sixteen-bit
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It charted 8th last week but only did like 9K. Terrible sales.
Their best opening week was Deathsmiles at 21K
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It charted 8th last week but only did like 9K. Terrible sales.
Their best opening week was Deathsmiles at 21K
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
If Media Create is to be believed it didn't even crack top 50, which is like <1,000 units sold.
we are so niche
sixteen-bit
Member
Shooting Love debuted at #34 the week of May 27th.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=577129
Software outside of the top 20 doesn't list sales numbers, so all we know is it was under 2,800 units.
StarCreator
Member
I'm assuming these charts still don't track online sales?
Yeah, they don't. And shelf space in stores with 360 games is probably very limited, so it's hard to tell how well the game did.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
I think it was mentioned somewhere that SDOJ sold roughly twice as many units online than from retail outlets, but I might be thinking of a different game.
I wouldn't be surprised. No one in Japan buys X360 games at retail anymore. It's all internet sales.
LeadenStride
Member
Finally my copy left customs after rotting there for two weeks!
OK, that seems to be the case now.
But before I selected Score Attack Team Mode, I played 360 mode (Score Attack and not SA Team Mode) a few times and was able to select the standard 3 pilots at will.
When I first selected Team Mode, I had a confirmation screen of some kind which I didn't take the time to try to read because it was partially cut off from the screen zooming and because I was on the treadmill at the time. I'd assume it was warning me about this, but it seems weird that there is no apparent way to reverse this.
I might have to see about translating the manual a bit, I guess.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
Just learned today that in addition to Hibachi appearing in 5-E, DDP Maximum has ANOTHER TLB in 5-SR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s60VArSZ10w
Jesus christ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s60VArSZ10w
Jesus christ
Bonne chance with that!
Hardest stage in the game.
Yeah,
And Cave's greatest game in a good while.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
Yeah I still can't reliably do Hibachi's first pattern. Maybe in a century...
Damn, I barely make it past the Espgaluda boss in that, wish they had that as a sixth stage with multiple difficulties like the other levels.
...or just do a new "Ketsui Maximum" game or DLC or something, they're already part of the way there!
StarCreator
Member
I can only think you had switched to the Arcade/1.5 mode without realizing it - it is just a tap to the left or right to switch modes after all. 360 mode has no ship selection whatsoever.
The popup was probably notifying you what team you were placed on.
LeadenStride
Member
Going to pick up my copy from the post office later today, but won't have much time to play it the next couple of days. Any recommendations which mode(s) to try first?
I'd start with arcade mode, because it's the original version and it's great, but avoid bikinis.
Unless you're terrible like me. Novice is going to keep me busy for a long time, hah.
I love the soundtrack. I could keep Stage 4 music on repeat all day.
gunstarhero
Member
Maybe I'm in the minority - but I love 360 mode more than all the other modes so far. It has a more deep and fun (IMO) scoring system. The other modes seem more vanilla compared to it.
Great news!
depths20XX
Member
So local scores don't save at all in SDOJ? They are always back to default when I come back to the game. Kinda lame cuz I like chasing my personal best in these games.
LeadenStride
Member
Thanks guys. I ended up starting with Arcade mode and Type-C, since it was always my ship of choice in Resurrection. It moved really slow and some of the faster bullet patterns felt impossible to dodge with it. Other than that I immediately liked the use of rich colors and the higher difficulty. It felt really wild and messy though, but that's kind of normal when playing a Cave game for the first time.
I wasn't supposed to play any further, but I did anyway, especially since the extreme slowness of Type-C bothered me somehow. I picked 1.5 with the same ship and completed the first two stages. It was more bearable, but maybe that was just from coming from the much more complex patterns of the latter stages. Tried again with Type-A and it was really fast as expected. The enemy patterns became more familiar and the game started to be really enjoyable and addictive, so I tried Novice as well. It was significantly easier and I didn't get hit until stage 4. Might still mainly stick to it until I become more acquainted with enemy and bee locations.
360 mode remains untouched, but I'll definitely get to that next time.
I suppose most in here have autobomb off, right?
And does anyone else think that Type-C feels slower than in Resurrection?
I wasn't supposed to play any further, but I did anyway, especially since the extreme slowness of Type-C bothered me somehow. I picked 1.5 with the same ship and completed the first two stages. It was more bearable, but maybe that was just from coming from the much more complex patterns of the latter stages. Tried again with Type-A and it was really fast as expected. The enemy patterns became more familiar and the game started to be really enjoyable and addictive, so I tried Novice as well. It was significantly easier and I didn't get hit until stage 4. Might still mainly stick to it until I become more acquainted with enemy and bee locations.
360 mode remains untouched, but I'll definitely get to that next time.
I suppose most in here have autobomb off, right?
And does anyone else think that Type-C feels slower than in Resurrection?
StarCreator
Member
They should be saving. Make sure you're looking at the correct score table, as there's one for each doll/costume combination.
They're all there on the local leaderboard shown during the attract mode, but the in game one resets to 1 billion* or whatever for the session for whatever reason.
*I hate the super high scores these days, makes it hard as hell to tell what your score is at a glance.
Never played DFK much (...other than the iOS version, didnt have the cab adapter back then) but I've mostly been playing with C laser in this one. Of course I tried A for the heck of it the other day and destroyed my high score. I normally go with the B type in DDPs but I guess I like C for the stronger wide shot while using the laser type.
I've been playing auto bomb off recently, but left it on for a long time, and used auto hyper (one of the "option" cheats) for a bit too. I think they helped me take more chances and get more used to some of the tighter swarms cause that little auto fallback. I do all manual now, mostly just cause you get more bombs with each life when auto bomb is off, plus scoring wise, when the auto bomb triggered it killed your chain, vs just losing 1/3 or whatever by dying.
gunstarhero
Member
They should be saving - but there's a bug that doesn't allow you to enter your initials - so all the scores on mine say CAV. The score itself should still be there though.
Ha ha, tell me about it. It doesn't help that the Japanese break down super high numbers every thousand thousands, not every hundred hundreds. (i.e. 1,000,000 would be noted as 100,0000)
StarCreator
Member
Is this a bug? Initial entry hasn't been offered in any Cave 360 release since DFK.
Very much so. A little slow on the first up-boot but snappy after that.
Are the visual options any good? I'll probably be playing it with smoothing on but it'd be nice to have the option to turn it off. I remember reading that it's always on or something but not sure if the patch fixed that or not.
StarCreator
Member
There was a layer of extra unnecessary filtering that was turned off permanently with the patch, but it's impossible to turn off all types of filtering as it's one of the games that do not render square pixels. I don't think the patch added an option to change the resize style like Ketsui does.
lol I'm terrible too
It's just that I don't like the Novice modes, I feel like cheating if I play Novice. Not that there's anything wrong with Novice, I just find Arcade more satisfying even if I suck.Ah, right. I forgot the PGM games use oblong pixels.
At least the filtering is justified here. Not an issue then, I'll grab it.
Image can be a little soft. But nothing too bad. Not as ace as the fantastic PS2 port running at 240p but, then again, this one works better on modern HDTVs. Wasn't this the first Cave 360 port? Gets a little slack.
Yeah, and I just checked, and I can not find any type of visual options on the game for filtering.
Yeah, and I just checked, and I can not find any type of visual options on the game for filtering.
gunstarhero
Member
Hmmm - maybe... I thought DDP Resurrection and Akai Katana allowed initial entry?
StarCreator
Member
It's 5pb's port, and considering it was created with source code stolen from Arika, it doesn't get any slack. Pretty sure 5pb lost the license over the debacle.
Rusurrection is DFK. I don't think Akai Katana has initial entry.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
The low sales numbers for Saidaioujou blow my mind. :/
I wouldn't be surprised if this GAF thread is one of the major hotspots of Cave discussion in the entire world.
I wouldn't be surprised if this GAF thread is one of the major hotspots of Cave discussion in the entire world.
How many people are playing this game here? 10? Out of 9000+digital sales.
SOME-MIST
Member
maybe one of the major hotspots, but when it was around cave-stg was the go-to place.
and then it closed and a lot of those users became more active on shmups.system11.
I got the SDOJ patch and played a bit. First, it deletes ALL of your coins and EVERYTHING you unlocked. In fact, it deletes your entire system file, so you have to redo all the config stuff (screen, buttons, etc). Second, the slowdown now feels the same even if you have the extra windows on display during play, but overall it feels like there is more slowdown in the stages than before (the boss fights feel exactly the same, though), which I am not too happy about for Arcade HD, but I guess it will make Ver 1.5 a bit easier to clear for people.
Unfortunately there is still no easy way to view your offline scores.
The leaderboards were reset last night, but the Cave blog says that was just a test, and they will be reset again tomorrow, and finalised then.
Unfortunately there is still no easy way to view your offline scores.
The leaderboards were reset last night, but the Cave blog says that was just a test, and they will be reset again tomorrow, and finalised then.
That's odd...None of that happened to me. Maybe it does that only under certain conditions.
Mine did not wipe either.
shaowebb
Member
Hey guys I know I can access the foreign digital markets on XBox 360 and install games if I make a profile for that region. I also know if I buy and install anything this way that isn't region free I'm boned as it wont play.
So is the digital version of Espgaluda 2 region free or not?
Same question applies for
Galaxy Force
Eschatos
Mushihimesama Futari
Barret Seoul (lol at that translation
Shooting love 200x
So is the digital version of Espgaluda 2 region free or not?
Same question applies for
Galaxy Force
Eschatos
Mushihimesama Futari
Barret Seoul (lol at that translation
Shooting love 200x
Sounds like I got screwed. Right after I installed the patch I started the game while signed into xbox live and it said "system file not found", it made a new one, and everything was gone. I had everything unlocked too.
I know the feeling. I just erased my Ketsui save file after months and months of play because I was uninstalling it and did not realize the save file was part of the wrapper...usually they are different. ;-(
SOME-MIST
Member
I dunno what galaxy force is, but afaik shooting love 200x is the only locked game in your list.