MSR *WILL* be finished, come hell or high water... hell more likely.

[TheOldMan]

Gaaah still no email! Going to send Brian a reminder

hopefully the only remaining issue is that they don't know how to tell if the final product is correct or not.

That's what I'm thinking. They can't find anything -wrong- with it, but they can't be sure it's right because it doesn't fit their standard cd layout.
Hopefully, Brian will have learned to talk to the techs and get an exact error description if anything -is- wrong.

[Arkhan]

Are we talking about correct as in "works in a turbo" or correct as in "matches the master"??

They can tell if it matches the master, but can't tell if it works in a Turbo. 

Or maybe they can, because someone working there has a Duo-R in their trunk..

[nodtveidt]

If it matches the master, it should work in teh turbob since the masters all worked fine-n-dandy-like.

[Keranu]

At last, the long awaited email!

"Good morning Keelan,

I checked and they are still working to get the pressing. I will keep you informed.

Sincerely,
Brian"

Yeah not the juicy info I was expecting, but this sounds hopeful, I think.

[TheOldMan]

Hurray! I -think- that means you are in the queue for pressing. (ie. they made the master!).
Step 3 is done. Here's hoping there are no further problems

[nodtveidt]

Yeah, sounds like it passed the cutter phase... that's a good sign.

[Mathius]

*Gets ready champagne bottle*

[_joshuaTurbo]

*Gets ready champagne bottle*

The champ-pagne is reserved for the day I hold a copy of this magical adventure in my hands dear Matti.

but hey, it shouldn't be too much longer

I predict this game will officially come out....by November. There you have it, folks!.

fudge

[sirhcman]

*Gets ready champagne bottle*

I so hope you are right! I can't wait to get my copy that I pre-ordered!

[nodtveidt]

I'm going to assume that no news is good news at this point.

[Bernie]

I'm going to assume that no news is good news at this point.

But they should have at least sent some sort of update, rather than leave a paying customer in limbo.  Not to mention with a project that proved so difficult.  A short email letting you know everything is ok would be expected, at this point.  Other than that, hopefully no news is good news with these numbskulls. 

[Mathius]

*Gets ready champagne bottle*

The champ-pagne is reserved for the day I hold a copy of this magical adventure in my hands dear Matti.

but hey, it shouldn't be too much longer

Buy two bottles. 

[Keranu]

Yikes, hold the champaign. Our Turbo train has derailed once again:


"Good morning Keelan,

I was out all day yesterday.

Here is the latest information I received from our replication department.
____________________________________________________________________________________________

We have tried many various ways to read these discs but the format is unusual and we keep getting uncorrectable errors on the transitions.  I have to say that we can’t do this format.
  
It seems this master is able to work on a CDR, but the way it is formatted does not allow a stamper to be made for replication. Candidly if the stamping department cannot get a stamper from the master(s) provided, it’s safe to say no one can.

Let us know how you wish to proceed
___________________________________________________________________________________________

Keelan, my apologies but at this time we are not able to replicate with the masters provided.

At this point all the print is completed and ready for the discs. But we can not complete the job without the masters completing the stamping process. Please let me know if your mastering guy knows of any other options and if new masters will be sent. I will keep trying. But, after trying 3 attempts we have exhausted every means.

Please let me know how you would like to proceed.

Sincerely,
Brian"


I wish this was just a bad joke, but that's what was in my inbox today. OldMan, any ideas on this one? Unless they've updated their software, it shouldn't be impossible to replicate our format, as we already know from Insanity's production.

Arkhan if you can find your job #, I could email it to them for reference and maybe that will help. Other than that, I'm all out of ideas.

[KingDrool]

Yes: get the job # from Arkhan. If he got it done there, you should be able to as well. If nothing else, get Arkhan on the phone with these guys.

[Arkhan]

I sent Brian Rowe an email.

I don't have any of the emails handy for the project and can't find them, but I still have his email in my contacts.