Brand new sealed Cosmic Fantasy 2s everywhere

[pixeljunkie]

i picked both of these up new from WD a few months before they announced the closing for like $30 a pop new.

[bt]

If some company daoes have the rights and is re-pressing (pun
not intended) some Duo CDs, then I would like to know where they
are having them made.

For MB, I spent 5 months working with a company trying to find some
place that could handle the PCE CD Format, and was disappointed by
all the answers that I received.

-bt

[GUTS]

If Game Quest Direct had the ability to re-press old Duo games they would have done Dungeon Explorer II and Exile II since those are the big money WD games, these Exiles and Cosmic Fantasy 2s are just old WD stock.

[pixeljunkie]

huh?

anyway, these are all just NOS from WD's warehouse.

[vestcoat]

DE2 was not a Working Designs game.
they made
Parasol Stars
Cadash
Exile 1 + 2
Cosmic Fantasy 2
and Vasteel.

it would be cool if GQD made a Parasol Stars/Cadash CD.

BT, did you ever try tracking down that Care4data company that made the Sapphire bootlegs to see where those discs were made?

[Keranu]

They should've pressed Vasteel instead of Exile.

[FM-77]

They should've pressed Vasteel instead of Exile.

Um, they never pressed Exile. It was from WD's old stock. You could order the game on their website before they closed down.

[Keranu]

Well in that case, they should've looked harder for any extra copies of Vasteel .

[GUTS]

Oh yeah my bad, I always think of Dungeon Explorer II as a WD game since they did the voices.

[bt]

vestcoat says:
BT, did you ever try tracking down that Care4data company that made the Sapphire bootlegs to see where those discs were made?

Not directly.  Here is the deal though... The Sapphire boots were made about the same time that Implode was made (2001/2002), between then and 2004, the Glass Mastering software that is used in 99.9% of all CD reproduction facilities was upgraded, and that upgrade prevents the PCE format from being made (it actually converts the disc to a true Yellow Book CD).

So, why not use an older version of the softwares?  Because they are time licensed (at roughly $20K/year).  It was only when I was going through the MB fiasco that I learned that when Implode was pressed, the company I used had to call the Mastering Software folks to get it to work.

The company that I used for MB has contacts in europe and Asia, and after they could not get the proper master made, they spent 3 months searching the world over to find anyone who could, and that turned up nothing.

Does this mean that there will never be another PCE pressed CD again?  Not necessarily, but it does mean that it is unlikely, unless the mastering companies re-add the ability to make intentionally off-spec CDs.

-bt

[akamichi]

You'd think with all the DRM nonsense the music industry is pushing on their "CD"s, the mastering companies would be able to make any kind of off-spec CD they want.

I wonder if there are any Japanese companies that are able to do it...?  Then again, they've probably upgraded all their software/hardware by now too.

[akamichi]

Got my games from GameQuestDirect today!  I'd say the service was pretty quick.  Ordered on the 15th (Sat), got shipping confirmation email on the 18th.  Received everything in very good condition on the 24th.

I wouldn't hesitate to order from them again.  Thumbs up!  Oh yeah, I also got a coupon for $5 off my next order over $50.  Too bad they don't have any other TG16 games.

[Emerald Rocker]

Hey Steve, I'm slow.  The following is all from the PC-Engine CD of Exile:

*** SPOILER ALERT ***











It's not a prank -- Sadler kills Christians, some Hindu gods, physically beats a Vishnu townsperson, blatantly defiles pagan ceremonies, and generally makes a mockery of most religions.  He doesn't actually kill a Buddhist... what happens there is that the Buddhist kills himself to try to save the world, but fails and ends up just dying pointlessly (which is still a slap in Buddhism's face).

At the end, Yuug de Payne reveals himself to be more than a knight.... he's the *Holy Roman Emperor*.  Just imagine:

Sadler and the Holy Roman Emperor sword-fight to the death in THE GARDEN OF EDEN, but... instead of being covered with fruit, the Tree of Wisdom is covered with severed human heads!

It's awesome.

Oh yeah, and Sadler wins.  Because he's a bad-ass with creepy narrow stalker eyes.

[nodtveidt]

Hrm...that's a little hard to believe, especially concerning the ending...if this "Holy Roman Emperor" was...erm..."holy"...why would he look like something undead? The rest might work though, although I don't remember him beating up a townsperson. I assume the Buddhist would have been Ninkan, eh? Killing Christians would have to be the El-In soldiers (Christians, Klipsins...hrm......), the pagan ceremony would be the ritual of Backos (perfect...Baccos is one of the spellings of an ancient pagan god), although I'm not quite sure about the Hindu gods part...perhaps the Baiyon scenario? Garuda perhaps as well, I seem to remember something about an entity named "Garuda" (not sure on the spelling) in some Hindu stories, perhaps even in some Confuciusism/Shinto lore as well...

I do know that the game's storyline was too sensitive for the US audience, and that's why it was modified. I don't think there was anyone more qualified to localize the game than Working Designs.

[Emerald Rocker]

Well, I think part of the game's point was that the Holy Roman Empire was anything but holy.  The beating up a townsperson part was a skippable conversation scene.  I haven't played the US version, so I don't know how the US scene(s) compare to the JP one.  From what I've heard, most of the changes were names.

Does the US one still have the scene where people are burning at stakes?