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ESP Ra.De gets port by M2
- Thread starter qhoang
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One of the reasons my DC is still hooked up to a CRT at my parents' house.
Wish I had room for all my stuff here.
I've heard of this game but never knew it was by ex Cave devs. Will get it now on iOS. Thanks.
A Switch port was shown back in December 2017, but I don't think anything has been seen since.
I was just thinking how much of a sin it was that this has never had a console port. Now I don't have to worry about being prosecuted to the full extent of the jam for playing with MAME in the US. It's the game that introduced me to both Cave and bullet hell so I have a lot of nostalgia. Plus it's got amazing boss music! I love picking Yusuke Sagami since when you select him it sounds like he says "YOU SUCK!"
Was really hoping they would get back to Raizing games again with either Batrider or Bakraid but ESP Ra. De. finally getting a home port is exciting news, day one. Just hope it doesn't have issues and take over a year and a half to release like Ketsui.
Repost from Shmups OT.
M2 Shot Triggers ESP Ra.De coming to PS4 and now Nintendo Switch simultaneously. Digital, physical and deluxe physical versions planned.
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M2 Shot Triggers ESP Ra.De coming to PS4 and now Nintendo Switch simultaneously. Digital, physical and deluxe physical versions planned.
denfaminicogamer said:
ここでソフトについての情報をいったん整理しておくと、『エスプレイド』はプレイステーション4とNintendo Switchで、それぞれ以下3種類のソフトが発売される予定だ。
（1）ダウンロード版
（2）物理メディア付きパッケージの初回生産版
（3）物理メディア付きパッケージの豪華限定版
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i hope to god the others come to switch too. i'll (re)buy them all.
beautiful. just beautiful.
can't help the guwange in the photo isn't intentional.
beautiful. just beautiful.
can't help the guwange in the photo isn't intentional.
YES! MOAAAAAAAAAAAAAR! Now if only Pro Gear would leap from that Capcom stick cade failure and come to consoles as well.
Sorry, but that explanation is pure bullshit, considering my 10 year old PC can run the game at 500% speed when I uncap the framerate in the current MAME version.
The comment you quoted was an inaccurate translation--the issue isn't slowdown but input lag. W10 has an inherent amount of input lag that M2 currently can't mitigate (and the same goes for EXA which is essentially just a W10 box).
MAME isn't the gold standard for many of these games, either, but that's a separate discussion.
Wow!! Can't wait to play ESP Ra.De on Switch in TATE with Flip Grip! Really hope this means more Cave shmups will eventually make their way to Switch.
I have an idea: release it on a USB stick with it's own OS (some Linux flavour, obvs) and that way you have about as pure an experience as possible. Boom.
I'm not sure they'd need to.
Firstly, the Cave arcade board for ESP RaDe is the Cave 68000. An arcade board from the mid-90's running off a Motorola 68000 CPU which itself started off 40 years ago.
Secondly, an iPhone 3GS did an outstanding job of running ESPGaluda II back in 2010. And an iPhone 4S ran Mushihemisama Futari back in 2012.
Based off that, surely a Nintendo Switch can easily run ESPRade (1996).
Running the game at their preferred level of accuracy plus all the gadgets plus the extra provisions they use to reduce latency, etc is what makes it tough, not just running the games on their own.
They're not (or weren't) even confident they can do Batrider and Bakraid on PS4, and they use the same hardware as Garegga.
They're not (or weren't) even confident they can do Batrider and Bakraid on PS4, and they use the same hardware as Garegga.
They did an interview where they basically went over a lot of requests, and Batrider/Bakraid were games they said were particularly heavily requested from overseas. Their issue was that, because they were more technically advanced, they were harder to emulate and debug than Garegga despite running on the same hardware, and that something like Batrider would require them to make way more gadgets than usual.
Ra.De was their #1 requested game, by the way--a Japanese website ran a poll and when Ra.De won, they were able to use it as leverage with Atlus to get the license.
I'm not doubting you but it seems a bit odd, seeing as the PS4 and Switch could probably just emulate the arcade code.
It's about absolute accuracy, this is why people like M2's ports over others. Yea those systems can run the game, but will it be as accurate to the arcade as M2 wants? Probably not.
Thats' what I'm saying PS4 & Switch could easily run ESP RaDe arcade code under emulation. It's a 1998 arcade game running off the Cave 68000 board.
The people handling the ports say otherwise, you should probably take them at their word.
Ra.De is top 3 Cave stuff for me. Love the first stage track! Been waiting for a proper port for ages.
Yessssssssssssssssss
guess they fixed the (unintentional) slowdown issues
I think this news is worth its own thread tbh
This is great news.
Though looking at it now, the Western release schedule of the STG line leaves quite a bit to be desired so far.
Yeah I'm finding it hard to figure out which of these to import, which to wait for local, which I can buy physical, which I can buy digital, etc....
Not to, uh, anti-port-beg, but why not focus on games that didn't receive a home version yet? There's amazing ports on PS2 and 360 for both games you mentioned.
Those ports are now just as old, if not older than the original versions of Sega arcade games that M2 ported to the PS2 for the AGES 2500 series. It's true that home versions of games that are still arcade-only would be more valuable... but the ports you mentioned are still quite elusive for the average gamer as well.
I definitely need more Guhwaaaaaang in my life. I'll rebuy all of these on Switch (and PS4 too, why the hell not).
Yeah, I'm with you. But as John Omaha also mentioned, those ports are, perhaps outside of Akai Katana, as old as some of the former AGES ports. I mean I still have means to play them (thankfully!), but I would definitely be happy to have an easier access to them on a modern system. Those two titles actually mean a lot to me, which is why I mentioned it. But yes of course, they should first focus on titles that haven't seen a home release yet.
where is it? is there a release date somewhere?
ESP Ra.De. is really great, not too frantic, perfect game for bullet hell novices and an awesome introduction into the Cave range of shooting goodness
ESP Ra.De. is really great, not too frantic, perfect game for bullet hell novices and an awesome introduction into the Cave range of shooting goodness
So far they've just given a general release window of "late 2019" so earliest we'll probably see it is November.