Jump Ultimate Stars!

warp

Sweet! I just called nscx and they said I'll get the game tommorow!!

Paulie

Sweet! Maybe that means I will, too!

Cap'n Carter

I got mine in today. Man, this is fun. Much better than the last game.

The Evolution system is cool, but I hate that feeling of "ugh, I ran out of gems."

Caracal

Agreed, and I've heard you don't get enough gems in one player mode to unlock everyone, meaning you'll have to play multi-player alot to get a small handful each time. Apparently Quiz can reward you a large amount but obviusly it's (currently) useless for anyone who can't read Japanese. As much as I like this new system, the limited number of gems really does spoil it in my opinion.

cp9shanks

That would spoil it but since some people at ap forums will battle wi-fi then they can take each others decks so you really don't need to get all the characters to use all the characters.

Caracal

I'm not saying give enough gems in one player mode to allow you to buy everyone, but maybe give you enough to buy say 75% of them through your first play through and once you've completed the game, reply a mission and you could get say a quater or something of the gems from each mission.

Besides, I don't have WiFi at the moment and probably won't until next year.

NeoShweaty

does anyone know how to unlock gear 2 luffy? i have naruto's 8 koma thing and sasuke's but i could care less about them. I saw him in action in one level too, so i am dying to play as him.

Paulie

Don't forget, the game is made for JAPAN. There are a lot more people with the game there, plus a lot more wifi hotspots, I'm sure.

quotLCquot_Lapen

@gilrules2000:

does anyone know how to unlock gear 2 luffy? i have naruto's 8 koma thing and sasuke's but i could care less about them. I saw him in action in one level too, so i am dying to play as him.

gotta unlock shanks for that. In the opening sequence, draw these characers to unlock certain koma. Shanks is one of them.

http://www.badongo.net/cn/pic/360726

NeoShweaty

@LC:

gotta unlock shanks for that. In the opening sequence, draw these characers to unlock certain koma. Shanks is one of them.

http://www.badongo.net/cn/pic/360726

thanks a bunch! I have a million other characters and so few of them will be as worth it as Gear 2 luffy.

For those of you playing it, what characters do you usually use in the story mode when given a choice? I use the 6 koma luffy and Kenshin. They both kick too much ass.

Also, is there a 7 or 8 koma kenshin?

Caracal

Hurray! Finally managed to unlock the Shanks Koma from the intro. Not been able to until now for some reason.

Also, I'm having some problems with one of the mission. It says "never use block" for the third requirement in the second Slam Dunk mission, and as an SP to unlock Sai in the first Naruto mission. Thing is, I've never pressed down AND yet I don't unlock anyone. Can someone please explain what I'm doing wrong.

COWMAKAZE

@Caracal:

Hurray! Finally managed to unlock the Shanks Koma from the intro. Not been able to until now for some reason.

Also, I'm having some problems with one of the mission. It says "never use block" for the third requirement in the second Slam Dunk mission, and as an SP to unlock Sai in the first Naruto mission. Thing is, I've never pressed down AND yet I don't unlock anyone. Can someone please explain what I'm doing wrong.

Who are you using? Certain characters auto-guard at random times (Yusuke does in the middle of his combos and Tsuna from Reborn! does so so much it's cheap) and that might be throwing you off. For that battle I used GEAR 2 Luffy and also 8-panel Naruto (not in the same deck), and had no problems whatsoever.

The Godfather

For anyone who is low on gems to level up characters @Badtzmaru:

you could beat the first 3 ranking modes in J-Arena to get 900 of red, green and yellow gems. Then you'll unlock champion ranking mode which will unlock after you beat the first 3 modes which will give you 500 of the red/green/yellow gems and then 200-500 of the other 3 gems. You can keep doing it over and over, the only drawback is that you have to fight 20 matches. It's not too bad as long as you build a nice deck.

Yeah hope that helps for anyone.

Anyway does anyone have pictures of the 7/8 Block Komas?

Cap'n Carter

I unlocked Kenshiro. Man, he's a BEAST. And thanks to the constellation thing I got Yuria and his 7 and 8 komas. Whoo.

Me>>>>Japanese kids. One on one I easily won each match I've had thus far, though against Japanese kids in an entire four-way I usually lose due to lag. =/

Though I did just win a stock match. >_>

Paulie

Hell Yes It Is Here!!!!!!!!!

Caracal

@COWMAKAZE:

Who are you using? Certain characters auto-guard at random times (Yusuke does in the middle of his combos and Tsuna from Reborn! does so so much it's cheap) and that might be throwing you off. For that battle I used GEAR 2 Luffy and also 8-panel Naruto (not in the same deck), and had no problems whatsoever.

I think for one of the missions I have to use Tsuna, so maybe I should make just run around (I think I did his select button move which may count as a block). As for the Naruto one, I normally use Zoro or Luffy. I might try with Gear 2 or 3.

davybackfight

I got it yesterday and started playing although I can't understand the Japanese. I managed to make it through all the training levels. Is there any guides for this game?

Cap'n Carter

Well, now I have Edajima Heihachi and Franky playable. Along with Kenshiro, I have the manliest characters in Jump manga.

Nashenku

Okay…my game was supposed to be here yesterday and it STILL isn't here >_>...if it isn't here by tommorow heads will roll! (ò_ó)9

Thanksgiving probably threw off shipping for some of the later orders.

Anyone up for a game anytime soon?

Oh btw Battle Franky, I added you. XP

Lupus Inu: 1160 4929 4714

Demon Days

Can someone please give me a rundown of what's new in the game apart from the characters?

warp

GOD DAMMIT!

It still isnt here!! Man now I have to wait again!

Man I am so mad right now

Cap'n Carter

Well I beat Mashirito. Caramel Man J looks pretty damn cheap.

There's still a bunch of objectives and worlds I need to beat.

Caracal

@Demon:

Can someone please give me a rundown of what's new in the game apart from the characters?

You have to assign a leader for each deck. Without one it's classified as un-usable. Additionally the leader's portrait may appear before you start a battle and the leader will do a victory/failure dance at the end of the battle.
You can now use the L and R button to either switch character or call in a support.
Help Komas can now give you a special ability so long as you "assign" them to a battle koma, i.e. put them next to the battle koma and have an arrow point at the battle koma.
You now evolve komas using gems won from battles instead of the Sherif system.
If you fall near an edge when you're knocked off the stage you can grab on and pull yourself up.
If you press the select button in battle, the character will do a random animation. Some can restore health (Luffy eating meat), others can increase your special bar (Goku powering up) etc.
If a leader KOs an opponent they may get two points instead of one. I don't fully understand this system yet.
There are now 8Komas and certain characters will have their transformation/power up perminetly active, i.e. always have Gear 2 Luffy, Bankai Ichigo etc.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

HEATXZ

I have a question for the members who are playing Kinnikuman, does Kinnikuman do the Gyudon dance in the game

eblob88

Okay, here's the deal. I propose a tournament (turny), I think we should have one like in a month or 2 for people to get the game and get used to the game. Try to make your deck as well as possible. Winner will have the pride and honor (still deciding how we should honor whoever that wins). Soon I will (or somebody else) will make another thread with people to make friend code list for JUS and hopefully people would put all the participants in it so that we can have like a little private

I will try to keep up some updates in the next several day/weeks and obviously I'm not going to be like too bossy or anything and hopefully everybody can share ideas and be part of this exciting turny!!! :D

…and yes...i'm shameful that I still haven't got my copy yet. But I still have hope for the next few days!!!!

Paulie

Gaaah, I'm stuck on trying to finish the last two parts of the last Bleach mission. ;__;

Stupid… mission....

Cap'n Carter

So far, my favorite characters to use:
Edajima
Kinnikuman
Kenshiro
Franky
Dr. Mashirito
Bo-bobo
Piccolo

I still need to unlock more people.

I'm bored and feel like showing off, so… here's a few of my decks presented in shitty digital cam pics:

My favorite deck to use right now.

My SHINKEN deck. I used this a lot after I unlocked Kenshiro.

I used this one a lot after unlocking Franky.

and finally…

!
! My guilty pleasure deck, Caramel Man J~! Damn, this guy is so cheesy. I honestly feel bad for using him at times

Do they offer any explanation why Mashirito looks so different when he's using Caramel Man J?

Nashenku

@Cap'n:

Do they offer any explanation why Mashirito looks so different when he's using Caramel Man J?

From what I've been hearing, Caramelman J is supposed to represent the SJ editor or something like that. shrugs

Demon Days

@eblob88:

Okay, here's the deal. I propose a tournament (turny), I think we should have one like in a month or 2 for people to get the game and get used to the game. Try to make your deck as well as possible. Winner will have the pride and honor (still deciding how we should honor whoever that wins). Soon I will (or somebody else) will make another thread with people to make friend code list for JUS and hopefully people would put all the participants in it so that we can have like a little private

I will try to keep up some updates in the next several day/weeks and obviously I'm not going to be like too bossy or anything and hopefully everybody can share ideas and be part of this exciting turny!!! :D

…and yes...i'm shameful that I still haven't got my copy yet. But I still have hope for the next few days!!!!

If we do, can we have it in January, February time? I'll probably be getting this for Christmas.

GODA_8000

Um, does anyone care to explain why Dr. Marshimato (sp?) appearance keeps changing. He went from a skinny man, to a fat cyborg, to an aging man every time I look at random scans.

davybackfight

Can someone help me with unlocking characters and making decks?

Cap'n Carter

@GODA_8000:

Um, does anyone care to explain why Dr. Marshimato (sp?) appearance keeps changing. He went from a skinny man, to a fat cyborg, to an aging man every time I look at random scans.

His body weight's always been the same.

Basically:

Dr. Mashirito is based off of a Jump editor named Torishima ("Mashirito" is "Torashima" spelled backwards) who would nag on Toriyama when he was first working on Dr. Slump.
When he first appeared in Dr. Slump, he was in the "normal" form, and he built several robots called "Caramel Man" to try to take over the world a few times. Arale and Gatchan "beat" him each time.
He makes himself into a cyborg after losing a few times.
In subsequent appearances after Dr. Slump (the Jump Super Stars crossover manga, JUS) his appearance has been changed to reflect what Torishima (now the senior editor of Shueisha) currently looks like.

PS: The long awaited friend code:
5068-9138-4262

Vanessa

I'm just recently got a DS, and I was wondering how much would it cost to import this game?

Excellent, Carter, up for a battle any time soon? =]

Demon Days

@Caracal:

You have to assign a leader for each deck. Without one it's classified as un-usable. Additionally the leader's portrait may appear before you start a battle and the leader will do a victory/failure dance at the end of the battle.

You can now use the L and R button to either switch character or call in a support.

Help Komas can now give you a special ability so long as you "assign" them to a battle koma, i.e. put them next to the battle koma and have an arrow point at the battle koma.

You now evolve komas using gems won from battles instead of the Sherif system.

If you fall near an edge when you're knocked off the stage you can grab on and pull yourself up.

If you press the select button in battle, the character will do a random animation. Some can restore health (Luffy eating meat), others can increase your special bar (Goku powering up) etc.

If a leader KOs an opponent they may get two points instead of one. I don't fully understand this system yet.

There are now 8Komas and certain characters will have their transformation/power up perminetly active, i.e. always have Gear 2 Luffy, Bankai Ichigo etc.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Oh, I see. Thanks.

Wow, this is what a sequel SHOULD be like, huh?

Caracal

That's only some of the new features. I think there's another half a dozen or so.

I just unlocked Horo Horo, and according to Wikipedia he's a Support character. However I've looked at his evolution and there is nothing to suggest he is one. Can someone please clear this up for me.

Clearly Horo Horo isn't support someone just posted BS up on there, like there is on the majority of Wikipedia. I was dissapointed when I found out. =/

Caracal

@Lupus:

Clearly Horo Horo isn't support someone just posted BS up on there, like there is on the majority of Wikipedia. I was dissapointed when I found out. =/

I know Wiki isn't always the best of sources, but I'd assume something like JUS information would be true.

Frankly I'm disappointed with how Shaman King is represented in JUS. OK so Chocolover is in the game and Yoh gets a laughter variant on his 4Koma, but other than that it really has nothing. I was hoping for Ren, Ryu and/or HoroHoro to be support or heck, maybe even battle. I realise Shaman King pretty much died in Jump (shame), but even still… Oh well, as they say in Usagi Yojimbo "Such is Karma".

Yeah, Shaman King did get pushed aside for something like Bleach, with 17 characters. I'd have loved Ren or Hao to have been playable, though Hao would have been hella powerful. This game is true excellence, but there could've been more things to be added. I was also suprised that Muhyo's koma max was level seven. o_o

Demon Days

Hey, anyone know if you can unlock stuff by playing X number of matches or for X hours, like the last one?

warp

how can you use the wifi decks in wifi that you stole from other people.

I love this game and that option

quotLCquot_Lapen

just disovered this last night, and I don't know if anyone else has figured this out yet, but FRANKY's ULTIMATE ACTION CHANGES HIS ATTACKS!!

When you do his UA, Franky pops in a cola (carrot juice and green tea don't work for this) and gives himself a SUUU~PAAAAA! boost. At first I thought this didn't do anything but look cool. It wasn't until now that I found that they really do help.
A lot. 1 Cola changes his Y attacks once, and another Cola after the first one changes it again! Example:

Y ->= Ouch Finger
Y -> (+1Cola) = Beans Left
Y -> (+2Cola) = Franky Cannon

Other attacks will get an extension

Jump + Y = Fresh Fire
Jump + Y (+1Cola) = 1.5x range and attack Fresh Fire
" " " " (+2Cola) = 2x range and attack " " "

Go on, give it a try!

Caracal

@Lupus:

Yeah, Shaman King did get pushed aside for something like Bleach, with 17 characters. I'd have loved Ren or Hao to have been playable, though Hao would have been hella powerful. This game is true excellence, but there could've been more things to be added.

I agree. I don't mind Bleach getting 17 characters as only four of them were playable. It balanced out nicely in my opinion. None the less, as a huge fan of Shaman King and Rurouni Kenshin, I'm disappointed at the limited new features they have (more so with Shaman King). But heck, I love Gear 2 and 3, Crowned Clown and Tsuna's 6Koma. Perhaps Tsuna and Allen will get those power ups as permanent power ups in JSS3.

Anyway, is it me or does one player mode feel short? I've restricted how much I play it to make the game last but I've managed to reach the third world pretty quickly.

HEATXZ

@Caracal:

I agree. I don't mind Bleach getting 17 characters as only four of them were playable. It balanced out nicely in my opinion. None the less, as a huge fan of Shaman King and Rurouni Kenshin, I'm disappointed at the limited new features they have (more so with Shaman King). But heck, I love Gear 2 and 3, Crowned Clown and Tsuna's 6Koma. Perhaps Tsuna and Allen will get those power ups as permanent power ups in JSS3.

My guess is the 3rd tilte will be JUMP MEGA STARS and nobody answer my question: Is Kinnikuman's Ultimate Action the Gyuudon dance

Caracal

Well if you want an answer from me:

I don't know. I've never read Kinnikuman. I think I've seen him do a few dances so maybe.

I'd answer if I knew what it was. =<

HEATXZ

This is the Gyuudon dance