Maybe it is a laptop thing…I know this machine (it’s an IBM) has weird issues with Neverwinter Nights, too. Something to do with the graphics card having been altered to fit, and that creating wacky compatibility problems.
Well, back in the States in two weeks. We’ll see if it gets working before then. 
Thanks for the tip!
The thing is the game IS a resource hog. There is also the fact that while the game is 2D, it uses many DirectX 9 stuff, which means it’s doing “fake” 2D; it’s creating polygons with a 0 Z value (meaning it’s basically a flat cube) the using the sprites as textures. It’s a great method and allows for a ton of nice 3d effects, but it also automatically becomes a resource hog.
MB: ReAct also runs in 800x600. EFZ runs in 640x480…
I don’t know about 1. I have a NVidia GeForce FX 32MB on my laptop and the game runs smoothly. It may be an issue of drivers. Do you have the latest? Does your card has 32 MB on the card or is it a 16MB card that takes the other 16 megs from your system’s main memory?
What you can try to do is to put the backgrounds on simple, which helps improving frame rates. As of where exactly it is, I don’t know. But someone did post that in this thread.
EFZ is a 2D game. As someone else said, MB is a 3D game. That’s why EFZ runs in older machines compared to MB.
No. Probably the best way is to get an pad or a PSX adapter. I still can use the keyboard okay, but I get tired after a little bit for having my hands so close to each other, especially in a laptop keyboard. I do somewhat better in a desktop keyboard, but I still prefer laptop keyboard’s keys.
Yes. The first release is pretty unstable. Get the patches. The latest was released on 7/3, and you can get it from Watanabe Seisakujo’s site (http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~k_wata/).
Interesting news… (straight from InsertCredit.com).
http://techgonebad.pign.net/news/kenjutest01.jpg
Melty Blood gone Naomi/Atomiswave?
Summary page here: http://www.ojama-company.com/?date=20040710#p02
*“MELTY BLOOD ACT-CADENZA”
*Currently location testing (weekend of July 11th)
*Watanabe is -not- actively involved in the port
*FPS counter has been replaced with a 60-second (but probably
dipswitch-configurable) timer
*Only 10 characters selectable (down from 18 in Re.ACT, admittedly some of those are still bugged/incomplete)
*Revamped select screen…
*Running slowly on the Naomi hardware, needs serious optimization if it wants to run smoothly (recommended PC spec: 333MHz CPU + 32MB VRAM…)
*Lots of bugs, glitches, balance issues, plus the occassional crash or three
Interesting! 
The news comes first from the MMCafe forums, then came overhere (see this and previous page).
Sorry for that. I didn’t see the previous post coming from MMCafe…
Nah, it’s okay. Actually I am not completely sure where it comes from first, since there are common members in SRK, Beast’s Lair and MMCafe, and the news popped in all sites before I knew 
Further disucssion in MMCafe, Insert Credit and Beast’s Lair is not very encouraging, though 
I don’t know if anyone’s interested, but I’ve been playing around a lot with Miyako, who has some fun combos but does shit damage. Attached are a few replays of combos i did in training (note: I used MB:ReACT 2.004; if you try playing these on anything but, it won’t work).
I saw this on S-C forum in the Kenju thread too. And in my opinion, thats just excellent to Melty Blood sitting right next to Kenju at a location. I wanna see this in the states.
It would be nice if Watanabe made changes to their game so it could be played in ‘Arcade mode’, kind of like Stepmania does. That way you could just plug in a pc in an arcade cabinet and blam, you got your game
Well, you have to consider the fact that the final word is Type-Moon, since they created Tsukihime.
Now as why they chose a crappy company like Ecole to do the port, is beyond me.
im gonna take my vid down in a week so dl it while you can
http://www.angelfire.com/games5/burningvigor/
Damn awesome vid man, I think I have watched that vid like 8 times already I just wish I had react so I can attempt that stuff.
how did you record the vids off of the game? i’ve been looking for a good program for it.
The might be the only ones who offered…
Hmm, the link is now a 404. Anybody else know where I can get the v2.004 patch?
Fun game, btw. I just got both this and EFZ and I’m deciding which one I like better.
Watanabe Seisakujo web page:
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~k_wata/
Second links goes to the ReACT web page:
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~k_wata/react.htm
Patch is in this page.
Buktooth: do you know where the EFZ patch(es) is(are)? What version did you get?
Is this a new one? Or the old 2.002 one?
http://kalciane.tnim.org/react-replays
The link that bellreisa posted.
Thanks for the link. And no, I don’t know where to get any EFZ patches, since this is my first foray into doujin gaming. I’m liking what I see though.
EDIT: oooohhh. Improved training mode. Sweeeeet. My frame rate seems to have dropped a little after installing the patch though. -_-
EFZ patches are available at Tasofro’s site:
Just go to the EFZ > Download section. The patch you need depends on your version of EFZ (if you just have vanilla EFZ, I highly recommend you to get Blue Sky and Bad Moon Edition so you can upgrade).
For framerates in Melty Blood, look for an option that switches backgrounds to simple mode. That should help for what someone said in this thread.