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onmode-ky
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If anyone here has access to the Oceania region PS Store, I thought I'd note that the scrolling shooters DariusBurst (horizontal) and the recently released Neo Geo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting (vertical) are both available for download in there. Not as Minis, of course.

Speaking of Minis, I didn't realize Oceania had so much fewer Minis than the US. It's currently 74 in there versus 103 in the US Store. I'm sure the European store has far more than both, naturally. There also seems to be a lot less activity in the Oceania store than the US store; I think most of the games that have user ratings at all have single-digit rating counts.

Posted 1 year ago #
volcane
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Hey volcane, if you're after a shooter with an "Old's Kool" feel, why not pick up N2o (it's like Tempest on speed) on the UK PSN (it's in the PS1 racing section, though it's a shoot 'em up).
;)

@thumbbandit

Hey dude - thanks for the awesome recommendation! :-)

I picked up N2O from the PSN this evening (when the UK PSN came back online) for the bargin price of £1.99 and I'm blown away by how trippy this thing is! :-D

The game has a great acid house soundtrack, bright psychodelic visuals, topped off with some groovy shooter action. It basically turns your PSP into a high-tech kaleidoscope! :-)

Apparently the game has more than 100 levels of kaleidoscopic goodness! :-)

Thanks for the suggestion!

Posted 1 year ago #
volcane
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If anyone here has access to the Oceania region PS Store, I thought I'd note that the scrolling shooters DariusBurst (horizontal) and the recently released Neo Geo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting (vertical) are both available for download in there. Not as Minis, of course.

@onmode-ky

Hi onmode-ky, I did some research into DariusBurst and Neo Geo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting, and they both look amazing! :-) I'm on the UK (EU) PSN and unfortunately neither game is there. I guess they must just currently be avaliable on PSN in the US and Oceania regions? I don't suppose that you happen to know if they will be released in the EU/UK PSN at any point?

While digging around the net looking at old skool SHMUPs for the PSP, I came across Thexder NEO. Have you tried this one?

Thexder NEO is on the UK PSN for £6.29, so I've picked it up today. I've only played for 30 mins or so, but so far it's great fun! You get to transform at will between a plane and a robot and your primary weapon is a homing laser. The plane is very fast, but it's much harder to hit the enemies. The robot is more cumbersome, but is much better suited to taking out the enemies (which is useful as the bad guys vastly out number you). I've been using the robot as my main form so that I can lay waste to the bad dudes but transforming into the plane to fit through the tight gaps and fly up to hard to reach places.

Posted 1 year ago #
onmode-ky
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I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mislead you. Neither DariusBurst nor Neo Geo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting are in the US PS Store. I meant only the Oceania PS Store in my earlier post (though they are both probably also in the Japan PS Store; certainly, I know DariusBurst is in the Japan one, since its commercials advertised the download version to be over 1000 yen (~$10, wow!) cheaper than the UMD version). No idea when or even if either game will leave Japan/Oceania. DariusBurst, which debuted in Japan last Christmas, has been rated by the ESRB and Germany's USK for months, but Square Enix has not said anything about a release outside Asia at all (which was what prompted me to just import the UMD in March).

I have Thexder NEO myself, though I had never played the original Thexder. Actually, I had never even heard of the original until Square Enix announced NEO. Though I have NEO, I have only barely played it; I think my save file may have all of 30 minutes' play time. It just didn't quite grab my interest, for some reason. A friend of mine, though, was a fan of the original and seemed to enjoy NEO when he got it. His opinion was that it's noticeably easier than its predecessor, and he also said the game never ends. He never died, so he saw the levels loop back around.

On the subject of old school scrolling shooters for the PSP, I recently found out that Hudson released a [remake of?] Star Soldier for the PSP. I don't mean the collection of 4 PC Engine Star Soldier games (I have that UMD), but rather a standalone PSP Star Soldier title, released in 2005. It's probably not on any PS Store, though, being from so early in the PSP's life. You hold the PSP vertically with that game, by the way.

Posted 1 year ago #
thumbbandit
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@ volcane
No probs man, glad you like the game (I love it myself)... about the 100 levels, in actual fact there are only 15 levels (on easy, and two loops of the 15 on normal and hard), but there are some really cool bonus levels. ;)

P.S. If you like the music in the game you should do a google search of "The Crystal Method", I really like the track "Keep Hope Alive" (It featured in the movie The Replacment Killers), I found a track called "The Name Of The Game" (as featured in Tropic Thunder).

P.P.S. hesayareyoutunnelrunner

Posted 1 year ago #
volcane
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@thumbbandit

Cool, thanks - the music in the game is awesome (and suits the trippy experience well!). I'll do some googling! ;-)

Posted 1 year ago #
volcane
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@onmode-ky

Interesting. I found some Star Soldier screen shots here. It looks fun! :-)

Where do you import your Japanese UMDs from?

Just curious dude, what does onmode-ky mean? (apologies if it's none of my business)

Posted 1 year ago #
Solo the Hutt
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@onmode-ky
oceania gets the short end of the stick , not only for minis , but for other games as well (e.g RPGs) try finding Disgaea 2 or Persona 3 in the shops.

@volcane
for japan imports, have u tried play-asia.com ?

Posted 1 year ago #
volcane
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@Solo the Hutt

I've haven't tried there before, but it looks like a great site for games and movies. Just having a browse now as I need to complete my Dragon Ball Z collection! :-)

Thanks for the heads-up dude

Posted 1 year ago #
Freelance
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I use Play-Asia and Yes-Asia for my importing needs. That and Ebay sometimes. If you're looking for SHMUPs, you'd have to import them as they've never made it to NA. I have currently 7 so far, the majority of which are SHMUPS: Star Soldier, Soldier Collection, Darius Burst, Parodius Portable, Salamander Portable, Twinbee Portable.

Posted 1 year ago #
volcane
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@Freelance

Cool - thanks. I haven't come across yes-asia before, so I'll check it out. What is Salamander Portable like?

Posted 1 year ago #
onmode-ky
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Most of my import purchases have been from the previously mentioned Play-Asia.com, which is based in Hong Kong. They sell both Japan-region and Asia-region games. Actually, they also sell some US-region games. I have shopped at NCSXShop.com (and their associated preorder store, ShopNCSX.com), who are in NYC, as well. CDJapan.co.jp, an English branch of Japanese online store Neowing.co.jp, now offers Japanese games for sale, but I haven't bought any from them yet (though I've bought other stuff from them fairly often). I shopped at YesAsia.com a few times years ago, but their prices have generally not been so good. Amazon.co.jp would be a preferred seller if they would sell video games to American shoppers at all. :(

"onmode-ky" comes from a shutdown command for a certain database software.

Freelance, I have all the titles you listed except for the PSP remake of Star Soldier. :) What do you think of DariusBurst? I like it a lot, though I'm not too good; it took me several tries to beat Burst Mode, on the easiest path, and I stopped Mission Mode after making it through the first 2 sets of missions. Got harder and harder. . . . Also, do you have the Galaxy Fräulein Yuna Collection? That has that PC Engine [Something Something] Sapphire vertically scrolling shooter that's supposedly hard to find in its original form. The game has a hard-rock soundtrack, too, as I recall.

Salamander Portable is one of the spinoffs of Konami's Gradius Collection (released in Japan as Gradius Portable. It collects Salamander, Life Force, Salamander 2, Gradius 2 (the MSX game, not the same as Gradius II arcade), and Xexex. Bonus materials include each game's soundtrack, presented similarly to how it was done in Gradius Collection. FYI, the Salamander games take place in the same world as the Gradius games.

Posted 1 year ago #
Freelance
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@onmode-ky

I was pretty disappointed there were no shark bosses in that game (they're one of my favourite animals) but at least there's a manta ray (close relative of sharks) and a dragon. Load times are pretty long too. Otherwise I liked the game, and yes, pretty hard though. I prefer vertical SHMUPs myself as I tend to get killed by walls in horizontal shooters, but apparently that doesn't much, if ever, in DariusBurst.

Nah I don't have the other game you've mentioned although I've heard of it. I am going to Japan in November though so maybe I can find it cheap there. Is it a bullet hell type shooter though? I don't like those.

I got Salamander Portable mainly for Life Force. I played that back in the day on the NES. Still as hard as I remember it. volcane, here's a review of the game to give you a better idea of what to expect. It's pretty positive.

Posted 1 year ago #
onmode-ky
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Freelance, yeah, the Syvalion metal dragon in Zone J (and the zone's Syvalion music remixes) is pretty cool. I didn't notice any really bad load times (I have a PSP-2000; is yours a PSP-1000?). There is a side-by-side comparison video somewhere on YouTube showing the UMD versus download versions of DariusBurst, and the latter is (expectedly) a whole lot quicker. Too bad the trade-off is the awesome cover art. :)

I don't think Sapphire is a bullet hell game. It's been a while since I last played it, but I don't remember it being bullet hell style. The other two games in Galaxy Fräulein Yuna Collection, by the way, are visual novels, supposedly with some RPG combat elements. I haven't played much of either, though, what with there being a lot of Japanese reading involved.

Another PSP scrolling shooter I know of: Sengoku Cannon (sequel to the arcade titles Sengoku Ace and Sengoku Blade), from 2005. Doesn't seem to have gotten good reviews, though.

Some clarification for volcane in case he sees this: the games in Salamander Portable, while not direct emulation of original ROMs, are the arcade versions (with the obvious exception of the MSX title, Gradius 2). And, I seem to recall Life Force being both a renamed, altered Salamander for the US arcade market as well as a different alteration of Salamander back in the Japanese arcade market; the one in this collection is presumably the latter. Xexex, meanwhile, is the only title in the collection not related to Gradius, but it plays sort of as if it were the Konami take on R-Type. Nice music, too, kind of jazzy.

Posted 1 year ago #
Freelance
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Ah well yes, I do have a 1000, although I just bought a 3000 on the weekend. Haven't actaully played DariusBurst on it yet though. Some games are much better now with the reduced load times. I have the UMD of the game in case you're wondering.

I wish the DS had as much SHMUPS as the PSP has. It's SHMUP heaven here.

Posted 1 year ago #
onmode-ky
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Heh, yeah, Gradius Collection was what got me to decide to get a PSP in the first place. I actually keep a list of what shmups I have for each system, and the PSP nearly matches the PS2 (the PS2 has a big bunch in the Capcom Classics Collections and Taito Legends 2).

DSiWare got a new side-scrolling shooter a few weeks ago, Cosmos X2. It seems to have suffered a long time in development, having originally been announced as a DS cartridge title in 2007. I believe it was even in development for years before that, starting out originally as a GBA game. The end result . . . well, I have to say that the gameplay trailer seems to show a very sedate pace. I.e., your ship seems to move only as fast as "Gradius with no speed-ups."

I have DariusBurst on UMD, too. I don't actually have any way to buy things from another region's PS Store (not particularly willing to pay the premium for foreign PSN cards, though the PS3 application Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Dreamy Theater is making it hard to keep that stance).

Posted 1 year ago #
volcane
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Some clarification for volcane in case he sees this: the games in Salamander Portable, while not direct emulation of original ROMs, are the arcade versions (with the obvious exception of the MSX title, Gradius 2). And, I seem to recall Life Force being both a renamed, altered Salamander for the US arcade market as well as a different alteration of Salamander back in the Japanese arcade market; the one in this collection is presumably the latter. Xexex, meanwhile, is the only title in the collection not related to Gradius, but it plays sort of as if it were the Konami take on R-Type. Nice music, too, kind of jazzy.

@onmode-ky

Thanks for info dude! ;-)

Posted 1 year ago #
onmode-ky
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This is unrelated to the original topic, but it follows on the most recent posts:

A pair of PS1 Imports have arrived in the (US) PS Store, Cho Aniki (actually Chou Aniki: Kyuukyoku Muteki Ginga Saikyou Otoko ("Ultimate Invincible Galaxy's Most Powerful Man"), the sole PS1/Saturn entry in the series, according to Wikipedia) and GaiaSeed. Both are side-scrolling shooters, and they're both just the typical $6 PS1 Classics price. I don't think I'll get the Cho Aniki title, but GaiaSeed I might bite. Anyone else?

Feel free to switch this discussion back to the original topic, too. . . .

Posted 1 year ago #
volcane
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As I understand it, both titles seem to be fairly robust and well designed shooters. Is there any word about these appearing on the EU PSN?

Posted 1 year ago #
Shath
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Has anyone finished aero racer (rocket racing) 100%??

and also has anybody tryed out the ulternate control sceme >> hold L then pres up, down, left, right, square) repeat and then press R or triangle at the end instead of square to return to normal controls... reseting will also revert the control sceme :)

this control sceme is how the game was ment to be played.. a little bit harder to get used to but so much more fun once you have the hang of it

-Shath

Posted 1 year ago #
onmode-ky
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I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mislead you. Neither DariusBurst nor Neo Geo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting are in the US PS Store.

For anyone who might be interested, Neo Geo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting has been rated by the ESRB (as NEOGEO HEROES: Ultimate Shooting). However, that could mean nothing; DariusBurst has been rated by the ESRB for 6 months and has not been released.

Posted 1 year ago #
Freelance
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Ooo interesting. I've never played any game on the NEOGEO so this could be my first if it comes out. PSP already has a crapload of SHMUPs but you can never have enough.

P.S. I like Shienryu. It came out on the PSN store just recently.

Posted 1 year ago #
onmode-ky
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Freelance, I think you have the wrong idea about this. Ultimate Shooting is not a Neo Geo game that's been ported to the PSP. It's a new game built for the PSP by SNK Playmore, the [reincarnation of] the makers of Neo Geo and its associated IPs. The game uses a variety of SNK's characters from assorted IPs of theirs, hence the name.

While the game doesn't have any actual Neo Geo games in it, it does include a recent arcade scrolling shooter by SNK, as I recall: King of Fighters: Sky Stage, which also has an XBLA port.

I bought Shienryu this past weekend, while renting Gundam Unicorn Episode 2 (which was awesome, as expected) and buying 2 other PS1 games in the PS Store. Haven't transferred it onto a Memory Stick yet, though.

Posted 1 year ago #
Solo the Hutt
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my top 3 minis now is :

- Age of Zombies
- Archibalds Adventures
- Alien Zombie Death

just realised they all start with an "A"

maybe that's why Rocket Racer changed its name to Aero Racer . I think people usually search games titles in PSN from the top (i.e A, B, C ...)

Posted 1 year ago #
igotmy9milli
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Rocket Racer changed it name due to copyright I think.

Posted 1 year ago #
onmode-ky
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For anyone who might be interested, Neo Geo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting has been rated by the ESRB (as NEOGEO HEROES: Ultimate Shooting). However, that could mean nothing; DariusBurst has been rated by the ESRB for 6 months and has not been released.

The US PS Blog's "The Drop" weekly accounting of games being released claims that NEOGEO HEROES: Ultimate Shooting is coming out this week (I'd assume as a PSN exclusive)! I wonder what the price will be.

Posted 1 year ago #
sp3c
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1- Zombie Tycoon
2- Freekscape
3- age of zombies

but I don't remember exactly what I've got and I may have forgotten something

Posted 1 year ago #
lovejv
Member

Hi !

Here my list of miniS (17) :

5 in 1 Hits Arcade
Aero Racing
Aquattack
Boom Beats
Coconut Dodge
Dynogems
Fieldrunners
Fly Flu
Heracles Chariot Racing
Let's Golf
Monopoly
Pac-Man Championship Edition
Paper Wars : Cannon Fodder
Stellar Attack
Tetris
Vibes
Who's That Flying ?!

(in bold my favorites)

It's really difficult to choose only 3 miniS...
I decide to save :
- Coconut Dodge
- Pac-Man Championship Edition
- Who's That Flying ?!

Posted 1 year ago #
Kerlin
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My top two are Coconut Dodge and Zenonia. Third is between Cubixx, Young Thor, and Zombie Tycoon.

Posted 1 year ago #
Balrog
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@Kerlin
Wow someone put Zenonia in thier top 3?!? You have no problems with the lag?

My top 3 now is:
Who's That Flying
Young Thor
Coconut Dodge

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