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LocoRoco and I on the 1up show

Watch it here — Episode 34 – 06/23/2006

also while I’m at it, if you are playing the Japanese LocoRoco demo vs 1.01(*), when you finish the game you’ll see a code in the upper right hand corner. You can go to this page and use that code to download a few special music clips and PSP backgrounds.

(*) Version 1.01 is a newer release than the demo posted in April. Although nothing significant changed the codes are different so if you are not runnng version 1.01 then you’ll have to re-download the demo. Version 1.01 of the demo requires PSP OS 2.71. Note that if you have wireless internet for your PSP you can automatically update to 2.71 by picking Network Update from the left most menu, top most option. Once you’ve updated you can also download the demo directly by going to the PSP WWW Browser, going to the PSP website and following the links.

June 24th, 2006 | Tags: | Category: news
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  • http://www.gaming-side.con/mx981/ LamaHimself

    Nice interview.

    Is it Ryo who welcome the journalist? Do he work on the game ?

  • Arde0
    Great Interview

    Great Interview gman….you should be proud or this game, and yourself. You genuinely seemed excited about Loco Roco, as you should be. The part at the end about you wanting to see what other people had created in the game shows just how excited you are about Loco Roco. Congratulations

  • LocoLoco
    Nice interview!

    And btw, you look like John Travolta a lot :)

  • sammyjojo
    Looks Awesome

    This game is seriously the one game that’s making me hold on to my psp. After seeing some of the new stuff in that clip, I’m really anxious to get the game now.

  • Jackal888
    Level Editor..great idea.

    I watched that interview and I was truly impressed.How deep is the Level Editor? How many pieces are there to collect?How big can these levels get? Can you share them easily?Will the US/ Japan versions have exclusives? Thanks , love your work.

  • http://www.myspace.com/sextus_empiricus ernie
    StageEdit files

    hey, i am playing loco roco right now and i cant tell you how much i am enjoying it, a really great game and a really fine feeling

    my question is this, can i upload a set of StageEdit files from my PSP into another player’s game via the internet rather than local wifi? i am googling daily to find custom levels online and wondering whether i should just try and host some myself (if thats ok with all rights holders etc)

  • http://games.greggman.com greggman
    Trading Levels on the Net

    It’s possible but I’m sorry to say the PSP currently has some issues that make this much harder than it needs to be

    First of, you can’t trade levels between versions. In other words a level made on the Japanese version can’t be played on the USA version.

    Secondly, each level is given a slot number. The files are saved in X:\\PSP\\SAVEDATA where X is the drive letter of your PSP or memoy stick duo. Each stage is in its own folder named by the product code of the game and the slot. For example the Japanese product code is UCJS10041 so the stages are saved in

    X:\\PSP\\SAVEDATA\\ UCJS10041_StageEdit001
    X:\\PSP\\SAVEDATA\\ UCJS10041_StageEdit002
    X:\\PSP\\SAVEDATA\\ UCJS10041_StageEdit003
    etc.

    Zip or Rar up one of those folders and you can upload the zip file to the internet. The problem is you can not change the slot number. That means if you download another stage that was saved in slot #3 as UCJS10041_StageEdit003 it has to stay in that folder. You can not rename it to UCJS10041_StageEdit004. So, if you already have a UCJS10041_StageEdit003 then back it up somewhere before you overwrite it some UCJS10041_StageEdit003 you downloaded from the net.

    There is one workaround but it’s convoluted. After you’ve backed up your old UCJS10041_StageEdit003 and copied over a new one run LocoRoco, load the stage and save it to another slot. Then you can go back re copy your old UCJS10041_StageEdit003 back to your memory stick duo.

    I’m sorry it’s that way. Saving files is part of the OS and is not something that’s easy to change.

    One other thing, inside each of those folders is an icon and a screenshot for the level so from Windows Explorer if you open that folder and pick View->Thumbnails you’ll be able to see what stage it is. In fact, even better, go to X:\\\\PSP\\\\SAVEDATA folder in Windows Explorer and pick View>Thumbnails and you should see screenshots from all your levels making it easy to see what’s what.

     

  • ernie
    thanks very much for the pointers

    sounds doable to me, its a shame the PSP can be such a mystical ninja at times but its definately worth the trouble i say =)

    …now i need to find the rest of those parts…

  • Jackal888
    Waitin’ for September.

    Darn, I was about to import this but no level sharing between regions :( . I guess September it is. I hope if there is a cool custom level made in Japan/Asia/Euro/North Amer. we the users can figure out a way to translate to each region. Maybe a grid and value system?

    Question can you use a custom map made by someone if you have not unlocked a Loco part that they are using.

  • RayB
    Cool interview

    Hey Gregg! You don’t look a day older than the last time I saw you! (12 years man!)  Loco Roco looks so damn fun. Love the music. Too bad it’s not on the DS… :-(