Play-Asia 20% off sale over, let's talk about our purchases

Lunker

Mmmm...smoothie.



Play-Asia is having another one-week sale: 20 percent off everything that's in-stock and that hasn't been added in the past 30 days. Ends Thursday, July 12. This is the perfect time to grab all of that cool import swag and moonspeak games. Remember, your DS and PSP are region-free. I just need to find some coupons, dammit! Here are some popular items:

Wii:
Third-party component cables: Only $7.99! (Limited stock)
First-party component cables: $23.92

DS:
Jump Super Stars: $23.92
Jump Ultimate Stars: $29.90
Ouendan 1 and Ouendan 2: $39.12 each
Various sexy import cases and accessories

PSP:
DJ Max Portable 1 and DJ Max Portable 2: $39.92 each

GBA:
BitGenerations titles: $11.92 to $24.95 each (DotStream, Orbital and Soundvoyager are generally the most recommended titles)

PS2:
Various Beatmania IIDX games and controllers

*Note that these are all non-referral links, but if you wanted to be supercool and use my referral link, [removed by Captain K]

wunderbar

well isin't that interesting. time to buy some useless japanese stuff

Chen

Buy Slitherlink and Picross DS.

Ouendan 2 is now less than $40? You'd be stupid not to buy it now.

Lach

How are the Jump games?

Cullen

Oh god I *just* decided on Tuesday to buy Ouendan 2, and went to Play-asia and bought it! DAMN!

NailbunnyPD

Chen wrote: »

Buy Slitherlink and Picross DS.

Ouendan 2 is now less than $40? You'd be stupid not to buy it now.

Picross is coming to the USA in August.

Lunker

I just bought me a copy of Soundvoyager for $14 after shipping. :^:

NailbunnyPD

Can anyone recommend a comfortable DS Lite "play-through" case?

LeRoy

About the referral: How does it work? Can I just click your link and go on from there? Or do I have to do something else like type in a number or something like that?

Kuratosu

Looks like I'll finally get Ouendan 2 now.

I already have JSS, is Ultimate Stars that much more worth it?

Lunker

LeRoy wrote: »

About the referral: How does it work? Can I just click your link and go on from there? Or do I have to do something else like type in a number or something like that?

I'm pretty sure you can just click the referral link and then search for whatever items you're looking for from there. Thanks much! :^:

Chen wrote:

Ouendan 2 is now less than $40? You'd be stupid not to buy it now.

Everyone and their moms need to buy Ouendan 2. So delicious. I'd also really suggest DJ Max Portable 2 for any music-game-loving PSP owners. I have it and it hasn't left my PSP in months, aside from occasional trysts with other games for 15 minutes or so. I'm tempted to buy DJMP 1, but I think I'm going to hold off for a while.

LewieP

Dammit, now is not a good time for me to need to spend lots of monies!

LeRoy

I got Dialex from the bit generations. 14.20 $ seems pretty good. Hopefully Visa will not charge that much for foreign use.

Too bad Coloris is that much pricier.

Edit: Just for kicks whats your cut in those 14 bucks, Lunker?

LewieP

LeRoy wrote: »

Edit: Just for kicks whats your cut in those 14 bucks, Lunker?

it tells you "Affiliate earnings" on each item description, it's not alot for each item, but last time there was a sale like this, I had a comprehensive OP that tracked all the prices, and what was in stock and I earned just shy of $100 (but people viewed my OP, copied it to other sites as if it was their own, and didn't change the links, there was a bunch of different sites that got refered to me)

Lunker

LeRoy wrote: »

I got Dialex from the bit generations. 14.20 $ seems pretty good. Hopefully Visa will not charge that much for foreign use.

Too bad Coloris is that much pricier.

Edit: Just for kicks whats your cut in those 14 bucks, Lunker?

I think it's a cool dollar or so, so you're helping to offset the shipping of my impulse buy. Thanks again!

I have Orbital, which is very, very cool (think an outer-space Katamari Damacy) and serene. I want to get DotStream but I never can justify the slightly higher pricepoint; I'll pick it up one day. Soundvoyager sounds really intense; you actually have to play with headphones and use the left/right panning of sounds to position your onscreen avatar in the correct places. I read a review and I knew I had to try it out.

Honestly, if you're a packaging whore the BitGenerations games are almost worth their price for the boxes alone.



Nooo, Antonio! Too sexy!

Legacy

Lunker wrote: »

Chen wrote:

Ouendan 2 is now less than $40? You'd be stupid not to buy it now.

Everyone and their moms need to buy Ouendan 2. So delicious. I'd also really suggest DJ Max Portable 2 for any music-game-loving PSP owners. I have it and it hasn't left my PSP in months, aside from occasional trysts with other games for 15 minutes or so. I'm tempted to buy DJMP 1, but I think I'm going to hold off for a while.

I'm totally grabbing DJ Max Portable 2. I was going to get it yesterday from the local import store, but I couldn't bring myself to get it at $55...

This is much better.

NailbunnyPD

I picked up Ouendan 2 and Oribital. I used the referral link, but I didn't see anything about it giving credit, so hopefully it really did work.

hambone

Lunker wrote: »

Play-Asia is having another one-week sale: 20 percent off everything that's in-stock and that hasn't been added in the past 30 days.

I take it this means I can't use the deal to buy Phoenix Wright 3 now and have it shipped later when it actually comes out in August. Rats.

Lunker

Legacy wrote: »

Lunker wrote: »

Chen wrote:

Ouendan 2 is now less than $40? You'd be stupid not to buy it now.

Everyone and their moms need to buy Ouendan 2. So delicious. I'd also really suggest DJ Max Portable 2 for any music-game-loving PSP owners. I have it and it hasn't left my PSP in months, aside from occasional trysts with other games for 15 minutes or so. I'm tempted to buy DJMP 1, but I think I'm going to hold off for a while.

I'm totally grabbing DJ Max Portable 2. I was going to get it yesterday from the local import store, but I couldn't bring myself to get it at $55...

This is much better.

DJMP2 is made of pure love. I have yet to try the multiplayer, but the single-player is so robust I don't think I'll ever need it. Whoever decided to add experience and gold to a rhythm game was genius -- it keeps me plugging away at songs over and over again.

I've only been to a few import shops here in NYC, but they're all overpriced, too. I bought Ouendan 2 for $59 but it was worth the instant gratification at the time. :rotate:

EDIT: Added link to third-party Wii component cables -- only $8 before shipping! I'm also rooting through the toys to see what they have, but I'm hoping I won't get fired at work for looking at anime figurines in my cube.

JihadJesus

Does anyone have any experience with these earphones? The ones I use on my iPod died not long ago, and these will probably be used mostly with my DS. They seem to be cheaper than the similar options I can find elsewhere, but I'm suspicious.

setrajonas

Just ordered Ouendan 2 and Rhythm Tengoku, good stuff.

Bullio

Ugh, my wallet's still hurting from GameStop and TRU's recent sales. I can't afford this . I really, really want one of the Jump games though. Can anyone describe the online experience of Ultimate Stars? I'd really like to get a more comfortable stylus as well (the regular one feels too small). Any suggestions?

DarkPrimus

I need a couple more unique referrals before I can use my Play-Asia credit towards items.

If any of you guys would be kind enough to [removed by Captain K] that would be awesome.

I'll have to get some of the bit Generations games myself.

Asamof the Horrible

Haha yes, thank you lunker. I was thinking of buying DJMax2 because I loved the first one so much, but didn't want to put down that much money for it. Definitely gonna buy it now

urahonky

So which should I get? Ouendan 1 or Ouendan 2?

BOTH is not an option with my finances.

DarkPrimus

urahonky wrote: »

So which should I get? Ouendan 1 or Ouendan 2?

BOTH is not an option with my finances.

If you can only get one get Ouendan 2.

elevature

urahonky wrote: »

So which should I get? Ouendan 1 or Ouendan 2?

BOTH is not an option with my finances.

1 is out of stock and thus not eligible for the sale, so 2 is your only option, though they might get more of 1 in stock before the sale ends.

Lunker

Ouendan 2 is generally the better title anyway, IMO. Song patterns are the hardest and most fun out of the series. If you were to get both I'd say start with O1, because otherwise it'll feel outdated after adjusting to EBA/O2, but they're both really solid.

Baroque And Roll

Lach wrote: »

How are the Jump games?

I've got Jump Super Stars. Picked it up from a local Best Buy back in December (Best Buy imports games? I was WTFing too.), damn good game. It's the closest you'll get to SSB on the DS. I had most everything by 34 hours, though. And seeing Ultimate Stars series roster, I'm inclined to say that it expands on Super Stars in a big way. I'd like to pick it up myself, just depends on whether or not I can scrounge up the funds.

Target Practice

Dammit. I was going to use this to finally get a NGPC, but they're out. >_<

Edit: Same thing with the RE4 figurines.

Xenogears of Bore

GunOfTheMartyr wrote: »

Lach wrote: »

How are the Jump games?

I've got Jump Super Stars. Picked it up from a local Best Buy back in December (Best Buy imports games? I was WTFing too.), damn good game. It's the closest you'll get to SSB on the DS. I had most everything by 34 hours, though. And seeing Ultimate Stars series roster, I'm inclined to say that it expands on Super Stars in a big way. I'd like to pick it up myself, just depends on whether or not I can scrounge up the funds.

JUS is better than JSS in every way possible. Easier for an importer to understand too, and about ten times easier to unlock shit in. Oh, and you can play it ONLINE, so no more waiting for nerd conventions to play it multiplayer. Well, besides the demo download mode.

Target Practice

Well, I've made my order. I bought Ouendan 2, BG: Orbital, the "Riviera Perfect Audio Collection Plus", and the Metroid Prime/Fusion soundtrack (which, oddly enough, is published by Sony).

RainbowDespair

Blue Dragon English/Chinese bilingual edition for only $36? Oh yeah! Looks like it's time for some emergency eBay selling fundraising.

Lemmy

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Blue Dragon English/Chinese bilingual edition for only $36? Oh yeah! Looks like it's time for some emergency eBay selling fundraising.

I'm pretty sure that version only works on Japanese 360s. Unless you have one, of course, in which case, carry on.

RockinX

If anyone could use my referral link (on my sig), I'd be thankful as well.

Tirade

Tell me. Bleach DS 2nd or Jump! Ultimate Stars?

Note: I'm a huge Bleach fan

RainbowDespair

Lemmy wrote: »

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Blue Dragon English/Chinese bilingual edition for only $36? Oh yeah! Looks like it's time for some emergency eBay selling fundraising.

I'm pretty sure that version only works on Japanese 360s. Unless you have one, of course, in which case, carry on.

I bought an Asian XBox 360 while I was teaching in Taiwan last year so I'll very happily carry on.

Faricazy

Question

Will the Asian Gears:

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-dw-49-en-15-gears%2Bof%2Bwar-70-1iix.html

and Crackdown

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-dw-49-en-70-1iiv.html

work on my US 360 without any problems? It says so, but I wanted to confirm. Will Live work as it would on a US game?

JetBlackCenter

i realllly want orbital.....

Should I spend the money.....

Blake T

Faricazy wrote: »

Question

Will the Asian Gears:

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-dw-49-en-15-gears%2Bof%2Bwar-70-1iix.html

and Crackdown

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-dw-49-en-70-1iiv.html

work on my US 360 without any problems? It says so, but I wanted to confirm. Will Live work as it would on a US game?

Look at both links, they should say no region encoding.

If they say that you're sailing easy.

Personally I'm just upset Planet Puzzle League hasn't been out for 30 days.

Mind you if I wait till the 11 of July will the discount kick in? Because I can wait.

Faricazy

Okay, thanks. My 360 isn't even here yet but I haven't bought any games and Gears shall be a fine purchase.