#Macross Digital Mission VF-X

[kurhl]

Agora a missão é no (cyber) espaço.

[hellman55]

Longplay of Macross Digital Mission VF-X

[skull001]

Cover art for Macross VF-X Digital Mission for the PS1 made by Shoji Kawamori.

[koholint]

Macross Digital Mission VF-X stickers

[animarchive]

Macross: Digital Mission VF-X for PlayStation / Newtype magazine (06/1996) 

[gametouchers]

Macross Digital Mission VF-X // PlayStation // 1997

[demoban]

Release: DemoDemo PlayStation Volume 17, 1996 April (PCPX-96026)

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It’s back to a somewhat boring content lineup for this volume of DemoDemo PlayStation, unfortunately. People who follow me elsewhere might think that I might be at least intrigued at the prospects of a pachinko RPG demo by way of PachiPachi Saga: CRFRPG. But, as it turns out, you only have one very brief battle throughout the entire thing and the rest of the time is spent just hitting the Circle Button to advance dialogue for upwards of 10 to 15 minutes. Very riveting stuff to play in a store kiosk context, I’m sure!

At the very least, there are some interesting extras by way of player-submitted enemy art for Controller-kun no Tabi, which I talked about previously in DemoDemo Volume 10, as well as a model viewer for a Macross game, but that’s about it. Check the content listing below for a full breakdown of what you’ll find on this here disc.

DemoDemo PlayStation Volume 17, 1996 April PCPX-96026

Demo PlayStation:   Playable Demos (Silver disc icons, left to right, top to bottom):   -Mezase! Senkyuuou   -PachiPachi Saga: CRFRPG   -The Shinri Game   -Unstack   -Road Rash   -Melty Lancer: Ginga Shoujo Keisatsu 2086   -Welcome House

  Movies (Green disc icons, left to right, top to bottom):   -PAL: Shinken Densetsu   -Dragon Ball Z: Idai Naru Dragon Ball Densetsu   -Ide Yousuke no Shin Jissen Mahjong (listed here under the seemingly temporary title Mahjong Jouzu: Mahjong ga Umaku Naru)   -Rise 2: Resurrection   -NFL Quarterback 96   -Mega Man X3   -Tail of the Sun   -Captain Tsubasa J   -Alien Trilogy   -Potestas   -Neo Planet

Request PlayStation: -Submitted enemy artwork viewer for Controller-kun no Tabi (as first seen in DemoDemo PlayStation Volume 10) from Japanese players. -Model viewer for Macross Digital Mission VF-X.

News PlayStation: -Playable demo and introductory video for Jumping Flash 2.

-Pepsi

[kurhl]

Pronto para pilotar na missão digital VF-X.

[animarchive]

Macross Digital Mission VF-X for PlayStation - illustration by Haruhiko Mikimoto / Animage magazine (04/1997)

[skull001]

The first draft of the VF-4 Siren in Battroid mode from 1986, before Kawamori revisited and finalized the design we now know as the VF-4 Lightning III for the 1997 PS1 game Macross  Digital Mission VF-X (second picture).

[animarchive]

Macross Digital Mission VF-X for PlayStation / Animage magazine (03/1997)

[skull001]

Funny how in Macross Eternal Love Song, the VF-4 was given a very different battroid mode from the one it had ever since the PS1 game Macross VF-X Digital Mission.

In Flashback 2012, we only see the VF-4 in fighter mode for like 10 seconds and since after theOVE we had that time period where Kawamori didn’t want to do anything Macross ever again (until he came back to do Macross Plus), I wonder if he actually had meant to give the VF-4 a battroid mode similar to the VF-1, or did her lose his origianl notes and designed the battroid mode for VF-X based on how the YF-19 transforms, given that at the time, the YF-19 was pretty much the face of the franchise, and the transformation video guide by Bandai mentions the similitude between the way both aircraft transform.