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#41
Bad 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
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
#42
Their other Cave games got a physical release about 1.5-2 years after the digital, so we'll likely see one for SDOJ in the second half of next year. Maybe only in Japan, though (by Superdeluxe), since the game doesn't have any English text.
#43
Will this ever get a physical release? It's currently 10% off on the Eshop but I don't feel like paying over $40 for a barebones port.
#44
New patch released today that enables the online leaderboards (finally!). 
#45
Hey, DFK got a patch today, and it enabled the online leaderboards! I checked, and there are already some scores up. So weird that it took them like 4 years and they did this after they delisted the game. 
EDIT: Just checked and Mushi and Esp2 also got patches enabling the leaderboards! Maybe they have a new port coming out soon and they figured out how to do the leaderboards in that, so they're retrofitting it to their other games?
EDIT: Just checked and Mushi and Esp2 also got patches enabling the leaderboards! Maybe they have a new port coming out soon and they figured out how to do the leaderboards in that, so they're retrofitting it to their other games?
#46
I've been practicing stage 5 and all the stages in the Omote loop this week, and it paid off today! I met my goal of 300bil and nearly made it to 400bil. 
DDP Daifukkatsu 1.5 (Switch port)
392,757,604,509 - 2-ALL (Omote, Lx1, Bx5) - C-Strong
Ended loop 1 with 288bil, and did a complete chain of 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 and 2-4. Messed up 2-5 in several spots, getting very few points there.
DDP Daifukkatsu 1.5 (Switch port)
392,757,604,509 - 2-ALL (Omote, Lx1, Bx5) - C-Strong
Ended loop 1 with 288bil, and did a complete chain of 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 and 2-4. Messed up 2-5 in several spots, getting very few points there.
#47
I finished Long Gone Days on my Series X. Took me about 11 hours. Really interesting game with turned-based battles, great pixel art, a good story, and nice music. I enjoyed it overall - A solid 7/10 game. I bought this on a recent "buy 1 get 2 free" sale on the Xbox store. I got this game, Under Defeat, and 8-bit Adventures 2 for $25, so a bit over $8 for each game.
Now I'm playing through Visions of Mana on my Series X. I wrote this game off when I played the demo last year, but I tried it again when it was on Gamepass, and bought it on sale for $36. I'm about 12 hours in and it's actually really great! The graphics are amazing, some of the best I've ever seen in this style. And it looks and runs better in 4K60fps on the Series X than the demo did on the PS5.
Now I'm playing through Visions of Mana on my Series X. I wrote this game off when I played the demo last year, but I tried it again when it was on Gamepass, and bought it on sale for $36. I'm about 12 hours in and it's actually really great! The graphics are amazing, some of the best I've ever seen in this style. And it looks and runs better in 4K60fps on the Series X than the demo did on the PS5.
#48
A big increase this time!
DDP Daifukkatsu 1.5 (Switch port)
279,903,263,538 - 2-ALL (Omote, Lx0, Bx6) - C-Strong
I've been practicing stage 5 the past couple days and can get 175bil on it about 50% of the time with my current pattern. In this run I did a "panic" hyper on the last midboss, right before the final rush, costing me 40-50bil. Ended Loop 1 with 252bil. Messed up ST3 and only got about 20bil there. I could get about 350bil in Loop 1 if I do every stage perfectly (with my current strats), but odds of that happening are quite low since I always seem to mess up at least one stage per run, so I'll be happy to just get over 300bil.
DDP Daifukkatsu 1.5 (Switch port)
279,903,263,538 - 2-ALL (Omote, Lx0, Bx6) - C-Strong
I've been practicing stage 5 the past couple days and can get 175bil on it about 50% of the time with my current pattern. In this run I did a "panic" hyper on the last midboss, right before the final rush, costing me 40-50bil. Ended Loop 1 with 252bil. Messed up ST3 and only got about 20bil there. I could get about 350bil in Loop 1 if I do every stage perfectly (with my current strats), but odds of that happening are quite low since I always seem to mess up at least one stage per run, so I'll be happy to just get over 300bil.
#49
Hey, a new score after over 2 years!
DDP Daifukkatsu 1.5 (Switch port)
231,151,163,129 - 2-ALL (Omote, Lx2, Bx2) - C-Strong
Played on a Switch Pro controller.
Still working on improving my DFK BL score as well, but that's slow going.
DDP Daifukkatsu 1.5 (Switch port)
231,151,163,129 - 2-ALL (Omote, Lx2, Bx2) - C-Strong
Played on a Switch Pro controller.
Still working on improving my DFK BL score as well, but that's slow going.
#50
High Scores - Competition Style / Re: World Record Scores - Home...
Last post by EOJ - September 13, 2025, 09:41:03 PMQuote from: EOJ on June 12, 2022, 09:26:12 PMDVL got 1,814,468,646,279 in DFK BL with A-Strong (on 19-Feb-2022), beating his older score of 1,732,347,841,841. This is also now the highest score in this mode with any ship type. No replay, unfortunately!
I logged into the DFK BL X360 leaderboards for the first time this year and saw DVL made a big improvement on May 25, 2025, getting close to 1.9 trillion!:
1,885,214,259,705 - A-Strong - ALL (with Hibachi) - DVL
Once again, no replay, which is a bummer.