Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
 

Capcom is developing a new vs title with Tatsunoko entitled: Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes. Tastsunoko is a famous anime production company responsible for such titles as Speed Racer, Gatchaman, and Karas.

A link to the story and a few Famitsu scans:

http://www.arcade-renaissance.com/20...ross-over.html


I wonder if the Samurai Pizza Cats will make it into the game?:P

If Gatchaman characters are in, I'm in.

I see Casshern is in it. Wonder if it's even being considered to be released over here.

The official roster is, thus far, as follows:

Casshern
Chun-Li
Eagle Ken
Ryu

I want Jun in it :(

I would say Doubtful. Most of Tatsunoko's characters aren't really as big here. I mean, Gatchaman, Speed Racer, and to a lesser extent Samurai Pizza Cats were the only ones that made it big over here.

This looks amazing. But it will be epic fail if they don't have ANYONE from the Time Bokan series. Even in the background. Even just a mecha. But definately anyone from the Skull Trio gang.

The fact that it's an arcade game with copyright issues involved means it probably won't be released outside of Japan.

I love the idea. Far more appealing to me than MKvsDC, but as said several times before... I doubt we'll get a release outside of Japan. Maybe there's hope if it gets ported to the PS3.

Screens. Can't say it looks very impressive, but at least the artwork is nice.

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/__i...tatunoko13.jpg

Well, I see YattaWoof and the famous Time Bokan pigs. So no disappointments there. Even if it is just a back ground.

Copyrights yes and no. Seems more like a copyright and licensing problem to me. There's only 2 Japanese companies present here. Tatsunoko and Capcom. but Gatchaman is owned by several different companies (under names like Battle of the Planets and G-Force), and if Speed Racer's in the game, no dount it'll be hard getting past Speed Racer enterprises.

And everything else is pretty much unlicensed. Same problem with Jump Super Stars and Jump Ultimate Stars. Viz does have the license for most of the characters in comic form, but the multiple cross licensing nightmares between Viz, Funimation, and the others proved a problem for Dragon Ball and Naruto characters (among others) while Kinnikuman, Kochikame, and various other Japan only types are unlicensed.

Doesn't 4Kids still have the Kinnikuman license?

Maybe... But then again, they only really licensed Ultimate Muscle, so the character as used in the original 1980's cartoon is still up in the air. None of the UM characters appeared in Jump Ultimate Stars, as the UM manga wasn't published in Jump.

Seriously, if you can't play as anyone from the Skull Gang, it will be a massive disappointment.

This shindig better have Tekkaman in tow!

Well, since a majority of the important characters from the original Kinnikuman did appear in Nisei, I'm pretty sure they would have had the rights to those characters.

I'm pretty sure it's a given, although not confirmed.

If Racer X is in it, I hope he doesn't make a Jackface XD

Well, you're definately right on that count. Though I still think there could be wiggle room. But Nisei or not, no one bothered to try to bring Kochikame over here. And there are a lot of others that are unlicensed. Clearly a problem with this game as well.

I'd look forward to an inevitable Tomy toy line (as I have the M. Bison from the SNK Vs Capcom Line, and it was a Tomy Product, and Tomy is a major owner of the Tatsunoko company), but I'd have to see if I can find an importer or something to get it from.

But then again, they have Yattaman toys anyway, and that's pretty much one of the major ones I'm looking for.

http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/087/87657/

Following yesterday's reveal of MKvsDCU's two new characters, Capcom has followed suit for TvC.

FU*KING YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

It would seem the reports of the death of the versus series were greatly exaggerated. Game of the year. I don't care if I have to wind up fighting the Samurai Pizza Cats. GOTY!

I think we can all stop hoping for this to come to the US for the same reasons Jump Superstars was beached in Japan. Too many anime licenses. At least we can hope for a PS3 port. Since PS3 lacks region codes, there's no problem with importing. I don't really care what I have to do to get my hands on it. Clearly, it looks like from the screens we can assume the game is running on a juiced MvC2 engine, and I didn't care about 80% of the characters in that game either.

Man, this game artistically looks like one of the best games I've ever seen.

I....I just.......I can't.......-=Rubs his temples, exasperated=-

You know I'm not serious.

Do I? Do I really know that?

New gameplay video for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ELtxzdh7nI


New arcade poster:

http://bp3.blogger.com/_mz7xru0XfkI/.../tvsc11mh7.jpg

Official site

Not as many characters as I'd have hoped... but Yatterman 1 is there....

There's no way that can be the full roster....

EDIT: Actually I know for a fact that's not the full roster... Soki from Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams and Hurricane Polymer/Polymar aren't on the site yet, and they were confirmed a month ago.

New characters revealed:

Mgeaman: This version appears to be based on the 3D Mega Man Legend games.

Marjo (with Grocky and Walther): Villains from Time Bokan.:lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c66...tatsu-mega.htm

Um... that's not the villains from Time Bokan. That's Doronjo, Boyaki, and Tonzura from Yatterman. They're very similar to TB's villains (since Yatterman is connected to TB), but they're different.

Yeah, I always get them mixed up, should have remembered the "D" on Dorojo's forehead.

Yeah, it's not hard to mix the two teams up. I would have actually preferred Marjo & co., as that would have thrown another series in the mix. Now there's two different playable characters from Yatterman, but nothing else (since Capcom seems heavy on separating Ryu/Chun-Li/Alex by SFI/II/III).

New Characters revealed:

Karas
PTX-40A

PTX-40A and Lightan are huge and fight alone.

New Gameplay footage:

I guess since we're updating this thread, it should be mentioned that Famitsu confirmed the game is coming to the Wii. It will also include the genie from Bob in the Bottle (I don't know what that show's called in Japan).

FRIG YEAHHH!!!!!!!

And it's eady to be confused... the only time the evil trio looked different was YattodettaMan... they even made a joke about that in the OVA ("We won't lose to the only team that DOESN'T look like us!!!")

But the Yattaman Dorombo gang is apparently the fan favorite.. plus, it doesn't hurt that there's a new series and a movie coming out...

But also great to see Capcom's favorite son, Rockman (Looking more like Rock, though) is also playable. I was getting worried.

I want to say "Hachan", but I'd have to double check that.

BTW... anyone hear the rumblings in one of those videos about Samurai Pizza Cats? Is that true?

Jun and Roll have been added to the cast:


http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000...w1_640x480.jpg

http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000...w1_640x480.jpg

I was very surprised to find two characters who had previously been in fighting games as the newest additions. Then again, Roll is more like her MegaMan: Powered Up version than her Marvel Vs. Capcom version.

Why are they using the regular version of Roll with the Legends version of Megaman? I am so confused right now.

...because, they are retarded? I don't know.

It's a damn crossover! What does it matter? Why did they use standard Mega Man and Roll in the same game as Tron Bonne?

Three new confirmed characters:

http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/117/117795/

-Viewtiful Joe
-Saki
-Ippatsuman

so its confirmed for a release on the Wii....but no news on a US release?

US release would very hard to obtain due to licensing issues... but there are consistent rumors that they may tweak the game to include Marvel characters as opposed to Tatsunoko characters, thus making it Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

It's still a rumor, mind you.