THEORY: the exact day DOA6 development started

WAZAAAAA

Well-Known Member
By analysing the DOA6.exe file with a resource extractor a bit (used Resource Hacker) I found the login splash screen picture.
That picture still had some old metadata buried within (used ExifToolGUI).
Code:
---- File ----
File Size                       : 1498 kB
MIME Type                       : image/png
---- PNG ----
Image Width                     : 1920
Image Height                    : 1080
Bit Depth                       : 8
Color Type                      : RGB
Compression                     : Deflate/Inflate
Filter                          : Adaptive
Interlace                       : Noninterlaced
Profile Name                    : DELL UP2716D_180402_Left.icm
Pixels Per Unit X               : 2835
Pixels Per Unit Y               : 2835
Pixel Units                     : meters
---- ICC_Profile ----
Profile CMM Type                :
Profile Version                 : 4.2.0
Profile Class                   : Display Device Profile
Color Space Data                : RGB
Profile Connection Space        : XYZ
Profile Date Time               : 2018:04:02 04:48:04
Profile File Signature          : acsp
Primary Platform                : Microsoft Corporation
CMM Flags                       : Not Embedded, Independent
Device Manufacturer             :
Device Model                    :
Device Attributes               : Reflective, Glossy, Positive, Color
Rendering Intent                : Perceptual
Connection Space Illuminant     : 0.9642 1 0.82491
Profile Creator                 : Unknown (XRCM)
Profile ID                      : 846a5c2fe478fa1af58423fc32be1f59
Profile Description             : DELL UP2716D_180402_Left.icm
Chromatic Adaptation            : 1.04782 0.0229 -0.05006 0.02956 0.99045 -0.01703 -0.0092 0.01503 0.7524
Profile Copyright               : Copyright X-Rite, Inc.
Media White Point               : 0.9642 0.99998 0.8252
Luminance                       : 76.0304 79.99878 87.07617
Red Matrix Column               : 0.59023 0.265 0.00508
Green Matrix Column             : 0.2225 0.69162 0.05385
Blue Matrix Column              : 0.15149 0.04337 0.76627
Red Tone Reproduction Curve     : (Binary data 40 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Green Tone Reproduction Curve   : (Binary data 40 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Blue Tone Reproduction Curve    : (Binary data 40 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Video Card Gamma                : (Binary data 1583 bytes, use -b option to extract)
---- XMP ----
XMP Toolkit                     : Adobe XMP Core 5.6-c142 79.160924, 2017/07/13-01:06:39
Document ID                     : adobe:docid:photoshop:7e757191-f5c2-11e7-9bbd-ac19200b3e68
Instance ID                     : xmp.iid:aefbd2a8-8afe-2947-9161-4d27bcfef22a
Original Document ID            : 518AEF60E8BD9E02D0F605928EAE8107
Format                          : image/png
Legacy IPTC Digest              : E8F15CF32FC118A1A27B67ADC564D5BA
Color Mode                      : RGB
ICC Profile Name                :
Create Date                     : 2017:12:08 14:50:40+09:00
Modify Date                     : 2018:05:28 14:42:10+09:00
Metadata Date                   : 2018:05:28 14:42:10+09:00
Creator Tool                    : Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows)
Image Width                     : 3840
Image Height                    : 2160
Photometric Interpretation      : RGB
Orientation                     : Horizontal (normal)
Samples Per Pixel               : 3
X Resolution                    : 72
Y Resolution                    : 72
Resolution Unit                 : inches
Exif Version                    : 0221
Color Space                     : Uncalibrated
Exif Image Width                : 1920
Exif Image Height               : 1080
History Action                  : saved*converted*derived*saved*saved*converted*derived*saved*saved*converted*derived*saved*saved
History Instance ID             : xmp.iid:bbb85b9d-6cf1-3044-a75b-5e8dbc22897f*xmp.iid:9ba76837-8b8b-814c-bccc-0fad73edc2e8*xmp.iid:37a7c2ae-521a-c14a-a90e-68b587abf154*xmp.iid:ebddf091-df96-0948-9110-6e1fff86275f*xmp.iid:9f1111c2-df87-5c47-be9a-b158798fa12a*xmp.iid:c3aae60c-0480-f040-b343-aa6ed743ec90*xmp.iid:aefbd2a8-8afe-2947-9161-4d27bcfef22a
History When                    : 2017:12:08 14:52:50+09:00*2017:12:08 14:52:50+09:00*2017:12:12 10:30:50+09:00*2017:12:12 10:30:50+09:00*2018:01:10 13:55:57+09:00*2018:01:10 13:55:57+09:00*2018:05:28 14:42:10+09:00
History Software Agent          : Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows)*Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows)*Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows)*Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows)*Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows)*Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 (Windows)*Adobe Photoshop CC (Windows)
History Changed                 : /*/*/*/*/*/*/
History Parameters              : from image/jpeg to application/vnd.adobe.photoshop*converted from image/jpeg to application/vnd.adobe.photoshop*from application/vnd.adobe.photoshop to image/jpeg*converted from application/vnd.adobe.photoshop to image/jpeg*from image/jpeg to image/png*converted from image/jpeg to image/png
Derived From Instance ID        : xmp.iid:9f1111c2-df87-5c47-be9a-b158798fa12a
Derived From Document ID        : adobe:docid:photoshop:1662fe0a-dedc-11e7-8590-e6d973994b68
Derived From Original Document ID: 518AEF60E8BD9E02D0F605928EAE8107
Document Ancestors              : REDACTED
Bits Per Sample                 : 8*8*8
---- Composite ----
Image Size                      : 1920x1080
Megapixels                      : 2.1
What I find interesting is the "Create Date" section: 2017-12-08. That's one week before that year's NEC tournament when they laid DOA5 to rest!
The month was confirmed in a famitsu interview https://www.famitsu.com/news/201806/09158656.html
The picture reminds me of the teaser of the """upcoming""" Tekken X Street Fighter game, which is the only thing we know about the game really, and that's why it makes me think about the beginning of development lol https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/18j37pigrqe2kjpg.jpg

Technicalities aside it's a pretty cool picture of Kasumi that makes for a good wallpaper btw, high quality, 1920x1080, PNG
 
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YEH

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but you have to go back few more months because that's a render which means the concepts were already done, character design and engine, story's main concepts and such

Edit: good find btw
 

WAZAAAAA

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Hella silly update. Never thought I would post here again lmao



Alright so, there's an unused fighter card inside the game files which reads like this:
I WILL FIGHT FOR WHAT I WANT, AND WHAT I LOVE UNTIL THE END OF TIME.
Searching that exact sentence on the internet actually finds some stuff. This is the oldest result I was able to find... an inspirational mug with these words:
I am a fighter
I will fight for what I want and
what I love until the end of time.
Never give up.
Never back down.
I'm a fighter tagline... and the motivational quote word for word... no doubt this mug has inspired someone at Team Ninja's headquarters, maybe they had some of those in their offices lmfao

Anyway according to the Last-Modified HTTP header of the server hosting the mug picture, it is dated 2017-04-24

SOURCES:
in-game fighter card
p5VEny8.png


https://www.gearbubble.com/iamafighter (I had to use multiple search engines to find it, Yandex actually worked better than Google)
front.png




man my shitposts are on a whole other level at this point
 

KwonJigglypuff

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This story regarding the genesis of Dead or Alive 6 around an inspirational mug completely makes up for the silly story mode they offered.
:nico: Releasing the unfinished story scenes would equal real redemption for the missing content of the game and would collerate the fan support which have been testified lately despite the bizarre communication from the team...
 
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