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X-Day 2 (Namco NA-2)

エクスデイ2

Platforms: Arcade
Year: 1995
Developed by: Namco
Published by: Namco

Number of Files: 13
Total Filesize: 62 MB (MP3), 200 MB (FLAC)
Date Added: Apr 7th, 2026   | Change Log
Album type: Gamerip
Uploaded by: riheko3606, misha1350

Description

The X-DAY series (full title: 余命検索サービス X-DAY, or "Life Expectancy Search Service X-DAY") is a Japanese-only arcade game series from Namco in the mid-1990s. It belongs to the "elemecha" (electronic mechanical) category - arcade machines that blend quiz gameplay with physical outputs like printed tickets, rather than pure video games.

Unlike standard action or puzzle arcade titles, X-DAY was framed as a dystopian "fate prediction machine" or "convenience service" that diagnoses your remaining lifespan based on your answers. Set in AD 3993, it has a dark, sterile, corporate sci-fi aesthetic typical of 1990s Japanese cyberpunk-lite concepts, presenting a machine that peers into your "future" to tell you when and how you will die - so you can supposedly correct your life path to avoid it.

The most interesting part is the emphasis that you must not lie to the machine. It adds to the psychological pressure added to the experience - lying to the machine is physically dangerous in the fiction of the world. Because the machine's "corrections" are based on the machine's data, a lie creates a discrepancy between the machine's data and reality, and according to the OST's description, leads to the machine producing an incorrect "correction" that could actually cause you to "die earlier than scheduled."

Namco followed up quickly with 恋愛寿命 + 肉体寿命 X-DAY 2 ("Romantic Lifespan + Physical Lifespan X-DAY 2"). It expanded the concept by splitting lifespan into two tracks: physical/body and romantic/love. Gameplay remained yes/no questions, but with more depth in certain modes, like a "near-death experience course" where your day count could drop to zero, triggering a "臨終" (passing) state, then potentially "reviving" as a zombie-like state before recovering). It retained the cynical humour and warning elements while adding lighter romantic diagnosis aspects.

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COMMENTS

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misha1350

02:50 Apr 7th, 2026Offline

This album was updated on 7th of April, 2026.

Change Log:
- Complete re-rip with proper sample pitch and improved sample quality
- Removed tracks that are essentially duplicate

misha1350

03:35 Apr 3rd, 2026Offline

riheko3606

This album was updated on 13th of August, 2024.

Change Log:
Relogged pack & added "VEX-day - Attract.exe (OST Version)"

Please stop vandalizing gamerips. I'll have to re-log it myself and restore the whole soundtrack.

Mods should take a look at what it is that you're doing - your recent update to Haunted Castle dated March 23rd 2026 also broke everything. I'd suspend your uploads if I were them.

Let others handle it more professionally. You shouldn't be blindly using the likes of vanilla VGMPlay, it's not good enough!

Opapete

09:22 Aug 13th, 2024Offline

Somehow this gamerip now doesn't sound anything like it should anymore, it's faster and higher pitched now.
Hope this gets fixed soon!

riheko3606

11:48 Aug 13th, 2024Offline

This album was updated on 13th of August, 2024.

Change Log:
Relogged pack & added "VEX-day - Attract.exe (OST Version)"