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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:26 am Post subject:

it's been a while since wes updated the banners.

WES, GET OFF YOUR SLACKING.
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

I don't suppose anyone knows where I can find a high-res scan or high-res component illustrations from the Japanese version of Senko no Ronde?

Replace the DVD sleeve and all is peachy, probably!
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

It's probably not quite large enough for a very clear print out, but THIS IMAGE was the best one I found when I went looking last May.
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

That's pretty much good enough, I think! Actually! I can screw around with it a bit, if need be.

So there's more than Bionic Commando and SF4 afoot:

http://blogs.capcomusa.com/blogs/news.php/2007/10/19/gamer_s_day_london_2007_coverage

Also Commando 3! And here are some shots of Bionic Commando. Doesn't look too awful in its own right, though it's a bit... not what anyone might have hoped.

It just looks like an adult version of Virtual Fighter Cyber Generation.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

It looks sort of beautiful. I like the look of Capcom's current-gen games (Dead Rising, Lost Planet, this). Whatever the combination of renderers they use is, it's got a very nice feel to it. Puts me in mind of Source engine games.

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Yeah, it's certainly pretty! If nothing else. I also wonder if it's on the Lost Planet engine. Not sure how Bionic Commandoey it looks; I guess we can wait and see.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I have no hope for Commando 3 because it's being developed by (essentially) Digital Eclipse.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

And was that one of Gabe's illustrations, or does it just look like his?
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

The forms are too angular to be Gabe.

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

http://www.bioniccommando.com/en#

Holy fuck.

I dare you not to shiver halfway through that first video, when the... AURAL THING kicks in. The thing you will have to hear for yourself.

Also. Man... man... The way it looks like it plays.

Man...
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dessgeega · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:21 am Post subject:

the new kunio dodgeball game for the ds will receive a western release.
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

What on Earth is that company?
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Also, what's the orgin of the Kunio franchise? Is it based on a popular manga, or something?

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Actually, it's based on... Kunio. The guy who founded Technos. Last name escapes me at the moment.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject:

folks are raising money to get pixel (author of doukutsu monogatari) a ds. paypal donations.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

That's ace that there's a Cave Story LJ community.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

dess, did you see this:

http://www.taito.co.jp/csm/title/2007/sie_ds/
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:42 pm Post subject: INVADE-YOU

Oh god that website, those colours!
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I know this is like one of those old internet jokes but that genuinely did make me feel like I was going to have a seizure.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

ps the game is compatible with that paddle controller that comes with arkanoid
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:49 pm Post subject:

I imagine this is what everything looks like whilst on party drugs.
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject:

nethack 3d, holy shit. mac only though.
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Pink Teddy Bear · . Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 180

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

nethack 3d what are you dess some kind of casual gamer it totally ruins the point of the original c'mon girl geez louise
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dessgeega · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject:

daphaknee · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:39 am Post subject:

fuck yeah i have a mac

bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

nethack sucks though Sad

edit: that actually looks like a fun way to play roguelikes though. I wonder if it's going to play well.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

WHOA WHOA WHOA, WHAT DO YOU THINK YER SAYIN'
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:48 am Post subject:

which part? nethack actually does suck. a first-person roguelike could be nifty.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

only people who suck think nethack sucks.

hey did you guys kow that rogue was actually the second rogue-like!

also nice try beating my score there, dess

only a matter of time, i'm sure.

also scarab of ra was a first person rogue-like.

kinda.
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bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

Welcome to Bartender DS! (I don't think this deserves its own thread)

http://www.dsfanboy.com/2007/08/20/get-refreshed-with-bartender-ds/

So EA's latest release... is a drink mixing game? I guess that could be useful, if you really hate books or something. Who knows, maybe it's actually better than a book, provided that you know a lot of japanese?

Anyway, this game (paraphrased from linked article) sports over 850 complete drink recipes, complete with background information on its history and creation. So I guess the only thing it's good for is a libatiion library. Here's to hoping that it has a mix random drink function!

As an aside, is this sort of thing regular in Japan? Do publishers release these "games" that aren't really meant to be fun so much as useful? Or am I witnessing a potential new phase in the portable gaming industry?
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daphaknee · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject:

i mean i guess taht could be cool instead of pulling out your bartenders book when someone asks for a drink at a party you flip open your ds and are like *tap tap tap* ah yes

adn then you mix it

maybe the ds will become the electronic how-to book of the future

jetsons here we come!

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I have a game called LAST CALL for the mac/pc that is a drink mixing game, and I always thought it would be great to port it to the DS. I guess this is close enough, but it looks like it lacks all ther personality and fun of LAST CALL.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject:

Will it coms with a motion sensing cart for those drink where you have to close up the DS and shake it? I couldn't imagine a portable drink mixing game without this feature.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Elite IV is still in the works, rest assured.
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daphaknee · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:50 am Post subject:

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Uh, yeah, me too

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_video_game_companies

Huh. How many do YOU recognize? How many do you mourn? How many are left out?
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

well bartender DS isn't even a game Sad

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bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

Igarashi has... plans... for newer Castlevania games.
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Those are way more interesting questions than usual for the man. Well, some of them.
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Pink Teddy Bear · . Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 180

http://www.swisssupply.com/nintendo.php

Hot damn. I began laughing uncontrollably due to instant insanity.

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject:

For dealers only?
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captaincabinets · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 12:38 am Post subject:

following swiss numbering standards, it only costs $29.50. Bargainza
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

SOME BEST BUYS ARE BREAKING THE STREET DATE FOR MARIO GALAXY.

Also, there's an interesting article up at Next-Gen.biz which suggests a lot of Gamecube games were originally designed with the Wii in mind.