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Hey, remember me? Probably not, but I let you into my hotline server for the last day back when I had an internet connection worth the name. Still trying to save up enough advance cash for a DSL. I'm stuck on my family's dial-up AOL account in the meantime *blech* Well, remember you said awhile back that you would post a URL for me and I said my homepage really sucks? Well, my homepage still really sucks, but it occurred to me that I should take sick and blatant advantage of your offer to plug the website of the game coding group I write music for, Firebell, and to go ahead and say a little about our little group. The website is http://firebell.vintagegaming.com/ Feel free to post the following links to some of my latest written music as well. http://members.xoom.com/Cyberludwig/forest.zip and http://members.xoom.com/Cyberludwig/dremboss.zip respectively. They are in MP3 CD quality format. As if you couldn't guess, they are a forest music and a boss music respectively. These are for our latest game, Dream Quest 2000 which has started off as a pretty blatantly obvious Final Fantasy (older) clone, but has moved well beyond that. The final release will be complete FF-independant and will feature beatiful handdrawn sprite graphics in 640x480 with my own music rendered in MP3s or some such compression (though there's been talk lately of porting to a console system). This however, is all a bunch of hot air at the moment, since the only impressive thing we've really accomplished so far is Dream Create, an RPG maker program that effectively allows you to build your own pre-FF7 style Final Fantasy game. While certainly not even TOUCHing Verge for flexibility, its a hell of a lot easier to use AND it has a built authentic Final Fantasy battle system at that :) Oh yeah, since I'm writing to a Q+A columnist, I should provide some questions. You may have to ask JD about this one, but why is the Swordsman in Ys 4 so teary-eyed? (heh heh), and for something else that most non-cult-favorite-gamers would recognize, what's WITH all the hair in Square games? I mean you have Cloud, in his spikey glory, then Fei in Xenogears has the gravity defying factor. Then someone had the bright idea to combine the two ideas for Ashley in Vagrant Story. He's both spikey AND gravity defying! Are their artists taking lessons from Akira Toriyama or something? Why not? I mean after all he DID the art for Chrono Trigger which is one of their games. While I'll be the first to admit that Toriyama did an uncharacteristically good job on Chrono Trigger (despite the fact that the characters STILL have those god-awful constipated looking smiles). Still, if they had to base art on ANYONE's style it should be Yuki Nobuteru of Escaflowne fame, eh? Oh yeah, speaking of Escaflowne, this http://www.cloudnet.com/~dietzt/mrtvsescaflowne.htm is just about the FUNNIEST thing I've ever seen, if a little long-winded, just like me, eh? |
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Googleshng: |
| To cheat, or not to cheat? |
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Dear Googleshng, I know you don't necessarily like carry overs from the other columnists, but a Matt in the first quickie in yesterday's column asked about playing Diablo 2 on a 233 Pentium. That's the minimum megahertz recommended, but I've been playing it with a mere 166 Pentium with only 48 Megs of RAM and a really old S3 VirGe graphics card (not 3-D). And beat it with the Barbarian yesterday. So if I can, he most likely would be able to too. And I just wanted to tell you that you do excellent work. :) Will Meister (Yes, my real name) |
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Googleshng: |
| Wonder what now? |
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Do you think that the U.S. will have a chance to see Final Fantasy 2 and 3
with the Wonderswan finally coming over here? If the Wonderswan lasts long
enough in the States for them to get translated, that is.. How much do
Wonderswan games cost, anyway? Oh, just a little note to anyone who is interested. You can now find Princess Mononoke at your local Blockbuster. -Nova |
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Googleshng: |
| Shiny thing here! |
| I am playing Chrono Cross as a first-time through. Where do you find all of the "shiny" items, e.g., shiny leaf, shiny dew, etc. I am also trying to figure out how to trade; the strategy guide does not give any hints regarding this, that I can find. My e-mail is ddixon9870@aol.com. I thank you for any assistance that you can give me. |
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Googleshng: |
| Harle |
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Hi Goog! I know you weren't the host of the yesterday's Q&A column, but still... Scar came to the conclusion that Harle is pronounced Har-lee... Well, i have to disagree. Since Harle is French (well, she speaks French half of the time) it would make sense to pronounce her name in French, wouldn't it? So, it should be pronounced without the "e", just "Harl". Sadd |
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Googleshng: |
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Ok, I can't believe how little some people think! I've calculated the maximum attack power of any
character with his/her ultimate weapon plus every stat enhancing item and the plus Ultimecia's HP,
and then subtracted each characters max HP minus her most probable attacks and caluclated that
it is impossible without Junctioning a GF! Hah ha! Even with items and the max # of X potions plus
the ratio of... oh my god I've gone cross-eyed! -Vegeta_Zero "Curse this women-allergy of mine!"-DNA2 |
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Googleshng: |
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Do you know the Muffin Man?
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Doesn't that song end "... who lives on Drury lane"? Hey Chia, are you the Muffin Man? | |||
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Hail and well met,
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Yup. | |||
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this may be silly to ask, but will my import FF9 save file work with the
US FF9 game? |
Almost definately not. | |||
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Hey Goog |
Uh, the same price as any other RPG... $40-$50 I believe, depends a little where you get it. As for where, uh... anywhere really. It's selling out like crazy though. | |||
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Talking Heads?
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80s bands good. | |||
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New Game+ what?
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+ Calcium? | |||
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This may seem like a stupid question, but are there any penalties, hidden or otherwise, for running
away from battles, namely boss battles, in Chrono Cross?
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Your friends will laugh at you? | |||
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The Last Laugh: Eep. It's late. Need to go grab VP. |
Googleshng "Nocturnal" @rpgamer.com
Off I go!
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