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What are Cave up to nowadays?
I bought almost all of their iOS shooters, loved them. A shame they stopped making anymore.
Best news I could wake up to.
This is wonderful news! So you have this and Eschatos from the folks at Degica/Degigames? They are gonna get my money thats for sure!
Don't forget about first official Western release of a Touhou game earlier this year.
That's not a Degica-published game but you're totally right.
I also forgot to mention the upcoming Darius game. PC is really cleaning up nowadays.
Raiden 4 will be released this week too if I remember correctly
edit: jup http://store.steampowered.com/app/323460/
edit2: duuuuh, you already mentioned that, I suck at reading
Well was kind of a now or never cituation, since demul/MAME emulation of those games was getting better and so was 360 emulation for 2D games on windows.
Well, I did get each and every LE version of their 360 games, I hope we get arcade perfect ports, but will probably end up with the 360 versions at best (more modes, HD, but slowdowns were never 100% right (critical part of those games) and a bit of input lag(which most ppl won't notice, but using a usb control/os/software layer can't just beat direct input to a pcb with low res analog output. ))) or iOS at worst.
But don't get me wrong, if you never played the arcade(pcb (right way to emulate slowdown/blithering in Mame/demul isn't implemented/fured out yet, and with this announcement won't be now.) version extensively you'll have a blast with those games, I know I did.
I forked out like 70-90 for each and everyone of them (new) and thought it was a bargain for playing an enhanced but a tad inaccurate version of some extremely rare and expensive PCBs. (try to trackdown a Mushihimesama Matsuri V1.5, Ibara Kuro, Deathsmiles MegablackLabel, Mushihimesama Futari Black Label (jp not international ver), Akai Katana Home ver., they go for more than 1000 IF you can find one that is.)
I'm glad they released it and make more money out of this but the ports won't be arcade perfect and MAME will stop working on and documenting Cave cv1K boards for years, and it worries me because those use shitty chip, which are starting to fail.
Basically I think this is very bad news for arcade preservation (because that's what MAME is about, if you didn't know, check out the source code and you'll get it, it's not about programming/emulating first, but about documentation and preservation of sometime dying systems). (sorry to burst everyone's bubble)
But 99.99% dont care about that and new ppl will get to discover and enjoy great games with good enough port so it's not that bad I guess. (well Muchi-Muchi Pork&Pink Sweets port was shit though lol)
Raiden 4 will be released this week too if I remember correctly
edit: jup http://store.steampowered.com/app/323460/
edit2: duuuuh, you already mentioned that, I suck at reading
These are mostly bullet hells right?
Well was kind of a now or never cituation, since demul/MAME emulation of those games was getting better and so was 360 emulation for 2D games on windows.
Well, I did get each and every LE version of their 360 games, I hope we get arcade perfect ports, but will probably end up with the 360 versions at best (more modes, HD, but slowdowns were never 100% right (critical part of those games) and a bit of input lag(which most ppl won't notice, but using a usb control/os/software layer can't just beat direct input to a pcb with low res analog output. ))) or iOS at worst.
But don't get me wrong, if you never played the arcade(pcb (right way to emulate slowdown/blithering in Mame/demul isn't implemented/fured out yet, and with this announcement won't be now.) version extensively you'll have a blast with those games, I know I did.
I forked out like 70-90€ for each and everyone of them (new) and thought it was a bargain for playing an enhanced but a tad inaccurate version of some extremely rare and expensive PCBs. (try to trackdown a Mushihimesama Matsuri V1.5, Ibara Kuro, Deathsmiles MegablackLabel, Mushihimesama Futari Black Label (jp not international ver), Akai Katana Home ver., they go for more than 1000€ IF you can find one that is.)
I'm glad they released it and make more money out of this but the ports won't be arcade perfect and MAME will stop working on and documenting Cave cv1K boards for years, and it worries me because those use shitty chip, which are starting to fail.
Basically I think this is very bad news for arcade preservation (because that's what MAME is about, if you didn't know, check out the source code and you'll get it, it's not about programming/emulating first, but about documentation and preservation of sometime dying systems). (sorry to burst everyone's bubble)
But 99.99% dont care about that and new ppl will get to discover and enjoy great games with good enough port so it's not that bad I guess. (well Muchi-Muchi Pork&Pink Sweets port was shit though lol)
you probably won't need a gaming PC for these. they're all 2D except for one, and deathsmiles 2 is very, uhh, low fidelity 3DI don't even have a gaming PC, but this is beautiful.
Degica has published stuff on gog too, so fingers crossed they'll appear there too.
Is there a list anywhere of which games they retain full rights to?
CAVE? Progear and Dodonpachi 2 are the only shooting games they don't own, as far as I know.
CAVE? Progear and Dodonpachi 2 are the only shooting games they don't own, as far as I know.
Wasn't Dodonpachi 2 done by IGS?