As usual there’s a new comic strip, new MP3 and a new poll for you to enjoy. The winners of last month’s contest have been announced and there’s a new contest for you to try your luck at this month.
I’ve also finished adding Chapter 4 of the Shining Force III Scenario 2 translation. Volunteers are currently working on typing up the scripts for Shining Force, Shining Wisdom and Shining in the Darkness, so those will be on the site in due course. Also, thanks to Lineage for his kind offer of re-translating the bad sections of the Scenario 2 Chapter 5 translation.
A few sites have been added to the listings here at SFC, and I’d like to take this opportunity to encourage you to report dead links at SFC when you find them, in order to keep the directory useful and fresh. With so many sites there I can’t possibly keep an eye on all of them, and some are bound to vanish at some point.
The merchandise section has been updated to include a whole bunch of items, including the extremely rare “Jogurt’s Little Box”. I’ve also updated my collection, and want list. Not much left to go now! Oh, and the Shining & the Darkness OST obi (spine card) has been added to the cover scans/artwork section. I’ve got some more artwork to scan in at some point, but that’s going to have to wait for now.
Seeing the results of last fortnight’s poll (regarding the addition of magazine article scans to SFC) has been very encouraging! I will be including a Shining Magazine Articles section in the new SFC, and in anticipation of this, I’d like to invite you to send in your scans of magazine articles about any game from the Shining series. The article could be a review, preview, cheat, hint, walkthrough, comic strip – pretty much anything! Before you send them to me, please email me first to let me know the following:
The magazine, publisher, issue number, date and country of origin
(so that I can tell you if I already have it)
The number of magazine pages the article covered, and the filesize
(so I can let you know when’s a good time to send it)
What the article is about
(ie, which game it’s about and is it a walkthrough, review etc)
Once we’ve arranged when you should send the file, don’t forget to include your name/alias, so it can be credited to you!
And now, before I go and get on with more additions to the site, I’d like to make a plea to all Brazilian viewers out there… I’m desperately looking for the TecToy releases of Shining Force and Shining Force II, complete with box and manual. If anyone out there is able to help, or is willing to sell theirs, please do let me know!
That’s all for now, more updates soon!