Author Topic: why didn't you fat fucks tell me about THEXDER NEO (Read 6457 times)

Van Cruncheon · « **on:** September 18, 2009, 01:53:53 AM »

http://www.gamerbytes.com/2009/09/thexder_neo_revealed_out_in_tw.php

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/thexderneo/

psp!!!! OMG AMIGA CLASSIC

i hope you grease-swilling fuckpigs have massive coronaries for this breach of faith

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #1 on:** September 18, 2009, 01:58:04 AM »

Sorry, I didn't know you still have a thing for Genesis games.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #2 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:00:27 AM »

Looks like that would be pretty fun on the DS

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #3 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:02:23 AM »

I LOVED the original Thexder. What a fucking badass game.

So it's a PSP downloadable title on October 1st, and sometime on PS3 next year?

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #4 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:05:33 AM »

A new 2D shooter is always worth celebrating, even if my cretinous self doesn't know anything about why he is.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #5 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:10:20 AM »

This was the first game I ever purchased. Apple IIgs version.

On the back of the box the developers were dressed like NINJAS and I was like OMG ASSASSINS FROM THE ORIENT MADE THIS GAME FOR ME

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #6 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:11:10 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on September 18, 2009, 02:00:27 AM

Looks like that would be pretty fun on the DS

Yup

Typical SFAG hypocrisy from Drinky Crow.

demi · « **Reply #7 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:11:53 AM »

Bubble Bobble > yawn

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #8 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:18:32 AM »

http://www.mobygames.com/game/thexder/cover-art/gameCoverId,97395/
Just read that description, IN JAPAN VIDEO GAMES ARE TREATED AS AN ART FORM.

That amazing box copy pretty much shaped my image of Japanese gamemaking from ages 10-16

cool breeze · « **Reply #9 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:18:35 AM »

Well I just learned that Z Gundam on the NES is half a clone of Thexder

and this game is out in two weeks for $10. Why not.

Bebpo · « **Reply #10 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:24:16 AM »

Yeah, it's so nostalgic. Thexder was one of the first computer games I ever played! My uncle had it and let me play it at his place everytime. I didn't learn until later that it was made by TREASURE which made my memories even more awesome. Even my mom remembers Thexder and mentions it once and a while.

This is the first benefit I will received of upgrading 1 psp to 6.00. $10 is awesome for this.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #11 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:24:26 AM »

Quote from: swaggaz on September 18, 2009, 02:18:35 AM

Well I just learned that Z Gundam on the NES is half a clone of Thexder

I've got a boxed copy of Zeta Gundam Hot Scramble... it is kinda like a Thexder clone, but crappy.

Quote from: Bebpo on September 18, 2009, 02:24:16 AM

Yeah, it's so nostalgic. Thexder was one of the first computer games I ever played! My uncle had it and let me play it at his place everytime. I didn't learn until later that it was made by TREASURE which made my memories even more awesome.

This is the first benefit I will received of upgrading 1 psp to 6.00. $10 is awesome for this.

I thought Thexder was Game Arts, not Treasure...

Bebpo · « **Reply #12 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:26:03 AM »

Quote from: distantmantra on September 18, 2009, 02:24:26 AM

Quote from: swaggaz on September 18, 2009, 02:18:35 AM
Well I just learned that Z Gundam on the NES is half a clone of Thexder

I've got a boxed copy of Zeta Gundam Hot Scramble... it is kinda like a Thexder clone, but crappy.

Quote from: Bebpo on September 18, 2009, 02:24:16 AM
Yeah, it's so nostalgic. Thexder was one of the first computer games I ever played! My uncle had it and let me play it at his place everytime. I didn't learn until later that it was made by TREASURE which made my memories even more awesome.

This is the first benefit I will received of upgrading 1 psp to 6.00. $10 is awesome for this.

I thought Thexder was Game Arts, not Treasure...

Well Game Arts was awesome too for a while! I might be wrong, but I thought Treasure members were involved?

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #13 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:26:56 AM »

Quote from: Bebpo on September 18, 2009, 02:26:03 AM

Quote from: distantmantra on September 18, 2009, 02:24:26 AM
Quote from: swaggaz on September 18, 2009, 02:18:35 AM
Well I just learned that Z Gundam on the NES is half a clone of Thexder

I've got a boxed copy of Zeta Gundam Hot Scramble... it is kinda like a Thexder clone, but crappy.

Quote from: Bebpo on September 18, 2009, 02:24:16 AM
Yeah, it's so nostalgic. Thexder was one of the first computer games I ever played! My uncle had it and let me play it at his place everytime. I didn't learn until later that it was made by TREASURE which made my memories even more awesome.

This is the first benefit I will received of upgrading 1 psp to 6.00. $10 is awesome for this.

I thought Thexder was Game Arts, not Treasure...

Well Game Arts was awesome too for a while! I might be wrong, but I thought Treasure members were involved?

I didn't see anything about Treasure on the Wiki, but who knows.

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The two Game Arts developers responsible for creating Thexder were Hibiki Godai and Satoshi Uesaka. In 1986, they developed another action-arcade game called Silpheed and in 1989 they wrote a Thexder sequel named Fire Hawk: Thexder The Second Contact. As with the original, FireHawk sold extremely well in Japan and the United States. Today, Thexder is still remembered by many as a classic action-arcade game.

cool breeze · « **Reply #14 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:31:19 AM »

Quote from: distantmantra on September 18, 2009, 02:24:26 AM

Quote from: swaggaz on September 18, 2009, 02:18:35 AM
Well I just learned that Z Gundam on the NES is half a clone of Thexder

I've got a boxed copy of Zeta Gundam Hot Scramble... it is kinda like a Thexder clone, but crappy.

I haven't heard of Thexder before this thread but played the Zeta Gundam game quite a bit when I was big into Gundam before Wing was on Cartoon Network and there were few Gundam games in America. A lot of emulated games, Side Story on Dreamcast and Char's Counterattack import on PS1.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #15 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:32:10 AM »

That looks cool! I've never even heard of the original.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #16 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:50:57 AM »

thexder on the amiga was an obsession for me. i still have the 15 levels memorized.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #17 on:** September 18, 2009, 03:05:21 AM »

http://www.virtualapple.org/thexdergsdisk.html PLAY IT NOW!

Even my dad still sings the Thexder music (don't ask)

I still have no idea what the speech sample is supposed to be at the title screen.

bork · « **Reply #18 on:** September 18, 2009, 05:06:15 AM »

Quote from: Sho Nuff on September 18, 2009, 02:10:20 AM

This was the first game I ever purchased. Apple IIgs version.

On the back of the box the developers were dressed like NINJAS and I was like OMG ASSASSINS FROM THE ORIENT MADE THIS GAME FOR ME

Apple IIgs

I loved this game, but never could get very far. It still remains one of my favorite games of the 80s though. Silpheed on IIgs rocked too; it was a shock to find that the Sega CD version was not the same game. I thought the IIgs version was so much better.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #19 on:** September 18, 2009, 02:16:12 PM »

I can't believe how well Sierra ported this game from the original NEC PC-8801 to all the platforms. I'm pretty sure Americans did the porting, too. There was even a goddamn APPLE IIE VERSION that looked and played great.

1980s Sierra

bork · « **Reply #20 on:** September 23, 2009, 02:15:59 AM »

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The IIgs music is still better!

Raban · « **Reply #21 on:** September 23, 2009, 04:29:21 AM »

Holy shit that looks awesome. Too bad I don't have a PSP because every version is now a glossy grease-trap of design shittiness :'(

Enl · « **Reply #22 on:** September 23, 2009, 05:25:54 AM »

This is so boug... damn I still have 5.00 CFW.

cool breeze · « **Reply #23 on:** October 01, 2009, 01:39:57 AM »

This is out right now. $10, 33 megs.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #24 on:** October 01, 2009, 02:16:36 AM »

bought and it is AWESOME

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #25 on:** October 01, 2009, 02:17:05 AM »

uncharted 2 annihilated

bork · « **Reply #26 on:** October 01, 2009, 11:12:41 AM »

Downloading now

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #27 on:** October 01, 2009, 11:14:06 AM »

Japan store only?

cool breeze · « **Reply #28 on:** October 01, 2009, 11:18:53 AM »

nope, it's on the American store. I'm gonna buy it later today.

on a side note, apparently this game isn't one of the "PSP Minis" because it has online, and those can't have online, yet it's still in the price and size range. Sony

bork · « **Reply #29 on:** October 01, 2009, 11:31:09 AM »

Yeah, the U.S. store has it!

The game is so good...just like the original, only with updated visuals, music, and controls. You can even use the classic control scheme!

Total nostalgia kick.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #30 on:** October 01, 2009, 11:47:56 AM »

American store? Sweet! I don't to have to spend my Gundamu DLC Weeaboo bucks on it!

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #31 on:** October 01, 2009, 12:33:59 PM »

got to level 7 on normal last night before getting destroyed :'(

Bebpo · « **Reply #32 on:** October 01, 2009, 12:49:56 PM »

This was on the US store? Damnit. I spent from my surplus of weaboo points

Game is fun. Been far too long since I played the original so I can't really compare but was the original more of a score based game as well? It seems like if you want you can blow through the levels real quick, so the real meat of the gameplay is score attack; especially with the online rankings.

cool breeze · « **Reply #33 on:** October 01, 2009, 01:37:10 PM »

This is pretty fun. I never played Thexder before and went in thinking it was Z Gundam, and while it plays similar, I didn't know about energy drain or anything like that.

Enl · « **Reply #34 on:** October 01, 2009, 02:15:11 PM »

I'm guessing that this requires the latest firmware update?

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #35 on:** October 01, 2009, 02:42:21 PM »

6.10, yeah

bork · « **Reply #36 on:** October 01, 2009, 03:22:19 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on October 01, 2009, 02:45:12 PM

Quote from: Enl on October 01, 2009, 02:15:11 PM
I'm guessing that this requires the latest firmware update?

It works fine on 5.50 GEN B.

Yup. Might need to do the version.txt trick, but that's it. Works fine on DAT CUSTOM.

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #37 on:** October 01, 2009, 05:10:00 PM »

Has anyone messed around with the 5.55/6.0 game decrypter? The instructions looks pretty complicated, not sure if its worth the time or what games it does/doesn't work on.

bork · « **Reply #38 on:** October 01, 2009, 06:28:04 PM »

Quote from: Kestastrophe on October 01, 2009, 05:10:00 PM

Has anyone messed around with the 5.55/6.0 game decrypter? The instructions looks pretty complicated, not sure if its worth the time or what games it does/doesn't work on.

Yes, it's actually pretty easy to use, albeit a little tedious. Just follow these steps:

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1) Open the untouched ISO in UMDGen 4.00.
2) Click on File -> File List -> Export in order to save the virgin ISO's file structure to your PC somewhere.
3) Navigate to PSP_GAME\SYSDIR and extract the (encrypted) eboot.bin file, saving it somewhere on your PC. Close UMDGen 4.00.
4) Move the eboot.bin to the root of your memory stick.
5) Run Yoshihiro's 5.55/6.00 Decryptor program and hit X to decrypt. (The folder containing his program should go in X:\PSP\GAME like any other homebrew app).
6) Find the (now decrypted) eboot.bin in the X:\Decryptor folder and save it somewhere on your PC.
7) Open the untouched ISO in UMDGen 4.00.
8) Click on File -> File List -> Import and insert the original file structure file you exported. Confirm that you want to force the file positions to match.
9) Navigate to PSP_GAME\SYSDIR and delete the (encrypted) eboot.bin file. Right click where it used to be, click on Add -> Existing file(s), browse to the decrypted eboot.bin, and insert it.
10) Save the new ISO as an uncompressed ISO file (I'd give it a different name/location so as to not overwrite the clean ISO). It should result in a tweaked ISO that's ALMOST (but not quite) exactly the same size as the clean ISO.

jiji · « **Reply #39 on:** October 02, 2009, 01:19:05 AM »

This is a great remake. It's polished and fun. I like the new controls.

The company that made it has 3 employees and opened last December.

bork · « **Reply #40 on:** October 02, 2009, 02:02:15 AM »

PSP GOTY

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #41 on:** January 03, 2010, 06:39:32 PM »

Saw this on Facebook the other day:

Quote from: Square Enix DLG

THEXDERNEOfor PS3 is coming up in 2010! With PS3 graphic THEXDER NEO becomes more THEXDER. Can't wait to show you. Checking would be almost done! Happy holidays, and please look forward for Square Enix's Downloadable Games coming up in 2010!
Thanks,
Akira Kokushoh

bork · « **Reply #42 on:** January 03, 2010, 06:40:47 PM »

THEXDER NEO BECOMES MORE THEXDER!

Awesome.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #43 on:** January 28, 2010, 01:12:05 PM »

Sounds like the PS3 version comes out today in North America.
- $9.99
- Online multiplayer (up to 6 players)
- HD graphics (not just upscaled) with boss disintegration effects
- Original game included

http://www.psnstores.com/2010/01/out-this-week-thexder-neo/

Square Enix

dark1x · « **Reply #44 on:** January 28, 2010, 02:31:13 PM »

Oh shit, the PS3 version isn't just an upscaled PSP port? Very nice. Might have to grab this one. I loved the PSP version!

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Author Topic: why didn't you fat fucks tell me about THEXDER NEO (Read 6457 times)