Guilty Gear Vastedge XT

[CryptideTR]

Hi I am the person who has the guilty gear lore wiki's vastedge machine! This thread's purpose is to be able to interact and answer questions and hopefully forward information about the machine. I will have a quick common faq list just to help immediately answer some curiosity. we had the machine for free play at frosty faustings earlier this year. I have a pretty decent amount of footage if people would like to see something in particular and then some. but we dont have everything yet as we lack footage of zappa's fight and win completely. feel free to ask questions discuss etc. welcome to my twisted pachislot maze. please keep things within the guidelines as i will not be posting any archive/download links for this reason. 

 

Common FAQ -

how did you import that - through japan rabbit and then shipped through dhl. estimated cost of 1.8k (before import fees) but most of the time vastedge machines go for 2k alone. we haven't seen one up for sale since ours sold. these machines have a tendency to get really beat up and have the front parts pop off so I have no idea when we'll see one again. 

Will we be file dumping the machine for emulation - No. unfortunately we dont think there would be anything that could run it due to the unique construction of d-light machines finding compatible parts and wires is actually incredibly difficult. I just think unfortunately its very out of scope and not the end goal. 

How we are archiving it - we intercepting the digital screen output and recording it (in theory) we've hit some hiccups rn mostly finding something that can read its output. 

Will the machine be at other events again - Yea probably I just have a spine injury right now

What is vastedge about? - Vastedge is about sol and sin trying to recover the flashing fang, while sol badguy has a bounty out for him. it ends in a multitude of branching ways either defeating the conclave leader baldias/bardius for the flashing fang or finding that man, defeating him or meeting him. vastedge as a slot machine has a wide variety of different branching things you could see during a playthrough or nothing at all.

Do you like gambling? - this thing will make you want to never gamble again in your life its odds are so bad. we can't change the odds either.

translation? - there is one in progress by user kaialone but it is in a draft state. 

whats the end goal - to hopefully compile a subtitled video or scripts in general. making vastedge accessibly understood is the goal.

 

here's some just bulk livestream footage immediately though 
https://youtu.be/Xvn-RNn2X-w?si=t5nfiVvoQ1TUL2xC

 

[Bossobee]

Just how bad are the odds for Vastedge? What would be the % likelihood of a 1-coin clear (if such a thing is even possible)?

[CryptideTR]

31 minutes ago, Bossobee said:

Just how bad are the odds for Vastedge? What would be the % likelihood of a 1-coin clear (if such a thing is even possible)?

I don't think a 1 coin clear is possible it doesn't start rolling win scenarios until you're into the 2nd stage of the game. so it'd be more like a chance for a 2-3 coin clear as you can at times leave the first section of the game within the first play. but the fastest clear i've seen yet is 16 and a standard clear happening with 70-200 plays. Once you hit a win scenario it actually takes you into a secondary win section which controls what ending you get. There's both defeat boss endings (baldias/that man) and win standard, win instant kill, win dragon install. (if you dont get out of the first area within a good 250 spins it will just reset the entire gamestate back to 0). Winning can happen from about 8ish different events unrelated too standard progression and each have their own dialog/things going on. 

 

 

the game is structured as stages 1-4 called drives. blast drive and heaven or hell. 

stage 1 has a cutscene or can proceed into 2 from 2-4 a win scenario can happen from 8 events untied to stage but if proceeded to stage 4 it is a heavan or hell encounter to win. hoh is the fighting game part of the game, winning these can take you to win scenario and can happen at any stage. after winning this takes you into blast drive. you have to roll good enough on blast drive to get to a boss but usually you do as long as you follow its scripted directions. but it will have you roll a guilty bonus and this determines what cutscenes you see. so it really depends on what you would define as fastest clear. even once you hit a win its usually about 40ish free plays and after that you could win or be defeated.