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Game: Tekken: Dark Resurrection System: PSP Ladies and gentlemen, it is finally here. The greatest 3D fighting game of all time have arrived on the tiny handheld, PSP. Tekken has its humble beginning in 1994 when it was released to the arcade. THe game immediately gained fighting fans's love with its 3D graphics and extremly easy to understand gameplay. And starting from its initial release on PSX in 1995, Tekken series has been a staple release on PSX and also PS2. The series suffered a little setback on the 4th installment but Namco (now Namco Bandai) manages to pull all stops to give us Tekken 5 which bring Tekken series back to its former glory. Not contending with it, Namco improves on Tekken 5 and give us version 5.1 and finally.... Dark Resurrection in the arcade. When pictures of Dark Resurrection (to be known as DR from now on) surfaces, everyone is thinking that Namco is bringing DR to the PS2 again. Imagine everyone's surprise when it was announced that the game will be released on PSP, Sony's handheld (much to the chagrin of PS2 owners, sparking a lot of lamentation posts across gaming forums). Now that the game is out, does it justifies Namco's decision to bring this game to PSP? Graphics: Gorgeous. The best looking graphics on the PSP of all. There is no denying it. You will swear that you are holding a PS2 version on your hand, and on widescreen. The characters have never look so gorgeous. Every facial expressions, every movements; everything is so smooth, colourful, vibrant and animated. The character models are the smoothest in PSP games currently, beating Syphon Filter's character model. Every details on the character models are not left out, down to the emblems on their clothes. And all these details are run on 60fps framerate, causing no slowdown at all, which is ery critical in fighting games. The backgrounds were also nicely done. You will see leaves falling down, people in the background raising their fists egging you on, helicopters hovering, boobs jiggling in the poolside etc. Some of the stages have been downgraded a bit compare to the arcade version. Example is the fight club stage where a car is hanging in the background. In the arcade, the car will be swinging from side to side, but in the PSP version, the car just hanging there. Not much of an issue really. Cutscenes and the pre/post fight scenes was running at a slower framerate but it hardly detract from the overall experience at all. Namco also manage to cram all the ending movies for each characters, and all the intro movies including the PS2 intros! A graphical glitch was found in some copies of Japanese version where the fireworks during hits become ugly white boxes, but thankfully, this was not in the Enlish version (rectified by Namco maybe) Graphics: 10/10 (the best ever on PSP) Controls: Tekken games is always about control precision, and Namco manage to port that to the PSP. Granted that the PSP D-Pad is a pain in the ass when you try to press diagonals (Ceramic White PSP have better D-Pad), so Namco is giving a D-Pad attachment to be used for this game. Analog stick is also usable, and i found that I keep switching from analog to D-pad and to analog again during fights. I am not used to playing using D-Pad since I have been playing my Tekken in the arcade and still trying to find the comfortable controls for this game. However, the buttons are all responsive and you won't experience any lag after pressing the buttons. You can also change the buttons setting whichever you like and map buttons to the L and R buttons too. Controls: 8.5/10 (Namco has utilised the best out of what they can get from PSP, D-Pad attachment help to a certain extent) Sound: I would say that DR has one of the greatest soundtrack in Tekken series. I find myself humming to the tunes of Garden of the Tiger, Snow Castle and Ground Zero Funk (which is from Tekken 5). All the music are loud and clear, and best enjoyed using a pair of good headphones. The PSP speaker does not do the music justice. The sound effects are also crystal clear all the sounds are not left out. All the speeches are there and all the characters talked in their native tongue. Hwoarang in Korean, Jin in Japanese, Wang in Mandarin, King growls (and subtitles did come out explaining what he said ) Sound: 10/10 Gameplay: Ah, we have come to the meat of the game. It would not be Tekken if we can't perform every moves available in Tekken. It would not be Tekken if we have to look at slideshow of moves executed. YES, I am talking about you, Tekken Advance. Granted, it was considered an achievement to port such an amazing game to a limited hardware, but it was still a nightmare to see slideshow of King throwing his opponents for his multithrow. Thankfully, DR did not suffer any of that. Every moves of the characters are intact, all juggles are intact, all moves look and play the same as in the arcade. In fact, this PSP version has more modes to play with than any other Tekken console brethens. We have the usual Story mode where you can use one character and play it until you beat the final boss to see the character's ending. The Time attack and Survival mode are also in this game, giving a different kind of fun. There is also the Arcade mode where you battle ghost players in order to rise up the ranking. Some new modes were added in which is Tekken Dojo mode and Gold Rush mode. Gold Rush mode is a mode where you battle a CPU in various difficulty in a limited time setting. Each hit that you caused to the opponent will give you money, and higher difficulty give you more money. however if you are hit by the CPU, the money is deducted from you. A great way to earn money. Tekken Dojo mode is basically Career mode for Tekken. Initially, you will have access to a dojo on Mishima-owned island where you have to battle ghost players from around the world and rise up in rank in the dojo. There are league matches, survival tournament and ranking battle to help you rise up to be no.1. Once you conquered the dojo, you will be allowed to proceed to the next Dojo to battle on. So, what is this ghost players that you have been hearing? Basically, the ghost system is the Namco way to help people around the world sharing their characters among PSP players. You can customise the characters that you are using to your own personal taste with the money you earned and train them up. The game will record how you use your characters, how you perform juggles, moves and so on in order to emulate it. Somehow, the system is still not perfect as no AI in the world can mimick a human opponent that accurate, but it is the best to have for now.At least it is one of the way to get data of great players around the world and see how they perform their combos and juggles (Rumours are out that some great players's ghosts like Hole Man and Na Ra Hof are in, but I have not seen it yet) Namco has also decided to add in some minigames into this game. We have a command attack mini-game where you have to perform the moves of the character you are using and set a record for it. And another mini game will be nostalgic to Tekken veteran; TEKKEN BOWL. Yes, the Bowling game is making a comeback and buy, it was fun. Nothing like a good bowl after a hard fight Gameplay: 10/10 (countless hours of fun) Graphics : 10/10 Controls : 8.5/10 Sound : 10/10 Gameplay: 10/10 Overall: 9.6/10 It is so amazing that Namco manages to cram so much into one UMD and still manages to gives us amazing console-like experience with minimal loading. The best game there is on PSP now, and a must for all PSP owners. Now pls excuse me while I get back to the game, trying to level up my jack-5

We have been having Diablo Lan party here for the past few weeks. 3 colleagues playing together and we have finally beaten the HELL level. Fun when you have friends playing so close together, shouting at each others Yes, I can play games in the office Since my boss is not around and I am the boss for that place

Dragonkeeper is right. You can even play against JP region ghosts. Or Korea, if they have it.

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Are you telling me they are not beautiful?!? Sound gay to me

Checked. And yup, my connection is slow Damn....

Didn't see anything that is out of sort. I think the new look will stick now. hope the "Last 8 posts" will come back soon.

I can do that since I have a few games to buy in these coming months

This will be it for tonight

The loading seems to be slower than before. Either that or my connection is slowing down.

WHo said it is dieing?

Oh, and now PlayAsia pay 1emu money? Personally, i like PlayAsia as they really give professional service and their delivery is always fast (1 week for free shipment)

Also make sure you get the correct PARAM.SFO file.

Cool its still there. Sweet, and LSD, cant we talk about this?! Yes we can. Sell your ass to Ems.

You are right! Can we have that back?

Tekken DR on PSP and Bleach 3. Tekken is good. Bleach is good for Bleach fans only.

Hmmm, except for the PlayAsia advertisement, I don't notice much difference. Cool logo from Britneypairs though

It goes like this Beginner - Yellow 9th kyu - Red 8th kyu - Red 7th kyu - Red 6th kyu - Red 5th kyu - Red 4th kyu - Red 3rd kyu - Red 2nd kyu - Red 1st kyu - Red 1st dan - Gray 2nd dan - Gray 3rd dan - Gray 4th dan - Gray 5th dan - Gray 6th dan - Gray 7th dan - Gray Shihan - Gray Expert - Gray Warrior - Gray Master - Gray Virtuoso - Gray Champion - Gray Lone Wolf - Green Destroyer - Green Berserker - Green Sage - Green Legend - Green Fujin - Blue Raijin - Blue Deity - Blue Lord of War - Blue Dragon Lord - Orange Tekken Lord - Orange Dark Lord - Red Divine Fist - Red

Dragunov f,f+4 >>>>>> Christie. Dragunov d+3+4>>>>>>Christie. Dragunov rapes Christie back

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you ave answer it yourself! avoid the initial hit! Oh, i managed to get Dragunov to Divini Fist too. Now working on Jack-5

Oh, and here is my Dragunov (Dragon Lord) and Jack-5 (Warrior) LSD.zip

Nono. There are 3 folders for ghosts. Your own ghosts folder will end with M. Input friends' folder at the folder end with ghostF For downloaded pack from Namco, it is at GHOSTA. Also, when you put the other people's ghosts, you need to make sure it is in PERSONXX.GHO with XX can be from 00 to 33 (yep, 34 is the max) Hope this helps.