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I'll have some of what EOJ's smoking 

I have to admit, the high scoring vids look hella boring. Gameplay is nothing like that for the average player though, it's heaps of fun. I would agree however that AK doesn't have the something-for-everyone balance of certain Cave STG. It starts off confusing, gets really exciting as the possibilities open up, then if you have the time/skill to squeeze everything out of the scoring it appears it grinds to a halt.

Fortunately I suck.

It depends on the resolution your XBox is running. If you're playing in TATE 640x480 93% is the best scaling percentage.
You can calculate the optimum percentage for each resolution, more info can be found somewhere on the last pages of the Ketsui 360 thread on the shmups forum.

Better graphics than DSII (Arcade), but I think DSII X360-Mode (16:9 mode, with updated graphics) looks better than this.

The more I see it, the more it looks like DSII X360-Mode, but with worse graphics.

Errr...what?  Worse graphics than DSII???

Ok, I have to counter here. The music and the slowmo makes me all lovey dovey, I love it. 
This is just the kind of game for me, cant wait for a port.

And imho the graphics just squashes the uninteresting low-quality 3D graphics of DSII.

Don't be worried about the middleman stuff. There are a few reliable middlemen out there (check with GP).

Rinkya is great for stuff from 40K ~100K yen (flat $55 fee for these items, plus shipping to you). I've bought a few dozen PCBs over the years using Rinkya and every time it's been perfect.

The more I watch, the less excited I am...

I dunno... I still would like to play it - I'll wait till it hits Ibara cheap.

I found Galuda 2 today.

and I was looking at that on YAJ...

I just dont know if I really want to risk the middleman stuff.

I think GP is looking for one for me.

No matter how many vids I watch, I can't seem to warm up for this.

+1.

The more I see it, the more it looks like DSII X360-Mode, but with worse music, worse graphics, and not as fun. I never thought I'd type such a bizarre sentence!  

98 or 99 removed the scaling artifacts for me.

Just got my Japanese 360!

I'm running the game vertically with my Xbox set at 1080p. Does anybody know the exact percentage the scaling should be set to in order to get perfect 2x/3x/4x scale? Default was 90, but I definitely see scaling artifacts. 100 doesn't work out, either.

It's fine if I keep the game on bilinear, but I'd rather not.