Shmup of the Month Club 2012

[EllertMichael]

October - Blue Hawk

[pierrot]

You only have a J-360?

I'm sure you know it's quite cheap for US-360.

Yep just the Japanese unit. Aside from the prices for the US copies of Raiden IV, Raiden Fighters Aces, and Akai Katana in comparison to their Japanese counterparts, I'm generally satisfied with just owning the one.

[ZenErik]

There's always digital sharing if not enough can be procured.

I know we aren't all about piracy, but I will certainly share if people need it to participate. Might even motivate some to buy the game after playing.

[noiseredux]

Just got a GC this year but that's also a Japan only release. Baldur's Gate is gonna be that month anyway, and if your podcast is any indication, that's gonna take a *lot* of my available time

this is a pretty serious conundrum for me, haha. I have very little interest in WRPG's but was like "alright, I'll have to give it a real shot since it's a TR title" and then Shikigami gets picked for January which means I know I'll be spending a lot of time playing that. Suddenly I'm in less of a rush to spend $10 on a WRPG that I'm not all that excited to be playing.

RE: the CC thing... I can def say that unless I can confirm that the game even plays well on my computer there's zero-point-zero chance of me spending $50 on a copy. I know Erik said it plays fine on his computer with the same speed processor, but you never know with PC's as every setup has enough variables to make a game work fine on one and terribly on another (see the Street Fighter x Mega Man thread for example).

[ZenErik]

I should note that CC runs fine for me in a virtual machine using 1 core + hyperthreading (basically two 2.2GHz cores, integrated graphics (HD3000), and 2GB RAM. That's while running Windows 8 in a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro. I should note that it is an i7 processor. Very capable.

Honestly, if you're that afraid to buy it, just try the demo first. It's on rancor's site.

http://www.sk8tokyo.com/shmup/software/ ... bTrial.rar

[ZenErik]

I just checked the requirements on the box. 2.8GHz Pentium 4 and 1 GB RAM. If you purchased a computer within the last 7 years it should work fine.

[dsheinem]

I should note that CC runs fine for me in a virtual machine using 1 core + hyperthreading (basically two 2.2GHz cores, integrated graphics (HD3000), and 2GB RAM. That's while running Windows 8 in a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro. I should note that it is an i7 processor. Very capable.

Honestly, if you're that afraid to buy it, just try the demo first. It's on rancor's site.

http://www.sk8tokyo.com/shmup/software/ ... bTrial.rar

this is your best bet, noise. Give it a spin!

[noiseredux]

I just checked the requirements on the box. 2.8GHz Pentium 4 and 1 GB RAM. If you purchased a computer within the last 7 years it should work fine.

as stated earlier in the thread Erik, my processor is 2.2GHz... so less than the system requirements which is my concern.

I should note that CC runs fine for me in a virtual machine using 1 core + hyperthreading (basically two 2.2GHz cores, integrated graphics (HD3000), and 2GB RAM. That's while running Windows 8 in a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro. I should note that it is an i7 processor. Very capable.

Honestly, if you're that afraid to buy it, just try the demo first. It's on rancor's site.

http://www.sk8tokyo.com/shmup/software/ ... bTrial.rar

this is your best bet, noise. Give it a spin!

Yeah I'll try the demo sometime soon and see how it runs.

[ZenErik]

What processor do you have? Just the number isn't the biggest concern. I also ran the game on a 1.5GHz A10 and a 1.7GHz i5. Unless you're running something below a 10 year old processor I think you're safe.

[noiseredux]

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System Information
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Time of this report: 5/21/2012, 19:21:24
Machine name: BRAD-PC
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