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Temporary Platine Dispositif download mirror, GO!

Alrighty, since lots of people have contacted me saying that they can’t download games from Platine Dispositif’s website, I’ve gone ahead and mirrored all of their demos and free games. This mirror is temporary, and I don’t know how long it will stay up (that depends primarily on how much downloading there is). If there’s too much demand and the mirror crashes, I’ll setup a torrent.

To Platine Dispositif: I’m doing this to help share your games with more people without putting a strain on your servers. If this is a problem, please contact me. In fact, please contact me even if this is not a problem, because I know at least one company who wants to sell your games outside of Japan.

Platine Dispositif: もっと多くのひとにシェアーするために、なるべくそちらのサーバーを負担しないように勝手に流通してしまいました。もし問題でしたら、私に連絡を下さい。いや、問題でもない場合にも連絡して下さい。なぜなら、そちらのソフトの外国流通を援助させてもらいたい会社があります。

(If the text above is grammatically incorrect, please let me know how to fix it. The friend I had translate it for me is used to translating from Japanese to English, not vice-versa.)

The Games:

  • Hitogata Happa is the best shmup ever made for the PC. This is the demo version, which includes the first two levels and the first four “dolls”. You probably already know how much I love it. Note: The game has some tricky “kamikaze” mechanics, and the first boss may seem impossible until you watch the demo play (just leave it sitting at the title screen for a while).
  • Engage to Jabberwock is a full free game which I talked about here. It is an older game that they released for free just a few days ago on Valentine’s Day. The gameplay is like a giant single 2D Zelda dungeon with lots and lots of bullets. Remember to go into settings and change the control to keyboard if you don’t have a joystick.
  • Chelsea: Bunny Must Die is a metroidvania that I talked about here. This is the demo version, and I’m not entirely sure how far it goes (I got stuck a ways into the demo, and I couldn’t really tell if that was supposed to be the end of the demo or if I was just doing something wrong). Remember that you can’t move right until you pick up the snowglobe with the gears in it.
  • Royal Edoma Engine is an isometric shmup, a’la Viewpoint or Zaxxon. This is the demo version.
  • Gundeadligne is a horizontally-scrolling shmup. This is the demo version.
  • Dandelion: Starchild Journey is a shmup with very interesting mechanics played entirely with the mouse. Circle bullets Okami-style to turn them into stars, then pull back on the stars like you would in a pool or minigolf game to shoot them at enemies. This is the demo version.
  • Starleaf YO is (I think) a simple, free shmup designed primarily to test an upgrade to Platine Dispositif’s proprietary game engine.

There you go, more wonderful doujin games than you can shake a stick at.

Update: I’ve setup a torrent that includes all of these files here. The torrent will be fairly flakey, though, because I don’t expect it to get very popular, and I’m not entirely sure of the best way to setup a permanent seed for it.

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25 Responses to “Temporary Platine Dispositif download mirror, GO!”

  1. Strider Says:
    February 20th, 2007 at 11:19 am

    Avesome. You rock.

    - HC

  2. pixelizr Says:
    February 21st, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    I think emailing Platine Dispositif about this would be the better course of action, if you haven’t done so already. It exudes a more proactive aura than, say, when one of them happens to visit this site and suddenly finds their games plus your note of explanation.

    Don’t worry about writing good Japanese; we welcome the English of people who aren’t native speakers, don’t we? The same is mostly true for Japanese.

  3. Hunty Says:
    February 21st, 2007 at 9:30 pm

    I have written Platine Dispositif several times with no reply, most recently right before I posted this. Since my Japanese is super-terrible I have emailed them in English, though, so that might have something to do with it. I realize that’s awfully “ugly American” of me, but I would think that they would prefer to receive an English message than an English message babelfished into a nonsensical mess of Japanese.

    If someone would like to contact Platine Dispositif in Japanese on my behalf and point them this way, I would greatly appreciate it.

    You’re right, though, I should try again in babelfished Japanese, even if it comes out total gobbledygook.

  4. Hunty Says:
    February 21st, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    OK, I’ve just sent them an email in horrible Google Translate Japanese. Hopefully that will get a response from them, and hopefully it won’t accidentally offend them.

  5. pixelizr Says:
    February 22nd, 2007 at 10:08 am

    I was in the mood for practice, so I whipped up something you could decide to send, or maybe add to the present note you already have on this page. I’m not that sharp myself, but I think I can safely say that it’s slightly better than machine translated text. The English meaning follows below.

    ———-

    PlatineDispositifの方々へ：このページは、PlatineDispositifの同人ソフトを英語でお知らせるために作ったページです。日本語の能力が弱いのに興味がある人たちは多いですから、このページを作って、体験版をミラーしました。もちろん、PlatineDispositifの本サイトをリンクしました。

    何か質問や問題があったら、いつでもご連絡してください。

    宜しくお願い致します。

    P.S. 先のメール、ごめんなさい。見たとおり、私の日本語はちょっと… ^_^

    ———-

    To the people behind Platine Dispositif, this page was made to provide an English language showcase of your doujin software. I made this page and provided mirrors for your trial versions since there is quite a number of people that are interested in your projects but can’t speak Japanese. Of course, I provided a link that would lead to your actual homepage.

    If there are any questions or issues you may have, please do contact me anytime.

    I am pleased to be of your acquaintance.

    P.S. I apologize for the previous mail I sent. As you have seen, my Japanese is a little… ^_^

  6. Hunty Says:
    February 22nd, 2007 at 12:06 pm

    Thanks! I think that pretty much says the same thing as my friend translated for me above, but it can’t hurt to have it repeated. :)

  7. Derek Says:
    February 22nd, 2007 at 6:35 pm

    I think you need to change the permissions for the downloads? ;)

  8. James Says:
    February 22nd, 2007 at 11:02 pm

    Yeah, those links are giving me “403 Forbidden” errors.

  9. Hunty Says:
    February 23rd, 2007 at 10:23 am

    The mirror’s host got overloaded. It’s back online now. I’ve made some changes that I hope will keep the mirror afloat for a little longer, but I don’t know how effective they will be. Like I said in the article, this is only temporary, so get those downloads quick! If someone else would like to host another mirror to lighten the load, please let me know and I’ll link to it from here.

  10. KDR_11k Says:
    February 23rd, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    The Bunny Must Die demo ends with a message to please buy the full version once you leave the first area (exit’s behind the one second door), if you get stuck after the second time upgrade know that some new time upgrades unlock new time abilities and the second lets you rewind time if you hold the time key down. Others I’ve noticed are that 4 allows you to slow the time down by dashing and pressing the time key and 7 (or 6?) allows you to use time power to heal yourself by holding up and time.

    I got the full version and it’s damn hard* but hilarious at times (and I don’t even understand Japanese) and the level design really uses all your abilities in ways that I think a commercial game would never do. I think I’m at the final boss (since that boss has 7 or 8 full health bars) although I lack the third shoe item. I’m not sure if I did a sequence break by using a walljump at the edge of a platform and getting onto that platform by cancelling the jump immediately, it seemed unintentional considering how that move isn’t used elsewhere although it wouldn’t surprise me if it is intentional considering how the game uses your abilities elsewhere.

    Oh and the full version has an intro before the actual game to show you WTF is going on and what Bunny has to die.

    *= A good kind of difficulty, not the frustrating kind present in many 3d games. You can die fifty times and not lose one shred of motivation.

  11. Hunty Says:
    February 23rd, 2007 at 2:34 pm

    cool! Thanks for all the info! I’m happy to hear I’m not the only person outside of Japan buying these awesome games. :)

  12. Darren Says:
    February 27th, 2007 at 8:02 am

    can you please re-up the games? they seem really interesting especially jabberwock and chelsea.

  13. Hunty Says:
    February 27th, 2007 at 9:33 am

    I’ll make a torrent of the files tonight.

  14. Darren Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 1:27 am

    great! i got some of the games but i’m getting the weirdest error in jabberwock. whenever i load a saved game i can’t attack! i can only move! any help regarding this glitch?

  15. Hunty Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 8:23 am

    I saw someone else who was having the same problem. For some reason when you load the save game the control switches back from keyboard to joystick. Try making sure that the controls are set to keyboard before you load the save game.

  16. Darren Says:
    March 1st, 2007 at 5:01 am

    yeah i checked the settings its on keyboard but got the same problem. is there any help/troubleshoot guide i can find for this game?

  17. Esker Says:
    March 1st, 2007 at 9:05 pm

    I have a worse problem with the same game – I can’t even FIND the save function….

  18. Sir Kero Says:
    March 7th, 2007 at 1:47 pm

    I was just at the PD site, and their downloads seem to be working again… if anyone’s interested

  19. RavenWorks Says:
    March 18th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    Oh, man, fantastic, thank you so much for this! :)

    Out of curiosity… would anyone know why BMD runs fine on my desktop, but crashes on the credits/splash screen on my laptop?

  20. RavenWorks Says:
    March 25th, 2007 at 2:44 pm

    btw, about the keyboard error in jabberwock — set it to keyboard, launch a new game, die, THEN load your saved game. Problem solved! (in a somewhat stupid way, but oh well :P )

  21. Dave P Says:
    March 26th, 2007 at 11:57 pm

    “I have a worse problem with the same game – I can’t even FIND the save function….”

    Yeah, me too. Anyone have an English translation of the manual for Engage the Jabberwock?

  22. Hunty Says:
    March 27th, 2007 at 9:24 am

    It saves automatically when you die.

  23. Isaac20 Says:
    April 24th, 2007 at 1:05 am

    So, pretty much all I’ve figured out about Jabberwock is that you get the books with symbols on them then go fight the boss and obtain the orb with the corresponding symbol.

    Anyone know what shift does?

  24. Isaac20 Says:
    April 24th, 2007 at 2:40 am

    Oh wow. That was sort of disappointing

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