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VANGUARD PRINCESS or "how to forget MKV"
Last update: 09/07/2009
What is Vanguard Princess?
Vanguard Princess is a FULLY FREEWARE Doujin (Homebrew/Indie) 2D fighting game created by a single guy called
Sugeno who was released on June 30 2009. The style of the game is a wacky combination between "old skool mechanism" and assist support, all combined with the "all-loved by SRK" loli characters! ANIME!. VP was created on Fighting Maker 2nd, a Japanese "fighting engine" just like MUGEN but with a lot of more support and possibilities. You can read the Readme.txt of the game translated to English
here (thx jumpAlice!).
Screenies plz?:
Official Flyer.
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Holy mother of fuck, this game is fucking beautiful!
Indeed!, this game got a lot of attention because of his pretty awesome sprite work and backgrounds. According to
Canned Dogs Sugeno was "supposedly an ex-capcom employee as according to what people have managed to dug up about him", this hasn’t confirmed yet anyway, but still...
So what requirements i need?
Very, VERY low specs:
OS: MS - Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Japanese Edition (or Japanese Locale).
CPU : Pentium III 400MHz.
Memory: 128MB.
HDD: 400MB Free Space, DirectX 7 required.
(thx jumpAlice!)
So this shit is Freeware? URL plz!!111
You got it:
Official Vector Download site
Help! the game doesn’t start on my PC
Vanguard Princess
NEEDS your Windows regional configuration for non-unicode programs in
Japanese. For change that go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Settings -> Administrative -> Change the Unicode language to Japanese (thx
Lolerskates for this). Some people also tested the game with
AppLocale or
NTLEA and some times it’s seems to work but with some bugs, like unreadable fonts or no music. Also running the game on the root of C:\ seems to work to some random people.
Every name in this game is in Japanese (Hiragana), who is who?
Characters:
Main character:
Yui Kutuna
Girl with magic stick:
Haruka Kutuna
Loli grappler:
Lilith
Boobs+Guns:
Luna Himeki
Loli on yellow clothes:
Kurumi Mirumati
Sword girl with blue hair:
Saki Mitonoya
Sort-of-Ninja girl with dwelled clothes:
Kaede Hioh
Mecha girl:
Natalia Glinka
Loli with fighting sticks:
Eri Hasumi
Bow girl:
Ayane Ikuse
Final Boss:
Hilda
Assists:
Magical assist girl:
Kanae
Robot assist girl:
Ciela
Boxer assist girl:
Eko
Ball-and-chain assist girl:
Juliet
Has Vanguard Princess "Online Mode"?
Believe it or not someone is now working on a netplay program: LunaPort.
Official Site
Download (version R11)
99% of people who has tried the program says that it doesn’t work decent right know (too much desync), but there are still some people who had played some matches (
Warpticon,
Nagi). Still extremely experimental but "someone is trying" and that’s already awesome news. LunaPort also add support for Replays. Thx emoshunzzz for the original link.
Has Vanguard Princess "Training Mode"?
Yes! when you are on a fight in VS Mode press the P button and them the E button, bizarre method but it was the only way to do a training mode on Fighting Maker.
Is there are more info about the game or characters somewhere?
Yup:
- Mizuumi has started a
Wiki for the game, there are command list, combos and more poverty stuff.
- There is also a
Japanese Wiki for Vanguard Princess (thx Esker for the
news).
- Also, just in case, there is a
Wikipedia entry about the game.
Videos?
Official Sugeno trailers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8H5RGZXta8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpBXH2sm8vM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxydHPPReAw
Serikamo’s Japanese VP casuals.
Combos:
Eri combos (by GoDSh0t)
Eri Redizzy (by sibladeko)
Kaede corner 79% (by zer0kage)
Random Ayane combos (by yourmother)
Eri infinite combo (by sibladeko)
Kurumi corner Loop (by yourmother)
Saki 100% (by alpha10th+sibladeko)
Yui experimentation (by Dakanya)
Yui does damage (by Dakanya)
Saki Madness (by H-F Blade)
Luna stun combo (by Checkerpatch)
Kaede bug on Super (thx rikimtasu)
Ayane Combos (by dj_de)
Vanguard Princess katakana tag for Nicodouga (thx rikimtasu)
What is the "latest version" of this game?
Actually there is no more versions of VP, but Sugeno is going to release a patch next Monday with some fixes, stay tuned.