DS #2466: Metal Slug 7 (Japan)

[Killermech]

Yea the stylus map feature was a bit..
It doesn't even include the enemies on it and I doubt anyone will go 'Oh shit, I'm lost. Where do I go next? Gotta check the map'.

 

[pilotwangs]

Im loving it so far,although i can't help but notice slow-down.
Nothing major,just a little annoying.

Im glad theres no health bar or anything.

 

[dernettemann1983]

Anyone know what to do in the 3. Mission when the big bomb scrolls down? normaly the game should go foward but nothing happen.
I played it with a M3 Real and latest firmware.

 

[Jundeezy]

Yay! Finally. Can't wait to play this.

 

[cosmiccow]

Anyone know what to do in the 3. Mission when the big bomb scrolls down? normaly the game should go foward but nothing happen.
I played it with a M3 Real and latest firmware.

i'm stuck at the exact same position
at the end is some kind of elevator looking thing with a crank lever or something.. but nothing happens so.. as i can't destroy that big ball that comes rolling down, i just have to wait until it crushes me

r4 here btw.

 

[Rayder]

Anyone know what to do in the 3. Mission when the big bomb scrolls down? normaly the game should go foward but nothing happen.
I played it with a M3 Real and latest firmware.

i'm stuck at the exact same position
at the end is some kind of elevator looking thing with a crank lever or something.. but nothing happens so.. as i can't destroy that big ball that comes rolling down, i just have to wait until it crushes me

r4 here btw.

I got past that level.....you walk up to the lift and fire at it. That will cause you to turn the crank on the lift and go down. Outrun the boulder all the way down.

It seems to work on the same principle as when you are close to an enemy and you knife him instead of shooting him.

 

[Pizzaroo]

this was unexpected O-o. cant wait to play

 

[Vater Unser]

I know Metal Slug is all about the gameplay

It never was "all" about the gameplay, or else it wouldn't have had such excellent graphics

I'm quite surprised about Metal Slug 7...it looks pretty shitty thanks to the unnecessary scaling, but gameplay-wise, I like it better than Metal Slug 4-6 so far

I still hope they'll port the game to another system..any other system would be fine, as long as the sprites aren't scaled and there aren't any slowdowns...

Still, this is the best handheld-exclusive Metal Slug game so far

 

[CockroachMan]

I know Metal Slug is all about the gameplay

It never was "all" about the gameplay, or else it wouldn't have had such excellent graphics

The first 3 Metal Slug games had amazing graphics for it's time..

 

[tinymonkeyt]

yay :]
happiness! a new release overnight =D
well, if the graphics arent as good as the NeoDS
then i should just play the neods >.<
does it have a save function btw?

dude!
if they put wifi co-op, then that would've been so awesome :[
too bad, so saad

 

[unduthegun]

yay :]
happiness! a new release overnight =D
well, if the graphics arent as good as the NeoDS
then i should just play the neods >.<
does it have a save function btw?

graphics are definately MUCH better than the NeoDS with the graphic scaling to fit the screen. pity they reduces the sprites size.

As for a save function, afaik it doesn't have one, but you can start playing the game at any stage you have arrive, and it stage is fairly short, it won't bugger you.

 

[Sephi]

There seems to be an unusual amount of hype over this game, guess I'll give it a try after I find it and patch it.

 

[funem]

Wow, what a big deal finding a rom that for one time is not on the "easy" places.
Just google the freakin' filename. No hard work at all...

Hmmm, the game still ain't 100% English after patching it. Options, Rescued Prisoners and Combat School still are Japanese. Anybody please fix the description in the first post. I would suggest something like 90% English.

For the slowdowns, SNK Playmore managed to get maximum power out of the DS - Kudos for that!

I love the Metal Slug series

EDIT: Sadly, there is no multiplayer at all -.-

The big deal is that when we were saying it was hard to find is because at that point IT WAS HARD TO FIND, it had only just then been dumped and scene rreleased. The only place on the web was on a chinese forum and they had posted to a fileshare website. other than IRC that was the ONLY place. If you googled it you anly got a handful of places and they were review sites, not ROM sites. About 12:30 onwards it was all over the place. That, as thet say was the BIG DEAL. People here know how to use google, thats how we found it.

That said I like the game given the hardware it runs on it's really good. Though I cant help but feel the GBA version was better

 

[Sephi]

whoa, this is really fun. I've never played any metal slug games before

 

[bunnybreaker]

I made an IPS patch to convert to English for anyone interested.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1IWHMF6V

 

[-GJ-]

is that the full english patch?
so it patches the start menu, options etc too?

 

[baronluigi]

Its has SPANISH also

 

[bunnybreaker]

is that the full english patch?
so it patches the start menu, options etc too?

No, it's the same as the others, but in IPS format, cuz every OS has an IPS patcher and it's only 64bytes, rather than 25MB.

I don't think anyone is gonna spend hardcore time on making a 100% english patch cuz it's getting released and is playable with NO patch anyway.

 

[Heatguyred]

Yay!!!!!!!!!!! Finally metal slug on teh ds!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BlueStar]

Yay! But no 2 player

perhaps just me but quite a bit of slowdown on ak2 straight off.

Yeah, I've noticed some slowdown, not sure if it's just the AK2 or if it's a problem the game has (I know some of the older games had slowdown when insane amounts of things were happening at once). might try it with my R4 and compare.