Jump Super / Ultimate Stars

[Discoalucard]

www.hardcoregaming101.net/ganbarionjump/ganbarionjump.htm

I remember the original Jump Super Stars being really popular with the DS community when it came back, because all of the licensing - it's basically a Super Smash Bros. type game for the DS with characters from assorted shounen manga - would make it impossible to be released outside of Japan. I forgot they made a sequel, though.

[jorpho]

Grammar'd a few things.

I actually imported this from Play-Asia back in the day, but passed it on when I felt like I'd seen everything – and also when the translation patch made owning an import copy sort of redundant. You can get that patch at www.romhacking.net/translations/1636/ , by the way.

[apachacha]

There is a bit of a glaring omission in your article.

You forgot to mention that

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You may want to add a note that Jump Superstars (not sure about the sequel) was sold in American Best Buy stores with a notice that the game was only in Japanese, probably the only time when a major brick-and-mortar Western retail chain ever dabbled in import game sales. I distinctly remember seeing it on the shelves circa 2005. I'm not sure if it was official distribution, or if they imported copies to sell on their own.

[ZenithianHero]

Dec 2, 2013 18:57:34 GMT -5 @felixm said:

You may want to add a note that Jump Superstars (not sure about the sequel) was sold in American Best Buy stores with a notice that the game was only in Japanese, probably the only time when a major brick-and-mortar Western retail chain ever dabbled in import game sales. I distinctly remember seeing it on the shelves circa 2005. I'm not sure if it was official distribution, or if they imported copies to sell on their own.

That is where I got my copy, I was shocked they carried such a game. I think I paid $50. They also carried one of the DS Naruto games.
I wished they picked up more actually, it was a neat experiment.

[Joseph Joestar]

Fry's did the same thing between about 2005 and 2008; that's how I got all of my Konami shooter collections, the Taito Memories PSP collection, and a bunch of other Japanese PSP and DS games (like Ouendan and Jump Superstars). I really miss the days before the economic crisis.

[jorpho]

Dec 2, 2013 18:57:34 GMT -5 @felixm said:

You may want to add a note that Jump Superstars (not sure about the sequel) was sold in American Best Buy stores with a notice that the game was only in Japanese, probably the only time when a major brick-and-mortar Western retail chain ever dabbled in import game sales. I distinctly remember seeing it on the shelves circa 2005. I'm not sure if it was official distribution, or if they imported copies to sell on their own.

Surely that would have been, if not illegal, then at least against the term of one contract or another?

I rented Jump Superstars from a local independent place - and was probably the only person who ever rented it who managed to make any kind of sense of it. It's pretty hard to get anywhere without some sort of guide, considering your deck has to have at least one support and one helper character (as I dimly recall) and the Japanese error message you get otherwise isn't helpful at all.

[Deleted]

Fry's is a different story, but Best Buy most likely got Nintendo's permission to sell certain DS import games. I too miss the last economic boom and the corresponding surge of popular interest in anime/manga that Death Note triggered.

I think I might have seen Ouendan at Best Buy, but I'm probably imagining that.

There's a local independent store here that's had a copy of Doki Doki Majo Shinpan sitting unsold for years. Yes, the underage witch-touching game from SNK.

[anothergamer]

"Also appearing is the childish monster: Djinn Boo."

Or as he's known to the rest of the planet, Majin Buu.

[Lord Dalek]

Seriously somebody needs to go back and de-nihongo these character profiles.

[Weasel]

Dec 3, 2013 11:49:08 GMT -5 Lord Dalek said:

Seriously somebody needs to go back and de-nihongo these character profiles.

Or just list them by both English and Japanese names.

[Joseph Joestar]

Dec 2, 2013 22:47:38 GMT -5 @felixm said:

Fry's is a different story, but Best Buy most likely got Nintendo's permission to sell certain DS import games. I too miss the last economic boom and the corresponding surge of popular interest in anime/manga that Death Note triggered.

I think I might have seen Ouendan at Best Buy, but I'm probably imagining that.

There's a local independent store here that's had a copy of Doki Doki Majo Shinpan sitting unsold for years. Yes, the underage witch-touching game from SNK.

I'm guessing that people are afraid that Chris Hansen will pop out of the back of the store.

Also you reminded me, Gamestop sold imports for a short while too:
www.gamespot.com/articles/retail-radar-gamestop-offering-imports/1100-6163074/

In 1999 they also stocked import Saturn games for a brief while where I lived, although that may have been because they're based here.  I picked up the MSX collection, Symphony of the Night, and a couple of others that way.

[Discoalucard]

Dec 3, 2013 7:04:22 GMT -5 anothergamer said:

"Also appearing is the childish monster: Djinn Boo."

Or as he's known to the rest of the planet, Majin Buu.

My knowledge of Dragon Ball Z is largely confined to what I just Wikipedia'd, which confirmed that Djinn Boo is his name in the official manga translation.

But yeah, alternate names couldn't hurt to reduce this kind of confusion.

[apachacha]

Also this is a jab that will probably be a bit puzzling to the usual demographic but I have to know

In the games, does Ichigo have exactly one fighting move, that is his trusty Generic Sword Slash ?

[jorpho]

Dec 3, 2013 14:44:09 GMT -5 apachacha said:

In the games, does Ichigo have exactly one fighting move, that is his trusty Generic Sword Slash ?

Nah, he's got a bunch. The first one that comes to mind is the overhead-twirling thing introduced in, let's see, episode 39?