Ketsui X and Daioujou Black Label X - Ports for Xbox 360

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:13 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Interesting though that the region lock was not within his power to change. Isn't he the shacho of 5pb? Wonder if Microsoft-J swings their dicks around for such releases.

How many Japanese 360 games are there which aren't region locked? I'm not aware of many offhand...I'd guess that there are far more US 360 titles which are region free. Is it reasonable to assume that MS Japan is responsible for the widespread locking of J360 discs?

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:22 am

Every Japan-exclusive X360 game released thus far has been region locked. So no big surprise there.

Taylor · Post by **Taylor** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:28 am

Damn, well thanks for asking.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:11 am

It's awesome that you can just send the Japanese developer a message on Live and you end up with a response. You wouldn't get a response from, say, Cliffy B.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:47 am

Well, considering how many messages and whatnot Cliff must get compared to what this guy probably receives (especially from anyone outside of Japan) it's not an entirely fair comparison...and that's not even considering the likely quality of some of these messages ("have you tweaked xyz to the arcade specifications" versus "z0mg moar chainsaw lolololol"). Still, that doesn't change the fact that it is cool that the guy replied.

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:52 am

Kiken says he's the only one on the guy's Friends list

so it's not TOO surprising he responded

tommyb · Post by **tommyb** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:49 am

Any word on Ketsui's release date yet?

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:28 am

I really doubt any developer has any real control over that stuff. At best maybe they can ask for it to go one way or another and if the publisher happened to not have a policy/not care they might listen.

Distribution restrictions/decisions are firmly in the publisher's realm of
control.

GaijinPunch wrote:translation: good
news: bad (for most).

Interesting though that the region lock was not within his power to change. Isn't he the shacho of 5pb? Wonder if Microsoft-J swings their dicks around for such releases.

JAPJAC · Post by **JAPJAC** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:31 am

Can you ask that matey - `Will Ketsui 360 have scanline support a la Raiden Fighters Aces?` please. Cheers.

bcass · Post by **bcass** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:37 am

They're already aware that we want scanlines. It was mentioned in an email that we sent to them last year (which they replied to, and can be found earlier in the thread).

JAPJAC · Post by **JAPJAC** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:19 pm

Fools seldom differ.

Thank alot then.

antares · Post by **antares** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:20 pm

Minzoku wrote:Kiken says he's the only one on the guy's Friends list so it's not TOO surprising he responded

So whats the point in having 71,000 gamerscore and no friends to impress them with it?

tommyb · Post by **tommyb** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:20 pm

Can anyone translate the achievements?

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:52 pm

antares wrote:
Minzoku wrote:Kiken says he's the only one on the guy's Friends list so it's not TOO surprising he responded
So whats the point in having 71,000 gamerscore and no friends to impress them with it?

I know you're being sarcastic, but in all honesty, it seems that the social aspect of Live is, for lack of a better term, lost on most Japanese players. Many of the Japanese guys I've played against in SNR have very few (if any) friends on their lists. I'm sure that some of the other members here in Japan can probably go into further detail here.

One thing I'll give Sakari is that he seems to enjoy a great variety of genres. One night he was playing Garoudensetsu Special, the next Fable II, and most recently Left 4 Dead.

I'm still trying to figure out how he managed to break the 96 hour mark in RFA without at least nailing 50 million in one of the games... or unlocking the Almost Master achievement.

antares · Post by **antares** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:10 pm

Kiken wrote: One thing I'll give Sakari is that he seems to enjoy a great variety of genres. One night he was playing Garoudensetsu Special, the next Fable II, and most recently Left 4 Dead.

I'm still trying to figure out how he managed to break the 96 hour mark in RFA without at least nailing 50 million in one of the games... or unlocking the Almost Master achievement.

Then obviously he played only for survival.

Also that doesn't sound like the typical shoot 'em up fan. I wonder if someone like him is really up to porting a shmup properly.

kemical · Post by **kemical** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:29 pm

could be a box they have hooked up at work...

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:48 am

I know you're being sarcastic, but in all honesty, it seems that the social aspect of Live is, for lack of a better term, lost on most Japanese players.

Well, do you get your high scores to post them on the internet, or for personal experience? I know it's cool to wave one's willy, but for the most part, I do it for me.

adversity1 · Post by **adversity1** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:59 am

GaijinPunch wrote:

I know you're being sarcastic, but in all honesty, it seems that the social aspect of Live is, for lack of a better term, lost on most Japanese players.
Well, do you get your high scores to post them on the internet, or for personal experience? I know it's cool to wave one's willy, but for the most part, I do it for me.

Easy to say for someone at the top of a lot of scoring charts

originalz · Post by **originalz** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:06 am

You can choose to not have your friends list be visable to other people, so it's likely that he just chose that option, as do many Japanese players for the sake of privacy.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:32 am

GaijinPunch wrote:Well, do you get your high scores to post them on the internet, or for personal experience? I know it's cool to wave one's willy, but for the most part, I do it for me.

Not exactly what I was refering to.

originalz wrote:You can choose to not have your friends list be visable to other people, so it's likely that he just chose that option, as do many Japanese players for the sake of privacy.

Kinda proves my point.

dcharlie · Post by **dcharlie** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:01 am

How many Japanese 360 games are there which aren't region locked?

very few, Ace Combat 6 is one of them but it's not common.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:59 am

Can you ask that matey - `Will Ketsui 360 have scanline support a la Raiden Fighters Aces?` please. Cheers.

I'd really like to have a concrete answer to that myself.... more so than the other questions but that's just me and all.

dcharlie · Post by **dcharlie** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:25 am

I know you're being sarcastic, but in all honesty, it seems that the social aspect of Live is, for lack of a better term, lost on most Japanese players.

it really seems to come down to the game.

Chromehounds had a ton of very sociable Japanese people on it, as did PS2 Monster Hunter.

I find it all fascinating. The difference in tactics between Japanese CH teams and US/European team is pretty pronounced.

anyways, back to the Ketsui plot and online.

Not so much willy waving (hell, i'm going to suck royally) but with privacy on there's not much fun in the way of the leaderboards. Depends on how serious people take it really, i've found GS and leaderboards pretty motivating without being too dick waving and a game like Ketsui could be great fun for this group (until it's announced that scores from non Japanese IP addresses aren't allowed in the weekly/overall chart!

)

adversity1 · Post by **adversity1** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:49 am

Kiken wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote:If this is to be a proper port, it will ask you when you start the game if it's to be 1 loop or 2.
You know, I could always shoot Sakari a message over Live asking him about it (he accepted my friend request), if someone is willing to help me phrase the question properly.

LOL at him only having one friend?!

I tried to friend Mihara but he ignored me. Still, I can see his GeoWars2 scores and they are pretty goddamn high.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:59 am

adversity1 wrote:
Kiken wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote:If this is to be a proper port, it will ask you when you start the game if it's to be 1 loop or 2.
You know, I could always shoot Sakari a message over Live asking him about it (he accepted my friend request), if someone is willing to help me phrase the question properly.
LOL at him only having one friend?!

I tried to friend Mihara but he ignored me. Still, I can see his GeoWars2 scores and they are pretty goddamn high.

Who's Mihara? >_>

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:15 am

Kiken wrote:I'm still trying to figure out how he managed to break the 96 hour mark in RFA without at least nailing 50 million in one of the games... or unlocking the Almost Master achievement.

He left his console on.

Someone I know, from these forums, who did the same thing with Senko no Ronde and the 100 Hour achievement it has. You know who you are.

Jockel · Post by **Jockel** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:01 am

Letting my XBOX360 on for a very long time?
That's just asking for a RROD.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:46 am

Jockel wrote:Letting my XBOX360 on for a very long time?
That's just asking for a RROD.

Isn't that just sad?

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:55 am

Sounds like a somewhat effective anti-cheating measure, haha.

Although it happens mainly because of overheating, right? So I suppose it's not that bad if the console is properly cooled.

JAPJAC · Post by **JAPJAC** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:00 pm

OT-I completed the first loop of Ketsui PCB this afternoon using 1 credit. It feels nice to be finally part of the `club` at my favourite game ever.