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Arcueid Brunestud / Re: Arc Says: Half of a Whole is still a Half. (H-Arc Guide/In Depth Discussion)

« on: March 28, 2010, 08:24:32 AM »

I'm seeing a couple of new MAD combos from H-Arc!

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm10150254

Check 1:10 into the vid. Insane!

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Tournament Results / Re: GVN Winter Brawl 4 MBAA Results!

« on: February 27, 2010, 07:28:35 PM »

Congrats to Lord Knight! That's like, 2 majors in a row.

Got any vids?

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Tournaments and Events / Re: GVN Winter Brawl 4 - February 27th, 2010 - Philadelphia, PA - SPECIAL PRIZES -

« on: February 26, 2010, 03:08:04 AM »

What time is the stream? I'll see if I can catch it.

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Tournament Results / Re: American Melty 6 !!

« on: February 22, 2010, 07:08:00 AM »

Still going through the matches. HF's Aoko is a beast! but I was most impressed with that H-Ryougi. You don't see a lot of those vids around. Fancy knife-catching action FTW.

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Tournament Results / Re: American Melty 6 !!

« on: February 21, 2010, 02:03:16 PM »

Interesting results. And not a single H-Shiki in sight!

Seeing some characters that don't usually get played. Will you guys have the vids up online?

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Melty Blood Auditorium / Re: The MB:AA:FT thread: Final Tuned

« on: February 21, 2010, 01:59:05 PM »

if MBAA PC port will release afterwards, i hope that will be Final Tuned  instead of Current Code.

What would be the difference? The name? LOL.

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Melty Blood Auditorium / Re: The MB:AA:FT thread: Final Tuned

« on: February 19, 2010, 04:00:07 PM »

Hard to judge if it's faster or not until we get a clean video capture. But overall to me the graphics look more polished.

Here's the other video btw : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFAg0UYOIy0

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Arcueid Brunestud / Re: Arc Says: Half of a Whole is still a Half. (H-Arc Guide/In Depth Discussion)

« on: February 17, 2010, 06:41:11 AM »

Thanks that's really helpful info. I'm coming from MBAC where Arc had a really good oki game. Enough recovery from air throw, 5B, corner pressure... things obviously H-Arc lacks lol.

Great point about the link. Will try that out next time.

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Kohaku's Video Room / Re: Melty Blood Actress Again Tutorial Video

« on: February 16, 2010, 09:30:12 PM »

I'd be willing to contribute to this project, mostly on the writing side, as I've done some editing work in the past. Just let me know how I can help

Here's a short sample (had to rush to do this, will write some more later if needed):

Melty Blood: Actress Again - MBAA for short - is a 2D fighting game developed by ECOLE. It is the third installment in the Melty Blood series and is playable in Arcade (released Q4 2008) and the PS2 (released August 2009).

The game is a sequel of sorts to the visual novel, Tsukihime. We won’t be going into any details on Tsukihime since this is more of a tutorial for MBAA.

Now on to the tutorial!

Was thinking we can target SF4 players since they're so many, lol. We can highlight key differences between the fighting engines as part of the introduction, then gradually go into the intricacies of what makes MBAA unique.

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Arcueid Brunestud / Re: Arc Says: Half of a Whole is still a Half. (H-Arc Guide/In Depth Discussion)

« on: February 16, 2010, 09:13:25 PM »

Hope we can get this thread started again. There's really not enough info on H-Arc. And most of the match vids you can find involve the other moons.

Any tips on her oki / pressure game? These seem to be the most vital points to H-Arc. I can't seem to get enough pressure from an air throw. Used to the recovery back in MBAC, when you could still whiff 2a then throw. Ahhh those were the days...

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Shiki Tohno / Re: H moon tohno

« on: January 20, 2010, 04:14:32 PM »

Ok, I'm going to tell you in advance that this will sound very noob;

What do the ----- mean?

Answer ------- just dashlines.

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Melty Blood Auditorium / Re: Good Tutorial Suggestions?

« on: January 04, 2010, 11:56:03 PM »

Numerical notations are easy.  In my opinion this is the most universal and efficient notation. Just picture this in your head:

7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3

Imagine a joystick in a neutral notation. That would be 5. All the other numbers correspond to directional inputs, so 5a is simply standing a.

Examples:
Down - 2
Down-forward - 3
Down-back - 1
Hadouken motion - 236
Dragon punch - 623

Soon it will be second nature.

Hope that helped.

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Melty Blood Auditorium / Re: The MB:AA:FT thread: Final Tuned

« on: January 03, 2010, 07:40:49 AM »

Hmmm, since melty's sprite style is basically pure anime, it would be cool to finally see a FG where the in game sprites are pretty much identical in style and appearance to the character select art.   They should hire some anime studio to do all the artwork & sprites at anime/tv/broadcast resolutions, and then downscale it to sprites for the game.  That way, even if hardware improves and they can use higher resolutions, they have the source sprites at super hi res so they dont need to redraw anything.

Either that or go 2.5D using celshaded graphics like the PS3 Naruto game.


Surely with all the typemoon success everywhere, there would be enough money floating around to make the next melty (after MBAAFT) a proper modern game?

Hate to burst your bubble sir but the chances of another Melty blood game is about the same as Tsukihime 2.

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Shiki Tohno / Re: H moon tohno

« on: December 27, 2009, 04:48:01 PM »

Wow just started playing MBAA again haha. Anyway, had an observation on Tohno. As far as his playstyle is concerned, he should try to limit his attacking to the ground as much as he can. Old Tohno had a good air-to-air normal in jA, which now at least for Half-moon, angles a bit downward.  I don't know about you guys, but I get beat out A LOT in the air especially against the likes of Akiha and Sion. 

Anyway, this is just based on my own playing, so feel free to correct me if you have observed otherwise.

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Melty Blood Auditorium / Re: MBAA Final Tuned

« on: December 16, 2009, 03:26:28 PM »

Fuck years, at the very least this means they haven't given up on this game yet.

Naming it 'final' tuned suggests they have given up already though. Though this at least gives me some hope for a PC port.

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Riesbyfe Stridberg / Re: Riesbyfe Strategy and Tactics Thread

« on: August 25, 2009, 04:45:11 PM »

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but Rief's 6B can deflect Ciel's blades:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ABPkOxhMfk

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Arcueid Brunestud / Re: ~ Marble Phantasm Guide: Actress Again Revival ~

« on: August 25, 2009, 04:39:02 PM »

Any tips for the corner 623a 6a 2c link? Can't seem to get it to connect. Either the 2c comes out too late or the opp is too high for it to connect.

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Melty Blood Auditorium / Re: No plans for a pc port?

« on: August 24, 2009, 07:51:50 PM »

For our community here in the Philippines it was the reverse - netplay helped build the community. I started out playing in some random hamachi server then I met another Filipino player, who knew other people who play, etc. Now because we got to know each other through netplay, then we started seeing each other regularly for casuals and tourneys - which I suppose can also be attributed to the crappy internet connection here.

I can't imagine me meeting people from the scene here if it wasn't for netplay because there's was no other venue to play mbac over here. Oh and about friends who play the game... to some poeple it's just not an option. None of my friends like to play fighters. They're just not into it no matter how I try to introduce it to them. Which is why netplay can be a godsend for me to meet others with similar interest.

So I guess for the NY scene, netplay hurts their community, but in other cases it benefits others. To each his own I guess.

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Arcueid Brunestud / Re: ~ Marble Phantasm Guide: Actress Again Revival ~

« on: August 24, 2009, 03:59:40 PM »

Here's an F-Arc corner combo does about 4.4k damage on Akiha.

2aa5b2b2c 236a 623a6a (slam) 623b jb jc jb jc throw.

The tricky part is linking the 236a with the 623a as there is a slight delay required. Good to see she still has delay corner strings in this style .

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Melty Blood Auditorium / Re: Melty Blood: Actress Again PS2 version in August Confirmed (now with Ryougi!)

« on: August 20, 2009, 12:43:16 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofAK1qZz87E

Archetype:Earth vid. Kind of a letdown as she looks just like Arc. Oh well XD.

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Archetype: Earth / Re: The Red Moon style secret boss

« on: August 20, 2009, 12:39:11 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofAK1qZz87E

Kind of a letdown. Oh well XD.

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Melty Blood Auditorium / Re: Melty Blood: Actress Again PS2 version in August Confirmed (now with Ryougi!)

« on: June 22, 2009, 08:33:29 PM »

Well a friend of mine who is very particular on game mechanics noticed that MBAA (at least for the arcades in SG) felt slower compared to MBAC. And that hitboxes were weirder and harder to predict. Like everyone turned into Ciel from MBAC or something LOL. Also larger hitboxes for ground normals.

The difference not something you can tell from just watching vids. You have to play it for yourself.

Then again, it could be a function of what character he was using. He mains Maids with Hisui lead.

I won't be having the chance to try it out for myself until the PS2 port comes out, so was just curious.

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Melty Blood Auditorium / Re: Melty Blood: Actress Again PS2 version in August Confirmed (now with Ryougi!)

« on: June 22, 2009, 06:53:41 AM »

For those of you who played the game, any stark differences between mbac and mbaa in terms of how the game feels? Heard that mbaa feels 'slower' than mbac? Can anyone confirm this?

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Melty Blood Auditorium / Re: Melty Blood: Actress Again PS2 version in August Confirmed (now with Ryougi!)

« on: June 02, 2009, 03:29:52 AM »

Any Idea if the PS2 release is going stateside? and if august release is japan only so I can calculate how long I have to wait and save up cash before I can find a copy here in the Philippines

The chances of it getting ported outside of Japan is very small. 

Or none at all

Seriously just order it off play-asia.

On the cover: why is kouma even there?  I'd rather they put all the new chars in.

And isn't Sion still, technically, the main 'heroine' of melty?

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Melty Blood Auditorium / Re: Quick Action Button in Tournaments?

« on: March 23, 2009, 08:57:48 PM »

Wow thanks for the tip. Especially for safe wake up heats (4 [1]+<A+B+C>). That's golden.