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Gradius Rebirth Ranking #1

2010-06-25T08:11:02Z

My run finally finished...

Gradius Rebirth Loop 100...

2010-06-20T07:15:11Z

Three digits! I guess next is Loop 255?

Gradius Rebirth Loop 83...

2010-06-17T12:08:14Z

Loop 83... aiming for loop 100+...

New shmups replays

2010-02-19T08:30:47Z

Shmups replays updated w/ three new videos (Quantized Blaze, Darius Burst, and R-Type Final w/ Sexy Dynamite). I'll announce these things probably first on twitter cause it's easier than updating my blog.

Diary - Twitter

2009-11-03T08:19:36Z

I haven't posted for a while. I feel like if I'm going to make a blog post, I have to have some kind of substantial content, so I've been avoiding updating. So, I setup a twitter account that I might update more often since by nature it's expected to be brief. Please drop by and follow me if you feel like it.

Gaming stuff:

XBOX 360:
My XBOX 360 got the RROD. However, I fixed it using the X-Clamp screw and washer fix. I'm getting a copy of Mushihimesama Futari 1.5, but I'm not all that excited about it to be honest. I think CAVE was better in the Dodonpachi days. You know, before they started blatantly milking the whole moe angle.

PSP:
I also got a PSP GO, which goes beside my PSP-2000, and my PSP-3000. Yeah, I'm a GK (GateKeeper). To be honest, I think the PSP-2000 is the best, but I got the PSP GO because you can link a SixAxis to it, which I plan on doing for Darius Burst. Meanwhile I'm also playing Persona 3 Portable (Female Protagonist) downloaded from PSN. If you haven't played Persona 3, I recommend you actually play P3FES on the PS2 instead, since they had to cut down a lot of the 3D realtime cutscenes for the "Portable" version. They're replaced with still portraits now.

Shmups:
Have you seen the location test video for Strania, the new arcade game by G.Rev? Judging from the video, it seems to get a lot of inspiration from Radiant Silvergun, and it looks like it could be pretty fun. Here's hoping for a console port. No more Senko, please.

Eroge:
I played thru Sorairo, Tsubame scenario (the one Tomo wrote). I have to say, I think that for each game that NNS brought out after Giniro/Mizuiro, the quality kept going down, so it's a bit of a disappointment. Also, no omake part?! That's usually the best part too. The next eroge I'm probably going to play is "Mashiro-iro Symphony," mostly because of the artist, Izumi Tsubasu (who also did, e.g. Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka). Also, it's from Palette, and their games usually aren't too bad. It should be here from amazon japan anytime now.

rock n roll eroge

2009-07-17T06:35:59Z

random nico post of the day, for eroge fans:

【ニコニコ動画】ロックンロールエロゲー

Sorairo delayed

2009-07-10T08:35:05Z

Not that I wasn't expecting this, but I got an e-mail from amazon.co.jp saying that my order was going to be delayed. According to the NNS official website the new release date is 8/28, or a one month delay.

AX 2009

2009-07-05T18:25:23Z

This weekend I went to AX for about two days - I was mostly just browsing the exhibitors hall. I did drop by the mangagamers booth and got signboards from the artists there (Kayura Yuka did Otome from DC2 and the artist from Overdrive (didn't catch his name) did a sketch of Kirari) and I heard they held a mini-live on Saturday although I didn't go that day. I also hung out a bit at the Hendane booth (immediately obvious from the guy yelling Yaoooeeee all day) as I happen to be acquaintances with one of the workers there. Other than that, I picked up a copy of BlazBlue for X360 - looks like Aksys didn't bother region protectioning it so I can play it on my Japanese 360. Kind of a low key AX this year - wasn't too keen on most of the guests of honor or the events, and they cheaped out on the main events stage - supposedly the LACC jacked up the rental prices for the Kodak Theater by more than 3 times. Maybe it's just me getting jaded but I seemed to enjoy AX a lot more when it was a much smaller con.

shmups replays

2009-06-28T08:12:17Z

I added a page linking to my shmups replays, mostly from Niconico douga. Just as an aside, I generally prefer the term STG or shooter, but as people typically tend to assume you're talking about first person shooters, I think "shmups" is a bit less ambiguous.

ayashii gamesubs

2009-06-28T07:41:23Z

I created a quickie page for projects under the ayashii gamesubs label. If there's any news regarding those projects I'll post about it here on the main blog site.

Sorairo trial version

2009-06-22T09:39:22Z

Apparently the new nekonekosoft trial version "Sorairo" is available for download. I usually download from Multi Inside but you could use any of the other mirrors. I thought nns was dead for a while, w/ some of the staff members on the cottonsoft project, but I guess there's a revival going on right now. Of course I was a nns fan since their earlier works, e.g. Giniro and Mizuiro... really long time ago. Comrade gp32 also spoke quite a bit with their head scenario writer, tomo-san. Unfortunately due to work both me and gp32 aren't doing much otaku-related activities, but at least I setup this blog so I can comment on things once in a while. I'm not used to movable type yet either, but I plan on eventually putting up most of the old content back up, and maybe even putting some new stuff up.