Mine isn’t far behind you. Worse than that, I’m still searching for a job. Sounds like the 360 plan will be a go. I’ll bet the horse demons in Castlevania will be happy to hear that.
…Doesn’t mean they’re getting a break though.
-Starhammer-
well I found out why I couldnt play garegga, all the standart sites I get games from apparently have bad files or something. weird. after a bit of searching I found all the proper files and am enjoying the game.
on that note, I tried to play Soukyugurentai but once I pick my ship mame crashes. Im using the most current version of mame btw. is this game not emulated all the way? I want to play this game but no way am I shelling out the crazy $$$ this game goes for on the saturn.
Check your MAME version, they made changes for that game in .133u2, so anything later than that should work. I don’t have time now, but if that doesn’t work I’ll test it out on my system when I get back from class.
I have version .135
so I put in some serious time with Battle Garegga. yeah, the hype this game gets is not undeserved. I had a blast playing it. I got to level 3 without continues too on my second try. Im not sure which ship I like the best. glad Im playing on a big tv, those skinny bullets are so hard to see.
I played some Shmups like Raiden and Strikers when I was younger and would go to arcades, but I have only recently learned of the Cave, Raizing, Psikyo type of Shmups and have been playing a many as I can via MAME. I broke down and bought a Japanese PS2 and have that and a copy of Espgaluda coming in the mail, now I just need to find a stick so I can get the full Shmup experience.
Ok, so that Soukyugurentai game crashes really badly. Not touching that one for awhile.
nothing 3d runs well in mame i would suggest emulating the saturn port of souky
also hitoshi sakimoto did the soundtrack for the game it owns really hard
yeah, die hard arcade runs almost perfectly while radiant silvergun and souky either crash or are slow and unplayable. I cant seem to find a reliable dump of Batsugun. I try to mount the .cue file and it gives me an error message. 
question for any1 who has futari 1.5, is there online play?.. mine is still shipping, but my friend wants to order it and wants to play with me so thats the determinent if he buys it or not
quick question, is there any way I can play Raiden Fighters without having to wait through the 999 second wait time?
make a save state when you’re at the title screen and then you can just load it every time you run the game
Unfortunately no. I think there were lag issues with Deathsmiles online play, so they canned it for Futari.
Question: “Everybody gets shot” is a Cable reference, right?
New shmup coming out for XBLA in January, “Shoot 1Up”: http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/27330. Looks ok, the gimmick is instead of powerups you get more ships. Not sure if you can spread them out / drop them a la Galaga Legions, but I’ll probably play the demo at least.
That looks cool but I hope the baddies end up throwing in as much as you can potentially dish out or it could end up too easy for those guys (points up).
And it’s from the the Weapon of Choice guys too so it’s going to be a higher quality Indie game.
it could be but I doubt it.
It’s a real life situation for us shmup fans though. We take getting and not getting shot very seriously brah.
Hey guys you should all reread the first page. It almost brought a tear to my eye.
ah that sucks… but thanks for the info
My copy of Futari arrived today, so much fun. Ultra mode’s bullets are so much faster when playing it yourself. Gotta learn how to better induce slowdown on command…
damn i ordered mine from play-asia on the 3rd and im still waiting!
I had preordered mine and received the “Shipped!” email on the 25th of November. Took a bit longer than usual for P-A, but I guess that’s expected due to the season. Strangely enough I also had KoF 2002UM in the order and it shipped first, but hasn’t arrived yet :bluu:
So my 360 made this circle around my LE Futari disc. Goddamnit! :sad:
Started to have some reading problems. Cleaning and re-loading the disc solves the problem.
Bought another copy (regular edition) just in case my LE becomes unreadable for good. I’m afraid of there not being any more copies of Futari later on since this is a pretty niche and rare title. I normally wouldn’t do this, considering the price, but a good game such as this deserves it.
Oh well, more support for CAVE, lol.
So far I can NO MISS Stage 1 on Original but when I get to the first mid-boss in Stage 2, that’s where everything goes downhill.
I use Normal Reco. I find that with Abnormal Reco, it takes forever to destroy mid-bosses. With NR, I just hold A and they die quickly.
The scoring system kinda fucks me up 'cause whenever I try to look at the color of the counter, I never see the bullets coming at me and I die. So trying to do both is kinda hard for me. Either that or I’m looking at the corner of the screen at the counter, which is worse.
Stupid jellyfish piss me off. :mad:
EDIT: Question. Is Original just as hard as Maniac? I ask since Maniac has slower bullets but they are more plentiful as opposed to Original’s fast but less plentiful amount of bullets. So both difficulty levels balance out, IMO.