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Yes! Finally! Sit down, you purple bat prick! This game is great

Aw christ! I was literally one more sword swipe away from victory

Unless the whole exa enterprise goes absolutely belly up in the future and the devs release the game to home systems to try and make a bit of cash, I think our only hope is if some robin hood style hero nefarious criminal cracks their encryption and dumps the game. That's the maddening thing about these exa exclusives. They ARE pc ports. So close and yet so far I'm convinced that exa is the reason we didn't get sdoj on pc that time. https://clips.twitch.tv/ExpensiveWildStarDAESuppy Dirty shou collared cave and said "hey, hey, we'll do that for you" I mean, a port from the team at cave that did the deathsmiles, mushi and dfk ports probably wouldn't have been amazing anyway, so maybe something better will come down the line. Maybe city connection will port the 360 version soon. I'd like a muchi muchi pork release from them.

Fucks sake! There's a true last boss at the end of normal mode. Might take a little longer.

Well, Exa is just a pc running windows 10. The exa system is stuck at 60hz with vsync on at all times which isn't ideal, but you can buy a separate JVS board for your cabinet that will make inputs nippier. The games are as laggy as the devs make them, though they do seem to be patching the games and reducing the lag wherever they can - https://exa.ac/en/current-game-version-info/?v=0f177369a3b7 Laser issue in akai katana is getting sorted next week. - https://steamcommunity.com/app/2076220/discussions/0/5822622429934360821/?ctp=2#c3762230582699334683 Pocky & Rocky Reshrined getting a pc port - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2200580/Pocky__Rocky_Reshrined/ Hazelnut Hex dev working on something new. I beat a couple of games recently. 东方雪莲华 ～ Abyss Soul Lotus is a canny touhou fan game. I'm not sure I entirely understand the scoring yet, but hopefully it'll start to come together when I try the next difficulty up - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1000440/__Abyss_Soul_Lotus/ Bomber Bomber Gaiden 2 is a fun affectionate parody of the darius games - https://www.chin3.net/game/bomberg2/ It's nice and chill but the hardest difficulty "Chobihige" brings the pain Wizard's Star 2 is an earlier game from the Bike Banditz devs, which was alright. Cathy Ray's Tubular Training has some smelly inertia on the controls, but it's a fun run through, not very long - https://oatmealine.itch.io/cathy-rays-tubular-training Very close to clearing Contlade on normal, one of zakichi's earlier games. It's really good - http://zakichi.ojaru.jp/contlade.html Us shmup nerds looking forward to valentines day for once since the first bitwave toaplan collection is coming out https://store.steampowered.com/app/2011900/Zero_Wing/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2022880/Truxton/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2022910/Twin_Cobra/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2022920/Out_Zone/

东方雪莲华 ～ Abyss Soul Lotus - Normal, 1cc

Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds: Kokusai Kyuujotai Juudou Seyo!! (SNES) Absolutely fucking mind numbing.

"London's not as white as it used to be. Of course you can't say that nowadays without somebody thinking you've got some sort of problem. Did I ever tell you, there's a very easy way to spot a transvestite?" "Would you like some money, John?" "hmmm?" "Would you like some money? To stop talking?" "Well, it would come in handy. Horrendous blood sucking women. Did I ever tell you about my latest divor-" "John! We're going to give you lots of money. You could use it to make a new show" "Oh, that's very kind of you. It would have to be something new and fresh of course." "Off you fuck then. In your bastard grave." That's how the pitch went. Crafty old John just treat it like any other interview. They were throwing money at him just to get him out the door!

Bomber Bomber Gaiden 2 - Hard, 1cc

Bomber Bomber Gaiden 2 - Normal, 1cc

Wizard's Star 2 - 1cc

Oh dear, apidya on the mister is fecked. When you get to scene 3 the sprites start to disappear! https://streamable.com/i5eal6 Looks like it's a know issue with amiga emulation - http://mantis.whdload.de/view.php?id=2421&nbn=2 That's a shame, I was doing quite well up until that point! Wonder Planet got added yesterday - https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=6109

Yeah, I'll wait for the bitwave release of the arcade version. M2 will get around to it eventually on consoles. I remember trying a naughty copy of the the s-tribute release of Layer Section and the input lag didn't feel bad on that one, so you never know, this might not be a total write off.

"M2STG live broadcast 2/10 (Friday) 19:00" Those ships are from Zero Wing and Hellfire according to the comments.

Somebody's been at the monkey paw again. https://www.gematsu.com/2023/02/batsugun-s-tribute-rated-for-switch-in-korea

It's got some really nasty acceleration on the digital controls and it's just so slow and boring. I don't know, maybe folk who are into r-type and the more sedate old memo games might get a kick out of it. It was doing nothing for me. A bit too tame and bland.

Out now. Is dogshit.

EX -Extra- - 1cc

Demo for that valfaris shmup coming next week. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1647920/Valfaris_Mecha_Therion/ Just got a blind clear on EX -Extra-. Guy on my youtube was recommending it. It's cool, like a ketsui lite. It's chill but the second loop looks like a nightmare! You want to be playing the executable in the "bsize.zip", that way the game will fill up the full screen. The fullscreen mode forces 60hz, so if you've got a high refresh rate monitor, turn off fullscreen in the ini file and use borderless gaming to play fullscreen windowed. Left margin 240, right margin -240 to preserve the 4:3 aspect ratio at 1080p https://www.vector.co.jp/soft/dl/winnt/game/se481666.html edit: Better score with the first ship.

This is good fun. Hyper Snow Drifter - https://kevinmonitor.itch.io/narumi-stg There's a score to beat. 349,887,900

The Coogan live shows were always a lot broader with very "that'll do" writing, so I was ready for that, but blimey, daylight robbery for anyone who bought a ticket. It's weird, the Gibbons era stuff is all over the shop quality wise. At the top end you've got mid morning matters, the oasthouse, the books, and the specials, then on the lower end you've got alpha papa and this time, but this live show. Sheesh. Hopefully that's the bottom scraped and there's no lower they can go than that. Even the weaker stuff is worth watching for Coogan's performance, and there's always some good moments, but man, that was a slog. Louis CK - Back To The Garden - ***

Alan Partridge: Stratagem - *½

Haha Yeah, some of these games and characters have got weird names. "Exceed 3rd - Jade Penetrate Black Package" is a highlight. Describing anything as superlative though, particularly "night dreams", with a straight face, has to earn you top marks.

Aaaaaaaaah. https://harddrop.com/wiki/Tetris_(Game_Boy) I only got the small missile, so I've got some ways to go yet! I'll remove the type-A clear.

Tetris (GB) - B-Type