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#22
Have you checked the 5V under load?
#23
Yes! It's an original PCB, and the Varta battery has been replaced, yeah.
I've had a few sessions after I posted the initial message and the error never happened again.
I've had a few sessions after I posted the initial message and the error never happened again.
#24
Weird! Is it an original PCB or one of those PGM conversions? If original, has the battery been replaced?
#25
Hello! I booted up my Ketsui PCB and got the crash you see in this pic. After resetting the game, I started a new game before the demonstration screen shows up and everything played correctly. Do you guys know what happened there?
#26
PS4/5 got a new patch today. It improves the input lag in the PS5 version a little, to 74.82ms (= 4.5 frames). Still a far cry from the 3 frames on Xbox consoles, but it's now the same as the Switch 2 version, and a little better than the Switch 1 version.
https://x.com/noodalls/status/1989073112005284083
https://x.com/noodalls/status/1989073112005284083
#27
High Scores - Competition Style / Re: World Record Scores - Arca...
Last post by EOJ - November 09, 2025, 12:08:44 AMYOZ is finally finished with ESP2, after 20 years! This was pretty much a perfect run. It beats his previous WR of 1,038,000,258.
Espgaluda 2 - Ageha - 1,051,976,241 - YOZ
https://x.com/Yora_/status/1987138994468233702
It was streamed live on Wai Wai's Twitch channel. I've edited the video to remove the other game being streamed and archived it here for posterity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t9ZATUKagg
Espgaluda 2 - Ageha - 1,051,976,241 - YOZ
https://x.com/Yora_/status/1987138994468233702
It was streamed live on Wai Wai's Twitch channel. I've edited the video to remove the other game being streamed and archived it here for posterity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t9ZATUKagg
#28
I beat Visions of Mana (XSX) today, which took me about 31 hours in total. The game started off strong, but fizzled out by the end. The graphics are incredible throughout, and the battle system is quite good, as are the dungeon design and the field areas. Music is great too. However, on the downside the story and dialogue are pretty bad, the side quests are terrible and I skipped at least 75% of them because they were mostly boring fetch quests. They are also not retroactive, so if you already have the items they want or have killed the amount of enemies they ask you to kill, you have to do it all over again. In addition, there are far too many of them. They should have been streamlined into a smaller amount of interesting side quests.
Although the game runs at a mostly smooth 60fps and 4K resolution on XSX in "quality" mode, it is unstable. I had it crash about 5 times, roughly every 5-7 hours. This became quite an annoyance by the end. I can't remember the last time I had a game crash so often, it's just poor QC.
In the end these problems bring the game down to a 7/10 for me. I still had some fun, and I do think it's worth a play through just to experience the incredible graphics in this game. However, it could have been so much better with some better QC/programming, better quest design, and more effort put into the story. They should also let you go inside houses like in the previous games!
Although the game runs at a mostly smooth 60fps and 4K resolution on XSX in "quality" mode, it is unstable. I had it crash about 5 times, roughly every 5-7 hours. This became quite an annoyance by the end. I can't remember the last time I had a game crash so often, it's just poor QC.
In the end these problems bring the game down to a 7/10 for me. I still had some fun, and I do think it's worth a play through just to experience the incredible graphics in this game. However, it could have been so much better with some better QC/programming, better quest design, and more effort put into the story. They should also let you go inside houses like in the previous games!
#29
Xbox patch is up. 
#30
It's been about 2 weeks and this still hasn't been fixed nor have Live Wire mentioned anything about fixing it. It is astonishing that they can just force us to download an update for the game years later that totally ruins two of the game modes (DFK BL and DFK BL Arrange). 
I don't see anyone complaining about this on Shmups forum or other forums. More people need to speak up and let Live Wire know this is unacceptable.
I don't see anyone complaining about this on Shmups forum or other forums. More people need to speak up and let Live Wire know this is unacceptable.
Quote from: EOJ on October 20, 2025, 04:23:49 PMBad news: after the latest patch, DFK Black label has a pretty bad glitch where lasers don't disappear after you defeat an enemy (or boss phase). This makes the game pretty much unplayable (especially in stages 4 and 5). I hope live wire will fix this! I tested out DFK 1.5 briefly and it doesn't have this glitch, thankfully.
I put up a 391bil replay showing this glitch in action on the leaderboards. I made it up to the start of Stage 5.
And here's a short clip showing the problem: https://x.com/cavexstg/status/1980375856792105027