Damon D has once again been working on the translation of Scenario 2, and has finished off the villager’s conversations in the Dusty Village script section.

In other Shining Force III news, you might have noticed recently that The Home of the Shining Force (Wolfgang’s great site) has vanished! Unfortunately, his host was recently shut down and he has had to relocate. But, as we’ve almost come to expect from Wolfgang, a new URL brings with it a new addition to his site, and this time is no exception – he’s working on a new Shining Force III site, with absolutely loads of pictures from in the game itself. I’ve yet to update the links in the database, and don’t have time right now, but I’m sure you can find your way there from this new link to his site! Great work Wolfgang, can’t wait to see how the SFIII site progresses in the coming weeks while you finish it off!

Wolfgang’s Site

More thanks are owed to Damon D today, as he’s now supplied his revised summary of Scenario 2’s first chapter! More will be added as he supplies them, so keep an eye on the site! Damon has also revised the villagers’ text for the Dusty Village script section.

It seems the interest in translating the missing parts of Shining Force III’s script is on the up again! Some of you may well remember DamonD, the chap who wrote up summaries of the events in Scenarios 2 and 3 some years back. Well, he’s back on the scene, and has finished up the missing section of Dusty Village script, and is also working on revising his old chapter summaries, to be posted here at SFC! Great work Damon! Thanks also to our dear Aspartate for doing a couple of revisions to Damon’s translation. If anyone reading this is good with Japanese and has an interest in helping out, Damon is trying to get something organised in this topic at the SFC Forums!

In Shining news, it seems Shining Soul may have finally hit the shops in the USA, or at least it would seem from my visit to GameStop’s site this morning 😉 If you haven’t already seen it, SFC’s review is here.

And last, but not least, I shall try to get a decent update together in the near future 🙂 Already have a comic strip in mind, just haven’t had the chance to get it together. Time really does fly as you get older, I can’t believe how quickly the weeks are going (between updates ;)).

• New midis for Shining the Holy Ark, Shining Force III Scenarios 1, 3 & Premium Disc, Shining Wisdom and Shining Force CD, courtesy of Magnus Andersson.
• New Shining Force midi courtesy of Andrew Nguyen.
• Collectables & collection updated.
• Some new links added to the database, including this rather cool piece of Shining Miscellany from Aspartate!

Still more updates to come 🙂

No news as yet on the forthcoming Shining Force release for GBA, although I have contacted Sega and THQ. I’ll continue to try to get us some more info!
Also, big thanks to my good friend Rei for being so kind as to try out that odd Famicom ‘Final Conflict’ cart I picked up. He’s grabbed some screenshots for us, and it seems that the game is nothing more than a mislabeled cart – the pictures are available here. Well, at least it didn’t cost too much, eh? Thanks again, Rei!

Nothing else to report at this time, and since we have another viewing of our flat in the next couple of hours, I’d best go tidy up some more 😉