Shining Force Central

Shining Force Chronicle Site Launched!

Posted on 26 April 2005 by Moogie

Just a quickie, as I have lots on today. Expect more of an update later in the week!

Sega Japan today opened their Shining Force Chronicle site – it is without a shadow of a doubt a remake of Gaiden I, and as you can see from the main page, Gaidens II & III are on the horizon too! The graphics and menus have of course changed a bit – and some of the portraits look a bit off, but I don’t doubt this’ll do well in Japan – shame we’ll likely never see it in our own countries 🙁

With so many remakes, perhaps there is a chance of a new SFIII one day – but I’m sure KnightOfDragon’s patch will be available long before then 🙂

Final Conflict Patch: Urgent Help Required!

Posted on 19 April 2005 by Moogie

As you probably know, I’ve had some big issues in real life which delayed my work on the script for the Final Conflict patch. I’m close to being finished with it, but at the last minute disaster has struck.

z80’s ISP is going down and he will be offline for at least a month, but at present indefinately. He has provided me with all his notes etc on the project and asked me to find a suitable replacement for him to realise the dream of Final Conflict in English.

Not being too techy with this stuff, I don’t even really know quite what I’m looking for – someone who’s good with technical stuff, programming, z80 compression (maybe, maybe his notes/programs negate the need for that?), someone who has experience of ROM hacking. By that, I don’t just mean someone who’s edited tiles in a game or two – I think we’ve all done that 😉

Serious applicants only – a few names come to mind as potential candiates. I will send all the documents through to whoever is chosen, and hopefully it’ll all make sense to them!

BTW – if I get any more messages hassling me about the progress on this, I’ll deliberately delay it. I’m sick of “it’s been weeks, why isn’t it done?”, “why did you lie about it?”, “I can do it for you, tell me what I need to download” (I’ll tell you what you need to ‘download’: some patience and a bit more age :p )

Not much else to report at this time – haven’t received my Neo yet, don’t really care. Shining Road Scenario 4 is now out in Japan, but we can’t play it >.<;; In SFC news, we're still around US$50 away from the hosting fund target - just a couple of weeks left now until the bill arrives in my inbox, so if you'd still like to donate, please feel free to via the support page.

New fanart, desktops and other news

Posted on 7 April 2005 by Moogie

First of all, I’d like to thank you for bearing with me during my recent absence. Real life is a little tough at the moment, and I appreciate the support various members have offered me despite my keeping the details of the situation out of the public eye. Thanks folks. I hope the situation improves in leaps and bounds.

I’d also like to thank everyone who has so kindly donated to the SFC hosting fund – we are now only around US$50 away from the goal of US$360 total, and there’s still a month to go before I have to send it along to Smoove. Hurrah! Of course, any contributions beyond that amount will be used towards the cost of prizes & postage over the next year – it all adds up. I don’t know where this site would be without you all 🙂

Now, on to the updates for today!
A few lovely new additions to the fanart sections for Shining the Holy Ark, Shining Force III Scenario 2 and our first piece of Neo fanart too – all beautiful. Big thanks to Valkyrie and Belial from the SFC forums for these submissions. I’m sure you’ll all want to go and post your comments about these gorgeous pieces!

SFCer Aku has also been busy, and produced two lovely new Shining Tears desktops which have been added today (along with a bunch of SF Neo desktops from Sega Japan’s site *yawn*). Thanks very much 🙂

Oh, I’ve also replied to a handful of Mailbag messages – keep ’em coming folks!

In Shining news, Sega Japan have updated their Shining Force Neo FAQ several times during my abscence. To be brutally honest, I can’t be bothered to Babelfish or read it, I’d rather get on with some more of the script for the Final Conflict patch 😉 Some cute lil’ chibi SF Neo pics on the FAQ though 🙂

The Shining Tears Comic Anthology book has been released in Japan, and hopefully my copy will be arriving soon to scan and upload 🙂 Until then, enjoy looking at the pretty artwork on the cover, here.

Lastly, Sega Japan have added two more characters to the Shining Road: To the Force site, in the form of Reimia, a pretty little Shrine Maiden of unknown age whose ancestors were snake-people; and Enkuu an aged monkeyman who is a military officer in the Bestia Army.
Since we’re unlikely to get the chance to play this game without going to Japan, I’ve asked Rei whether he knows of any way mobile games can be emulated/exported. Fingers crossed!

Okay, I think that about covers it all for now 😉

My next task for today is to get some more work done on the FC script for the patch – shouldn’t take me too long 🙂