I’ve updated my collection, and included my “want list”.
The Shining Soul section has had some small updates, in the form of cover scans… I’ll add a review later on.

The Shining Merchandise section has had some updates.

I’ve begun work on the “Shining Dev” site, for the Final Conflict re-make project, and have contacted Sega & Camelot to discuss gaining permission for the project.

More scripts & fanart should be online soon, and I’ll add some more ISBN codes to the merchandise as soon as I can. Oh, and I haven’t forgotten that you all want more desktops and artwork too 😉

The campaign only needs just over 250 more names, and then it’ll be ready to send off. If you’ve not signed it already, please do so!

As always we have a new comic strip, MP3 and poll, along with the results of last fortnight’s poll, which you’ll find a little further down the page.
I’m close to finishing the Final Conflict translation, and then I’ll be able to move on to putting the rest of the Scenario 2 script online. If you’re a competant HTML coder and would like to help with putting the scripts into the SFC format, please drop me a line 🙂

I’ve got some more fan art to add, but that will probably come next week. Still awaiting your fanfics!

Not much else to report on the SFC front, however I’ll soon be launching a new site – Shining Dev, about a project to re-make Final Conflict in English, for the PC. This is an entirely non-profit project (as are all my projects, in fact they usually end up costing me money!), but if any of you are in-the-know when it comes to legal/copyright issues, I’d love to have a chat with you about this project, to make sure Sega can’t get mad at us for it! Look out for Shining Dev next week 🙂

I’ll not be updating the site much from now until next Tuesday/Wednesday, as my folks are going away for a week, and I have other things which I intend to fill my time with 😉 As well as those things, I should be getting Shining Soul through this weekend or early next week (damn the Easter postal service!!), so I’ll be busy playing that too. Rest assured that I’ll post my comments on the game as soon as I can tear myself away from it! I don’t know if I’ll be able to get screenshots or anything, but I’ll do my best for you all!

Some more fan art is now available, along with a bit more Scenario 3 translation.

The Scenario 2 translation team’s site seems to have gone down, but I’ll be adding the script to SFC over the coming weeks. At the moment my priority is the Final Conflict translation, which I’m now over 75% through!

As usual there’s a new comic strip, new MP3 & poll 🙂
The February contest is now over & the winner has been announced – which means that the March contest is now open!

I translated a little more of Final Conflict yesterday… but haven’t done a lot else on the site. I’ve finally found a flat, and the homebuying process is not only exciting and scary, but also very hectic. I must’ve made about thirty phonecalls today, and received a bunch too. Ugh! This is tiring… still, hopefully I’ll have some time to do some more updates over the coming weeks, but my apologies if that isn’t the case. Things should be more or less back to normal once the move is complete, which I estimate will be in about a month.

I guess you didn’t really need to know all of that, but I’m quite excited! 😉

Still lots of updates planned, so do watch this space!

I’ve just added some more sections of the Scenario 2 translation. I’m away for the weekend, but will continue on Sunday night 😉

I’ve just added some more sections of the Scenario 3 translation, and split up Chapters 1 & 2 into faster-loading pages.
More later!

Where to begin?!
Well, I’ve been doing a lot of work on the site these last few days, and though I wanted to get a lot more done before I put anything up, I figured I’d upload what I’ve done so far as something of a taster 🙂

Before I forget, Daria has kindly offered to let me link to the ROMs on her site. The Japanese ROMs aren’t yet uploaded there, but I’ll try to set up the links in the next few days.

I’ve re-arranged the navigation a smidgen to help you find everything the site contains 🙂 The game production credits for most of the games are up, and a lot more of the Shining Force II script. Thanks to various members of SFC, I’ve now got Chapter 3 of the Scenario 3 translation online, and I’m currently working on putting the Scenario 2 translation up. A few volunteers are working on other scripts (as well as some of the missing story summaries and credits), though I still need (and have no volunteers for) the Shining in the Darkness script and Shining Force III Premium Disc credits (my save is on my spare Saturn, which is packed away *grumble*).

What else? Oh yes, about 20 new pieces of fan art have been added, and various pieces of Shining merchandise too. I’ve done a very quick update on the database of links, to include some of the new Shining Soul information. Also, Aspartate has translated the Shining Soul Story Introduction from Sega’s Shining Soul site.

There’s still lots I’m working on and planning to add, but I hope you like what’s been done so far!

Oh, also, I hope you don’t mind, but to help my host out (this site uses a *lot* of bandwidth), I’ve added the tall banners to each page, on the right-hand side. Hopefully they’re not too obtrusive, but visible enough to keep the advertisers happy (after all, the ads will be viewed by people who are looking further down the page than just at the top, ne?!).

Last, but by no means, least… the Campaign is now less than 500 signatures away from being sent off to Sega, Nintendo and Camelot. If you haven’t already signed it, please do!

Well, gotta go upload all of this now, and then carry on working on everything else 😉

Thanks to Richter and Lineage, the translation of Shining Force III Scenario 3 chapter 1 is now up at SFC 🙂

Ah, today has been my first day without work – I now officially have a whole lot of free time! =)
Oddly enough, I’ve spent most of the day tidying my room and planning some of the things I hope to do over the coming weeks and months. So, nothing extra really in this update, although I do have some fanfic, fan art and related merchandise to add to the site, as well as my collection to update 😉 As usual, I’m expecting some items through soon. I also have some individual Shining Force Gaiden and Shining Force III trading cards for sale, email me if you’d like to buy some.

Although Dragon’s web host went down and so I have nowhere to host my ROMs, a friend of mine named Olivier has kindly allowed me to link to the MP3s on his site, for the MP3 of the fortnight. I’ll do my best to sort out some ROM hosting as soon as I can.

This fortnight there’s a new MP3, new comic and new poll for you to enjoy…

I’ve got so many plans for things to work on for the site over the coming weeks, here’s a quick (but by no means complete, or in any particular order!) run-down of things I’ll be working on:

• Putting more Shining game scripts online
  
• Typing up the scripts for the games that I don’t yet have the scripts for
  
• Typing up the end credits for each game
  
• Add more fan art/fan fic
  
• Update the related merchandise section
  
• Update my collection, and add a “want list”
  
• Organise the new sections of SFC better, to make it easier to navigate
  
• Work on the Final Conflict translation
  
• Continue adding maps and screenshots to the Shining Force II guide
  
• Redesign and complete the Shining Force I guide
  
• Work on shining3master’s Shining Force III guide design & build
  
• Perhaps enhance my Shining in the Darkness guide?
  
• Play Shining Soul when I get it at the start of April – review it, put up pictures, scans etc
  
• Add more desktop wallpapers and greeting cards
  
• Find a new ROM host
  
• Send off the Campaign to Sega, Nintendo and Camelot.
  
• Set up a PulpChat chat room instead of IkonTalk
  
• Adding more quotes to the random quotes at the top of the site
  
• Preparing some more comic strips in advance
  
• Continuing my fanfic
  
• … and probably a lot more besides all that!

Thanks to shinsachiel, the first three chapters of the Shining Force III Scenario 1 script are now available here at SFC 🙂 To recap, here are the links to the scripts currently available (I hope to get these organised properly into the site soon!).

Shining Force CD Script
Shining Force II Script
Shining Force III Scenario 1 Script
Shining Force III Scenario 3 Script

More soon 😉 Also, I’m compiling all the credits from the games to add at some point in the future, and I’m also planning to add pages listing the original Japanese names of all the characters. So much to do, so little time!

Also, some bad news 🙁 Although my friend Dragon was able to offer me hosting for the Shining ROMs and the MP3 of the Fortnight, his host is closing down, and so Dragon is unable to host them anymore. If anyone has any ROM-friendly webspace that they are able to offer (and approximately 3-4GB of bandwidth per month), please drop me an email. I don’t want to have to stop offering these downloads, but I may be forced to.