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Site Updates / Re: Cease & Desist Letter

« on: May 11, 2009, 04:20:26 am »

More importantly we should be sending this to video game news sites everywhere. If can get recognition from sites like 1up, Kotaku, Destructoid, joystick, ign, or gamespot then we reach a mass audience and raise more recognition for the series on an extremely wide scale. Next we hit SE at their own website, with links to all those sites with their news stories, little or nothing but perhaps the big wigs will get the picture.

Some material prepared in connection with a game may be subject to copyright if it contains a sufficient amount of literary or pictorial expression. For example, the text matter describing the rules of the game, or the pictorial matter appearing on the gameboard or container, may be registrable.

This sounds like it include same characters and their sprites. And it said nothing of using the same characters, it only mentioned similar being ok.

I sent it to Destructoid, GoNintendo, Kotaku, Joystiq, GoNintendo, and don't forget to digg it up and give it a + on Slashdot

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Site Updates / Re: Cease & Desist Letter

« on: May 11, 2009, 03:59:17 am »

Oops, it wasn't in this thread actually. Can't remember offhand where it was. Anyway, I was talking about this game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Lining_(game)

Is Quest for Glory II another case?

Yep it was. Vivendi sent them a C&D about two months before they released the remake, just like what happened to you guys. However, the AGDI guys never gave up, and actually contacted and got thru to Vivendi in responce to this C&D. I'm scouring their forums right now for the post about their legal battle, but it never got to the courts. They just managed to talk them into a compromise.

And I really hope not all the material was destroyed..... Not before it was fought!

The problem with that is Vivendi is western based. To reach SE we would have to go through Square-Enix NA and they are useless really.

Japan is a country where hentai doujinshi of childrens' games is acceptable as a form of parody. Of all places, a fan Chrono game would be legal in Japan.

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Site Updates / Re: Cease & Desist Letter

« on: May 11, 2009, 03:53:06 am »

I don't personally know if someone had recorded a play-through before that happened. If they did, I'm sure it will come out eventually.

We have hours of footage that could probably be strung together into a complete or nearly complete playthrough video series. I think that'll be the final option if the situation remains as-is. For now, everyone hold off on sending a barrage of letters until the core CE team has had time to mull everything over.

MasaMuneCyrus, do you happen to have a link describing any kind of actual litigation between Zophar's Domain and Nintendo? The precedent may prove useful somehow.

Nope, but I know the co-founder of it back when Zophar was still in charge. I'll talk to him and see what he knows. Likely, he'll just say that Zophar handled that sort of thing. SwampGas has owned the site for years, now, though, so contacting him on the forum would probably be best. That said, maybe we can track down Zophar via MySpace or something >

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Site Updates / Re: Cease & Desist Letter

« on: May 10, 2009, 02:56:53 pm »

This C&D is totally and ridiculously inane. I don't know much about it, but maybe we'd do good to contact the guys over at Zophar's Domain. Zophar was basically the father of rom hacking sites, and they've been through their share of legal issues with Nintendo, and ultimately won in the end. This still host a WIDE arrangement of rom hacking tools, documents, and actual hacks and Nintendo can't do a thing about it. Perhaps someone more involved in the CE project could hop on over to the Zophar Forums. Perhaps SwampGas would be kind enough to offer some advice.

Otherwise, I'd like to see the remaining 2% finished, and then turn it into a movie. YouTube is free, and there is a great SNES9X version built for the purpose of recording videos. After the game is finished, I think surely a series of movies could be released that could show all the series of events that unfold in CE. Machinima is legal, I can't imagine this wouldn't be.

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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: Official Youtube / NICOVideo / Dailymotion Thread

« on: December 10, 2008, 02:20:43 am »

I'm surprised nobody's posted Hyadain's Chrono Trigger song, yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgP4lbdyAw0

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Chrono Trigger DS Analysis / Re: ChronoTrigger Orchestra Extra soundtrack

« on: November 26, 2008, 03:14:09 pm »

Well, I posted it in the official contributions topic, this time:
http://www.chronocompendium.com/Forums/index.php?topic=6314.msg119522#msg119522

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Chrono Trigger DS Analysis / Re: CT DS - Needed Items [Contribute Inside]

« on: November 26, 2008, 03:13:33 pm »

Here are the FLAC rips, properly tagged, of the extra promo CD.
EDIT: Link removed, I'll send them directly, instead.

There are two tracks, and both are new (not rehashes of the previous orchestrations, if I'm not mistaken.)
1.) クロノ・トリガー　～Orchestra Version～
2.) クロノ・トリガーメドレー　～Orchestra Version～

The tracks came named in Japanese, btw.

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Chrono Trigger DS Analysis / Re: ChronoTrigger Orchestra Extra soundtrack

« on: November 26, 2008, 02:50:45 pm »

So... Do you want me to repost the FLACs, or am I not supposed to post ripped songs here?

*shrug* Not my call, but I would like a list of MP3s with it.

It's in the list of needed things post, Zeality wants it... Well, I'll post it again and if the mods don't want it they can remove it, again. I won't repost it, again, after that.

Oh, and what kind of mp3 list do you have? I'm still playing the game so I don't have the complete soundtrack, yet, but there are three brand new tunes that play in the extras menu (one of the three is played at random when you enter the menu).

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Chrono Trigger DS Analysis / Re: ChronoTrigger Orchestra Extra soundtrack

« on: November 26, 2008, 02:42:27 pm »

So... Do you want me to repost the FLACs, or am I not supposed to post ripped songs here?

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Chrono Trigger DS Analysis / Re: ChronoTrigger Orchestra Extra soundtrack

« on: November 25, 2008, 09:10:13 pm »

EDIT: Here's the .mp3 version
(DIRECT LINK TAKEN OUT BY FAUSTWOLF)

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FW: Sorry to be a Nazi, but it's not Compendium style to have direct downloads of copyrighted music in plain view. Even when we do ROM hacks, we release only the patch and not the ROM itself. However, I am sure you'll find what you seek on a torrent near you soon.

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Chrono Trigger DS Analysis / Re: ChronoTrigger Orchestra Extra soundtrack

« on: November 25, 2008, 08:35:02 pm »

i've got the Faustwolf on the case- dont worry the music will soon be available for all

Make sure it's MP3.

If Zeality wants someone to use EAC, shouldn't we convert it to something lossless, like FLAC?

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General Discussion / Re: Yasunori Mitsuda in Smash Bros Brawl

« on: May 24, 2007, 02:01:20 pm »

Wa~! I missed Noriyuki Iware, composer of the Lunar serires!

How cool would it be to have Magic Emperor Ghaleon as a Ganondorf rival?

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General Discussion / Re: Yasunori Mitsuda in Smash Bros Brawl

« on: May 22, 2007, 10:16:58 am »

But you're right, this is awesome, imagine some revamped Chrono tunes in the game. Wonder if there's any chance we'll see a Chrono character ?

It could be, but before getting hopeful it's worth reminding that Nobuo Uematsu composed the intro music, but I doubt any Final Fantasy characters will make the roster. 

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General Discussion / Re: Square Enix - New Games

« on: May 22, 2007, 06:03:37 am »

It's too early to judge for real but... the character designs are weird. Big head and small feet... And what's up with Golbez (in the logo) looking like Exdeath?

That's the result of Amano's artwork actually being faithfully rendered in 3D (albeit with a bit of chibi-style).

Cecil


Golbez


More FFIV Artwork


Yoshitaka Amano... You either love him or you hate him. Most people hate him and love Tetsuya Nomura, I'm the opposite; that's why I loved FFI-VI,IX, but disliked FFVII,VIII,X...

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General Discussion / Re: X-2 Zanarkand = Enhansa/Zeal?

« on: May 22, 2007, 05:57:14 am »

The instruments and style are strikingly similar; however, I think it's just a case of Square using similar sound fonts. For instance, the first time I heard the intro of Cornelia's theme (town, not the castle) in the FF1 remake for the PSX, I swore that it was Arni Village from Chrono Cross.