Ketsui and DDP DOJ BL ports [JP X360]

[EOJ]

Mihara has posted some info about one of the guys porting these games at 5pb: he's an avid X360 gamer with around 50,000 achievement points on Xbox Live. In this week's Famitsu X360 magazine, this guy has some sort of column, which is the first of more to come in the months ahead (Mihara doesn't state what the column talks about).
Anyway, Mihara said he was shocked at the number of achievement points, and gave the impression the 5pb guy is some sort of super game nerd.

Hopefully being a super game nerd means the guy will make sure the Ketsui port is accurate in the gameplay department.

[sven666]

...as a non-360 gamer what does 50000 achievement points mean?

[SuperPang]

That he likes playing shit games for hours doing irrelevant tasks

[drboom]

That he likes playing shit games for hours doing irrelevant tasks

Plenty of guys just play for achivement points and there's lists of the easiest points to get from what games to boost your score. In Avatar (I think) there's a section where you can get 1000 points in about five-minutes. Pretty pointless if you ask me.

[adverse]

I guess there was a net radio interview with a lot of people about the state of arcade games, and among them, Masaki Sakari from 5PB was interviewed about the Dodonpachi and Ketsui ports.  Posted here: http://sazanami.net/

Rough translation:
・The reason they went for the 360 was because it was where all the maniac gamers are.
・They're working really hard to get exactly right all the parts where players have to be really precise.
・New functions for the game are online co-op, high-res mode with 4x the quality of the original releases
・The PS2 Dodonpachi Daioujou port was completed really well so it's a matter of how to add new value to the 360 release
・Daioujou is Inouesan's projects (? I think), so they're probably going to prioritize Ketsui (super good news imo!)

[Geezer]

Thanks for the info adverse

high-res mode with 4x the quality of the original releases

How will they achieve this? Some sort of Vectorization process?

[Eight One]

・Daioujou is Inouesan's projects (? I think), so they're probably going to prioritize Ketsui (super good news imo!)

I guess we got incredibly lucky to see DDP.  As for ESP, Guwange, Progear, and possibly Deathsmiles, here's to hoping!

[EOJ]

From the Talk Show event at the recent CAVE matsuri:

Ketsui X will be playable at the Autumn AOU show (maybe referring to the Amusement show next month?). They are thinking of making a playable demo available for XBLA some time before the game's release, but have not decided on this yet.

[adverse]

Looks like neither port will be shown at TGS, seeing as CAVE and 5pb are not on the exhibitor list.   

[EOJ]

yeah, it's just being shown at the arcade show.

[EOJ]

Looks like the 5pb guy, Masaki Sakari, has a DDP:DOJ BL cab:

http://hgqp.blog44.fc2.com/blog-entry-381.html

Hopefully he's using it to check for accuracy with the port.

[GaijinPunch]

Looks like the 5pb guy, Masaki Sakari, has a DDP:DOJ BL cab:

http://hgqp.blog44.fc2.com/blog-entry-381.html

Hopefully he's using it to check for accuracy with the port.

He needs to hire a high level player.  The dude that did the BL DVDs would suffice.  I don't see anyone else doing a better job... maybe not even a computer.

[EOJ]

Yeah, I agree. Doubt it will happen though.

Also, Rai82 over on shmups found this link:

http://5pb.jp/games/products/products_new

It says both ports will come with new modes aimed at beginners. Would be nice if they were fun arrange modes with lots of funky stuff on the screen, rather than just some dumbed down auto-bomb mode or whatever.

[adverse]

Mihara says there's a rumor that we will see DOJ at Christmas.

Ketsui before that?

[EOJ]

I don't think Ketsui is coming before that, more likely after.

On the 5pb developer's blog he recently posted he is trying to make a promo vid of DDPDOJBLX, but has run into some technical glitches. He says the game is currently 89% finished. He wants to show a version that is 91% finished at an upcoming game show. No mention of Ketsui X here.

[CHR_AeON]

Releasedate for DDP DOJ BL: 2008/12/25.

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/amiami/tvg-x36-0227/

[EOJ]

Nice christmas present. They state in the description there will be a new character and a new mode.

Would be nice to see the game in motion already.

Maybe Ketsui next spring?

[GaijinPunch]

89% and they can't show a video?  That sounds a bit... uh... stupid.

[EOJ]

Maybe they're afraid if people see it they won't want it anymore?

[EOJ]

http://www.famitsu.com/game/coming/1218286_1407.html

New pics of the DDPDOJ port, including character designs of a new character added. The new character looks pretty dumb.

The pics are blurry as hell too.

Finally, remember that "4x upgraded graphics high resolution mode" they talked about having when the port was announced? It has been scrapped. Instead,
we get "a variety of anti-aliasing settings". Yay! 

Not looking forward to this one.

[PROMETHEUS]

ROFL@phone girl
I don't really care about DOJ but I'm curious about Ketsui, there is a chance I'll pick it up to play it seriously. I hope there will be keyboard support ~.~

[RAR]

Does either one of the ports have the tate option at all? I can't be fucked to play with such STG games that doesn't have the tate-ability feature.

(Not saying I'm going to get back into playing STG again, but it's something I've always wondered about its tate feature since the ports were announced in the first place.)

[EOJ]

Yes, both are confirmed to have TATE modes.

[RAR]

Nice. Thanks, EOJ.

[Shalashaska]

Awesome, not only does every new game have to be filled with the loli crap but now the old games are being retro-fitted with them. What's Ketsui X going to have? A little girl in a plumber outfit holding a plunger?

Finally, remember that "4x upgraded graphics high resolution mode" they talked about having when the port was announced? It has been scrapped. Instead,
we get "a variety of anti-aliasing settings". Yay! 

Too bad, I was kinda interested to see how that'd turn out.

[PROMETHEUS]

Is HD mode scrapped also for Ketsui or only DOJ ?

[EOJ]

It's probably been scrapped for both. Though no official word on Ketsui yet.

[adverse]

Wow, well they fucked that up.  Should've known that 5pb wouldn't go very far with their port, they seem to have pretty limited programming abilities.  I have the feeling Deathsmiles is going to look a lot better than either of these games.   

[EOJ]

They're probably just running the games through a MAME-type emulator. Pretty quick and easy port, but yeah, not really putting the love and effort in as we saw in the Arika ports. It's really not surprising when you consider the other games 5pb has released (all crap) and the type of company they are.

I don't expect the DS port to be any better, frankly.

[adverse]

I don't expect the DS port to be any better, frankly.

DS port is at least handheld, plus it has Mihara, who was in charge of DOJ and possibly the other Arika ports I'm not sure.  I've also played it and thought it at least controlled well.  Still, yeah it's not going to be much more than something to play around with most likely.