybe I'm wrong.

Oh damn. I hope they get that 2nd patch out there ASAP though.