Tatsunoko vs Capcom (Wii)

[DJ Daishi]

Only two more days to go! Then I'll finally be able to get my hands on this highly anticipated fighter. Anyone else planning to pick this game up, despite it being region locked?

Japanese Trailer (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/40897.html)
JAMMA Show Trailer (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41713.html)
Gameplay Overview Trailer (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/43536.html)
Viewtiful Joe vs Doronjo Gameplay (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/43433.html)

[adler_0]

I pre-ordered and mine shipped today. Hopefully I'll be able to get it working with my 3.4 update.

[Chriz730]

Does Any 1 Know How Many Characters will Be in this Game ? I Hope Alot

[Muscelli]

I can't wait to play it.. Is this being released in arcades overseas or is it strictly a console release?

[Ze_ro]

I think I'll wait a while and see if Capcom has any plans for a North American version. Seems unlikely at this point, but I'd hate to put the effort and money into importing it if they did.

--Zero

[DJ Daishi]

I pre-ordered and mine shipped today. Hopefully I'll be able to get it working with my 3.4 update.

I've been wanting to update my Wii to the latest firmware, but that'll mean I can't play any import Wii games...how have you been able to bypass this? The Twilight hack?


I can't wait to play it.. Is this being released in arcades overseas or is it strictly a console release?

yeah, there's an arcade version using modified Wii hardware. There have also been some location tests here and there in the US, nothing big. They had some cabs set up at AEX and ComicCon.

[DJ Daishi]

I think I'll wait a while and see if Capcom has any plans for a North American version. Seems unlikely at this point, but I'd hate to put the effort and money into importing it if they did.

--Zero
highly unlikely we'll see a US release since most of the Tatsunoko characters and their properties are held by different companies across the US.

[Damaramu]

I created a big thread for T vs C a while back. I haven't updated it in a while though.

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=117671

[ubersaurus]

Does Any 1 Know How Many Characters will Be in this Game ? I Hope Alot

I think like 22.

I'm getting this. It's not hard to beat the region lock on the Wii if you have an SD card and a copy of Zelda, in all honesty.

[MarkMan]

Got mine in early this morning....

HYPER COMBO FINISH !

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3234/3098615274_08cac64e19.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/3097779679_88247edb03.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3059/3097779593_1b3340c6dc.jpg

K.O.!

Fighting Games <3

[Icarus Moonsight]

That's an awesome package there! Consider me very envious. :p

[refan]

Where did you get the stick and game from? How much did it cost?

[DJ Daishi]

Where did you get the stick and game from? How much did it cost?

I got a pretty good deal, got it for $60 with free shipping on ebay...play-asia has it for $69.90, and I have a $8 coupon if anyone needs it...oh, and they also have the stick too if you want to get that. I was pretty disappointed with the lack of sanwa parts in it though.

[ubersaurus]

Hey Markman, how does the stick compare to the older Wii Hori that came out over here? If my stick doesn't work with the adapter I ordered I'm probably gonna pick one of those Horis up.

[onReload]

Played this for a bit a few hours ago, it's a fun game...I'm no good at the VS. series games, but I enjoy most Capcom games and this seemed to be simpler than MvC2...I was the only one really interested in using Gold Lightan and PTX-40A, though. They can be a lot of fun.

Also for release issues and character counts...Honestly, Wikipedia.

The one thing I can't find very easily on the 'net is a comprehensive moves list. All the universals have been figured out (Variable, Baroque, Delayed, etc), but for supers, it's a guessing game for some, though they're pretty easy. There's a jpg out there detailing some moves, but it was put out during an early version so not all characters are included...I guess I'm getting at "How the hell do I do more than a stupid foot stomp with Gold Lightan?"

[Ze_ro]

The one thing I can't find very easily on the 'net is a comprehensive moves list. All the universals have been figured out (Variable, Baroque, Delayed, etc), but for supers, it's a guessing game for some, though they're pretty easy. There's a jpg out there detailing some moves, but it was put out during an early version so not all characters are included...I guess I'm getting at "How the hell do I do more than a stupid foot stomp with Gold Lightan?"
Well, here's the bottom-of-the-arcade-bezel style moves list (http://www.capcom.co.jp/tatsucap/images/commandPOP.zip), for whatever that's worth. I can't read Japanese, so I have no idea how helpful this is(n't).

--Zero

[onReload]

Thank you very much, this is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Hopefully someone else will make one that includes the console-exclusive characters, but this is much better than the old list I had.

If you want any help on translations (when it comes to the commands, anyway) I can tell you...On the names of the moves I'm not as good.

[DJ Daishi]

wow, this game's a blast to play and yeah, for some reason it does feel a bit simpler to play than MvC2. It's a nice little distraction that should keep me occupied until SF4 and Tekken 6 comes out.

[Chainclaw]

Played this game a hell of a lot last week. Pretty awesome.

I can't compete against competitive fighting game players, but I am a little better than most casual players.

I like the combat in this a lot more than in the Marvel VS games. Baroque seems pretty nifty, and I think the two giant characters are fun, but really though to play.

The biggest flaw with this game is the very small cast of characters. Hopefully this will follow the path of previous VS games, and we'll get more.

[Arcade_Ness]

Here's a review for it in fightersgeneration:
http://www.fightersgeneration.com/games/tatsunoko-vs-capcom.html

I'm waiting for my copy of the game to arrive, along with the TvC joystick.

[DJ Daishi]

Here's a review for it in fightersgeneration:
http://www.fightersgeneration.com/games/tatsunoko-vs-capcom.html

wow, they seem a bit generous with their review...I personally would've given it a 8.7. great read though.

[Sotenga]

Crap. I'm not happy that I'll have to go through the damn import process, but... I hear it's not too bad compared to other systems. I'll still wait a bit to foolishly hear of any American announcement... but I do really want to play this game, so if it fails, I'll spring for it however I can.

[joshnickerson]

http://gonintendo.com/?p=82826

[Ed Oscuro]

I was pretty disappointed with the lack of sanwa parts in it though.
What's in it? Stock Hori?

If it were me, I'd swap it out for some Seimitsu parts - but then you won't see me playing this game, just shooters with it most likely.

Why? Because word over at Shmups Forum is this game is no good (http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=26187).

Don't bother putting it on anything more than a 480p screen, it seems. Definitely not on 1080 widescreen.

[TonyTheTiger]

The game is good. The presentation just has a few little quirks. It's A) 480p only because it's a Wii game and B) doing some weird pseudo widescreen thing that makes certain wall combos only work in 4:3 mode. Other than that, after spending a lot of time with the game I can't say that I've noticed anything detrimentally wrong with it.

And just the fact that Capcom put forth the mad effort to get the licensing issues worked out (which never would have happened even 4 or 5 years ago) is pretty awesome. The only thing I'm worried about is that this game is pretty old now and anybody who wanted to play it on a domestic Wii very well has been this whole time. That being the case, I'm afraid the ship has sailed and this release is going to get ignored. And I'd hate to think that Capcom is going to interpret it as a message that the company should have done what it would have a few years back and said "screw it, you ain't getting it here." In order to generate more interest they don't have much of a choice but to try to add good online play, which on the Wii is probably easier said than done.

[ubersaurus]

TvC is a lot of fun. Maybe a little broken, but pretty much all the Capcom vs games were like that, so, it's not like this is anything new :P

Shmups forum guys should stick to shmups. Shoryuken people seem to think the game is fun if nothing else, and I happen to agree.

[Neil Koch]

Yeah, the game isn't deep or anything, but it is pretty fun. And from what I've played, I thought the graphics were very well done.

If the rumor is true, I'll be picking it up. I wonder if Capcom pushed this through to make up for them not releasing MvC2 on the Wii.

[Arcade_Ness]

On one hand this is great news for those who didn't bother to import it, and for those who did import it, this too little too late. Unless they add some sort of incentive like new characters or online, there's no reason to buy this again.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Holy cow! That was about the last thing I expected to be showing up soon... I'm shocked. O_O I hope they release a version packed with a stick.

[Arcade_Ness]

Just found out great news for those who are anticipating the NA release of Tatsunoko vs Capcom. Five new characters and online w/o friend codes confirmed. http://www.japanator.com/elephant/post.phtml?pk=10072#ext

[snes_collector]

I'm very excited :D

[Matt-El]

Wonder who got the axe...

Also, might be redundant, but I'd like Joe Asakura(aka G-2) as a playable. But probably wouldn't happen, because they already have Ken and Jun.

[snes_collector]

Just read on wikipedia that Hakushon Daimaō will be the dropped character in the US release. I couldn't find an article that proves this though.

[ubersaurus]

Just read on wikipedia that Hakushon Daimaō will be the dropped character in the US release. I couldn't find an article that proves this though.

It's pretty much inferred. He's not in any of the trailers or press releases so far, and he wasn't mentioned in the Nintendo Power article about the game coming stateside, whereas everyone else is pretty much accounted for through those. They haven't come right out and said Big Al is the dropped character, but it looks pretty obvious.

Not that it's a big loss. He's fun to play, but he's absolutely terrible. In a game where combos and range are important, he has neither.

[Kroogah]

I wasn't going to buy the U.S. release because Daimao was my main, but they may have just redeemed themselves.

Frank West and Megaman Zero confirmed for Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom (http://www.vooks.net/story-18420-Frank-West-Megaman-Zero-join-Tatsunoko-vs-Capcom.html)

Along with Joe Asakura (what up Matt-El!) and Tekkaman Blade.

I can't wait to see what Frank looks like in this game.

[TonyTheTiger]

The file just says "Zero" so hopefully it's Zero from Mega Man X rather than from Mega Man Zero.

They also missed one.

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Looks like Yatterman-2 is replacing Hakushon Daimaou.

[Vlcice]

;.; Does this mean definitely no samurai pizza cats?

[Kroogah]

;.; Does this mean definitely no samurai pizza cats?

Nope, and no Speed Racer either. Dammit.

[Baloo]

Speed Racer I was hoping the most for, oh well.

[Arcade_Ness]

I'm quite pleased with the new characters. The best part is Frank West is in the game. That's just too awesome.
I hope one of Joe the Condor's Supers is getting in his race car and running people over mwhahaha

[IronBuddha]

Speed Racer I was hoping the most for, oh well.

That was the deal cutter for me. I'll pick it up when there's a price drop.

[ubersaurus]

Considering Capcom guys said a while back that they were not putting in anyone from Speed Racer or Samurai Pizza Cats it's not really surprising. Speed Racer I'm willing to bet was pure licensing issues. I mean, consider who IS in the game. Mostly characters that haven't been seen outside of Asia since the 70s, and Karas. Hakushon Daimao was licensed in Europe, and they couldn't work out an agreement to get him in the international release of the game. Now consider Speed Racer, who has an old show, a new show, comics, a movie, etc. that's a nightmare.

I mean if you want to skip out on the game because it doesn't have one goddamn character, then you're definitely missing out. It's fantastic.

[Baloo]

I've played the game in an arcade around here, and I think it's very good. But I didn't know any of the Tatsunoko characters. Samurai Pizza Cats and Speed Racer probably wouldn't have been that hard to license, since the movie, TV show, comics, etc. for Speed Racer would have had to gotten the same license from whoever owns the rights to Speed in the states.

"Samurai Pizza Cats, they're so bad!"

[Matt-El]

I wasn't going to buy the U.S. release because Daimao was my main, but they may have just redeemed themselves.

Frank West and Megaman Zero confirmed for Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom (http://www.vooks.net/story-18420-Frank-West-Megaman-Zero-join-Tatsunoko-vs-Capcom.html)

Along with Joe Asakura (what up Matt-El!) and Tekkaman Blade.

I can't wait to see what Frank looks like in this game.

Oh yeah, I called that shit didn't I?? \\^_^/ That's cool.

[Arcade_Ness]

New trailer for TvC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT342E00WsI
Frank West Gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT342E00WsI

Also I've heard from a post on Capcom Unity that the US release date is Jan 26, 2010, and Japan gets it two days later. Very pleased so far.

[Kroogah]

moar Frank:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2n9OhgXYsQ

Pretty sure his voice is being done by a native Japanese speaking English. Which makes it more awesome. "OH MY GOSH!"

[ubersaurus]

moar Frank:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2n9OhgXYsQ

Pretty sure his voice is being done by a native Japanese speaking English. Which makes it more awesome. "OH MY GOSH!"

I dunno, it sounds just like the same voice from Dead Rising to me. Guess we won't know until the game drops, though.

[Famidrive-16]

i'm gettin out of here!

[kupomogli]

Even though it seems to have balancing issues, I'd pick up Ultimate All Stars if I had a Wii.

[heybtbm]

Cover art...

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9400/340xtatsucover.jpg

...pretty cool.

[TonyTheTiger]

I don't like it. Casshan's too far back.

[Arcade_Ness]

I don't like it. Casshan's too far back.

I agree this cover makes some of the cast hard to see. The original cover was better imo. However still really hyped about this game, even though I'll be purchasing it for the second time.