CAVE Shooting Collection X360

[alamone]

http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00AE12R1K/
This popped up on amazon recently.

All CAVE games released on 360 including DLC, 7 replay DVDs, 2 booklets.
Judging by the screenshots, looks like the 5pb stuff is not included, nor DDP or Feveron.
No release date yet.

[EmperorIng]

Hm, this will either be the greatest bargain ever or the most expensive 360 game/collection ever released.

[AntiFritz]

or Feveron.

We can thank them never releasing it in the first place for that.

[Friendly]

Oh, it contains all DLC and a physical copy of Guwange? Dang, I guess that means I'll have to buy it.

Cave: They know a thing or two about milking.

EDIT: Urgh, 24,800 JPY
Frothing demand decreasing.

[KAI]

Just in Time.

[Vyxx]

The most expensive Xbox 360 game in existence?

[Annoyboy]

Would love to know if the "DLC contents" includes 1st print stuff like matsuri modes... We all know Cave likes to lie about exactly how limited edition things are.

[VixyNyan]

Now I'm curious if the DeathSmiles voice DLC is in this pack. o.o

Other than that, I already have every Cave release on 360 (while waiting for SDOJ). O:

Well, depending on what games will be in it, it's a decent price deal, compared with if you bought the 1st prints way back then (like some of us did).

Game List in order of images:
- DeathSmiles (Retail)
- Mushihime-sama Futari ver1.5 (Retail)
- ESPgaluda II Black Label (Retail)
- DeathSmiles IIX (Retail)
- DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu ver1.5 (Retail)
- DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu Black Label (including KetsuiPachi) (Retail)
- Muchi Muchi Pork & Pink Sweets (Retail)
- Akai Katana Shin (Retail)
- Mushihime-sama HD (Retail)
- Guwange (XBLA)

[brentsg]

Multi disc, or all-in-one for the games..?

[kid aphex]

Really curious to see what the packaging looks like for this.

[CStarFlare]

Multi disc, or all-in-one for the games..?

Almost certainly multi disc, if only to make the price more palatable. I'd love a single-disc release, though... but even if it's in a slimmed-down package it might be worth selling my individual copies and picking up the package. If I'm estimating sale prices properly, everything could come out just about even.

[Cuilan]

Multi disc, or all-in-one for the games..?

Deathsmiles 1 and 2 alone take up over 3gb when installed, plus another gigabyte for Futari + BL, so it's very unlikely that they'd be able to squeeze all of those games + DLC into a single DVD. But I also doubt that each game will be on its own disk. They'll probably fit as much as they can into as few disks as possible.

[VixyNyan]

Also Guwange is probably a XBLA redeem code or it's stored in some kind of storage media in the collection.

[Cuilan]

Also Guwange is probably a XBLA redeem code or it's stored in some kind of storage media in the collection.

Not necessarily. There have been retail disk releases of various XBLA games in the past.

[gct]

Holy Moses. So that's around $250, right? But considering a single superplay DVD can be around $100 and same for Pink Sweets, I think that's a pretty good price. I'd pick one up if even some of the releases are region-free like before. Maybe even just buy it anyway if I can get a JP console for cheap down the road.

[BulletMagnet]

Multi disc, or all-in-one for the games..?

According to this the 10 games will be spread across 7 discs.

[Cuilan]

According to this the 10 games will be spread across 7 discs.

Pretty sure Silicon Era is wrong there (wouldn't be the first time). It sounds like they got the game DVDs mixed up with the Super Play DVDs.

Edit: after reading the Amazon listing for myself, it sure sounds like they did get mixed up. The Amazon listing makes no mention of the total number of game DVDs. Another interesting tid-bit is that all the DLC content for all included games will be on a single DVD.

So basically: Unknown number of game disks + DLC install disk + 7 Super Play DVDs

[trap15]

Holy Moses. So that's around $250, right?

More around $300 due to strong yen...

[nZero]

Also Guwange is probably a XBLA redeem code or it's stored in some kind of storage media in the collection.

Not necessarily. There have been retail disk releases of various XBLA games in the past.

How do those work, anyway? Are they like the content discs for certain games where you have to install them to HDD/USB storage?

[Cuilan]

Also, since it's extremely unlikely that each game will have its own disk, and since some games have been licensed and some haven't, it's almost guaranteed that this collection will be region-locked.

How do those work, anyway? Are they like the content discs for certain games where you have to install them to HDD/USB storage?

I've never played one of those collections, but from what I remember reading, they should work exactly like any other retail disk game: played directly off the disk, entire disk can be installed, but disk must be in the drive in order to play the games.

[Special World]

Dammit, Cave. I want it because I want to have Futari Black Label on-disc, but... screw buying all those games over again.

[Tyjet]

Dammit, Cave. I want it because I want to have Futari Black Label on-disc, but... screw buying all those games over again.

If the DLC is on the disk, then it might be worth it. (unless you already have all the DLC)

[Cuilan]

Dammit, Cave. I want it because I want to have Futari Black Label on-disc, but... screw buying all those games over again.

It's technically not on-disk. It's on a separate DLC install disk. It's not much different than keeping all of your Cave DLC on its own dedicated USB drive.

But that has got me thinking...how will they prevent people from "sharing" the DLC install disk? They could make it require some sort of unlock key.

[CStarFlare]

There are games that will let you install from without limitations. IIRC I was the third person to install the Elder Scrolls IV DLC from the GOTY edition I have.

For DLC, the safest way would be to tweak it so that it was just on the disc and not installed, like MBL & MBL 1.1 was for Deathsmiles NA. It wouldn't surprise me, considering the large amount of DLC available - installing each separately would be annoying.

[Cuilan]

There are games that will let you install from without limitations. IIRC I was the third person to install the Elder Scrolls IV DLC from the GOTY edition I have.

For DLC, the safest way would be to tweak it so that it was just on the disc and not installed, like MBL & MBL 1.1 was for Deathsmiles NA. It wouldn't surprise me, considering the large amount of DLC available - installing each separately would be annoying.

Yeah, you're right about Oblivion's Shivering Isles disk. However, I have a feeling that Cave isn't going to be so generous. They did lock away the 1.01 mode on every Futari 1.5 disk behind an unlock-key, after all.

As for your second comment, the Amazon listing specifically states that all DLC is going to be on a separate "install disk", and they call it exactly that.

[AweOfShe]

Would love to know if the "DLC contents" includes 1st print stuff like matsuri modes... We all know Cave likes to lie about exactly how limited edition things are.

I'm curious about that myself. While I have all the games already, I still wouldn't mind grabbing this. I hope they get a preliminary pic of the whole package up soon.

[ratikal]

Imagine the shit storm if it turns out it's region free. Hell, this is a great package. I might buy it even though I own everything already...

[Cuilan]

Imagine the shit storm if it turns out it's region free.

It would greatly piss off both Aksys Games and Rising Star Games, and would ensure that Cave would never be able to find another licensee for their games ever again.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

People lining up to pay $300 for games they already bought.

[iconoclast]

People lining up to pay $300 for games they already bought.

If I had money to throw around I'd buy it just for the superplay DVDs and sell off all of the games. It'd probably be worth it.