iDOLM@STER 2!!

[Clear Blue]

I'm starting to feel anxious of this game. (Please come to HK! I can't wait!)

[RhaXiel]

Edit: Official box art. Men confirmed. http://livedoor.2.blogimg.jp/hatima/imgs/f/2/f22498fd.jpg

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"NamcoBandai guy: lets write it down in clean english so foreigners can read it"

ahhhh D:

[Clear Blue]

Aw...

[animagic4u]

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"NamcoBandai guy: lets write it down in clean english so foreigners can read it"

ahhhh D:

that's always made me laugh. on the im@s 1 and l4u box as well

[Maka]

I like how the team they picked in the scan is Project Fairy. I wonder if SP is canon in im@s2, it would be interesting to see how and why they joined 765. Maybe for the anime?

...So they'll put Tonari ni and Futari no Kioku in despite the fact that RK is unplayable? Maybe this means you can use them after beating the game. this is probably just wishful thinking, I miss Azusa ;_;

[TweenDoriru]

that's always made me laugh. on the im@s 1 and l4u box as well

ditto. A fair amount of games they have that label (the few non-iM@S games I've imported all have it iirc) and I just look at the box like "ha. >:3"

I like how the team they picked in the scan is Project Fairy. I wonder if SP is canon in im@s2, it would be interesting to see how and why they joined 765. Maybe for the anime?

...So they'll put Tonari ni and Futari no Kioku in despite the fact that RK is unplayable? Maybe this means you can use them after beating the game. this is probably just wishful thinking, I miss Azusa ;_;

I think that, as far as iM@S2 goes, SP never really happened (after all, the idols would be famous already if it had. Project Fairy idols don't jump to 765 until you cream them in the IU)

I donno about them being playable afterward (I hope, too. I wish RK could've just been a computer-generated idol unit that picks 3 idols you aren't using) but I was hoping they'd have returning songs for the RK members, too (Azusa = Massugu or Tonari Ni, Iori = Watashi wa Idol or Futari no Kioku, and Ami = Start Star)

[Maka]

I do hope we get to see Overmaster in 360 graphics.

Just a little more than a month until it gets released. That was fast XD;

EDIT:
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201101/21039468.html
The famitsu article, with clearer pics.

[Clear Blue]

Ah, much better!

[Cael K.]

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... You mean, the same thing that was on every single DDR machine I've seen in the States? ^^

(Okay, 5th Mix and before, I can't remember much about everything after.)

[RhaXiel]

"NamcoBandai guy Japanese Game Producer-san: lets write it down in clean english so foreigners can read it "

Fix'd

why do "Japanese Game Producer-san" hate us so much... even when we love his games D:

[animagic4u]

I'm pretty sure those are for other asian countries, as in, if you live in China or something you can't play this on your xbox you need the asian version just to avoid confusion. It's really strange that Japan has a different region encoding than other asian countries.

[TweenDoriru]

I'm pretty sure those are for other asian countries, as in, if you live in China or something you can't play this on your xbox you need the asian version just to avoid confusion. It's really strange that Japan has a different region encoding than other asian countries.

I thought the NTSC-J Xbox covers it all. Just like how you can by an "Asian" copy of a game and it'll still work on the NTSC-J Xbox...

I'm pretty sure the regions are just split up into Asia, Europe, and North America. Or something like that (seems a lot of stuff is left out that way, but I'm positive that there's only 3 different regions for an Xbox 360)

[BT2]

I thought the NTSC-J Xbox covers it all. Just like how you can by an "Asian" copy of a game and it'll still work on the NTSC-J Xbox...

I'm pretty sure the regions are just split up into Asia, Europe, and North America. Or something like that (seems a lot of stuff is left out that way, but I'm positive that there's only 3 different regions for an Xbox 360)

It's true that there are only 3 regions but certain games don't work for systems from "the same region",
For example the game "Shin Sangoku Musou 4 Special" JP version is a game classified as NTSC-J and should fall in the Asia category and should work on any asian 360 including chinese ones who're also NTSC-J's.
This however isn't true as the game refuses to run on a system other than a JP one.

I guess it's because the chinese doesn't want their awesome 3 kindom characters having those dumb japanese names. <-- unbased claim

[Clear Blue]

Erm...3 "kindom"?

[Cael K.]

I think that the XBox 360's region protection (term used loosely) is entirely an option on the part of the publisher. If the publisher wants to include region lockout, he's free to do it. If he doesn't care, then he can leave the disc without lockout.

This is second-hand information, though. My friend was saying he could play American games on his Japanese 360 since apparently Americans don't care. The Japanese games he tried on another of my friend's American XBox didn't work. I guess they're still more traditional?