AI training and misc stuff.

Would definitely appreciate your finding out if JP VF.net player saves work on the US version. While getting a high rank in Kumite doesn't really mean jack in terms of playing skill, I'd sure miss my Lei decked out in white garb if I have to restart from 10th kyu when the US version comes out.

 

Unfortunately our lone U.S. copy of the game is currently in CHicago, but hopefully it will come back this week, or maybe I'll be able to squirrel away another one. That would rule if I didn't have to unlock all this stuff all over again. Not that I'd mind the process.

I'll be sure to update you on the situation.

 

Re: quick question

Hey guys, quick question: does the difficulty setting affect the Kumite mode?

 

Re: quick question

Nope. All the fighters you face are of varying degrees of difficulty anyway.

 

Chris...can u tell me if the the game set on hardest difficulty is indeed, very hard...or is it a walk in the park like the Jpn version of 3tb for the DC?

I like the US version of 3tb better..even though the CPU cheats...at least it more fun than Jpn version....

(lame attempt at trying to build up number of posts hehe)

 

Haven't tried Arcade mode in a long time, the difficulty setting only affects Arcade mode, not Kumite. Maybe I'll try when I get back from my business trip.

 

Just wanted to add that it's possible to train the CPU's AI was well as your own, to make arcade/kumite characters more interesting. At training, choose to load the AI from the CD-ROM. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems like a cool feature.

 

Ah, I never knew that! Thanks for the tip.

 

Just found out that JP save files are incompatible with the U.S. save files. Looks like we have our work cut out for us.

 

Got a source?

....
I hope there's no hard feelings from Sega and Sony when people start burning japanese versions left and right just to avoid this sort of bullshit.

 

Though I plan on playing and using the Japanese version, I'm hoping that the replay files will work between versions...

Third Strike (DC) replays were not compatable across versions unfortunately.

And if the VF4 replays are not compatable across versions, I'll have to see if it's simply a file rename thing, or hope it's something like that (at least people found that to be a useful way of using US and Japanese saves for Shenmue 1/2 to work on Shenmue 2 Europe).

 

Yes, I can verify that JP game saves/US game are not compatible with each other by virtue of my JP game saves not working with the U.S. reviewable I am playing right now. I am currently starting everything over from sci-zatch.

 

Chris, when you fought the "emperors", did you notice that they're based on the real tetsujins?

Last night I smoked Segirl, Kyuraa, Shinjuku Jacky, Dragon Shun, and Muscles Sarah. I was a little drunk, and I started losing my Vision Spheres, so I stopped there.

If you can't read Japanese, here's how to spot them:

they won't appear at all until you're a "TeiOh" (first rank after HaoOh, 3 higher than 10th dan).
for me, they started appearing right after that. You can spot them as they are also the first people to have Vision Spheres (small balls above the life bar, which you win if you beat them).
Also, they are the first to have the "KoTei" (my dictionary says emperor here, too) rank. I think this is the highest rank, maybe. If you know some Kanji, it's the kanji for star, followed by the "tei" kanji (look at your rank).

I'm guessing there's one for each character, placing my bets for the rest just for fun:

I saw:
Wolf: Segirl
Jacky: Shinjuku Jacky
Lau: Kyuraa
Shun: Dragon Shun
Sarah: Muscles Sarah

I guess:
Pai: Goro 2000
Akira: Mukki
LIon: duh
Kage: Kyasaoh
Vanessa: BunBunMaru
Aoi: the Gorilla
Jeffry: Kashiwa Jeffry
Lei: no idea

Spotlite

 

Can anyone make a complete list of the various rankings? There's 10th Kyu (or something) to 1st Kyu, then there's 1st Dan to 10th Dan (did I get that right?), then there's the names, like Emperors and Dragon Spirits. Can anyone accurately translate these?

 

Yeah, I started bumping into Emperor (Huang Di, not Ba Wang) players in Kumite mode after I reached the Monarch (Di Wang) level. I'm currently two levels above that... Devil King I think? Haven't played since I left SF on Sunday morning. Yep, they all have 9990/10 Win/Loss records and sport a Vision Sphere each. But I only read the Chinese characters in the game, so I didn't recognize all the names of the Tetsujins. Do Shinjuku Jacky and Kyuraa even play anymore? Don't really hear of them nowadays...