News: Upgrade kit for Arcana Heart Full arrives

April 18, 2007, 01:45 PM

by Zepy, via Asachan -
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The Arcana Heart Full upgrade kit has been arriving at arcades for the past week and some arcade operators are surprised by the contents. According to Asachan Blog, the 78,000 yen upgrade package apparently only contains a small custom chip.

Arcana Heart Full is supposed to fix certain bugs regarding the actual operation of the game together with some character balancing tweaks, additional colors, and a practice mode. It was originally planned to sell for 148,000 yen before the price was slashed to 78,000 yen after protests from arcade operators. (In comparison, Melty Blood's upgrades were free.) The article also mentions that Examu only provided one arcade marquee per upgrade, meaning that locations with versus cab setups in which two cabinets are connected back to back (as in most popular japanese arcades), there wouldn't be enough for both! Bit of a shoddy upgrade from the arcade shops' perspective.