There are a few little secrets to my trade. Things you can't learn about doing Q&A just by reading it. I think I'll share one of those things now. Every once in a while, I make a mistake, or there's a question addressed to the readership as a whole. When this happens, I find out about the mistake immediately, because as a whole, you people are unbelievably friendly and helpful. The only problem is, there's so many helpful people out there! 8) So, if there's something I don't know, and I ask, "Does anyone out there know?" literally 100 people are going to send me almost the exact same letter. So then I have a mailbox full of this one answer repeated 100 times, and maybe 5 actual questions. I mean, I really honestly appreciate it, but it really hurts the column when it happens. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't respond to open questions in the column, or that you shouldn't correct me when I'm wrong. All I'm saying is that when you do, make it a footnote on an actual question please. The exception to this is when I personally officially ask something. That I go out of my way to avoid except when it's an unbelievably obscure question, or something that has more than one right answer, like, say, what's everyone's strategy to get past suchandsuch.

Anyway, tomorrow Silkenray is going to be guest host again. Yeah yeah. Her excuse is that last time she was hosting because she did that sig pic, and this is because everyone on staff gets to guest host once. Yeah that's what I said too, but none of the other newbies are around and I was assuming they would be. Plus she made 3 more sig pics so now I have one for each day of the week.

Googleshng:
Well, you thought wrong. I've heard this elsewhere but it doesn't apply in Japan. When FF6 was translated, a whole bunch of names were changed. For example, in Japan, Terra is called Tina. Also, I seem to recall that the kana for Squall can be translated as Skull instead, which isn't as dorky. That leaves just Cloud. Not much of a pattern there. Also, the names in FF9 all seem quite odd so they'll probably be changed at some point, heck, they might change the main character to say, Sparky, and then your pattern would be maintained. 8)

Googleshng:
A lot of people sent me stuff about how expensive Chrono Trigger is on eBay or at FuncoLand. To these people I can't help but say WELL DUH! 8) FuncoLand rips off more people than any other chain of stores in existance, and eBay is an auction site. You can still get Chrono Trigger for $10 bucks though no problem. You people just aren't looking in the right places. I find, in this area at least, that the best place to find old games is to find a big store near by that sells videogames in addition to other stuff. Kaybee Toys, Toys R Us, K Mart, WalMart, those kinds of places. They tend to have a huge bin somewhere of games for every system all uniformly priced somewhere in the $10-$20 range. It's really amazing what you can find in those if you go scrounging often enough. I see Chrono Trigger all the time, heck, that's where I got my copy of Phantasy Star 2! No wait, it was Shadowrun (SNES), but still cool.

Googleshng:
Heh, there's also one that let's you play SMS games on a Genesis. Anyway, the obvious answer is Phantasy Star, good luck finding it though. Let me think of what else there is. Hmm... I can't think of the names of any others right now, but you might also want to look for Golden Axe Warrior (it's a lot like the original Zelda) Wonder Boy 3, which is just plain cool, but be ready for me to try to buy it off you if I ever get any money, and well, Zillion is about as much of an RPG as SotN. 8)

Googleshng:
As has been said many times in columns past, the title quotes are just one of those spontanious sillt things, there's nobody in charge of setting them, no specific time they stay up there, and nobody on staff keeps track of them. Although this is never said by me, because once I found it out, I started personally changing them every week when I put up Mondays column. I don't keep an archive though. That quote I can place off the top of my head however: "You are in the presence of octopus royalty" -Ultros, FF6. Now where's MY tilde? Oh, here it is. ~ By the way, SOMEONE out there MUST be keeping an archive of title quotes. Please tell me whoever you are! 8)

Googleshng:
Now (yeah, now after having everyone tell me) I know what everyone's talking about. If you want to see that movie with out downloading a movie ripping program, here's how:
Take the Making of Lunar CD, put it in the PSX, turn on the power.
Then, as soon as you're past the logos and the actual movies start, hit the open button.
The movie will stop, and so will the CD, take it out, and stick in Disk 2 of Xenogears.
Now you can close it, and it'll play the ending, various disk 2 movies, and, somewhere in there, the Small of 2 Pieces music video. It fits the tune, but the choices of imagery are just plain funny. It's odd that the song is translated though since there's no way to get at it from within the game... to my knowledge. Wait, it's not So2P, it's Stars of Tears. Glad I fixed this before more than one person pointed it out. 8)

Googleshng:
Well, what I print is based on what I get. If half a dozen people all send me something about Escaflowne being on Fox, I'm going to print it, whether it's relavent to RPGs or not. Besides, it kind of is because Escaflowne is a lot like a Square game in terms of plot and general look. 8) Well, still, if many people ask something, I tend to print one. As for the high anime content yesterday, well, people sent me questions about anime and very few about RPGs. So, quit whining. 8)