Can you be more specific about what they added in 1.3 that you wanted from the game? Curious minds want to know.
Well, I was on 1.0 when playing my MVS cart. So there were so many things I was asking them for in an update, and I was completely unaware of the version 1.3 existing as of that point because they don't actually show their updates on their page or anything, and until recently they did not even tell people that there were updates available via emails, so there was no way for me to know unless I emailed them and asked if updates were available.
So, when playing version 1.0, I noticed that even though I was playing in Hori mode on my AES using a converter, all the little icons like B (Bombs), and the Medals (points), and the WARNING screen when bosses would appear would all be still in TATE mode. This caused me serious confusion when playing and I would sometimes tilt my head sideways while playing and shit. lol Even the words FUCK when you miss your chain was still stuck in TATE mode when playing in Hori mode.
The controls felt "off" in a way that when using the diagonal controls, it felt totally different than the normal up and down controls, and TATE also felt toally affected by this as well. It's difficult to explain, but they did this to make dodging bullets easier when moving sideways.
The game felt impossible to defeat as it gave me like 3 damn credits IIRC and I was able to get to stage 5 but the boss would ALWAYS wipe me out, and since there is no damn memory card support on their games like 99.9% of SNKs other games on Neo-Geo have, this made the game hard to the point that is was not enjoyable. There was no way to add credits no matter what I did, which also totally ruined the experience for me. If they want to make the game just a 1CC play then fine, add memory card support. If they wish the game to be hard as hell and no memory card support, then let us credit feed the thing. But, to have no memory card support AND no damn credit feed support, it just made the game a complete nightmare to try to beat. (This is how I feel about my Fast Striker MVS cart also. It contains NO Credit feeding, AND it has no damn memory card support. This made the game one of those games that just sits on the shelf and collects dust. I can't even play the music in the game to listen to the music tracks because it has no sound test menu, notr can I use the Jukebox either on it normally so the game is pretty much a shelf filler for me. They told me to re-buy the game as a re-print, because the re-prints have credit feed support, but, I do not wish to pay another $700 to buy another copy just for v1.6 support. It's not worth it. So if anyone has the Re-Print that wants to swap for my first print game, let me know.)
Also, Neo XYX seemed to be too hard and there is no damn mode select. It was just press start and get your ass handed to you. Even though people found these "safe spots", I cannot find them, so for me the game was atrocious in difficulty. I wanted an easy mode to practice on.
The game had various other bugs that would occur during gameplay on Ver1.0 that I cannot recall much. Sprite flicker due to some enemies being in the wrong spots on top of each other, which also caused slow down. IIRC.
Also, IIRC, (it's been awhile, I haven't been able to play it as my AES is DOA, and has been for awhile), I recall the game having the score, (or the picture in the score screen behind the score), displayed in TATE mode, (sideways), in between each stage when playing the game in HORI mode, which also felt disorienting.
EVERYTHING that I was complaining about was fixed in version 1.3. Once I updated to 1.3, the game felt like an ENTIRELY new experience and I LOVED the game after that! Everything now seems to display in HORI mode properly, except for one item, (I can't recall which one it is), and the WARNING screen is displayed properly, the score screen is displayed properly also. The curse word "FUCK" is displayed properly, the diag. controls feel proper now, the game now has an easier mode to play in, and it has credit feeding. So for me, it feels like the game it should have been to begin with. I mean it is cool to make a TATE game on the Neo-Geo, BUT, when making a game on a console that is 100% made for HORI monitors, it is a damn good idea to make the game 100% compatible for those HORI screens because the folks that your selling your game to, own Big Red cabs or CMVS's and are playing 99.99% on HDTV sets, not on TATE arcade monitors. I think that would be obvious. So for them to have all these bugs in the game when it is considered at version 1.0 is insane. Version 1.3 should have been their 1.0, and not only that, but, if you ask me they should go through and make one final 1.4 update, and give the game a proper ending sequence like Gunlord has, and give the game an OPTIONS menu like Last Hope Classic has, with a sound test menu, music test menu, Lives setting (1-9), Difficulty setting (Easy, Medium, Hard, Expert), and finally have a Control setting so you can set up the controls the way that you like it.
Memory card support would KICK ASS in their games also, but, just like re-printing this game, it will never happen. :'(
