Official: Mushihime-sama Futari (1.0, 1.5, BLT)

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:24 pm

Just saw an incredible replay of a guy clearing the first four stages of Ultra mode with AbPalm on one coin with a score of 1 billion+. He doesn't show the end of the run, but he said that he misses the 1-up and makes it as far as the descent into the final area. Fuckin' nuts! Guess we'll find out about the existence of a true final boss before too long.

I'm uploading the replay to megaupload which should be easier to download from than a torrent.

(edit: damn this thread has a lot of views...)

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:12 pm

Wow... Thanks for the link, NTSC-J. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing TLB if it exists at all.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:37 pm

No problem. In case the torrent is slow, you can download it here.

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:08 pm

Just watched the replay and all I can say is: Wow. Just wow.

Makes me wonder how high the score can go since this was an unoptimized run.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:16 pm

ArrogantBastard wrote:Just watched the replay and all I can say is: Wow. Just wow.

Makes me wonder how high the score can go since this was an unoptimized run.

Many, many billion by the looks of it. When the 2nd boss explodes his total counter is at 35k and stage counter 27k giving him 58 million from the boss' death alone. Imagine what the total counter can amount to at the end of the game if you no miss...

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:04 pm

That vid is excellent. 2 Bil+ scores should pop up pretty soon. Probably possible to get 3 Bil+ with a no miss up to the last boss if you do Stage 5 well.

gionmatsuli · Post by **gionmatsuli** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:33 pm

Just tried to read file with BsPlayer, Vlc, Winamp, Media Player but it doesn't work.
You guys use wich video player?

Cers · Post by **Cers** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:43 pm

gionmatsuli wrote:Just tried to read file with BsPlayer, Vlc, Winamp, Media Player but it doesn't work.
You guys use wich video player?

VLC works fine (ver. 0.8.5)

And this vid is absolutely beautiful

There is a TLB ............maybe

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:47 pm

Cers wrote: There is a TLB... maybe

No, it will be added on the 1.9 version of the game

Valgar · Post by **Valgar** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:54 pm

v3.0 has naked Reko.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:18 am

is this the same file that's on Game Uploader Torrent Version? I've dl'ed it, but kind of busy at work.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:52 am

Yeah, it's the same file.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:06 am

[Lunch break spoken for.]

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:13 am

270mil Stage 2 Maniac mode replay up on our fave board:

http://b-board.rdy.jp/torrent/index.php

It would be nice if they released Maniac vids of the other levels. I'm getting a bit sick of stage 2.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:15 am

Yea I just watched it and felt the same way. There's got to be more spots that are worth bank, not just the second boss.

Ko.oS · Post by **Ko.oS** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:27 pm

Lastest High score from Arcadia no81 (february2007). Its from V1:

Original:
208.071.133/ Reko /All
207.607.031/ Palm / All

Maniac:
381.076.267/ Reko / All
369.678.800/ Palm / All

nice bit of info, thanks for sharing. could you please post which players achieved those scores? (assuming their names are "readable". if they're written in kanji, nevermind

)

also, if time permits, can you post some more STG records from issue 81?
(feel free to round down the digits, eg. 'psyvariarII=231.2M[TZW]')
merci beaucoup

_________________________________
"demain, tout ira mieux"

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:38 pm

twe wrote:270mil Stage 2 Maniac mode replay up on our fave board:

http://b-board.rdy.jp/torrent/index.php

It would be nice if they released Maniac vids of the other levels. I'm getting a bit sick of stage 2.

Like an All Clear vid.... WITH SOUND.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:49 pm

Today's video is of a Taiwanese player having a hell of a time using Abnormal Reco in Ultra mode. Seems like there's more slowdown in stage 2 with her, but that might just be me.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:01 am

NTSC-J wrote:Today's video is of a Taiwanese player having a hell of a time using Abnormal Reco in Ultra mode. Seems like there's more slowdown in stage 2 with her, but that might just be me.

Well... from what we could actually see of stage 2... the colour saturation in that video was horrid!

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:56 pm

This announcement is pretty suspect:

Tuesday, 09.01.2007
Manic Shooter
CAVE annonce la sortie de MUSHI HIMESAMA 2 sur borne arcade, sur PS2 et...Dreamcast ! Aucune date de sortie communiquée, mais il semblerait que ce soit pour très, très bientôt (février ?)

http://www.eurotaku.com/news.php

I'm pretty sure that Cave haven't announced anything in regards to the possibility of a home-port.

Kaede · Post by **Kaede** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:03 pm

L O L

Dreamcast port?

Never gonna happen.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:09 pm

Kaede wrote:L O L

Dreamcast port?

Never gonna happen.

Hey, why not? Sega are probably just handing out GD-ROMs at this point.

"Here, take these! We're trying to clear out a warehouse or two! Print something on them... we don't even care at this point. Just look at Jingi Storm."

In all seriousness though, after thinking about it, I can at least see Cave considering a homeport of Futari given how popular it is and the fact that despite the lacklustreness of the homeport for the first game, it still sold very well and warranted a reprint (NCSX claim that the reason behind the Ibara reprint being cancelled was simply that Taito didn't receive enough pre-orders to warrant doing it).

As for Pink Sweets... well, that didn't even do well in the arcades so I can understand Cave not bothering with a homeport (maybe they should port that to DC... it'd probably do better numbers). And as for ESPGaluda 2... well, we got an amazing homeport of the first game and it sold like crap, so I can understand them skipping a port of the sequel.

Plus, as has been said before, Cave don't even need to bother creating some arrange mode... all they have to do is slap both 1.0 and 1.5 on the same disc... instant alternative game mode.

And then there's the publisher nonsense...

agony · Post by **agony** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:33 pm

I swear, if that is true..

I will wet myself instantly!

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:06 pm

A port would obviously be wonderful, but this specific news is clearly bogus. It's dated Jan 9th. Ten days later there aren't even whispers of such news on any Japanese gaming site (particularly danmakugata). A dreamcast port is dubious, but it would be a great surprise if they did go that way with a port. I think the DC could probably handle the game a bit better than the PS2, and there would be a higher chance of it being in true low res.

As for the reason in skipping a Galuda 2 port, I don't think it has anything to do with the sales of the first Galuda's port. That game sold well enough to warrant a reprint. And Galuda 2 was hugely popular in the arcades for months.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:06 pm

Your post is quite convincing, Kiken

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:30 pm

twe wrote:A port would obviously be wonderful, but this specific news is clearly bogus. It's dated Jan 9th. Ten days later there aren't even whispers of such news on any Japanese gaming site (particularly danmakugata).

Oh, didn't you hear... Cave have shifted focus to the French market.

twe wrote: A dreamcast port is dubious, but it would be a great surprise if they did go that way with a port. I think the DC could probably handle the game a bit better than the PS2, and there would be a higher chance of it being in true low res.

Actually, I wouldn't mind double-up rez on a DC port since the trade-off for pixelated visuals would be VGA compatibility. And that's definitely a trade I'm willing to make... so long as it isn't anti-aliased.

twe wrote: As for the reason in skipping a Galuda 2 port, I don't think it has anything to do with the sales of the first Galuda's port. That game sold well enough to warrant a reprint. And Galuda 2 was hugely popular in the arcades for months.

When did ESPGaluda get a reprint? Weren't the sales-figures for the first weekend something like less-than-8000?

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:51 pm

Kiken wrote: Actually, I wouldn't mind double-up rez on a DC port since the trade-off for pixelated visuals would be VGA compatibility. And that's definitely a trade I'm willing to make... so long as it isn't anti-aliased.

It would be great if they offered low and hi res viewing options, like in the Treasure collection on the PS2.

When did ESPGaluda get a reprint? Weren't the sales-figures for the first weekend something like less-than-8000?

Both DDPDOJ and Espgaluda were reprinted after their original prints were sold out. I'm not sure when the reprint occurred, but it was within the last 1-2 years. It was posted on Arika's site. Also, you can still buy brand new copies of DOJ and Galuda pretty easily.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:59 pm

twe wrote:
Kiken wrote:When did ESPGaluda get a reprint? Weren't the sales-figures for the first weekend something like less-than-8000?
Both DDPDOJ and Espgaluda were reprinted after their original prints were sold out. I'm not sure when the reprint occurred, but it was within the last 1-2 years. It was posted on Arika's site. Also, you can still buy brand new copies of DOJ and Galuda pretty easily.

Interesting. Do we have volume numbers on the print runs?

gionmatsuli · Post by **gionmatsuli** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:15 pm

For Ko.oS
Original:
ISO氏感謝! (Iso shikansha!) / 208.071.133 / Reko /All
顧問＠クロネコD.S (Komon@Kroneko D.S) / 207.607.031 / Palm / All

Maniac:
Clover-TAC / 381.076.267 / Reko / All
失氷 (don't exactly the reading; Shitsuhyou, Shippyou, Shibbyou,whatever

)/369.678.800 / Palm / All

Here is another Shmup High from lastest Arcadia (each includ AllClear):
TriggerHeartExcelia:
れっさ (Ressa) / 636.776.621 / CruelTear

Pinksweets ExtendMode:
なかなかや / 23.496.290

PinkSweets:
DGN / 18.623.900 / Shasta

Raiden III:
KAS / 18.945.430

EspGaludaII:
mYU / 948.699.943 / Ageha
Clover-TAC / 936.383.965 / Tateha

Ketsui:
SPS / 492.863.143 TypeA

Battle Garegga:
目的１５８０万よ (funny score name) / 15.014.710 / FlyingBaron

Strikers1945:
戦国人 / 2.350.400 / Lightning

SexyParodius:
ALZ-H.M / 7.080.600 / Michael

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:30 pm

Holy shit, that Ketsui score is great! They better not stop until they hit 500 million.

Agh, those ESPGaluda 2 scores are getting pretty high too.