Ferris Bueller | 508 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 (edited) Someone on discord pointed out they aren't doing international shipping in Japan, period. May just be the quarantine. We'll see. Edited April 28, 2020 by Ferris Bueller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye | 1,601 Homebrew Team · Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 @Ferris Bueller that makes sense now. I ordered a Famicom BASIC keyboard off ebay on March 29 and still has not arrived. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neodolphino | 267 Homebrew Team · Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Deadeye said: @Ferris Bueller that makes sense now. I ordered a Famicom BASIC keyboard off ebay on March 29 and still has not arrived. Yeah, they are having a lot of issues sending here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dockvalentine | 23 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Yeah, I ordered something on March 19th from Japan and am still waiting. Several of my orders were cancelled last weekend for me too, since I guess there was a country-wide ban on shipping to the US starting last Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrobins | 1,804 Moderator · Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Here’s an interesting tweet: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dockvalentine | 23 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 What exactly does the tweet say... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,015 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Sadly I did not get that game (did anyone here grab it?), so I hope sometime in the future it'll become available again. That's the one thing I hate about homebrew / indie games, it often feels like you gotta choose between getting it and the living off of instant noodles for a month, or missing it and then regretting the decision for years to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 6,027 Events Team · Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 1 hour ago, dockvalentine said: What exactly does the tweet say... Not sure if this helps or not. Per Google: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrobins | 1,804 Moderator · Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 This feels like such a roller coaster. What’s the deal with their latest tweets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye | 1,601 Homebrew Team · Posted May 15, 2020 Author Share Posted May 15, 2020 9 minutes ago, Scrobins said: This feels like such a roller coaster. What’s the deal with their latest tweets? The original offering for Astro Ninja Made, was limited to what was produced before hand, which I believe was by hand. It sold out in 4minutes. Due to the demand, the developer and publisher we able to secure pricing and contracts for factory production. However, the run had to be at least 200 units to hold the price per unit for their cost. They opened up pre-orders for this run today. Payment by bank transfer only. Refunds were going to occur if the 200 unit threshold wasn't passed. They have exceed the threshold, so production will happen. The developer said this is the last chance for a physical copy. So I would assume no future sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrobins | 1,804 Moderator · Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 But it’s still not available for international shipping, leaving anyone overseas interested in a copy scrambling for a proxy or waiting to shell out more for an already overpriced game on the secondary market. I’m also annoyed with one of Riki’s tweets where he went to the trouble of acknowledging that he’d received a number of messages from frustrated fans overseas and left it at that, essentially saying you’ll be happy to know that I see you but won’t do anything about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,015 Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 On 5/16/2020 at 2:11 AM, Deadeye said: The original offering for Astro Ninja Made, was limited to what was produced before hand, which I believe was by hand. It sold out in 4minutes. Due to the demand, the developer and publisher we able to secure pricing and contracts for factory production. However, the run had to be at least 200 units to hold the price per unit for their cost. They opened up pre-orders for this run today. Payment by bank transfer only. Refunds were going to occur if the 200 unit threshold wasn't passed. They have exceed the threshold, so production will happen. The developer said this is the last chance for a physical copy. So I would assume no future sales. Talked to a local friend in Taiwan, he got one of the initial copies has it in hand . From my understanding talking with him, like @Deadeye said, this is our last shot of getting it. I'm definitely not happy about the state of affairs, but will try to ask my friend to assist me in getting one. No idea why he didn't just do as with the previous carts, making them mass produced and readily available to anyone who was interested. Oh well, even if I can't get this stuff, I guess I should be happy it's getting made? That's what someone once told me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankenGraphics | 104 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 (edited) They could licence this to a quality provider in the west, such as broke studio, 1st press, megacat or INL. Maybe they're not aware, or maybe they don't want to at this point in time. Edited May 20, 2020 by FrankenGraphics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferris Bueller | 508 Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 Impact Soft is tweeting right now about working with Paul for a release of Haradius Zero in the States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrobins | 1,804 Moderator · Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 I tried to purchase on my own last week but asked the seller via twitter for help completing the bank transfer since the confirmation page didn’t give as much information as my bank requires for a transfer. He told me to email his info@ address so he could help me. That was 5 days ago. I’m pretty sure he’s going to cancel my order at this point because I wasn’t able to complete payment within his required 3 business days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,015 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 (edited) Attempted to order this game three times, using three different proxy services. Two services were geared towards westerners, the third was for Taiwanese people. I already got a cancellation from one of the western proxies, after hearing nothing from them last week when I placed the order. I have a feeling that I will get a similar response from the other two proxies as well, though I really will be upset if the Taiwanese proxy cancels, since I had even paid via bank transfer. Should find out in the next day or so. Man, this is stressful, definitely not a good way to start off my Monday. Edit: If by some luck the other two proxies both go through and I end up with two copies, I'll gladly sell one to someone here that missed it for actual cost. Honestly doubt this will happen, but I'll keep everyone posted. Edited May 25, 2020 by fcgamer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,015 Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 (edited) Second proxy cancelled, third went seemingly through. Will post details later , for the curious. edit: Okay so I used a combination of three different proxies to try to order the Astro Ninja Man game. The first service I tried to use was Zenmarket. Placed my order late last week with them, and it seemed as though my request just sat and did nothing, wasn't updated. This is what initially prompted me to order from two other proxy services. Yet it was barely Monday morning, at about 7:30 or so in the morning when I received an email from them that they couldn't order the item, it was "out of stock". This sort of irritated me, if your company is so busy that they can't order the product, but then as soon as the deadline has passed, they are immediately so quick to notify you that it can't be ordered? The whole attitude in the correspondence just didn't sit well with me, and I won't be using them again. The second proxy I tried was White Rabbit. I used them one other time. They also came back and said that the item was out of stock (again they tried ordering it too late I guess), but I felt the whole correspondence was better overall, and will likely be using them sometime in the future, next time this sort of situation arises. The third proxy I used is Auction Bear. The site is entirely in Chinese, and it looks very dodgy to be honest. Instead of using Paypal or credit card or whatever to pay the proxy, you must transfer the money directly from your account into their account! Although this would raise tons of red flags in the west, this sort of direct transfer thing is very very common here in Taiwan, and this site was presumably made for Taiwanese, so... I ordered the item, then I paid for it via the bank transfer. I later receive a message from them telling me that since it is a pre-order, can I accept their terms on curremcy exchange rates and what not, as well as waiting for the item to ship / arrive in October or December or whenever. I responded simply "I agree to those terms, I understand it" and then on Monday morning I see the status updated that they had ordered the item and it had been paid for, in Japan. So it looks like everything went through, at least by what I can see. I'll have to double check later. One of my good local friends over here uses this site and was the one who recommended it to me, so that's why I didn't feel overly concerned about placing an order through them. He actually used the site to place an order for Astro Ninja Man himself, and had been showcasing the one he recently got (from the first batch). Edited May 26, 2020 by fcgamer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrobins | 1,804 Moderator · Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Anyone know when the second run of this game is coming out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye | 1,601 Homebrew Team · Posted September 19, 2020 Author Share Posted September 19, 2020 21 minutes ago, Scrobins said: Anyone know when the second run of this game is coming out? I believe the estimate was a little open, just listing "fall 2020" IIRC Do you know @neodolphino? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neodolphino | 267 Homebrew Team · Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 I thought they were aiming for October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,015 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 5 hours ago, neodolphino said: I thought they were aiming for October. That's what I thought too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dockvalentine | 23 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Is this one we will be able to order easier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neodolphino | 267 Homebrew Team · Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 37 minutes ago, dockvalentine said: Is this one we will be able to order easier? Well the ones that are supposed to come out in October were sold as a preorder. I -think- they mentioned possible further runs of the game, but it wasn't very solid or specific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMR | 538 Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Hopefully someone like Columbus Circle will pick this game up and make it available on Play Asia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 5,015 Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 The sketchy proxy paid off, this just showed up yesterday 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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