Please, give us Machi as well

[Drama[Theurgist]]

Dear Spike Chunsoft, please release original Machi game on Steam.
We would love to learn the original story that 428 is successor to.

[shredingskin]

I second the motion

[Daikatan]

yeah, please!

[yukigami]

428 is basically Machi 2. However, I still prefer Machi that I played (and finished !) on Saturn

[Daikatan]

Originally posted by yukigami:

428 is basically Machi 2. However, I still prefer Machi that I played (and finished !) on Saturn

there were some other VNs with photos (or videos) starring people as actors on Saturn, did you play them too? i cant remember what were they callled

[ankimo]

if this succeed, I'm really sure more of this would come from Spike Chunsoft. I really hope for Banshee's Last Cry at this point.

[Ikagura]

I want to see 90's Japan as well!

[Lucius]

I got so addicted to 428. I crave more! MOAR! lol Please do a release for Machi too, and perhaps release future titles like 428 as well.

[Yew Nough]

Originally posted by ankimo:

if this succeed, I'm really sure more of this would come from Spike Chunsoft. I really hope for Banshee's Last Cry at this point.

This. I enjoyed it on IOS, and I can no longer access it since Apple purged their store of older apps.

I would very much like to play this again.

[jgrpf]

I would pay HEAPS of money!!

[R4Zi3L]

Originally posted by yukigami:

428 is basically Machi 2. However, I still prefer Machi that I played (and finished !) on Saturn

Is there english guide for this game anywhere?

[ElleDeeSuarez]

Originally posted by R4Zi3L:

Originally posted by yukigami:

428 is basically Machi 2. However, I still prefer Machi that I played (and finished !) on Saturn

Is there english guide for this game anywhere?

Yes please I'm after this too, would love to see an English port of this game on PC and consoles... am playing 428 Shibuya Scramble right now

[Ikagura]

Don't forget about Otogirisō and Kamaitachi no Yoru.

[ElMuchissimo]

MOOOOOAAARRRRR

[locke finder]

Although this topic has been around for four years, I think if you need spike chunsoft to make another visual novel appear in more ports, it can only be Imabikisou(忌火起草). Machi is also unlikely to appear on more ports in the future. First of all, the 428 and Imabikisou are shot with a high-definition digital camera and DV, so it can easily appear on more ports. Machi uses a film camera, so it can't become more high-definition.

And, Machi has completely failed in business (which has become the reason why they use cheap actors in Imabikisou), even though they have vowed to recruit writers for folk scripts and sequels before. I think they completely abandoned Machi after adding two abandoned scripts based on sequels to the special version of the playstation portable in 2006.

In addition, I heard that they originally intended Keima Amamiya, a leading character of Machi, to be one of the leading characters of 428, and set him as a private detective who left the police station. The investigation method was similar to that of Minoru Minorikawa later. However, after they thought that there were too many things about Machi to appear in 428, they let Minorikawa from a previous campus visual novel do this.

[Daikatan]

Eh... actually, it's the other way around.

Digital camera is limited to resolution it has.

While film has big "reserve" which was not truely used when digitalized.

If you REALLY mean films like the ones used in cinema (and not amateur-aimed home cameras like 8mm, super8mm or vhs), then materials could be re-digitalized up to 8k or 16k quality. I dont remember precisely, but i remember reading about more or less believable compares about "how much quality you can get out of analogue film when digitalizing".

Then again, if you remember photography, there is your average 35mm, then you have "medium" format like Hasselblad and "large" format. I think in cinema its usually 35mm as well (which often compared to "a bit better than 4k), hm.

Anyway, that's interesting theme, perhaps you have different info about it.

As for other things...

Machi has completely failed in business

Interesting. I just went to check the numbers (Japan, retail-only, from GDL).

(SAT) Sound Novel Evolutin: Machi - 83 428
(PS1) Sound Novel Evolution 3: Machi - Unmei no Kousaten - 60 417
(PSP) Machi: Unmei no Kousaten - 21 021

(PS3) Imabikisou - 68 287
(Wii) Imabikisou: Kaimei-hen - 3 100

(SFC) Kamaitachi no Yoru - 750 000
(PS1) Kamaitachi no Yoru - Tokubetsu-hen - 332 793
(GBA) Kamaitachi no Yoru Advance - 29 788
(PS2) Kamaitachi no Yoru 2: Kangoku Shima no Warabe Uta - 351 608
(PSP) Kamaitachi no Yoru 2: Tokubetsu-hen - 21 451
(PS2) Kamaitachi no Yoru 3 - 162 199
(PS3) Shin Kamaitachi no Yoru: 11 Hitome no Suspect - 74 478
(PSV) Shin Kamaitachi no Yoru - 46 452
(PSV) Kamaitachi no Yoru: Rinne Saisei - 5 782

(SFC) Otogirisou - 78 518
(PS1) Otogirisou Sosei-hen - 157 307

(Wii) 428 - 85 579
(PS3) 428 - 34 547
(PSP) 428 - 38 328

In the end, I would say that only first two Banshee's Last Cry games were "big success", while everything else sold less. So I'm not sure why you would say that Machi "failed" when most other games from the series sold similarly.