Guilty Gear Web Diary

2003-09-17T03:18:00.000-07:00

Anime Radio Station
A friend of mine had set up his own radio station using SHOUTCAST technology.. it's still relatively new, but he have a staggering 2000++ mp3 in the server.. and thats include some Guilty Gear soundtracks (I uploaded 'em myself heh...). If you're interested, go to http://az-azlin.dyndns.org:82/playlist.cgi and make a request song by using the search function. Hope to see you guys there

2003-09-17T03:11:00.000-07:00

Guilty Gear Isuka
Sammy announced Guilty Gear Isuka for its new arcade system Atomiswave-Net, this is the official name for the 4 player version of Guilty Gear. The game allows up to 4 players to battle simultaneously. Players can fight individually or in teams. Guilty Gear Isuka will use a new dual plane system, which allows players to fight on two lines, one on the foreground and one on the background. You can switch between the two planes at any time, it is possible to thrust opponents to the other plane. Due to the multiplayer nature, the characters will not automatically change his/her facing direction, you need to change manually.

2003-08-05T05:46:00.000-07:00

Next Guilty Gear Features Four-Player Action

Though Arc System Works is waiting to show its next Guilty Gear title at the upcoming AM Show in Tokyo this September, arcade operators have begun receiving advance solicitations with details on the new game. Currently entitled Guilty Gear DX, it's apparently to feature four-player simultaneous tag battles, despite the limitations of Sammy's Atomiswave hardware.
As hinted recently by Arc, the game will also include a magnetic card system for saving player data, along the lines of Sega's VF.NET system. It's due for wide release in Japan by the end of the year, with location tests beginning concurrently with its debut at the AM Show in September.

2003-08-04T03:17:00.000-07:00

News Updated
Guilty Gear Drama CD #2 Translations is out. thamks to skuldnoshinpu to get into all the troubles translating the drama cd. download it here.

And this is the front cover of guilty gear xx #reload

2003-08-01T20:45:00.000-07:00

Guilty Gear Drama CD #1 Translations
Skuldnoshinpu had done it again.. and now he brings the Guilty Gear Drama CD #1 Translations directly to you. You guys can download it at here

Link : PrintScreen.org

2003-08-01T18:41:00.000-07:00

Evolution 2003 7-10 August
From August 7-10, 2003, the greatest fighting game competitors in the world will gather in Southern California for Evolution 2003, a championship battle featuring the top games in the genre. Guilty Gear X2, Soul Calibur II, Tekken 4, Tekken Tag Tournament, Street Fighter III: Third Strike, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Capcom vs. SNK2, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, and Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution will all be represented. Players from 18 countries, including the top players from Korea and Japan, will be competing for top honors.

for more info : http://www.shoryuken.com/evolution/

2003-05-02T08:18:00.000-07:00

Damn!! Guilty Gear Sound Alive OST on IRC ??
This is the latest info I heard on Gamecombos Forums. Beast of Fire uploaded them a few days ago. If it is still available on the irc server, it should be on #Efnet channel #gamecombos. I haven't download them yet (56kbps connection lame), so I can't comment on any of the OST, but from what I have heard so far, they're pretty badass.

2003-04-29T10:21:00.000-07:00

Guilty Gear #Reload gonna be on PS2 soon!
from Gamespot
Sammy will bring the latest iteration of its fighting game series to the PlayStation 2 in Japan.

Online retailer NCS has revealed that Sammy will be releasing Guilty Gear XX Reload in Japan on the PlayStation 2. The home version will feature all the additions to the series featured in the arcade version released a few months ago, including the new character Robo-Ky. The PS2 version will also include all the balancing and tweaks made to the preexisting cast of characters.

Guilty Gear XX Reload is scheduled for release in Japan this July. For more information, check out our coverage of the arcade version of the game.

Hopefully they tweak #Reload and mend its broken-ness. I heard it's pretty unbalance compared to ggxx. Can't wait to play Robo-Ky and the newly-refined Johnny!

My semi-useless edited picture
2 days ago, I was really, really bored so I had ended up creating this image within a time span of 15 minutes.

Neither the image of Sol Badguy nor the image of Frederick was drawn by me. I got 'em from Private-Insult Forum and edited 'em a little using photoshop.

2003-04-24T04:21:00.000-07:00

Guilty Gear Scanlations!!!
Calico from gamecombos had outdone herself once again, and this time she brought to you the Guilty Gear Doujinshi scans in English. And kudos to her for the excellent Japanese to English translation of the comic. You guys can find the download are here or you can drop me an email at eternal_flame_iori@yahoo.com requesting for the file.

Yet Another Guilty Gear XX Vids!!!
Just go to one of the following address to download the latest Japanese Match Vids (Updated 24th April 2003)

-http://www10.org1.com/~challeng (GGXX #Reload)
-http://musin_notera.tripod.co.jp/index2.html (GGXX)
-http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/0352551402 (GGXX)

2003-04-23T04:21:00.000-07:00

Guilty Gear Personality Test!!
Actually, this quiz had been in the internet for ages. I'm sure some of you had take take it. For those who still don't, you can go here. Answer some of the given questions and the server will match your personality with any guilty gear characters that has a close resemblance with you.

2003-04-23T03:36:00.000-07:00

Guilty Gear True Beginning
from MMCafe
Here's something pretty interesting: mid-development images of the original Guilty Gear on the Sony Playstation. It was apparently originally supposed to be a game which used (ugly, ugly) pre-rendered polygon sprites, and it's a good thing the game was changed to the hand drawn sprites that we're used to seeing.

http://trance14.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

2003-04-21T19:55:00.000-07:00

Guilty Gear XX #Reload Match Vids
Minor update today. I just found a website that got 2 match vids of Guilty Gear XX #Reload located here. That website is in Japanese, but I'm sure you'll find your way around. They got 2 match vids of #reload in their hands, one of them got robo-ky goes head-to-head with ky. Enjoy!

2003-04-21T01:39:00.000-07:00

Latest Japanese Guilty Gear XX Match Videos
Shounen(Testament) VS Negi(Testament)
Shounen(Testament) VS Rupaso(Eddie)
Shounen(Testament) VS Rupaso(Eddie)

http://www17.xdsl.ne.jp/~yua.E'nuff said.

2003-04-21T00:13:00.000-07:00

Since when guilty gear popularity shoots up??
Lately, the guilty gear x2 board at gamefaqs turned lively again. Many new faces come abroad the board asking questions about the game, strats and stuffs. Many of 'em are capcom vs snk 2 player or just casual fighting game player. Does this mean the tides have change.... and Guilty Gear has takes its place as the next big thing...? I heard in the recent months that the Guilty Gear tournaments in the US alone outnumber any other fighting game....

2003-04-20T07:40:00.000-07:00

So I started to play Guilty Gear XX again...
I felt like I'm loosing my touch with Venom, despite he was my best character the last time I played ggxx. for once I'd a hard time executing 2369S. I guess I spent so much time with Soul Calibur 2, resulting me to lost some touch on the game. :(

I guess I've to start playing guilty gear xx more frequently again and download more match videos.... my skillz is getting rusty....

2003-04-20T04:10:00.000-07:00

Lots and Lots of Guilty Gear Wallpaper!!
So, Guilty Gear Wallpaper hunting, are we?? well, I know a place that can fulfill your desire. It's call the Private Insult Forum. Apparently, some Gamecombos-ers came out in full force sharing their lovely images and wallpapers that resides in their harddrive. Trust me, you won't be disappointed. Although most of the pictures are fanservices oriented, but I'm sure that is the thing that you crave for in the 1st place no??

Da Link Here.

2003-04-19T21:20:00.000-07:00

My fingers are just tingling to type more words...
Just curious to you guilty gear fanboys out there... do you guys even know how Daisuke Ishiwatari looks like... well, to those of you who just don't have any idea of what he really looks like, here is his picture, taken from the Slash Encyplodia.. He is such a rockerz I tell you...!

2003-04-19T20:08:00.000-07:00

Guilty Gear XX Vids by 2Nasty
2Nasty from Shoryuken had made a nice ggxx vids with him playing Potemkin. The video's is pretty big, around 28 megs... so hopefully you can bear that.

here's the link

2003-04-19T20:04:00.000-07:00

A.S.H Performance, Again!
Due to popular fan demand, they gonna make a LIVE performance again, this time at the Meguro deer ringing mansion on April 28. I really wanna see them playing, but getting my butt all the way to Japan would cost me a handsome amount of money. I'm in the midst of poverty, right now.

If you guys wanna catch the A.S.H live performance, the rest of the details are stated in the the Guilty Gear Official Website, or take a pee on A.S.H Official Homepage

2003-04-19T10:54:00.000-07:00

Zodiac's Sign of Guilty Gear Characters
It seems that Calico from Gamecombos got too many times on her hand that she started to do some reserch on the characters of Guilty Gear. Well, according to her, the characters personalities fit their zodiac sign quite nicely...

Still interested to find out...?? well off you got to this thread

2003-04-19T10:37:00.000-07:00

Long Hiatus
sorry for the long hiatus... right now I'm too occupied with Soul Calibur 2... not just occupied... I'm addicted !!! Man this game is awesome.... Anyway, starting from today, I'll try to update this diary as frequent as possible, seeing that Guilty Gear XX got really big exposure from the masses. The latest news I heard is Guilty Gear XX was added to the APEX, which is a good thing. I guess the Guilty Gear XX will blows up pretty soon... if there are more machines in the arcades lol!!

and yes.... you heard it right... #Reload got many bugs, so consider it quite broken... Hopefully they'll fix it when the times Guilty Gear XXX comes up....

2003-03-12T19:17:00.000-08:00

Finally, Found some Fenrir's Use
While I was in training mode, I found an interesting combo using Sol's Fenrir as start-up. The combo is 41236H>FRC>c.S>c.H>j.K>j.D>623H>214K. I've tried it with the recovery on option, and suprisingly is still working, although the timing is a little bit tight. Unfortunately, I tried to link Fenrir with Dust Loop, but not avail.

2003-03-11T19:08:00.000-08:00

Virginia Tech tournament 04/12/2003
There will be a Guilty Gear X2 Tournament, hosted by the Electronic Gaming Society at Virginia Tech. Here are the details of the tourney

Date : April 12th, 2003
Time : The Guilty Gear X2 tournament will starts when the VF4, MVC2 and DOA have reach their conclusions.(VF4,MVC2 and DOA3 start approximately at 2 p.m)
Place : Jefferson Room in Squires Student Center at Virginia Tech, Blackburg, Virginia
Entry Fee : USD 10
Rules : 2/3 rounds, 99 seconds, Arcade characters only. I.e. no EX characters, Gold characters, Shadow characters, or characters named Justice, Kliff, and Robo-Ky.
Prizes : 70% for 1st, 20% for 2nd, and 10% for 3rd.

2003-03-11T18:12:00.000-08:00

Guilty Gear Wallpapers!!
WolfAmazing from Gamecombos had made some nice Anji and Jam wallpaper. You can check it here.

Link : ImageStation

Personal Thought : Nice..very nice... Although that Anji is a little out of place (more mascular than the concept-art) but overall, I love it!! WolfAmazing, you got quite a noteworthy talent there, bro!

2003-03-11T03:59:00.000-08:00

More Videos!!
DEF and luda-kai from Gamecombos had posted the latest South California tournament videos at http://www.r-u-n.org. Get your downloads ASAP.

And these videos are the footage of #Reload

Small Robo-Ky presentation
Millia's Bad Moon FRC
Slayer's c.HS float > Dead on Time

Link : r-u-n, GameWatch

2003-03-11T01:47:00.000-08:00

#Reload Screens
Here are some of the pictures of Guilty Gear XX #Reload, from Magicbox.

2003-03-10T20:24:00.000-08:00

SammyStudios Expands Operations!
Sammy Studios Friday announced it's expanded its U.S.-based development operations. The company unveiled a Los Angeles-based team that's currently working on a flight combat game for consoles as well as plans to launch a studio located in San Fernando Valley before the end of the second quarter. Sammy Studios' founding team has been working on the company's first U.S.-developed title - a console-based first-person shooter - since launching its San Diego studio last year. Sammy Studios also revealed that it’d soon begin development on two additional titles.

Link : Avault

Personal Thought : A good move for Sammy wanna break into the US market. The Los Angeles's branch shall starts its operation in a month, and currently hiring for candidates into their development teams. If you got what it takes, apply for the positions at the SammyStudio Career Centre.

#Reload:The Full Changes Lists
Skuldnoshinpu already posted the full changes in #Reload, in the Gamecombos forum. You might wanna have a look here.

2003-03-10T19:09:00.000-08:00

Reload Changes :Part Deux
This are some of the infos that ID post from Gamecombos had posted.

Sol
-Sol has a mist cancel style move that can be used in conjugate with his fake gunflame.

Slayer
-Air Dust now staggers on counter, and his J.HS will bounces opponent on counter. His throw infinites (warp>QCB+HS>repeat) can't be executed like in guilty gear xx.

Ky
-less damage scaling on his throw

I-no
-Chemical Love FRC can be executed in 6 window frames now

Eddie
- Overall strength weakened, Invite hell (D,D+S) can't be FRC right now and Shadow Gallery techable after 1st hit.

Johnny
-mist cancelling is a tad slower, and impossible to link it with Ensignia without Roman Cancelling. Level 1 mist finer are a little faster.

Testament
-Testament's skull is faster..can supposedly be comboed off a sweep. Succubus bounces on counter hit...possible high hit. Bird attacks more often after skull. Hitomi is faster, can possibly place 3. Grave digger has quicker recovery.

Chipp
-Command Throw is faster while the air dust bounces on counter

For full details, check it out in the thread located at Gamecombos.

Personal Thought : Mist Cancel style for Sol fake Gunflame...?? urghh... those guys at ARC and Sammy must be crazy!!! Didn't they know that Sol is already overpowered even without the Mist Cancel??

2003-03-10T17:37:00.000-08:00

Guilty Gear X2 Manual Book Scans
I found this site that contains scan pictures of every pages in the guilty gear x2 manual book while searching the net. So, I think it might come in handy for those of you who rent it without the manual book. The scan files size are quite big, so 56k users might wanna reconsider it 1st. If you wanna rip the whole contents (yes..rip), I suggest you using WinHTTPTrack.

2003-03-10T04:34:00.000-08:00

Layout Changed Again... Slightly
As you can see here, this web diary had undergone a slight changes in its design, most noteworthy is the Xenosaga's banner. You probably ask, why the heck I put that Xenosaga's banner here when this diary is a Guilty Gear related material. Well... I'm must say that I am a huge fan of both Xenogears and Xenosaga, so I want to spread the love on them... so, I hope you guys don't mind about it.

The other addition is the Email Me link. It's self-explanatory, right?? If you guys gonna have tournaments coming up in your town, do email me so I can post the details here. Or, you got some guilty gear fanarts that you wanna share, give me some leads. I'm waiting...

That's all for today I guess.

-Peace Out

2003-03-10T03:51:00.000-08:00

How I fell in Love with Guilty Gear
I had written an article, actually more like a love story about how I cam to hook up to the guilty gear series way before I built this web diary. You can see the thread I started right here. I found it quite a suprise though, because after I had posted it up at Gamecombos forum, several other members replied with follows up about their own unique experience on guilty gear. It's really refreshing, I think it's worth a look. Anyway, do a post follow up there if you guys wanna share you own side of the story with the rest of us.

2003-03-09T19:49:00.000-08:00

Baiken's Wallpaper!!
I found a nice Baiken's wallpaper that is located here. Thanks to Omega Gear from Gamefaqs for providing the link.

Link : BastardAnime

Personal Thought : Talk about fanservice with rough looks....

2003-03-09T17:36:00.000-08:00

#Reload Changes....
Here are some of tthe changes to the characters in #Reload. Info from versuscity

Faust
- Rerere No Tsuki is faster, less lag.
- Loses far standing Slash -> Sweep combo. Big loss for Faust here since you could use a Summon Item after the sweep.

Millia
- You can now False Roman Cancel Badmoon.
- Overall combo damage is lowered.

Jam
- Overall combo damage increased.
- Faster speed (unknown if this is talking about foot speed or attack speed).

Johnny
- Now possesses a Mist Finer Dash.

Baiken
- Tatami can no longer be False Roman Cancelled.
- Her Youzansen is weakened. Even it hits a grounded opponent, they can recover before you can land another attack.
- Cannot perform her Air Dust combo without False Roman Cancelling the Air Dust.

Chipp
- Phantom Murder command throw is faster.
- TKD is faster.

Sol
- Gunflame False Roman Cancel is slower.
- Sol can only perform 3 – 4 Corner Loop repetitions at max.

Robo Ky
- New meter supposedly represents a heat gauge. If you attack too often in a short amount of time he’ll overheat.
- He’ll be able to shoot missiles as an anti-air defense.
- New Overdrive similar to Ranma’s Mach Punch from Ranma 1/2. Also has another Overdrive similar to Magneto's Hyper Grav from Capcom's fighting games.

Dizzy
- Arctic Impaler can no longer be False Roman Cancelled.

Link : versuscity

Personal Thought : My God... they really murdered my Baiken when they took away her Tatami FRC ability.. WHY!!?? And Sol seems to be toned down greatly cause he can only do limited air dust combos.

2003-03-09T03:40:00.000-08:00

Interesting Guilty GHear X2 Choreography Movies
This site got some nice, chereographed GGX2's movies. Major props to those guys who developed this vids. Recommended for downloading! Thanks to Stylez for the link.

Link :Shizuokacha

2003-03-08T18:03:00.000-08:00

Live Performance on CD!!
Remember the A.S.H Live Performance at the Live In Rosa that marked the end of the Guilty Gear Festival in Japan? Well, good news for ya Guilty Gear collecters out there. They've finally making a cd out of it and it will be on sale starting from 19th March. Here's the details :

Sale due date : March 19 day
Schedule price : 3,000 Yen (without tax)
Production : Star Company Jam Limited corporation
Selling agency : Shaun strike Lee View , SONY Music Corporation

Personal Thought : The thought of having a live performance guilty gear soundtracks just being lingering in my mind as of late. Now, if I can someway grasp this cd....

2003-03-07T20:18:00.000-08:00

Farewell Party
Yesterday, I attended my batch farewell party in one of the most exquisite hotel in my hometown (heh..heh... I'm just exagerrating). There were quite a number of people that made their appearance, some of them were my lectures while some of them were just passing by. We, the male students of SSH (SSH stands for Health Physics) made some acting to cheer up the night, but I think our efforts were quite relentless, cause the girls came up with a performances that totally blew us out of the water. I felt such a shame.... :(

So I asked some of my friends what are they planning for their future. 3 people I've spoken with (2 guys, 1 girl) said to me they wanted to pursue for their masters. I guess they pretty much figured out what they really want in life. As for me, my future is still cloudy! I have to extend another 2 semesters in my university to finish up all my remaining credits before I graduate.

It's kinda sad to think that I'll going to part with them after 4 fruitful years we've been together. But I guess it can't be helped. Hopefully they will still remained the same person I knew for the past 4 years if I got a chance to meet them again.

Azlan, Diana, Atirah, Shue..... I'm going to miss you guys.....

2003-03-06T19:55:00.000-08:00

New Review At 411Mania
Here's a quote from the complete review found here

"Simply put, this is about as perfect as a fighting game can get. Sure, there will obviously be people who don’t like aspects of the game (such as the sound or the off-the-wall character designs), but it’s purely personal preference. Fundamentally GGX2’s engine has been tweaked and polished over several installments and seems more complete than ever before."

check it out...

2003-03-06T17:48:00.000-08:00

Tourney Calls!
The Ohio State University Japanese Club will once again be hosting a Guilty Gear XX tournament a.k.a "Ohio State University Scalpel Enema Xtravaganza". The event details are as as follows.

Date : Saturday, April 5th
Time : 2 p.m (approximately)
Venue : 209 West 18th Avenue, rooms 160 and 170, on campus

Rules : Double-elimination, Kill and Justice are banned.
Notes : Once the final 8 are determined matches will be best-out-of-three-matches (a match being two rounds won out of three). The finals will be best-out-of-five-matches.

Prize : 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will get for themselves a bag of funyuns .

For more information, you can get in touch with Skuldnoshinpu at chang.459@osu.edu

New Haggerstown's Match Vids
For a limited time, Beast of Fire from Gamecombos gonna host the file on the IRC fileserver. Because most files on IRC server work on the "now you-see-it-now-you-don't" basis, I suggest you to download the vids ASAP. One of the player in the vids is TomAss playing as Anji, who is also a regular at Gamecombos.

You can download it at #gamecombos @ EFnet, and the filename is hagerstrailer1.wmv

2003-03-05T04:16:00.000-08:00

Finally......
My university's semester gonna end in this week, and I'll be having my 2 months break shortly. I still haven't planned anything yet, but probably I ended up finding myself a job. I was thinking of doing a freelance job as a part-time journalist. Preferably videogames, since I think I got some extensive knowledge of it (I did some reviews months back, im my native languange).

Other than that I wanna expand this diary find a new webhost to host it. Using blogspot is pretty good, but I fell something amiss here. There's no additional features such as CGI and PHP capabalities to begin with. I love playing with those features. I got one account on Virtualave, which got some nice CGI capabalities, but you *do* know VirtuaAve, that place swamped with annoying banner ads!! That's why I don't use it quiet oftenly these days. Maybe I should opt for pay web hosting when I got some cash. That would clear things up.....

Oh, my examinations went fine, I guess. Today, I had my final paper, microcomputer. To tell you the truth I didn't studied this subject as hard as the other papers. So, when I was in the examination room, I kinda sweat a little. It's a good thing that my lecturer is a very *nice* guy (think of Frederick meet Ky persona). He showed us some hints and provided us with some answers for the questions. Yes, he is THAT nice. I don't think I can thank him enough, though.

So, with my semester breaks is just around the corner, I guess I could focus on Guilty Gear X2 some more. I've already quite good with some of the characters (Venom, Baiken), and right now I'm in the process of learning Johnny. Ah well, enough of my ramblings, times to play Guilty Gear! See ya later!

-Peace Out

2003-03-04T22:48:00.000-08:00

Guilty Gear Comics Strips
A few days ago Bungiefan had hosted some of of guilty gear comics strips on his computer. But because of some bandwidths issues, I decided not to make a link to his page. Here's a comic strip that I save in my computer. If you want the rest of the comics strips, you could try to get in touch with him. Maybe he can work out on something for you.

Personal Thought : Although it's just a comic strips, it got Doujinshi written all over it. So don't say I didn't warned you ...o_O

Team Serious's Pictures
Team Serious, one of the team that actively played Guilty Gear XX got some nice pictures of them at Yahoo Briefcase. If you wanna check it out, make sure you got a yahoo account 1st.

Personal Thought : I swear Beast of Fire and Final Showdown really look like Sol and Ky. Especially Final Showdown, I think he makes a good Ky's cosplayer.

2003-03-04T09:49:00.000-08:00

Reload Playtest!!
This just hit the news, from Magicbox

Sammy mentioned that Guilty Gear XX #Reload will feature a new character called Robo-Ky, the game will run on the Naomi GD-ROM system. Location test of the game will take place in Japan between March 7 - 9. Unconfirmed info stated that Guilty Gear XX #Reload will feature a new 2 VS 2 tag team battle system.

Personal Thought : A tag team battle?? It's getting better and better. Hopefully they're planning to export this instead of the crappier Guilty Gear X v1.5 which is basically a 2 years old game on crack.

Link : Magicbox

2003-03-04T07:49:00.000-08:00

Secrets Revealed !!
For those of you who eagerly wanted to know ALL the secrets and unlockables in ggx2, I recommend you to visit the secret section at the Official Guilty Gear X2 website. There are actually tons of secrets and unlockable, in which some of them haven't being mentioned at Gamefaqs. Do check it out.

Oh... and those suckerz from IGN got some new material on ggx2, but limited for insiders. Check it here.

Personal Thought : I....hate...IGN... URGE_TO_KILL_RISING. ^-^

2003-03-04T02:48:00.000-08:00

Johnny....
So I started to use Johnny... again, since the last time I played Guilty Gear X. In ggx, he was one of my favourite character because of his mist trap, that can drain like 40-50% of the life meter. Somehow, the mist-trap got erased in guilty gear x2, and this put me off from playing him.

Although he still retained as a *very* high maintenance character, I've found some good use with his new move Ensegma. Of course, you need to have one power stock to do the Roman Cancel, thus expanding the Ensegma combo possibilities. I managed to get some moderate 7-9 hits combos out of it. Hopefully, when I get better with Johnny, I can execute C-God crazy 15 hits combos.

In case you didn't know, the most well-known Johnny player is Yua, in which you can find his homepage right here. There you'll find quite a number of vids (most of them Yua's being the player) that you can watch if you wanna play Johnny. Frankly speaking, I must admit I'm still green with Johnny, and need to learn a whole lot more.

2003-03-03T23:50:00.000-08:00

Capcom Fighting All Stars, still kicking??
The former arcades champions decided to start kicking butt again.But there have been no official words about the arcade or PS2 release date.You guys can read the article found here.

Personal Thought :Hope this time, its for real...

2003-03-03T18:22:00.000-08:00

Some More Updates...
There are 2 new articles on Guilty Gear XX, both on Elited and VideoGames News. They did not rate it, but more like a personal comments on the game. I think it's worth a look.

And Sammy's latest offering,Bass Landing 3 got a 30/40 rating by Famitsu. This is the same score they gave to Capcom's Chaos Legion.

Link :Magicbox

2003-03-03T17:35:00.000-08:00

New French Vids
There are some Guilty Gear XX vids made by some nice French blokes. Get your downloads here. Thanks to asenka for providing the link.

sidenotes : there are some problems with the music, I heard.... it's Star-Wars-ish. Very disturbing. The guy said he gonna fix the vids's audio and reuploaded it later.

And one more thing, the site is in French. Navigate it with Babelfish, if you're have any difficulties.

Link :Console-League

2003-03-03T05:22:00.000-08:00

Guilty Gear Anthology Manga on Sale Now
You guys might be know this by now... but meh..

Details:
Sale origin : (Inc.) space (and others) publication
Price : \857 (tax removal)
Sale day : February 24 of 2003 day
Appearance : Page A5 format * 164
Item turn : ISBN4-7767-1005-

personal thought: Is this another dojounshi manga...? hmm.... gotta save for this one....

2003-03-03T04:53:00.000-08:00

New SBO Videos !!
Just get your pick here. That place got some nice Virtua Fighter 4 match too...

2003-03-02T00:42:00.000-08:00

The Death of 2D Fighters??
With Capcom already pulled out of the arcades business, there had been hot talks in forums like Shoryuken and Gamefaqs that the entire 2D fighting genre is already in the peak of its life and has come to an end. However, I think this is not the case. Developers like Playmore still got a large fanbase throughout the world that still giving them strong support. Recently Playmore had announced SNK vs. Capcom, for the Neo-Geo, and I know many fans of the genre are inticipating this release.And let's not forget about Sammy, who came out of nowhere and took Japan by storm with their badass game, Guilty Gear. There's still much air to breath in this genre. I don't think it will die anytime soon.

2003-03-01T19:43:00.000-08:00

Sammy, Sega Might Not Make It??
This just hit the news at IGN. Apparently, both Electonic Arts and Microsoft want to get their hands on Sega's shares. Sega, who continually flop with a financial downfall was reported to merge with Sammy effectively this October. You can read the rest of the news here

Personal Thought : Frankly speaking, I don't know what to say right now. But with Atomiswave coming off on the horizon, the merge between Sammy and Sega is one step closer to reality, right?

Guilty Gear X2 Got Honourable Mention From IGN!
This doesn't suprise me much, because Guilty Gear X2 already got critical acclaims from several leading gaming publishers, and it is the game of the Month of both PSM and Gamespot. Still eager to find out?? Go here. As you can see there, Xenosaga snatched the 1st place, followed by Dark Cloud 2 runner up and Guilty Gear X2 is one of the games that got an honourable mention.

Personal Thought : I know some of the guys at PS2 IGN are Guilty Gear whores. One of them is David Smith. However it's peculiar not seeing him around lately. Right now, Kaiser answers all the daily emails. I kinda miss Smith's sarcastic jokes.

2003-03-01T17:38:00.000-08:00

Latest GGX2 Reviews
New Reviews are hard to come by these days. Ah well, gotta live with it. Anyway, here's the latest reviews, both from Game Chronicle and DVD Shrine

Game Chronicle 96%
DVD Shrine85%

Comedy Gold !
Qoute from the guy at Game Chronicle who did the GGX2 review!
"When Guilty Gear first crossed my desk I actually thought it was an RPG.Both the front cover and the screenshots resemble an adventure game more than a fighter....."

Link :GameRankings

2003-03-01T12:39:00.000-08:00

Shout Out Feature
As you can see here, I've equipped this diary with a shout out a.k.a comment feature. So, if you got anything to say about my post, just write your heart contents there.

#p.s : Special thanks for KenMasterX for putting my web diary link at his blog site that can be found here

2003-03-01T11:09:00.000-08:00

Time for Xenosaga....
So I got Xenosaga today, after years of waiting. And I wanna tell you guys, it's worth the wait. Xenogears had me enchanted with its complex storylines (and numerous religious references) and Xenosaga is not any different (Ok, I still yet to uncover any religious references in this game). Graphic-wise, very..very good although not on par with Final Fantasy X. but the character models, face expressions are executed flawlessly. I'm already on the 3rd hour of the game, and I expect to stash around 40 hours of playtime, before I finish it up. After that, probably I'll return to play Guilty Gear X2 once again.

personal thought : I never thought that KOS-MOS is supposingly to be a very 'mature' individual. I always thought of she was one of the 'kawaii' chicks, that is, until I played the game.

2003-03-01T02:54:00.000-08:00

Official Manga??
According to our good friend Calico from Gamecombos, the official guilty gear manga has already made its debut in Magazine Z, a magazine published by Kodansha Publication. You can check out the thread right here. Here's the cover for the fifth episode of the manga.

Personal thought: Well, finally they got their asses working on an official manga. If this manga turn out to be a success, there's a fat chance that gonna do an anime show out of it. But until that time, I will keep my finger crossed.

2003-02-28T22:58:00.000-08:00

SammyStudio New Advertisement
So, have you been checking the games webzines recently?? I found a new guilty gear advertisement while I was surfing on IGN, Gamerankings.com and even PlanetPS2. This new advertisement is pretty different from the old ones. Its looks more brighter, polished... and a little bit funnier. I like this one better.

Here's some screenshots of the advertisement. The actual advertisement was made using Flash, I can't 'catch' that one, so instead, I used screen capture. The 1st screenshot one the left display the early animation frame while the last screenshot in the right displays the ending animation frame of the flash advertisement.

Link :Sammy Zone

2003-02-28T22:04:00.000-08:00

Another Infos Regarding GGX2-PAL Release
Here is the email I got from the good guys working at SammyStudio regarding the PAL release. I know you guys probably already know about the release date and the 60hz support before, I hope this additional info I got will clear and strengthen some of the things for ya...here it goes

Nice site! Thanks for including the link! From what I understand from
my QA
department - Yes, GGX2 pal version will support 60hz. It is in English
with
English subtitles and has all the features the US release has.

I hope this information is helpful.

Sammy Studios, Inc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Syahmi"
To: "Support"
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 7:14 AM
Subject: ggx2 for Pal system....

> Sir, I want to ask about the ggx2 pal version. Is the
> pal version support 60hz?? And does it will be
> released in multi-languanges, like the other games in
> the european region?? Does the xtra features, like the
> anime intro still intacted for the pal release??

Look at the 1st line of the above email they had written. They even praised me for this diary. **Ooh, I'm soo proud of myself :)**

2003-02-28T05:04:00.000-08:00

It's Official.....
This is the news that just got posted in Magicbox website.
Capcom of Japan mentioned that they are planning to cease the development of arcade business, therefore all the current arcade projects are halted or canceled, including Capcom Fighting All-Stars. It is uncertain whether Banpresto and Capcom's co-developed sequel of Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation Vs Zeon has also been canceled or not.

personal thought : I'm officially sad today.... hopefully when they got their financial covered, they make a comeback in the arcade scene. I know some of us already miss Capcom....

I just hope that Sammy will not follows Capcom footsteps.....

2003-02-28T03:20:00.000-08:00

GGXX : Reload hits the streets March 2003
Yeah... I know you're excited. That makes the both of us. According to the Official Site, the Reload version gonna be scheduled for end March on GD-ROM. The reload version, which an update version of ggxx, added 1 additional playable character (for now), Robo Ky as well as upgraded moves for the rest of the other characters.

personal thought : I wonder how ggxx : reload will turn out to be. And I cannot hide the fact that I'm very curious about Robo Ky new abilities too... he seems so weird in this update. Ah well, I guess, time will tell.Now, if I can persuade any arcade owners in my town to get this game....

**pray so that they gonna port reload to PS2

Link :Official Site

2003-02-27T23:29:00.000-08:00

Wow.... 80 unique hits in a matter of hours??
I made a little 'shameless plug' advertisement at Shoryuken.com to promote this web diary... and I can't believe that my counter hits shoot up to 200+ in a matter of hours. Usually, I got about 30-40 uniques hits a day (yes.. unique hits... which means something) and this web diary just being in the web for about a week now... So, It's still in its infant period and many weaknesses are still inevitable. I would like to thank you guys for coming here to my humble web diary. Any feedback from you guys are greatly appreciated. Email me here

Have a nice day!

2003-02-27T20:18:00.000-08:00

Chicago GGXX tournament
There will be a major Guilty Gear XX Tournament in Chicago, which is hosted by ElvenShadow. Here are the tourney's details

Where: UIC courtyard 5th floor lounge, Matches will be played on the 50 inch TV in the lounge. Losers bracket will be played on another 20 inch TV. Depending on the turnout we can supply a 3rd TV if needed.

When: Sunday, March 9th, sign ups start at 1, tournement starts at 2.

Rules: No Kliff, Justice, Robo-Ky, EX, shadow, or gold characters. Matches are best 2 out of 3. Semi finals 3 out of 5, finals 5 out of 7. Double elimination.

Entrance fee: For now it will be 5 bucks, if people agree to make it 10 bucks later on it can be changed.

Prizes: 1st place 60%, 2nd place 30%, 3rd place 10%

personal thought : God, how I'm envy with you guys. You guys already got some competitions out there in the states, while in my home country, the competitions are scarce as hell... The only place I could find good competitions is in Singapore, which is my neigbour country. And I still don't have a passport yet. Damn it!!

To the participants to this upcoming tourney, I wish Thee god luck....

Link :Tourney's Thread

2003-02-27T16:31:00.000-08:00

Reload Pictures
Here are some pictures of Guilty Gear XX :The Midnight Carnival #Reload. Special thanks to mf733j from Gamecombos for providing the pictures.

Sidenotes :Its looks like finally Robo-Ky is like a whole new character, not just some swap pallete to Ky. And the new moves/frrc capabilities for the returning characters look neat too. I really like Johnny's mist-cancel dash. That move really live up to his 'pimping' personality.

2003-02-27T05:37:00.000-08:00

A Sad Day Indeed....
I think by now, you guys already knew that Capcom had canned their upcoming fighting game for arcades, the Capcom Fighting All Stars. I think it can't be help though, because Capcom kept losing more and more money lately. The recent rumour saying that Capcom was going to be bought by Microsoft also contribute to the company's financial woes. It's a shame, that the former arcades champions, which is once known for its innovation revolutionalizing the games scenes had finally pulled the curtain and left the field that made the company so famous to begin with . Although I am now a Guilty Gear convert, I still fell sad for Capcom. I've long waited for another Street Fighter installment, and after hearing this, I quite skeptical there will ever be one.

Link :Magicbox

2003-02-26T14:16:00.000-08:00

Guilty Gear Reload
Here's the latest news on Guilty Gear, from Magicbox
UNCONFIRMED: Sammy is planning to release another new version of their popular weapon fighting game Guilty Gear by the end of March, which tentatively titled Guilty Gear Reload. The game will run on the Naomi-GD System, and it is different from Guilty Gear X ver. 1.5

sidenotes: teh hell?? We already got ggx v1.5, and now reload??

2003-02-26T06:46:00.000-08:00

Guilty Gear X2 PAL Details
According to WorthPlaying, the Guilty Gear X2 gonna hit the European market on 21st March 2003. The PAL port keep everything intacted, but with a nice 50/60 hz option feature added on fans request.

Sidenotes: I wonder if whether PAL gonna turn out to be like the NTSC/UC port. For your information, The NTSC/UC lacks many of the features its NTSC/J counterparts had. Except for the anime clips, that is.....

Link :WorthPlaying

2003-02-26T03:11:00.000-08:00

What the heck?? My Bro has finally decided to Take Guilty Gear Seriously??
I got a brother, who is currently living in Japan. He is an undergraduate in University of Tokushima majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He also an avid gamer, just like me. But unlike me who has the Only-Japanese-Games-Matters-To-Me Attitude, he has passions for all games genres whether US-made or Japan-made.

last time, about three months ago, I sent to him some games in bundle(yes, bundle) including Guilty Gear X2. Well, he wasn't a guilty gear hardcore like me, but he played it casually. So like, a few days back, he stumped on this web journal, and followed the videos links I put here. Having a broadband connection, I guess he downloaded all the vids in the Yua's Web Page I gave him.Just a few moment back, he called me.

My Brother : Yo! How are you been doing??
Me : Study ^_^ (hey... have to cover up my 'activities')
My Brother : ehehehe... so you have a guilty gear webpage right now?? Your 'fanaticness' towards guilty gear is sexually disturbing...
Me : Hmmm.... (trying to act like Sol-Badguy)
My Brother : Hey, I just downloaded those Yua's vids... Man... he's one Johnny's fighting machine. I think I gonna use Johnny after this. I never thought that Johnny can be THIS destructive...
Me : Well, good for you. I am a Venom's user... so, I guess we can have a match or two once you get back here, huh?
My Brother : Right On!!

I guess my brother is starting to *really* learn guilty gear, which is a good thing... at least he provides me with some competition when he finally return home.

#p.s : The conversation between my brother and I had been slightly altered to show some dramatic expressions. :)

2003-02-26T00:33:00.000-08:00

Sol-Dizzy Relationship
In GGX+ and GGX2, there are some events in the storylines hinting that Sol's probably is Dizzy's father. However, whats confused me is that Dizzy got a strong resemblance to Justice. Dizzy got the stances, moves and tail similar to Justices like her "Michael Sword", and her "Gamma Ray" (Justice move is called "Imperial Ray").Quite disturbing , isn't it?? However, I do think the truth about their resemblances and relationships are gonna be unfold in the next installment. *sigh*That's mean... gotta have to wait another one year and a half or 2 years to know the rest of the story.

Anyway, I got this picture from Zazzarius, who post it in Private Insult forum. It is a fan art, but it seriously give you a hint about the Sol-Dizzy relationship

2003-02-25T20:11:00.000-08:00

Just Another Boring Update
Just came back from sitting my Anatomy Physics Paper... man... that test is freakin' hard. All the chapters I've memorized for the test didn't came out in the paper. Worse, my professor was sitting by side, watching me all the time. I guess he figured out that I can't really answered those questions By the time the test ended, he came up to me and said :

My Professor : (smiling)So, Syahmi, how did it goes??
Me : Uh..huh... Okay I guess.... (whatever... man... why is he always in my nerves??)
My Professor : I saw you shacking quite a bit back there.....
Me : ha..ha.. you got me (sweats dropped)
My Professor : ^_^. (hit me in the head).

So, there it goes.. my little conversation with my lecturer

2003-02-25T03:31:00.000-08:00

New Match Videos 24/2/03
Check out Yua's and A-Cho SBOQ vids

2003-02-24T23:34:00.000-08:00

Xenosaga Comes Out Today!!
Yosh!! My most inticipated title, has finally hit the USA market!! Wohoo..! I gonna get it ASAP. Guess I'll not playing Guilty Gear X2 for a while.... ^_^

Here are some of the screenshots of Xenosaga, I stole from Gamerankings (I'm too lazy to capture the in-game screenshots myself :D)

And.... I uploaded 2 more pictures of Sol-Badguy. Just go to the gallery section and choose your pick. The picture of Sol smoking a ciggarete is scary though.... reminds me a lot of Squall from Final Fantasy 8

2003-02-24T20:50:00.000-08:00

Latest Reviews
Here are the latest reviews for Guilty Gear X2.

Inside Hotwire 3D 85%
The Laser Grade B

Link : Gamerankings

2003-02-24T17:30:00.000-08:00

Story FAQ Available
Skuldnoshinpu had posted new story faq that should be available shortly at Gamefaqs. Or, in the mean time you can check it here. The story faq is written to clear up any rumors and untruths sorrounding the plots of the Guilty Gear Universe. Go check it out, it's worth a look.

2003-02-24T11:27:00.000-08:00

Here are the specs of the upcoming Atomiswave, the board which was developed as a joint project between Sega and Sammy. Well, basicly Atomiswave is a variation of Dreamcast, but it got more memory. So, I guess they can pull off a spectacular Effects that can't be done on the Dreamcast since they got a chuck full of memory. Anyway, I'm just copy and paste the Atomiswave's specs that I found it here

CPU : Hitachi SH-4 64-bit RISC CPU (200 MHz 360 MIPS / 1.4 GFLOPS)
Graphic Engine : PowerVR 2 (PVR2DC)
Sound Engine : ARM7 Yamaha AICA 45 MHZ (with internal 32-bit RISC CPU, 64 channel ADPCM)
Main Ram : 32 megs
Main Memory : 32 MByte
Graphic Memory : 16 MByte
Sound Memory : 8 MByte
Media : ROM Board
Simultaneous Number of Colors : Approx. 16,770,000 (24bits)
Polygons : 2.5 Million polys/sec
Rendering Speed : 500 M pixel/sec
Additional Features : Bump Mapping, Fog, Alpha-Bending (transparency), Mip Mapping (polygon-texture auto switch), Tri-Linear Filtering, Anti-Aliasing, Environment Mapping, and Specular Effect.

Notes : This is a joint venture between SAMMY and Sega to produce their own hardware, it is basically a dreamcast on a Jamma PCB.
It is possible to connect the systems on the network using both 56K modem or broadband connection, the software can be exchanged easily by swapping the ROMs, and it supports various types of input such as joystick, light gun, and track ball.

(sidenotes : I really wondered why Sammy and Sega don't develop a variation of Naomi 2, since it likes, can generates polygons up to 10 millions. Maybe to expensive??)

2003-02-24T05:07:00.000-08:00

Atomiswave Talk Show on 22nd Feb

To celebrate the upcoming Atomiswave,there was a talkshow which take place at the AOU Expo, to discuss about the games that are currently being developed for the hardware. 3 public figures were the panels of the show and the series creator, Daisuke Ishiwatari was one of them.

Link :Official Site

Guilty Gear X v1.5 Playtest
Guilty Gear V1.5 which is scheduled for foreign release, was being playtested during the AOU Expo.

Link :Official Site

2003-02-24T03:22:00.000-08:00

Gallery Section Open
There's a new ggxx gallery section, kindly hosted by the guys at Bravenet. For the beginning, I've just uploaded 2 files, one is the official Sol's sketch from the official GGX Draftbook, the other one is a picture of Daisuke Ishiwatari, which was taken from the Burst Encyplopedia.

I suggest you guys to activate any bannerkiller programs to eliminate those popups that will pop on your browser window. For Opera user, just put the "Disable popup windows" feature on.

2003-02-23T16:12:00.000-08:00

Guilty Gear X Sales
I was lurking on Shoryuken.com when I stumbled to this thread. Well, accrding to the guy who started the thread, It seems like the sales of Guilty Gear X are far less than impressive. I don't really understand why many people overlook this games. It got styles... and it got substance.. and yet it still not enough to turn people on this game.Not enough advertisement maybe?? Guilty Gear X had got a huge takeoff in Japan, but outside Japan, it's just only an underground hit. I hope Guilty Gear XX will change people perspectives on the game, and finally got the jumpstart it deserves....

Just for your information the sales of some of the popular fighting games

GUILTY GEAR (PSX) – 11/1998 – 0 – 27,710
GUILTY GEAR X (PS2) – 09/2001 – 462 – 45,734

DEAD OR ALIVE 2 (DC) – 03/2000 – 1,911 – 190,324
DOA2: HARDCORE (PS2) – 10/2000 – 2,774 – 221,582
DEAD OR ALIVE 3 (XBX) – 11/2001 – 30,633 – 626,405

STREET FIGHTER ALPHA (PSX) – 02/1996 – 7 – 143,809
STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 2 (PSX) – 10/1996 – 0 – 116,319
STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3 (PSX) – 05/1999 – 9,791 – 346,309

2003-02-22T19:56:00.000-08:00

International Kite Exhibition in Pasir Gudang
Yesterday, I went to the International Kite Exhibition in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia which like an hour drive from my home.By the time I got there, many kites in vatious shapes have been released and roamed the sorrounding. There are about 12 countries participated in this event, and Japan is one of them in which it sent 4 groups. It's a shame that I don't brought a camera with me at that time, because if I did, I could share the pictures with you guys. :(

2003-02-22T11:32:00.000-08:00

Sammy Announced Lineups for Atomiswave
Sammy has revealed their AOU show lineup, all the game titles run on their Atomiswave arcade system

Guilty Gear X ver 1.5 (Fighting)
Demolish Fist (Action)
Dolphin Blue (Action)
Take Sushi (Puzzle)
Sports Shooting (Gun Shooter)
Premier Eleven (Soccer)
Maximum Speed (Racing)

Looking good Sammy.... keep it up!! Now that Capcom almost out of the picture, and SNK continuely milking to death its King of Fighters franchise, hopefully Sammy will come up as a new contender in the arcade business worldwide. Not to mention merging with Sega help strengthen their reputation.

Link : Sammy Jpn, Magicbox

2003-02-21T20:22:00.000-08:00

Umehara.....
Lately, Umehara had been receiving a lot of attentions in Japan. Formerly a Street Fighter player, he had shifted to Guilty Gear several months ago. Albeit he just spend a few months on Guilty Gear, he had climbed up Japanese GGXX hall of fame and can be compared favourably with other top GGXX's player. He plays Sol, and I think he is the only man that can execute Sol Air Dust Corner Trick flawlessly (he can combo up to 18-19 hits, draining 70%-80% of the health meter of the opponent). I've downloaded a couple of his videos that you can find it right here and you shall know how much of a beast Umehara is when he plays Sol. He is THAT scary. I don't know how many ass he will beat with his Sol when the Guilty Gear goes online. I hope it's not me though o_O

2003-02-21T18:35:00.000-08:00

Personal Rants
In the coming weeks, I'm gonna have my final exam. Right now, I'm sitting in front of my computer finishing assignments that I've to submit to my lectures before the end of this week. Busy right now, and haven't much times to play games. Even my newly-bought game, '.Hack' , I haven't touch it that much. I got around 6 papers altogether, in which I've sat one, yesterday. So, that leave me with 5 papers left. My Anatomy Physics paper is on this Wednesaday, My Radiation Dosimetry and Modern Physics papers the day after..... I'm running out of time!!! I have to study like a nerd more frequently, lol! Wish me luck, ok??

In any case, IGN got a headline about Sammy's new board, the Atomiswave. For now, the headline is limited dor Insider. When it becomes available for public, I post the news here.

2003-02-21T02:18:00.000-08:00

GGXX Timebug??
While I was lurking Madman Cafe Board, I found this post by Treepull Aitch. Here is a quote from his post

"Story Mode GGXX involves 3 branching paths per character, depending on, among other factors, time taken to complete a certain stage.
Now, if you set the clock to 'Infinity', the game engine registers you as having taken 0 seconds to complete stages, irregardless of the actual time you took."

Can someone confirm this?? I've yet to prove it. Anyway, if this is true, it will make storypaths which you have to beat it in a specific time limit more easier to unlock.

Link :MMCafe

2003-02-20T12:56:00.000-08:00

Guilty Gear X2 Pal Version Release Date
I have emailed Sammy Studios Support asking about the official release of PAL Version of Guilty Gear X2, and the possibility of a Gamecube port.Here are what they have replied to me.

"I have not heard the rumors of a GameCube version, but that does not
mean it
isn't being considered. News like this would be announced first on our
gaming website:

http://www.sammy-zone.com

I believe the release date for GGX2 in Europe is slated for mid-March
2003.
It won't be much longer. I'm sure it is at the manufacturing plant as
we
speak.

Thank you for your interest in GGX2 and Sammy Studios."

Hmm.... a mid-march release date... guess this is good news for the UK people since ggx2 was earlier estimated to be released sometime during April.

Link : Sammy Zone

2003-02-20T09:21:00.000-08:00

Hoax Gone Wild!!
A while ago, there was this rumor saying that both Marlene (Ino's guitar) and Ronin's pool cue stick are actually 'fake outrage', which was created by 'That Man' based on Fredrick's outrage. I just found out that this is just a hoax. These so-called 'fake outrage' were never mentioned in any of the previous mooks, so it is probably untrue anyway. Thanks for Skuldnoshinpu for clearing it up.

2003-02-20T04:30:00.000-08:00

Cosplay, Anyone??
I found a cool guilty gear cosplayers website. You can visit it here.Very...very nice cosplay pictures they got there. I really like the Sol-Badguy's cosplayer with white hair. Badass!!!

2003-02-20T01:24:00.000-08:00

Guilty Gear X 1.5 for Atomiswave Board
Here are some of the pictures of the Guilty Gear X 1.5, an upgrade version of Guilty Gear X which will be release for Atomiswave board (foreign countries only).

This upgrade version feature all the new moves found in guilty gear xx. Guilty Gear X v1.5 also will be shown at the AOU2003 amusement expo.

Link :Official Site

2003-02-19T06:56:00.000-08:00

Guilty Gear FanFiction : 3 Words of Guilt (Sequel)
Those crazy posters in the ggx2 board (including me :-D ) created a hillarious ggx2 related fanfic that you can find it here. Hope you enjoy reading it as we enjoyed writing it. The fanfic do has 'explicit' words, though.... (but I don't think you got a problem with that, do you?)

Link :Fanfiction.net

2003-02-19T06:37:00.000-08:00

Cosplay Picture
woott!!! Guilty Gear Cosplayers!!! cheers!!
(If I am not mistaken, this picture was taken on the release day of ggxx in Japan)

2003-02-19T02:10:00.000-08:00

Latest GGX2 Ratings!!
here are the latest Guilty Gear X2 rating.

Solinari Gaming 97%
Gamenikki 90%
PSXNation 80%
DailyGame.net 90%
DarkStation 90%

Looks like guilty gear x2 is still holding strong with an average rating of 87.1%. Hope to see the number goes up a little bit when new reviews come rolling around.

I recommend you to read the review at Solinari Gaming since the guy who did the review there is a regular poster in the Guilty Gear X2 board at Gamefaqs. He know guilty gear stuffs a lot.

Link : Gamerankings

2003-02-19T01:49:00.000-08:00

Possible Sammy & Sega Merge???

Actually this thing I wanna tell you guys is kinda old, maybe you've heard it before. But for the sake of everybody here, let me spread the news again. Sega and Sammy had announced that they will merge together effectively on the 1st of October 2003.

Sammy is the largest company that published the Pachinko machines while Sega is well known for its excellent arcade lineup.

hmmm... this is interesting....maybe we can see a Guilty Gear vs. Virtua Fighter crossover game in the future ??? (I doubt it, though)

for full story, read here

Link : http://www.gamers.com

2003-02-18T17:28:00.000-08:00

Tom Ass from gamecombos will organise a guilty gear x2 tournament at 1st March 2003. The informations are as follow :

Location:::: Hagerstown, Maryland (USA)

Time ::::::: 4:30 p.m

Fee::::::::: $10 for GGXX

Prize::::::: all the entry fee's for that tourney.

He also organize a Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Street Fighter 3 : 3rd Strike Tournament. Those who are interested in participating these tournaments, do email him.

2003-02-18T15:51:00.000-08:00

A new Guilty Gear XX Complete Guide had been released on 6/2/2003. You can find about it on Amazon Japan here

This mook got almost everything regarding Guilty Gear XX. Frame Data, step to step story mode faqs, survival and ex characters faqs. By far is the most complete guide out there. Reccomended!

And according to Skuldnoshinpu, the survival mode in Guilty Gear XX/X2 is up to level 999 now. In the last level, you will battle a super powered Sol with a new upgrade gunflame animation. Here's the scanned pic.

2003-02-18T09:12:00.000-08:00

Guilty Gear X2 is on TechTV !!! For those who suscribe with TechTV, you can catch guilty gear x2 at

Monday 2/17
4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Eastern

Tuesday 2/18
3:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Eastern

Saturday 2/22
9:30 p.m. Eastern

Sunday 2/23
12:30 a.m. Eastern

be sure to watch it on your tv.

2003-02-18T08:00:00.000-08:00

The good guys at gamecombos.com post a nice, nifty Kliff exhibition videos. Damn, I never know that Kliff can kick so much arse!!! Ah well, you gotta see it to believe it. It's in mpeg format, so 56k user beware!! The file size is around 19 megs

download the video at http://www.gamecombos.com

2003-02-18T07:15:00.000-08:00

Tragic from gamecombos.com had set up a guilty gear x2 release petition for the US shores. You can find it here. To those who wish to see ggx2 in the statesides, sign it. Hopefully this will get those guys at SammyStudios to gear up an American release.

Also, Tragic had post up his personal review on guilty gear x2. Want to read his review??? Go here. He gave it a 4.5/5. Not bad....Not bad at all.....

2003-02-18T03:59:00.000-08:00

I found a nice article regarding the fighting games genre. I think it's worth a look. you can see it here.

2003-02-17T23:06:00.000-08:00

a few days, I made a brief review on guilty gear x2, my favourite fighting game. I managed to get my review to both gamefaqs and gameranking. You can read the review that I wrote here

Link :Gamefaqs