/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8386086]

The very last Saturn game released in North America. Oh well, at least they picked a decent way to go out instead of some shovelware sports game.

[Anonymous No.8386101]

>>8386086
I bought this game used for $25 and I’m so glad

[Anonymous No.8386110]

it has cool music that actually used the FM capability of the sound hardware in some tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leqABHqXt40

[Anonymous No.8386125]

The dirty jokes in the localization are funny, fite me

[Anonymous No.8386130]

>>8386086
I have a sort of silly story to share about this game. There was a point where I felt like video games weren't fun anymore (dumb I know) I decided to play this game on a whim and was making fun of it for being a default/generic anime game. As I kept playing it I became sorta invested, and I was having a lot of fun exploring the new areas and reading all the funny dialogue. Bottom of the line is that this game is a mediocre action game, but it made me realize that a game doesn't have to redefine a genre or be perfect to get some enjoyment out of it. I'm glad I gave this game a chance because now I actually play video games again and have been having a lot of fun.

[Anonymous No.8386138]

>>8386130
based working designs

[Anonymous No.8386178]

It's a miracle it ever got released at all. Working Designs began their localization before the anime itself was dubbed here. It's fun comparing the FMV scenes with the official dub.

[Anonymous No.8386218]

My dad sat me down and asked me if I was gay after he saw me playing this when I was 15. He was very relieved when I said I wanted to bang all the girls in the game. Shit like this and sailor moon gave me a life long uniform fetish

[Anonymous No.8386227]

>>8386218
>Shoujo manga
>All-female creative team
>These character designs
Women are gay

[Anonymous No.8386229]

>>8386227
rayearth is the most for-boys shoujo shit i've ever seen, great animation in some episodes too

[Anonymous No.8386247]

>>8386227
I swear this shit and sailor moon have the hottest girls ever. Please God give me a super skinny girl with long legs who will wear outfits for me

[Anonymous No.8386251]

CLAMP noodle people are genuinely disgusting

[Anonymous No.8386252]

>>8386178
The game only came out thanks to Working Designs based turbo autism. Sega lost half the data in a HDD crash so WD had to rebuild it through reverse engineering. This took years until it finally released AFTER the Saturn was already officially dropped by Sega. While its awesome they were that dedicated to a great game its also no surprise they went out of business.

[Anonymous No.8386256]

>>8386252
Absolutely based

[Anonymous No.8386260]

>>8386247
tons of girls love sailor moon, you'll find one eventually anon, just groom yourself and put on deodorant

[Anonymous No.8386269]

>>8386260
Yeah but they gotta have a eating disorder and be 80 percent legs. Doesn't matter anyways, I'm married with kids at this point. After 3 kids she still fits into sailor moon outfits so I can't complain

[Anonymous No.8386285]

>>8386252
holy fuck

[Anonymous No.8386339]

>>8386252
Unfathomably based

[Anonymous No.8386357]

>>8386269
I just want a slim woman ffs why are all women fat. I don’t need them to be anorexic just slimmer. My ex was slim and now I just can’t be attracted to heavyset women. I swear when I was younger more women were on the slimmer side

Oh uh retro games though. MKR is fun. The opening is cheesy af but I love it

[Anonymous No.8386369]

>>8386218
Huh? From what I see, most of the characters in the game are girls. What’s gay about it? Wouldn’t a gay guy rather play something with guys in it?

[Anonymous No.8386414]

>>8386269
Then why are you listing? Adultery in the heart is still adultery.

[Anonymous No.8386454]

>>8386357
5 real dude, my standards are no fatties. I get called low test on fit all the time when these feeders post these size 12 and up women and act like they are hot. My wife was/is a size 6. She got really big when she was pregnant with our second kid. Even after pregnancy she still put on weight. I was worried and was getting ready to say something but she got back on track before I had too. Now she's 31 and still maintains the same weight she did when I met her.

>>8386414
Your absolutely right, I was just posting for comedic effect. My wife is pretty close to my dream women, physically speaking. She also plays retro games with me so what else can I ask for?

>>8386369
That's always been my thoughts about it but between sailor moon and stuff like MKR my actually boomer dad thought it was gay

[Anonymous No.8386501]

>>8386178
Wouldn't have if FF7 hadn't legitimized weebshit in America. A little late for the Saturn, alas.

[Anonymous No.8386507]

>>8386130
Happy you didn't just have fun anon but learned why you do

[Anonymous No.8386508]

It has a SNES version too, never released in America but it's been translated.

[Anonymous No.8386559]

>>8386101
before the speculation bubble and now you pay like $700 a copy

[Anonymous No.8386560]

>>8386559
That's a steal. Try $1200.

[Anonymous No.8386660]

>>8386130
<3

[Anonymous No.8387018]

>>8386508
It's good but i find it too short :(

[Anonymous No.8387083]

Can /vr/ combined complete a set of the three variant discs?

[Anonymous No.8387157]

>>8386252
and the rebuild american release is fucked beyound belied, and not just the bone-headed localization, difficulty is a mess too and has glitches.

[Anonymous No.8387159]

>>8387083
now we need umi!

[Anonymous No.8387165]

>>8386227
This was ALL before the clamps went full fujoshit and became prudish when it comes to male readers.

[Anonymous No.8387208]

>>8387165
When are we pretending that happened

[Anonymous No.8387294]

>>8386559
Or $20 for a Japanese copy you can't read so it's useless.

[Anonymous No.8387305]

>>8386559
It would be less valuable if it wasn't a Saturn exclusive (the quite different SNES MKRE doesn't count) since most of its RPGs have a PS1 version which dilutes the value of them.

[Anonymous No.8387310]

>>8386229
Between this and Escaflowne, the secret is so simple: throw in sword and magic combat, then the occasional giant robot.

[Anonymous No.8387313]

>>8387018
>2MB cartridge versus nearly limitless 650MB of CD space
No shit.

[Anonymous No.8387554]

>>8386130
Did you ever give the anime a watch?

[Anonymous No.8387565]

>>8386101
>>8386559
>>8387294
I bought the japanese version for around $20 and will just burn a copy of the shitty working designs usa version on CD-R

[Anonymous No.8387608]

>>8387310
The giant furry mech shit is what ruined the show. Would have been a good series if it was just magic girls believing in their hearts and casting spells.

[Anonymous No.8387634]

>>8387083
>>8387159
I wanted the Hikaru one, because she'd be fire in the bed.

[Anonymous No.8387647]

>>8387554
I have not. What do you think of it?

[Anonymous No.8387649]

>>8387634
Based note guy to save the day. But yeah the Hikaru artwork is the best.

[Anonymous No.8387650]

>>8387647
see >>8387608

It's good until they furry mechs show up.

[Anonymous No.8387651]

>>8387647
It aired in Tacoland when I was in Elementary school, I really enjoyed it. I pirated the 1080p Blu-rays and been rewatching it subbed lately, you can tell it either kick-started or popularized the "chibi for comedy moments" seen in Kappa Mikey or Teen Titans, but the show remains largely a blast to watch. I love the animation and character designs so much, as well as how substance of the story is a creccendo, getting better as it goes on.

The AU OVAs are great too, they aired here stitched as a movie. Would reccomend. Hikaru best girl.

[Anonymous No.8387658]

>>8386227
Women value beauty and aesthetics even more than men, and that goes for the character designs, too. The only ones who say otherwise are bitter, joyless cunts who think the world who only live to spite others.

[Anonymous No.8387659]

>>8386454
you do realize that Fluttershy doesn't count as a wife, right?

[Anonymous No.8388032]

>>8387634
Dude, shut up and be happy you own the disc with the best girl on it.

[Anonymous No.8388037]

>>8387313
You're an idiot.

[Anonymous No.8388042]

NNNOOOOOOO THE SHITURN DOESN'T HAVE A GOOD GAME THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!
Time to go drink my own bath water
-Aus schizo

[Anonymous No.8388169]

>>8386125
>The dirty jokes in the localization
Are they that much different from the source material? I mean this is a CLAMP title after all. The same people that made Jojo homo porn where Jotaro gets pregnant

[Anonymous No.8388214]

>>8387658
Conservatives don't value aesthetics.Their pea counting brains are blind on that eye. They only value control, influence and money. The vidya industry is led by conservative brainlets. The more you know...

[Anonymous No.8388754]

>>8388214
What does this have to do with video games?

[Anonymous No.8388789]

>>8387083
>>8387159
>>8387634
Sick

Fuu is my least favorite but it’s who I ended up with. Oh well, great game

[Anonymous No.8388976]

>>8387305
Saturn is like Neo Geo. Its fanbase is so rabid that everything is insanely inflated. Mega Man X4 for Saturn is like $200.

[Anonymous No.8388982]

>>8386086
People can rightfully shit on WD for their weird changes and dated jokes but releasing Rayearth was such a passion project for them I can’t possibly fault them. The insane shit they went through to get this thing out the door, like having to rebuild half the game’s code from scratch because Sega gave them a broken version of the game, along with having to deal with Sega’s turbo autism ‘we can and will reject any game we don’t like’ policy at the time is honestly quite impressive and they should be lauded for it. Granted it basically nearly bankrupted them but you could tell they were really really passionate about the game and getting it out there

[Anonymous No.8388985]

>>8387634
I played the game looong before I ever saw the anime (or knew there even was an anime) and that back manual image always confused me since it shows Fuu with a giant sword she never has in the game. It wasn't until I saw the show that it clicked that the game changed her weapon for gameplay reasons.

[Anonymous No.8388998]

>>8388976
That’s not really the fan’s fault. MM8 and X4 were printed in limited quantities for a system that was basically dead in the west at the time so copies were already scarce to begin with. The boom in Saturn collecting and the insane price gougeing for games that’s come up in recent years certainly hasn’t helped much. In comparison, you can get a copy of Saturn X4 in Japanese for like $30 (and with that you get a cool exclusive cover too). The same can be said for basically half the Saturn’s library except for sports games and extremely common stuff like Virtua Fighter or Daytona. In the case of Rayearth, it was the last released title for a niche, failed system based on a niche anime and released by a niche company. It was always going to be rare.

[Anonymous No.8389403]

>>8388998
This is true except that I don't really think Rayearth can be qualified as a niche anime, shit was pretty big

[Anonymous No.8389410]

Pretty sure that isn't the final Saturn release in North America.

[Anonymous No.8389417]

>>8389410
It definitely was. It was literally the last Saturn game Electronics Boutique had in stock when I bought it new in 1998. The guy even had to go get it in the back because they didn't have any shelf space for it.

[Anonymous No.8390010]

>>8386086
>Shovelware
I don't think you know what that word means, anon-chama

[Anonymous No.8390015]

>>8386559
It's been hovering around 600-800 for a long time before the pandemic my dude. Stay salty though.

[Anonymous No.8390036]

>>8386178
>watching dubs

[Anonymous No.8390038]

>>8386252
>its also no surprise they went out of business
WD didn't go out of business.
They just made a new company. Gaijinworks.

[Anonymous No.8390046]

>>8390038
WD did go out of business. Gaijinworks is a new company with the same founder (Victor Ireland).

[Anonymous No.8390069]

>>8390046
That does basically the same exact thing. And probably has a lot of the same people.
Its Working Designs in everything but name.

[Anonymous No.8390126]

>>8390069
You're not wrong, and I don't disagree, but working designs the company went out of business. This is an unwavering fact.

[Anonymous No.8390405]

Plus Gaijinworks (that name is just so terrible) only appeared after WD had been dead for several years. There's thematic consistency between the two but its a clear second attempt at repeating the magic. And even now it looks like Gaijinworks may be in trouble. There's been no real news for a while now.

[Anonymous No.8390804]

>>8390405
Thats because Vic has been having health problems

[Anonymous No.8390813]

>>8390804
Elaborate. Always wondered how this guy would end up.

[Anonymous No.8390829]

>>8390813
Not sure. There was radio silence on the forums for a while and one of his last posts said he was having health problems and was in and out of the hospital. If I had to speculate, sounds like some type of cancer. But I don't think there's any proof of that.

[Anonymous No.8390830]

>>8388169
>CLAMP
>Jojo homo porn
man I thought you were bullshitting
>look it up
>tfw it's true
Lmao

[Anonymous No.8390834]

>>8390829
That's a pity. I always respected the man's passion and commitment to his work, even if he was misguided.

[Anonymous No.8390837]

>>8390830
Honestly this is their best work outside of X/1999
>>8387165
Ehh isnt the circle composed of middle aged baa-sans? They have always been full fujo

[Anonymous No.8390841]

Need me a fujoshi gf

[Anonymous No.8390859]

>>8386086
Is this as easy as the SNES one (maybe the single easiest RPG ever made)?

[Anonymous No.8390908]

>>8390859
It's pretty easy but by no means does it feel boring. It's a great game.

[Anonymous No.8390918]

>>8386086
Great game directed by the legend Rieko Kodama (after she did Phantasy Star IV). Such a shame that Working Designs ruined it.
Play it in Japanese or at the very least, with the un-working designed patch.
>>8386508
Different game, different studio etc
>>8387310
>Escaflowne
It's shameless how much rpgs ripped off that, there's a character in it that Gamearts ripped off wholesale for Grandia 2.
>>8388982
It doesn't matter how much they went through. They have no respect for any of the games they translated, and the ruin all of it not just with complete re-writes, but mechanical/systemic/gameplay changes too.
>>8390804
Good.
>>8390859
It's not the same game.

[Anonymous No.8390993]

>>8390918
>MUH VIC LE BAD MAN

Fuck you and Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.8391016]

As a fan of the series I found this game a bit disappointing for how inaccurate it is. The story starts out okay but takes some odd deviations later, the world doesn't really look or feel like Cephiro, Fuu has the wrong fucking weapon, the way some characters behave and talk is strange (some of this might just be the shit localization). It is a very good looking game though, and fun enough to play but the final boss fights being kinda like a shmup all of a sudden was weird and underwhelming.
I enjoyed the SNES game a lot more even if it's simple.

[Anonymous No.8391020]

>>8390993
Vic sucks and he was always a fucking cocksucker, but I don't wish ill health on him (I'm not that same anon). It's just video games, some people need to calm the fuck down

[Anonymous No.8391023]

>>8391016
I feel deviations were unavoidable as the show was still on-going the game wasn't going to be 1:1, methinks.

[Anonymous No.8391065]

>>8390841
They would probably try to convince you to have homosex with a bara tb.h

[Anonymous No.8391078]

>>8386454
Because what could be more heterosexual than two shirtless men grunting at each other in every shonen anime ever?

[Anonymous No.8391082]

>>8390918
>Un worked design
Spotted the tranny weeb

[Anonymous No.8391087]

>>8391020
Imagine being this gay and calling someone else a cocksucker. Top fucking kek, you deserve this (you)

[Anonymous No.8391093]

>>8391082
the other way around, faggot. working designs is absolute trash.

[Anonymous No.8391106]

>>8390918
>It's not the same game.
I know

[Anonymous No.8391607]

>>8391016
I like that they changed Fuu's weapon though. Three swords is boring and would have made for a worse Zelda clone. I dig having Hikaru be ALTTP, Umi be Zelda 1, and Fuu being the bow.

[Anonymous No.8391698]

Bought a saturn for the first time months back and since collected them to fix and probably resell, what are some good jap games you can all recommend? Ill be checking out magic knight rayearth, tho is that translation really horribly cringe like today's localizations or is it "likeable" and soulful?

[Anonymous No.8391747]

>>8391698
oh and sega cd, legitimately thought from seeing the OP pic at first that was a sega cd game, ive seen a few jap weeb games with identical boxart. Honestly very appealing too bad they're expensive.

[Gameplay Captures No.8391773]

>>8386086
In which year this game was released?

[Anonymous No.8391784]

>>8386130
>>8391698
Translation’s like this. I think it’s funny but up to you

Also pick up Panzer Dragoon Zwei and Guardian Heroes

[Anonymous No.8391808]

>>8391016
>Fuu has the wrong fucking weapon,
Fake fan

[Anonymous No.8391810]

>>8391773
August 1995 Japan, November 1998 US

[Anonymous No.8391857]

>>8391698
What do you mean by "like today's localizations"
The only modern day translation I can think of that's overlocalized is Dragon Quest

[Anonymous No.8391915]

>>8391784
yeah thats why i asked, it seems pretty lite and par for the course for early translations of weeb games.
Im definitely burning a cd-r for the panzer dragoon games, ideally id like to pick up the american copies one day when i have the disposable funds.
>>8391857
what do you think? i mean rainbowhaired sheboon retard translations 99% of localized games get these days.
Of course its subjective if youre a retarded consoomer.

[Anonymous No.8391942]

>>8391915
You spend too much time on /v/ and not enough time playing video games

[Anonymous No.8391991]

>>8391942
more like i dont spend my time playing garbage pieces of shit like you do
also
>came into the thread saying i was buying vintage exclusively to play them instead of emulating

[Anonymous No.8392007]

>>8391991
Sounds like you do if you only play games with garbage translations

[Anonymous No.8392035]

>>8391915
>sheboon

Huh? I have never heard this word. And no, I don't have any idea what you mean - I know that Western-produced games have a certain style of dialogue, but I know nothing about modern day translations of Japanese games having any newfound problems specific to them. 2010s/2020s games are generally translated pretty accurately compared to what came before, unlike with 80s and 90s (maybe early/mid 2000s) anime and videogames, where it feels like the translators just got a brief one paragraph summary and ad-libbed everything from there.

Anyway, about Working Designs translations in general: they are very fun. They are also completely inaccurate. If you care about faithfulness to the source, they're bad. If you don't care about that and just want the product you're reading to be fun and enjoyable in its own right, they're some of the best.

[Anonymous No.8392071]

>>8391698
The majority of the dialogue is faithful. The only localization changes are in the miscellaneous items and NPCs and whatnot in the background. Also the balancing is barely changed at all, anybody recommending an unworkable designs patch is doing it out of pure contrarianism because they know the company has a reputation of changing the games, though there's nothing wrong with the balancing at all in this particular game.

[Anonymous No.8392089]

>>8391808
clean your nails

[Anonymous No.8392114]

>>8392089
I actually did immediately after seeing the image blown up on my PC screen and I knew someone was going to post this lmao

[Anonymous No.8392129]

>>8392114
Based hygiene. Disregard my flippant comment earlier. I was also shocked a lot of people were talking about the wrong weapon. She not only has the bow in the manga but she also has it in certain episodes of the anime AND she's a member of the archery team at her HS. What are they even talking about with this "wrong weapon" nonsense?

[Anonymous No.8392154]

>>8392129
Because wasn't her escudo weapon a giant sword instead of the bow?

[Anonymous No.8392190]

>>8386086

>Wrecking designs

LOL NO THANKS

[Anonymous No.8392274]

>>8392154
Yeah everyone's is but they're clearly using the weapons Presea gave them for the Saturn game

[Anonymous No.8392429]

>>8391087
Imagine getting so worked up over a video game that you wish ill health on someone. Here's your (You)

[Anonymous No.8392518]

>>8392274
Right but the game swaps it so that Fuu's escudo wespon remains a bow, which is the better choice I think.

[Anonymous No.8392872]

>>8386138
I love WD, fuck everyone in the ass

[Anonymous No.8392906]

Kinda want to try this out after experiencing Rayearth in Super Robot Wars T and 30. Would I need to watch the anime or read the manga first? Is it its own thing or an adaption of either?

[Anonymous No.8392913]

>>8392906
It's an adaptation of the first season of the anime. But you can totally play it without watching. I recommend watching it afterwards, it's more fun watching the anime and going "oh hey, I did that too" than it is to play the game and say "oh hey, I watched that too"

[Anonymous No.8392934]

>>8392913
I've already got to experience a fair bit of it since SRW 30 covers season 1 and 2, so I'll probably be playing through something SRW adapted at some point then. Sounds fun.

[Anonymous No.8392939]

>>8392872
>I love WD, fuck everyone in the ass

Despite Magic Knight Rayearth being one of the last Sega Saturn games to get released in the west in 1998, the Japanese version of the game was released in 1995. I remember Working Designs announcing that their localisation would be released in 1996. But apparently, they lost the source code for the game, and had to rebuild it from scratch?

[Anonymous No.8392948]

>>8392939
Yeah Sega had a HDD crash and lost a ton of data. There's a theory that House of the Dead and Panzer Dragoon Saga were hit in the same crash.

[Anonymous No.8392969]

I remember liking this game because the girls were around the same age as me.

Now they're so much younger. So...soooo much younger.

Feels bad man.

[Anonymous No.8392984]

>>8392948
>>>8392939 (You)
>Yeah Sega had a HDD crash and lost a ton of data. There's a theory that House of the Dead and Panzer Dragoon Saga were hit in the same crash.

Oh, it was part of the same HDD crash that lost PDS and HotD? I guess that would make sense. I heard that they had to reverse engineer the Japanese version, through hiring some extra programmers. Which really did lead this game to being the last Westren Sega CD release, and this came out months after the system was officially discontinued. Making it hard to find. I have never seen a physical copy of this game, and have only played it through emulation. I have owned a few WD games in the past. Popful Mail and Vay for the Sega CD. Rented Lunar 1 and 2 back in the day for the Sega CD. I never had an issue with their localisations. Even with some of the weird US jokes. They did adjust the difficulty of most of their games. But Magic Knight Rayearth was originally designed for younger age groups, so it was made easier on purpose for the Japanese version.

[Anonymous No.8392987]

>>8392984
>being the last Westren Sega CD release

Sega Saturn. My mistake.

[Anonymous No.8393000]

>>8391808
Based manga enjoyer

[Anonymous No.8393071]

>>8392939
No, this isn't true. Sega did lose source code from that era for some titles for some reason or another, but WD didn't rewrite MKR for the US.

[Anonymous No.8393072]

>>8392969
If you kept yourself healthy and groomed, you might look cool to girls like them.

[Anonymous No.8393124]

>>8386086
Holy shit, that covers is fucking amazing

[Anonymous No.8393147]

>>8386086
regret selling my copy. its a pretty good zelda-like not gonna lie. Oh yeah. im not a poser i've read the manga and watched the anime. so all you queermos can shove it. by the way, no... MKR is not "mecha"

[Anonymous No.8393195]

>by the way, no... MKR is not "mecha
Attention, all bystanders scrolling the board who have never played the game or watched the anime: What word would you use to describe these creatures?

[Anonymous No.8393206]

>>8386086
looks like peak trannyshit

[Anonymous No.8393243]

>>8393071
>>>8392939 (You)
>No, this isn't true. Sega did lose source code from that era for some titles for some reason or another, but WD didn't rewrite MKR for the US.

Are you sure?

https://tcrf.net/Magic_Knight_Rayearth_(Sega_Saturn)
> Long version: Working Designs rather infamously took two-and-a-half years to actually produce the US version of the game after licensing it, due at least in part to Sega losing some of the source code in a hard drive crash. Never fear, though - nothing could stop Working Designs from cranking up a game's difficulty!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Knight_Rayearth_(video_game)
> As written in the translation notes in the instruction manual of the North American version, some of the source code to the original Japanese version had been lost due to a hard drive crash. The missing code was completely rebuilt for the US version.

The Cutting Room Floor and Wikipedia both seem to point to at least a partial loss of the source code. I do remember seeing previews for this game in GameFan Magazine, where the devs said the game would be out by 1996. But it was a game that kept slipping in its release dates.

[Anonymous No.8393265]

>>8393206
Are you an expert in the subject?

[Anonymous No.8393381]

>>8393195
To be fair, its like...4% of the total game/anime. It actually feels like an afterthought, included because mechs were in at the time.

[Anonymous No.8393453]

>>8393195
I still wouldn't place MKR as a mecha anime desu. I would say it fits in with the Magical Girl category.

[Anonymous No.8393472]

>>8393206
Moar like

[Anonymous No.8393474]

>>8393381
>>8393453
Yeah but the earlier posts in this thread didn't really call it mech. They just said it has mech in it. That other anon just denied it or presented it as though they thought the show was all mech.

[Anonymous No.8393510]

>>8393453
you clearly have not watched the second season

[Anonymous No.8393527]

>>8393510
yeah, and the OVA in particular is basically all mech without any magic girl stuff. I'd say the series overall is probably 1/3rds mech, magic girl, and isekai equally

[Anonymous No.8393531]

>>8393195
How could the girls get into Super Robot Wars if they weren't mechs?

[Anonymous No.8393542]

>>8386086
I bought this game at EB dirt fucking cheap back in '99.

I was obsessed with the VA outtakes that unlock once you find all the rainbow jewels.

Umi's voice especially sounded like a fun chick

[Anonymous No.8393556]

>>8386086
>looks like Cardcaptors
>check wiki
>Clamp
Huh, that is neat.

[Anonymous No.8393568]

>>8393542
That's cool desu.

[Anonymous No.8393579]

>>8387208
Did anything happen with this series after it is revealed that the jock looking friend of the MC is actually the original guys great grandson and there was a huge ass time skip? I remember thinking the manga ended really anti-climatically.

[Anonymous No.8393583]

>>8393510
Too bad the game never got a sequel. They closed it out in a way that left it a lot more self-contained than the anime.

[Anonymous No.8393597]

>>8393510
>second season
We don't talk about that. Or the ova.

[Anonymous No.8393602]

>>8386086
I remember saturn being dumped by retailers well before that for $50, around when porsche challenge was released on ps1. Literally sitting on shelves like normal one day then dumped a month later. Normally with older consoles they would just be slowly discounted over time so this was fishy, the Atari Lynx managed to stay around for years at steep discounts.

[Anonymous No.8393615]

>>8393602
Sega of America REALLY wanted the Saturn gone. They immediately ceased support, declared it "not our future", and even went so far as to make it nearly impossible to find accessories like memory carts. I guess the idea was to rapidly get the Dreamcast out there but that's when SoA was still expecting the 3DFX version to win out.

[Anonymous No.8393623]

>>8392969
yeah, the MKR characters would be born around 1979. It's always weird to think about how ancient eternally young 2d characters really are, the kids in Urusei Yatsura like LUM were born in the mid 60s.

but >>8393072 is right, I'm also about that age (born 1980) and people think I'm in my 20s so keep the dream alive.

[Anonymous No.8393631]

>>8393542
>I bought this game at EB dirt fucking cheap back in '99.
Oh man, that's the one that got away for me. I remember seeing it at my local fucking EB for like $50 or whatever and not giving a second thought. Also passed over a mint used X'Eye console cheap in that timeframe at EB, oh well

Don't even get me started on the literal mountain of NIB Jaguars at KAYBEE/KB Toys for $50 back then...

[Anonymous No.8393637]

>>8393623
Yeah it does feel weird how old they'd be if they aged in real time. It gets even weirder with shows that operate on a sliding timescale. Homer and Marge Simpson were in high school in the 90s now. Homer's birth year is now later than Bart's was at the start of the series.

[Anonymous No.8393654]

>>8393072
I'm not saying I want to fuck them. Just pointing out that it makes me feel old. I used to be younger than all my favorite heroes. Now I'm several years older. I play FFVII and realize I'm older than Barret. Cloud is now a "kid" from my perspective.

[Anonymous No.8393672]

>>8393654
>tfw you are now older than Jet

[Anonymous No.8393772]

>>8387649
>>8388032
>>8388789
Yeah, it is just random what was inside. I would have picked differently if I had a choice, but glad it ended out that way to have all 3 here. Despite not getting the better character, the Umi art does work well for disc art.

>>8388985
I get that. I had my own headcannon for Doraemon as I only watched a single movie, The Iron Army, and it was really good but knew nothing of the original backstory. The actual story is just as interesting but so different from what I had imagined back when I watched that movie.

[Anonymous No.8393776]

For me, it's Umi.

[Anonymous No.8393796]

>>8393672
To be fair he's an anime character so he's probably 24 and his life is over.

[Anonymous No.8393809]

>>8393776
if the blue hair were darker, I'd agree.

[Anonymous No.8393814]

>>8393206
>anime
>trannyshit
Where does this stupid idea come from? Closet dick choppers? I've watched anime and played anime games since that late 80s, have a kid, and was almost married. You guys how assail anime, if anyone, are the ones that are more apt to be a freak, as people that don't care for anime typically just avoid it.

[Anonymous No.8393818]

>>8393814
It's just a shit poster anon, don't waste your time.

[Anonymous No.8393973]

>>8393814
It was horsefuckers on /qa/ spreading that shit

[Anonymous No.8394330]

>>8393195
It's definitely not a Mecha anime lol. It's 100 percent a shoujo show.

>>8393243
I remember all the delays but I didn't remember that it was partially due to missing data. Crazy stuff. That said, they still didn't rewrite the entire game, probably just portion of it. Maybe this is overly pedantic.

[Anonymous No.8394352]

>>8394330
I didn't say it was a mecha anime. See >>8393474.

Anyway, it has mecha elements. The rune gods are kind of a big deal. But sure, it's mostly a magic girl/isekai.

[Anonymous No.8394406]

>>8394330
>That said, they still didn't rewrite the entire game, probably just portion of it. Maybe this is overly pedantic.

Yeah, I was not remembering things correctly. I had to look it up.

[Anonymous No.8394414]

>>8394406
Don't concede. That's more or less what you said originally. His reading comprehension is shit.

[Anonymous No.8394553]

>>8394414
>Don't concede. That's more or less what you said originally. His reading comprehension is shit.

I did imply that it was completely gone. But then those articles I linked to said: partial. But it was clear that it set the game back in a in way. I don;t understand how it was partial? Also, image related is two different DieHard Gamefan issues. First one was from 1995, and the first preview images they ever had from the japanese rev. Second is from E3 1996, where apparently Working Designs showed off an early localisation. They had more coverage on the game than that. Previews, reviews of the Japanese and US versions. The game didn't come out until 1998.

[Anonymous No.8394621]

>>8391093
>no u
YWNBARW

[Anonymous No.8394626]

>>8392429
The post you're replying to didn't wish anyone ill health, anon. Maybe you should take your meds and go to bed.

[Anonymous No.8395027]

>>8394626
Scroll up, dingus

[Anonymous No.8395685]

>>8386086
Looks fun. Been wanting to break into the Saturn, and it looks like a short 12 hour game. Might play it.

captcha: G0Y48

[Anonymous No.8396745]

>>8386086
i visited a friend for thanksgiving. his niece has picked up drawing since the last time i saw her, and has gotten really good. i told my friend he needs to buy a drawing tablet for his niece this xmas and introduce her to photoshop/gimp.
i've meant to watch rayearth for years but have never gotten around to it. for some reason i get the feeling the art from rayearth would be something she'd find inspirational. anyone second that?

[Anonymous No.8397194]

>>8387634
I never knew the disks had different art on them...
I too have Umi

[Anonymous No.8397215]

Somewhere there's a cringe faggot who spent $3,000 on all three disk variants in 2020

[Anonymous No.8397261]

>>8393772
Very fucking nice. Downloaded off a warez site in 99.

[Anonymous No.8398402]

>>8397215
And whoever they are, they don't know there's an anime or manga

[Anonymous No.8399354]

>>8398402
>And whoever they are, they don't know there's an anime or manga

Did Sega have anything to do with the franchise, beyound making a Saturn game? Or was it just licensed?

[Anonymous No.8399371]

>>8399354
Clamp owns it, Sega licensed it for a game, just like Banco recently did for Super Robot Wars

[Anonymous No.8399465]

>>8386252
no fucking way!! gentlemen, now you got my attention

[Anonymous No.8399496]

>>8391082
>>8394621
I don't understand these posts or what you are so defensive about. CLAMP is literal homoshit and trannyshit. You are not immune from it because you play the english port of Rayearth lmaoo. Your zealotry in every WD thread can only mean you are a former WD dev or a relative of one. Clamp is gay, you are gay for playing the game too

[Anonymous No.8399623]

>>8399496
>literal homoshit and trannyshit
You are literally obsessed.
Get meds.

[Anonymous No.8399631]

>>8399623
Hey homo in denial, learn to accept yourself.

[Anonymous No.8399639]

>>8399623
are you unaware that CLAMP is a yaoi doujin circle?

[Anonymous No.8399643]

>>8399639
Not him but who cares, I live in America, yaoi doesn't exist and MKR is just a sega saturn game

[Anonymous No.8399647]

>>8387565
Why buy the Japanese version?

[Anonymous No.8399649]

>>8399643
based unaware homo

[Anonymous No.8399668]

>>8396745
Do you happen to have this concept art for Hikaru and Umi?
Other than that, I agree, especially if you explain to her how old anime used to be drawn hand made, hand-painted both on cells and backgrounds painted with wattercolors. It has gorgeous art and animation. Do it, anon.

[Anonymous No.8400357]

>>8399631
>>8399639
End your own life, faggot.

[Anonymous No.8400358]

>>8400357
>>8400357
After you finish your little homo-game you should do the same you cocksucker

[Anonymous No.8400379]

>>8391065
what if she just wanted to have cosplay sex as two dudes? her as uke obviously.

[Anonymous No.8400403]

>>8399496
Go back, fag

[Anonymous No.8400430]

>>8391065
I just wanna watch gay porn with her. It's pretty gay doing it alone.

[Anonymous No.8400441]

>>8386110
That's not FM, that's just PCM samples plus with ADSR envelopes. Very basic synth stuff.

[Anonymous No.8400442]

>>8390069
>That does basically the same exact thing.

No, because their old company went bankrupt.

[Anonymous No.8400458]

>>8400441
it's both, doesn't work in emulators unless FM is handled properly. might be just the bass but some of the other instruments don't sound outside the scope of simple FM instruments.

[Anonymous No.8400460]

>>8400403
What's the matter gayboy? Touched a nerve?

[Anonymous No.8400547]

>>8400458
>doesn't work in emulators unless FM is handled properly
Oh, shitty emulators being incompatible is really convincing proof.

FM on the Saturn isn't even real FM anyway, it's PCM that you can apply modulation to. Which in reality means they take a sound and pitch bend it a little bit. Real FM synths produce their own waveforms.

[Anonymous No.8400561]

>>8400547
https://minirevver.weebly.com/ymf292scspsaturn-music.html

it's irritating to use but it's real FM, using arbitrary waveforms just makes it more powerful. shinobi X's music sounds like genesis.

[Anonymous No.8401331]

>>8393654
Have this issue all the time, I'm older then the old man of the group and that makes me feel a certain kind of shitty

[Anonymous No.8401335]

>>8393814
I'm married with kids and spent my entire life consuming anime media. If anything I hate teannies more then the average person

[Anonymous No.8401340]

>>8386086
>weebshit was last US shiturn game

[Anonymous No.8401358]

>>8390993
>>8391082
>>8386138
>>8392872
>WORKING DESIGNS IS...... LE BASED

[Anonymous No.8401360]

>>8401340
Funny, you’d think he’d try and stop that from happening

[Anonymous No.8401607]

>>8401331
To be fair, half the time it seems like character ages are just randomly assigned. Like hell Cid Highwind is only 32.

[Anonymous No.8401612]

>>8401607
I'm at the point where 32 was the good old days for me.

[Anonymous No.8401614]

>>8401358
Not our fault they were so based

[Anonymous No.8401621]

>>8401358
WORD FUCKING FILTER, you meant C/u/CKED

[Anonymous No.8401669]

I love how Rayearth is in Super Robot Wars now. They even had the scribble giant chinese kid as a unit.

[Anonymous No.8401676]

r.i.p. thread

[Anonymous No.8401730]

>>8401607
The idea is that 32 is ancient to the target audience (high schoolers), but still young enough to be a competent fighter.

[Anonymous No.8401734]

Are we being raided or some shit

[Anonymous No.8401742]

>>8399639
Does that threaten you?

[Anonymous No.8401743]

>>8399496
Stick to the Bible and Lawrence Welk, christanon.

[Anonymous No.8401832]

>>8401734
Just the same few shitposters on this board that all happened to attack the same thread. And the mods do nothing because they are more concerned with banning people who use the T word.
Such is life....

[Anonymous No.8401873]

This thread made me read the Rayearth manga and it is the most fun I had this whole year.

[Anonymous No.8401959]

>>8401873
Based. 10/10 twist imo

[Anonymous No.8402049]

>>8401730
Cid in particular though is clearly designed as if he were in his 50s though. Everything about his appearance and background indicates he should be older than Barret who's 35.

[Anonymous No.8402063]

>>8401873
Where did you read it anon?

[Anonymous No.8402085]

>>8401742
Not in the slightest. I am an enthusiast of the noodle arm faggotry.
I find it laughable that WD shills dare call other people trannys >>8391082 >>8394621 while the creators of this source material actively peddle that type of content. Hilarious ignorance. Then they try to backpeddle afterwards

[Anonymous No.8402126]

>>8387658
This is entirely true. If you want a woman drawn that is really beautiful a woman will draw the character in a better visage, but the image itself won't always be good. They also make the best coomer material, because a woman's mind thinks of sexual bartering endlessly, so they are much better masters of that dimension of sex.

[Anonymous No.8402586]

>>8387608
>>8387650
>furry mechs
Maybe you're thinking of the OVAs.

[Anonymous No.8402628]

>>8396745
>for some reason i get the feeling the art from rayearth would be something she'd find inspirational.
Absolutely

>>8393654
>>8393672
>when I first watched Saint Seiya, I was around the main characters' ages

>>8387659
Not him but wait, does this mean I could in theory get another girl and keep Fluttershy?
Score!

[Anonymous No.8402665]

The last two boss battles are fucking epic

[Anonymous No.8402736]

I like how WD weren't allowed to use a bunch of the real character names and managed to come up with better versions.

[Anonymous No.8402760]

>>8386501
What's weeb about FFVII? It draws more from American cinema like Blade Runner and The Thing than anything else.

[Anonymous No.8402969]

>>8386086
At the time, the Saturn games were down to a trickle and I'm glad I was there for all the clearance. I didn't figure it was the last game, but it was great picking it up with the free Silicon Magazine at the time. In Japan, the last Saturn game was Yuukyuu Gensokyoku Perpetual Collection which was all the Yuukyuu Gensokyoku games in one bundle, which I also picked up not knowing it was to be the last as well. The end of the system was sudden, but somewhat expected since the Dreamcast was out.

>>8397194
Working Designs did that for a few Saturn and Playstation releases. I got probably the worst Dragon Force and Alundra discs. I'm alright with the Umi in terms of the look on the disc.

>>8397261
They still host it for free to play now: https://retro.jastusa.com/season-of-the-sakura/

[Anonymous No.8403813]

Why is this game so revered?

[Anonymous No.8403825]

>>8403813
Rayearth is one of Clamp's better series and there were no games for the Saturn, so a 2D Zelda clone worse than ALttP is what Saturn owners have to tout as a justification for owning that piece of shit

[Anonymous No.8404506]

>>8403825
>so a 2D Zelda clone worse than ALttP is what Saturn owners have to tout as a justification for owning that piece of shit

RayEarth is really more like a Secret of Mana clone. Working Designs did localise a Zelda clone called Shining Wisdom:
https://youtu.be/q6E4qSSMAzI?list=PLdfQSp5EyXh2von41K28ewrnhD7mEzGkK&t=17

[Anonymous No.8404557]

>>8403813
Fun and charming. Good presentation. No one’s going to gush about the strategic gameplay or put it on their top 5 RPGs of all time list but it’s hard to have a bad time while you’re playing it