New Scenario 2 Script Translations!

New Scenario 2 Script Translations!

You may not remember, but a few months ago I posted news that a kind fan (and former member of the Aspinia Team, if my memory serves me correctly) had offered to translate some of the ‘missing’ sections of the Scenario 2 Script… well, lo and behold, they’re here!

Many, many thanks to Beyd for his hard work on Section 1-9 and 5-2 – they’re very nicely translated. He also says there are more to come, so keep your eyes peeled, people, I’ll be adding them as I receive them!

I also intend to do more updates tomorrow, as I’ve had the Shining Soul script sitting around for almost half a year now 😉 I think the game’s been out long enough for me to put the European release’s script up now.

A few other areas I plan to update tomorrow too, but we’ll see how it goes 😉

Shining Soul II Released & More News

Shining Soul II Released & More News

Today sees the release of Shining Soul II in Japan, and with a bit of luck my copy of the game will be arriving in the next week for me to review. Sadly, Sega did not respond to my requests for further info or a review copy of the game, so it’ll be a post-release review. Sega Japan have also updated their Shining Soul II minisite today to include a Multiplayer Comic and new cool Desktop/icon downloads on their ‘Special’ page.

There’s also a rather interesting page (which I hope to have translated, though I’m not sure I’m able to do it) or two with information from Shining Soul II’s creator, including what seems to be a bit of a history of the Shining series and some rather cool pictures (I wonder if they had all of those to hand, or if they took some from my scans at SFC? *lol*). If anyone’s able to translate the info, I’d love to post it here.

They have also added a form to their website, allowing owners of Shining Soul II to enter the contest via this, instead of sending in the registration card from the game. However, only entrants within Japan will have the chance of winning the prize! Looks like I’ll have to ask Rei to enter for me 😉

Shining Soul II News

Shining Soul II News

Sega Japan have updated their Shining Soul II minisite today with some exciting new info! I was beginning to wonder whether they’d have some kind of contest, like the one for ‘Yogurt’s Little Box’ which they ran during the early days of Shining Soul’s release. Indeed, they are! This time they have a ‘Shining Soul II GBA SP Campaign’ – presumably it will once again be a case of sending in the registration card from the game, only this time entrants have the chance to win one of 100 Shining Soul II GBA cases, or one of 50 GBA SPs.

Not only have they announced this contest today, but also they’ve added a section about the game’s producer to the Special Page, which I’ve not had time to translate as yet, and started working on their FAQ – there are now 17 Q&A’s available, all in Japanese of course. I’ll try to translate these when I have more time, and put them up here for anyone who imports the game.

Regular Update

Regular Update

Still quite busy, working on a battle system for the SFC forums, so I’ll have to keep this update brief too (and a day late again, sorry… I’ll try to get back on track when my various projects are out of the way!)

As usual there’s a new MP3, new poll (still has some kind of error I think, yet to solve it!) and a new comic strip courtesy of Cull 🙂 I still need to get around to archiving the news etc. Will try to soon! Also, found some new Shining items to add to the Collectables section. Again, will do this ASAP!

Only a couple of weeks left to get in your entries for this month’s contest – the response has been great so far, though it seems the questions may be causing problems for some of you! I’ve also received a couple of rather nice donations recently in the form of contest prizes, and intend to have another big Christmas contest this year 🙂

In Shining news, various Japanese magazines have reviewed Shining Soul II (seems Sega were unwilling to let me review it early 🙁 ) and given it quite reasonable scores, around 8/10 on average. Here’s hoping it’s as good as they say it is! I’ll give you the full lowdown when I receive my copy in a few weeks time 🙂

No news from Atlus of late concerning Shining Soul’s USA release date, but it’s still scheduled for September and I’m trying to get more information for you all!

In Fanwork news, the Tatakai website has been updated and the project is progressing well. Tester requests are still welcome, but I cannot emphasize enough that anyone wanting to help test the project should read the website in full before applying!

Regular Update

Regular Update

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, after all the downtime 😉 And I’m sorry to say that it’s not really a complete update, I’ve just been too busy 🙁 But things’ll be back on track soon, fear not!

So for this fortnight, we have a new MP3, new poll (it seems there may be a slight error when you vote at the moment, I’m looking into it… your vote should still get through though) and (finally!) a new contest, as well as the winner of the April-July contest being announced. No new comic strip today folks, sorry 🙁

I’ve got lots of stuff to update here, and rest assured it will be done before long: adding new collectables to the list; updating my collection; updating release info (US Shining Soul cover art, Japanese Shining Soul II cover art); updating the links database etc. I’m sorry I’ve not had time to do those just yet. Oh, and I also need to archive some of the old news!

Gotta go for now, but I hope you like the new contest – I’ve been preparing the prizes for this for months now!

SFC Update Delayed

SFC Update Delayed

Due to unforseen circumstances, today’s SFC update will be postponed until tomorrow – sorry! Yes, I did get the Yog plushies finished off for the contest ;P See the SFC Fanwork Forum for pics 🙂

Shining Soul USA News

Shining Soul USA News

Atlus have put up a page about Shining Soul on their site. Nothing really new or exciting there (though it’s nice to see a decent picture of the cover design), but always good to know they’re still hard at work on it! I hope to be getting a review copy sometime prior to the release, so I will of course keep you as informed as I can 😀

Right, off to finish those Yogurt plushies now, so I can prepare the new contest later today!