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Dear customers,

we will sell Razion EX (Nintendo Switch) in two batches.

1st batch of 700 units: 17. May 19:00 (7 PM CEST)
2nd batch of 700 units: 05. June 19:00 (7 PM CEST)

For the 1st batch the limit per order is 2 units of each. So max is 2x LE + 2x RE

Print Run:

RE: 1500 units, less than 1400 available
LE: 1500 units, less than 1400 available

The Limited Edition is exclusive to NGDEV-Direct

Orders with a CE/LE or with more than one item get shipped boxed.

The Limited Edition (LE) comes with:

Razion EX game for Nintendo Switch
Limited Edition custom cardboard box
Soundtrack CD
Manual mini booklet
Set of 4 postcards
Sticker sheet with 3 stickers
Numbering printed on the box

Photos can be found in the shop: https://www.ngdevdirect.com/

Due to the Corona virus situation we regretfully currently only can ship to the following countries:

EU: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden

USA: only the 50 states, not to territories, not to armed forces

World: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Norway, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, United Kingdom*
* we can't ship to Northern Ireland

For UK we unfortunately still have a minimum order value of ~135 GBP.
We recommend to do group orders or use mail forwarding Germany to UK.

Details can be found in the shipping policy.

Hinweis fuer Deutsche Kunden:
Verkauf nur an Volljaehrige.
Der Versand erfolgt als DHL 2KG Paket inkl. ab 18 Alterssichtpruefung

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Old shop:

This is a reminder that we switched to a new shop system. You will need a new account to order Razion EX for Nintendo Switch.
This is the last time the old newsletter will be used for a Nintendo Switch game.

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Here is the announcement trailer for our next physical Nintendo Switch game: Razion EX

We also opened the official website with information about the game system, controls, screenshots etc.

http://razion.ngdevteam.com/

The release is scheduled for the next 2 weeks. We will announce the exact date and time in a few days.

RAZION EX is a horizontal 16 bit CGI shooting game.
The score system is based on growing gold cubes and using the beam
It has 3 game modes (NOVICE/NORMAL/MANIAC).

Novice mode is significantly easier and will allow more people to enjoy the great graphics and music.

Game
6 stages with varied settings
6 huge end bosses
7 sub bosses
3 game modes
Rendered 16-bit CGI graphics
Horizontal shooting game
60 fps

Changes for EX version:

- reworked game play
- re-balanced and reduced difficulty
- added bullet canceling for certain enemies
- reworked controls and ship movements
- upgraded graphics and added 32 bit effects
- upgraded to widescreen
- added scanline filter
- slightly reworked levels
- reworked scoring mechanics
- unlock-able continues
- added training mode for unlocked levels and bosses
- added small ending
- CD quality music

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Controls:

Shot 1
Shot 2
Beam

Hold [Shot 1] for slow focus movement. It also shows your hitzone.
Holding [Shot 2] does not activate slow focus movement.
All shots have auto fire.

Game system and scoring:

Collecting cubes reloads your beam faster.
After a beam was fired your shot system needs to cool down to regain full power again
Grow cubes to increase your score. Scoring high grants extra lives.
Cubes can disappear and break if too long exposed or get outside of the screen.
Use the beam to freeze or re-freeze cubes so they exist longer.

There is a boss multiplier. Get this as high as possible for a high endboss bonus.
There is a penalty on the boss multiplier if you fire too much beams in a boss fight.

The enemy multiplier is dynamic and influences how much score you receive by each enemy.
It's influenced by the amount and status of the cubes on the screen.

Tips:

- Unlock more continues by playing the game or training mode.

- Enemy bullets have a very small hitzone.

- At the end of the stage there is a sizeable "BOSS NO BEAM BONUS" if you didn't fire any beam in the boss fight.

- Score high to receive extra lives

- Frozen cubes can slowly freeze other nearby cubes.

- The ultimate goal of a STG/shmup is to clear it with only 1 continue (1CC).

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The shipping next batch of Kraut Buster AES is planned for October.

The general status for Kraut Buster AES and Fast Striker AES can be found here in the product texts: https://shop.ngdevteam.com/
And in our newsletters and facebook.

Newsletter [NGDEV] Kraut Buster AES RE Release / New Shop System

Dear customers,

here is the latest shipping status.

Topics:

NEOGEO AES: Kraut Buster Regular Edition Batch 1
New shop system / Gunlord X LE/RE remaining stock

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NEOGEO AES: Kraut Buster RE 1st batch

Shipping of batch 1 of 2 starts next week. The overall processing will take 1 week.

Again apologies for the insane waiting times.

A picture is on our website and facebook.

http://www.ngdevteam.com/images/stories…et_facebook.jpg

Unfortunately we currently can't ship to the USA/UK/Asia by good consciousness.
The USPS is about 12! weeks behind shipping and the UK has the brexit chaos and crazy bureaucracy. We can't really ship expensive AES cartridges under those conditions.

According to Deutsche Post those problems will be solved in a couple month. Batch 2 than has priority for the US/UK/Asia.

The shop system will inform you if the shipping status changes. Please keep in mind that address changes in the old shop system can only be done by us.

The 1st batch roughly contains most orders with the above exceptions made in October to December '15.

As always the general current status can be found here:

https://www.ngdevdirect.com/product_info.php?products_id=85

We are outsourcing the production of AES carts to an EU based company as we can't handle its ourselves anymore due to personal reasons and want to focus on game development only.
This will likely affect the 2nd print of Kraut Buster AES RE and Fast Striker AES reprint.

Notice as we switch to a new web shop system the old shop with your AES orders will be only available under a new web address, so don't panic your orders are still in our system. We will provide that address in an upcoming newsletter and somewhere on the new shop system.
The old shop system will be around until we ship all open AES orders.

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New shop system / Gunlord X

After 12 years it's time to retire our old shop system.
In about 2-3 weeks we switch to a modern Shopify shop system, new payment and shipping contracts.

It will be a fresh start, no old customers information will be transferred. A new newsletter subscription will be needed as this newsletter will retire later in 2021.

First product in the new shop will be the remaining stock of Gunlord X both LE and RE for Switch.

We will send another newsletter with more details in time.

Best regards,
NGDEV

Dear customers,

here is the latest shipping status.

Topics:

Switch: Gunlord X
NEOGEO AES: Kraut Buster etc.

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Switch: Gunlord X

As our badly outdated shop massively oversold Gunlord X for Switch we were forced to reprint both the regular and LE of Gunlord X to fulfill the sold amounts.
The shop system did not count orders made in non EURO payments due to a bug.
It's also the reason a lot of people did not receive an order confirmation email. This affected both the LE,RE and old DC games.
We also lost more than 150 LE units due to an incident with a toppled storage shelf and other quality assurance issues.

The 500 unit regular edition reprint is identically.
The 500 unit LE reprint for the USA has a small difference, the serial number is printed on the box instead on a silver label. Printing the serial on the box is what we will use for future LEs too as we had too many issues with the labels.
We will try to give as much people as possible the 1st LE print. For resellers that ordered more than one LE, we ship one 1st print LE and the rest 2nd print LEs.

For the next Switch release in 2021 we will switch to a new shop system to prevent this from happening again.
For popular genres we also just directly print 1500 LE which seems to be an unofficial LE release standard. For shmups we will go with 1000 LE units.

We expect shipping to start 14. October. Shipping through all items will take about 4 weeks.

As Deutsche Post ships the items by seafreight instead of airmail very slow transfer times are expected.
According to Deutsche Post the USA transfer times are 4 weeks for the eastcoast and 6 weeks for the westcoast.

For bigger orders DHL Premium Airmail shipping is available at extra cost 52,99 EUR (minus shipping costs you already paid) (per 5KG).

Australia is still closed at Deutsche Post for Warenpost. DHL Premium Airmail is 67,99 EUR. We will look into shipping with UPS/Fedex after we shipped everything to the USA.

After shipping the pre orders we will sell the remaining stock around the XMAS season. We will send out another newsletter then.

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NEOGEO AES: Kraut Buster

The last 50 open KB AES CE orders:

We ship in order of purchase and sorted by world region US->Asia->EU.
Shipping to the USA will be very slow. See above at Gunlord X. DHL Premium Airmail shipping is available at extra cost +35 EUR per cartridge.

Shipping starts next week. The overall processing will take 1-2 weeks.

Kraut Buster RE 1st/2nd print Fast Striker:

After Gunlord X was shipped to the USA we start shipping Kraut Buster RE 1st print in batches.
Building and shipping AES orders (KB+FS) will take the whole next year.

In the future we will outsource production and maybe even sales of AES carts to an EU based company as we can't handle its ourselves anymore due to personal reasons and want to focus on game development only.
We are still looking for a well suited business partner that can handle building and packaging the cartridges.

Best regards,
NGDEV

Dear customers,

Topics of this newsletter:

- Shipping of Kraut Buster AES CE

- Status: Kraut Buster AES regular

- Status: Kraut Buster AES regular 2nd print

- Status: Fast Striker AES 2nd print

- Kraut Buster MVS final software update v1.02

- Upcoming Gunlord X Switch physical release

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Kraut Buster AES CE

Finally after an extremely long wait we are ready to ship Kraut Buster AES CE (collector edition). Thanks you again for bearing with us.

A new picture is on Facebook and Twitter.

The CE comes with the following exclusive items:

- exclusive insert design
- exclusive cartridge label design
- 1 unique limitation number postcard + holographic sticker on the cartridge
- 1 original soundtrack CD
- 3 DIN A3 posters
- 3 postcards
- 3 bookmarker stickers

PCBs, cartridge shells and snapcase box are new higher quality designs.

Shipping starts Monday 25th May to EU, Canada and Japan.
We will start to create the shipping list with addresses tomorrow night or latest the day after.

Dear customers,

Topics of this newsletter:

- Shipping of Kraut Buster AES CE

- Status: Kraut Buster AES regular

- Status: Kraut Buster AES regular 2nd print

- Status: Fast Striker AES 2nd print

- Kraut Buster MVS final software update v1.02

- Upcoming Gunlord X Switch physical release

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Kraut Buster AES CE

Finally after an extremely long wait we are ready to ship Kraut Buster AES CE (collector edition). Thanks you again for bearing with us.

A new picture is on Facebook and Twitter.

The CE comes with the following exclusive items:

- exclusive insert design
- exclusive cartridge label design
- 1 unique limitation number postcard + holographic sticker on the cartridge
- 1 original soundtrack CD
- 3 DIN A3 posters
- 3 postcards
- 3 bookmarker stickers

PCBs, cartridge shells and snapcase box are new higher quality designs.

Shipping starts Monday 25th May to EU, Canada and Japan.
We will start to create the shipping list with addresses tomorrow night or latest the day after.

Due to the Corvid-19 situation we can't ship to the USA for now with our shipping contract "Warenpost". We will package all USA orders like normal and put them into storage until shipping opens again. We then can react quickly once it's open. Alternative shipping options with crisis fees maybe available to the USA, but seem to cost 2-3 times as much. We don't have the resources right now to pay for the difference. But we will look into finding a way.

All EU countries, Canada and Japan are open.

You can find details about your countries shipping situation here:
https://www.deutschepost.de/en/c/coronavirus.html
FAQ->Are there any restrictions to international mail and parcel services?
We use the product "Warenpost" for global shipping.

If your address has changed since your KB AES CE order please contact us. Changing your address in the shop system is not applied to open orders.

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Kraut Buster AES regular edition

Shipping of the 1st batch of Kraut Buster AES regular edition starts about 3 weeks after we shipped the CE version. We already have the PCBs for the first batch on stock.

Due to the large amount of cartridges we need to build and ship them in 3 to 4 batches.

We will announce each batch with a newsletter.

It will take at least two months to build and ship them all. After that we ship the Kraut Buster 2nd print and then last but not least Fast Striker AES 2nd print. The reason that Fast Striker AES 2nd print is shipped after Kraut Buster 2nd print is simply that they use different PCB and memory configurations.

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Kraut Buster MVS update

The final software update for Kraut Buster MVS is available here:

v1.02

- major fix: MCU reset bug: stage 4 (submarine cave)
- added the knife back into c-mode
- added option to enable weapon loss at death (goes back to HMG)
- improved character select via button on continue use (A=John, B=Jack, C=Valeria)
- fix: soft dip settings on Japanese BIOS
- various bug fixes

v1.01

- fix: on uni-bios systems: error message/memory viewer after gameover/playthrough of missions > 1 / on stock bios fixes reset
- timer symbol ":" blinks if timer is above 9:59
- reduced hit points of some bigger enemies to reduce coin eating "grindiness" especially in the final rooms of the game
- weapon "Schrotflinte" is over powered in c-mode. Reduced it's splits by 2 units.
- demo attract mode sound fix
- small fixes
- added secret mask "Schwein" (pig) for a "Schütze Arsch" (grunt) über challenge mode
- increased i-frames (invincible) from 120 to 180 frames

http://www.ngdevteam.com/download/updat…PDATE_v1_02.zip

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Gunlord X for Switch

Physical editions of Gunlord X for Switch will be soon available exclusively in our shop. All Switch items will be in stock and will be ready to ship to EU/Canada/Japan. For USA the shipping seems to be closed by USPS for now. We will hold them as pre-orders.

There will be a Limited Edition (less than 999 units) and a regular edition (less than 1800 units)

We will send an additional newsletter with more details after we shipped Kraut Buster AES CE.

Best regards

NGDEV

Dear customers,

MVS:

The 2nd print of Kraut Buster MVS will start to ship in the 2nd week of January 2020 (~6th January).

As our new MVS shell design isn't 100% finished yet. We choose another MVS shell design as an onetime alternative. It uses a glossy surface which is prone to finger prints and light scratches. We will probably switch to a matt AES like surface design for our own version.

If your address has changed since your MVS 2nd print order please contact us. Changing your address in the shop system is not applied to open orders.

The shop system automatically will inform you about your order status.
Preparing -> shipped

AES:

We will finally start to ship the AES versions of Kraut Buster in 2020.
The parts are already ordered and will arrive over the course of the next weeks.
Shipping starts in beginning of February.

After years of search we were finally able to switch to a newly made snaplock case and cartridge shell design of a higher quality than before.

We ship in this order:

Kraut Buster AES CE (Collector Edition) [ships in 1 batch]
Kraut Buster AES (regular edition 1st print)

Kraut Buster AES (regular edition 2nd print) *
Fast Striker AES [ships in 1 batch] *
* those two maybe will be switched around

Due to technical and organizational reasons the regular versions need to be shipped in multiple batches with pauses in between.

We will write another newsletter closely before shipping for each batch and update the item texts in the shop system with the current status.

New NEOGEO game:

The next new vertizontal NEOGEO shmup made by our CGI graphics team (Razion/Fast Striker) will be announced for MVS between April and June.

Playstation 4:

Gunlord X is now in addition to the Switch eShop also worldwide available for PS4 in the PSN.

We wish you a happy new year,
NGDEV

Das ist tatsächlich eher unverbindlich.

Ich für meinen Teil kann damit sehr gut leben und lasse mich „überraschen“ weil ich bis dahin genug anderes zum zocken habe.

Ich kann den Ärger total verstehen aber ohne die Jungs über die Maßen in Schutz zu nehmen: Sie sind halt von vielen Variablen abhängig.

Dear customers,

Gunlord X is a vastly improved Nintendo Switch port of Gunlord, originally developed for NeoGeo in 2012 and later ported to Dreamcast. Gunlord X received an intense "Hi-Bit" overhaul for the modern game consoles in a widescreen format. Additionally new boss enemies and extended stages were added.

Website and press kit: http://www.gun-lord.com/

New trailer video:

Here’s a quick overview feature list:

- Significantly increased level size of the later levels offering new secrets and challenges.
- 4 new boss enemies
- Added a completely new horizontal jet pack stage
- Permanent continue and shortcut/level warp unlocks by collecting all big diamonds in stage.
- Auto save and level select features (you can revisit already beat stages at any time)
- Accomplishments screens and statistics screens for speedrunners
- Limited enemy respawns to essential enemies.
- Added Newgame+ (for speedrunning and new secrets)
- Increased the viewport to widescreen
- Improved viewport scrolling
- Scanline/RGB CRT TV shader
- Increased sprite/particle effects
- Added alpha blending special FX (Hi-Bit "32-bit" style)
- Added parallax scrolling elements
- Added new music tracks
- Improved controls (direct control over the 360° snake beam with R Stick)
- Optional modern twin stick controls (control movement and shooting direction independently)
- Fully customizable controls
- Improved difficulty curve especially on bosses
- Rebalanced weapon powerlevels
- Added a new power shot weapon
- Stable 60 fps in both docked/undocked mode
- HD rumble

Currently it's only available as download. The physical release is supposed to be pre financed by the download release.

Best regards,
NGDEV

Zitat von tzameti

könnt ich auch vertragen.

mir kommt vor, ich bin nur noch am ballern.

Das Gefühl kenne ich und dann habe ich mich an mein zweitliebstes Genre erinnert: Jump‘n‘runs. Als nächstes muss wahrscheinlich BONK her.

Etwas Abwechslung vom Shmup-Alltag.

Allerdings wird es auch noch wesentlich teurer.

Ich weiß. Es ist auch nicht mein erstes Shmup auf der Engine aber meine erste HUCard.

Ich stehe ja total auf Shmups. Da bin ich halt nicht länger drum herumgekommen.

Zitat von PatrickF27

Gutes Game, wobei es seltsamerweise in den ersten Sekunden extrem schwierig ist und danach dann leichter wird.

Danke für den Tipp. Also nicht frustrieren lassen am Anfang. Notiert.

Zitat von Ghost of Sparta

Das wurde aber auch Zeit!

Allerdings. Bin grad total auf den Geschmack gekommen. So viele Konsolen und die PC Engine ist mir immer durchgegangen. Schande.

Meine erste HUCard

Ich würde an dieser Stelle die Frage mach der Laufzeit der einzelnen Rechte stellen. Aber ich lasse es lieber, da es diese Diskussion bestimmt schon 1-2 Mal gab.

@tzameti @Minrod Danke für die Tipps. Stehe total auf Shmups und da durfte die Engine natürlich nicht in der Sammlung fehlen.

@jori Ja, PCE Works. War alles ein Bundle mit der Duo-R. War erst skeptisch, da „Cons“ im Neo Geo Umfeld komplett von mir gemieden werden. Aber dass sie eindeutig gekennzeichnet sind und gepresst anstatt gebrannt...das hat dann den Ausschlag gegeben.

Zitat von 108 Sterne

Das Affenspiel mit dem gelben Cover, kann mir nie den Namen merken, das ist cool. Und das Voice Sample, was immer kommt....

Bazaru de Gozaru. Ja. Habe es grad beim antesten 15 Min angespielt und musste echt lachen.

Spriggan und Spriggan mark 2 sind sehr beeindruckend und erinnern mich vom Sound total an Musha. Auch compile.

Für Sapphire brauche ich aber noch die arcade card...

Einstieg in die PC Engine Welt

Spriggan ist ja der Hammer. Vor allem die Kombimöglichkeiten der Schüsse. Magic Missle ist aktuell mein Favorit.

Same here.

Und jetzt sind sie wieder weg.

Ist mein erster 2nd Print aber der hat ja diesmal auch Vorteile: Wir haben Valeria „Bona“ Bossa mit auf dem Cover. ;p

Und als „Wertanlage“ für Spekulanten doch eh eher uninteressant, oder? Weil unlimitiert. Das wird schön gezockt. Und dabei ganz vorsichtig in die Konsole gesteckt.

Oh. Danke für den Tipp.