Project Diva PC Download

I mentioned in my earlier post about playing Project Diva PC fan-port based from Hatsune Miku Project Diva from the PSP, so I guess this might be a good time to introduce it.

This here is Project Z-1 a rhythm game heavily based from the Hatsune Miku: Project Diva for the PSP by Sega, it is made by the Chinese game programmer group called GameMaster, the most they did is hack off the important files like wav sounds, sprites, images, etc. from the UMD of the original game and built the base GUI of the game from it. That’s text book definition of China Quality for you!

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The game works as if it was the real PSP game; you play by pressing buttons as the flying shapes approach the corresponding symbol while the Miku music on the background is playing, It’s a rhythm game after all… The main difference is that the PSP version has real time 3D rendering of Hatsune Miku and the other Vocaloids. With 3D rendering, you can change costumes, accessories and the likes. While on the Fan Port, the visuals on the background while playing are just recorded or downloaded Miku Videos from NicoNicoDouga, it makes sense since it would really be difficult to port every detail of the 3D aspect of the real game, recorded videos would do the trick but the main disadvantage is that you wouldn’t be able to edit in real time, not to mention change costumes and accessories.

You can readily add, edit, delete the songs and visuals of the game; even to edit the timing of the button sequences is possible. The Project Z-1 also comes with the “Map Editor” so that you can build or edit the symbol timings for a certain song or music, and it’s also Open Source!

Since basically you can add almost any song you like, the fan port seems to have every song from the original game and also some unofficial music out of the game. I even replaced some of the videos in there because it was really Low Quality (too blurry and pixilated).

The game is quite fun and dead-on based on the gameplay, if you don’t have a PSP and you’ve been dying to play Hatsune Miku: Project Diva, you can practice or even let this be an alternative for the time being. Some songs have almost the same button sequences from the original game, so when you switch to the real deal, you would already be familiar with what buttons to smash.

Here are some screenshots, there isn’t much anything to see other than the gameplay, the menu are just a few levels deep and are quite direct. In the menu, the only thing that seems to work is the Play and CGPics. The Play menu basically directs you to the song list and after that you can play your choice, the CGPics menu is basically just a straight forward CG viewer… To think of it, it’s almost even unecessary to have a CG menu… And the way I see it, I think most of the pictures came from Pixiv and Piapro.

As we see here, there’s a Story Mode and Network Mode, they say both are in development currently.

The games have some bugs here and there but I managed to find some simple workarounds for it, so it’s no problem. Also, it’s best to play the game in Chinese Language Locale so that some fonts would load up correctly; this game was developed by the Chinese after all…

Project Diva PC DOWNLOAD.

While here are for the songs. If you want just to test out a few, you can download here instead so that you can play already while downloading all the music.

Check out also the official Project Z-1 page here.

Details:

【游戏名称】Project DIVA PC
【游戏类型】音乐节奏游戏
【游戏性质】二次创作同人游戏
【制作组】GameMaster
【项目编号】GameMaster. “Project Z1″
【原作公司】SEGA
【游戏容量】807M
【语言】简体中文/日文(简体中文汉化信息来自浜咲学园)

【推荐配置】
[显卡]ATI x800/NVIDA 5200（以上）
[内存]512MB（以上）
[CPU]主频1.5GHz（以上）
[硬盘空间]1GB（以后会有更新，请预留空间）
[DirectX版本]9.0c以上
[操作系统]Windows2000及以上
[系统视频解码器]请保证系统中的视频解码器不会互相冲突
即系统中只安装一个视频解码包
Windows7用户推荐安装Win7Codecs
Vista/XP用户推按安装VistaCodecs
2000用户推荐安装ffdshow
【曲目列表】
000、新手教学
001、荒野と森と魔法の歌
002、Star Story (Game edit)
003、The secret garden (OP Ver.)
004、ワールドイズマイン (Game Edit)
005、恋スルVOC@LOID (Game Edit)
006、こっち向いて Baby (OP Ver.)
007、Dear cocoa girls
008、Ievan Polkka (Game Edit)
009、メルト (Game Edit)
010、金の圣夜霜雪
011、ワールズエンド・ダンスホール
012、ねこみみスイッチ
013、ONE NIGHT GIRL
014、ARiA
015、Atoms
016、ロミオとシンデレラ
017、初音ミクの戸惑
018、magnet
019、Last Night, Good Night
020、初音ミクの消失 (Game Edit)
021、白い雪のプリンセスは
022、恋爱サーキュレーション
023、LIFE SIZE
024、ローリンガール
025、流星 -Across the starlight-
026、弱虫モンブラン
027、炉心融解
028、三日月ライダー
029、piano
030、愛言葉
031、裏表ラバーズ
032、pai_10000

【下载地址】

Details in English:

【Name】 Project DIVA PC Game
【Genre】 Music Rhythm Game
【Properties】 Doujin Game Software
【Production Team】 GameMaster
【Item No.】 GameMaster. “Project Z1″
【Company】 SEGA original
【Game File Size】 807Mb (Includes Default Songs)
【Language】 Chinese / Japanese (Simplified Chinese localization information from Hamamatsu Saki)

【Recommended Specs】
【Graphics】 ATI x800/NVIDA 5200 (more)
【Memory】 512MB (or more)
【CPU】 frequency of 1.5GHz (or more)
【Disk space】 1GB (that I will have updates, please reserve space)
【DirectX Version】 9.0c or above
【Operating System】 Windows2000 and above
【Video decoder system】 Please ensure that the system does not conflict with each other video decoder. The system only to install a video codec pack
Windows7 users are recommended to install Win7Codecs
Vista / XP users to install VistaCodecs Push
2000 users recommend installing ffdshow

Final Fantasy idol Yuna, is here cosplayed by none other than pro cosplayer Ibara.

Her rendition is quite tasteful and well convincing. The poses seems quite appropriate and the facial expressions are nonetheless professional. In other this seems to be one of the best rendition of Yuna.

So you might as well check out the rest of the gallery for more…

A decent film under 500$, woah! that’s a real indie..

All I can say is: Awesome game is awesome, awesome movie is awesome…

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Indie filmmakers have filmed the first two episodes of their new Half-Life-2-based miniseries for a total budget of $500. Now, that’s an indie filmmaker budget! “Originally envisioned as a project to test out numerous post production techniques, as well as a spec commercial, it ballooned into a multi part series. Filmed guerrilla style with no money, no time, no crew, no script, the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a budget of $500.” You know what? It’s not bad.

Vist there site here: PurchaseBrothers

Duel match between Sony and Microsft Console intensified. Sony gives the first punch, Microsoft has “lack of longevity”, as then Microsoft: Sony is “out of touch”.

Sony Computer Entertainment chairman Kazuo Hirai visualizes that Sony is still the video game industry leader, with his thought said

“I’d like to think that we continue official leadership in this industry.

It’s difficult to talk about Nintendo because we don’t look at their console as being competitors. They’re a different world and we operate in our world – that’s kind of the way I look at things.

And with the Xbox – again, I can’t come up with one word to fit. You need a word that describes something that lacks longevity,

Last time I checked, they’ve never had a console that’s been on the market for more than four or five years and we’ve committed to a ten year life cycle, so you do the math.

And unless things go really bad, there’s no way that at the end of a life cycle our competition is going to have a higher install base.”

However, some of us doubt if Sony would even survive

Aaron Greenberg on the other hand

“This sounds like an old hardware company that’s comfortable with its market position. That complacent attitude is out of touch with where the industry and consumer is today.

This generation won’t be won over just hardware specs, but who can out-innovate when it comes to online and software. This is the kind of stuff that’s in our DNA, and frankly moves the console war onto our home court.

I’m confident we will outsell the PS3 throughout the entire generation by providing more innovation and building the best and broadest games library while growing our entertainment experiences on the leading online network.

With a U.S. install base lead now of more than 7 million units (according to NPD), I can’t imagine any scenario where the PS3 can catch up with us. In fact, even if you doubled the current PS3 sales and Xbox 360 remained flat, they couldn’t close the gap until 2014.”

Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter presents his opinion “Aaron Greenberg is right that Sony likely won’t catch Microsoft in the U.S. until at least 2014. Kaz is right that Sony will likely catch Microsoft globally,”

His extensive analysis are as follows:

“Please keep in mind that both consoles are offered in North America, Europe and Japan. Sony likely has a 4 million unit lead in Japan, is behind by 7 million in North America, and is behind in Europe by 2 million. My guess is that Sony can sell 2 million PS3s per year more than Microsoft in Japan for the next several years, and can catch up in Europe in two or three years. So by the end of 2011, Sony should be even in Europe, ahead by 10 million units in Japan, and behind by a greater margin than 7 million in North America. If the Xbox 360 outsells the PS3 by 1 million units per year for 2009, 2010 and 2011, the two consoles will be in a dead heat by the end of 2011.

“You should note that the 360 outsold the PS3 in the U.S. by 1.2 million units in 2008 (according to NPD), with an average price of $300 compared to an average for PS3 of $418. If PS3 comes down to $299 some time this year, it’s likely that the two consoles will sell around the same number of units, with a slight edge to Sony because of Blu-ray. If the 360 price is cut further, Microsoft can likely sustain its advantage, but it may have difficulty selling 1 million more per year.”

He also jokingly said “Funny that nobody is talking about catching the Wii…”, perhaps nobody seriously talks about toys? Or is it the fact that the Wii could possibly uncatchable and also the best selling console ever.

Who knows?

sauce: SanCon, GameDaily