outunderthestars
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Agreed. I wish Sony had led the charge on this two years ago.
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Limited signups for Class of Heroes 2 [PSP] physical release [goal reached]
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Agreed. I wish Sony had led the charge on this two years ago.
Hours Left
Member
I'm in.
Christopher
Member
Is there a class of heroes 2 did gajin works do that as well?
you mean 1?
Hours Left
Member
If you mean the first one, yes it exists in English, but Gaijinworks did not localize it.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I wonder if they shouldn't have just done this in the first place rather than go the kickstarter route.
Reluctant-Hero
Member
Signed up as well. I figure I owe Vic one for the excellence that was the Arc the Lad Collection.
pancakesandsex
Member
Signed up.
Augemitbutter
Member
might not be their fault, but $10 international shipping for a puny UMD case is annoying.
idlethreats
Member
Ah, my bad. I could have sworn I read somewhere that they didn't manage 1000 pre-orders, but I must be wrong if they ended up publishing the UMD.
We're shooting for Vita compatability. We'll do what we have to so it works, but there's nothing crazy in the code and it's using straight Sony libs, so it should be the Vita clearance along with the PSP Q/A completion.
Making a progress bar now so people can keep tabs. Should be up soon. (EDIT: It's up now - complete with Success meme at the top) The info has been up for a bit over 10 hours with very limited awareness so far and we have just over 500. Pretty encouraging.
But if it doesn't make it, the game's still coming, so it's not the apocalypse. It's just a last-ditch effort to make a physical version available for the fans that like that sort of thing (myself included).
It's ready for Sony QA now, so if we pass first time, should be late this month.
cj_iwakura
Member
That's good to know. Honestly if nothing else I wish we'd gotten that John Truitt voiceover.
I'd fund that three times over more than a physical release.Has he even done any work in the industry lately? The whole Liam O'Brian/Yuri Lowenthal/Nolan North/etc. monopoly's kind of getting old. At least WD used fresh talent.
That's good to know. Honestly if nothing else I wish we'd gotten that John Truitt voiceover.
Has he even done any work in the industry lately? The whole Liam O'Brian/Yuri Lowenthal/Nolan North/etc. monopoly's kind of getting old. At least WD used fresh talent.
He still does theatre and some TV commercials locally, but that's about it. I'll definitely be calling on him in the future for more games, though.
cj_iwakura
Member
When do we get an indication of what's coming? I recall a promise of more J-PSN goodies...
dark_preacher
Member
signed up vic, i will support anything you do, thanks so much for the magic that was working designs.
Thanks for the support. I think you'll see some of that magic in Class of Heroes 2...
outunderthestars
Banned
Any word on the site's forums coming on line?
cj_iwakura
Member
I remember when Sunsoft's boards were practically a Working Designs MB. Fun times.
It's on the to-do list, but it will definitely be after CoH2 is through Q/A. There's just too much going on (with this title and others) and we're too small to get to it all.
I originally was going to import the WD message board with user names and everything intact, but I may have to just set up a new forum like we did for Sunsoft just to get it up.
PaulExcellent
Member
Signed up. I'll use the digital version, as my PSP's UMD drive is suck.
Darrcyphfeid
Neo Member
Loved the Working Designs stuff back in the day, but sadly couldn't justify getting on board with the Kickstarter. Got so much stuff I don't know what to do with as it is.
Definitely in for a copy if/when this goes through, though.
Definitely in for a copy if/when this goes through, though.
We're not super-concerned about it. If an issue comes up in Q/A, we can adjust around it since we have full source code here. Vita compatibility is a must for this in my view, so we'll make sure it happens.
It's more about making sure SCEA doesn't do something stupid like only allow it to be transferred from PS3 rather than DL straight from Vita.
Too many games come out and we have to reach out to the publishers via Twitter and they had no idea.
It then takes a few days for them to get SCEA to 'flip the switch'.
Thanks for the support!
There's no manufacturing line for the original discs, cases, etc, but we still have source archived for the ones we did, so emulated on a new platform is technically possible (but not on the horizon at the moment).
Off topic I know...but you guys wouldnt happen to be able to sell replacement materials for the Saturn games you published? Manuals and stuff I mean. Been looking for a Dragon Force manual forever.
Most of that is long gone. I have some Popful Mail backliners, some DF memory card stickers, and some other odds and ends, but that's about it. At one time I had a few hundred of each warehoused, but when we went to one E3, my partner at WD (who was not a gamer) threw a ton of it away (including super rare even then Exile 2 foil stamped covers) to "clean up" the warehouse. I'm still ticked about it.
Ban Puncher
Member
Signed on.
Will double up if you toss a Clinton reference in just to annoy translation purists.
Will double up if you toss a Clinton reference in just to annoy translation purists.
Oh, no. I've learned that lesson. No political jokes, period. That said, there are references to pop culture woven into the game. Most of it is pretty subtle, but it's all there.
Ouch, well thanks anyway.
lol I think I saw a Pokemon reference in one of the battle shots
Mewwho?
Possible, but Vita is riskier than PSP at the moment. At least with the PSP we get the PSP plus Vita installed bases combined. It's actually a bigger pool.
It's not like there's a shortage of PSP games that deserve a localization. :/
Anyway, went ahead and signed up for the UMD, even though I'd be playing it on the Vita mostly. I'm really glad you were able to swing digital copies for that. Is there any sort of ad-hoc support for item exchange or anything?
Anyway, went ahead and signed up for the UMD, even though I'd be playing it on the Vita mostly. I'm really glad you were able to swing digital copies for that. Is there any sort of ad-hoc support for item exchange or anything?
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
signed up!
The PSP version has ad-hoc network support for trading items locally with a friend. Not sure how Vita emulation handles PSP networking. If it's transparent, it will be available on Vita as well.
outunderthestars
Banned
700! 1800 to go. Come on GAF. We can do this!
700! 1800 to go. Come on GAF. We can do this!
It's closer to 800 now. Hasn't quite crossed the threshold yet, though.
outunderthestars
Banned
Is there any possibility of setting up the soundtrack on bandcamp? I'd gladly buy a digital copy of the soundtrack as a way to help the project.
Also, another thing that's extremely attractive about Class of Heroes is the future has already been written and we have a clear record of each game being better than the one before it, with the ratings to prove it. Every installment through Class of Heroes 5 has rated higher than the one before it. We're dedicated to catching up to Japan and crossing over to Vita or wherever with it as long as the very minimal level of fan support we're looking for stays with us.
We don't have the rights to sell that and there's no time to get that ball rolling in the time we have left. The survey is actually going pretty well as it is, though. Looks like we'll end up in the mid-800 units after day 1, which is pretty good.
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