Re: [AES/MVS] Kraut Buster

[zouzzz]

Capture de menu "bios" du jeu :

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Deux nouvelles captures tirées du futur trailer :

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Premier visuel de l'OST pour AES CE et MVS LE :

Pleins de nouvelles captures in-game :

[zouzzz]

Ce soir a été mis en vente la version CE de l'AES, 98 exemplaires, tous partis en 1 heure !

Un nouveau trailer a été diffusé avec la dernière newsletter :

Dear customers,

We recommend to first watch the new trailer and then read the long text:

 This video shows an early development version.
 Due to a change to a different musician team all music is extremely early.
 We are going this time with a FM/chip tune sounding soundtrack.
 The music is done by the team Groovemaster303 and Jredd.


Game play:

 As we got mixed reactions for the last video trailer we worked very hard to improve on all fronts.

 Differences to MS games:

 As some people think this is a blatant MS clone,here are some differences listed:

 - Mask feature. Wear different masks to change your characters abilities, your weapons, change your surroundings and enemy behaviors.

Examples:

    - Chicken mask: become John Chickenstein and rescued chicks will join forces with their Gatling guns. You can also float slightly down with your feather power and drop big egg grenades.

    - 13th Splatterguy mask: turn the fight into a blood carnage with your super charged long range machete. Rage flows early through your body. Knife throwing chick sidekicks.

    - Wolf mask: supercharge your weapon power and make the grunts your little pigs. Rage flows early through your body. May have reduced scoring potential, but is easier to play.

    - Pig mask: sniffle out secrets like a truffle pig and don't get eaten by the big bad wolves. Your tasty bacon body withstands a few bullet hits. Reduces difficulty in a passive way.

    - Japanese "Tengu" demon mask: Jump as high and fast like a Ninja, use a Katana for close range attack and lay fused bombs (use them tactical). Also 3-way shuriken throwing ninja chicks.

    Currently we have 5 mask implemented, but we plan to add 4-6 more, like "Vampire Hunter" mask (chain whip in the dictator's castle?), "Gunlord" mask (maybe with his wheel bombs?), "Uncle Sam", "McKraken Nerd mask", "Chainsaw killer mask". The possibilities are endless.

 - Rescued chicks can act as sidekicks (depends on the mask). For example they shoot a Gatling gun, throw shurikens and knives. The amount of chicks attached change also their behavior.

 - Contra style controls and game play elements such as:

   8 way aiming
   Aim lock (lock the weapon in a direction to better shoot enemies from above)
   You can hold 2 weapons and switch between them anytime. If you die, you only loose the active one. (adds a nice tactical component)
   With holding the lever in direction you can throw grenades further away
   You can drop down from ledges/objects and outmaneuver enemies from above.
   Faster pacing
   Weapons like 3-way, scatter particle shotgun, arch grenades and others
   Lot's of mini bosses (a little bit boss fest style here and there)
   Spawning run-in enemies in some run'n'gun sequences.
   1 mid boss per stage
   2-3 scenario changes per stage
   Different characters may have slightly different abilities (like speed/jump height)


 - 2 players can co-op/interact with each other, like standing on the shoulders of each other to reach higher places. The score counter is shared for maximum co-op feels.


 - Mission bosses are mostly based on German WW2 "Wonder Weapons". Like "Der Mörser „Karl“ (Gerät 040/041)", The "Bismarck", "Schweres  80-cm-Kanone (E) „Sondergeschütz“ Dora". We also added a few fantasy bosses like WW2 style mechas

 - Mid bosses and mini bosses are more fantasy based like War-hot-air balloon, WW2 style mechas "Schneeläufer Ausf. B", "Über Soldiers", "Russian War Bears".

 - Stages are up to 9000 pixel long pixel art drawings (no tiles, just like a huge fighting game background)
   It's probably one of the most ambition pixel arts games made in a long time. No other company out there besides us is doing real 16 pixel art arcade games anymore and especially not in this scope.

 - choose up to 3 different routes/difficulties with changes in length/map design/enemies and attack patterns.

 - physic simulation for dead bodies/body parts, a first on NEOGEO! and a first on 16 bit?  (currently in BETA)

 - 60FPS/60Hz twice as fluid, twice as responsive, zero the lag of MS games.

 - one of the biggest and most ambitious games developed for NEOGEO since SNK's unfortunate demise in 2000.


If you still think it's just a clone, just think of it as an in-official sequel. But with completely new engine, completely new graphics,completely new music, completely new stages, completely new enemies and completely new game play.

We want this game to become our masterpiece and tribute to NEOGEO and we are willing to continuing work very hard for it. If you have any feedback how we can further improve or cool ideas for mask items please don't hesitate to contact us. You can contact us anonymous too: http://www.ngdevdirect.com/contact_us.php (just use some bogus email).

If you don't follow us on social medias, you can find some new CRT screen shots and product photos here: http://www.kraut-buster.com

TL;DR: Kraut Buster will be awesome!

Best regards,
NGDEV

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[Jun Misugi]

Bon c'est officiel, il ne sortira pas sur Dreamcast.

[zouzzz]

Razion c'est certains la Team n'a confirmé il y a qques semaines, pour ce qui est de Kraut Buster pas dans un futur proche ou moyen temps.

[cyberxander]

Je viens de lire un post sur FB par l'auteur de l'anthologie Neo Geo :

Hello la communauté.
Je reviendrai vers vous sans doute en fin de journée au sujet de NG:Dev.Team afin de vous mettre en garde contre des problèmes au sujet de Kraut Buster qui semblent se confirmer aux vues des derniers événements concernant le développeur.
Gardez bien toutes les preuves de vos achats et croisez les doigts.
Les frères Hellwig sont dans une position délicate et les clients vont en payer les pots cassés.
Je vous confirmerai ça en temps et en heure, mais ça sent très mauvais suite à un échange avec le service client qui confirme les infos en OFF que j'avais depuis l'été dernier.
Bref, wait & see, mais les déconvenues sur la réédition de Gunlord (au moins une dizaine de clients dont la commande ne sera pas livrée car pas assez de stock alors que précommandé largement dans les temps + soucis avec la notice qui est en Jap, peu importe la version -US ou JP- qui a été préco) font froid dans le dos et remettent les infos en perspective.
Bref, je vous tiens au jus.

[zouzzz]

T'as le lien stp ?

Ceci pourrait peut-être expliquer l'attitude de ces derniers temps de la NGDevTeam... mais bon, je me méfie des rumeurs lancer comme ça.

[Pad'Lézard]

Wow trop bien le nouveau trealer !!



il ne sortira pas sur DC ... euh on peut encore le prendre sur Neo geo ? ^^
Ah oui en simple MVS ... 420 balles.

[zouzzz]

Depuis le site web : "ca. 4 units left."


Il y a eu une newsletter avec cette vidéo (disponible aussi sur fb : https://www.facebook.com/ngdevteam/photos/a.197472533642362.49867.126462900743326/1529846073738328/?type=3&theater )

Kraut Buster Mission Status Report 2017

Dear customers,

here is the current state of Kraut Buster for NEOGEO.

We have a new video ready here: https://youtu.be/TMix_9cesik

This video uses a simple RGB CRT effect to make it look a little bit like an arcade screen.
It's recommended to watch it full screen to prevent distortion and to have it run in 60fps.

We kept the video intentionally short as we don't want to spoiler too much of the game.

C-MODE:

It's the first time we show the player character: Jack "Handsome" Rowdy and the "contra" mode (displayed as C-MODE).

The C-MODE mode changes the gameplay to a faster more action and running and crushing oriented gameplay.
With less stops, less energy for enemies and less bullet sponges.
Masks and treasures/collectable/secrets are removed in C-MODE to keep this mode as clutter free as possible.
The player's knife attack is also disabled to keep the gunning flow.
To compensate the "simplicity" of this mode we also added a fast kill score system additional to the timed chain system to increase long time appeal of the C-MODE.

Content of video:

We are showing small parts of mission 3-1 (train ride), mission 3-2 (train yard), mission 4-2 (boat ride),

Mission 3-1 you are fighting your way across a military train towards it's locomotive to stop it.
It has 4 parallax layers. Far away background, background, train, foreground details.
All train cars have a nice full body hand pixelated driving motion effect applied to them.

Mission 3-2 is about battling yourself through the ruins of a bombed village, a train wreck and destroying some experimental weapon system in the train yard.
It also introduces the enemy characters: Vixens of the Dictator "Heiße Helga" and "Herrin Peitsche"
We are only showing the first 60 seconds of ca. 6 minutes.

Both missions are also very military. While mission 2 and mission 4 have monsters, robots and tesla enemies.

Mission 4-2 is about escaping a secret submarine base, the fortified coastal zone and infiltrating the dictator's battle ship.
We are showing the first 60 seconds of the "fortified coastal zone" part.

As you can see in the map screen the game has 9 selectable missions.
Some missions consist of several "rooms" with their own settings and graphic sets. Right now we have about 17 "rooms".
Each mission ends with a proper and individual end boss. All stages also have mini bosses.

Overall game status:

The base game will be finished in December/January.
We included below information of which nice to have graphic details we want to add to the game and will see if you guys give us the time for it or if you guys want an earlier release.
We won't do a vote, we will just go with the general impression of the mood we get from you guys.
If we produce the PCBs in December we can do a release in January. A release in February is advised though.

The allotted graphic development budget of KB will be used up after December, we will then start the next pixel art game for NEOGEO.

Shipping is done as always in this order: MVS LE->MVS RE->AES CE->AES RE (order of payment)

Features that we would like to implement but that need more time:

Details:

- Proper story intro / ending / special ending / new fitting music composed
- 3rd character: Valaria "Bona" Bossa (needs to be drawn from scratch unless we reuse the legs of the guys)
- Proper character select screen
- Character customization: skin color / cloth colors
- Mission select screen (partially implemented as you can see in the video, but we would like to include some fun stuff happening on the map)
- Animated title screen
- Adding more destructibles, parallax scrolling and small background animations in the stages
- Player stage win animation (each character)
- Experimental: Sliding for players in C-MODE to make it even more fluid/speedy (requires extra frames for each character) / can have large implication on gameplay / not sure if it can happen

We redrew some later backgrounds from scratch to boost quality even further.
We redrew most explosions.
Added a fast kill / quickkill score system

Having the game run in 60 fps was also quite time consuming at times and not an easy feature to archive.
While we have up to 2x the amount of objects on screen the engine kinda runs up to 4x times as fluid as similar games on NEOGEO (60 fps instead of 30fps).
A lot of optimizations, trickery and out of the box thinking was required to archive this.

We wrote a new Z80 sound driver for better handling the limited resources and adding new features such as user adjustable music volume.
We are not sure but we think it's the first time that it's possible for the user to adjust music volume in a NEOGEO game!?

All our future NEOGEO games will benefit from those engine upgrades.

It also looks like KB could become a gigashock game as it is approaching 512MEGS for graphic ROMs. Music is already at 512 MEGs.
It would be the first pixel art giga shock NEOGEO game ever.

We added some new hardware features on our custom PCBs, implementing them and using them well will take additional time too:

AES+MVS:

- 64 KBytes EEPROM: for example to save scores / configs / unlocks / achievements / game progress

- WLAN for example to do software updates / worldwide online highscore list
WLAN needs quite some testing both in hardware and software, hopefully it will make it.
Having WLAN on NEOGEO would be quite cool and could lead to interesting stuff in the future.

- GFX ROM doubled in size

MVS:

- Micro SD-Card (software update) to replace USB update. If WLAN does not work out we maybe add this to AES too.
Allows software updates without the need of a connection to a windows PC.

Those hardware costs are covered by us for the existing pre orders.

Best regards,
NGDEV

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This video was recorded at 59.18 FPS -> speedup to 60 FPS and a simple artificial scan line CRT effect was overlaid in post production (line tripling 3x 224p->672p). The music are MP3s of the in game OST overlaid.
The videos were recorded on an unoptimized debug built.

Beaucoup de bonnes choses et des moins bonnes, voir même p-e des mauvaises comme la possibilité de mettre à jour.

[tonton seb]

J'attend moi aussi le jeux avec impatience , j'ai tous les autres en MVS / LE et à part pour Last Hope je n'ai  jamais été déçu .
Beaucoup de travail a été réalisé depuis  la première vidéo , qui c'est vrai n'était pas terrible , mais la ça n'a plus rien à voir
c'est beaucoup plus beau , l'action est très soutenu , Rafal Dyls est revenu et c'est composition on l'air vraiment excellente
et le gameplay est vraiment différent de Metal Slug ,
J'ai vraiment hâte de pouvoir y jouer , maintenant si il faut encore attendre un peu pour que ça soi meilleurs et avec moi de bugs pas de problèmes .

[zouzzz]

On voit quelques clignotements de sprites en fin de vidéo, mais rien de bien méchant.

De nouveaux exemplaires du jeu en AES devraient être disponibles en 2018.
Une version jamma est aussi prévue.

[Pad'Lézard]

ah ouais il va y ravoir des versions AES ?

c'est quel prix ?

[zouzzz]

Généralement plus de 400€.

[Pad'Lézard]

ah pas + ? car là la version MVS est déjà à 420 € . je préfère une belle version AES !

[zouzzz]

C'est à peut près les mêmes prix entre MVS et AES, cette dernière est un poil plus cher (20/30€) mais c'est tout.

[Pad'Lézard]

Merci pour l'info en tout cas ! vais attendre l'AES.

Sinon je me suis mis à la neo geo y'a quelques années sans véritablement jouer encore. j'attendais mon écran CRT. j'ai acheté avec un lot d'AES originaux normalement. j'ai des jeux Comme PULSTAR, Last resort, j'aimerais bien avoir si c'est vraiment des originaux ou des convert.. car je compte revendre. Y'a des connaisseurs qui pourraient m'aider à voir si c'est des originaux ou des convert donc (d'après photo).

[zouzzz]

Poste tes photos sur des forums spécialisés comme neo-geo.com, je peux les poster pour toi si tu veux.

[Pad'Lézard]

Poste tes photos sur des forums spécialisés comme neo-geo.com, je peux les poster pour toi si tu veux.

merci zouzzz. je vais lire un peu les forum sur comment distinguer convert et originaux. parfois faut démonter la cartouche !!
après lecture je ferai mes photos et je te les envoie :-) merci bcp.

sinon pour celui qui veut pas se faire chier et avoir le Full set AES, et qui a un 'peu" d'argent voici :

http://www.ebay.fr/itm/NEO-GEO-AES-FULL-SET-NEOGEO-SNK-JAPANESE-CATALOG-ALL-100-ORIGINAL-/311965620873?hash=item48a2999a89:g:JNEAAOSwuxFYz9A4

[zouzzz]

Ça fait des mois qu'il tente de vendre :-).

[Pad'Lézard]

Ça fait des mois qu'il tente de vendre :-).

180 000 c'est abusé ! ça fait le jeu à 1700 euros ^^

[zouzzz]

Il y a des jeux qui valent bien plus.
Tu peux aussi poster sur Neogeo-system pour les côtes.

[Pad'Lézard]

Tu pourras newser Zouzzz quand tu sauras que y'a des versions AES dispo de KRAUT BUSTER ?
m'en faut un pinaise !

[zouzzz]

Pas de problème je posterai sur ce topic.

[Pad'Lézard]

cool ;-) et merci par avance

des clignotements de sprites ???ah bon à quel moment dans la vidéo ?

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