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Last Shout - Posted by: NightWolve - Jan. 20, 2010, 09:07:33 AM
OMG! YAAAAAAAAAAY! Great news! History was made yesterday! The Bolshevik Democrats have lost a senate seat, and not just ANY senate seat, but one that was held for almost half-a-century by the infamous Ted "The Red Champion Swimmer" Kennedy (AKA The Cape Cod Orka)! And with it, goes a reliable 60th filibuster-proof vote! Their despotic rule is slowly coming apart! Happy New Year indeed! 2010 is getting started off just right, one less democrat in Congress!! Thank you Obama! He promised "change we can believe in" and now it's finally starting to happen! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
 
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Felghana Patch "Release" Anniversary! Yaay! It's been 3 years!
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Man, time sure flies by, doesn't it ? I neglected to come online this Jan. 29th (which was two Fridays ago) to properly commemorate the day (January 29, 2007 3:21 PM PT) that my unfinished Felghana patch was leaked... How annoying! It's become a tradition for me curiously enough and I almost didn't make time for it. *sniff* Better late than never as I always say!


Well, there she is in action, my preciousss... 3 years and counting, even despite a broken Falcom patch link, and it STILL keeps on patching for any warez-happy freeloading asshole (AKA Ys "fan"), the poor thing, but it's got a little attitude problem though, eh? Wonder where it got that from... Heh-heh.

I know a few of you noticed the message feature but probably weren't aware that I began randomizing different "messages" a few months back. ;) Gotta have at least a little fun with my awesomely spoiled, shitty Ys "fans," ya know ? Incidentally, if you can come up with an "entertaining" (let's say) message, feel free to send it my way - if it's good, I'll add it to the list. It'd have to be 78 characters long so that it fits on one line.

So yeah, it's been 3 years since an unfinished Felghana patch was leaked on GameFAQs in order to "end my greedy donation scheme" as it were... Incidentally, I considered it a BETA but ALPHA could just as well be appropriate. Basically, it was almost finished; it needed some script updates, minor improvements for external image loading, and was simply missing some Mural images pertaining to a part of the game in the Abandoned Mine. Nothing major and it was on track to being finished up late February (a few more weeks, tops), that is, until the leak of course...

Those of you that were around know the story, ...

EDIT IN PROGRESS.

by NightWolve, Feb. 06, 2010, 05:45:46 PM [ Read all ]
News/Info
Ys IV Dubbing Project Revival
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** January 14, 2010

OK, where to begin... Anybody remember the good ole classic, "Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys" ?

The link below will bring you up to speed in the meantime as I'm distracted:

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=7458.msg129376#msg129376


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by NightWolve, Jan. 07, 2010, 12:45:41 AM [ Read all ]
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Look what someone got for Christmas '09!
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Fast forward to about 7 minutes into this video to see. =)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRdUzZzZ8A0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRdUzZzZ8A0</a>

Coincidentally, this is the second time this week I've seen someone get to open and show off an original copy of it in a youtube video. This baby goes back to before I even got the idea of fan-translating PC games... It's ~9 years old or so... Few and far between are those with the privilege and pride of owning it.

by NightWolve, Jan. 14, 2010, 11:40:50 PM [ Read all ]
Falcom Specials
Falcom Weekly Special Feature + Felghana ON SALE FOR 10 BUCKS +S/H!! YESS!
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*UPDATE* 5-25-09 (SOLD OUT!)

Hmm, I'm afraid the Felghana sale is over... The shopping cart button on the Specials page is now red and no longer links to the shop.cgi script, meaning if you were in Japan, you could no longer purchase it. I assume you will also be denied/ignored via email when it comes to international orders so I wouldn't try it... It was supposed to technically be over on the 28th, but I guess they allocated a limited amount of Felghana copies which must've all been purchased...

Aaah, yeah, the name of the red image is ico_soldout-l.gif... SOLD OUT folks, you missed it! Sorry. :(

*UPDATE* 5-24-09

OH MY GAWWWWD! Falcom is selling Felghana for 10 bucks ?!?! WTF ??

I came online moments ago only to find some sort of close out sale for Felghana! It would appear you have up until the 28th to buy it for a mere 980 YEN which amounts to $10.39 USD!!! Yeah, THAT'S RIGHT, a little over 10 bucks!!! I dunno what's going on, but that's what it says!!! You'd better learn how to use my FWS feature to place an order for this if you'd like to have the real thing! The Item ID you need to use is 866A and the title is 'イース -フェルガナの誓い-　普及版' along with the price 980 Y. You simply change those values on the FWS feature page, fill out all the other info, press the Create button and that would result in the proper email you would need to do this.



*BEGIN* 5-21-09

http://www.ysutopia.net/falcomspecial/

If you haven't already been examining my little automated Falcom Weekly Special feature, this is worth a mention right quick since there is an unusual sale going on... I'm afraid I haven't been around too much lately and my attention was placed elsewhere last time I was, otherwise I would've posted it sooner. At any rate, yeah, this is your best chance to buy the game new if you'd like to own the real thing. *hint hint* $34 USD is the cheapest I've ever seen it!

So anyhow, what is this FWS feature at the bottom left of the site? Well, I wanted to use this chance to give you a quick rundown of it as well as to get some feedback for improvements (though I'm sure that'll be yet another futile request). Its purpose is simply to a) help you construct a proper email to place an international order with Falcom in general, and b) keep you instantly updated as to the current weekly (sometimes longer) sale that Falcom offers.

The automated aspect works like this:

1) Every 6 hours the server downloads the official page:

http://www.falcom.co.jp/mailorder/special/special.html

and caches it locally to here:

http://www.ysutopia.net/special/falcom/index.php

2) Using the cached local copy, the HTML image tag for the Weekly Special is parsed out, saved, and I use that to create the FWS block you see at the bottom left every time this site is viewed. Thus, if you see a new/different image, you know that Falcom just put up a new sale (Totally automated, I usually won't ever have to do anything unless Falcom changes the original page enough to break the parsing PHP code) and by clicking said image, you'll be taken to the page to access the feature in full.

Alright, now if you click the image, you'll be taken to the first link I pasted. This is a form-based and javascript run feature to help you in creating the proper email needed. Using the data from the current special, the main output textbox is defaulted to what you would need to order the current special as you'll see. Should become self-explanatory once you play around with it... It is by no means finished: it needs 1) a tips section, with info like how to use the receipt number so you don't have to keep emailing your CC number per order, etc., 2) a better appearance formatting which perhaps you can help out with, 3) any other relevant information to help get the job done right, etc...

Well, check the feature out, play around with it, and lemme know what you think on how I could possibly improve it. We need as many folks who have successfully placed orders with Falcom using this method to provide feedback.

by NightWolve, May. 21, 2009, 03:24:38 AM [ Read all ]
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Ys Month @ "Dwelling of Duels"
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OK, so I get a drive-by IM today with this link and I'm like WTF is this ? What do I see here ?? Actual, productive Ys fans creating, contributing something as opposed to the usual run-of-the-mill bottom-feeding variety that I'm so used to that pretty much only know how to do one thing (besides bitch): pirate download... I must be dreaming I thought... Heh. How refreshing! These fans are actually uploading something, yesss, uploading, and what are they uploading? Something they created: Fanmade music arrangements from various Ys soundtracks!

For background, here's an explanation of this site verbatim from their FAQ since I was very unfamiliar with this sort of activity: "This is Dwelling of Duels - a monthly (sometimes bi-monthly) competition for VG cover artists who play live instruments. It is hosted by VGmix, a site dedicated to fan arrangements of video game music. The purpose of Dwelling of Duels is to provide impetus for artists to make songs by hosting friendly competitions with other artists, and to motivate artists to complete and release songs by having regular deadlines and monthly themes."

Well, the month of March apparently was Ys month and it has yielded wonderful results (in my view) that were a fine, pleasant distraction for the day! As such, I thought I'd host some of my favorite tracks here before that page and its links get moved around. Check out the other tracks, by all means, though.

My Top 5:


(While I placed Winged Boy last, I have to note though that I absolutely love the original Ryo arrangement that was used for the Ys III Turbo-CD, and the Felghana version is alright too.)

by NightWolve, Mar. 28, 2009, 07:56:58 PM [ Read all ]
Falcom Specials
Ys VII ( or Ys ζ )... for the PSP...
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Falcom made official its plans for Ys 7 last Saturday (March 7th) at an event in Akihabara, Japan. According to 4gamer.net, it's slated for a fall release.

http://www.4gamer.net/games/044/G004486/20090307003/
http://www.4gamer.net/games/044/G004486/20090307003/

Update: Further information, sadly, reveals that both Ys VII and the Ys I&II Chronicles remake are targeted for the PSP platform... not PC. That rules out my interest... *sniff*

http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/146/146982/



Ys VII:
Release Date: October 2009 (tentative)
Platform: PSP
Price: 6,090 yen (tax included)

Ys I&II Chronicles:
Release Date: May 2009 (scheduled)
Platform: PSP
Price: 5,040 yen (tax included)

by NightWolve, Mar. 12, 2009, 09:42:24 AM [ Read all ]

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