GameStone - Gradius Home World

Game Playing

Super Mario Galaxy 2
(Wii)

Otomedius Gorgeous
(Xbox 360)

Outcast
(PC)

Trials HD
(Xbox 360 Arcade)

Stalker
TSOC
(PC)

Game Waiting

Otomedius Excellent
(Xbox 360)

グラディウス
ホームワールド

(Even More Countdowns)

29th August 2010

I've been messing around with the Arcade game Otomedius and have desuvered that some of the graphics can be change, so I've started a new project at translating the game into English.

This is one huge project and is going to take some time.

GameStone Otomedius AC English Translation

28th August 2010

Updated my Otomedius Excellent English Logo again as I was not happy with the size and look of the wing, still got the X to do but that will be later as I'm working on something important at the moment.

See GameStone's Artwork section for more info and hi-res versions or just click the image below for the quarter-res version.

Release 2 v3

21st August 2010

Added some character images, screen shots and a box image.to the Otomedius Excellent section.

Also changed some of the system images in the games section.

1st August 2010

After a two solid days of ripping, the sprite rips for the arcade game Otomedius have been added to the Downloads Sprite Rips section.

29th July 2010

This looks like a western release poster for the game Otomedius Excellent, still no release date for either the Japanese, USA or UK versions.yet.

Konami Otomedius Excellent Poster

17th July 2010

A bit late maybe, but I've added the trailer for Otomedius Gorgeous, the Original WMV version, see the Xbox 360 section for details and download. EDIT link now works.

16th July 2010

Added the Original WMV trailer for Otomedius Excellent, much better quality compared to the MP4 (MKV) file I had ripped from YouTube.

Also recaptured the images from the trailer and left them as uncompressed png's, you can't get any better.

9th July 2010

I was not quite pleased with my English Otomedius Excellent Logo, so I started from scatch and made a much better one.

Still not happy with the X as it's too low res now and looks quite blocky, I will draw a better one later.

See GameStone's Artwork section for more info and hi-res versions or just click the image below for the quarter-res version.

4th July 2010

Lots of images captured from the Intro Movie for Otomedius Excellent.

Also uploaded the video file for you to download.

20th June 2010

Updated my Otomedius Excellent Logo to make it even better, I made the star bigger and change the positions og the word Excellent and changed the X in Excellent to look more like an X.

19th June 2010

New official logo for Otomedius Excellent (USA release).

no no no....not the top one, it's the boring purple thing three images down.

The top version is drawned by GameStone, based on the Japanese logo and one of my font's I made last week, much better quality version than the official logo.

See GameStone's Artwork section for more info or just click it for the full high-res version.

17th June 2010

Well....It looks like Otomedius Excellent is being released in the US after all, no news on an EU release yet, below is Konami's press release, no real information on the Konami page yet.

El Segundo, Calif. - June 16, 2010 - Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced that the lovely ladies of Otomedius Gorgeous will land in the United States for the very first time with the release of Otomedius Excellent on the Xbox 360 ® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. The highly-anticipated sequel to the Japan-exclusive arcade and Xbox 360 games features classic Gradius-style, shoot-em-up gameplay that is complemented by a dazzling array of stunning visuals. In addition, the new game also features an improved upgrade system, exclusive downloadable content and thrilling local and online multi-player action.

"As the sequel to the 2008 Japanese hit Otomedius Gorgeous, Otomedius Excellent boasts a significant visual and gameplay update since its predecessor," said Shinji Hirano, President of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. "Accompanied by brilliant graphics and an excellent soundtrack, Otomedius Excellent will engage fans with the Gradius franchise on a whole new level."

In Otomedius Excellent, gamers will be able to choose from nine stunning characters as they battle through all-new stages in an expanded world full of intense 2D sidescrolling shooter action. Players can team up for the experience with up to three players locally or online via Xbox ® LIVE Arcade for the Xbox 360. Additionally, an expanded gallery mode allows players to view their unlocked wallpapers and graphics in a gallery that grows as they progress through the game. Gamers will also be able to tap into a wealth of exciting downloadable content to be announced later.

Otomedius Excellent is scheduled for release later this year for Xbox 360. For assets and more information, please visit www.konami.com/downloads.

Source: Konami

10th June 2010

Made yet another font, this time based of Otomedius Excellent.

v0.1 GameStone's Otomedius Title Font

Also see GameStone's Artwork section for more font's.

10th June 2010

Countdown changed to Otomedius Excellent, my made up tentative release date of 1st December 2010, I will put the actual date in when one has been released.

10th June 2010

オトメディウスエクセレント！ Otomedius Excellent , Konami link added on the right hand list.

9th June 2010

Sad News I'm afraid, it looks like the Otomedius Excellent rumours are not the overseas release of Otomedius Gorgeous after all but.......... a whole new game from Konami!!!

The girls are back!!! with even more cuteness, characters, stages and lots more on Xbox 360.

オトメディウスエクセレント！

Otomedius Excellent is yet another game for the Xbox 360, coming out this Autumn, the PS3 misses out again.

Thanks to KEI-KO Fujisaki (Konaken) for the info.

Actual game info is a little thin on the ground, but I've made a section in the Xbox 360 games section, more info added when some has been found!!!.

8th June 2010

Moved the new fonts and 25th Anniversary logos to the Artwork section under GameStone.

4th June 2010

Changed the countdown to Salamander's 25th Anniversary next year.

Interesting looking homebrew game, here's Hydorah Official Trailer.

http://www.locomalito.com/

Thanks go to speedup for the information.

30th May 2010

Added the Wings and GameStone logos to the Otomedius Font v0.4.

I'm not too sure on the pink background, but I tried lots of colours and that one just fits, reminds me of pink chocolate for some reason.

29th May 2010

It's been 25 years since Konami's original game Gradius was unleashed in the arcades.

Celebrate the occasion by playing Gradius at least once more on anything you can get hold off (PS, PS2, Wii, Saturn, Arcade, C64 etc....)

25th Anniversary of Gradius.

Here's a new font I threw together today, inspired by the Game Over message in Otomedius

19th May 2010

I was thinking that it will be the 25th Anniversary of Nemesis too, so I got to work and made an updated Nemesis logo.

18th May 2010

After looking at the Arcade Nemesis logo, I've decided change the 'W' and 'M' in the new font.

I've also realised that the font and updated logo's are based on the PlayStation Gradius Deluxe Pack logo rather than the original Arcade (PlayStation and Saturn logo has ® and not ™), as the PlayStation logo has more vibrance colours compared to the Arcade version I'm leaving it as it is.

v0.5 GameStone's 25th Anniversary Gradius Font now online.

3rd May 2010

Tweaked GameStone's 25th Anniversary Gradius Font (click image for the full version).

Some of the characters didn't look quite right ('9', '6', 'M' and 'N') were changed to include the angled section at the bottom right, plus some shadow tweaks.

UPDATE: More tweaking done to the 'V', 'W', '4' ,'7', 'P' and 'X' (I should have finished it properly before uploading in the first place), hopefully it's now finished.

2nd May 2010

The month of Gradius has begun, the countdown is set and it's time to play.

While I was working on the 25th Anniversary logo for this page I had an idea for a classic font based on the original Gradius logo, after a few weeks of work tweaking the design ('Z', 'X' and '&' were the worst).

Just to show the work I put into the updated logo, here's the original logo and GameStone's updated logo zoomed in to 200%.

26th April 2010

Added my new 25 Years Of Gradius hand edited Logo for the up and coming 25th Anniversary of Gradius.

7th April 2010

Add the excellent banner by Konaken for the Quarter Century Anniversary 2010 -Gradius-

http://www.konaken.com/

Gradius Arc.................Sadly the screen shot was a sick April fools joke by Shocky, quite a good one too but arhhhh no Gradius this year (maybe).

This thread has some information about the joke.

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30383&start=60

1st April 2010

Could this be the next Gradius game for the Xbox 360?

If it is it's two player with a special weapons bar under the main weapon bar and the Moai are back.

Thanks to ZeetherKID77 for the heads up.

26th March 2010

Changed all the arcade roms again as quite a few changed in MAME.

12th March 2010

Added all the Gradius related Sparcade roms to the Downloads section, also made some new RAT config files for the other versions of the game (Gradius II new version etc...).

5th March 2010

Here's the srt sub file for part three of the Salamander anime - 10k, just incase you don't want to download a large file again.

You can use MKVToolnix for remuxing the new srt sub file into the old mkv file.

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/

4th March 2010

Salamander Anime, I've added the missing subtitle text on part three of the anime ('previously on Salamander' intro).

I've decided to seed the new version as no one is seeding the old one anyway.

If you have downloaded the files before, just download part 3 as the other files have not changed.

In utorrent, go to the Files tab and right click each file you don't need and select Don't Download.

2nd March 2010

Gradius Arc グラディウス・アーク

Could this be a new Gradius game for the PS3 or Xbox 360?