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If you can rip the games as mp3 files with 192kb/s or higher then that would be very good! Any music from these games is pretty special considering how the music has not been heard outside of playing these games and the few music rips that Apollojoe recently did. Thanks! I posted on the macrosshare blog in the shoutbox to see if any one is interested or can help out with this project. I am curious if there are DRYL? story continuations in these games: Remember Me, Skull Leader & Love Stories. The Macross: Remember me game certainly has some cool and unique Macross mecha! Only Japanese-literate Macross game aficionados would know the full stories for sure. I hope we can find out as well.

the white drew carey was working on a game playthrough with English translations of Macross: Remember Me with the assistance of Gubaba. I remember he lost a lot or all of his project work when one of his hard drives died. I can't find the MW forum post for the white drew carey's Macross: Remember Me project. Maybe, I'm remembering wrong? I'll see if I can drum up some support for this Macross game upgrade for you.

I don't know much about Unity3D myself, so I couldn't say if it could do isometric style games and import the original Macross bitmap images. ****** Update: Unity3d can do isometric game play with add-on software and import bitmap images. Good choice! ****** In 2010, SeminNV was working on a Unity3D Macross Simulator game, but then the game looks to be abandoned. He was last on the MW forum in June. Maybe, you could pm him for Unity 3D advice when you run into problems? For additional game materials, I was able to buy the Macross: Skull Leader Pack, which has a some bonus levels. The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Skull Leader Complete Pack NEC PC-9801 compatible Simulation game Includes 1 compact disc FamilySoft 1995 July 7 Y9800 But, I currently don't have a 5 1/4" floppy drive and USB adapter to convert the 7 floppy disks into a floppy drive image for these games. a. I need a TEAC 5.25" floppy drive b. a USB to floppy drive adapter c. software to copy over the 5.25" floppy disks to 3.25" diskettes or make into image files I was wondering if you would be able to rip the rest of the game music from the games like Apollojoe? And how were you able to get these games to work on Windows (7/8)?

RPG video game makers with Isometric maps and a bitmap importer? Now I need to do some google searches. Here's a list of isometric video games on Wikipedia. I remember playing Zaxxon, badly. Here's a selection screenshots of very well done isometric games. I found a list of open source video game engines on Wikipedia. http://www.roencia.com/gameengines.html http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBnl_8VIDdwhzOAoULYZ2Ww http://theodor.lauppert.ws/games/isomaker.htm http://www.inet2inet.com/InetSoftware/World-Creator/WCv2/NewFeatures_Form.asp I tried looking on youtube for some isometric game tutorials and I just don't know what to look for. My education background is more geared towards psychology and hospitals than computer programming. Who else on the MW forum has worked on making or re-creating RPG video games? The HomeWorld mod guys?

Many good games from the past have been upgraded and ended up very profitable. How would a person go about upgrading a game that came from the era of pre-windows 95? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_PC-9801 http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?37914-PC-9821-PC-9801-Primer Would you start by using a more recent Windows-based video game engine that was originally used for a strategy game, but can then be modified into a Macross strategy game?

That's looks like a great idea to me! I don't know who has done similar video game upgrades though. Would the Macoss pc-98 game upgrades be like how the remastered Ducktales video game was done? I sure would like to know more about these PC98 Macross games because of their status as DYRL? continuations! I have been searching for game playthoughs of these games just to see what they are like. On youtube, Apollojoe has ripped a few of the original Macross pc-98 game sound tracks.

Wow! I still wish this destroid was 1/60, too.

that's not good. I hope Sketchley has made back-ups of his translation work.

Anybody accessing Bittorrent Sync related files from me should be able to reach my computer now. I figured out why my Windows 8 desktop computer kept resetting my power options to turn off my computer after 2 hours of non-use. My desktop computer asus z79 motherboard comes with its own software that can override the Windows / control panel / power options. The motherboard software is now fixed to not turn off my computer.

The Cowboy Bebop pre-order on rightstuf does not list the BDs as the limited edition?

I'm glad the theatrical GITS bluray will be available soon and the Cowboy Bebop TV bluray set! For the Cowboy Bebop TV series BD Set, Funimation is selling two different limited edition sets. The Amazon limited edition will be different from the Funimation website store limited edition. I'll pick up one BD set for sure, but not both.

Here's a selection of Tanmen's models that he was selling at that time. http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models/uncm/uncm_main.htm And here's the old Valkyrie Hangar website from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Back in the old days, when 1/55 Valkyries were $300+ US! I think Jung still does 1/55 customs. A lot has happened on Macross World since 1999.

Yep, you are vouch-ed, Hikuro! *************** And Gubaba is also very knowledgeable about Macross! I think he's back in the USA from Japan, but I'm not sure if he would be attending the MW convention in October. You would have to ask him.

I was hoping somebody would a project like this! You can also listen to the last three Macross Speaker Podcast episodes for the tale of Macross' tempestuous history in North America. All the Macross Speaker Podcasts are good to listen to if you're a Macross fan! Thanks to Shawn, admin. of the MW forum, the Macross World legacy forum is over here and you can look over the recently closed HG and Robotech debates in the Hall of the Super Topics thread here. You can also find some of the older MW convention reports on the old MW homepage over here. A lot of the convention reports have gone missing, so you would need to contact the MW members directly to get your information and share some MW stories. VF5SS has done two very informative Macross panels at the Boston comic convention. 2013 2014 Plus, he has done many historical overview podcasts of Macross as well! The Veef Show selection I think he's a good guy to talk to about the North American Macross perspective. Wishing you much success!

That was another great podcast! I'm not sure what Germany has to do with Macross though? Would that be an in-joke on the lost Macross TV series: Air Cavalry Chronicles? That series appeared to be a re-telling of the first World War with valkyrie mecha. Is there any more information on that series? It's hard to say what the new Macross series will be like. You could have a look at the earlier abandoned Macross concepts that could have been turned into a series: Macross VF-X 2, Macross M3, Macross 3D, or Macross: Final Outpost Earth (DYRL live English version). There might be a pattern to what ideas were dropped and which ideas were turned into a series. I really liked to hear about the production history of Macross. Tom Bateman's perspective on how Macross came to North America and transformed into a hybrid anime showed how the anime market has changed quite a lot since the 1980's. I hope you can bring on some more guests for later podcasts, not that I don't enjoy hearing about your Macross news and adventures. I'm glad that Gubaba is still working on the Macross Perfect Memory translation, since that book is a Macross treasure trove. Thanks for that! Another podcast idea could be to focus on a specific Macross production guy/gal's career. Ishiguro or Mikimoto, etc. Or you could try a live streaming viewing of a Macross movie or TV series with a running commentary. And I look forward to your next podcast. Thanks guys!

Hi Shawn: It looks like the MW Legacy forum is no longer available from the frontpage of MW? Has the old forum database now been incorporated into the current forum? http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/_main_menu.htm When I click on the the MW Legacy forum weblink, I get: "Ikonboard CGI Error Ikonboard has exited with the following error: Can't load '/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so' for module DBD::mysql: libmysqlclient.so.16: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory This error was reported at: /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/XSLoader.pm line 70, line 64. Please note that your 'real' paths have been removed to protect your information." Thanks!

Techno Voyager / Boyager ThunderBirds 2086 Region 2 DVDs for pre-sale on Amazon Japan! I thought it would never happen. But, were all of the episodes dubbed in English? Will this set be released in Region 1 with English dub or subtitles? Miracles can happen.

I played around with Paint.net to come up with a name and logo for the MW fanzine. Now I would need to gather some articles together and organize them in a magazine format. I figured out where and how to upload images my MW account, but not post them in the forum yet.

That's what I'm talking about! Looks very good from the preview pics. So, issue 01 is out of print? No digital downloads? I'm likely to send you a pm soon with more questions about Macross related doujinshi publication.

I know what you're saying Sketchley. If the MW Insider magazine were up to me, then the main feature articles would be derived from the MW website and all of its past and current forum members and their Macross fan projects. I could only do 3-4 interviews with MW members in a 4 month time frame. All the information sources would have to be in English or google translated into English. Then the rest of the magazine would be made up of articles either copied from MW or from other English Macross fan websites with reprint permission. Interviews and Reviews of Macross fans and their projects: 1. Model build-ups / Dioramas e.g. wmcheng, etc. 2. Scratch built models (Resin / Plastic / Papercraft / Shapeways) e.g. Captain America, Mechtech, mslz22, etc. 3. Toy customizations and modifications e.g. kyekye, Kurt, etc. 4. Animation e.g. Macross Frontier Stop Motion Animation, Macross Aria 5. Music videos and fan editing e.g. Macross anthology 6. Music: covers songs / karaoke / lyrics 7. Fan dubbing e.g. Hikuro 8. Translations e.g. Sketchley, Gubaba, ? 9. Essay analyses / reviews on the Macross franchise from the forum or from other Macross fan websites e.g. Remember love defunct website 10. Fan fiction 11. Fan comics e.g. Remove before Flight 12. Video games and game mods e.g. Macross VO Plus or HW mod 13. Role playing games (2050 or Horizon MUSH) e.g. Sketchley 14. Drawings / Decals / Stickers e.g. Takatoys 15. Paintings e.g. Honneamise's Ghost painting 16. CGI models and animation e.g. Jay Lew, mac666er, etc. 17. Older translated Macross articles 18. Toy reviews i.e. from MW website or forum 19. Book reviews i.e. artbooks, manga, novels, etc. 20. Music / Drama CD reviews 21. Macross Collection: Other merchandise reviews new stuff: Masei DYRL Helmets, Cards, T-Shirts, Decals old stuff: e.g. jvmacross' Macross collection 22. Anime VHS / LD / DVD / BD reviews 23. Game reviews 24. Macross fan website admin interviews e.g. Shawn, Mr March, Egan Loo, Nanashi 25. Cosplay ! 26. MW Convention and Macross related convention reviews e.g. BlackAce's reports and previous MW conventions 27. Macross magazine and furoku reviews 28. MW forum Chronology i.e. looking though the forum to see what topics most forum members were keen on or what events made the MW forum the way it is today 29. Macross doujinshi reviews i.e. fan made publications Variable fighter master file or MAT #3 Sky Angels or ? 30. Macross production staff interviews i.e. reprints of old interviews 31. Macross fan photography i.e. toys / models set in realistic backgrounds 32. And then there's articles that could be made of all of the new Macross stuff ! I already have a some MW forum member interviews done and transcribed with a couple of more interviews to be done in the next few months. Magazine name and Logo ?: MW Insider M-World Insider Megaroad Works MW Chronology Gun Sight-2 MegaRoad Magazine Macross Attack! Super Dimension Fans Macross Insider And I need to pm Shawn and Graham about reprint permissions from the website or forum. I didn't see yellowlightman post more about his Anime Colony magazine experiences. I'll have to pm him to remind him.

I'm doing a little research on "fan" magazines. Star Wars Insider Doctor Who magazine Wrapped in Plastic magazine (Twin Peaks) Colony Drop #1 MegaLord fanzine Protoculture Addicts Starlog magazine Then there is the problem of getting permissions for official or fan artwork and writing some new Macross articles and interviews and getting some old Macross articles / interviews. Has anybody had any good experiences with Scanning Pen translators for Japanese? Otherwise, a translator guy/gal would be needed for any old Macross articles / interviews or someone to just try to find an already translated Macross articles / interviews online. It might be a little easier if the magazine were more like a Macross World (tribute / promotional) Insider magazine. Then all the artwork and articles could be gathered from the forum and MW members. But I would also like to read more about the range and variety of Macross from initial productions, the creation of the shows and the mecha and merchandise, production staff interviews and ongoing careers and upcoming Macross projects.

Hi yellowlightman: I think I would prefer seeing a magazine style pdf first before any blog or website development. MW's forum, front webpage and forum do a very good job at posting the latest Macross news items. The Macross Speaker Podcasts are also an enjoyable way to keep current with the latest Macross developments. I guess I see the Macross fanzine as something not so much about the latest Macross series or toys or models or games or news, but more putting more detailed anlayses / essays or reviews or interviews on historical Macross stuff and production staff and Macross fan projects found on the MW forum and throughout the internet into context. I suppose I'm just getting my ideas by reading older Star Wars Insider magazines and not getting the sense that the SW magazines were trying to stay current and show all the other aspects of ongoing SW projects. But the SW magazine did look at older SW projects with interviews and essays to place the current stuff in context. SW Insider is an officially sponsored magazine that does have a lot of official access in English to Lucasfilm archives. The Macross fan magazine could only remain as unofficial and non-profit. If I were editor or contributor, then I would end up relying a lot on other websites / people for translated articles. So, yellowlightman, I would like to learn more about you have learned from putting together that fanzine. Thanks! How were your experiences in putting together that fanzine? Were a lot of other people involved in that fanzine and how were they involved? How did you work with so many other people around the world? What was your role? What software did you use? Was there a framework / guideline you used to organize, edit and design the fanzine? Were there any specific ways your fanzine worked at avoiding legal issues? Did you have translators on staff? How did you get the articles for the magazine? Were there difficulties involved in selecting or editing the articles? Any pros and cons to MagCloud? I downloaded the 1st issue of the Colony Drop fanzine, but I haven't read it just yet. Wow, that artwork in the fanzine looks really good! I thought that was official anime artwork. I sent a pm to Apollo Leader about this thread to see if he had any insights or experences he wanted to share about putting together the two Macross newsletters.

Sketchley: The magazine would be offered online for potentially world-wide distribution, so I can't say for certain which country's copyright law will be in effect. An official magazine has a lot of legal implications to consider. Here's what I found so far. http://www.magazinelaunch.com/how-to/legal-considerations/copyright-permission-and-copyrighted-intellectual-property-myths#comments http://www.magazinelaunch.com/how-to/legal-considerations/some-internet-legal-resources-magazine-publishers#comments Photograph legal implications Personally, I think copyrights have gotten beyond reasonable when every idea, potential idea or derivative of a potential idea can be copyrighted indefinitely and so would be considered illegal to use by anyone else. And yet Celestial Toyroom (Doctor Who fanzine produced by The Doctor Who Appreciation Society) has been around since the 1970s. Their fanzine has lots of doctor who artwork and screenshots and even a subscription service. How does that happen? They have several email addresses; maybe, they could answer how they do it? Also Colony Drop produced two "slick" fanzines in 2011/12 through HP Magcloud.com. MagCloud produces ebook or physical copies of the magazine for paypal purchase. Word doc and PDF files can now incorporate video and audio clips within the document, so I don't think html will be needed. But, the document file just gets that much bigger with the included video and audio. To save personal bandwidth, the magazine could be posted as a PDF on Scribd.com or shared via filelockers or thru a bittorrent sync folder. Then the magazine weblinks could be posted on the MW forum when available rather than create a blog. chillyche: A MW digest of past and current Macross World events? with more details might be useful / interesting. MW has its own history with interesting members and an ongoing forum tends to be focused on the current discussions. Also, I would like to read more details about the history of Macross that Japanese reading Macross fans would have access to. If only Pen Scanners with OCR translators could be more reliable, then so many Macross magazine articles could be made into English? After listening to the Macross Speaker Podcast crew talk about the ongoing events in Japan, I still like to hear about previous Macross history. I might be just getting old and nostalgic though. Sometimes, I have to do a lot of searching on the MW forum and the Legacy MW forum to find some older info. and even then the forum posts lack detail / specifics. A magazine could offer expanded descriptions / analyses / essays. ****** How is "Macross: Aria" progressing, chillyche? ******************* And another fanzine that is still going strong. Famous Monsters from Filmland