The Shining Source

Phil's playing SFIII at the moment, and every time I hear a piece of music from it I remember how much I really, really love it and how, sadly, I may never have the time or opportunity to play it through again.

Yep, I'm on chapter four I think now. Top class game, and my team is really starting to kick some arse. It definitely makes me want to break out the compiler and start programming again.

I think after I beat SF1 (got my charger back!) I might just whip out the saturn and play SF3 again. Just to hear Noon's awesome voice.

You must let me borrow that game so i can play it. Must have the experience. Buh!!!

...and I started playing Shining Force CD for the first time ever now ;-)

I'm about 3 chapters into SF:CD I think. I didn't really like the fact that it had no "proper" towns, but a lot of the battles were fun and interesting. I think I'm up to chapter 4 on SF3 as well, so I'll have to finish that some time this month.

I'm still in chapter 2, and I actually like the game. It's not at all as bland as I feared

Newts is taking is Saturn back next weekend, so I'll be starting Shining Force II instead. I don't think I've ever got further than the first chapter, which is a shame because I remember it being quite kick-ass. I'm itching to start coding Shining Online again, but there's another job I need to finish first. Hopefully once that's out the way I'll have a little more time and energy to get things moving again.

Cool! I'm doing most of the work still on the d20 campaign, but I also transferred my BABS code to my new laptop, so I can work on that if I feel like it

New laptop? Mine died at the start of May which made me very sad, but Newts has lent me his Turbo-Powered-Obelisk which seems to be able to compile anything within seconds. This makes me very happy.

Well, actually the laptop is over a year old, but I just never got around to transferring everything, as the harddrive in my new laptop is smaller than that of my old PC.

So what does this Turbo-Powered Obelisk look like then?

It's a bit like this one, except it has an LCD screen which is truly splendid to use - plus it's close to eye level, so my neck isn't as strained as it used to be. I'm starting to get past the "look at all the cool things I can do now" stage, so I'm getting quite a lot of work done. I'm not working on that project directly, but it will almost certainly benefit from what I'm doing right now.

Now that I have a joypad though, I'll have to add support for it in SO

I thought I'd miss the Obelisk more than I do, but there's no reason to use it without regular Internet access.

I completed Shining Force III: Scenario I the other day in a little over 25 hours, something of a speedy run. I probably missed quite a bit but I still did the important things - Barnard, Noon, Hell Dragon and pretty much everything else. Now I'm on Scenario II (using a paper translation ) and can't wait to get stuck into it and get onto Scenario III!

Poor little Bonet

I'm back to adding stuff to the main site again. There's a huge amount of stuff to do, but hopefully it should be useful. Monster sprites are a particular pain, so I don't expect to have the complete set for quite some time. I have a couple of other surprises lined up though

Two in a row, but the Bonet needed to feel some love from 2008