Muchi Muchi Pork is INDEED 360 bound

I pray for Teh Region Free ness

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/08/15/three-more-cave-shooters-coming-to-xbox-360/

a new Dodonpachi is also on the way

 

It's actually a couple of years old now. Just being ported.

MMP/Pink Sweets are, unfortunately, not getting the upgraded sprites treatment. So, get ready for a really, really nasty visual experience.

DFK will likely have multiple revisions, and definitely the HD treatment. That'll be the one to hug.

For the record, Dangun Feveron is coming too, for some stupid reason.

 

I'd buy anything cave gives me even though I have many of their games emulated.

Dangun Fevron is wacky as shit THAT SOUNDTRACK...you can't play that game and not want to shake dat ass to it.

 

It is? man,that's five million years old! I always wanted that to be ported to the Saturn. Still, if it's a cheap title I'll probably pick it up.

 

Makato Asada said in an interview that they released Mushihime-sama Futari region free to gauge the overseas fan base.

There won't be any more region free cave games.

 

Except...ESPGaluda II was released after Mushietc. and it was region free.

I'm hoping this won't be full price because the game's a few years old already. Then again, ESPGaluda II was older than most trilobite fossils and it was full price, so I'm not really holding out hope.

 

Do they have to pay extra to make a game region free? I'm just not seeing the down side.

 

I don't understand why Cave can't just set the region flag to 0. It doesn't cost them anything, and they get extra overseas sales from it. Even if it is only another 10 or 20,000 copies sold, it's more money in the bank for no extra work.

 

I don't think they annouced anything in paticular about the region but I assume they will keep the R0 thing going.

I'm assuming Deathsmiles II is getting localized in the near future...I HOPE

 

Region free means no company will want to pick it up to localise it for the US / Euro market which probably means less sales overall.

As the PS2 is still a vaiable format in Japan, can't see why Cave don't port the games to the PS2 and get more sales then they would on the Xbox 360. Sales of the Cave games on the PS2 eclipse what was done on the Xbox. Microsoft must be offering quite a bung or have much better PR girlies with better oral skills.

 

That would make sense if someone was picking these games up for those markets, but they aren't.

 

I think if it is a Region locked game it'll probably be picked up by somebody Right now what are Cave's 360 games?

Esp II, Futari, Deathsmiles and Deathsmiles II?

 

There's also that Dodonpachi sequel. However, if any Cave titles do get picked up for overseas release, it'll probably take a long time like what happened with Death Smiles.

 

I just found out Death Smiles soldout it's first print run!

 

Actually it does cost them time and money. To have a title be region free it must pass certification for ALL regions. Passing certification is a back-and-forth process and can take weeks. I hear the regional divisions all have their own quirks. Plus, if DLC is planned (such as 1.1, Black Label, etc.) that must pass cert in each region as well.

 

Also, they can possibly make money on licensing/publishing deals in other regions, which would be denied them if they made it multi-region. A region specific publisher can push the game to sell more units etc.

 

Ok, then why are all Asian/Hong Kong 360 games region free? All my none Japanese games are hong kong titles. Some games never even got a release in japan such as Ghostbusters, The beatles rockband and Transfromers WFC.

 

I think the case there may be (not sure) that those games were released in multiple regions already and it was little effort to go ahead and include Japan, whereas the Cave games are originally Japan only and would have to cert in multiple other regions instead of just one or two more. It could also be US cert is the nit-picky one and Japan isn't? Just speculating.

 

Doesn't Hong Kong have a weird dual region thing doing on though? Some of the TVs are PAL and some are NTSC?

 

In terms of video standards I don't think that's really an issue any more. A lot of games for the 360 simply refuse to run in 50Hz (standard PAL refresh rate), it's up to the software either way. The region coding of the disc doesn't really affect it.