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Psychic Force 2012 Announced For DreamCast
Copyright Taito, 1998
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Psychic Force 2012 Announced For DreamCast
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Taito, 1998
Shots of Psychic Force 2012
for DreamCast was released together with its announcement.
There are no details on
differences in the DreamCast version as of yet.
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Shots from the Tales of Phantasia Opening
Movie
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Namco, 1998
The Opening movie for the
PSX version of Tales Of Fantasia has been announced to be done in creation.
A few scanned clips are
available in the Image Archives
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Cart Date Set on Last Blade Special
& PSX LB
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SNK, 1998
The Release date of the Cartridge
version of Last Blade Special (formally reported as Last Blade 2 ) is set
on January 28, 1999.
In related news, the release
of Last Blade for the PSX has been re-dated to the Spring of 1999.
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Additional information on SFA3 on PocketStation
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Capcom, 1998
Check the in-depth article by clicking the left menu.
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Dural Code for DreamCast Virtua Fighter
3tb
Copyright
Sega, 1998
To play as Dural in Virtua
Fighter 3tb's training mode, press A button + X button while Holding
on start.
Substitute the X button
with Y for the Silver version instead of Gold.
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Datona USA 2 Power Edition Announced
for Amusement Facilities
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Sega, 1998
A power-ed up version of
Datona 2, Datona USA 2 Power Edition has been announced for Amusement Facilities.
The new version of Datona
will include courses which has all three (Beginner, Intermediate, Expert)
routes combines. The classic Hornet from Datona 1 will also be available
as a car option.
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Project Berkeley officially Named "Shen-mu"
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Sega, 1998
Although the English spelling
has yet to be announced, the title to Sega's "Project Berkeley" has been
announced as "Shen-mu" (written phonetically.)
Shen-mu is said to be based
on a new game system "FREE" (Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment).
Those who have purchased
Virtua Fighter 3tb yesterday (11/27) would have experienced the demo in
the second disk, which briefly outlines the game.
The Main character of Shen-fu;
Lei Shenfa, seems to know of martial arts as in one of the demo clips,
she is seen to push away men confronting her.
Also, 3 new object images
from the game have been released-- all the items seem to be rather obsolete
items, which may suggest the background of date in the story.
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Half set of FFVIII Pics Currently up,
More Updates in The Madman's Cafe coming soon...
Copyright
Square, 1998
Half a set of New Final Fantasy
VIII images are currently available. The other half will come in 24 Hours
together with additional information on the game.
updates on other game news will also be available in 24H.
The Jojo & Last Blade SP review will be posed in 48 H'.. hopefully.
The current half of FFVIII
Game shots can be found in the Image Archives
(In the meanwhile, check
the FTTF, Tifa's
Tearoom , Final Fantasy 7 Fanarts
and other places to kill time.)
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Additional information on Final Fantasy
VIII
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Square, 1998
Check the in-depth article by clicking the left menu.
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Jojo's Bizzare Adventure and Last Blade
Special Beta Tested
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1998
Jojo's Bizzare Adventure
and Last Blade special came out for beta testing in Tokyo, and "Madman"
Henry Moriarty was there to try them out.
Short editiorials and more
Jojo pics hopelessly coming up in 12 hours.
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SFA3 New Characters Information &
Pictures
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Capcom, 1998
News and pictures of the three new characters in Street fighter Alpha 3, Dee Jay, T. Hawk and Fei-long have been revealed. The characters have new victory poses in additional to new stage backgrounds and super combos.
Dee-Jay seems to still have
all his moves and in addition, has acquired a new Super combo named Theme
of Sunrise, which is a combo going diagonally into the air with
rapid kicks. (note: it is not Rapid Jackknife Maximums that he is doing)
T.Hawk not obtained one
but two new Supers, one named Raging Typhoon,
different form the Double Typhoon in Super StreetFighter Turbo as the Typhoon
attack occurs three times. The other is called Canyon
Splitter, where T-Hawk does a short jump slash followed by a Tomahawk
Buster.
For Fei-long, No new super
combo has yet been revealed but all of his old moves seems to be present
similarly to cases of the other two.
More Game shots, character illusts and larger images can be found in the Image Archives
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Quick news on NeoGeo Products
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SNK, 1998
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The first shipment of King
Of Fighters 98 NeoGeoCD version will be a limited edition,
which will come with a newly drawn 1999 SNK Calendar.
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Other new games have been
announced for the NeoGeoPocket and goes as
follows:
Neo Derby Champ
Bubble Bobble
Passive Prisoner
Pocket Casino Series
Neo * 21
Pocket Casino Series
Neo * Dragon's Wild
Pocket Casino Series
Neo * Bakara
Pocket Casino Series
Neo * Cherry Master - Release date Dec 25
Pocket Casino Series
Neo * Mystery Bonus
3-
Samurai Shodown for the
NeoGeo Pocket has been announced for 12/25. A Limited Edition will be available
simultaneously, which will come with a Crystal NeoGeo and a Strap. The
Normal version will be retailed at 4500 yen, and the Limited Edition at
12300 yen.
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Additional Information on Final Fantasy
VIII
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Square, 1998
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release date of Final Fantasy VIII in Japan has been announced as
2/11/99.
FFVIII will come in a set of 4 disks, retailed at 7800 yen. In additional news, another new character, Quistis Trepe has been revealed. At age 18/172 CM, Quistis joined the Garden when she was 15, and works as the teacher to Squall and others despite only being one age of a difference. While looking quite and cool, Quistis also has a delicate side, and is not much knowledgeable about society. Four additional Guardian forces have been revealed as well, two of which are new. One is Kochocobo, a small baby Chocobo which does not realize for a second on what it has been summoned for, then realzies and attacks with Choco-fire. Unlike other Guardian Forces, KoChocobo is summoned by using a food item. The Kococobo is said to work with Sony's Pocket Station. The other is a green Guardian Force phonetically pronounced as Ketsakwatol. This Guardian Force emits lightening and has magic enhancing abilities when junctioned. In old Guardian Forces, Alexander is back together with Siva. Alaxander is said to give the abilities of recovery magics when junctioned. |
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In belated note, two other
characters have been also revealed for FFVIII. One is Selfie,
a girl who talks all in very basic Japanese characters "Hiragana",
suggesting that she is not fully matured- however she may not be a character
to be taken lighty since she is in the SeeD, meaning she must posess some
level of strength. The other is Irvine, a
Gunman character who seems to be lightheaded, although it may possibly
be an act to cover for his true sense of seriousness.
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Additional Information on original
modes of SFA3 for the PSX
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Capcom, 1998
World
Tour Mode
In the World
Tour Mode, the player selects one character and its ISM mode, then
fights around the courses of the world, each course (USA, Japan, etc) having
2-3 stages.
By fighting, the character
will level up and obtain abilities known as ISM PLUS.
ISM
PLUS are the extra ISM abilities, such as Custom combos, aerial
guard and Alpha counter. By obtaining the ISM PLUS, the character can use
the abilities while in a different ISM mode. For instance, a character
can be in X-ISM while having the ability to aerial guard and do custom
combos. Up to 3 ISM PLUS abilities can be used simultaneously.
Also, the character's balance
in between Offence and defence can be adjusted inbetween fights by going
to the menu screen (note power bar on bottom). This becomes essencial
as opponent strength differs, and accordingly the game screen will show
a word of advice before fighting the next opponent.
Ryu in X-ISM, utilizing
custom combos
PocketStation
Usage
Notes on the useage of Sony's Pocket Station in SFA3 has also been
revealed.
1- Select a character. 2
additional characters will automatically be selected as partners
2- Play the mini-games---
by playing the mini-games the characters will level up and become stronger
(Hit points, attack points, etc)
3- Fight against the CPU
or friends, win and collect the characters that the opponent has.
4- The characters grown
with pocket station can be used in the World Tour Mode.
In additional note, Three
of the 5 new characters for the PSX version of SFA3 have been confirmed
by Capcom's Fax communications as of recent. The three are Super Street
fighter Characters as previously rumored- Fei Long,
Dee-Jay and T-Hawk. Special Thanks to Rolento
of GPOW for the information.
More Game shots can be found
in the Image Archives
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Bandai teams with Sega on WonderSwan
Distribution
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Bandai, 1998
Bandai announced their distribution
to team with Sega Enterprises in order to enhance their system of distribution
to hard-core gamers concerning their new hardware, WonderSwan. Sega
will be utilizing their sub company Sega muse for the distribution.
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Quick Update on Dreamcast
Copyright
Sega, 1998
Due to the lack of manufacturing of PowerVR2 chips, the first shipment of Dreamcasts are suspected to be lower than expected. Many stores within Japan itself have canceled taking reservations from customers due to its uncertainty.
In other notes, Sega Rally 2 and Blue stinger have been rescheduled from 11/27/98 to 1/14/98. Sonic Adventure has been rescheduled from 12/17/98 to 12/23/98. Geistforce has been rescheduled from 12/10/98 to the year 1999.
VirtuaFighter3tb
will come with an additional disk, containing a demo of Project
Berkeley.
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Information on Ehrgeiz RPG / Quest
mode
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Square, 1998
The Action RPG quest mode in Ehrgeiz has been revealed.
In this quest mode, the player uses an archeologist Masuda and his assistant Clair to search the missing secrets deep in a dungeon near the village. Only one character can be used at a time, and the two characters can be changed within the hotel they reside. The player can buy items such as magic stones and weapons (armor, sword, etc-- including FF7 Cloud's huge sword) in the village to get prepared for the dungeon. Since the weapons can break if overused, going to the Blacksmith occasionally is a must as well.
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Additional images of Last
Blade 2 have been acquired.
In related note, Check the
Entree for The Madman's Cafe's Guide to Last Blade 2
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Game shots and pics can
be found in the Image Archives
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Secrets in Saturn's Marvel SuperHeroes
Vs StreetFighter
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Capcom, 1998
Hidden
Characters-
Shadow- select Dhalsim while
holding Start
Mech-Zangief- select BlackHeart
while holding Start
SunTan Sakura- select Hulk
while holding Start
USAgent- select Vega/Bison
while holding Start
Mephisto- select Omega Red
while holding Start
Armored Spiderman- select
Spiderman while holding Start
Mech-Gouki- Select Gouki
twice while holding Start. Mech-Gouki Mode must be finished first.
Mech-Gouki
Mode
After seeing the Ending
in Survival mode, select survival mode again while pressing L or R which
will change the menu selection into "Mech-Gouki Now!".
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Samurai Shodown on NeoGeoPocket Information
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SNK, 1998
SNK released the following information on Smarai shodown for the NeoGeo Pocket
The game will be based on
Samurai Shodown 4 for the NeoGeo. the two
modes of fighting are existant as well as the three levels.
So far three modes have
been confirmed- "1P mode, "VS mode" and "Hyakunin-giri mode (100 wins mode)".
More pics can be found in
the Image Archives
For the line-up of characters,
check SNK in the Fall 98' Tokyo Game Show (TGS) section of the MMCafe.
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KOF98 Short News
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SNK, 1998
1- King Of Fighters 98 for the NeoGeo CD has been scheduled for 12/23/98 in Japan.
2- "The King Of Fighters
98" scheduled for the dreamcast, has been now renamed to "The
King Of Fighters"
However The title still
remains tentative.
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Making of Final Fantasy
-The Movie- Announced
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Square, 1998
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The
creation of a full CG Final Fantasy movie was announced on 11/4 by Square.
Appropriately named Final Fantasy -The Movie-,
At the announcement the creators of the movie, Director Sakaguchi
(Vice president of Square) and Script writer Al Reinart
(Scenario writer of Apollo 13, 1995) The press invited to the announcement
were shown a demo movie approximately 2 minutes long.
The Full CG movie is currently being produced by 200 staffs at the Honolulu studio. The movie is scheduled to be released around the world on the year 2001. The characters and storyline is an original completely independent from the game. The story take place on earth in 2065, where death (and life) has completely been analyzed by science. |
The Production of Final Fantasy -The Moive- will be done by Square Pictures, while worldwide distribution will be managed by Columbia Pictures. Distribution within Japan will be managed by Gaga-Humax. Square plans to have over 6,000,000 viewers and profit 500,000,000 Yen from distribution profit to theaters.
Other companies to participate
in the project goes as follows
Amuse Inc.
Bandai Co, LTD
Dentsu Inc.
Digicube Co., LTD
Gaga Communications Inc.
Human Pictures Inc.
Square Co., LTD
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