Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-84.129.109.77-20200523150953

I like Falcom's games on the PC in general. So at least until Zwei II they were good :P Mid 90s too basically. They only did Vantage Master in 1997. Everything else was either early 90s or just continuations/rehashes. Nothing too exciting to push their titles into a succesful mid 00s...although the PCs suffered in general by then. If I remember right, Falcom's foreign releases did sometimes have more information when it came to the music. So, yep.

It being passion projects is generally ideal. Working on something you don't care for often doesn't result in quality work...and that's especially true for VNs and the like where professionality in general is sorely missing. Good to know, thank you. And yeah, it's often annoying to find patches for older Alicesoft games, as they had redesigned their website and a lot went bust and was even straight up lost. At least some stuff is still accessible, albeit only directly...or you will find it listed on some obscure websites.

Welp, looks like Alicesoft has an official shop since yesterday again....and it's FANZA. FML. It's basically DMM and DMM sucks because they are terrible with foreigners (can't even access FANZA with foreign IPs) and they have absolutely atrocious DRM. Unfortunately, Japanese don't really care about that and DMM is amassing more and more power over time (doesn't help that they are buying up IPs, like the Elf ones). Checked out the shop but nothing worthwile there (not even the physical games as of yesterday), except for some music CDs who are pretty cheap, as they want to apparently get rid of those. But too bad, shipping costs a blanket 700 Yen, regardless of item and regardless of whether you live on Okinawa or in Tokyo. So buying some 200 Yen goodie, you would have to pay 700 Yen for shipping. It's a mess. No clue if you have to pay 700 Yen per item, even if you order more items at once. Didn't find that mentioned anywhere. Suffice to say, it's a huge disappointment.

And for what I said last time...looks like I won't really be shipping anything this month (meaning until the end of June). Bought some expensive things and then more and then went over my 200€ monthly limit when I told them to send at least one package. Only three PC-98 games fit inside though since they are heavy...and they aren't even from Alicesoft but Elf (I got those for pretty cheap). I also messed up in some other way. Saw some art books for super cheap (in comparison), got them somehow (I guess lack of pictures regarding condition scared people away) and then paid 2000 Yen for local shipping. They arrived at my proxy service yesterday...and they weigh 13930g. So that's basically 15kg when shipping internationally, meaning like 25000 Yen for EMS, 23000 Yen for airmail, SAL is not available here and like 9000 Yen for surface which takes forever. FML. Why does paper have to be so expensive? It also has three Alicesoft art books, two of which I unfortunately already own (Alice no Yakata 4 5 6 and Alice Soft Illustrations). I'm also already being greedy and buying again. Got some rare (I think at least) hint booklet. Never seem that one before. Unfortunately, I'm interested in more items which will cost more money and bla. Yahoo Auctions and Suruga-ya are too addicting when you see all the cool things T_T