O. B. A. M. A. = ONE BIG ASS MISTAKE, AMERICA! *cackles* I love this guy's name, FOR REALS!!! There is almost NO f'ing limit to the fun you can have with it! HAHAHAHAHA!
Thousands of hours of work spanning 7
years, all for the Falcom fanboy in you! Ah, but who gives a shit, right? Not YOU,
THAT'S for sure! ONCE a warez free-for-me freeloader, ALWAYS a warez free-for-me
freeloader! "I ain't donating jack shit for this, biotch! Just make another
damn patch already or finish Felghana for Christ's sake! THEN I'll think about
donating... well, maybe, AHAHAHAHAHA!!"
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 nearly EVERY DAY 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.
You heard right BTW, ever since it was "released" 3 years ago and continues to make its way around the world, it's installed DAILY (~5-15 installations a day!), a fun fact I'll go into more further down. So even as I'm typing this, right now, some a-hole somewhere just finished his torrent download of Felghana and got done running the patch. I do not exaggerate! Purty awesome, doncha think, it spreading like a virus nonstop ?? I suppose one can consider this a "successful" patch, *THE* most successful patch I produced in fact, that is, if your gauging is purely on the basis of daily, worldwide consumption.
Now, I know a few of you noticed my little 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-ransom scheme" as it were, costing me anywhere from $1000-$1500... Didn't take you lousy fucktards long to go right back to your freeloading once it got loose the way that it did, that's for sure (you know who you are!). Looking back, I'm not sure if it was proper to consider it an ALPHA or BETA now that I think about it (always went with BETA though), but it definitely wasn't a release candidate (RC) - douchebags made that choice for me, sorry to say. 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 or early March 2007 (a few more weeks, tops), that is, until the leak of course...
Fast forward to about 7 minutes into this video to see. =)
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
(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.)
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.
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*
O. B. A. M. A. = ONE BIG ASS MISTAKE, AMERICA! *cackles* I love this guy's name, FOR REALS!!! There is almost NO f'ing limit to the fun you can have with it! HAHAHAHAHA!
Hey Sanhime, I haven't see ya around in ages! Well, that's very cool, so you did your small part to help take away the "sacred" Kennedy seat from them, eh ? Bet that made 'em mad, FIGHTIN' MAD!!! Explosive Billy "the Bomb-thrower" Ayers mad I'd say!!! Heh-heh. You know, I smell something very potent these days with our miserable malcontent friends: FEAR! As in, what's going to happen come November. BTW, I wouldn't use "democratic agenda" to characterize this/them. That's an abuse of the word 'democratic' frankly as they represent anything but... These are New Left 1960's throwbacks that are running the party. They're statists, driven by a type of Neo-Marxism, that hate democracy as much as they hate capitalism because both essentially pick winners and losers and they don't like being on the losing end when the voters have their say, so they do anything they can to insulate their agenda from democratic accountability by packing all the bureaucracies, the courts, with their shills/lapdogs to carry it out long after they've lost an election... When it comes to this miserable failure of a president, literally the worst, most expensive president in all of American history, we're gonna be paying a price at least 20-30 plus years in terms of the cumulative effect all his judicial appointments will have... (It's because of the two B.J. "Bubba" Clinton appointments that terrorists in Gitmo have gained access to the federal courts.) I sure hope he's a one-termer and doesn't get another Supreme Court appointment cause we're fucked otherwise. Just look at 'im, he's not qualified to run a 7-11 let alone the presidency of these United States... He's a commie punk lawyer/street agitator that can read a good teleprompter, that's about it. He knows how to sign whatever bill Nancy "the Stretch" Pelosi and Dirty Harry Reid bring him. He soooo smart! Smartest president we ever had according to the freaks!! What a disaster...
As resident, voter and campaign worker for Senator Scott Brown, I am prod to say that it is the beginning of the end for Obama's and the Democratic's agenda. God bless America.
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
Eh, trying to finish the upgrade to the latest SMF. The YsFire template has to be rebuilt. Mostly though, the FWS Mailorder feature has gotten some improvements. Oh, I did finally add a generic Contact Me form for everyone that never managed to find my email address... You know, my really really hard to find email address that's in the ReadMe of EVERY Ys patch I've ever made...
Signed by: 
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.
