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Examu
Examu, formerly known as Yuki Enterprise, was a Japanese video game company founded in 2000. It mostly produced fighting games for arcades and home consoles. It is known for owning Team Arcana, the developer of the original intellectual property series '' Arcana Heart''. Initially, they developed games for their own arcade system board called eX-Board, to release their games mostly on Taito's NESiCAxLive arcade delivery system. Support for eX-Board ceased in December, 2013. At the end of February 2020, Examu suspended their business operations. Any ongoing development works and product supports (most particularly ongoing supported fighting games (including licensed fighting games)) has since migrated to its rebranded successor since 2019, Team Arcana Team Arcana is a Japanese video game developer and a successor of Examu, which mostly produce fighting games for arcades and home console A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcana Heart
is a 2D arcade fighting game series developed by Team Arcana (originally co-owned with its former parent company Examu). The first edition was released to arcades (mostly in Japan, but a few in other countries) in late 2007. The games feature an original all-female cast, and after choosing a character, the player chooses an "elemental alignment," or Arcana, which determines the character's special moves. Games ''Arcana Heart'' ''Arcana Heart 2'' ''Arcana Heart 2'' is the sequel to ''Arcana Heart''. It was the first game in the series to be developed and published by Examu after the rights of the franchise had been transferred to the company from Yuki Enterprise. It was also the first game for Examu's proprietary eX-Board, an arcade board based on Windows XP Embedded that would become the standard platform for the rest of the series and other arcade games published by Examu. The game was unveiled at the AOU2008 Amusement Expo. Andamiro demonstrated the original version of Arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcana Heart 2
is a 2D arcade fighting game series developed by Team Arcana (originally co-owned with its former parent company Examu). The first edition was released to arcades (mostly in Japan, but a few in other countries) in late 2007. The games feature an original all-female cast, and after choosing a character, the player chooses an "elemental alignment," or Arcana, which determines the character's special moves. Games ''Arcana Heart'' ''Arcana Heart 2'' ''Arcana Heart 2'' is the sequel to ''Arcana Heart''. It was the first game in the series to be developed and published by Examu after the rights of the franchise had been transferred to the company from Yuki Enterprise. It was also the first game for Examu's proprietary eX-Board, an arcade board based on Windows XP Embedded that would become the standard platform for the rest of the series and other arcade games published by Examu. The game was unveiled at the AOU2008 Amusement Expo. Andamiro demonstrated the original version of Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcana Heart 3
is a 2011 2D arcade fighting game developed by Team Arcana (the first three updates co-developed with Examu (formerly Yuki Enterprise)) and published by Arc System Works. It is the third entry in the '' Arcana Heart'' series, following the events of ''Arcana Heart 2''. The game went through location tests in Japan starting in late 2009, and was officially released on console on January 13, 2011. PQube released an English version in Europe on August 19, 2011, for both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. An American ( PlayStation Network only) version was released on April 19, 2011, by Aksys Games. An update for the game, called , with rebalanced gameplay and new game modes was released in Japan on May 8, 2013, for Arcades, and later released for PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows. This was followed by , which was released in arcades on December 4, 2014, and later released on Microsoft Windows on December 13, 2017. The latest update version known as was annou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcana Heart (video Game)
is a 2006 Fighting game, fighting arcade game originally developed by Yuki Enterprise and published by Atrativa Japan. The first installment in the ''Arcana Heart'' series, the game features an original all-female cast of eleven young girls known as "Maidens", who possess the ability to communicate with beings from the Elemental world known as "Arcana", to avoid a catastrophic event taking place in Tokyo involving the reunification of both Earth and the Elemental world as one by the Ministry of Elemental Affairs. Its gameplay consists of one-on-one fights, with a main four-button configuration, featuring special and super techniques, as well as four playable modes. ''Arcana Heart'' was created by members at Yuki Enterprise who previously worked on both ''Samurai Shodown V'' and ''Samurai Shodown V Special'', with Tōru Sakurai serving as designer and scenario writer. In 2007, Examu released a single custom chip patch for arcades titled ''Arcana Heart Full!'', which introduced a nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Arcana
Team Arcana is a Japanese video game developer and a successor of Examu, which mostly produce fighting games for arcades and home console A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected to a display device, such as a television, and an external power source as to play video games. Home consoles are generally less powerful and customizable than ...s. It is known for developing the '' Arcana Heart'' series, the company's namesake. Team Arcana's existence as a re-branded successor of Examu had been dated back to ''Arcana Heart'' series' crossover inclusion in '' BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle''. At the end of February 2020, its predecessor, Examu suspended its business operations. Any ongoing development works and product supports (most particularly ongoing supported fighting games (including licensed fighting games)) have migrated to Team Arcana. Games References External linksOfficial website Video game companies established in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EX-Board
eX-Board is a proprietary arcade system board released in 2008 by the Japanese company Examu. Hardware Specification *CPU: Fanless Via C7 NanoBGA2 (X86 architecture) *Chipset: Via CN700, VT8237R Plus *Memory: 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM (with VRAM sharing) *Video: Integrated S3 UniChrome Pro AGP graphics with MPEG-2 decoding acceleration *Audio: VIA VT1618Cidec 192 kHz/32-bit 8 channel AC’97 *Network: RJ-45 10/100Mbit/s ethernet *Video I/O: JAMMA The (formerly the , abbreviated JAMMA) is a Japanese trade association headquartered in Tokyo. JAMMA is run by representatives from various arcade video game manufacturers, including Bandai Namco, Sega, Taito, Koei Tecmo, Capcom, and Konami a ... output; D-Sub 15-pin X 2/composite terminal/terminal *S-Video: (able to connect simultaneously) *Sound I/O: JAMMA output/ left/right voice output terminal X 2 *Input: Operators are able to add buttons with JAMMA input *USB: Two USB 2.0 ports *Power: JAMMA supply 12 V 5 A; or special power ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samurai Shodown V
''Samurai Shodown V'' is the eighth game in SNK's Samurai Shodown/Samurai Spirits series of fighting games. It was one of the last games to be released on the Neo Geo. This title takes place before the first ''Samurai Shodown''. Gameplay Following the revitalization of SNK after its collapse in 2001, the company decided that it would be worthwhile to create another game in the largely-defunct Samurai Shodown series. As part of their reorganization, development duties were given over to the relatively-unknown Yuki Enterprise, which had mainly only created simulation and board games for the Simple 2000 series of PlayStation 2 games in Japan, and had no experience in developing fighting games. This announcement caused considerable unease among series fans. In spite of this, SNK managed to raise excitement by announcing that Nobuhiro Watsuki, the creator and author of the Rurouni Kenshin manga and anime series, was hired to design some of the new characters, and they were gradua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nitroplus
Nitroplus Co., Ltd., currently styled as NITRO PLUS, formerly stylized as nitro+, and formerly known as "OKStyle", is a Japanese visual novel video game developer that has developed a number of visual novels, including eroge. They also have been collaborating with developer Type-Moon to create the light novel series ''Fate/Zero''. Their works usually have dark Theme (literature), themes such as zombies, reanimation of the dead, rape and murder. They also have a branch of the company called Nitro+chiral, which focuses on yaoi, Boys' Love visual novels. Writers aligned with the company, such as Gen Urobuchi, have also contributed to various manga, anime, novel, and television works. Super Sonico is the mascot of Nitroplus' annual music festival event, "Nitro Super Sonico", since 2006. Nitroplus has held their music festival every year since 2000. Originally Ouka Satsurikuin was Nitroplus' original mascot before Super Sonico had appeared. List of works *''Phantom of Inferno'' (Febr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samurai Shodown V Special
''Samurai Shodown V Special'' is the ninth entry in SNK's '' Samurai Shodown/Samurai Spirits'' series of fighting games. It is an upgraded version of the game ''Samurai Shodown V'' and is the last official game for the Neo Geo platform. A further upgraded version of the game called ''Samurai Shodown V Perfect'' was location-tested in late 2004, but not officially released until it was included in the ''Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection'' in 2020. Gameplay The essential mechanics remained largely unchanged from previous games, with the update being directed towards graphical and audio changes. The updated visuals include portraits by artist Satoshi Ito, which convey a dark atmosphere similar to that of ''Samurai Shodown III''. A significant number of changes exist between ''Samurai Shodown V'' and ''Samurai Shodown V Special''. Among them, the characters Sankuro and Yumeji were replaced with ''Samurai Shodown'' boss, Amakusa Shiro Tokisada, and ''Samurai Shodown III'' boss, Zan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Square Enix
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational holding company, production enterprise and entertainment conglomerate, best known for its ''Final Fantasy'', ''Dragon Quest'', ''Star Ocean'' and ''Kingdom Hearts'' role-playing video game franchises, among numerous others. Outside of video game publishing and development, it is also in the business of merchandise, Arcade game, arcade facilities, and manga publication under its Gangan Comics brand. The original Square Enix Co., Ltd. was formed in April 2003 from a mergers and acquisitions, merger between Square (video game company), Square and Enix, with the latter as the surviving company. Each share of Square's common stock was stock swap, exchanged for 0.85 shares of Enix's common stock. At the time, 80% of Square Enix staff were made up of former Square employees. As part of the merger, former Square president Yoichi Wada was appointed the president of the new corporation, while former Enix president Keiji Honda was name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NESiCAxLive2
is a digital distribution system for arcade video games made by Taito. It is similar to the SEGA ALL.Net game distribution system. Taito uses NESiCAxLive to distribute not only its own games, but also allows other companies to use it as a publication platform. On its introduction SNK, Cave, and Arc System Works had agreed to distribute games on NESiCAxLive.Currently 8 games are operated as alone running titles and 29 titles as downloadable titles on candy cabinets. History The system was first revealed in September 2010 at the 48th Amusement Machine Show in Chiba, Japan, as the '' Taito Vewlix NESiCA'' arcade cabinet, and was launched on 9 December 2010. The first game to be released for the system was Arc System Works' BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II. Taito introduced the NESiCAxLive 2 system in June 2017. System The NESiCAxLive system consists of an arcade system board combined with a dedicated router to access and download games. The system currently works on the Taito Type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcana Blood
Arcana may refer to: Music * Arcana (American band), an American jazz band * Arcana (Swedish band), a Swedish dark wave band * Arcana (record label), a French classical record label * ''Arcana'' (album), a 2001 album by Edenbridge * ''Arcana'' (Varèse), a classical composition by Edgard Varèse Other uses * Arcana, Indiana, an unincorporated town in the United States * Arcana (convention), a Minnesota dark fantasy/horror convention * ''Arcana'' (film), a 1972 Italian horror-drama film * ''Arcana'' (manga), a 2000 manga series by Yua Kotegawa * ''Arcana'' (video game), a 1992 card-themed role-playing game * ''Arcana'', a collection of poems by A. W. Yrjänä * Arcanacon, an Australian role-playing game convention * Arcana Studio, a comic book company * Major Arcana, the trumps of Tarot cards * Minor Arcana, the numbered pip Tarot cards * ''Knowledge (Arcana)'', a skill in the tabletop role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' See also * Arcanna, a fictional superheroi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
