January 2004. Covers Guilty Gear Isuka, Net Select: Salaryman Kintaro, Force Five.
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Isuka is marked AW-NET compatible and due in December 2003. Kintaro is an AW-NET table game due in February 2004, promoted with a nationwide table-game championship. Its four icons are three-player mahjong, Daifugo, two-player Reversi and four-player Reversi: four modes from three games, not Tactics. カルテット means "quartet". The picture shows Net Select cabinets and their corner sign.
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Sammy advertises Force Five as a 3D fighting game due in February 2004, marked AW-NET対応 ("AW-NET compatible"). The general AW-NET copy promises live rankings, play between arcades and saved play data.
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The contents page introduces four-player Isuka with AW-NET support and points to the feature on page 24.
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Published just as AW-NET launched. To join, you played with an AW card, then used an i-mode, EZweb or J-SKY phone to enter the serial number from the back of the card; membership was paid, and opened up both the phone and PC sites. The site map shows three areas: Ranking information (versus results and experience rankings), Play information (overall and per character) and Web Garage (your profile, character settings...
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Screenshots of Isuka's Web Garage while it was still in development: personal settings, the Character Shop, a ranking table and play information. You chose a player name and a status message, checked rank, wins and play time per character, bought colours with points, then picked the colour in your settings and pressed Start at character select. The three starting status messages are 援軍歓迎！("Reinforcements welcome!"),...
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How AW-NET shows up in the game. The player display cycles between win streak, AW-NET rank icon and player name, and status message. The sequence runs: pick a character, pick a team colour, insert your AW card, versus screen, fight. Pressing Start during play toggles the player icon.
