Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu HD Update

Looks like the Iphone 4 series and Ipod Touch 4th Gen users will get the HD update of the game that was released two years ago. It may be the same for IPad version but this is not the first time anyway as the previous game on that tablet with HD support is Espgaluda II which was also released two years ago. Last year, Espgaluda II for IPad had the HD update as well as the Smartphone Mode music that applies to the entire IOS version of the game.

The downside of this news is that they forgot to show off the trailer of the HD version of this game that was recently released yesterday. Basically, the HD version features the graphics that are similar to the Xbox 360 version. Also, the Smartphone Mode exclusive stuffs will get the HD look as well.

However, there are some differences by the way between the IOS and Xbox 360 versions. The Smartphone mode of Espgaluda II has you touch any part of the screen to clear off everything while in Awakening Mode. For example, if you touch the area with the turret, everything on that area will be cleared. Whether it’s the other enemies or the bullets that are above or next to that turret, touching that area destroys them including the turret and you get more Spirit Gems from clearing the enemy bullets while in that mode. Elsewhere in Black Label edition in Xbox 360 version, you can graze for awhile without getting hit while in Awakening Mode but who knows if that is true or not as I still haven’t got that game yet from Games On Demand. Also, the Arrange Mode can allow you to shoot back the enemy bullets while in Awakening Mode as long as you run out of the Spirit Gems. For Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu on smartphones, you get the giant hyper laser that looks like the rip off of Marisa’s Master Spark after spinning a lot in Hyper Mode. This is also in Dodonpachi Maximum for Windows Phone 7 but the bombing system may seem to be based on Dodonpachi II so that you can fill up the Laser Bomb bar as many as you can. Plus, there’s also grazing but that reduces your firepower to increase the Hyper Bar. Shooting lots of enemies on the other hand increases your firepower. For Xbox 360 version of Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu, the Arrange A Mode features the ships from Dodonpachi Daioujou and it is somewhat harder than usual while Arrange B has true graphical enhancements and like Espgaluda II’s Arrange Mode, the enemies may somewhat get stronger on higher levels. Also what’s different from Black Label edition is that you get two bars on top which may be equal to two bombs but that doesn’t mean you get two Hypers though as using Hyper Mode takes away one of the bars that is completely filled. The better side of Arrange B is that you get unlimited lives and it is somewhat the Arranged Training Mode.

More updates regarding W8CP

Buying the Touch Mouse may be an insane opportunity but in February 29th, they announced that the Touch Mouse devices to be updated for Windows 8. The Device Center for mice is the upcoming successor to Intellipoint that can allow such interactivity between the Touch Mouse devices and Windows 8. Remapping the mouse buttons or assigning keys on the keyboard to your favorite file or webpage is easier than ever in the Device Center beta for Windows 8 CP. Who knows if you can use this for the currently active operating systems as well besides Windows 8?

So here comes the updated article regarding Windows 8 CP. It is designed to work on a wide range of devices, from tablets, to laptops, to desktops and all-in-ones. This is calling Windows 8 as a reimagined Windows operating system. Few things to note, computers that follow the system requirements of running Windows Vista and 7 can run the upcoming Windows operating system that is still under beta phase and when it comes to beta phase, there are still bugs going on. However, the new features between desktop and tablet editions are different in behavior as I realized.

The Start screen is the reimagined part of Windows experience. Actually, it is from Windows Phone 7 experience you’re going to imagine on Windows 8. Just like other smartphone devices where you can launch things, you can launch sub-things that launch their respective apps such as Friends section that uses People app, websites that can be opened to Internet Explorer, etc. Unlike the competitors, there are real-time updates on the things you can tap on. Like other smartphone devices, the start screen can be customized to suit your needs.

There will also be cloud technology to store your stuff but unfortunately, I don’t think there’s a way to automatically synchronize your local data to Skydrive just like you can do to Dropbox where you can specify on where do you want to synchronize your Dropbox data on your hard disk. When you Dropbox data is stored on your hard disk and you store additional data there, it’s auto-synchronization time. Who knows if SkyDrive on Windows 8 will be like using Gladinet Cloud Desktop to do this kind of solution? Of course, you will need your respective online accounts and everyone knows that we all have our social networking accounts. We can see our stuffs posted to social networking sites as well from certain Windows 8 apps.

Certain Android tablet devices come with the laptop keyboard with its own touchpad and I guess that the attachment may be the same for Windows 8 but what about drawing graphics by then, do you use the stylus for that? Hopefully, there will be USB support for Windows 8 tablets as well that can be useful for gaming or perhaps USB keyboard.

The desktop edition may be troublesome when it comes to bringing Charm bar but that’s the fact that the scrollbars are there. You’re supposed to move to the corner of the right side or press Windows + C key. Where’s the way to share webpages you’re in to social networking sites from the Charm Bar?

Devices on the other hand, well, you can connect your computer to other devices in which there’s not much to say.

The Charm bar containing Settings may be a proper idea just like using Android but the Settings charm is almost like a combination of two. More settings can be found at PC Settings.

The way you switch apps may be the pain in my ass when it comes to going all the way to the top-left corner to do so. The switching features are there but you have to move to the top-left corner anyway. But if you move down from top-left corner, you can see the vertical taskbar with the Start screen button at the bottom left.

For IE10 Metro edition, there’s still no way I can move the freaking tabs and this is where the real disadvantage starts. Also, it uses HTML5 to get around the problem for watching YouTube videos for example. There will be no Flash support for this metro app but I guess it’s like watching YouTube videos the other way through the app on the smartphones. Will things be safer that way?

In case you have very serious computer problems, at the last resort, you can choose to refresh your PC which causes the operating system to do the fresh installation without losing your personal files or settings or apps you’ve got from the Windows Store. The Windows Update is still the regular Windows-like behavior so it’s nothing that much other than updating the smaller parts of the operating system to fix the vulnerabilities.

Lastly, the default anti-malware protection tool is there but it uses the Security Essentials engine to do the better protection. Also, the desktop is there but it is not supposed to be on the tablet editions. For desktop users, the desktop is there like you can do whatever you want but the Start button is gone and you have to find the other way to access the Start screen and especially the desktop apps.

So the beta phase may be okay or perhaps average for both desktop and tablet users but who knows if this is acceptable or not?

Mushihimesama Futari and Deathsmiles obtained!

After buying Eschatos from Games on Demand, it seemed that there were two more to buy like I already purchased yesterday. But when I went to Games on Demand section from Xbox Live Marketplace to get those two games, another one, Espgaluda II was recently released in March 6th. That was one day before Dodonpachi Maximum was released.

Furthermore, I went to the arcade to play the same game again and now there are four machines compared to two the other time. What a game clustering in case the buttons refusing to work usually one day and nowadays, the redundancy power has risen. So I played three of the songs from the January update as well as one of the songs from February update. The February update was none other than the pack of songs from Project Diva 2nd. Even if you have that game, the beatmaps are different between the arcade and PSP versions. Unfortunately, I felt nervous to play that song in Extreme mode from that February update so I decided to try it in Hard Mode as I can’t even clear this song in Project Diva Extend in Extreme Mode. Well, I keep on failing that because it’s way impossible for me in Extreme Mode but at least I can clear it in Hard Mode.

For Mushihimesama Futari in Ultra Mode, I even attempted it with highest amount of lives and bombs and I keep on spamming bombs on shit I can’t even dodge. This is one mode that will kick your ass in seconds and even I’m not an expert in this genre. So hard that that IAP faggot who presented with me can go and troll on that difficulty mode like she’s going to say stupid things like, ‘We don’t want so many bullets/dots.’, ‘We don’t want the game that is so difficult.’, ‘Playing simple games is better’, etc. Perhaps I can take her for a difficulty-fag and she can go back to play casual games after February 10th. As my case study presentation was successful, she deserves to repeat anyway next month.

So remember, visual and motion simplification is a test of limits by the way. You don’t want to see the games with the interface being too simple.

Eschatos obtained

Well, two more shmup games that are on Games On Demand to go and we’re off to buy something else. Seems that the Time Attack mode can your first step to going further to clearing the game if you can make it on time. Sure I took like dozens of hits from the enemy attacks in that mode but still, I made in on time. Also on Cardinal Sins, my first grade started with B which was as kind of great to me with C being okay by the way but D and E are shitty grades and you don’t want to receive those, right? For Time Attack mode, I managed to clear it with less than few seconds left like I nearly ran out of time for real.

Miku Flick on Iphone

Holy shit, I don’t even know how this can work judging from the gameplay concept. You’re supposed to find the correct word and then enter it on the lyrics on time. Until the game is released on March 9th, there will not be enough clues in our brain on how things can work. From what I can understand, things may be like:

• All the consonants on the keyboard start with the vowel ‘A’ as the first phase in which you tap.
• The second phase of inputting the word has four other vowels after tapping one of the consonants. While holding down the consonant you have selected, you must move your finger in one of the directions.
• You have to do this in two steps on time to the rhythm and without clues, it’s an epic failure of the run.
• The graphics are taken from Project Diva Dreamy Theater series.
• If you see the Kanas with two inverted commas, that’s not much to worry about. They are like the same syllables you’re supposed to flick to but they are pronounced as different Kanas.

Wow, this is freaking difficult to explain and make sense on how things can work but if we see Kanjis or perhaps other stuffs like numbers or even English words. That can be more complicated like that for those who don’t know Japanese.

So you must have basic Japanese knowledge if you want to play this game but then it will be in Japanese I-Tunes store and I guess that it won’t be free price anyway as it costs 1200 yen or $15.

The system requirements obviously require the Iphone 4S, Iphone 4, Ipod Touch and the Ipad series as the graphics probably look like they’re taken from Dreamy Theater series.

Mushihimesama HD

Well, another one that is coming to the Xbox 360 console. It was also on the Playstation 2 like things may be more than pixel perfect but things were like blurry or something. Perhaps that port wasn’t arcade perfect or some sort. On the Iphone which was the recent release, the title screen was in full resolution but the color palette isn’t using 24-Bit True Color. I guess that it required Iphone 4 and above and Ipod Touch 4th Gen and above. For Apple Tablet devices, the downside was that the graphics are not in HD at all. My guess is that after Xbox 360 release, the IPad version will be updated again with full HD graphics. That can make proper sense by the way.

There may be additional modes on the Xbox 360 port as well as the Ver 1.5 as the DLC. Unfortunately, the arranger for the Ver 1.5 soundtrack was already dead last year but then he is still credited in our hearts. (Sigh) The load time when starting the game is ridiculously long on the Iphone but who knows if that is the same for the Playstation 2 version. Isn’t the Xbox 360 port optional anyway to exist?

Lastly, the release date will be sometime in May and this is when things are too late to start off smoothly but then nobody wants to push me back to the same college in next April after the term is complete in March 7th afternoon. The imaginary nightmare that involves the catastrophic threat is suspected to be about the repeat of Industrial Attachment Program like I may get laughed or scared at into being taunted like I’m repeating the program due to the screwed up presentation with the noob-ish faggot who did that with me the other time. This can hold me back from entering the Polys after the upcoming vacation which is coming near. The taunting will be in the style of Mushihimesama Futari’s final boss battle but nowadays, that kind of taunting is pretty useless as nobody does that anymore. Another useless taunt is that I may end up being struck or burnt to death at my college after April like it may be taunting me about repeating to catastrophic death.

What, am I possessing something as special as Reco has? How can that be like those useless taunts are likely assumed to be thrown at me like that after the IAP presentation was screwed up.

Welcome to Windows 8 Consumer Preview but in screwed up way

The Developer Preview might seem to be the impressive opportunity for me to try it last year but the following problems occurred from there. The charm bar as in Consumer Preview was missing and I still can’t snap things like that even in Consumer Preview. Also, you couldn’t even close the apps unless you use the freaking Task Manager to do it which is something you do not want when it comes to Metro experience.

Then, things were starting to get corrupted on me such as the Start Screen not showing things up in Developer Preview and unpinned apps couldn’t be pinned back or shown in the Apps search. Also, the Control Panel was so blanky looking than colorful in Developer Preview and interactivity in Internet Explorer 10 and Control Panel was animation-less. Even in Consumer Preview, I still can’t move the tabs in IE 10 Metro version.

Now, about the Consumer Preview, the boot screen looks kind of distorted but that looks okay on my Acer PC which is widescreen. Then, what the heck is up with the boot screen symbol as well as the texture-less polygonal betta fish? You know, why don’t you illustrate an artwork with bosses and boss backgrounds from Darius Burst and then use that artwork as the new wallpaper? That should be better that way or it may look like we’re being brought back to the past to play the 3D games with texture-less polygonal graphics.

The real disappointing side in Consumer Preview is that you have to move the mouse all the way to the corner to do the next interaction. The task switching by dragging is there but there’s also a Metro taskbar on the left which can be difficult for users to explain with. The right side is another real downside as you have to go to the top-right or bottom-right corner to bring the freaking charm bar. Also, what’s up with dragging the app task from the top side of the screen? Surely, that looks idea-less to me. At least, some problems are solvable with the tablet devices but I don’t know if the Metro task snapping is there or not. In theory, there should be for tablet devices.

Last problem, is there a reason on why they slacked on the Xbox 360 powered apps on Windows 8 like I can’t even connect to my console directly with those apps? Hmm, it’s not okay for laptop and desktop users like me for Consumer Preview. What kind of music were they listening to? That was a sign of the screw-up in the Music apps section. Also, the boot time is kind of worsened or something.

I guess that this is an unacceptable beta version of Windows 8 for desktop and laptop users. The release candidate of Windows 7 was enjoyable enough to me so is the developer preview version.