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    Retro Cave shooters on your mobile

    Recently I've been really getting in to some top quality Cave shooter on my phone. I'm very impressed by their work and thought you'd like to know about them.

    First of all in order to get these games you need to join Cave's "Game Center Town" site. Once that's done you then pay a small monthly fee of 350 yen or there about which gets you 10 "coins" to spend each month on games. Not only do they have Cave shooters but also other games by Cave such as slots, puzzle games and game music downloads. There's also a place on this site to share your rankings with other Cave mobile phone gamers. Finally there's the Cave art gallery where you can download free pictures that are unlocked by high scores within a game. Oh, almost forgot, there's the free monthly calendar with a nice anime girl on it to turn your phone in to the ultimate otaku accessory

    I have 5 Cave shooters on my phone being Espgaluoa II, Guwange DX, Mushisama DX, Donpachi DAI-DU-JOU (Which is F-ing Amazing!) and some very cool score attack game based upon Ketsui. All games run very smoothly apart from Mushijiwa-sama DX which not only looks jerky but also runs in a box ! Saying that it does have loads of speech in it. All other games have speech as well as great tunes. Cave really know how to put together a mobile phone shooter.

    Newer phones (this year onwards) can play Dangon Feveron and a few other new ones. No idea why last years phones won't play them unless they use some mega big file size. Saying that, Donpachi DAI-DU-JOU is simply stunning with the amount of action with no slowdown at all. So why need more power for Dangon Feveron?

    Here's some pictures I took with the camera. I was going to screen capture them but I can't find the cable now. Some shots look really poor due to the way the camera takes pictures of the TFT up close.

    Donpachi DAI-DU-JOU




    Espgaluoa II



    Guwange DX



    Ketsui Score Attack Game



    Mushijiwa-sama
    [IMG]http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/1158/mmu****itlemo5.jpg[/IMG]

    Yakumo
    Last edited by Yakumo; 21-03-2008, 14:27.

    #2
    So they've converted Espgaluda 2 to mobile phone but not a proper home console? Damn you Cave *shakes fist*

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      #3
      I thought it was on the PlayStation 2? They've done a pretty good job on the conversion concidering the platform it's on.

      Yakumo

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        #4
        No it isn't. Wish it was on the ps2 though as i would grab it, huge cave fan. Japanese phones are so ahead of ours, its shocking. Its mental! Guwange, Daioujou, Espgaluda on a mobile phone, me wants!

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          #5
          I'm fairly sure my mobile wouldn't able to play those.

          But then I have my GP2X for all my portable Cave goodness.

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            #6
            Actually those versions are up to 3 years old and Cave have been doing this since about 2003! They're far from straight ports obviously but still pretty impressive, if a little fiddly, from what I've heard.

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              #7
              Those games look great.

              The processing power of phones is no longer in question (and hasn't been for some time imo). I just wish one of the big phone manufacturers would do what they should have done many years ago and replace all their crappy menu navigation keys with a Nintendo style d-pad or the stick from a NGPC.

              If they could manage to do that then games on phones would be perfect.

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                #8
                While this is a wonderful technical achievement, I've never been able to have any fun with mobile phone games. Using a tiny little keypad makes me feel (further) detached from the character I'm controlling, and I imagine bullet dodging in, say, DOJ, would boil down to twitching left and right as well as I could, rather than making use of the whole playing area, as I do in the PS2 conversion.

                I hope I'm wrong, mind you...

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                  #9
                  you'd be very surprised at how well they control as long as you don't have big meat hooks

                  Yakumo

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                    #10
                    it is a shame uk phones are not up to spec yet well maybe a few of the nokia n series could do it. I just hope ntt one day make a full secure venture into the uk market

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