Anyone a fan of the ST-V?

Circa2113 · Mar 29, 2007

I recently picked up a Japanese ST-V motherboard, and I really love the thing. I bought it with Radiant Silvergun and Soukyugurentai which should hold me over for a long time. I will probably eventually pick up one of the cotton games, shienryu and maybe puyo puyo sun. I thought it was pretty cool that the board can save high scores as most boards reset them after turning off. Also, cart based systems are ten times better than buying another board everytime.

So, anyone else still play on the ST-V? I know most of the games are ass, but there are a few gems...

The Chief · Mar 29, 2007

I'm a fan, don't have Silvergun unfortunatly but do have a few of the other quality titles the STV has to offer such as Cotton 2, Groove On Fight, Guardian Force, Shienryu and the already mentioned Soukyugurentai.

There are some cool puzzle games too if you dig that sort of thing. I've enjoyed Baku Baku Animal, Columns 97, Puyo Puyo Sun and Hanagumi Taisen Columns: Sakura Wars.

Also don't forget about Astra Superstars. I'm still kicking myself I didn't pick up on the kit that was for sale in forums so many years ago.

pixeljunkie · Mar 29, 2007

I still play Shienryu pretty regularly as well as Cotton 2. Good times. This is the second time I've had an ST-V setup and I don't plan on getting rid of this one. Regretted it bad last time I sold my ST-V stuff.

Circa2113 · Mar 29, 2007

The Chief said:
I'm a fan, don't have Silvergun unfortunatly but do have a few of the other quality titles the STV has to offer such as Cotton 2, Groove On Fight, Guardian Force, Shienryu and the already mentioned Soukyugurentai.

There are some cool puzzle games too if you dig that sort of thing. I've enjoyed Baku Baku Animal, Columns 97, Puyo Puyo Sun and Hanagumi Taisen Columns: Sakura Wars.

Also don't forget about Astra Superstars. I'm still kicking myself I didn't pick up on the kit that was for sale in forums so many years ago.

How do you like guardian force? I've considered it, just not sure yet.

Astra Superstars is pretty cool, it kind of reminds me of WakuWaku7.

I'm not a big puzzle guy, but Baku Baku and Puyo Puyo Sun are decent enough.

My next cart to get will probably be cotton 2...

Circa2113 · Mar 29, 2007

By the way, how do you access the test settings menu? My instructions are Japanese. :crying:

LARGE KRO · Apr 3, 2007

you can access the test menu with the service button of your cabinet or supergun if it has one, it is also used to valid your options, you use the service button to make the selector go down in the menus

Circa2113 · Apr 4, 2007

LARGE KRO said:
you can access the test menu with the service button of your cabinet or supergun if it has one, it is also used to valid your options, you use the service button to make the selector go down in the menus

Merci beaucoup pour l'information de STV, mon ami! Il est très bonne et utile.

Sorry if I butchered that, I only took a semester of French. :oh_no:

LARGE KRO · Apr 4, 2007

Sorry if I butchered that, I only took a semester of French.

Not bad for only one semester

Glad this helped .

Circa2113 · Apr 4, 2007

LARGE KRO said:
Not bad for only one semester
Glad this helped .

J'ai eu le professeur très intelligent! (that really doesn't sound right, maybe missing a verb?)

Eh, it was all vocabulary really. I think I could call out half of a French dictionary, but I never really learned sentence structure or word order. :emb:

(which you can probably tell...)

French is something I may go back to when I have the time. I picked up a lot in the 5 months or so I had before and it seems like an easy enough language to learn.

To stay somewhat on topic though, I am buying a shienryu or cotton 2 cart next month. I was tempted by astra superstars, but at that price I could buy the (IMO) superior WakuWaku7 and have a nice amount to spare.

FalcomAdol · Apr 4, 2007

Circa2113 said:
J'ai eu le professeur très intelligent! (that really doesn't sound right, maybe missing a verb?)

Damn, you got the verb conjugation right, even down to the passé composé.

That's an achievement. Did you perhaps take your one semester of French in Paris?

I'd substitute un for le, but that's all.

Circa2113 · Apr 4, 2007

FalcomAdol said:
Damn, you got the verb conjugation right, even down to the passé composé.

That's an achievement. Did you perhaps take your one semester of French in Paris?

I'd substitute un for le, but that's all.

Well, I took it as a block course, so I had it 2 hours a day for 5 months. It also helped that my teacher was born and raised in France.

All we learned were conjugations and vocabulary. Seriously. 2 straight hours of it. Daily.

Edit for stupid spelling mistakes. I can't even spell in English. :oh_no:

J'ai étudié l'anglais trop peu, non?

FalcomAdol · Apr 4, 2007

Having a teacher from France makes all the difference believe me.

I studied French with teachers from Montreal for five years between middle school and high school and didn't learn as much in that entire time as I did in one year of college with a French-born instructor.

I still need to go for a few months of immersion before I consider myself fluent, but I do ok. Mainly my weak point is vocab, which you seem to have down. Frankly, you can speak pretty broken French if you have the vocab and still be understood. Conjugation (IMHO) should be one of the last things you learn, if you're just trying to learn to speak and understand French.

Circa2113 · Apr 4, 2007

FalcomAdol said:
Having a teacher from France makes all the difference believe me.

I studied French with teachers from Montreal for five years between middle school and high school and didn't learn as much in that entire time as I did in one year of college with a French-born instructor.

I still need to go for a few months of immersion before I consider myself fluent, but I do ok. Mainly my weak point is vocab, which you seem to have down. Frankly, you can speak pretty broken French if you have the vocab and still be understood. Conjugation (IMHO) should be one of the last things you learn, if you're just trying to learn to speak and understand French.

Wow, then I'm pretty backwards. My class jumped into conjugations on the first day. :eek:

It confused the hell out of a lot of people and many dropped the class, but I think it was helpful overall. I've thought about it, and I suppose you would really sound foolish using an improper conjugation in actual conversation. (probably like using an improper pronoun or verb tense in english. I guess)

Plus, everyone says conjugations are the toughest part of learning French so I'm glad I have a lot of it under my belt.

BTW: I love how off topic this thread became. :lolz:

Désolé les modérateurs, c'est mon erreur.

FalcomAdol · Apr 4, 2007

Present tense with first and 2nd person is entirely comprehensible in spoken conversation. For the most part, verb tenses are used when writing or engaging in more complex conversations. You don't use them when you're trying to order a hamburger or book a hotel room.

That's my meaning

Most people, in their daily life, can get by without them.

RevQuixo · Apr 4, 2007

Circa2113 said:
To stay somewhat on topic though, I am buying a shienryu or cotton 2 cart next month. I was tempted by astra superstars, but at that price I could buy the (IMO) superior WakuWaku7 and have a nice amount to spare.

Unless you have a rotatable monitor I'd skip Shienryu. It is vertical only.

Also Astra Superstars will require a kick harness as it uses 6 buttons.

I believe I have the largest ST-V collection on the site..so I guess I'm its biggest fan. :P

Circa2113 · Apr 4, 2007

RevQuixo said:
Unless you have a rotatable monitor I'd skip Shienryu. It is vertical only.

Also Astra Superstars will require a kick harness as it uses 6 buttons.

I believe I have the largest ST-V collection on the site..so I guess I'm its biggest fan. :P

Rotating the monitor is fine, but thanks for the warning.

Does the astra superstars use a custom kick-harness or is it similar/the same as the CPS one?

How many ST-V games do you own? Honestly, I don't really see more than 8-9 actually worth owning.

Circa2113 · Apr 4, 2007

FalcomAdol said:
Present tense with first and 2nd person is entirely comprehensible in spoken conversation. For the most part, verb tenses are used when writing or engaging in more complex conversations. You don't use them when you're trying to order a hamburger or book a hotel room.

That's my meaning

Most people, in their daily life, can get by without them.

Didn't really know that.

I always figured it was like having really bad grammar in English. (Sounds very ignorant, not to mention annoying)

Thanks though, I guess I shouldn't worry about the little details so much and just try to work on some fluency when speaking.

RevQuixo · Apr 4, 2007

Circa2113 said:
Rotating the monitor is fine, but thanks for the warning.

Does the astra superstars use a custom kick-harness or is it similar/the same as the CPS one?

How many ST-V games do you own? Honestly, I don't really see more than 8-9 actually worth owning.

It uses a different pin-out for the kick harness if memory serves me correctly. I know for a fact that I use a different harness for both.

I own 43 games:

All Japan Pro Wrestling Featuring Virtua
Astra Super Stars
Baku Baku Animal
Batman Forever
Columns 97
Cotton 2: Magical Night Dreams
Cotton Boomerang
Danchi de Hanafuda: Okusan Komeya Desu yo!
Danchi de Quiz: Okusan 4taku Desu yo!
Decathlete
Dynamite Deka
Ejihon Tantei Jimusho
Fight Dragon Legend: Elan Doree
Final Arch
Final Fight Revenge
Find Love
Funky Head Boxers
Golden Axe: The Duel
Guardian Force
Hanagumi Taisen Columns
Karaoke Quiz Into Don Don!
Maru-chan de Guu!
Mausuke no Ojama: The World
My Fair Lady: Virtual Mahjong II
Othello Shiyouyo
Pebble Beach Golflinks: The Great Shot
Power Instinct 3: Groove On Fight
Pro Mahjong Kiwame S
Purikura Daisakusen
Puyo Puyo Sun
Radiant Silvergun
Sando-R: Puzzle & Action
Sea Bass Fishing
Shanghai: The Great Wall
Shienryu
Soukyugurentai
Steep Slope Sliders
Suiko Enbu
Taisen Tanto-R Sasi-Su!!
Virtua Fighter Kids
Virtua Fighter Remix
Virtual Mahjong
Winter Heat

Circa2113 · Apr 4, 2007

RevQuixo said:
It uses a different pin-out for the kick harness if memory serves me correctly. I know for a fact that I use a different harness for both.

Thanks, that is kind of what I had guessed as they don't have the same connections on the board anyways.

RevQuixo said:
I own 43 games.

What? I didn't even know that many existed! (I thought it was in the 30s)

Edit: Nevermind....just saw the list you edited in. Pretty impressive even though a lot of them aren't really worth playing.

RevQuixo · Apr 4, 2007

Yeah..and I'm missing Tecmo Cup 98...and maybe a Mahjong game that I haven't verified its existence yet.

Beyond that there are a number of games that use specialized boards or accessories which I don't intend on getting.

So 45 is a good round number on number of games.

68k · Apr 4, 2007

I've only recently learned about the ST-V, and it seems like a pretty cool piece of hardware.

Are the games essentially Saturn-quality games but without any loading?

Circa2113 · Apr 4, 2007

68k said:
Are the games essentially Saturn-quality games but without any loading?

Yes indeed. I think the STV and the saturn are actually the exact same minus the CD drive.

68k · Apr 4, 2007

Circa2113 said:
Yes indeed. I think the STV and the saturn are actually the exact same minus the CD drive.

That's pretty cool.

I wonder how difficult it would be to port Saturn games over to the ST-V

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Circa2113 · Apr 4, 2007

68k said:
That's pretty cool.

I wonder how difficult it would be to port Saturn games over to the ST-V .

I think sega actually did that for a couple titles. (Baku Baku animal is the only one that comes to mind at the moment though) Obviously though, it would be just a bit easier for them. :smirk:

FalcomAdol · Apr 4, 2007

Was there a CD version of ST-V?

I know there was of the Naomi/Hikaru.

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