Daytona being delisted 7th Feb 2023 (and Jet Set Radio. And oh no, Far Cry 2 as well! This is awful!

[Darwock]

I’m a bit concerned they’ll see a spike in sales and conclude that delisting games is good for business.

[K]

Is the 360 version of Daytona significantly better than or different to the Dreamcast version? I remember playing the DC version and really not enjoying it, but I also vaguely remember that the handling on the DC version was awful without a steering wheel. 

[Lyrical Donut]

4 minutes ago, K said:

Is the 360 version of Daytona significantly better than or different to the Dreamcast version? I remember playing the DC version and really not enjoying it, but I also vaguely remember that the handling on the DC version was awful without a steering wheel. 

 

It's better than the original arcade release, let alone the terrible Dreamcast port.

[Dig Dug]

5 minutes ago, K said:

Is the 360 version of Daytona significantly better than or different to the Dreamcast version? I remember playing the DC version and really not enjoying it, but I also vaguely remember that the handling on the DC version was awful without a steering wheel. 

The 360 version is a remaster of the original game. Daytona 2001 is its own game.

[MattyP]

"Eurogamer.net: Daytona USA was one of the miracles of the XBLA era, so grab it while you can."

https://www.eurogamer.net/daytona-usa-was-one-of-the-miracles-of-the-xbla-era-so-grab-it-while-you-can

[Riven]

I had a large chuck of the games being delisted already, but I did buy Skate 2 and all DLC (Bar time saver), N+, Eets Chowdown!, the comic for Mass Effect 2, Cloning Clyde, Spelunky DLC.

 

N+ is one of those tough platform games, while Eets Chowdown! is a clever puzzle game like Crazy Machine & Bill's Tomato Game, plus has a superb score mode, that I think if more people had played the game would have been a real hit.

 

Phantom Breaker:Battle Grounds is also a great arcade style scrolling beat'em up.

[scoobysi]

I bought Daytona and JSR and had a blast with Daytona on the 360 tonight. Hopefully delisting them means remasters on the way, if only 😀.

[ilpostino]

Chalk me up as another one who redownloaded it and is playing again.

 

 

I just wish they'd remaster Sega Rally Championship with the level of care and love Daytona got.

 

[Noonanman]

I'd heard that even if games were still available on Xbox One/S/X, the DLC might not be - any more news on that?

[Calashnikov]

Daytona USA being delisted? You could say “It’s going away.”

 

[Calashnikov]

 

[Lyrical Donut]

Man like Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. 👍

[Lyrical Donut]

Also, fuck it - you can never have enough of these:

 

 

 

[Calashnikov]

Spoiler

 

[Popo]

Epona USA: it's the wee wink at the end that gets me every time. 

[Shimmyhill]

My word, I’m trying to buy JSR before it’s gone and can’t seem to on the website so fired up the 360 - it’s an hour later and updates and constantly having to sign in with a new app password each time and no closer to being able to buy it - where is the bloody store!? There seeems no way to view or buy games on the console 🤬

[Popo]

8 minutes ago, Shimmyhill said:

My word, I’m trying to buy JSR before it’s gone and can’t seem to on the website so fired up the 360 - it’s an hour later and updates and constantly having to sign in with a new app password each time and no closer to being able to buy it - where is the bloody store!? There seeems no way to view or buy games on the console 🤬

 

Does this link work?

[Skull Commander]

9 hours ago, Riven said:

Phantom Breaker:Battle Grounds is also a great arcade style scrolling beat'em up.

Even though I like to think of myself as a connoisseur of the genre this particular title has never been on my radar. Thank for pointing it out and I will get it tonight !

[Shimmyhill]

7 minutes ago, Popo said:

 

Does this link work?

Nope, I own Daytona but I’ve tried to get JSR via the 360 marketplace site and always get stuck on the purchase screen 😧

 

Worse still I think my 360 is faulty as it just keeps freezing when I try to do anything 😭

[Popo]

1 minute ago, Shimmyhill said:

Nope, I own Daytona but I’ve tried to get JSR via the 360 marketplace site and always get stuck on the purchase screen 😧

 

Worse still I think my 360 is faulty as it just keeps freezing when I try to do anything 😭

Ahhh, this sounds reminiscent of my experience trying to buy some of the 360 versions of the Sonic games. Had to use the USA store page to get through the purchase screen. 
 

May have also needed to do it in an in private window while holding a chicken on a Tuesday, I’d have to check my notes. 

[ScoobyDoom]

1 hour ago, Lyrical Donut said:

Also, fuck it - you can never have enough of these:

 

 

 

This has slayed me! Very good. I like it

[Down by Law]

25 minutes ago, Shimmyhill said:

My word, I’m trying to buy JSR before it’s gone and can’t seem to on the website so fired up the 360 - it’s an hour later and updates and constantly having to sign in with a new app password each time and no closer to being able to buy it - where is the bloody store!? There seeems no way to view or buy games on the console 🤬

 

I tried to buy Daytona last year to play on my One X, no way of doing it so I hooked up the 360 and it was such a colossal pain in the arse trying to get the store to load and adding funds that I ended up downloading the model 2 emulator instead. 

[Shimmyhill]

22 minutes ago, Down by Law said:

 

I tried to buy Daytona last year to play on my One X, no way of doing it so I hooked up the 360 and it was such a colossal pain in the arse trying to get the store to load and adding funds that I ended up downloading the model 2 emulator instead. 

 

Ive given up tbh, I think the xbox 360 is dead - bizarrely this is the first xbox since launch day ive had fail, its not even one of mine and is the newer slimmer model I picked up a few years back thinking it would be more reliable 

[Popo]

Gentlemen, stop your engines. 

[Giddas]

Trying to buy this via the web xbox 360 marketplace it assumes in the US even though my MS account is firmly UK based.

[fat flatulent git]

Grabbed Daytona and JSR.  Thanks for the heads up.

[Shimmyhill]

Finally managed to buy it! Fired up the worlds slowest laptop and bought it on windows - damn you Apple, now I have to wash the scent of Windows off me  

[Wiper]

Just flagging up, as I haven't seen it emphasised in here, that Defense Grid: The Awakening is one of the best tower defense games ever made (primarily contesting that position with, er, Defense Grid 2). It is available on other platforms (I've only ever played it on PC), but if you've only got access to Xbox consoles I'd strongly recommend picking it up while you can. 

[Skull Commander]

14 minutes ago, Wiper said:

Just flagging up, as I haven't seen it emphasised in here, that Defense Grid: The Awakening is one of the best tower defense games ever made (primarily contesting that position with, er, Defense Grid 2). It is available on other platforms (I've only ever played it on PC), but if you've only got access to Xbox consoles I'd strongly recommend picking it up while you can. 

Agree on this. They are both superb games and I've sunk many hours into both. 

[Riven]

2 hours ago, Wiper said:

Just flagging up, as I haven't seen it emphasised in here, that Defense Grid: The Awakening is one of the best tower defense games ever made (primarily contesting that position with, er, Defense Grid 2). It is available on other platforms (I've only ever played it on PC), but if you've only got access to Xbox consoles I'd strongly recommend picking it up while you can. 

 

+1, but just to add there is about 5 DLC packs and one of which is based around the game Portal too.

 

The in console store still works it's the NXE tab that past the friends one, I have had a few error messages signing in. so have to sign out. If you haven't used the console in a long time it may try to get a firmware update. You might be better going offline and try installing the firmware via a newer game if it can't pull it down from the online.

 

5 hours ago, Skull Commander said:

Even though I like to think of myself as a connoisseur of the genre this particular title has never been on my radar. Thank for pointing it out and I will get it tonight !

 

360 version has two character DLCs and one for retro style music. I have the PS4 version also, but that adds in a odd filter and changes the intro, if for any reason you can't get in on 360 you can get it on PS4 at the moment, it is on the Xbox One store as well. As the game is back catalogue.

 

I also grabbed Daytona USA and JSR on PS3, just in case they disappear too.

 

4 hours ago, Giddas said:

Trying to buy this via the web xbox 360 marketplace it assumes in the US even though my MS account is firmly UK based.

 

Make sure to grab it via the en-gb link in the UK: https://marketplace.xbox.com/en-gb/Product/DAYTONA-USA/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410b1d?DownloadType=Game