I’ve moved the old news into the archives now 🙂
As you can probably see, my PayPal account is now fully operational, and ready to accept donations. Don’t feel obliged in any way though – I’ve only added this due to the requests of several people. Any donations received will primarily be used towards the costs involved in contest prizes, such as getting them & posting them. But who knows? If I get sufficient donations, maybe I can make this site my fulltime job (wishful thinking!)…

Anyway, on to the real news stuff now.

My Shining Force II Guide has now been completely redesigned, and although some areas still need things added to them, it’s already bigger than ever 🙂

The message boards now have well over 500 members and are active as ever, so if you haven’t already joined, why not do so now?

As always, with this fornightly update comes a new MP3, comic and poll for you to enjoy… and a warning that you now have less than 2 weeks in which to enter this month’s contest!

…but this fortnight, that’s not all you’re getting from SFC! I’ve added a new section for each Shining game, “midi sound files”, and there are plenty for you to download. Some of these have moved from my Shining Force 2 site, however there are dozens of new tracks, provided mostly by the talented Magnus Andersson. So, if you want to check them out, have a look at the game pages.

I’ve arranged yet more cool prizes, and I’m pleased to announce that the contest leading up to Christmas will have a whole bunch of prizes. I love Christmas, so I’d like to try and make as many people happy as possible at that time of year 🙂

Woohoo! Two lots of good news today! First off, the redesign of my Shining Force II site is about 95% complete, and so I expect to have it online early next week.

The second news? The credit card statement finally arrived today. So, I’m now happy to announce that I’m now able to accept donations for this site via PayPal. At the moment the money is likely to be going towards new prizes to give away in the contests & posting them out 🙂 Of course, if I get lots of money maybe I’ll be able to give up my job & just spend all my time working on this site! My PayPal ID is [INCEMAIL]

I’ve created some new banners, and encourage you to link to SFC to spead the word around! Let the whole world discover the wonders of Shining Force! Click here to get the linking code now!
Also, I’ve added Shining Force Chronology to the main navigation 🙂 Some new bits to be added to that section very soon.

The redesign of my Shining Force II site is coming along well, and I hope to have it online in a week or two.

The winner of the July Contest has been selected! Click here to find out who the lucky winner is!
Also, I’ve done some serious work on the Shining Force Chronology section (linked in the “About Shining Force” section… but maybe I’ll add it to the main navigation too, sometime).
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Update: Well, the Chronology has only been online a few hours, and already I’ve had some useful input from SilverwolfX… have another look at it, if you haven’t already.

Yet another fornight has passed! The July contest is now over, and the winner will be announced on Saturday, 18th August 2001.
I’ve finally moved some news to the News Archive, but I’ve yet to add a few links to the directory. Also, my apologies to anyone who had problems submitting their site over the last few days. Since I moved some files onto another server, the formmail script needed some changes. It’s all working fine now though.

Don’t forget to check out this month’s contest, the prize is a really rare piece indeed, a true collector’s item. I’ll say no more here, you can read all about it on the Contest page.

I’m currently working on a complete redesign of my Shining Force II site. More news on that soon, I expect 🙂

The page about my collection has been updated to include several new additions.

Not much else to report other than the fact that I’ve been able to arrange a few more cool prizes for contests… so I should be okay for about the next year! Oh, and still no word on my PayPal account, for accepting donations. Watch this space!

Well, that’s it for today. Hope you enjoy the Comic Strip, Poll & MP3 of the Fortnight!

Well, the redesign has now been online for 2 whole weeks 🙂 Feedback so far has been very positive!

You’ll find I’ve added a new “MP3 of the Fortnight”, new comic strip and new poll… so get voting! The MP3 file will be moving servers on Thursday/Friday, so there may be a small period of downtime then… my apologies.

Um… not much else to report really… I’ve got a few link submissions to check out and add, and more translation to do. Other than that, I’m planning to redesign my Shining Force II site, build a Shining Force CD site, finish/redesign my Shining Force site and then redesign and re-launch the Campaign. I’d also like to expand my Shining in the Darkness site, but that’s on low priority. Guess I’ll be finished in a few years then 😉
Tomorrow (or thereabouts), I’ll start offloading some of the old news into the news archive, which I’m probably going to organise by month.

Only 2 weeks left to get your Contest entries in, too… had some nice pieces of artwork so far, but maybe you can do better! Why not give it a go?