/vr/ - Retro Games

Looks neat.

Shit is real.

sold out/can't buy it. the part in gray over on the right side says that. I tried to buy it at the same link months ago when chu-teng threads were still popular.

>>1135956
oh snap!
[loud crying] shouldn't you put chu-teng there instead of mid-heaven though

>>1135964
oh damn that sucks. i guess that's another thing to keep our eyes open for then

>>1135956
Is that you, translator?

Any idea of when it's getting finished?

>>1136330

Its all when not how, now. Completely sorted. Hopefully by the end of the month.

>>1136321
nah. english everywhere.

>>1136381
in any case i'm still looking very forward to it

you've done a great thing

>>1136393
You guys got my attention, and lead me on a trail to actually fucking own this thing. Should pay attention to the azurite thread closer.

>>1136398
I got started off by another anon which gave me the right way, which is also worth mentioning. The other party being tatsuya from hokkaido. He did a good job for a good price yo.

You found the esoteric retina? That's great, but are you sure it's not the same site we found a while ago where everything is listed but nothing is actually available?

I'm now editing the songs from Rhythm 'N' Face for Youtube uploading, but I'm wondering how should I handle the four iterations of each song.

So http://tindeck.com/listen/klao or http://tindeck.com/listen/ohyp ?

(If you guys prefer the latter then I have to redo everything, but it should be worth it.)

If you like those kind of games, you should really try Botanicula.

>>1137375
it seems that's the case, unfortunately

>>1135956
I'm pretty sure it's maps and not pictures, since that section contains maps of all the areas.

>>1137485
2 pass work.
anyway thanks for the ride /vr/,
making a project start early.

>>1137396
prefer the first one personally

>>1138382
although you could do what xcqthieves on youtube did and upload all the different songs separately although that'd take a lot more time and the videos would be pretty repetitive. also how did you rip those? did you just record them from the game?

>>1138407
i also just realised i mistyped my own name

my U key really is fucking up recently

>>1140774
*split / became

better

Probably it.
proceeding to rough dump all info into the chu teng ban and then clean up all text arrangements.
Not so many hours, just brain heavy

this is /vr/ - retro games, not /vr/ - osamu sato

If you want to talk about that jap faggot then talk about a game he has made before or on a console released 1999 or earlier (excluding dreamcast). An interactive isn't retro and barely qualifies as a game

synchronising style with japanese text loaded with kanji will take some serious word play, as is a lot of spots

>>1140797
*interactive dvd

>>1140802
>now i get it

This one sucked

Final form

>>1140825
there are still quite a lot of grammatical mis-haps in there... sure you won't let me take a look over it? i mean, if you're releasing it at the end of the month there's still a little time for making sure it's 100% correct

>>1141514
you're 16.

>>1141660
i fail to see how that's relevant

Oh shit, more Sato goodness?

Also keep up the good work translatoranon

>>1140821
Tong-Nou anon from one of the earlier threads here. The part in the middle should probably be translated as "Magatama Planet" or something similar, because that was how it was referred to in Tong-Nou. A quality translation is important, sure, but it's also important to retain consistency with previously translated source material, which is also why I'm tending to agree with Munckeyz in that you should also turn Mid-Heaven into Chu-Teng. It's a little nitpicky, sure, but Chu-Teng is referred to as such in the ending of Tong-Nou as well as being the title of the game.

I'm also glad to lend my proof-reading and grammar-checking services to polish the final product.

>>1143401

Yeah diamond planet sounds pretty gay. Most likely, since magatama was in katakana not hiragana its more of a name than a meaning.

Aight, done.

>>1143401

Tong-Nou is the name of a city/place, where as chu teng literally means mid-heaven. you got your outer heaven and other heaven bses.
Its easily revised.

>>1144085
Equally, though, Tong-Nou literally means "Eastern Mind". Chu-Teng is also the name of a place; in the ending text of Eastern Mind, it states that "The Sun, the Moon and the Stars portray a triangle and revolve within Chu-Teng".

>>1144093

The english name is Eastern Mind: Lost souls of Tong-Nou. In an english translation yeah it doesnt make any sense and its a place, but theres heaps of references to other heavens GAI TENG and stuff (outer heaven), continuity within the game will be confusing to keep chu teng in the game?

will reference the name in brackets in the first mention of mid-heaven

>>1140825
>These is
This can be fixed yet, right?

>>1135821
>btw, i also got the sato album "equal" recently from a link someone posted here, so thanks
No problem man

I found a pastebin with a ton of this guy's works collected in it. Hope you gusy enjoy it! http://pastebin.com/NE1uFVJM

I feel that it's important to note that The Esoteric Retina is purportedly a video CD, not a DVD. Not to nit pick, but the difference between a video CD and a DVD is about the difference between a PS1 game and a PS2 game in terms of storage space (~700mb vs ~3.5gb) and general release date (1990s vs 2000s). Does anyone know when The Esoteric Retina came out?

Pastebin from July 4 2013:
>pastebin.com/NE1uFVJM

>>1144857
>>1144856
I got ninja'd hard

>>1144818

Yeah i keep on picking up on heaps to fix.
Im even aligning all the text and icons together they ship around alot. Theres also some graphic tethers im going to fix. I last about 2 hours a session before it starts to hurt my feelings

now do it, 170 times.

>>1144886
>proof reading, ambiguity, grammar, engrish
>aligning centre texts, titles, icons, alien text.
>testing and aligning gfx as they go spastic half the time inserting it
>then the same to the in game text.
>40 hours 2/day 3 weeks till done

>>1144212
Maybe you should do something similar to what they did with Eastern Mind. Whenever there was a mention of the name of a place, like "Ming-ken", they'd put the English version of it's name beside it, i.e. "(Land of Life)".

>>1144857
Yep, it's a Video CD (those things were pretty popular in Japan some time ago) and it came out in 1994. I bet it's gotta be much harder to find than the games.
By the way, does anybody remember the guy who scanned The Art of Computer Designing and said he was gonna dump the contents of the floppy on here?
Did that floppy ever get dumped?

>>1145017
I don't think the floppy was ever dumped.

>>1144886
You can do it, anon! You've done great thus far!

All codes to enter into sufikus brain

SINGLE PAUSE SINGLE
SINGLE SINGLE SINGLE
SINGLE PLAY PAUSE
PAUSE PAUSE PAUSE
PAUSE SINGLE PLAY
PAUSE PLAY PLAY
PAUSE PLAY PAUSE
PLAY SINGLE PLAY
PLAY PLAY PLAY
PLAY PLAY PAUSE
PAUSE SINGLE PAUSE

>>1146186
Damn, that's a shame.
He said there was an Osamu Sato font on there and some other stuff, I wanted to see that.

>>1145017
>>1146186
I'm still looking for a way to get the contents out. I may have found a guy with an old macintosh from where I can transfer the contents to a disk or other floppy. I'll try to fix it as soon as possible.

>>1147554
here is some stuff I found that was published on the old osd site (includes a font and adobe illustrator files, but is mac-exclusive as far as I'm aware)

https://mega.co.nz/#!g5pSgAyZ!HRTWRDaTjcsuMFjjjIJ7pgOG9xwWYLYqU2TfOvgj50Q

I doubt it's a copy of what's on the floppy disk though.

>>1147554
>Floppy Disk Guy
Great to see you around!
And what hardware do you need? A computer with a floppy drive? I mean they're not commonplace anymore but I imagine it would be easy to find a friend who has one and copy the contents that way. Or is it more complicated than that?

Disk needs system 6, says it is unrecognisable on system 7 on a mac. i guess. my disk might be bad though.

The files (font and illustrator files) that have been uploaded seem to be most of whats on there though.

>>1148407

I cant downgrade the CD drive as it busted on me three CDR's into it.
Can take out hard drive and load files i need for the playthrough of chu teng translated on another computer
>nearly done first pass

>>1145017
The floppy got dumped. I have it from a torrent someone did. I'm uploading it to mega.

By the way, OSD is again active in twitter and has updated its website.

>>1148407
You could try to set up an emulator and see if it works.
http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/mini_vmac_setup

>>1148047
It might be some of what's on the disk, but there's supposed to be some kind of application/game I believe.

>>1148179
It has something to do with old macintosh architecture, apparently you need an old macintosh to read old 800kb macintosh floppy disks.

>>1149062
http://superuser.com/questions/546110/how-to-backup-old-mac-system-7-floppies
Well shit, looks like you'll have to find one of them old macs to dump what's on there.
>there's supposed to be some kind of application/game I believe.
That's really nice.

>>1149062
A game, huh? Neato.

Hey d00ds, I'm a huge fan of Osamu Sato's work on LSD's music, but could someone quickly inform me on what's being discussed in this thread? I'm really fascinated by what you're all posting, but I don't know what it is.

>>1149872
An anon here is working on finishing a private translation/localization of Chu-Teng (pic related), Osamu Sato's game that came out after Eastern Mind and LSD. It was thought to be lost for years but back around June (I think) an anon found a copy and uploaded the disc image. Most of the pics being posted in this thread are screenshots of game screens where the anon is working on text placement.

Also if you liked LSD's music, check out Ken Ishii. He actually co-composed the game's music with Sato.

Recommended listening
>Ken Ishii - Low (no copy on YouTube as far as I can see)
>Ken Ishii - Extra
>Ken Ishii - Circular Motion
>Ken Ishii & Marc Romboy - Seiun
>Osamu Sato - Long Tall Eyelash (Ken Ishii Mix)

I have a question. Is chu teng more insane or less insane than tong nou.

>>1149958

Localising effort here.
After going through all the text and knowing whats exactly going on everywhere, its a political fight against three powers and bad guys from outer space and you play the role of Rin from eastern mind to restore order, by finding the pieces of 'Nanshus' face that was lost in an attack from the imposters, and to eliminate the enemies. Its a dungeon style and very restricted, but there is a lot of story and detail in everything, and looks more nice than scary. Eastern Mind was much more jacked up, this feels like a real in-circle follow through of Eastern Mind with some cut corners, some graphic tethers, that didnt seem to bother them? A small error in graphics glitch with someone you wake up you will always see asleep when approaching.

The small numbers of the copy explain it, not only stoked that some japanese dude ever released it, but actually got a copy for myself.

The detail of the game is slowing it down from being finished, but its actually really relaxing.

wat

>>1149971
>released = leaked

Does anyone else use Discogs here? I was looking around Osamu Sato's artist page there and apparently he did a remix under the alias "LSD" for a J-Pop singer in 1999. There's no copies for sale on any English website from what I can see, but on the Japanese Amazon it's dirt cheap (¥1 aka $0.01).

>discogs.com/SiLC-HachimitsuEP/release/3319095
>amazon.co.jp/hachimitsu-EP-SiLC/dp/B00005EYJI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382410251&sr=8-1

Should I buy it /vr/

>>1149939
>http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/games/blogs/screenplay/tetsuya-mizuguchi-child-of-art-and-technology-20121003-26y0b.html

I got to ask lead designer testuya mizuguchi after a conference he attended asking a Q and A, i approached his panel and just asked him "mizuguchi san, i didnt have a chance to ask, but could i ask you, were you at all inspired by LSD dream emulator with making REZ?

he gave me a "i..have not heard of that game (im an elite japanese man)

I snap back, troll face a bit, oh! everyone knows about that game, you know KEN ISHII he made music for it you should check it out!

dat blush, greatest moments.

Mr Mizuguchi when you were in Melbourne Australia that stoned looking guy with an astronaut attached to a fetus on a navy blue t shirt, im sorry for disturbing your chi.

>>1149982
And rip, please.

>>1150013
Well of course

>>1150013
I looked it up and it's about ¥2000 shipping from Japan to the US for a ¥1 CD which I really would only be buying for one song.
I think I might pass for now, haha... But rest assured I will definitely keep my eye out for it otherwise.

>>1149939
>>1149971
thanks, anon

Osamu Sato's beginning to get more active on Twitter and, apparently, also has an Instagram:

>http://www.instagram.com/osamusato

>>1152745
Yeah, looks like him. For reference, there's also a porn director named Osamu Sato and if I recall correctly Sato is the most common Japanese surname actually. His name is almost as generic as Dan Anderson.

>>1152781
Sato is very common, but apparently Osamu is much much less common.

>>1148407
There's no difference between System 6 and 7 when it comes to mounting Mac floppies. If your Mac asks to initialize the Sato disk when you put it in, either the disk or the drive is probably hosed.

>>1153141

Well i tried. hopefully floppy disk man can do better

bump

flibbity flobbity

>>1153141
Yep, when it asks you to initialize the disk it means that your system can't recognize that format, I suppose the floppy is using a format that became deprecated in System 8 or something like that.

>>1155836
I thought it was Chuihei, not Chuhei.

>>1156413

maybe i have to double check the katakana pretty sure its not.

>all graphics layed out
>regoing through all to make as good english as possible
>all text bar 8 lines have been inputted
>will be fixing up that english too as i see it, but has had quite a pelting
>this is the unfun part, breaking open the game and getting it to work is great, but data entry style stuff, i normally expect to get paid for. sooner than later though.
>still objects in the heki room (the library) to be photoshopped properly, kanji character meanings, little photoshops and icon edits.
>realistically by the end of the year.
>will show some WIP for you guys since you indirectly have made this possible

>>1149939
...No, Ken Ishii only remixed one of Sato's songs for use in one of LSDs many openings. Ishii had no part in the main patterns of the game.

Is it me, or is anything related to Osamu Sato crazy expensive? There was a copy of Art of Computer Designing on Amazon a few months ago for $200+ and now there's one on Ebay for $110.

I was able to order a copy from an out-of-state library and it should be in fairly soon I hope. If it comes with the floppy I've been hearing about I'll let you guys know.

>>1158501
Are you sure? I've read somewhere that he played a role with the in-game patterns and if I recall correctly in some let's play of LSD he was attributed as having done the music for the game himself. If I'm mistaken though it's always good to be corrected.

>>1158545
Low supply and high demand makes high prices, so it's not just you.

>>1158545
This happened recently with the LSD book going upto and over 1k to buy, currently unavailable from amazon. The book avgs 200 now too.

Something happened in the last sixth months

>200 book, art of computer designing

>>1158823
That would be Wikipedia.
A lot of the info on there is wrong.
As for the Let's Play, it was probably the LPer getting said info from Wiki even wrong...er

>>1160969
Well I think it was a Tumblr or something actually
But yeah you're probably right then

shall i?

>>1164103
Please

>>1164103
You'd just bump this thread to the front page. Please no.

>>1164103
post that shit

>>1164103
pls deliver anon
signed
anon-kun

>>1164103
An anon dumped the whole book in a previous thread, but I seem to be missing half of it, so yes please. :P

>>1164103
Thats the japanese version, same same?

>>1164146
>>1165347
>>1165483
>>1165495
>>1165931
Guys, there's a link to the whole book in the pastebin. Just saying.

>>1144848
Hey, could I ask you to re-rip that album in FLAC with EAC and re-upload it somewhere with the log file?

>>1166454
A WAV rip is already up and someone converted it all to FLAC in the torrent titled "Osamu Sato Collection" on Pirate Bay I think. Can't link now because I'm on mobile. What's EAC though?

>>1167461
I know there's already a link, but I wanted to upload it to what.cd and they're asking for a rip with a cue sheet and a 100% log, that is, a perfect rip, which you can only achieve with EAC.
EAC is a program to rip CDs and it's recommended by a lot of people because the rips you can get with it are granted to be of the same quality of the CD (those damn audiophiles).
It takes about an hour to rip something with it and it's only something that can be done by someone who has the CD though, so if you can't make it it's alright.
Here's a guide on how to do that, just in case:
http://www.torrent-invites.com/audio-video/174264-how-setup-eac-rip-perfect-flac-music-files.html
(saged for off-topic)

>>1168380
I recently moved so my copy of Equal is at my parents' house. I'll try to do that when I can, but no guarantees.
And how does it being an EAC rip at full CD quality make it differ from a WAV/FLAC rip when those formats are meant to be CD quality already?

>>1169530
i can do it, since i also own the cd
but it's like 3am right now so you'll have to wait until tomorrow

>>1169994
I was about to make a "Where do you live? In the ocean?" joke but I don't know geography or time zones very well.

>>1168380
EAC forces a retarded extreme amount of re-reads though. I had it crack discs before.

It is only the de-facto standard because no one bothered writing a better app... and because it has gigantic compatibility with thousands of drives. If you limited yourself to 1 specific type of drive chipset, such as Plextor PX-712, you could do equally good ripping much, much faster.

>>1169530
It differs because EAC can make sure that 1. pregaps are ripped more accurate than many (any?) other ripping apps, and it can make sure that there were no read errors when ripping the disc, making sure that your files are indeed full quality.

CD Audio has no high level error correction like CD Data tracks, so the only way to make sure you've read CD Audio fine is to re-read it lots of times and making sure you got the same results. Most ripping apps just read the tracks once and get done with it. EAC re-reads everything, making sure they are read in right.

>>1169994
If you have a copy of the CD too then go ahead. I won't get mad if some other anon steals my efame.

>>1170093
I like XLD much more for the job, but unfortunately it's only available on mac.
And I don't have the CD anyway.

>>1170049
i live in england

so technically yeah

>>1170624
So uh
Are you gonna rip that CD?

>>1171153
to be honest i'm really not sure what i'm doing

that guide is all kinds of confusing to me

i don't want to mess anything up so i'm kind of delaying it

>>1171174
There's nothing to be confused about, just download the program and set all the settings like you see in the picture. You don't even have to read anything until the moment you finish configuring.

>>1171186
okay, i'll try that

>>1171186
but the problem is some of the boxes i'm supposed to tick, i can't tick

>>1171218
Did you put a CD in?

>>1171227
yes

>>1171230
Weird. Are you still in that Skype group chat thing? I'm steenuil on there.

>>1171232
yeah

>>1171236
well here's the rip if anyone's interested (they're all .wav files but i've been assured that they're good)

https://mega.co.nz/#!VV1jgJgC!CPOi3WbV09NnQsV38f7XDlxcLfdoh0YRBm-Ey8Pppg4

>>1171236

Nice rip, Munckeyz. Why have you removed it? It sounds great.

>>1172074
sorry, apparently what.cd says it's not 100% accurate so i removed it because i'm a dumbass

here it is for anyone who missed the link:
https://mega.co.nz/#!VV1jgJgC!CPOi3WbV09NnQsV38f7XDlxcLfdoh0YRBm-Ey8Pppg4

>>1172081
>mega

>>1172106
>i don't care

>>1172112
cool, be sure to download something, anything, from mega

turn on private browsing too, because that will make a difference, trust me, i wouldn't lie

>>1172081
>sorry, apparently what.cd says it's not 100% accurate so i removed it because i'm a dumbass

According to their logchecker, it's because you did not set up offset correction and did not have AccurateRip installed for EAC (it is basically an automated offset correction finder plus an online database for ripped track CRCs).

Anyone looking for some info on the Roly Poly games? I recently found an archived version of the official website:

https://web.archive.org/web/19971210201321/http://www.shinko-music.co.jp/roly/

From what I can tell, there's plenty of character info and screenshots, as well as tips on how to play the games.

>>1172225
https://web.archive.org/web/19980521133852/http://www.compu-osd.com/OSD-E/roly-poly-e.html

https://web.archive.org/web/19961022213547/http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/ucon/uconlive/gallery/12quick.html

alternate title: "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog"

>>1135821
dunno why but the picture reminded me of dynamite Headdy

>>1172225
Aren't the Roly Poly games lost games too?

>>1172539
Yeah, and they're also the only Osamu Sato games that haven't been found yet (assuming he doesn't have a prototype for an unreleased game somewhere). For now, the closest we'll get to playing either of these games is a Shockwave game called "Slot Machine," which is featured on the official website, and is perfectly playable as long as you're using Internet Explorer.

>>1172572
I sort of assumed the Roly Poly games were kids games and didn't feature Sato's style of art so it's really cool to me that they do

>>1172142
What's wrong with Mega?

>>1172225
>https://web.archive.org/web/19971210201321/http://www.shinko-music.co.jp/roly/
oh shit
that one character called 'banaten' looks a lot like nanshu and the one image next to him of a computer looks like it has his ears

>>1172863
oh that's nice it looks like the games are in both english and japanese too

>>1172872
I could be wrong about this, but I think the first game is the only one with an English language option. I checked the sequel's section of the website, and it didn't say anything about switching between English and Japanese.

>>1172934
Also, this isn't Roly Poly related, but I uploaded a few Osamu Sato videos to YouTube recently. One is a demo video for LSD that I got from the game's official site, and the other two came from the "Alphabet 2001" section of the old OSD website. Here are the links:

http://youtu.be/OrwICElffaU

http://youtu.be/qD5a4C6TTwE

http://youtu.be/c7XFHQsTp_g

The videos were upscaled a bit, and they're old, so the quality isn't that great, unfortunately.

>>1172572
I was wrong about the game only working in IE. I just tested the game out in Google Chrome and it seems to work fine, so I guess it doesn't matter which browser you use.

>>1173020
>http://youtu.be/OrwICElffaU
Oh, wow, these are pretty interesting. Thanks, anon.

Also, we're finally making progress on the Roly-Poly front? Awesome.

>>1173606
Whoa, okay, from what I can see in that LSD demo video, there was no gray man, but there was a weird dude who chases you and kills you. And movement appears to have been more fluent, like being able to turn while moving. Very interesting. I wonder if there are any copies of the demo around? Okay, sorry, I should stop trying to dig deeper into this. But it definitely looks very interesting. Great find.

>>1173020
could i have the link to where you found the lsd video

>>1173636
Sure, here you go:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970630192834/http://www.compu-lsd.com/lsd/video/index.html

There are 3 versions, one for 14.4k modems, one for 28.8k modems, and one for ISDN. I chose the ISDN version of the video because it had the highest quality.
HOWEVER...
There's really no way to watch the video in a modern browser because it uses an outdated and unsupported format called VIVO (.viv). The only way to watch and convert this video (to my knowledge) was to download Mplayer and a frontend for Mencoder called Lincoder. After fiddling with the settings a bit, I was able to successfully convert the file to AVI and upload it to YouTube. So that's the story of how I found and uploaded the LSD demo video.

http://www.mediafire.com/folder/y46iv33vpnh6i/Osamu_Sato

is my collection, feel free to download it.

>>1173803
thanks anon

>>1173779
and thanks for that also, anon.

So is LSD a common thing on vr or am do I just have odd timing, because I hardly visit here but every time I've come there's been a big thread about LSD or Chu-Teng.

>>1173885
It's gotten some cult-status popularity from YouTube playthroughs, and the fanbase for it is fairly dedicated.

>>1173876
thanks me later, i hope you like my job!

While I was looking for Roly Poly info last night, I found this on an auction site. It's user feedback for someone who sold a copy of the first game back in 2002. Sadly, this is the only auction I've come across for either of the games.

>>1174146
So the last known sale was 11 years ago?
Hahaha... ;_;

>>1174369
Thank you anon

>>1174209
If it makes you feel any better, I just uploaded some gameplay of the Roly Poly Shockwave game I mentioned earlier in this thread:

http://youtu.be/xRzRswHcnCc

The link for the game is in the video description.

>>1173803

OMG is all in one folder, you're great! thanks bro

Ugh, I just remembered that I can make a Pastebin with links to all the stuff I found instead of turning this thread into a "How much Osamu Sato stuff can you find online?" thread. I'll try to make one soon.

>>1175208
that was the point of this thread in the first place though

as well as a 'how is the chu-teng translation coming along' thread

>>1140797
His games were made before 1999, and he has other games than the interactive dvd. We're talking about Midheaven (Chu-teng) here. Which is a game. A retro game. The point of this board. Fool.

>>1175208
see >>1173803

>>1173803
What's in there?

There's also a section on the old OSD website about the other DVD Osamu Sato made called "COMPU MOVIE", with a small picture of some screenshots, so there's another thing to keep an eye out for.

>>1175674
Can you post said screenshots?

>>1175697
Sorry about the really small size (that's how big they are on the website), but here you go.

http://pastebin.com/DkF9163t

Here's the Pastebin I promised earlier. It has links to the official websites for some of Sato's games, as well as a link to my YouTube channel.

Speaking of my channel, this pic is what I used for the channel art. It's made from screenshots of the Shockwave animations featured on the LSD website.

>>1175674

Apparently, you had to request a copy of this in an email in order to get it, but I doubt Sato would still have any lying around.

>>1175675
all

>>1175710
Thank you for posting

This is kind of depressing...I can only imagine what the conversations were like between Osamu Sato and some major software publishers:

"So I've got these really cool games that I want to have released in other territories. They have unique designs and gameplay that people of all ages can enjoy. What do you think?"

"They're too weird. There's no way we're gonna be able to sell them outside of Japan."

"But they're unlike anything else on the market!"

"Exactly, that's why we can't sell them."

"FUCK THIS!" (storms out the door)

>>1176906
Well Japanese people tend to handle situations much more calm than that, but damn anon you're right that's rough...

Okay, so that was a bit extreme, but the words in that pic just made me wonder what must've been going through Sato's head as he wrote that.

>>1175674
I really like how he has 16 more definitions for LSD.

>>1164146
>>1164983
>>1165347

>>1178756

>>1178761
i could upload more but i'm lazy

>that Future Sound of London remix

>>1178756
>This picture was created with squares.
Impossible. There are curves in the picture.

Well, it never said it was made ENTIRELY out of squares...

blimp

Hey guys, it's me again (the guy who posted those rare Sato videos on YouTube and made the Pastebin with the website links). I found a shopping site that has a listing for Roly Polys World Tour, the sequel to the first game in the series:

http://www.fujisan.com/control/product/~product_id=123880

Unfortunately, it's out of stock, but $121 is quite a bit of money, even for a children's game.

Apparently this game has an alternate title:"Banabana's First Big Adventure" (which is probably referring to Banaten, the monkey character in the game).

>>1181005
121$ is nothing for a rare game D:

>>1181005
>it's out of stock
oh... okay. and here I was thinking there was hope in life

>>1181548
I'm sure there are other ways we could look for this game (and its prequel). We could ask someone who lives in Japan to go to a store that sells old games and look there, or we could just do what the guys who were looking for Chu Teng did and ask around on various message boards.

I finally uploaded those Rhythm 'N' Face songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjxHVKnOrVU&list=PLZwSZn90Dq5z3NyxPYjvitePAICy7N85e

However, there are some songs left. The menu and the four "freestyle" songs are not uploaded yet, mainly because I don't have a nice picture for them.

I also don't know how the fuck those freestyle songs work, and I'm not going to try to finish the game.

>>1183475
Apparently I'm one of your subscribers because my subscription feed is filled with those videos right now
Keep up the good work anon

>>1183475

psx iso http://www.mediafire.com/?d8dpe4p4e1p4l

>>1181913
Now that I think about it, this might not be the best time to start looking for these games. Everyone (including me) is busy with something right now, whether it be work, school, or anything else that requires lots of time and effort. Maybe we should wait until next summer (or an upcoming holiday) before we really start searching for the games.

I found these will clicking through the links posted:
https://web.archive.org/web/19980204164453/http://www.shinko-music.co.jp/roly/play2.html

https://web.archive.org/web/19980204164439/http://www.shinko-music.co.jp/roly/play.html

That picture gave me fucking nightmares.

>>1185128
Nightmares in which you are fucking, or are being fucked?

I decided to make this table that lists all of the Osamu Sato stuff that hasn't been found yet. It amazes me that there's still plenty of stuff to look for.

>>1186857
Saved

>>1186857
Nice, thanks.

Have the PC version of Chu-Teng and the Mac version of Eastern Mind been posted anywhere? Pretty sure I've seen people on here talk about having them, at least.

>>1186857
I live in Japan. Any tips on where I should look?

>>1186979
The Japanese Mac version of Eastern Mind has already been ripped (it's in that Pastebin that has most of the other Sato games in it), but the Windows version of Chu Teng hasn't. In previous threads concerning the game, people were worried that the files in the Windows version would be encrypted like Eastern Mind's, which would prevent it from being translated, but there's really no way of knowing unless someone finds and rips a copy.

>>1187026
I'd say any place that sells used books, games, CDs, and so on would be a good place to look.

>>1187026
Also, if you do find any Sato stuff, be sure to post some pictures. They would be much appreciated.

>>1187051
Of course, but I doubt I'll find anything

>>1186857
Alphabet 2001 is listed as an interactive movie on the old osd site. I found a link to watch the segments of the movie. I'll upload that soon. "The Alphabet" (or at least the pictures from it) seem to be able to be found in the new osd site under gallery. There is another movie called Electric Music, btw guys. Also there's a game called Restless that I can't find any info about.

>>1187097
I think I already have those videos uploaded to my YouTube channel, but thanks for the offer. Here's the link to my channel, btw:

www.youtube.com/user/boredperson1030

>>1187097
>Restless
Where is this mentioned?

Did anybody ever find garage?

>>1187097
Osd.co.jp doesn't list any game called Restless. Maybe you meant Rythm 'n' Face (リズムンフエイス)

>>1135821
>i'm not sure if anyone on here even cares about it any more
Of course we care. It's just the only people who can currently play this game are the small percentage who know Japanese. Expect this game to be really popular once the translation comes out. Hell, Princess Sevenleaf was the main person who got us interested in Tong-Nou.

>>1140797
>An interactive isn't retro and barely qualifies as a game

Then I guess by your logic, Myst isn't a game?

Retard.

>>1187147
This is taken from the old company profile. It wasn't in English like the other games, so I used Google Translate.

>>1187694
that is chu-teng

>>1187695
oh, sorry. I thought the English for chu-teng was midheaven? Obviously translations are going to be slightly different, but midheaven and restless aren't even close...

>>1187717
Kanji (the more complicated ideograms) in Japanese can have very different meanins, the same combination of two kanji can mean several things and the same combination of sounds can mean two completely different things.

I think I found an unused video in Chu Teng's movie files. It's in the "corridor" folder, and is titled "AB.mov." It's basically a longer version of the video that plays when you leave the Moon Palace. I decided to make it into a GIF.

>>1187131
No, not yet
>>1187717
Yes literally Chu-Teng (中天) is midheaven. I have no idea how Google Translate thought that meant "restless".
>>1187818
Fucking cool, man. Can you make more gifs of cutscenes if possible?

>>1187941
Sure, as long as you tell me which ones you want GIFs of. All I need is a brief description.

>>1188037
Weeeelllll I haven't played the game so I can't describe any, hahaha...

I don't know if anybody has seen these, but a few months ago I found some video files in Eastern Mind's movie files. It's osamu sato.
https://mega.co.nz/#F!k04SFLrJ!LnOR3X15NIl7IthrKc5jnA

>>1188152
Those files are part of "Transcript," a program that was included in the English version of Eastern Mind, and as a separate disc in Sato's album "Transmigration." They're meant to be used with his biography (to find this, move your cursor to the top left corner and click the "I" then click "OSAMU SATO."

>>1188096
I'll just post a few GIFs I made from the game's intro. This is the first of 3.

>>1188164
Oh, thanks!

Oh no, I accidentally created a new thread with these GIFs and can't delete it!!!

OK, let's try this again. This is 2/3.

3/3

Have you guys ever tried to contact Osamu?

>>1188285
yes, successfully. just email him a decent question at osamu@osd.co.jp and he'll probably respond.

>>1188303
Does he respond to English emails? If so, then I wonder if he still has any copies of "Compu Movie" lying around (he probably won't, but it's worth a try). I would ask about the Roly Poly games, but he'd probably just tell me to go to various auction sites and look there.

I talked to an anon last night who said they lived in Japan and would look for the stuff I put in a list (see >>1186857). I wonder how the search is going (assuming they've already started looking)?

>>1188376
yes, he responded to me in english, but I typed the message in english and japanese (used google translate). he doesn't give big answers, just a quick message. I've also heard he doesn't like receiving fan mail.

>>1188380
If that's the case, then I'll try to avoid mentioning the fanbase and what we're trying to do if I decide to email him.

>>1188380
>japanese (used google translate)
Just so you know Google Translate can wildly range from piss poor to bearable with Japanese.

>>1188526
I'm aware. I don't speak japanese though, so with my poorly translated japanese message, I also included the english version of what I was trying to say. he understood it just fine though

>>1188380
What did you e-mail him?

>>1187941
To be in 中天 probably means to be in a state of restlessness. Makes sense to me.

>>1188376
Nah man, I haven't started looking. That was literally last night when I said I'd look around. Plus, I should add I'm not going to be actively searching, just when I go to second hand shops looking for other games and such. I'll always keep my eyes open, it's just that there's no way I'll be able to actively seek this shit out.

>>1188531
I guarantee that the Japanese version of your message made no sense. It's best not do that in the future to not look like a fool.

>>1188574
This might be the email he's talking about:

http://archive.foolz.us/vr/thread/1029417/#1032373

>>1188380
>I've also heard he doesn't like receiving fan mail.
Why not? No offense to the guy but I doubt he receives it so much it's a hassle. I would imagine it would be nice to hear from people interested in things you created as an artist/graphic designer.
Also if anyone is going to send Mr. Sato emails I volunteer to give rough translations. I've been studying Japanaese for about 5 1/2 years and have a reasonable amount of experience conversing with Japanese people.

>>1188574
asked if eastern mind was in development for playstation. thought it was because there is a promotional video from 1995 for the PS1 that shows eastern mind. (he said no)

>>1188647
yes, it is

>>1188667
>Why not?
Because most the fan mail he gets now is probably from fucktarded underage redditors who don't know shit about his catalog besides what they saw in shitty youtube LPs.

And if you need someone to proof read emails, I have experience with Japanese as well. I'm currently studying in Tokyo.

>>1188678
>Because most the fan mail he gets now is probably from fucktarded underage redditors who don't know shit about his catalog besides what they saw in shitty youtube LPs.
Oh. That's unfortunate.
>I'm currently studying in Tokyo.
Jealous. But a sprawling megalopolis of 35 million people metro (or whatever the statistic is) is too much for me. I can't imagine trying to navigate that place without a GPS. Once I took the wrong train and ended up in Yokohama where my day pass didn't work. Had to buy another pass just to get back inside the Tokyo city limits.

>>1188671
>>1188678
It's good to know that there are people on this board who are willing to help others using their knowledge of Japanese. I was wanting to ask Sato if he still had any copies of Compu Movie, and what the price would be for it. I'm also curious about the music cassette he made, and would like to know its title, as well as the publisher. I'll try to make a draft soon.

By the way, I got these screenshots of Osamu Sato's bio from the BEAMS website (they held an exhibition in Hiroshima last month where he displayed some of his work). Looks like he's aware of LSD's cult following.

>>1188723
>EQUEL
More like EquLEL amirite guise
But damn I would have killed to have been aboe to go to his art show

>>1188723
Oops, meant to reply to >>1188730 instead of 1188671.

>>1188781
>>1188708, sorry.
I keep looking at the wrong post number.

Wow, we really should e-mail him more.
There is so many questions to ask.

I think I've changed my mind about making a draft. Compu Movie was released 19 years ago, and the current OSD website doesn't say anything about purchasing a copy, so to me, sending an email seems like a waste of effort. If you guys are still interested in contacting Sato, then go right ahead.

OK guys, I've changed my mind again. There's always that chance that Sato may have something interesting to say. Anyway, here's my draft:

Hello Mr. Sato,

I am very interested in your work and would like to ask a few questions about it. I understand that some time ago, you made a VHS tape called Compu Movie, and that copies were only sold through your company. Do you still have copies for sale, and if so, how much do they cost? Next, I'd like to ask about some of your other work (games and books, to be exact). I have searched several shopping and auction sites for these things, and they are either out of stock, or don't have a listing at all. Do you know of any other places that might have this stuff? Finally, I read somewhere that you made a music cassette in the 1980's and released it through an independent publisher. If possible, could you tell me the name of this cassette and its publisher?
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope to hear from you soon.

If you think this needs any revisions, let me know. I don't want to sound rude in my message, especially since it is being sent to someone important.

>>1189770
Perfect.

>>1190261
OK, I'll email this to Sato soon and see if I get a reply.

>>1189770
>someone important
He's just some guy who made weird videogames, it's not like he's all that important.
I probably would get annoyed too if people started addressing me so highly just because I made some weird stuff in the past. There must be a reason why he stopped making games.

>>1190582
I would personally guess:
>not very profitable
>a lot of work for little payoff
>all releases weren't very popular
>personal interests change
etc

Alright, the email has been sent.
I know English isn't Sato's first language, but if he accepts emails from English-speaking fans and gives relevant responses, then I don't have much reason to worry.

>>1190689
Cool. Keep us updated.

>>1190689
Post pics anon

>>1190689
Damn, you sent it before I returned from class. I was going to say it's a bit form and could be structured in a more basic fashion. Since his English probably isn't too good, it'd be better to use simpler grammar. But too late now, oh well.

>>1191072
Yeah.

Look what I found on eBay.
This is ridiculous. Not too long ago, there was a copy on Amazon for about $70, which actually sounds like a reasonable price compared to this.

>>1192774
It's the exact same reason other games are so ridiculously priced.
>I found a raer game???
>Is worth weaight in gold!!!
But $500... yeah I'll pass.

It's been about 27 hours, no response from Sato yet. I should probably give it more time.

>>1193036
>not having hundreds of unread messages
But yeah just give it time. People are busy. Give it several days to a week.

>>1192774
Watching doesn't necessarily mean that people want to buy it.

>>1193036
If the thread 404's before you can post a response, what would you do? I'm interested in hearing an answer from him.

>>1193903
I'd probably just create a new thread and post the reply there.

Any update on the Chu-Teng translation?
And anyone know which Tumblr it was that posted updates of the PC LSD remake? If that gets released... it will be like Santa is real.

>>1196661
http://figgledev.tumblr.com/
This guy?

>>1196661
The rest of the work is data entry, every base has been covered to make a 1:1 translation, a break of 2 weeks was put out before this onslaught.

Also thanks to anon a tip off what made for Osamu Sato 'Linen Sampler', has some tid bits, bunch of tracks and some artwork. Will scan and rip soon.

https://web.archive.org/web/19970630192806/http://www.compu-lsd.com/linen/

>>1196986
RIP PLEASE
BASED ANONS

osamu sato linen sampler ver 1.0 mp3 192kbps
https://mega.co.nz/#!jc5QHA7b!IHW5FwOP-7dll9JPUVqi4HHKOJcF_OyfCFhSD2EgBzw

osamu sato linen sampler ver 1.0 hq scans
https://mega.co.nz/#!bRQAlayR!WxjF1UmhOnC8b1YtQOCEDFrrmlwF4mwdpW4eQ2N6dRc

website:
https://web.archive.org/web/19970630192806/http://www.compu-lsd.com/linen/

dont know completely what is new or different, some tracks have more vocals on it, some higher quality then before, still cool either way

>>1196997
>>1196993
>>1197004
Might I ask how you found this? I didn't even know such a thing existed! Of course, it probably contains music that was already featured in the LSD and Remixes album, but still...this is quite a rare find!

>>1197291
Also, if you get the chance, could you upload some good scans of this? I'm very interested.

>>1197291
anon san tipped off osamu sato hoarder.
everyone wins

>>1197290
no major differences except that track 6 is a high quality version of "Stravin Mix", featured on his site a long time ago (originally in 16 kbps quality). it's now called May Day.

all the artists are aliases of sato by the way

Never mind, just read >>1196986.

>>1197297
I seriously want to know how that one guy who owns like every thing Sato ever even obtained half the stuff he has

>>1197331
for the linen sampler, I sent him a link to some shitty music marketplace where they were selling it for pretty cheap. didn't have any information given, didn't even know if it was real or not. he just took a shot in the dark and it came out successful.

>>1197361
>some shitty music marketplace where they were selling it for pretty cheap.
Where do you guys even find these things

>>1197331
>Awesome story of luck situation and rolling consecutive 7's to get it all.
>So much grammar on isle 4 to clean up

>>1196668
Yesss that guy
>September 16th post
>"If you want to help in the development of the remake, and by help I mean create high quality assets for use in the remake, then please PM/email me with a sample of your work... I need people to make music tracks, and people to help 3D model… models, along with anything else I have forgotten."
I've been using FL for over two years. Time to contribute!

Please happen

>>1197476
shake sources off research. brute force them with notifications, searches and with every hit enquire where they got it. If youve played katamari damacy you will understand

>>1197489
I'm glad to help with that if you need it.

>>1198320
NANANANA KATAMARI DAMACY
I remember that game.

>>1192774
>Ill give ya 50 bucks

>>1199195
>a copy recently sold for $70
>very little demand for the game
>$50 being unreasonable, $500 is reasonable
Offer him $51

>>1199195
I hope no one buys it for that price. That shit is just retarded.

>>1198369
Eh its all organised, fine polishing text and aligning all assets in the chutengban before cleaning out 600 lines of in-game text. Average probably 10 frames (160 total) in the chutengban and 50 lines of text a day, go figure.

See you on the tubes

>>1199734
You are the best anon who has ever posted
Keep it up

>>1199742
cracky is better

>>1197290
Thank you anon, this is great
Would it be possible to get a rip in lossless (WAV/FLAC) for the sake of online archival? This is the type of disc I doubt there's many of.

>>1200064
Yeah will upload later.
also the CD is a CDR with a sticker on it, the poster leaflet is a photocopy on yellow paper, and the cover and back inlay is a heatpress copy. Seems to all be done by hand, and survived 16 years even with a bit of a crack on the disk.

AIFF rip, 536.6 meg. check back soon

>>1200084
Do you have a Discogs account? If you do you should make an entry for the CD.

>>1200264
sound good but everyone has the same resources as me now anyone can do it

osamu sato linen sampler 1997 v1.0
http://180upload.com/t8esy502uywq

raw files, might want to reupload with ID3 tags.

>>1200324
site is unreliable,
mirror: http://queenshare.com/cs0dg57v9urr

>>1200324
>>1200363

Both sites are unreliable.

>>1200324
>>1200363

Samefag posting unreliable sites.

click the right dl for queenshare, mega just put in restrictions for free users, will shoot to another site for prosperity

>>1200438
Google Docs is actually a good file host. It's free, has a 15gig limit per email you have and you're allowed unlimited emails.

I found some pictures of a magazine that Sato did some design work for in 1991. Apparently, it deals with business and architecture.

I also looked on the Japanese Amazon website and they have 2 copies of Tong Nou (Windows version) for sale, but the cheapest copy is about $128.

Speaking of Amazon, I made a list of all the Sato stuff I could find on the site. Not included is the Lovely Sweet Dream book, which costs about $1,000.

These prices are steep, but I'd love to have a physical copy of at least one of Sato's things, especially the Windows version of Chu Teng.

>>1200941
It's my birthday in a few weeks. Anyone wanna get me that copy of Chu-Teng? :B

>>1200801
Saved. Cool image.
>>1200941
Within the past several months there was a copy of Equal on Amazon.co.uk for about $20 not counting shipping and recent sales of Equal on Discogs range from $9 to $45 with a median of $18, not counting shipping. If you want something physical Equal seems like your best bet, but still keep an eye out for things.
>>1200945
I'll buy you Chu-Teng if you buy me everything else :B

I still haven't gotten a reply from Sato, but now that I think about it, there are many things I could have done to improve the email (rewording it to make it easier to read, including a Japanese translation, specifying which things I was looking for, etc.). I feel like rewriting it and sending it to him, but I don't know if I should.

>>1201201
I would say don't worry about it. If he doesn't reply, let it slide. Better to not send him a bunch of emails on the topic and spam him.

>>1201216
I suppose you're right...but how else are we going to get information on Compu Movie (which wasn't available in stores) or that music cassette from the 80's that nobody knows much about?
Maybe I need to stop being impatient and accept the fact that Sato is busy with other things at the moment. It's not like he has all the time in the world to read fan mail.

>>1201216
He will end up not responding to many if you keep hitting him up.

>>1200801
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0-%E3%81%98%E3%82%85%E3%81%92%E3%82%80BOOKS-%E8%A5%BF%E5%B7%9D-%E5%85%AC%E5%AD%90/dp/4889916555/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_t_1_B7D8

¥100,000.

>>1200941
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0-%E3%81%98%E3%82%85%E3%81%92%E3%82%80BOOKS-%E8%A5%BF%E5%B7%9D-%E5%85%AC%E5%AD%90/dp/4889916555/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_t_1_B7D8

¥100,000.

>>1201452
Goodness gracious

>>1201452
なんで

>http://youtu.be/CXDtDSWHVWM
Why are my days so short?

>>1201678
Cool glitch texture.
could be those glitch textures or emulation problems. Theres always one thing off in emulation, someone mentioned an emulator which doesnt show any in the last LSD thread but cant remember what its called. buy it for 600 though jap psn on ps3, worth it.

>>1201687
>yen

>>1200363
tinyurl / lkebuoc

better

>>1201687
The emulator's name is XEBRA. I know because I was the one who made that post. It's not updated frequently (the latest version on EmuCR is the first in 2 years), but it works great.
This is what the water animation should look like, btw.

I found this article on Wired that talks about Sato's work. It briefly mentions Tong Nou, and even Compu Movie.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00G2TV16A

5443958

windows iso in a week? windows iso in a week.

>>1202024
I have never before seen the water like that anywhere, if that is indeed how it is supposed to look. Every video, screenshot, etc. I've seen has had the flashing seizure water.

>>1202056
Oh anon you don't have to do that
Thank you very much anon

>>1202056
Oh, you're actually buying it? Cool! Maybe the speed issues that the Mac version has won't be present in this one.
There may not be many differences between versions, but if it comes in, could you upload scans (slip cover, manual, inlays, all that good stuff)? That would be great.
I still can't believe there's more undiscovered Sato stuff out there. It seems like the only way to find some of it is to break into his office and do a thorough sweep of the area, but I wouldn't recommend doing that.

>>1202074
Pay the piper.
Finally get myself something to oodle over, and yes im curious about the speed differences.

Cleaning up all mp3 disks and books into pdfs and formats all in the same place mp3 max vbr/flac/wav cause why not, add to that pastebin.

>>1135821
Can I get a link to Equal?

>>1202164
There's a FLAC version but I don't have that handy.
># # - C H U - T E N G O S T
># OSAMU SATO - EQUAL (1996)
>WAV docs.google.com/file/d/0BwdRA84Zlm6YVlc0Y2l6bFBKTEU/edit
>MP3-320 docs.google.com/file/d/0BwdRA84Zlm6YWFhvdTJ1U09XZ00/edit
From the following pastebin:
>http://pastebin.com/NE1uFVJM

>>1202169
Thanks m8

>>1202209
No prob bud

>>1197641
I sincerely hope this happens

>>1202114
>scratch that, its all there for whoever wants these formats and so.
>will upload all the captured loops for the game though, some OG.

>>1202056
>23,320 yen
Holy crap. Thank you for this.

>>1202497
im sure it will hold most of ts weight in the future

I realize that previous attempts to rip that Art of Computer Designing book were unsuccessful, but has anyone else tried to do it? I'd love to help, but I broke my Mac IIsi when I was little, and the closest library to me that has the book is 200 miles away.

>>1202836
I'm talking about the floppy disk, btw.

>>1202056
And I was just gonna get someone to buy it, too.

Never mind, though. Eagerly awaiting the Windows ISO! Thanks a bunch, anon.

I took another look at Sato's profile on the Compu OSD site, and it looks like Compu Movie had a publisher after all (I always thought it was self-published). Of course, this isn't exactly useful in determining where to find it.

I still can't get over this "music cassette" that the profile talks about, especially since there's no mention of it anywhere else on the internet.

All of this Sato stuff has left me with so many questions, and yet there's no way they'll ever be answered.

>>1202056
Win.jpg indeed.

Saluting you so hard, anon.

>>1203057
I'm guessing the music cassette from the 80s was pretty much on par with self-published hip-hop mixtapes of the era in that they're most of the time very amateurish, of low production value, only a few made, most of them soon discarded, etc.. I might be pessimistic here, but honestly I don't think one of them will ever surface online before all copies are lost. A few people in Japan who have reasonable music collections probably have some copies still, but they most likely don't know what they have and to them the cassette is only worth a few cents, easily discardable, etc.. With all of that said, if a recording DOES surface online, I will go apeshit and that will be the find of the decade.

In other news, I sent a few musical demos to Figgledev/Figglewatts who is in charge of the LSD PC remake and I am awaiting a reply.

How does it look? Everything accurate?

Also here's the logo for Mr. Sato's short lived "Linen Records" label I got off one of the archived sites linked in this thread in case it hasn't been posted before. So far the only known release was the sampler an anon posted above. Some songs on the sampler were later used for LSD and released on the LSD soundtrack but it looks like most of the songs were never truly released beyond the sampler CD-R.

>>1197641
Dude, I can't wait to work with you c: I've also been using FL for 2 years so far. Got a soundcloud?

>>1202056

Nice work, anon!

>>1202056
i should be getting the japanese tong-nou soon so i can rip that if need be

>>1203716
There's really no need to rip the disc, since the English version and Japanese Mac version are already online, but scans of the box, manual, disc, etc. would be fine.

>>1203731
alright i will have to find a scanner first

>>1203641
Seems right

>>1203702
Soundcloud name is Matoto but I don't use it much. Have you sent anything to Figglewatts? Still eagerly awaiting a response email haha.

box art from the windows eastern mind

And the front

Any other tidbits related to the Osamu Sato witch hunt from japan available?

ordering:

http://www.amazon.co.jp/hachimitsu-EP-SiLC/dp/B00005EYJI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382410251&sr=8-1

Because its a dollar.
all ears for a few days

http://www.amazon.co.jp/88-LM-C/dp/B0016J82C2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384668181&sr=8-1&keywords=PCCA-70214

Has one track on there

http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B003QXYFN6/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=

Produced these albums, why not.
Dont see any more, will rip them with windows chu teng as they come

http://www.amazon.co.jp/88-LM-C/dp/B0016J82C2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384668181&sr=8-1&keywords=PCCA-70214

http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B003QXYFN6/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=

Produced these albums, why not.
Dont see any more, will rip them with windows chu teng as they come

>>1204136
>>1204137
Very nice. Did you scan these?

>>1204162
>ordering Hachimitsu EP because its a dollar
Isn't shipping ridiculous like $18 though? Or are you using one of those Japan-US private parcel services?

>>1204217
Postage for chu teng is what it is, adding 3 more CDs is nothing. Not my scans of that, no.

Using a private courier service

>>1203716
Is it the windows version of tong nou in japanese? That copy isnt available, would be good for collectors

Also, any evidence of a mac version of tong nou in english anyone?

>>1204239
there are two copies on amazon

>>1204349
http://www.usedottawa.com/classified-ad/3904992

>FOR SALE: Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou (Mac OS Version): $90$
>MacHome Journal 1995 Editor Choice.

>Posted: September 12, 2007
>Renewed: February 18, 2011
>Expiry: March 20, 2011
>Status: EXPIRED

>>1205014
>http://www.usedottawa.com/classified-ad/3904992
Surely there's a way to contact this guy?

>>1176906
DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION ON GOG NOW
ALONG WITH TONG NU AND EVENTUALLY CHUT TENG IF WE CAN GIVE HIS COMPANY THE ENGLISH VERSION AND THEY'RE COOL ABOUT IT.

GOG NOW

>>1204131
I haven't sent anything yet, I'm still remaking what he posted on YouTube since it sounded pretty bad. I'll totally hit you up on Soundcloud so we can collab and send each other music, I suggest getting a Skype if you don't already have one since we'll be using it a lot.

>>1205462
Gog?

>>1205484
goodoldgames

Im sure Mr Sato would be interested in that, there are royalties with GOG right?

>>1197290
"Professional Problem" is such a great song. I'm absolutely in love with it. It's so quirky it's great.

So when is Sato-sama going to realize that there's a bunch of gaijins collecting all his stuff on the internet?

>>1207687
I'm sure he's aware of all the collectors out there. He probably gets emails all the time from people who are looking for his things (including me).

http://www.suruga-ya.jp/database/185021258001.html

I came across this listing for the Rhythm 'n' Face book and thought I had struck gold, but then I noticed it was out of stock.

WHY MUST YOU TEASE ME JAPAN?

https://web.archive.org/web/20070509131249/http://bit.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Arch/SR/OsamuSato/download/d1.html

Apparently, music from Transmigration and Equal was available for download on the Sony Music website at one point.

>>1208424
>>1208096
Good work, that book more than anything would be great.

Recently made some ipad game. doesnt look exciting but good to see his wheels are still turning

>>1208651
I'm pretty sure he didn't make that game. The URL in that pic took me to this website called ANALOG SQUARE, which seems to be a completely different company.

>>1208668
naw

So there are 6 used copies of The Art of Computer Designing on Amazon right now. I thought about getting one (mainly for the floppy disk), but I don't know if it's really worth it. I don't have an old Mac, and I'd have to spend about $200 or so on eBay just to get one. I also don't know if the floppy disk will be included, or if it even works. I'm worried that I'll end up wasting money because of this. Any suggestions?

>>1208776
It says in the description that theres an illustrator project and a font on it, both of which have been hosted. I doubt theres more on it but curious of course.

half way in fine tuning all of the mid heaven disk.
have to cater for style of how the paragraphs are organised in continuity to the original text, cleaner english, and graphic continuity that seems to jump a bit throughout the game (personal touch up).

98% of the text is already been inserted into the game itself, the not so brain heavy task of aligning the text and checking off 600 times is still to come, along with half a dozen more photoshops, kanji translations, and manual transations.

guess about, 30hours of work.

Kill me

>>1208651
Is this real life

>>1208831
Is this just fantasy

>>1208837
Caught in landslide

>>1208850
*a landslide
Welp I fucked up the lyrics
Have another pic
The game seems to let you design stuff ala Sato's work in his artbook. Controls are a little difficult and I don't quite know what I'm doing.

>>1208857
Do you guys like my art

>>1208862
The menu titled "sample". Clicking on each icon starts an animation showing how it's constructed.

>>1208862

>>1208865
Credits. Designed by Osamu's company.
The Japanese title is カンタンデザイン (Kantan Dezain; lit. "Easy Design")

>>1208868
Okay I figured out what to do

>>1208803
There's definitely something else on the disk.
Floppies weren't made to last forever. We have to get the disk ripped before it's too late. I know there are people in this thread who have it, so they're in a much better position than I am. All they need to do now is find an old Mac that accepts the disk to see if it works. If it does, and if the contents are ripped, it will be glorious.

>>1208879
I have the disk. maybe i should visit a retro store and let them give them their two bits.
But then i have to go outside.

Its dangerous out there.

>>1208897
Can you post pics? Have pics been posted before?

>>1208901
This picture was posted on a Chu Teng thread back in August.

>>1208904
Well it's new to me! Thanks

>>1208901
yoyoma

>>1208909
That desktop looks strangely familiar...

>>1208918

>>1208918
I wish I had a copy of the Chu-Teng Ban

>>1208930
Im really fond of the fork

>>1208952
>four copies of Equal
>two copies of Transmigration
>two copies of LSD, one VGA graded
How do you have any money for food

>>1208952
Pretty neat stuff anon. Can we expect some good scans in the future (Transmigration, Alphabetical Orgasm, pretty much everything that hasn't been scanned)?
NOTE: "The future" doesn't mean right now. I realize that you're very busy at the moment.

>>1208956
Clearly you havent seen hook

>>1208962
Mayne i was closing in on preparing an onslaught for a presentation and this motherfucker chu teng came around and made it so much more epic. All in due time.

>>1208964
The movie?

>>1208972
I saw parts of it like ten years ago so yeah I don't remember any of it

>>1208970
yeah.

>>1208974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnHMxGNc4p8

say what you want about VGA, they put your wares in a nice case and a report on the damage to it. I lost 15 points to naked-to-the eye cellophane damage. noes

>>1208862
I don't see where the Copper Bones will fit. You'll never make it to One-Eyed Willie's rich stuff.

>>1208952
The holy grail...

>>1205479
Sent you a reply message on Soundcloud if you haven't seen it yet

>>1209134
YES

>>1208424
http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/OsamuSato/discography/
Looks like the website is still up, just without the download links. The albums have prices attached to them, but I looked in the online store and couldn't find either of them there. I wonder why?

>>1210621
¥2,548 is a bit much for a five-track MP3 album don't you think? I'm going to assume those are just the original list prices.
>that feel when Sony taunts you and doesn't let you buy an MP3 album of Transmigration
But but but... I want to support the artist!

>>1210759
The original list prices weren't much cheaper.

>>1210785
Back in the 90s I think the general conversion rate was in the neighborhood of 160-220 yen per dollar, compared to today's 75-100. When ¥2800 comes out to be $15 that ain't so bad. When it comes out to be $35, however...
Next Sato album when

Wish much procrastination the Linen Sampler Discogs page is up
>http://www.discogs.com/release/5102153

I've spent the last few hours going on various Japanese shopping sites hoping to find some of the Sato stuff I compiled in that list, but I haven't had any luck. I guess our only options are to look in various Japanese secondhand shops, music stores, and bookstores, or get in touch with some collectors.
It's a lot of work, but at the same time, I find it pretty exciting. This is basically a massive treasure hunt that seems to have no end.

>>1210837
>Next Sato album when
He might have just given up the whole thing, and sad thing is, according to some sources he died 3 years ago, but then again, most other sources don't say so

>>1210998
He replied to an anon's email earlier this year as well as had an art exhibition in Hiroshima (I think) over the summer so I doubt the whole death three years ago thing is anything more than just a random rumor. Also his Twitter is active.

>>1210998
He's definitely not dead. He still updates his Twitter and Instagram from time to time, and sometimes responds to emails.
Speaking of Twitter, here's a tweet he posted last year that might be hinting at a desire to return to music. I used Google Translate though, so I can't confirm this.

http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Osamu_Sato

>>1156413

>Changed to Chuhei for more english approbation.
>Its all spit polish for the localisation now, hopefully that windows ISO doesnt have locked up director files like tong nou for some magical reason