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Good to see you back Kitsunebi. Was following you on archive.org in the meantime.

3 hours ago, StrykerOfEnyo said:

I have always wanted to play Dragon Quest VII, I heard you can play it for 100 hours. I forgot about the 3DS version. That might be the best one to get. The PS1 version was hard to find back then. I remember looking for a copy at GameStops for a few years. How many hours do you have intro it, CastleVanity? Does it take a long time to get through? It must be worth it.

As someone who mastered all the jobs on the PS version when it came out, it can most definitely go over 100 hours easily. The 3DS version has some QoL like reducing the amount needed for mastering jobs even though I haven't played that version.

You can just play the original and cheat engine mastering jobs if you want to save time.

This and the Dragon Quest VIII guide from Brady for the PS2 are probably the most infamous of the RPG guides. Mostly expanded instruction booklets.

Here to say thanks for Japanese books not uploaded anywhere else. No More Heroes one is nice. Thanks again.

4 hours ago, Sivilius said:

OK this is my favorite strategy guide of all-time. Bought it back in 1992 when I got my Super NES, Zelda: A Link to the Past & Pilotwings from a local Funcoland. (remember them??)

Still have it, and I will never part with it despite it slightly falling apart at the binding.

Yeah, my brother had this and the game when it first came out when we were kids. Classic to say the least. Still my favorite Zelda. Beaten several dozen times.

Hot damn, three Famitsus in a row. Thanks.

13 minutes ago, te72 said:

Yes it certainly was. Have you seen that we are finally getting an official release of Live A Live?

No, but I remember playing it a long time ago on an emulator. Pretty neat but never finished it. Started with the cowboy scenario.

Ah, it's updated 2.5D. Interesting. Thanks for letting me know. I haven't had too much time for games lately.

90s Square was a force of nature.

I also had this one as well as the official Nintendo one. I remember this one being kind of big and little color but it did state likes and dislikes for each character and always was curious if it was official or not.

Good stuff. Thanks.

I think the cutoff date for scans should be drastically reduced. If it is out of print and not being offered online, every issue should be allowed if it is a magazine even if it stopped publishing recently. The same goes for strategy guides if it is currently not available for sale from the publisher.

Obviously current issue of currently publishing magazine probably isn't the best idea for the sites future as you said, but are your thoughts on hosting back issues?

Anyway, these are just suggestions.

6 minutes ago, kitsunebi said:

I agree, most western mags are trash as well (well, the video game ones, anyway.)  Hence the extremely small selection of mags I listed which I don't mind reading, all of which were made by the same group of writers and editors, and none of which cover video games.

This has been brought before but the amount of ads and sparse content like actual guides which covered very little for games in USA magazines was its biggest con.

You joke but you can actually mirror wikipedia if you want. It's about 17 GB for English.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia

8 minutes ago, kitsunebi said:

Just think - if you'd put that time into studying a foreign language, according to the US Foreign Service Institute, you'd be about halfway to gaining basic fluency in French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, or Swahili.

Well those are hypothetical numbers for languages since fluency kind of needs more than just book learning.

But I don't doubt it was a lot of time put into the game. It was probably one of the top percentiles of my gaming history. I enjoyed it for the most part sans the grinding.

This is a little late but I piled 212 hours (counting resets) in Breath of the Wild about a month ago. Getting all 900 korok seeds and all the other stuff. 100% completion.

18 hours ago, kitsunebi said:

Fun fact: in Japan, everyone will tell you that Spring starts February 2 (Sestubun) despite the fact that February is by far the coldest month of the year in Japan.  So by that reckoning, when a February issue (most likely published in January) is released, it IS nearly spring.  And probably snowing.

Which is coincidentally Groundhog Day here in Yankee Land.

Talking about the weather on the front page? Most definitely a Japanese magazine.

14 minutes ago, kitsunebi said:

Hey, I just saw that supposedly you can play Three Sisters' Story (and presumably other games as well) for free (legally) in your browser on JAST USA Classics, which I read about here: https://noisypixel.net/three-sisters-story-jast-usa-classics/

The site they link to is blocked in Japan, so I can't confirm if it works or not.  Anybody know?  What other games are available?

• SEASON OF THE SAKURA – Available now
• TRANSFER STUDENT –
• THREE SISTERS’ STORY –
• RUNAWAY CITY – Available now
• MAY CLUB – Coming soon
• NOCTURNAL ILLUSION – Coming soon

Only bottom two aren't available. I tried loading one, languages are russian and english. Haven't played them but the first one boots up.

39 minutes ago, kitsunebi said:

Nope, not a one.  I've got too many mags that can be uploaded here to waste time supporting that other site with exclusive scans.

Btw, I see what you did there, but your translation is off.

It isn't 狐日, it's 狐火.

Well, it was worth a shot.

I always thought your name was a holiday like 子供の日. I guess it was "St Elmo's Fire."

Thanks anyway.

On 3/9/2020 at 6:49 PM, kitsunebi said:

No full scans forthcoming, though - this book was published in 2017 (so in 2032, maybe.)

Any chance they somehow get to the internet archive via someone named "Fox Day"?

4 hours ago, kitsunebi said:

 What you probably didn't know is the molecular weight of tungsten, which sadly is something this guide isn't going to help you with at all.

For the curious, 183.84 u .

3 minutes ago, kitsunebi77 said:

Well it wouldn't be WiiWare anyway since this mag was published 7 years before WiiWare existed.

This isn't the first time I've seen a UK mag write Japanese nonsense on a cover for what must be aesthetic purposes.  Kind of odd that they used archaic characters, though.

Ah, never noticed the date and glanced over the fact it was a Dreamcast mag.

8 minutes ago, kitsunebi77 said:

I know some people more fluent in Japanese than myself follow this thread, so to them I pose this question: WTF do the editors of this UK Dreamcast mag think that they wrote on the right side of the cover here?  They're using obscure no-longer-in-use katakana to write "wiuwerawe."  Again, WTF?  Is this yet another case of foreigners just writing random shit because they think it looks cool, or am I missing something?

No google results for ヰウヱラヱ so probably as you say (Pre WW2 kana) since WiiWare is ウィーウェア so your guess is as good as mine. Not a native speaker though.

https://www.google.co.jp/search?source=hp&ei=EWIiXu_HLOWh_QbUybc4&q=ヰウヱラヱ&oq=ヰウヱラヱ&gs_l=psy-ab.3...600.600..1092...0.0..0.0.0.......0....2j1..gws-wiz.yadVAxEeN88&ved=0ahUKEwivlKyngoznAhXlUN8KHdTkDQcQ4dUDCAU&uact=5

11 minutes ago, kitsunebi77 said:

Ha, I found a post in this thread from when I was messing around with that site over a year ago.  The mag on the right was one of the ones available to download.  Not affiliated with Famitsu in any way, just plagiarism, pure and simple.  If they can't even come up with an original cover, how much effort are they gonna put into their coverage?  One of the reasons I didn't download the Chinese stuff (although the main reason was because it was such a pain in the ass to do so.)

Not gonna lie, that's a great cover. Might as well use the best.

8 minutes ago, kitsunebi77 said:

This isn't your fault, but I wish people would stop mentioning his blog and drawing attention to it (you're probably the 5th or 6th person who's asked if we've contacted that guy.)  Because what you've got to understand about his blog is that it's nothing but an advertisement of his wares, so to speak.

WELCOME! Check out my blog!  See something you like?  Well then, let's make a trade~!!

Yeah, I get what you're saying. It's more an inventory list than anything. But at the same time, bringing it up also bring attention to the displeasure of sites like this in general.