That Tobias f--k went after Xak III and SO II as pressed CD-ROM releases!

[Sarumaru]

NightWolve, if Tobias wasn't going to press them and you had the opportunity to, would you really have pressed Ys4?

[Psycho Punch]

However, from the dealings with Nightwolve, he seems like a somewhat morally defunct, but trying to-do-right guy. I can't align the two in my head. They say a tiger can't change his stripes... but it sounds like Tobias has.

Seriously? He's making a big mockery out of the Copyright laws by pressing other companies' work for profit in plain view, which is funny because he isn't in Vietnam or China but in a place that actually cares about intellectual property. Want to bet how much that if his work went "mainstream" with sites like Kotaku and others bringing his work to light in various articles, he would be screwed and jailed for at least a quarter of his life? He's making bootlegs at will, and I bet he has to at least claim ownership of IP so the factory can press these games. Not to mention translators getting fucked in the ass XSEED style.

For me what he's doing now and what he has done with Sapphire has equal relevance.

[Psycho Punch]

Honestly I wish that smaller, still existing companies from the PCE era would sell their older games by mail order to their niche audience. Maybe even now-big companies like KONAMI+Hudson, with a tiny two man staff to handle this kind of stuff which honestly can't cost much. It's basically pick up a retail copy of game X at archives/super overpriced potato, make 1:1 digital copy, send to replicator for 10 or more copies to be done, ship to mail order waiting line, collect cash, enforce IP rights automatically, receive the praise of press and hardcore fans. RIP 16 bit era disc bootleggers.

This was a double post. Thank you.

[SkyeWelse]

1. So Tobias is planning to press Ys IV and has possibly already started? And he's going to give them away for free just like he said he would do with Xak III? I wish that were true and not being sold for profit, but I guess we'll just have to see if these popup for sale. There's also the risk that some people might jump at an opportunity to get the pressed discs for free and resell them anyway, which would be difficult to tell if it is truly Tobias / PCE Memories' operation.

2. I got pretty excited when you said that you planned to make your own pressing of Ys IV. If you ended up doing that, I'd definitely want to buy it from you directly.

3. I guess by from what I read by Bernie's post, Burnt Lasagna isn't liked by everyone here. He seemed like a pretty cool guy to me at least when I was working on the Ys IV Dub project with him.

-Thomas

[esteban]

1. So Tobias is planning to press Ys IV and has possibly already started? And he's going to give them away for free just like he said he would do with Xak III? I wish that were true and not being sold for profit, but I guess we'll just have to see if these popup for sale. There's also the risk that some people might jump at an opportunity to get the pressed discs for free and resell them anyway, which would be difficult to tell if it is truly Tobias / PCE Memories' operation.

2. I got pretty excited when you said that you planned to make your own pressing of Ys IV. If you ended up doing that, I'd definitely want to buy it from you directly.

3. I guess by from what I read by Bernie's post, Burnt Lasagna isn't liked by everyone here. He seemed like a pretty cool guy to me at least when I was working on the Ys IV Dub project with him.

-Thomas

Tobias is a douchebag profiteer. Don't support him. He is not a friend of this community 

BurntLasagna is someone who didn't want folks to make a profit by selling reproductions (in other words, Tobias). He said: PCE fans, make your own personal copies, enjoy the English-language dub!

I support BurntLasagna's wishes.

I will always support the folks who hack/modify/translate/dub/create games.  These folks, and the fruits of their labor, are far more important than some collectard fetish for a fucking mass-produced reproduction.

LightScribe your own disc and print your own manual/insert. It really isn't that difficult.

www.tg-16.com/print_your_own_stuff.htm

[SkyeWelse]

1. So Tobias is planning to press Ys IV and has possibly already started? And he's going to give them away for free just like he said he would do with Xak III? I wish that were true and not being sold for profit, but I guess we'll just have to see if these popup for sale. There's also the risk that some people might jump at an opportunity to get the pressed discs for free and resell them anyway, which would be difficult to tell if it is truly Tobias / PCE Memories' operation.
-Thomas

Tobias is a douchebag profiteer. Don't support him. He is not a friend of this community 

BurntLasagna is someone who didn't want folks to make a profit by selling reproductions (in other words, Tobias). He said: PCE fans, make your own personal copies, enjoy the English-language dub!

I support BurntLasagna's wishes.

I will always support the folks who hack/modify/translate/dub/create games.  These folks, and the fruits of their labor, are far more important than some collectard fetish for a fucking mass-produced reproduction.

LightScribe your own disc and print your own manual/insert. It really isn't that difficult.

www.tg-16.com/print_your_own_stuff.htm

Oh I definitely want to make it clear that I do not personally want Tobia's pressed discs. I wasn't suggesting that. I have just about every Xak series release out there, but I don't want what Tobias is pushing. It has no value from a collector's standpoint, only a functional one of being a pressed disc. I was simply stating that I hope that Tobias keeps his word about not selling these. But I have my doubts, just as I have my doubts that some other person who gets one of these discs for free would be decent enough to not turn around and try to make a profit on it. It's just a bad situation no matter how you view it, with the only positive being that if Tobias did keep his word, at least he discs he's pressing for these would end after all the free copies are distributed.

I've made a lightscribe disc before for personal use for Ys IV shortly after the English Dub project was completed. But having learned that playing cd-rs on the actual system can damage the laser much quicker and that a laser for a Turbo Duo RX machine may be rare/expensive to replace, I've been reluctant to play too many cd-rs lately until I can figure out a plan B of how to replace that laser.

So if NightWolve were to make a pressed disc, I'd be all over that, for one because it would be a pressed disc, and second because it would be something of value to me from a collector's standpoint because in my eyes, it came from an original source that made the translation possible and a friend. Kind of hard to put a price on that.

-Thomas

[PCEngineHell]

Good work reporting his auctions. Yeah, I wondered who it was and saw that the seller is located in Germany, so it's either him, a proxy buddy, or one hell of a coincidence...

It should be noted that the ip address linked to emails from Tobias that I have been able to obtain, along with the one linked to his "SCANLINES DEMYSTIFIED" website come out of Germany, so odds are good that the ebay account is his or a close friend of his.

Also worth noting, Nick, you could probably sign up with Wordpress and file a copyright compliant in regards to the translation being used to sell the Xak software. As long as the translation is not exactly literal you could probably claim copyright on it, or call a bluff on it as far as WordPress goes to get Tobias blog/sales page kicked from their servers.

https://wordpress.com/abuse/

[esteban]

1. So Tobias is planning to press Ys IV and has possibly already started? And he's going to give them away for free just like he said he would do with Xak III? I wish that were true and not being sold for profit, but I guess we'll just have to see if these popup for sale. There's also the risk that some people might jump at an opportunity to get the pressed discs for free and resell them anyway, which would be difficult to tell if it is truly Tobias / PCE Memories' operation.
-Thomas

Tobias is a douchebag profiteer. Don't support him. He is not a friend of this community 

BurntLasagna is someone who didn't want folks to make a profit by selling reproductions (in other words, Tobias). He said: PCE fans, make your own personal copies, enjoy the English-language dub!

I support BurntLasagna's wishes.

I will always support the folks who hack/modify/translate/dub/create games.  These folks, and the fruits of their labor, are far more important than some collectard fetish for a fucking mass-produced reproduction.

LightScribe your own disc and print your own manual/insert. It really isn't that difficult.

www.tg-16.com/print_your_own_stuff.htm

Oh I definitely want to make it clear that I do not personally want Tobia's pressed discs. I wasn't suggesting that. I have just about every Xak series release out there, but I don't want what Tobias is pushing. It has no value from a collector's standpoint, only a functional one of being a pressed disc. I was simply stating that I hope that Tobias keeps his word about not selling these. But I have my doubts, just as I have my doubts that some other person who gets one of these discs for free would be decent enough to not turn around and try to make a profit on it. It's just a bad situation no matter how you view it, with the only positive being that if Tobias did keep his word, at least he discs he's pressing for these would end after all the free copies are distributed.

I've made a lightscribe disc before for personal use for Ys IV shortly after the English Dub project was completed. But having learned that playing cd-rs on the actual system can damage the laser much quicker and that a laser for a Turbo Duo RX machine may be rare/expensive to replace, I've been reluctant to play too many cd-rs lately until I can figure out a plan B of how to replace that laser.

So if NightWolve were to make a pressed disc, I'd be all over that, for one because it would be a pressed disc, and second because it would be something of value to me from a collector's standpoint because in my eyes, it came from an original source that made the translation possible and a friend. Kind of hard to put a price on that.

-Thomas

Comrade, I'm sorry. When I re-read my post, it sounded pretty abrasive. Sorry. I was really just venting, I did not mean to direct it at you (100%). Maybe 30% was intended for you, ha!!!



Anyway, hugs and kisses


As for the CDR and track sled issue....I can never remember if we came to a consensus on that one...if there is anyone I would trust, it would be thesteve. I don't know if it causes damage or is simply a nuisance.

[SkyeWelse]

Comrade, I'm sorry. When I re-read my post, it sounded pretty abrasive. Sorry. I was really just venting, I did not mean to direct it at you (100%). Maybe 30% was intended for you, ha!!!

Hey no issues here, I didn't take offense or anything like that, I just wanted to make sure I was clear about what I said since it looked like I might have thrown some people off. I just wanted to explain that I'm a pretty serious Xak fan and collector, and I do not see value in what Tobias has because it's fake. For something like a pressing of Xak III to have real value to me as a hardcore collector, it needs to be from a project that has the original team's blessing...

Hmm, that could make a funny "Obey"picture actually. A Pope or Archbishop giving a pressed PC-Engine disk a sign of benediction / blessing it...

Edit: It shall be done!



-Thomas

[esteban]

ASIDE: ^ you have to add that image to this thread started years ago...you might jumpstart the creative energy and get more folks contributing to it.



Back on topic:  Whatever...

[Gredler]

Great sales pitch

[NightWolve]

It is impressive his PR marketing effort to push his wares beyond that website of his... Wonder how he did it besides hitting them up and shipping them a bunch of free copies. May have actually hired a professional PR rep or something.

EDIT: Oh, interesting, he actually addressed this forum, my response to Tobias, etc. albeit briefly. Surprised... Of course, looks like he cares far more about the packaging not living up to previous standards set by Tobias in the past. ;) Heh.

[Gredler]

It is impressive his PR marketing effort to push his wares beyond that website of his... Wonder how he did it besides hitting them up and shipping them a bunch of free copies. May have actually hired a professional PR rep or something.

EDIT: Oh, interesting, he actually addressed this forum, my response to Tobias, etc. albeit briefly. Surprised... Of course, looks like he cares far more about the packaging not living up to previous standards set by Tobias in the past. ;) Heh.

Thanks for touching on it, I was curious as to your opinion as he mentions it as being amicable and in the process of being resolved.

[NightWolve]

Well, for Tru, I guess it got resolved somewhat to his satisfaction, Tobias sent him a copy of all multi pack releases (all the memories packs, etc.) and a phony promise down the road that "when there's net profit, he'll see a cut..." I stopped at his last email and didn't act on anything further given his revelation that he already pressed Ys IV - that really threw me off... I'm just not thinking about it anymore. And man, getting an idea of his numbers and with past work/releases, this mofo can actually live off his bootleg business... You'd be surprised the money that he's managed to pull in.

Anyhow, it wasn't resolved with me cause I didn't reply back to his last email which offered the same as Tru, copies of all his wares and a possible idea on what to do with the Ys IV CDs he already pressed (we've already seen his $1/pop cut BS). I'm just pretty pissed and already had XSEED issues on my mind, so I sort of postponed any attention to him/it... :/

[HailingTheThings]

if you can't beat em, join em! Lets translate the entire library, repro it, and get rich! I've always wanted to already snort(ed) cocain(e) off a hooker's ass, this might be the only way I'll ever realize this dream. Now I want to snort cocaine off two hookers' asses! At the same time!!!

seriously.

let's start with lady phantom and move on to the dragon knight games after that.

$$$$$$$!

Fixed.

I love you.

Hold me.

[sirhcman]

if you can't beat em, join em! Lets translate the entire library, repro it, and get rich! I've always wanted to already snort(ed) cocain(e) off a hooker's ass, this might be the only way I'll ever realize this dream. Now I want to snort cocaine off two hookers' asses! At the same time!!!

seriously.

let's start with lady phantom and move on to the dragon knight games after that.

$$$$$$$!

Fixed.

I love you.

Hold me.

You two, get a room.. oh here ya GO!

[HailingTheThings]

True! The good lord gave us two nostrils for a reason, no?

and fuxk off with the spelling. You try typing on a phone woth massive sausage fingers and a liter of rum kamikazeing your liver. (You complete me.)

Fuxking off is my middle midriff name. While I have tried typing on a phone "woth" massive sausage fingers*, never have I done so whilst allowing rum to kamikaze my liver. (You complicate me.)

*not mine - *giggle*

You two, get a room.. oh here ya GO!

Someday, my friend, someday...

*faps*

[esteban]

Great sales pitch

DISCLAIMER: I don't have energy to hate on Tobias right now. If anyone reading this is unaware, suffice it to say that Tobias = a selfish parasite (a louse, in every sense of the term).



"On Carlson's Video"

(1) I agree with Gredler, this video will help Tobias sell more units than he would have, otherwise. It's the best sort of promotion.

(2) OCD is NOT the basis for a valid CRITIQUE: I watched the whole video. I can't believe Carlson's major criticism of the cardboard packaging was that it didn't match the size of a jewel case, thus ruining his row of PCE games from being perfectly uniform.

If there is one thing you can say about Tobias, he has a skilled designer working for him...the aesthetic details of the disc/packaging are always excellent.

LITTLE DETAILS: I couldn't help but smile at the "PROMO" stickers on the items in the video...that sticker is such a nice little detail, even the text/layout of the damn sticker was well done. Tobias has OCD. I can't fault him for that.





Back to important things: at least Carlson briefly discussed the actual games. My opinion of the video changed significantly when I realized it wasn't going to be 10+ minutes analyzing the packaging alone.

I don't have the energy to hate on the reviewer. Overall, it was a nicely-produced video. I would never expect this goofball Carslon to openly attack profiteering, so the fact he addressed the "controversy" at all was refreshing (Carlson narrowly framed the debate as "asking permission of translators", but I understand why he framed it this way...Carlson himself probably has no problem with profiteering/Tobias's history....nor does he care).

BOTTM LINE: I gotta give Carlson credit for making a solid video (I don't have to agree with his editorial to acknowledge production values and informative content).

QUESTION: Is Carlson the goofball who was banning people from his Facebook PCE group? Not that it matters. Just curious.

[Otaking]

A saw a video the other day that reviewed this set.

[NightWolve]

Hah, that's funny, he highlighted my old RIGG forum plug and political joke...

It's funny, there's really maybe only one donation I can associate with the Xak III project. Most of them are due to Felghana for obvious reasons. Then Tobias comes along showing all you had to do was make a pretty piece of plastic and those wallets would open right up... Granted, I didn't have a Paypal Donate icon when I started Xak III, I didn't care or ever consider some kind of monetization those early years when I started the fan translation gig, let alone unlicensed bootlegs, but yeah, it does grind you that a fucker who had nothing to do with the projects just snuck around the way that he did and made out like a bandit so many years later, especially when I felt mostly nobody gave a shit about something like Xak III... Ys IV, sure... :/

[CrackTiger]

A saw a video the other day that reviewed this set.
https://youtu.be/nxOGaIpsRlA

Wow, the guy didn't even own a PC Engine and he went asking for "review copies".

It's sad that these voluntarily ignorant generic youtube stars inform more people than those who have any idea of the background of these bootlegs and now have several times as many people cheering on the heroic "group of fans" that formed PCE Works, than there are people who have any idea of the scams that Tobias has pulled, or even anything about the PCE published homebrew scene.

I saw another video suggested by youtube of yet another sell-out reviewer that I don't want to link to. It's amazing how these professional youtubers literally do zero research on the games or publisher of bootlegs before gushing over their latest freebees... and then have the balls to ask for cash donations or sell lame merchandise.

[NightWolve]

I did a little informing for him.

[esteban]

A saw a video the other day that reviewed this set.

Wow, the guy didn't even own a PC Engine and he went asking for "review copies".

It's sad that these voluntarily ignorant generic youtube stars inform more people than those who have any idea of the background of these bootlegs and now have several times as many people cheering on the heroic "group of fans" that formed PCE Works, than there are people who have any idea of the scams that Tobias has pulled, or even anything about the PCE published homebrew scene.

I saw another video suggested by youtube of yet another sell-out reviewer that I don't want to link to. It's amazing how these professional youtubers literally do zero research on the games or publisher of bootlegs before gushing over their latest freebees... and then have the balls to ask for cash donations or sell lame merchandise.

Agreed 1000%.

The uninformed are educating the clueless.

As you said, ALL IT TOOK WAS A PROMO...and did you notice? To satisfy the collectard lust/ego of the reviewer, a PERSONALIZED + numbered PROMO STICKER for the "review copies!

Tobias, truly, is a brilliant motherf@cker.

What better way to win over YouTube sluts than providing them with a collectard's wet dream of an exclusive numbered edition!

[NightWolve]

As you said, ALL IT TOOK WAS A PROMO...and did you notice? To satisfy the collectard lust/ego of the reviewer, a PERSONALIZED + numbered PROMO STICKER for the "review copies!

Tobias, truly, is a brilliant motherf@cker.

Yeah, I noticed that tailored-made sticker too... He sure is something, gotta give 'im that...

[Raizen1984]

Game Sack and Happy Console Gamer released videos today advertising these bootlegs as well.  HCG didn't even acknowledge the controversy.  Very disappointing.

[o.pwuaioc]

Game Sack and Happy Console Gamer released videos today advertising these bootlegs as well.  HCG didn't even acknowledge the controversy.  Very disappointing.

I wish Joe and Dave were a little more against it, but at least they did acknowledge this thread, so that's a plus.

[CrackTiger]

A saw a video the other day that reviewed this set.
https://youtu.be/nxOGaIpsRlA

Wow, the guy didn't even own a PC Engine and he went asking for "review copies".

It's sad that these voluntarily ignorant generic youtube stars inform more people than those who have any idea of the background of these bootlegs and now have several times as many people cheering on the heroic "group of fans" that formed PCE Works, than there are people who have any idea of the scams that Tobias has pulled, or even anything about the PCE published homebrew scene.

I saw another video suggested by youtube of yet another sell-out reviewer that I don't want to link to. It's amazing how these professional youtubers literally do zero research on the games or publisher of bootlegs before gushing over their latest freebees... and then have the balls to ask for cash donations or sell lame merchandise.

Agreed 1000%.

The uninformed are educating the clueless.

As you said, ALL IT TOOK WAS A PROMO...and did you notice? To satisfy the collectard lust/ego of the reviewer, a PERSONALIZED + numbered PROMO STICKER for the "review copies!

Tobias, truly, is a brilliant motherf@cker.

What better way to win over YouTube sluts than providing them with a collectard's wet dream of an exclusive numbered edition!

His story to NightWolve, about how he is just doing it at a loss for the fans and if he is lucky enough to makes a few dollars, then he might toss a few his way... is further discredited by his aggressive marketing which includes giving away complete sets to anyone with a youtube channel. If he was barely making any profit, then those "promo" copies would put him in the red by thousands of dollars. But common sense shows that all of the promo copies and marketing really means that he is continuing not only to make a large profit off of each copy, but that the "limited edition" runs are also b.s.

[Psycho Punch]

Nightwolve gets screwed (again) out of his translation rights and the only thing he gets is a brief mention in an episode that is 50% of the time a showcase for Tobias' repros about what happened. "But whatever because the original developers don't get any money from it and every other repro maker does the same thing am I right?"

Come on Joe, regardless of your opinion on the matter is sending the disks back to Tobias and not "reviewing" anything so hard? That video must have been like a punch in the gut for Nightwolve...

[VenomMacbeth]

I think the views expressed in that episode I think echo the views of an average

[Joe Redifer]

Punch, it wasn't like a punch in the gut to Nightwolve and he was made very aware that we were making the video and what we were saying about it well before it was released. Please don't jump to conclusions.

Also Johnny (Happy Console Gamer) was informed about all of this several weeks ago by me and he was upset. He had already made his video and he said he was going to "cut that part out". I'm not sure what part he was referring to exactly.

[NightWolve]

Come on Joe, regardless of your opinion on the matter is sending the disks back to Tobias and not "reviewing" anything so hard? That video must have been like a punch in the gut for Nightwolve...

Nah, it's cool Punch, Joe's awesome for one reason, and one reason alone:

(Timed to jump right to the relevant point)

The zooming in screenshots he took captured "DeuceBag" and XSEED in a sentence, "First the DeuceBag shit with XSEED and now this!!!!!" (Thanks for that BTW, xelementx!) THAT really made my day and on a 20,000 hit video so far!!!!! Like I say, Joe is the coolest dude that I know, GameSack4ever!!

But on a serious note, Joe PM'ed me 2 weeks ago to give me a chance to provide my input on XakIII/Tobias, but my mind was just too focused on other things. I wanted to rewrite or summarize my key thoughts about it, see if I could contribute something useful to him, but I just procrastinated and I wouldn't have expected him to keep on waiting for me. The last PM he sent me provided a summary that sounded OK to me, so it's all good! Regardless, all is forgiven for getting that DeuceBag/XSEED comment shown in his video!! Heh-heh.

[CrackTiger]

Punch, it wasn't like a punch in the gut to Nightwolve and he was made very aware that we were making the video and what we were saying about it well before it was released. Please don't jump to conclusions.

Also Johnny (Happy Console Gamer) was informed about all of this several weeks ago by me and he was upset. He had already made his video and he said he was going to "cut that part out". I'm not sure what part he was referring to exactly.

I believe that he was one of the people who really drove home the point that these bootlegs were made by reputable fans who would never try to pass off bootlegs as the real deal. I think he actually said some like "people who try to sell bootlegs online as authentic copies are scum... which is why I love PCE Works because they would never do that and you can trust them".

[PCEngineHell]

Joe addressed the issue in a solid fashion, so I can't fault him for that. I like how he stated the flaws of the packaging/presentation too for Xak and SO II also in the video.

[NecroPhile]

(2) OCD is NOT the basis for a valid CRITIQUE: I watched the whole video. I can't believe Carlson's major criticism of the cardboard packaging was that it didn't match the size of a jewel case, thus ruining his row of PCE games from being perfectly uniform.

I like how he prefers the 'traditional packaging' of Cychorider, showing his complete ignorance of the game and how it was originally distributed in a book!.  Stupid youtubers. 

[Joe Redifer]

Fuck yeah the packaging of Cycho Rider was cool. Screw that weird ass Xak 3 and Startling Odyssey shit. I wish that Cycho Rider's instructions weren't just in Japanese though... not like it needs English instructions or anything. Anyway I gave SO2 and Xak 3 to Dave. He says he'll probably never play them.

[NightWolve]

Hard to believe he went for SO II with that unhacked, native 16x16 System Card 3 font, and given that it was technically a Babelfish translation that Tru hacked around into something meaningful... Xak III is rough/dry/boring/literal, but I got human translators involved at least and minor post-editing on my part that I could tolerate to do... Doesn't matter much though, you make some pretty plastic and packaging, throw freebies around, the wallets still open up all the same, etc.

Screw that weird ass Xak 3 ...

Like how you got all the gruesome stuff showcased/highlighted in the video. ;) That was one of the things that really struck me about the game as well, I never encountered one with beheadings and other slicing'n'dicing on full display and very early on to boot! Heh.

Jumped point to Xak III:

... Great, Youtube is breaking all the previous existing embedded links...

[CrackTiger]

(2) OCD is NOT the basis for a valid CRITIQUE: I watched the whole video. I can't believe Carlson's major criticism of the cardboard packaging was that it didn't match the size of a jewel case, thus ruining his row of PCE games from being perfectly uniform.

I like how he prefers the 'traditional packaging' of Cychorider, showing his complete ignorance of the game and how it was originally distributed in a book!.  Stupid youtubers. 

Although that guy seems fairly clueless about PCE, it is fair to take it that he just meant the usual CD game packaging. Joe was actually the one who said that Cychorider was included on one of the versions of Anearth Fantasy Stories. If that video increased sales of repros of the commonly known Sweet Home, it will likely be harder finding a copy of AFS for a while as collectards enjoy the thrill of hunting down the correct 'revision' of the game.

[tknjin]

I thought Cycho Rider was only available for the Anearth Fantasy Stories Demo, unless I am mistaken because I know it isn't on the real retail ver. of it.  Unless I am mistaken again XD

[Otaking]

I thought Cycho Rider was only available for the Anearth Fantasy Stories Demo, unless I am mistaken because I know it isn't on the real retail ver. of it.  Unless I am mistaken again XD

It's included on the CD with this Seiya Monogatari / Anearth Fantasy Stories Taikenban book.
http://www.pcedaisakusen.net/2/28/628/1/Seiya-Monogatari-CD-Guidebook-jp.htm

[Jimmy Hapa]

Just wanted to chime in since I was mentioned here and put out a video about the PCE Works XSC set.  Now that I am more aware/informed of the situation thanks to NightWolve and several viewers regarding use of the Xak III/SOII English fan translation patches, I would have approached the video I made much differently and would have made talk about the controversy behind the set and PCE Works a priority of the video.  That, or I would have just passed on making it completely.

I'm not a professional YouTuber by any means, and I've not received a single dime (or less) from doing what I do.  I put a lot of effort into my content so I can share my love of this thing we all have in common called gaming, and in my case, I like to let people know about great games (IMO) that remained Japan-only.  So when I am regarded as someone "uninformed educating the clueless," I don't take it lightly.

Two months ago when I began working on the video, I tried to do some research into PCE Works, but all I really had were other YouTube videos to go by and very little in the way of text or webpages mentioning them.  I wasn't a member of this forum until today, and as it's not a public one, I had no idea about just how deep "the rabbithole" went, you might say.  I'm not trying to blame him at all for my misunderstanding of repros/PCE Works, but I really respect Johnny Millennium/Happy Console Gamer, and when I first saw him talk about the Best of Japan set and how "great" the folks were behind them, I took that to heart and that's really what formed my initial impression of them.

Since I knew I was getting a PC Engine, something I've wanted for over two decades, I was excited to play all the great games I missed out on over the years, and thought it was worth a shot reaching out to a company that I thought was really a positive force in the PC Engine gaming scene.  But reading this thread and receiving feedback from others through comments, I understand that's not the case.  So yes, I was ignorant, but I feel my intentions were good, misguided as they may have been.  And my god, I had no idea about Xseed!

Anyway, my apologies for the long post, I just wanted to address this issue here where it felt most appropriate.  For what it's worth, I updated my video description a couple of days ago to address the situation of the English patches (I may update it again to make it more detailed), added an annotation, and have provided links to places where they can be downloaded without monetary commitment.  And my apologies if it seemed I was purposely misleading anyone with my video.  That being said, I don't think I will or really can receive/cover another set from PCE Works in the future.  I'll stick to what I know best, legit, Japan-only releases.  I've gone on long enough, so to end this post, I want to say thanks to NightWolve for his excellent work translating an excellent game, and I look forward to becoming more engaged in the world of PC Engine gaming.  Take care.

[Otaking]

For what it's worth I've watched a couple of your videos and I enjoyed them. At some point I'll go through your back catalogue of videos and watch more.
Anything good that's related to Japanese import gaming gets a thumbs up from me.
 

[HailingTheThings]

Take care.

*blushes*

You are sweet. I will. Thanks.

[Jimmy Hapa]

For what it's worth I've watched a couple of your videos and I enjoyed them. At some point I'll go through your back catalogue of videos and watch more.
Anything good that's related to Japanese import gaming gets a thumbs up from me.
 

Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it.

Take care.

*blushes*

You are sweet. I will. Thanks.

Ha! XD

[NightWolve]

Hey Jimmy, thanks for stopping by and for the updates to your video! I linked Jimmy to that Tobias/Sapphire thread a week ago or so and told him he'd have to register as he wanted to see where Tobias was using that fake/forged Hudson document to fool people into believing his Sapphire bootlegs were legit. That thread's kinda long, dunno if it helped beyond reasonable doubt, but yeah.

[Gredler]

Another review of the PC-E Memories Turbo Duo Edition has been posted and popped up in my feed. I watched most of it, but it's more of the same.

[CGQuarterly]

What a freaking goober.  He has over 3k subs?  What the fuck?

[esteban]

What a freaking goober.  He has over 3k subs?  What the fuck?

There has never been any rhyme or reason in the universe.

[tknjin]

oh jeezus this video lol.  You can clearly see he is not really all that much of PCE/TG16 guy.  He just picked one of these up, and just was like "oooh look at me...wheeeeeeeeeeeee"

[NecroPhile]

I couldn't watch it all and abandoned ship when he got to the "proof of purchase" coin.

[CGQuarterly]

I couldn't watch it all and abandoned ship when he got to the "proof of purchase" coin.

You must have made it a lot farther than I did.