King Of Fighters XIII discussion thread

http://orochinagi.com/2011/04/the-on-show-3

Interview with Frionel, the alleged source from last week. Some of the important points:

- While in Japan (he's a Moroccan currently living in France) he met some members of the KOF development team at a tournament, and he's kept in contact with them ever since.
- These members apparently passed some info on to him in order to reassure overseas players worried about the KOF XIII console version.
- He doesn't know whether or not extra content will be added to the console version.
- He guessed that if any characters were to be added, Oswald and Adel would be among them.
- If any balance changes are made or characters added, the arcade version will be updated to match.

Atlus have picked up KOF XIII for America.
http://www.atlus.com/kofxiii/

Nearest thing I could find:

http://cyberfanatix.com/forums/index.php/topic,583.msg43335.html#msg43335

This is the official warning:

We know a board hack has been dumped. Any talk of having touched the files, insinuating you've used it to play the game, outright asking for it or where to find the files... all of those posts will go bye-bye. Keep it up and you'll grab a summer vacation. The proper game isn't that far out and as we all know, the support for the title by legally purchasing it is always appreciated and overall desired. October 25th is the big day and here are the pre-order links:
360: http://www.amazon.com/King-Fighters-XIII-Xbox-360/dp/B0054IN5RI/ref=sr_1_2?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1308082526&sr=1-2
PS3: http://www.amazon.com/King-Fighters-XIII-Playstation-3/dp/B0054IN5AA/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1308082526&sr=1-1

Though, if you all would like, do you think this leak is helpful or hurtful towards the official release?
Mind you, this topic is on bullet F5, so the above warning and general play nice rules are in effect.

Also, http://www.youtube.com/user/DontDropThatCombo is in the process of uploading basic B&B combo videos for each character. Five are up so far.

Placebo wrote: »

damn i didnt know Taito Type x2 was emulated

It's not emulated, in the strictest sense of the word - Type X2 pretty much is a Windows PC.

http://wiki.arcadeotaku.com/w/Taito_Type_X%C2%B2

Try and find Arcana Heart 3, maybe.

A good rundown of what's new for XIII.

http://orochinagi.com/2011/06/interview-with-atlus-and-snkp

GS: It was reported that the XIII Netcode is based on XII. Then we heard “Netcode is in early development”. Before these statements were made, it was reported that SNKP had said that they were already proud of their XIII netcode, that it was better than competitive titles. Can you clarify the status?
AJ: That was a slight misunderstanding. We were not actually showing the Online Mode, and what was said was that the developer had learned a great deal from KOF XII and was using that experience as a foundation for the netcode in XIII. It is not based on the “same old XII” netcode. A pleasant consequence was seeing just how passionate the community is about the online experience being right this time, a sentiment we share.
KY: Improving online play is our number one priority in the development of the console version of KOF XIII. The numerous comments we received on KOF XII were invaluable as we investigated, researched and developed our new netcode. Stable, quality online play is of utmost importance to us; we are working hard every day to make the netcode as good as possible.

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GS: Are you aware of GGPO?
AJ: We are absolutely aware of the GGPO SDK, and we would like to stress to the community that both SNK PLAYMORE and ATLUS are extremely focused on improving how latency is handled and eliminating the inconsistency and instability of fighting games’, particularly XII’s, online experience.
KY: I’m in complete agreement with ATLUS. As I said earlier, we consider stable, quality online play as the key factor in the console version KOF XIII. We promise that it will be improved from the previous installment.

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GS: Are there any plans to release this in Europe?
KY: An announcement regarding the European release of KOF XIII will be made soon.

They better get online right with this one.

They've had years and this is basically their last chance.

http://twitter.com/#!/risingstargames/status/95794850032664576

I can announce there will be an announcement on Thursday of our product line-up.

I'll tell you what, if they come through on this (and Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu, which they are also rumoured to be bringing out) I think I will love them forever.

Finally, a date and publisher!

And it's not Zen United!

I'm actually quite impressed by the glimpses of new stages, they look much better than the arcade ones.

http://www.youtube.com/user/answer has some videos from the console version being shown at Evolution.

I'm watching Evo, so news of this calibur is hardly worth putting on SF.ie :pac:

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/07/29/pre-order-the-king-of-fighters-xiii-in-the-u-s-for-a-4-disc-soundtrack/

Release date is now November 22nd in North America, November 25th here.

Looks like the launch tournament up here will be on the 26th - same day as DSRB 4.6, assuming they keep going every three weeks. The details will be sorted out nearer the time.

EDIT: Oh, and apparently this is the reason for the delay:

Apparantly, there's some arguments going on between Atlus and Sony America over the American PS3 release. SCEA don't allow publishers to release games with Foreign audio without a dub.

http://neoempire.com/forum/showpost.php?p=413854&postcount=462