/vr/ - Retro Games

That's retro?

>>838735
Yes. For those who don't know, this is the fabled Chu Teng, sequel to Eastern Mind, the predecessor of LSD Dream Emulator. Launched at 1998, or so say rumors.

This game is pretty fucking rare, in a sense that it would be easier to find a physical copy than a download floating around.

>>838730
Why?
By most accounts it's just a psychedelic music video.

>>838756
It might be.
But still.

>>838756

I guess people is more obsessed with this as a rare collectors item rather than a good game.

>>838756
http://www.osd.co.jp/new_web/?works.html

Scroll down. It's a game for Apple.

>>838730
what's the game called?

The ending to Eastern Minds seemed very open ended. It takes a lot of skill and finesse to even accomplish most tasks outside of knowing the language. But it took me to a vers. Of reality I never hoped to depart. Anybody who has accomplished the task of EASTERN Minds understands what i am feeling. All other games are progress, Eastern Minds is the end.

>>838825
What the FUCK are you talking about?

>>838842
Something wonderful.

This game is like the fucking pinnacle of the term "obscure".

>Sequel to an already unknown game
>Japan exclusive
>Mac exclusive
>Creator himself doesn't even own a copy
>Only known existance of the game is through a couple pictures

>tfw you will never own a copy of armed and delirious

>>838842
he's talking about a game that the same person who made LSD Dream Emulator (Osamu Sato)

To get the game, you must first have a lucid dream and contact the creator of the game in your dream. He will give you a password which you must use to search on Google. There will be around 900 million results, and one of them has a link to an auction to buy the game. You and a few dozen other people will compete in the auction. The losers will be contacted by the Grey Man in their sleep, and will never wake up.

I know because I survived and have a copy.

>>839030
>The losers will be contacted by the Grey Man in their sleep, and will never wake up.
Sounds pretty peaceful either way, honestly.
I liked him.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1587913

This man needs to be contacted.
And given information.

>>839049
>http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1587913
>posted just last month

>>839049
His last.fm is last.fm/user/munckeyz
and his skype is the same.

He claims he may be contacted at any time.

>>839049
IT BEGINS

>>839049
>>839052
>>839057
>>839058

op here

WHAT DID I DOOOO

>>839049
>>839061
dis gon b gud

>>839049
>http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1587913
AAAAAAAAAAAA

TO ARMS YOU GLORIOUS BASTARDS

TODAY WE DO GODS WORK

there's a guy on twitter under the name @arutamegaro who has the game

i spoke to him briefly and he says that he won't give it away because he doesn't have a mac to play it on, and he won't rip the files because it's illegal

he also doesn't speak english

if anyone can get the files from him, and if there is a way to get the text information, i can translate it

just throwing that out there

>>839049
>http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1587913
FUCK

>>839189
munckeyz here btw

>>839189
Hello. Have you explained to him that a game of such rarity would result in no repurcussions and that at this state, which the developers out of the loops, it is as good as open source?

>>839202
i didn't think of that

/ultimate facepalm

i shall ask

I've been following this since April or so.
Get. Fucking. Hyped.

>>839209
me again.. please bear in mind that he's in japan so he's 9 hours ahead and he might not even be able to figure out how to rip the files. please don't get too excited because i'm still not sure if i will be able to get the files from him.

rest assured though that if i do, you guys will be the first to hear about it

>>839220
Offer him, like, a billion yen.

>>839226
unfortunately don't have that kind of cash...

Holy shit is this really happening??!

on another note, anybody have a link to Eastern Minds?

>>839189
WAIT
WAIT THE FUCK DOWN
MAKE HIM STREAM/RECORD IT

THIS CAN'T BE A FUCKING LOSTBOY ALL OVER AGAIN

>>839298
he doesn't have a mac to play it on and it'd be in japanese

that's why we're trying to get the files from him so that we can translate them if there's a way and then we can all enjoy it independently

>>839292
http://easternmindtongnou.tumblr.com/post/50738962673

here

Will this be the thread that sees ChuTeng ripped and released?

Will we be among the first to play it?

****MOST IMPORTAN THREAD ON/vr/****

Seriously close all other threads. This is the rarest of the fucking rare. What the fuck. How can we come across this..!

>>839338
with any luck, yes!!!!

i'm going to send a tweet to arutamegaro now about no legal repercussions and whatnot

BATTLE STATIONS.

We cannot let this slip our grasp /vr/.

>>839343
although my japanese skills are decidedly lacking. any japanese speakers out there willing to translate for me?

>>839352
>>839352

>>839352
guess not. i'll send it to him anyway and see if he understands what i've written

>>839374
i hate to say it again but i may not hear word back from him for a while, so please be patient

>>839397
I'm OP and have been monitoring ever since.

If it 404's, i'll start a new thread tomorrow.

>>839405
alright feel free to add me on skype and link me to the new thread if a new one crops up

>>839417
I assume you're munckeyz?

>>839448
that be i

Wait, how will it run on Windows?

Hyped. As. Fuck. Best of luck to everyone who's getting shit done.

>>839459
FYI there is a classic mac emulator named SheepShaver.

Also Virtual Machine.

>>839459
Mac emulator, Basilisk ll

Really, I wonder which version of Mac OS it needs.

>>839467
Is it OS9 or earlier or OSX? PowerPC?

Might be worth knowing the system requirements since it's mac, those things don't just run on OSX anymore without having fun with emulators.

i don't know if there'll be any way to figure that out with just the game files. maybe someone who's mac-savvy will be able to help out if i can get a hold of the game files

also added my name to the thing

probably should've done that earlier

>>839473
>>839479
Can you get an indication based on the little boxes on the bottom left of the seond panel of this image? >>838768

>>839479
This game was released in 1998, it very likely runs on OS8, although OS7 was popular in Japan so there's a possibility that it runs on that instead. Really no way of telling until we have it.

>>839509
>OS8, although OS7 was popular in Japan so there's a possibility that it runs on that instead
Either way, it means that older OSX PowerPC macs should be able to run it via Classic, fucking forget it with anything newer though. It's not like Windows where just a patch or whatever can make it run older Windows games.

Basilisk ][, Sheepshaver, or a VM of classic mac is your best bet.

>>839417
Munckeyz, how can you be so sure this japanese guy actually has the game? I mean...he owns such a rarity and he never took pics of it? or did he? cuz if he didn't, and if he never gave proof of actually owning the game, all this "i have the game but i cant rip it cuz it's illegal" sounds just like someone bragging about having something without giving proof cuz he actually owns nothing.

>>839494
The only thing I can make out is that it needs quicktime.

>>839583
http://photozou.jp/photo/show/1535215/156107067

this seemed legit enough to me although i'm not sure

i guess we'll find out

So, somebody said there was a PC version

I think by now that version has completely ceased to exist in reality.

>>839607
Probably rare as prototypes by now. I hope no one gets the idea of putting up a fake to eBay in order to make millions.

>>839607
the only recognised version on the OSD website i believe is a mac version

and PC doesn't necessarily = windows

>>839607
When we're done with it, they will no longer exist. Man is not meant to have this game, obviously. We'll destroy all copies we find.

>>839614
Even PC-98 ran Windows.

This thread is very relevant to my interests.

KEEP THIS THREAD BUMPED

>>839298
what is 'Lostboy'?

>>839736
it was some "old" game that appeared on /v/ in 2012 some guy show some vids and pics, people dowloaded to try it but the game had a R.A.T in it and people lost their shit. It was what all the PANIC thing on /v/ was a while back

>>839736

Some game that got posted here which just turned out to be a RAT file.

>>839746
>>839741
What is a R.A.T. File?

>>839758
remote access Trojan

This is some Raiders of the Lost Ark shit.

Munckeyz, the fate of anyone ever getting to play this game lies in your hands. I bid you well.

>>839770

>inB4 Munckeyz just gives us all a fucking virus.

I seriously hope we all get to play this game.

>>839776
Don't trust anybody posting a link unless verified bia his skype.

Welp, goodnight everyone, I've got this thread watched, godspeed Munckeyz!

This game will go one of two ways,

It will be the greatest game in the world, downsized by its lack of funding.

It will be the most horrible piece of shit that deserves the term obscure, and it should stay in the shadows.

I feel like it is the latter.

>>839797
OP here.
He's real, no doubt.

>>839829
The only reason we're interested is because of LSD. Really the only way this game can end up is being a really weird trip, it's pretty much the perfect obscure game.

Bump

>>839829
i'm gonna assume it's much the same as eastern mind, as it is a sequel after all. the least i know about it is that instead of being based on water, earth, fire, metal and wood it's based on the sun, moon, and stars.

>>838747
That was a bit confusing. Eastern Mind -> Chu Teng -> LSD is the procession of games here?

Are all of those games hard to find? And what is Eastern Mind about? I've never heard of it.

>>838962
Isn't that the Landshark Gun game?

>>839848
Eastern Minds is a masterpiece and this appears to maintain the aesthetic. LSD doesnt do it for me like Eastern Minds. A different jungle altogether.

>>839049
What if this is another one of Before's lies?

>>839227
Tell him you'll ship him 100 melons. If you're in the US then it would be a fraction of what it would cost him.

>>839872
It is believable. He has been trolling the board for about a week now.

>>839613
I'm confused. How did such a rare game, well, become so damn rare?

I understand limited print runs happen (like US copies of Panzer Dragoon Saga and stuff) but to have people actually hunting down people across multiple channels just because they MIGHT own a game is just insane. There has to be a good story or something behind this game

>>839872
When have I ever lied?

>>839859
I don't know, the game seems like just a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyDwfeYaDIM

>>839891
I don't even know how they can call this a game. This should be in either /mu/ or even /tv/. This is no more a game than youtube.

>>839904
clearly you have not played eastern mind

>>839910
Not him but I'm downloading from the link in this thread, why does it say Eastern Mind.7z.exe? Am I about to go on a ruse cruise?

>>839914
you have to uncheck where it says something like 'use download accelerator' i think

let me check

>>839910
Obviously not. Please enlighten me to its gameplay features? Every video on youtube is of spinning heads and other random items being enlarged and moving rapidly.

>>839914
That means that it is an autounarchiver. It is like a built in 7zip within the executable to unzipped the files into whatever directory you choose. I could be wrong though, it isn't exactly difficult to fake.

>>839914
No. OP Here, it's a self extracting zip with imbued
DosBox so you can run it way easier than setting it up yourself.

>>839914
It also downloaded 288kb when it claimed to be 240MB. I'm definitely smelling something suspicious here.

>>839926
Alright, will do. How does a DOS game look like this? It seems so fresh and funky.

>>839930
Forgot to delete my suspicions, seems legit now that I try it.

>>839930
Good question. It's just pre-rendered 3d models that looks like they are having a seizure.

>>839930
no no no! go back to the download page and uncheck where it says 'Download with sendspace accelerator and get recommended offers.' and then click download

>>839859
LSD is unrelated to Eastern Mind.

>>839923
You bad at searching

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxHfeJ55aiM

>>839940
Is that the correct order of release though? And they're all by the same person?

>>839956
tong-nou was released first, then chu-teng, then LSD. and yes they were all at least directed by osamu sato

>>839941
This looks like a serious piece of shit, not even mediocre gameplay, this is just horrible. Be honest, you only want these games because they are rare, not fun.

>>839958
Wasn't LSD 1997 and Chu-teng 1998?

>>839958
Good enough for me.

So what kind of settings are best to play this on DOSBox? Do I need any fancy junk first? I only ask because I recently tried playing Bobenstein 3D on there and it was completely unplayable. Absurdly low framerate to the point that you couldn't barely move or turn the camera before dying to something sort of shaped like an SS Nazi.

>>839969
It's art

It has about as much gameplay as Myst. So basically, puzzles. Some people do like that, believe it or not.

>>839970
LSD came out in 98

>>839971
>I only ask because I recently tried playing Bobenstein 3D on there and it was completely unplayable. Absurdly low framerate to the point that you couldn't barely move or turn the camera before dying to something sort of shaped like an SS Nazi.
Have you tried to increase your cycle rate up?

>>839971
Don't need to set anything up, just go and play.

>>839969
It's also exciting to see a piece of lost history become available to everyone on the planet, so there's that.

>>839970
chu-teng was released in '95
>>839971
just use the download link i put a few posts up, it contains an .exe of DOSBoxPortable which has everything all ready to play in it. make sure you uncheck 'use sendspace accelerator' before clicking download

>>839985
No, never heard of that before. Guess I'll look it up.

>>839971
Normally you'd need to emulate Win 3.x through DOSbox and install it via that, but I presume that the guy that did that package already handled that.

>>839992
Just press CTRL+F12 a couple of times in DOSbox.

>>839971
>playing bobenstein 3D
Is this even possible? You get a fucking rubberchicken, and no attack key that I know of.

>>840014
There was an attack key, it just was a sucky attack.

I'm sure the Super Soaker is better but I couldn't play it enough to find out.

>>839991
Just to be clear, we're talking this download right?
>>839318

>>840021
yes

new tweet by arutamegaro. google translated, it says
"Copy of the game has been banned in Japan. I do not even play it because do not have the (machine) Mac. It's not acquainted with developers. I had yielded in the shop and auction. I is not a nuisance."

>>840001
Worked perfectly, thanks! Surprised I never saw that message on the DosBox startup before.

>>840052
i sort of paraphrased it to "copying games is illegal in japan. i haven't played it because i don't have a a mac. the developers don't know about it. i bought it myself, i'm not a criminal"

although i'm not sure. if anyone is fluent in japanese, please add me on skype

>>840052
>>840075
Honorable, but disappointing.

What I don't understand is the law that prohibits copying of a game this old. According to the internet the game in question is from 1998.

>>839872
My dad is technology I had a copy when I was 8 I put it together like lego and it work on my SNES 64

>>839891
This guy is an experimental musical artist, everything he does is a total trip. LSD, Eastern Mind and anything else he might have done (like that iOS monster maker thing) are ventures into other forms of media but still more about the visuals and music. You can barely call them games really so on top of having a limited run they don't really have much interest from the game playing perspective which is how they ended up being really obscure. LSD only got infamous because reaction playing became a thing on youtube. Otherwise it would probably be a really small footnote on HG101 and I doubt that even.

>>840052
There was no way he'd do it. Typical hive-minded Jap, also they have very strict piracy laws over there, even for old shit.

>>840095
Which is funny, considering how loosely the treat copyright laws when it comes to music

>>840019
Now that I have working framerate, I can confirm that the game works just fine. It's a bit hard to control for me, but it does work. No sound though, which is odd.

It's probably not that he's scared to do it. He just doesn't care about what a gaijin asks. If a native were to ask him nicely, you can bet your ass he'd do it.

>>840095
I wonder if we can convince him to stream it at least. You have to wonder why he even bought the thing if he wasn't planning to share it or even play it.

>>840095
Really?

I remember reading once that very few japanese people got caught for piracy.

One was a girl that was downloading torrented music in public behind a police officer or shit.

>>840095
Nah, that isn't the case. one would assume that Munckeyz's twitter is japanese, because of japanese-only posts he has.

I guess he's just a pussy.

>>840075
I'm pretty sure I've heard that in Japan copying games is a lot larger a crime then in the US.
He's probably worried about getting in trouble for it no matter how rare or obscure the game is.

>>840104
So basically another collector.

>>840117
It makes sense, considering games are likely the main reason that anyone here gives any sort of fuck about Japan. You gotta protect your big industries.

Soon the data from all remaining copies will atrophy.

This game will never be played by anyone.

>>840115
meant to >>840104

>>840112
It's gotten harder as their file sharing programs have gotten more sophisticated, anyone distributing anything copyrighted will be severely fucked with fines at the very least though. He probably doesn't want to be known as "that guy" who leaked Chuteng to a bunch of foreigners on 4chan.

it's a real shame. i don't really want to bother him any more about it, so i'm gonna leave it up to you guys. i'm gonna lurk on this thread and the next, assuming it 404s to see if any progress is made.

if the files do manage to crop up, i'm gonna have to ask if you guys can send them to me. thanks all, and sorry that i wasn't able to get any results

Did anyone contact the guy on the Mac forum?

>>840138
i am that guy

>>840125
So sad.

Since the developer company doesnt exist, or to say it better, is not involved n doing videogames anymore, isn't the game abandonware? if it's so, it wouldnt be illegal to give free copies of it, even in japan.

And now we'll never play it.

>>840146
>any better ideas
Fuck the bullshit. Let's put our funds together, get on a plane, and hunt the game down.

>>840146
he doesnt want to rip the game, nt even to play it himself

>>840146
Leave it to 4chan to fuck this up forever. Lel guyz lets raid his twitter account, that'll work!

By fucking with him it's just going to solidify his decision to not share.

>>840153
Please stay out of this thread, bro.

>>840153
not particularly. i've only spoken to him in this brief twitter exchange over the past month

>>840146
He ain't doing nothing with the files. I doubt he even knows how to extract it. Fuck, he isn't even doing nothing with the game itself.

I posted on his twitter about virtual machines and video recording. Hopefully he replies.

And he'll not take that lightly to heart. He's not stupid.

has he ever said he's not willing to sell?

Why don't you guys just make an offer to buy the game from the nip? Seeinh how he doesn't seem to particularily care about the game that much.

>>840146
The guy doesn't want to rip the game, that's just the end of it. I'm pretty sure he would know by now he would need a powerpc or 68k mac of some sort to play the game and would have searched for one had he actually wanted to play it.

>>840157
Agreed. Sometimes I'm amazed by the social autism I see on this website. If he doesn't want to give his game to a bunch of gaijins, he's not going to be tricked by us and fucking with him won't make him do anything but cease communications. This isn't 5th grade.

>>840163
>/vr/
>paying exorbitant reseller prices
Good luck

>>840157
Fine. But how could you convince a guy like this to alter his course? This is so rare.

>>840175
>>840163

Last auction the game was sould for 7800 Yen iirc. That's about 40 dollars.

>>840161
yes. i'm fairly certain he told me he doesn't want to sell it

>>840163
>>840161
I'm with these two posts actually. Ask him if he would sell it. If it's a reasonable price then someone could get in contact with him somehow.

>>840175
Rare games are not worth one's honor and dignity.

>>840174
Does the game even have such an "incredible rarity" reputation in Japan at all? I don't believe this guy would realize that the game is so much demanded outside of Japan as it is (at least within niche LSD fancircles).

>>840181
7800 yen is more like 80 bucks, but that's still low ballpark if it absolutely must be had. It's not like you're dealing with a Warrior 4D cabinet or something here.

>>840186
in the website he put up his acquisition he said it was a 'phantom game' so i guess it's rare there too

>>840175
Getting some native Japanese speakers to try and persuade him is probably the only way. Think about it, if some Japanese guy started messaging your twitter in broken English asking you to go through the bullshit of ripping an old Mac game you can't even run would you really be inclined to do that?

I want this to come out as much as anyone else here but there's a right way of doing things and a wrong way.

>>840191
But still, how many people actually know about Eastern Mind and this game at all? I mean, Eastern Mind itself is rare as fuck yet it's hardly expensive precisely because few people know of it.

>>840185
If it is 40 dollars then the mark up shoould not be too steep. Promise that he will be provided a download link once it is ripped here and that he will be able to play. Win Win.

>>840205
I don't think that such a thing would work, as he doesn't seem that interested in playing it in the first place. Besides, you'd need some old mac hardware to play it, and I doubt that he has that lying around.

>>840186
It doesn't. Outside of this very board the game might as well not exist. He probably only bought it because he's a fan of Osamu Sato and it didn't turn out to be a music CD so he just let it sit there doing nothing.

Anyways, our next best bet (since doesn't seem to want to sell) is to drum up interest on 2chan and see if someone there finds a copy, but good luck trying to do that.

>>840208
Well, all you need to post there is a VPN and a decent japanese skill. Should we?

>>840205
He doesn't care about playing it, he cares about actually having the game. Won't sell, won't play.

OP here. I guess we're heading to 2ch now?

>>840218
It's tantamount to if some jap came here asking if we could find a really obscure Amiga game that nobody has. It probably won't garner much interest but honestly it's the only thing I can think of right now.

>>840229
Sounds like the next best bet. Keep the thread updated if you find something out, OP. Best of luck with it all.

>>840229
Do you mean 2ch or 2chan?

>>840232
Futaba.

>>840223
Thank u anyways

Guys...what if, it beng abandonware, was Osamu Sato himself asking him to rip the game? i mean, Osamu himself doesnt know of any available copy, it's abandonware, im pretty sure he(Osamu) would love it if so many people wanted to play his game, and since we cant cuz the game is not in production anymore and it is abandonware, he could give a go to share it...it shouldnt be that hard to let Osamu know about this.

I found this website randomly, a guy who collects old Mac games. Dunno if it's still active or not but he has an email posted, maybe you could contact him to get info/help on ripping mac games.

http://daxeria.macdomain.org/wanted.htm

Best of luck to all the movers and shakers with VPNs and moonskills.

Anyone ITT with an actual proficiency in Japanese please make a thread over there. There's gotta be a copy floating around on the net somewhere.

>>840241
It'd be a little hard, to contact Sato directly, wouldn't it?

>>840245
Where do the actual Japanese speakers of 4chan reside? Perhaps you could ask for assistance?

>>840241
>>840247
Shouldn't a guy active in stuff have an email address?

Anyone willing to tell me what this hype is?


this a supadupa rare game and only 2 copies in the world exist or what?

but at the same time one copy sold on Yahoo Japan for just 80$?

>>840250
I doubt anyone on 4chan wants to help. /lang/ would be the best bet.

>>840247
no he has a twitter: https://twitter.com/osd_word

>>840247
the development company site http://www.osd.co.jp/
if there is a way to contact them via email, it's there

plus Osamu Sato's twitter
https://twitter.com/osd_word
it's been inactive for some months, but you never know

>>840259
the company's email is info@osd.co.jp.

>>840247
>>840241
I remember visiting his youtube channel once, I forgot what it was but maybe you guys can find it. He regularly uploads trippy shit like that found in LSD.

In any case, I doubt asking him to ask the other guy to rip the game would yield anything anyways.

>>840251
It's a pretty rare game from fifteen years or so. Well, I say game, but by most accounts it's just a real trippy music video. Made by the same guy who made LSD, another trippy sought-after game. It tends to sell for next to nothing when it appears in auctions, but that's mainly because of how little hype the game itself has. Few people really know of it, and even fewer care. That said, it's still pretty difficult to find.

>>840259
I guess Twitter is a good option, sometimes people just don't use stuff often.

That said, what would you say to the guy? "Hey, some random Japanese guy has a copy of your super-rare game, can you help us convince him to put it online so that the world can experience it?"

>>840265
What he said. This thread and its posters are simply dedicated to preservation if nothing else. It's a game that, if nothing else, deserves to exist outside of mere pictures of CD cases.

http://www.youtube.com/user/OSD310/featured
>>840263
>>840241

>>840251
Remember - lots of prototypes and other such rare items regularly sell on ebay and craigslist for cheap too. rarity isn't exactly conductive to price, we're not looking at Nintendo World Championships here.

>>840268
Obviously i wouldnt tell him that way...i would ask him if, knowing that basically almost no one has the orginal game, he would like to let the world play his long forgotten game giving himself the permission to the guy ho has the game to rip it

>>840268
Real good question. Any suggestions?

>>840268
Tell him there's a wide fanbase for his work over here. Let the dude know that people still appreciate and remember what he has created.

I'd say 2ch or getting some Japanese people to try and convince arutamegaro is a better bet though. Odds are if Osamu Sato really wanted to find the game he would have.

>>840279


well said. that's true.

>>840268
Now we can give an artist a chance at reuniting with his child. I believe he is a man who would not keep it locked in his vault. I believe he knows of his cult status.

>>840280
>he would like to let the world play his long forgotten game giving himself the permission to the guy ho has the game to rip it
I don't think copyright works that way. Sony Music still probably owns the rights to the game.

>>840282
>>840289
Thing is, i don't know japanese and even if i did, i don't know how to ask him properly other then "We here at the west really liked your previous games and wanted to experience the forgotten gem Chu Teng, is there a way you could make it avaible to us?"

>>840294
I still say we should ask him...i mean, asking costs nothing, and he will surely know best about his game and the copyright on it.
I would ask him myself if i knew japanese.

There was always one solution to this guys

We have to break into Sony Music's archives and steal the masters.

Someone needs to send him a nice Blueberry PowerMac from 1999 as a good will guesture to gain his trust. Once his trust is had, ask him to simply borrow the game through the mail and promise him, using the good faith you've built, to return it through the mail in a timely manor.

That's how this shit should work. Take it from an old man.

Why don't we all take pictures of ourselves crying, and make a really big touching photo collage of our sadness, and send it to him.
And ask him ultra nice.

>>840312
I'm sure we could pull it off, we've got several MGS fans on /vr/

>>840313
>manor

>>839318
is the download in this link 100% safe? yeah i know about downloading without the download manager shitty thing, but still, anyonw who ddid ownload it from there can confirm it's legit?

>>840312
I imagine if there were a /vr/ video game, this would be the main plot: Finding Chuuten.

>>840325
I did and it's legit.

Again; are there any fluent japanese speakers so we could try investigating Futaba?

>>840336
Maybe /a/ or /jp/ if support was rallied in the correct manner.

>>840348
Please do not make non-anime related threads on /a/.

>>840348
>>840353
I'll ask around /lang/. Thread will probably 404, but if it does, i'll make a new one.

>>840313
Any PowerPC Mac should be able to play this game through 'classic'.

>>840353
There used to be a day that /a/nons would not have minded helping, I'm sorry if you weren't around for that.

>>840359
but chu-teng is not anime or manga

>>840336
I still think contacting Osamu Sato is the best bet here. The man in the twitter seems like he has an infatuation for the mans work. This is the absolute best lead to an item that outside of this one man might not even have a duplicate. Who knows when another one may turn up. Sato, dead or alive, although it would all be pretty stupid if he is dead, is the best bet here.

Also I think he would understand basic english. He has used english on his website and some tweets, including youtube videos.

>>840348
/a/ can't into japanese, /jp/ is 2hu only.

>>840362
Then do it, it's the afternoon over there. We could hear back before sunrise in North America.
>>840363
I know there used to be a guy translating Fukumoto's ZERO among other projects over there. Unless /a/ has drastically changed in the 3 or so years I have avoided them there should still be a translator or two kicking around.

>>840295
"Hello. I am a regular user of a video game image board in the United States. Myself and others are big fans of your work, particularly of your video games, and we have recently become aware of your 'phantom game', Chu-Teng. It is known that physical copies still do exist, and we would like to obtain at least one copy so as to preserve this mystical game for the future, as well as finally shed light onto this mysterious game. Is there any way that you would be able to assist us in completing this goal?

Thank you very much for your time,
-X"

Something like that? Or too long?

>>840328
Don't forget the CRT shitflinging minigame.

>>840371
Perfect.

>>840370
>there should still be a translator or two kicking around.
Besides that one guy from a fansub group who posts regularly on /a/ (I think he's only responsible for transcoding the video file) and daily japanese threads there wasn't much literacy in japanese over there last I checked, if at all

>>840371
He doesnt know of any AVAILABLE copy of the game, he cant help on getting one.
We should ask him the permission to rip the physical copy of the existing physical copy we are aware of for preservation.

>>840382
meant "to rip an iso of the existing physical copy"

>>840380
DJT is where we go to shitpost while we study Japanese. The ones who have who are good enough to converse with natives leave.

>>840382
What's the point if we don't have it? The future possibility of playing this game is looking very bleak.

>you will never be able to convince some Jap to rip the only copy of Chuteng known

>>840387
The goal of asking Osamu is to make himself ask to the japanese guy who has the copy. If Osamy himself gives HIM the permision to rip the game, i'm sure he will rip it-

>>840357
Yeah whatever I don't care. I guess it would be easy to send him one without a monitor but it'd impress him more if it was just "take me out of the box and plug me in" (including Japanese power cable). Insert game and play.

I suppose some hacker could pre-set it to automatically rip and email the game to him. I could make a pc do it, even an old one but I don't know macs like that.

you know the japanese guy is probably just fucking with you all

it's a ruse

>>840410
Yeah it's harder to pick up across culture barriers when that's happening.

>>840401
I doubt he would even if Osamu gave him permission. We could get the emperor of Japan to give the thumbs up and he still probably wouldn't do it.

>>840405
My logic was more towards getting a cheap macbook from 2004 to play it.

>>840428
Might just be cheaper to buy it the next time it hits auction.

>>840428
Oh yeah duh! That would mail cheaper. Those big bubbly colorful integrated CRT ones are just so iconic I have a soft spot for them even though I threw mine away.

>>840428
Well, asking Osamu an help to find a physical copy when he already clearly stated that he's not aware of on any available copy(and added that one should look at japanese auction sites carefully to have chances to find one) is stupid.

>>840442
Okay, well what are the main japanese auction sites, and how do you get them to ship items outside of Japan? Aside from requesting international shipping I guess.

>>840450
I dunno? I just reported what Osamu said about pshysical copies of the game.

>>840450
You'd probably do just fine asking for international shipping. Might cost a bit extra, but I'm sure the seller wouldn't have any complaints.

>>840442
Not saying that would work either, just saying that trying to get anything out of the guy with the one copy probably won't yield anything.

>>840467
Well, if i had a rare copy of something i would keep it for myself too and wouldnt give it for any amount of money, but if the author of said thing asks me to share it with the world, especially if i love said author, then i would...even cuz it would be HIS thing, not mine, so i have no rights to decide to not share something that's not mine and that the author asked me to share.

My point is that we're not in that jap guy's mind, you might be right and he won't ever rip it even if Osamy himself asks him, but youmight also be wrong, and since Osamu made it clear that he doesnt know of any available copy of the game, i see this as the only way...asking costs nothing.

このスレははずかしいな。

>>840495
Thing you gotta realize, man, is that there's not only one copy of this shit out there. There's a couple thousand, and they're not really all too expensive. They pop in the auctions every month or so, so it's not like you'd be waiting ages to find a copy if you tried. Harassing some Japanese guy who doesn't want any part in this isn't going to get anything done.

>>840513
>>840495
LET'S JUST DO IT WHAT'S THE HARM

I've sent Sato the email, now'll go to sleep.

Thread will probably 404 now, will make one tomorrow morning.

See you all.

>>840513
>couple thousand
and all of them belongs to people who never thought of ripping it? there are so much copies yet no one has ever took pics of those? there are so much copy of this game and they pop in auctions so often yet everyone talking about it on the internet has NEVER saw someone selling it, and when they saw it, it ws just a couple of times? if it was so, then it would be as rare as other rare games, there would be rips of it, and the game wouldnt be so famous among Sato's fan for being ONE OF THE RAREST GAMES IN THE WORLD.

>>840541
Most things that are made get thrown away. Entropy, Baby. Try to find an AOL CD. There used to be billions of them.

Bump

>>840532
I will bump periodically to attempt to keep the thread alive for you OP

>>840742
Appreciate it.

[sips coffee and returns to the thread] no progress?

>>841787
Nothing

>>841794
gooby pls

did anything get sent to mr. sato, at least?

>>841801
I dunno.

If any of you guys haven't already.
Check out azurite reaction's LSD videos.

This is what I sent to his company.

"Hello. I am a regular user of a video game image board in the United States. Myself and others are big fans of your work, particularly of your video games, and we have recently become aware of your 'phantom game', Chu-Teng. It is known that physical copies still do exist, and we would like to obtain at least one copy so as to preserve this mystical game for the future, as well as finally shed light onto this mysterious game. Is there any way that you would be able to assist us in completing this goal?

Thank you very much for your time,

"こんにちは、私はいってい。米国におけるビデオゲームの画像掲示板の通常のユーザーだと他の人は、特にあなたのビデオゲームのあなたの仕事の大ファン、であり、我々は最近、あなたの"ファントムゲーム'に気付いたチュウテン。それは物理的なコピーがまだ存在して行うことが知られており、我々は将来のために、この神秘的なゲームを維持するだけでなく、最終的に、この神秘的なゲームに光を当てるように少なくとも一つのコピーを入手したいとすると。その方法はありますかあなたこの目標を完成さで私たちを支援することができるだろう?

、お時間をどうもありがとうございまし

-<name>
I loved LSD and Eastern Mind
私は、LSDや東欧マインドを愛し
Would you please make another game?
あなたは、別のゲームをしてくださいますか?
Anata wa,-betsu no gēmu o shite kudasaimasu ka?
Best of luck to you and your company :)
最高の幸運あなたとあなたの会社:)
Saikō no kōun anata to anata no kaisha: ) E

>>841913
P.S.
Many Western fans like your game LSD: Dream Emulator. Here is a article about it.
It is in english so I hope you are able to read it.
I hope you like it Sato-sensei.
ドリームエミュレータ:あなたのゲームLSDのような多くの欧米のファン。ここではそれについての記事です。
私はあなたがそれを読むことができる願っていますので、それは英語です。
私はあなたがそれ佐藤先生を好むことを望みます。
Dorīmuemyurēta: Anata no gēmu LSD no yōna ōku no Ōbei no fan. Kokode wa sore ni tsuite no kijidesu. Watashi wa anata ga sore o yomu koto ga dekiru negatte imasunode, soreha eigodesu. Watashi wa anata ga sore Satō sensei o konomu koto o nozomimasu.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/lsd/lsd.htm

>>841913
Nice job staying professional.

If nobody manages to get it, it would be great if we could make a wiki page with all the information we have so that we can try again in the future. Do you guys think that the LSD wiki would agree to host a page on Chu-Teng?
Also, nice work, I'm sad I couldn't participate because I was away, but you have all of my support.

>>841917
I also sent this to his jewtube
I did my best to include the three variables of language so it might be easier to understand.

I hope he and his company get my email.

>>841934
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/lsd/lsd.htm

>>841943
I was talking about this one:
http://dreamemulator.wikia.com/wiki/LSD:_Dream_Emulator_Wiki
and honestly I think it'd be better to make a wiki page so that we can edit it whenever we want and add everything we have.

>>841961
i have a large japanese wall-o-text which appears to be quite an extensive summary of the game if anyone wants me to post it here

>>841973
First we gotta contact the admins of the wiki there.

>>841979
i'm a member and fairly long-term editor of the wiki. wouldn't it be better to make an entire tong-nou/chu-teng wiki for this kind of thing? i would definitely be interested in being an administrator for that, and it seems like something a lot of people would potentially want to use. failing that, maybe an entire osamu sato wiki is in order? since he made a lot of stuff like books, films and music albums as well as games.

>>841992
So an Osamu Sato wiki? Sure, why not. I have some experience in maintaining wikis and I'd definitely be happy to contribute to that.

bump~

>>842095
Uh, I don't have much time right now and I don't know if somebody else wants to, but I'll gladly help after that. My nick is steenuil, by the way.

Osamu Sato produced nice experimental music

this might also give hints to what chu-teng is about. it's from the tong-nou illustrated book in the game, the second-to-last chapter. perhaps it's telling us what happens in the space between the two games?:

"VII. Tong-Nou Prophecy

The Tong-Nou Isle consists of five lands. Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. Souls travel with change to be reborn afresh. The souls branch out to five fragments. The Magatama are fragments of a soul. Magatamas of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water branch and store force. The five forces of Magatama are Life, Confrontation, Source, Eternity and Change.

The Magatamas are cleansed and returned as new souls. Gaze at the image of beauty, Tong-Nou Isle and the sending forth of souls. The Sun, the sign of abundance, is rising once again with its unlimited force.

Soon, when exactly 9081726354 souls are cleansed, for a limited time only, he who officiates the roots of all souls will appear from the head of Tong-Nou. Four pairs of twins will then be delivered. They will be called Bibo and Pipo, Babebu and Babebo, Jido and Jizo, and Dadezu and Zazezu.

The quaternion of twins will unite their forces and head towards the Sun in the heavenly sky, then proceed on into outer space. Finally, Tong-Nou will be set free. But so far, this talk of the future lies distant as in dreams."

bimp

Bump.

Also, a fun game, try and have a guess at what pic related is.....

>>842484
i'm not sure i want to...

>>842484
it's a picture of pants on which a man ejacuated multiple times without washing them

>>842484
unrelated.

But it looks like something that had live.And died horribly.

What the fuck, man.

I try to bump a good thread, and my post gets removed.

Oh well, re-bump, this time with an appropriate picture.

>>842498
this man's got it. chu-teng is actually about spiderman

>>838842
TAN
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SIN
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>>842621
thanks

>>842339
been thinking about this a little and it makes sense, seeing as the 'quaternion of twins' constitutes 8 new characters, which, with rin, would make 9; much the same as in eastern mind. i'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that they are the new characters.

this is just my way of bumping the thread without just posting 'bump'

>>842629
nO pROBlえm。

.。...`

So, any progress yet? What have I missed since last night?

>>842857
nothing by the looks of it

To preface my questions, I'd like to point out that I understand this game series has a sort of mythological story behind it (Japanese folk-tales and such), and I'm not doubting the creativity or the amount of thought put into these games; I'm doubting the creator's sanity/lucidity.

Questions:
- Without psychedelic drugs, do these games make a lick of sense outside of Japan?
- Are they worth playing without any research, or am I going to have to read 10 pages of Japanese folklore to comprehend any of it?

>>842876
1) yes, if you're willing to invest time into understanding the world and the characters within (although truthfully some of the characters in eastern mind are a little confusing in regards to 'what the fuck do you even do', namely such characters as tbc and mong-i, who have relatively zero plot significance and just show up to talk about some trivial conundrum that you couldn't give a shit about. the rest of the world and mythos is actually quite interesting, and while its basic roots are in old chinese or japanese folklore, i.e. the 5 worlds representing the 5 elements; wood, fire, earth, water and metal, but the rest is actually quite original.

though yes, all of his games seem to be somewhat reminiscent of an awful trip. i will say that much. a hell of an interesting one though. in my opinion at least.

>>842876
most of it's original. if you read through the tong-nou illustrated book which is an item in-game, it tells you a lot about the worlds, characters, and myth surrounding tong-nou. it's quite an intricate world although i think it could've been pulled off better

So, I got an ISO of Eastern Mind, but it comes in both .ISO and .IMG files.

How the heck do I make it run to install the game? All the ISO does is play the soundtrack.

>>842904
there's a download link in this post here:
>>839318
just uncheck 'use sendspace accelerator' and press download, wait for it to download, extract it somewhere and run the dosboxportable exe, then click where it says Eastern Mind and you should be good to go!

>>842907
Does this game fine well on Windows 7?

>>842934
Run fine, I mean. I had a brain fart.

>>842934
i downloaded and ran it from the link i posted, and i'm using windows 7, so yeah it should work

I'm back.
So far there's been no reply by uncle Sato.

>>842973
his last tweet was in march so you mightn't hear from him for a while

>>841992
Yeah, and as I can attest to from two long loops of a youtube playlist, his music is really sweet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkiUp1w1SKw&list=PLD9B8238BC7F820A5

I could be down with an Osamu Wiki, even if I don't really know anything about his work I would like to find out.

>>843017
He even did some stuff with Ryuichi Sakamoto, that's awesome, man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SfCUtAVRg8

>>843017
yeah his music is pretty great

actually tong-nou's front cover has the 8 playable characters surrounding tong-nou

and chu-teng's has 12 characters surrounding another head, this one assumedly related to chu-teng

??? speculation

I bet Chu Teng would've been a lot easier to find had it not been on the Mac.

>>843335
On some sites I've seen that it was also a PC game. I don't know why people keep saying that it's for Mac only.

>>843340
if you find a copy that's for windows, let us know

>>843340
>>843350
If there are any anons that live in Tokyo, search every fucking game store in Akihabara. I'm sure PC games are hard to find, but I'm sure there would be at least some right?

>>843367
This game, bro.

It must be lying on some hardcore hikki's closet.

>>843340
You do realize that a Mac is still a Personal Computer?
I'm thinking that its just a bit of miscommunication. There doesn't seem to be very much "official" info as to whether it was Mac only or not though.

>>843387
Err, yes, I know that, but I think I saw that it was for DOS or some Windows version too. Most likely DOS.

>>843396
eastern mind was too, so it'd make sense.

sadly, a lot of osamu sato's stuff doesn't seem to make a lot of sense :p

>>843396
Fair enough. I'd be ecstatic if it were for DOS, I just rediscovered how fun having a box with just DOS on it is.

I'm off to work for now. Ill be checkin back to see if anything new comes up.

>>838730
Anybody have Tong Nou script? Or at least ending... speech?

Its really interesing game. Really fun.

>>843367
>>843372
If I was a millionaire I'd fly myself and a few anons out to Tokyo to scour every single video game shop there is. That would be some Indiana Jones shit.

>>843367
I might actually give it a try when I'm in Tokyo next month.

>>843423
the ending is as follows:

"In Tong-Nou, there is no end.
The Sun,the Moon and the Stars portray a triangle
and revolve within Chu-Teng.
The Sun glares, the Moon shines calmly,
and the Stars sparkle in the sky.
Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition.
Time is located within this accumulation of repetition.
Here, life is not a beginning and death is not an ending.
Your soul will travel on to the next life and again on to the next.
This journey will never come to an end.
Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition.
Eventually your soul will speak to you.
The soul will speak of the time spent with each journey.
Your life is one part of this enormous transmigration.
The infinite repetition of life creates this enormous transmigration.
All that has been accumulated is of value.
Fortune and misfortune, pleasure and suffering,
the useful and useless.
All that has been acquired will be inherited to the next life.
Your soul will continue this traveling eternally.
Into the infinite and eternal future."

>>843453
I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8
And I said to the cabby "Yo homie smell ya later."
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there
To sit at my throne as the Prince of Tong Nou..

>>843432
Any experiences to share? your first time there?

I think it's best if you search those abandoned game centers.

>>843460
classic /b/, those were the days

>>843453
That was really nice. Thank you.

How about hosting all our knowledge, links or posibilities on pastebin .com? Its should last much longer than thread on 4chan. Everyone will bookmark. You will edit pasta when you or someone obtain Chu teng.

>>843463
I've been to Japan a few times but never in Tokyo actually.

Guess I'll try to get some info from 2chan and hope for the best.

>>843482
we were going to make a wiki for it, but nobody has. i guess i'll get on it now

>>843486
You can also use a VPN.

I'll be making a pastebin.

>>843489
May I take part in this?

There is a division in my area which escalates the idea of Eastern Mind and illusions of LSD, the frenzied destruction of Planetokio, and finally, Cheteng- The 'chase' vessel- into a new realm of meaning for living one's life and taking on the planet. These works are very pivotal to the lives of these wo/men I tutor.

May I join in this archive?

>>843505
>>843489

Any progress?

>>843505
ChuTengOp, why no pastebin?

http://pastebin.com/YjVBZuix

pastebin done

>>843593
And bookmarked.

You really scared me by deleting your comment.

Is this Chu Teng? Where can I learn more about it? Is there another game in the series?

>>843685
Read the thread, brother.

>>843593
>mfw reading his Twitter
How come the only person we know of with a copy of this game has to be a ridiculous weirdo.

>>843708
Who would have this game, but a ridiculous weirdo?

>>843708
Would you be so king translating a few for me?

>>843715
Kind. Or king if you like that better.

>>843716
Using the Chrome translate, sorry. The only tweet regarding the game is pic related, and it was probably a reply to OP or someone else in thread.

Disregard timestamps, haven't gotten around to replacing my dead CMOS battery.

>>843758
Thanks.

What version of Mac OS was it made for?

>>843789
System 8, I suppose.

>>843791
Err, I mean, System 7.

Sato passed way while time before

this is reason for his sites being empty

sorry for poor english, I am japanese

spread the word please

>>843849
seems 100% legit

>>843857
http://www.giantbomb.com/osamu-sato/3040-20635/

I think he really is dead

>>843862
>http://www.giantbomb.com/osamu-sato/3040-20635/
Fake. He posted in his twitter march this year.

>>843862
Why does it say he wrote the dream journal? It was from some woman.

>>843872
hiroko nishikawa who coincidentally also helped osamu sato write the story and scenario for eastern mind

some sites say they're married

Legendary

>>843892
I mean it will be if we can get this.

>>838735

No you fucking retard it isn't retro

Have any more stupid questions?

>>838735
>>843938
>1998 game
>Not retro

Are you fucking retarded

>>838735
>>843938
10/10 samefag couldn't even tell by the name, nice ruse, I won't tell

bamp

why has this thread died

where yall at

>>840160
>I doubt he even knows how to extract it.

All I've ever needed to rip old Mac CDs is UltraISO for Windows. Just make an ISO, like you would of a PC game. (Unless there are extra tracks for CD audio or copy protection, in which case UltraISO will offer to make a BIN/CUE instead.)

Pop the ISO into Mac OS 7/8/9 and mount it with this utility, and you can play the game:

http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/virtual-dvd-romcd-utility

Or you can burn the image and get a playable hard copy. It even works if the CD is a PC/Mac hybrid (both partitions will be contained in the ISO, and it will mount/play on both platforms.)

Similar programs like Nero or Alcohol will probably work just as well. But there's no need to mess around with extracting Mac-format files from the disc.

>>844241
thanks. this will come in handy if we ever come across a copy ourselves or find someone willing to rip it

>>844241
I would recommend Daemon Tools Lite
for extracting/ripping. Don't install the sptd driver as it is just for mounting images. .mdx format is a newer version of bin/cue (prior was mdf/mds), it is somewhat tolerant of copy protections as well. No guarantees if Sony slipped some obscure copy protection onto Sato's obscure baby. Unlikely, but a consideration.

well since nobody is posting here i might as well share the only other piece of information i have on chu-teng. it's a large block of japanese text i found on a website calling itself the "CD-ROM ALMANAC". i don't speak japanese so a translation would be great

http://pastebin.com/WgqAeDzX

So did anyone actually make that futaba thread?

>>844357
gonna assume not

>>844350
It's a summary of the game!

>>844369
yes! but i don't understand it

>>844375
Google translate yields a pretty comprehensible translation

>>844369
According to the review, it's better than the first game and the graphics are amazing as well.

>>844384
i'm not good at making sense out of it. what i understood was it's a different type of game, and also more linear?

>>844389
Most of the passage is about the plot. From what I can make out, the game is supposed to be more philosophical than the first game, it's more dungeon like and the multimedia aspect of it is toned down, making it more of a video game than the previous one. Also lots of backtracking but the scenery is so good you won't mind
>Minutes are cutting elements and ideological, a character such as a parody of the human subconscious, story does not end with mere metaphor of civilization criticism and satire, spread came out.

>>844404
> looking far the world structure that is abstract and character design, hero to travel in order to save the world, a challenge to each length of each temple to issue, etc., etc., make a weapon versus darkness for looking for items, that we're based on the standard tactics of orthodox role playing game very well. By eliminating the concept of "reincarnation", to clarify the enemy, "Zhongtian" is a story similar to the role-playing game animation system most.
The most concrete passage about the actual gameplay itself.

>>844404
I just know it's the greatest game of all time. That is why I will never get to play it. Man is not meant to know such glory.

>>844417
don't forget that even if we get the game, we're gonna have to translate it. before that we're gonna also have to understand the game's data structure and whatnot. the road won't stop just cause we get our hands on it. it'll just get a lot smoother is all

>>844415
Reading more into the passage it seems this game has some old school RPG elements to it
>Fight "light" versus the "darkness" Nante, be it wind Moro. Something guy who became minions of darkness is drawn to darkness, too and then come out
Also "zhongtian" is Google's way of translating Chu Teng I think. This game somewhat resembles an older pen and paper RPG in both plot and gameplay.

I'm back. Pastebin has been bookmarked.

sorta update... attached below is the link to where i got that wall of text (it's at the bottom, and some japanese encryption settings are needed to view it)

http://www.textlife.net/ccwa/CDROM/cdroms/C01.html#t15

what's interesting is that it says it's for windows and mac, though i looked up the entry for tong-nou and that said the same. does anyone have any knowledge of tong-nou on mac?

anyway, i e-mailed the guy who owns the website that the summary is on, but i'm not expecting to hear back from him. it's worth a try anyway, since we have literally no other leads other than this finished auction (it finished in january this year)

http://aucview.aucfan.com/yahoo/k132246948/

although i'm not sure if there's any way to identify the auction winner through that website.

things are looking bleak, but don't give up yet! if we don't look, it won't be found. is anyone keeping tabs on japanese auction sites in case a copy crops up on there?

New pastebin
http://pastebin.com/RyL1aLyw

http://photozou.jp/photo/show/1535215/156989362

there's chu-teng and tong-nou there, both for mac, does anyone know what on earth that third game is?

there's been some talk on websites i've visited of eastern mind/chu-teng being followed up with a third game, although no such game is listed on the OSD website.

>>844645
http://ishibune.at.webry.info/200804/article_4.html

there's also this, which mentions something about chu-teng, as well as confirming that tong-nou was on mac in japan (at the top of the box it says CD-ROM for Macintosh)

>>844645
>eastern mind/chu-teng being followed up with a third game
IT KEEPS GOING

OH GOD

>>844645
>>844653

let's not fuck ourselves over with the third game

let's try to focus on Chu Teng only or else we'll get confused

>>844653
>>844671
>>844673
>There's a third game

OH MY FUCKING GOD WHAT

THIS IS SERIOUSLY SOME INDIANA JONES SHIT. WE'VE UNCOVERED ANCIENT VIDEO GAME ARTIFACTS. I AM SO FUCKING PROUD OF YOU /vr/.

>>844645
the third box is ガラージュ. here is a link with info on it about the thing (I don't know if it's a game or what): http://www.t-s-k-b.com/garage_private_edition/
there are a few videos on nicovideo about it, but I don't have an account, so I didn't watch any.

>>844679
there's not necessarily a third one! like i said, the OSD website doesn't even have a third game listed.

using google translate, I found this information about the game:

Garaju is for PC adventure game was released in 1999. Originally released, section 3000 first edition were sold, but in order to Toshiba EMI is a distributor withdrew from the CD-ROM business, it had become out-of-print in the first edition only. Garaju printed as manuscript of this time, the developer and released Co. Kinotoropu from Sakuba Tomoo is what (Garaju Director) individuals to or sold with the authorization of the sale.

the site seems to have been a reseller of the game, but they're out of stock now. I don't think it's related to Chu-Teng, LSD, or Eastern Mind.

>>844692
It's not related. The credits on the web site for it do not list Osamu Sato

These Inquiries Are Vital To My Division.


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>>844684
That's because not even they are aware of it.

Hmm the mystery deepens.

>>843452
Why is everbody ignoring Planetokio?

It is the second lost artifact.

>>844729
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tokyo-Wakusei-Planetokio-New-Japan-PS-PS1-Playstation-/200590593677

Ehhh, I don't think it's lost at all. Just obscure. Interesting though.

>>844683
Ok now THAT looks fucking interesting,

So I have a friend who is a recently graduated triple language major, one of them being Japanese. He worked as a Japanese tutor at a private high school for a while too. He loves LSD and actually introduced me to the game. Unfortunately he doesn't 4chan, but I can act as a go between. What are the current things that we needed someone fluent in Japanese for?

I may also have a connection living in Japan, but I need to check if he's still over there. He's gaijin though, so he'd mainly be helpful as a mailing address.

>>844683
>that fucking "what kind of game" tab.
Bad dream simulator indeed.

>>844814
Right now, we need someone who's good in japanese to make a futaba post about chuuten. We don't even need to ask if anyone's seen it, the game by itself should generate enough interest that they will try to search for it.

>>844814
Also if and when we ever find a copy we'll need a translation.

losing hope, abandoning thread after staying up literally all night for this, fak you all

>>844931
I've been in this thread for two days.
This is an actually rare game, it's going to take a lot longer then a single night for something to be found about it.

These threads keep popping up every once in awhile ever since this board started. I remember a random couple on /v/ too but mostly geared towards LSD.

This thread has been the most information we've gathered so far. You guys are actually making progress.
Keep it up everyone.

>>844974
when i said abandoning thread, i meant bump
im not leaving till it 404's, this game is intresting, i wonder how it plays.

>>844991
For the sake of your sanity, please take a nap.
This will require the patience of a saint to accomplish, but your health matters too.

>>844484
So this is to Ultima what Tong-Nou is to Myst?

>>845003
i appreciate your concern anon, but i will only rest when my eyes start to close themselves.

Lucid Sanity; Datura.
Perhaps The Real Game Is A Stack Of Seeds

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_N.S.

>>845047
>being this edgy outside of /x/

Holy fuck, "Garage" looks amazing. I don't know if it's too rare, but I must play this just as badly as Chu-Teng. Looks like if Giger and Sato had a mutant baby.
Repeating this link:
http://www.t-s-k-b.com/garage_private_edition/

>>845067
The creatures listed in the garage_frame.html tag are pretty neat to look at, except the bug type creatures.

>>839863
That's Armed and Dangerous.

>>845067
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0lyUaaSM5E

>>845006
Pretty much. There is the possibility this might be the best game of 1998.

>>845096
>Better than Half-Life, DDR, Bushido Blade 2, Guilty Gear, Fallout 2, and Banjo-Kazooie
Yeah probably not but it's that kind of enthusiasm that gets shit done.

On a side note - damn the modern video game scene sucks compared to years like 1998.

>>845067
Jesusfuck I need to leave how to read Japanese.

>>845191
*learn

>>844679
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bTpp8PQSog

DUN DUNDUN DUN DUN

Where's all this 1998 stuff coming from? Chu-Teng was released in 1995.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/佐藤理
http://www.osd.co.jp/corp/

>>845313

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t97QUrbApSQ

The threads background music.

I was thinking about pastebin like our "main base". Is it possible to edit only one paste?

>>845360
>>845313

/watch?v=__aPXz2PxCA

>>845091
on the website for garage if you look around you can find a interactive map of the game.

Does anyone want me to run shit through Google translate?

>>845392
if you click the third tab on the bad dream adventure website those 4 sections have tons of interactive things to play around with. There's tons of art and interactive little backgrounds with the protagonist bot thing.

>>845418
I find it amusing that the protag seems to be restricted to moving around on rails. The joke is of course is that this sort of gives an in-universe explanation to a common technical restriction in the games of that era.

>>845418
http://www.t-s-k-b.com/

THIS SHIT GOES DEEPER THEN WE THOUGHT

I will start posting pictures of garage and explain the site more.

Garage is a adventure game.
Where the palyer explores a surrealistic mechanical world of strange beings and odd machines.
The main goal is unknown atm. It's mainly your basic puzzle adventure game but has some interesting looking mechanics.

The image is titled bub_600
Let's called the protagonist BuB for now.

>So far, we've tried emailing Sato's company, but no replies.

What do you fucking expect from a company? Give it a few days before you make it sound hopeless.

>>844814
Introduce him to 4chan. Go on, it's all to help find the game.

>>845454
>dat mechanical penis

So I was going through the Eastern Mind tumblr, and...
Shitting fucks. How have I not noticed this before?
The description's details are a little mixed up but I think you get the point.

>>845454
http://www.t-s-k-b.com/x/mt-search.cgi?tag=garage&blog_id=1

OH MY GOD GOOGLE TRANSLATE IT REPARE FOR MAXIMUM OVER ADVENTURE

The game takes place in a industrial city.
Sorta miyazaki and junji ito fucked each other and this is what came out.

>>845479
The next point
The creator's blog/artists blog
http://www.t-s-k-b.com/x/mt-search.cgi?tag=garage&blog_id=1
(this link is for all the post on GARAGE)

Artist: Sakuba Tomoo
TOMOMI SAKUBA
Tokyo JAPAN
1959


Consists of many mechanical and industrial looking objects and so much of it. That it seems the author has a mechanical fetish.

Allot of the art I am posting will show what I mean if you look at his main blog.
Let me move on to more photos there are many and each one has a bit of extrapolation.


This picture is moriwaki map

>>845516
Here's some objects you interact with in the game.
Very mechanical rube Goldberg looking.

>>845067
>Holy fuck, "Garage" looks amazing. I don't know if it's too rare, but I must play this just as badly as Chu-Teng.

Ditto (pic related)

>>845530
The Cd case

>>845520
This image goes by standard is this the normal edition of the game?

I think this is the DELUXE (PRIVATE) edition of the game.

It has allot oh booklets with it and other things.

The artdirector/creator has TONS of post about garage.

>>845531
This is the pause/status screen I assume. It shows BuB don't know if he has a life system or if it's all puzzle based.

Interesting though

>>845537
This is called postcard. I bet this is a trinket that came with the deluxe version. It might of been a game poster too.

>>845543
The object of women as begin distorted is interesting I wonder if it is a fear or maybe since this games is called GARAGE bad dream game. That Bub is a personification of a over worked mechanic who has women troubles?