Blue Stinger, Illbleed on Xbox?

[PhreQuencYViii]

I just got Blue Stinger for Dreamcast and was going to play it, and noticed this on Googler...

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/illbleed/news.html?sid=6100692

The part I'm interested in is:

"The earlier Dreamcast creations of Nishigaki are tentatively scheduled for release in Japan on the Xbox console in late 2004. Cool Net Entertainment of Tokyo, Japan, has its development departments working on bringing Illbleed and Blue Stinger to the Xbox console, each complete with an added level, according to Coolnet President Shigeo Kamata. According to Kamata, no decision has been made on whether the games will receive distribution outside of Japan."

This never happened did it? Kinda sad the creator guy died...

I also know the japanese version of this game had an RE type of camera system, and the USA one didn't. It seems to me like the Japanese one would be better...I guess I'll find out if the game sucks or not in a second, but yeah, anyone know about those ports?

[Yakumo]

Yeah, the XBOX versions of either game never did see the light of day. The screen shots I saw looked just like the Dreamcast version though to be honest.

Yakumo

[wombat]

Dynamite Deka 2 / Dynamite Cop, was also going to get a remake/port to the xbox. Unfortuatly it never happend :(

[PhreQuencYViii]

I wonder what happened to the Xbox builds? It sounds like they were far along.

[wombat]

Rent a hero no.1 even apears to be complete! the E3 demo is in the hands of a few collectors/yournalists. Heck probally the full also somewhere.

[sayin999]

http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1089/Developer-Focus-Coolnet-Entertainment-Part-I/p1/

http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1098/Developer-Focus-Coolnet-Entertainment-Part-II/p1/

Fully explains why the us release didn't happen and why the other games never went forward.

[Yakumo]

Reading those "two" links was like reading a record that kept skipping back to the same part time and time again.

Yakumo

[PhreQuencYViii]

Wow, thanks for the links. So Rent a Hero did come out in Japan at least...

http://www.xbox.com/locpages/games/DefaultProductDetail.aspx?p=467&culture=en-US

lol.

[wombat]

I didn't know that aswell; altough it doesnt really matter since the Dreamcast version also apeared in Japan. So still no english :(

[MetalSlime]

I remember someone working on an english patch for the Megadrive version of Rent a Hero years ago. Not sure whatever became of it.

[PrOfUnD Darkness]

Why SEGA didn't published them....
BTW, I could swear I saw RaHn1 in the usual places...maybe it was the JP version.

[SuperGrafx]

The sad thing is, around 2003 I started seeing mock-up boxes for the US version of Rent A Hero in game stores around my area for pre-ordering

The art design looked remarkably similar to the Japanese box (albeit in full English) and I kind of wish now that I had snagged one since it really did appear to be based on a final design.

[CandieC]

rent a hero #1 did come out for the xbox in japan as far as i can tell , i have had it on my xbox for quite some time now.

[sayin999]

I'm shocked the final us version never got leaked. A lot of magazines had reviewed it.

[arnoldlayne]

Rent-a-Hero: a 3 level demo for the xbox (in English...prob the E3 demo) was almost made public a year or 2 ago but interest never peaked and the plan was abandoned. I can't remember who it was but they posted here...may still do?

Around the same time there was also talk that amongst 'collectors' (i.e. ppl who don't (or rarely) encourage public releases, there was a full English language version with all the levels included/translated.

I't's not hard to find pictures of the E3 demo online (just search these forums, i'm sure). As for any conclusive 'proof' the full version exists in collectors hands? I've never seen any.

Someone should leak it! why?...because unlike many, many unreleased games that suddenly appear on the web = this one was actually v.good and deserves a wider audience :) (imho)

In Japanese the satirical humour (an essential part of the game) is all but lost to anyone who doesn't understand the language. :(

[sayin999]

I swear a rent a hero will always be cursed when it comes to translation.

Sega of America never considered it for us release on dreamcast even though a lot of magazines and sites were previewing it.

Eiddlon attempted to translate the mega drive original, then after e-mailing them found out they weren't working atm and probably wouldn't finish the translation.

Then it's announced it was getting a U.S. release for xbox I was so excited I actually bought one. Needless to say I was very disappointed when it was canceled.

[ASSEMbler]

Bump

[PhreQuencYViii]

Did it get to the review phase?

[sayin999]

Why did this get bumped?

[Kron]

The english language Xbox version was leaked last year wasn't it?

[ASSEMbler]

Why did this get bumped?

Because I like blue stinger?

[ASSEMbler]

The english language Xbox version was leaked last year wasn't it?

I'll check newsgroups but I don't remember at all.

Do you have a copy Kron?

[PhreQuencYViii]

How does the japanese fixed angles affect this game? Better or worse? I honestly couldn't get into it at all. The voices are great though, lol.

[sayin999]

If you want assembler I got a copy of the english rent a hero, though I think it's still floating out there it was a big release.

Only reason I mentioned the whole bumped thing was the two articles I linked to that explained why rent a hero didn't get released also told the fate of blue stinger and illbleed on xbox.

[ASSEMbler]

Nah, want blue stinger. Thanks though.

[PhreQuencYViii]

So, since your asking, does that mean somebody somewhere has it or something? I couldn't find anything on it other then it was in the works.

[chocomarker1]

i just heard rumours either. someone should directly go to these offices in japan, walk in and ask them directly :D

[Yakumo]

I remember seeing a promotion video for Blue Stinger on the XBOX and to be honest it looked just like the Dreamcast version. Of course this wasn't "live" footage of the game but a pre-recorded sample disc for XBOX. It may have been the Dreamcast version running on that disc for all I know.

Yakumo

[Kron]

I'll check newsgroups but I don't remember at all.

Do you have a copy Kron?

Sorry I was talking about the Xbox version of Rent-A-Hero. Blue Stinger and Illbleed just dropped off the radar completely.

[Gamemaster14XIV]

I know for a fact that the English Version of Rent a Hero No 1 did get released online because I had grabbed it when they had a torrent of it up. I am suprized that the english is dome pretty well and half expected to see alot of engrish.