Author Topic: Jesus f*ck... Lady Phantom has awesome music, gameplay fun, and anime chicks...  (Read 1187 times)

geise

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Never burn rips.  Even with a .cue and .wav files it can still have a messed up TOC and give you issues.  TOC fixer helps but sadly it's not perfect.  Helps on a lot of games though.  Only use 1:1 copies.

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Never burn rips.  Even with a .cue and .wav files it can still have a messed up TOC and give you issues.  TOC fixer helps but sadly it's not perfect.  Helps on a lot of games though.  Only use 1:1 copies.

What about CD games that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars?
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Yes, I'd rather make my own MP3s out of WAV files. Actually for my iPhone I use Apple Lossless. It creates a file 1/4th the size of the raw WAV file and sounds 100% indentical. Also the resulting file can be converted back to WAV in the future. If you convert an MP3 to WAV, well it doesn't restore the information that was lost when it was crushed to MP3 and still sounds exactly like the MP3 as a result. There are other lossless formats out there like FLAC, but I like Apple Lossless because they play perfectly in iTunes and on an iPhone/iPod.

I've had trouble with very few rips. Sometimes the TOC is messed up but that's the exception to the rule.

EDIT: The version for download at Emuparadise does not compress the audio at all. It's an ISO or probably a cue/bin (downloading now).
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geise

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Never burn rips.  Even with a .cue and .wav files it can still have a messed up TOC and give you issues.  TOC fixer helps but sadly it's not perfect.  Helps on a lot of games though.  Only use 1:1 copies.

What about CD games that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars?
I think you misunderstood.  A bin/cue rip is a 1:1 copy.  I didn't mean to use only legit copies.  Doing a rip with the data and audio tracks separate will always lead to issues with the audio.  Having one file and a cue mds or similar file is always the way to go.

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Doing a rip with the data and audio tracks separate will always lead to issues with the audio.

Sure, if you rip it wrong.  I've done plenty of games with iso/wave formats and never had a problem.
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So has anyone else taken this game for a spin?  I'd be curious to hear if i'm just a sucker for blue and green haired toons or if normal people find the game to be rather awesome as well. :lol:

If anyone needs the game, Joe himself dropped a pretty good hint on where it can be found.

I haven't played it in a long time, but think it's fun and that the gameplay is satisfying enough and that the battle scene artwork is very nice and more "badass" than cute or plastic looking. But it's one of the games that made me realize how important little details/aspects are to me. The battle pics don't have the impact I need for a war sim. Background art plays a big role, because just like in RPGs, I get excited waiting to see something new pop up. Even more generic units can be satisfying on battle scenes like the Nectaris games because of the overall balance of the aesthetic and getting to see them move into position and blow up. Eternal Love Song and Langrisser are good examples of motivational battle scenes. The massive variety of models, backgrounds, gameplay, effects, etc is what makes Vasteel's fights and the game overall so appealing. LP's fight scenes make me react similar to those in Babel. It looks cool and I appreciate them, but it's not as satisfying as many games that do something similar.

I haven't finished LP and I expect that the overall experience would grow on me, but that's been my impression so far.
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esteban

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^ I think we would all benefit from the battle system being translated. :)
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Joe Redifer

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The Emuparadise download is Cue/ISO. More or less the same thing as Cue/BIN. As long as the Cue sheet is good all should be OK. I have not burned it yet.

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Quick n' Dirty Translation Time:

(Page 3)

Prologue

In the Yuloa Galaxy, the intergalactic war between the Soron Planetary Alliance and the Vad Empire had arrived at a temporary ceasefire. It was then that the Soron camp brought a new weapons system called "Project Seiren", which had been in development during the war, into action. The Lady Phantom unit, created as a part of Project Seiren, was dispatched to the former front line at space sector Galdover. It was here, in a place which had turned neutral in the war due to distrust of both Soren and Vad...and a place where public order was little maintained...that something was waiting for the Lady Phantoms. What could it be?


(Page 26)

"Between You and Me"
with Mako and Ako

Mako: How's everyone doing?
Ako: Lasersoft's idol (mascot) Ako here.
Mako: Hey, did you know that there is some information hidden in Lady Phantom's ending?
Ako: Oh, I know! It's the usual "hidden picture", isn't it...
Mako: Nope, sorry! If you fulfill the right conditions and clear the game, you'll see something else at the very last part of the ending.
Ako: What? Really? I guess it will probably take trying it a bunch of times to figure it out.
Mako: Everyone, try clearing the game in various states, OK?
Ako: All right, I'll do my best!

(by various states, I think they mean the status of your ship/ships when you clear the game).


The rest of the manual is pretty dense instructional stuff. Honestly, you guys might be better served to just give me a few key screenshots of menu stuff, and I'll tell you what they say.

PS: Whoever owned this game before nullity wrote the debug code at the top of page 27.

Keith Courage

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Anyone know how to save the game or does it do it automatically?

Keith Courage

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Thanks , I couldn't remember since it had been a while since I played it.

shubibiman

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It says you've got to get an extra item and need to clear the game a second time to be able to get it.

The last screen gives you the usual Laser Soft debug mode code.
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what are these ladies saying throughout this game? Arrrgh!


random note.  Some of the songs sound very similar to the Might & Magic III soundtrack. Same studio?


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what are these ladies saying throughout this game? Arrrgh!


random note.  Some of the songs sound very similar to the Might & Magic III soundtrack. Same studio?


I think I know what you are referring to. I'm gonna try overlapping the tracks and see if anything interesting happens.
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what are these ladies saying throughout this game? Arrrgh!


random note.  Some of the songs sound very similar to the Might & Magic III soundtrack. Same studio?




Wow, I didn't catch that, but there are similarities....hmmmmm.