#Guilty Gear XX Reload

[solradguy]

Forgot to share on here but @cryptide-travis go Red Reload working today. Red Reload was so broken that they pushed an update a month later, giving us the Blue Reload that got ported to consoles and stuff after. Red has been trapped in Naomi arcade cabinets since February 2003. Until now. Everyone popoff for Travis's hard work!!!! 🥳🎉🎊🎊🎉🎉

The two Reloads can be distinguished by the color of the RELOAD text in the logo. Red was only ever released on arcade cabinets while Blue got several home console and PC ports.

Some GD-ROM files were from redump by MajorPBX and NovaAurora. Archive.org GD-ROM dump HERE. Travis' tweet with a Megaupload download of files to get it running: HERE.

BunniesFromHell shared a video showcasing some of the bugs/glitches in Red Reload. You can check that out over on Youtube HERE.

Red Reload was released in arcades February 04, 2003 and the Blue Reload patch 51 days later on March 26. Some of the glitches include characters have multiple infinite combos (Slayer bloodsucking loop?!?), general instability issues, a hard freeze that requires rebooting the cabinet, visual glitches, and unfair character balancing. It was so bad that a signature campaign was apparently launched by a "well-known celebrity" to pressure ASW into releasing a patch. It worked.

[arcadebroke]

[z2z-gaming-and-random-art-ai]

Console Fighting Games of 2003 - Guilty Gear X2 The Midnight Carnival #R...

Guilty Gear X2 The Midnight Carnival #Reload is an updated release of the 2002 released Guilty Gear XX The Midnight Carnival and released in Arcades and for the PlayStation 2 in 2003. 

 Releases for the PlayStation 2 outside of Japan would follow in 2004 as would an Xbox release. An additional release would also follow in 2008 for the Xbox 360. 

1. Intro 00:00 

2. Gameplay 00:15 

3. Outro 09:37

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[magicalgirlfia]

Guilty Gear XX♯Reload Comic Anthology Translation: Exploring New Horizons

This is a comic from the Guilty Gear XX Sharp Reload Comic Anthology, which I have been translating. The original scans of this comic are by @tillman and can be found on archive.org

Not much to say about this one expect that Anji Mito has been being a bisexual menace since 2003 and I love him for it. We will gather here to morn the loss of his silliness in localization. Oh also that comics with Japanese concepts that don’t have an English equivalent are annoying to localize but like…it’s not like they were made for localization. I do this because I love it.

You can read the previous translation here

And the next translation here

Usual disclaimer: I am not fluent in Japanese and all of this is a one Fia job so everything might not be 100% accurate but I always try my best!

[illym]

Two idiots walk into a bar. The third laughs at them before proceeding to walk into it as well.

Translation assistance: @yomotsu-hirasaka + anonymous

Cleaned and original comics below the cut.

ID in alt.

Explaining the joke:

In Chipp's story path 3 in GG:XX, he gets brainwashed by Robo-Ky (yes, Robo-Ky has brainwashing / mind control abilities in GG:XX. It's played fairly seriously, but I find it funny). This is in order to use his abilities to accomplish the PWAB's agenda— capturing Japanese people.

In the game, Chipp successfully stabs Anji. Anji realizes what's going on and proclaims that he'll bring Chipp back to his senses (which he does not). The joke is that here, Anji is utterly oblivious to what Chipp was trying to do, assuming that Chipp's just trying to help him out.

Specific assistances:

@.yomotsu-hirasaka: Translating Robo-Ky's dialogue into regular text. Checked various small things for accurate transcribing.

Anonymous: Checked various small things for accurate transcribing.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this was awful and the entire reason it was awful is because I hold myself to an extremely high standard...

I noticed that the dialogue was similar to the dialogue between Chipp and Anji at the beginning of their meeting in Chipp's path 3. So in order to get a more accurate translation, I went to check a recording of of the dialogue on Youtube. However, it was just too different in tone and feeling for me to feel comfortable just using it without seeing the transcript.

So I said to myself, 'Let's go open up XX #RELOAD and change the language to Japanese; shouldn't take more than an hour all together'.

It turns out you can't change the language of XX #RELOAD. So I went to access XX #SLASH (because, well, may as well use the Japanese-only game if I'm going to be viewing the Japanese dialogue). It takes a while to access. I open it up, and check training mode quickly to make sure it's the correct version. It's the first iteration of XX. Not the third.

'Huh. Dang.' I say to myself, and proceed to actually access #SLASH.

It turns out #SLASH doesn't have a story mode.

I access XX again, utterly done with all of this, and then realize with dawning horror that I'll need to beat Ky's story path 2 in order to access Chipp's story path 3. Because the writers of XX really admired hedge mazes.

And then I remembered that the Guilty Gear Wiki has the original Japanese transcript along with having the English transcript.

And they had Chipp's full transcript.

It was... An exhausting and tumultuous use of 4 hours. But at least I can access Guilty Gear X Plus, now....? Like I've been wanting....?

Ugh.

Funny comic.

I've been rechecking some translations because I realized I was doing something incorrectly and I honestly forget how much I have to adjust these to make sense in English. More power to me, woohoo.... (<- exhausted...)

[the2dstagesfg]

“Zepp” from Guilty Gear XX #Reload (Arc System Works/2003)

[kaisertheadvisor]

HOLY SHIT THEY JUST GOT THE BROKEN RED VERSION OF GUILTY GEAR XX #RELOAD THAT WAS THOUGHT LOST WORKING ON EMULATORS

[loathemetc]

Asuka’s gameplay is already looking insane but I really wanna focus on this, how his name changes in the trailer. 

You can see that his color scheme also changes with the name change. I assume R# is pronounced R Sharp, although obviously it brings to mind Guilty Gear XX #Reload.

So like, a few things to note here.

R. Kreutz and R. Sharp both have different color schemes, but neither of them are the color scheme Asuka had in story mode. 

All of the gameplay we’re seeing is for R#, so what’s the deal with R. Kreutz? Is it not a different thing at all, what’s up with the color scheme? Is it like Akuma and Shin Akuma? Which is which?

Is there a story reason for this? Is R# even the same Asuka??

Nice cape.

[gear-project]

. . .

Someone asked me a weird question, and I'm not sure I can give a straight answer but... based on what little I understand:

The Nintendo Wii version of Guilty Gear XX Accent Core is based on the original PlayStation 2 port of the game.

The Nintendo Switch version of Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R is "supposedly" based on the Arcade version of Plus R.

I don't have the precise details on this, so I can't confirm it or not.

All I can say is that the Steam version/PC version of Accent Core Plus R is probably the closest to the Arcade version, even compared to the XBox360 version.

This is largely why it might prove difficult to port Accent Core Plus R to the PlayStation 4/5 at this time... since the PlayStation 3 version of Accent Core Plus R is a "bad port" of the Arcade version... they would likely have to make a port of PlusR from Scratch for PS5 (if they ever decided to).

If anyone has more details on PlusR they could divulge to add to this post, I'd appreciate it... but so far, all I can really say is that Plus R itself is fundamentally an "arcade version" of Accent Core Plus (ACPlus was an "append" to the original PS2 port of the game, but later ported to Arcades in a completely different way).

It took nearly a year to "patch" to the PS3 version of Accent Core Plus to a semi-stable "Plus R" build... so that should give you some idea why the PC version is probably the most stable version in existence.

Prior to ACPlus on the PS2, was the unstable builds of Accent Core, which are famous for the I-No Fortissimo Crash bug, among other issues it had.

Prior to that was GGXX Slash and GG Isuka builds, which were based on Blue Reload, which was based on Red Reload which was based on the original "unpatched" Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival.

GGXX had several "Arcade Naomi ports" based on the games I just listed, but they aren't nearly as big a project as Plus R was to reverse-port.

Again, I have no idea if they will ever port this game to PS4 or PS5... but I have my doubts.

It's also why it's less likely to see a modern port of GGX1.5 or Guilty Gear X Plus on anything beyond Naomi/Atomiswave/PS2 console emulation.

[cryptide-travis]

Guilty Gear Tournament DVDS

I have been up to uploading all the official GG tournament DVDS I own but I have 3 more on the way I think? hopefully. I haven't seen them in person yet. Some of these have been lost media for over 20 years some of these have been scattered on the internet but these are my personal rips. if you'd like to see all my archived material that isnt just guilty gear please look here and if you'd like to support my efforts feel free to hit up my ko-fi

SUPER BATTLE OPERA THE 2ND ARCADIA CUP 2004 Super Battle DVD GUILTY GEAR XX #RELOAD Ultimate Festival of Arcade Games Arcadia Cup Tournament 2004 Guilty Gear Promo DVD 6 Years of Super Opera Arcadia Tournaments Highlights of the last 6 years of the Arcadia Cup Guilty Gear XX EXTREME EVOLUTION Guilty Gear XX Midnight Carnival Strategy DVD Guilty Gear X BATTLE for SAINT Sammy's CUP CHAMPIONSHIP First Ever Sammy Cup in 2001 Guilty Gear XX Sammy Cup Finals The New Saint Glory Second Sammy Cup in 2002

[robins-den]

hi i founf. another comic with robo ky in it. its all in japanese i dont understand a character of it but his pages shall be laid here ig

my guy got the front cover .... nice. (he looks so stupid in the second one. #robocopter)

roboky team rocket momednt. blasting off sayonara bitch nvm statement redacted he flew 3 feet

GHFDHFGHGHGG THERES AN ENTIRE COMIC AROUND HIM ???? GIRL ????....? for the love of god let me understand japanese (<- his ass cannot retain language learning <- his ass has been studying spanish for 9 years and is still fuck awdul at it) anyway da comic. (sending these are the full two page speads, read the left page and then the right page, but right to left on the individual pages)

praying that he wasnt being weird to bridget here .... idk if he had his accent core characterization in this . bridget gets embarrassed / nervous easily so i can't really use that as a tell. future but still same internal reading robin here. theres like a 70% chance hes being weird to bridget here. we live in a society.

idk what went on here but this whole comic was a goldmine. i hope it was as. nice as im getting the vibe of it being.

from here it looks like they had a rough estimate on his lackadaisical attitude at least LMAO. this comic anthology is just the roboky show huh (<- not complaining)

next comic was full of his head on every page. i grabbed the most important one (facing off against a teddy bear)

TJRFHYMCGDTKUD HE LOOKS SO STRESSED IK HES SAYING SOMETHING WEIRD BUT ITS MAKING ME LAUGH SO MUCH....... poor guy got smashed over the head for whatever he said. probably deserved it.

i-nos face is so fucking funny here. i kind of love her whn she isnt being drawn oddly. even when she is tbh shes constantly serving cunt and evil woman rights.

not roboky this just made me laugh

too many images here. ill have to do the rest in a reblog. anyway ive redacted my previous statement its probably for the best that none of this is in english, since none of it is canon it might fuck up my character interpretations lol

[solradguy]

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[saikyo-rat]

Guilty Gear XX #Reload characters according to google translate.

I think I made a mistake.

[tillman]

asuka looks mad fun to play but also . NOW WHYS HE "Guilty Gear XX ♯Reload"

[magicalgirlfia]

Guilty Gear XX♯Reload Comic Anthology Translation: Escape Boy

This is a comic the Guilty Gear XX Sharp Reload Comic Anthology, which I wanted to start translating. The original scans of this comic are by @tillman and can be found on archive.org

By the by, since I don’t have a Japanese folk tale to link to, I’d like to add the fact that in this comic (from 2003) Bridget’s serre-tête has the trans symbol instead of the male symbol. This is off-model for her XX design and (given the other times she is seen in the anthology) this seems to be a purposeful choice by the artist. Make of that what you will.

You can read the previous translation here

And the next translation here

​​Usual disclaimer: I am not fluent in Japanese and all of this is a one Fia job so everything might not be 100% accurate but I always try my best!

[sir-adamus]

“ "Asuka R♯" has two meaningful references. "♯" is the symbol indicating a sharp or major pitch for musical keys. It's also a reference to the first updated version of his series debut: Guilty Gear XX ♯Reload. The "♯" symbol is also referred to as the double-cross (or Doppel-Kreutz in German). It is a pun on the fact that the playable Asuka is a magic doppleganger fighting in the real Asuka's stead. “

i’m gonna throw Daisuke down a well