Seto Kaiba

Yeah, I've actually been working on errumating the Macross II RPG book stats in an attempt to make them somewhat closer to the sizes that are seen on screen (by comparison to nearby known classes, like the Nupetiet Vergnitz classes, etc).

Buddy, there's no way in hell the Macross Cannon is only 480m long. it's carrying the front halves of FOUR Nupetiet Vergnitz cruisers around. That thing's a good 4000m and counting. (Effectively ranged between about 3500 and 4400m by my maths.)

If you'd like, I can send you my calculations for the proper sizes.

You mean the kind of uniforms that the bridge bunnies use?

gah... we are hamstrung by technical difficulties at the moment, if you want, feel free to blame the state government, since it's their budget cuts which are the root of this ridiculous problem. They've capped my weekly bandwidth at 3gb total transfer, consisting of up to 3gb downloaded or 1gb uploaded before I'm cut off for the week. Naturally with the amount of data I send and recieve while working on both my site and my paying projects exceeds 3gb by a ridiculous level, so making updates to my site is a little iffy without trips to the diagnostics lab (where the bandwidth cap is not in effect) or to my brother's apartment.

Ideally, you'll all have your download within the next week or so, barring power outages, etc. Again, my sincerest apologies for the utterly unreasonable wait.

If any of you would like a more detailed update on the progress of the fixes to the Macross II Reference Guide, you can find me at webmaster@svfa-88.org

~S.K.~

I am SO sorry for the delay, and I really do appreciate your patience. Our PHPNUKE webportal went down (server bug) and we're reinstalling the software now. The download will be available through there.

Beautiful piece of work on that VF-2SS, mon ami.

Expect an e-mail from me later.

On SDF-1 during the regular series, a few times you see some solid-black and solid-white VF-1 Valkyies, and more than once you see the Angelbird squadron paintjob (the red white and blue getup from the first episode's demo team)

(Harp on me somewhere else for this)

I like the thunder-clap sounding gunpods on the VF-2SS.

I'm not so sure about the F-4 Phantom being missed. I've talked to a lot of pilots who were more than happy to see the damn thing go. (Something about the cockpit being claustrophobically small)

You can only upgrade the ol' clunkers so many times before they're unable to be upgraded anymore, and the F-14 has more or less reached that limit. They really do need to trade them in, but I'd rather see them trading the Tomcats for Raptors (F/A-22) instead of the Super Hornet. I hear they're also being re-designated as VFA-103.

They could renew, but why? If not on a royatly-only charge, it wouldn't be cost effective.

Dub it? Again, who would want that? The most die-hard RT fan has already bought the series twice, and that's what some of you guys are doing. Who would do it three times? Wording-wise, RT: TMS and Macross aren't that different.

Animego's already got enough money from me to where I could have bought two sets at the current rate; they'll be alright.

The problem with that rationale is if you're buying the Robotech DVDs and trying to call them Macross you've got another thing coming. The RT fans are idiots. They've bought the same poorly dubbed, poorly edited crap again and again, first on VHS, then DVD, and now a remastered DVD to "the director's cut" which is just adding half the stuff they cut to make it fit before. As a former RT fan, I can safely tell you that the quality of each successive "remastering" of Robotech, the quality of the product gets lower and lower. RT Remastered is plagued by some problems as fundamental as disc formatting and errors on disc.

Sure, TMS and Macross share animation, but there's a whole world of difference between the dubbing, the editing and the overall quality of the work.

This, to me, reeks of a Harmony Gold attempt to remove potential competition for their new Robotech series, which the guys on my website dubbed Shadow Farce before they changed the title from Shadow Force to Shadow Chronicles.

Mind you they'll probably whore the liscence to ADV once Shadow Farce goes under (and there is no doubt in my mind that it will flop abysmally and drag Harmony Gold into the red on project budget once more), or maybe if we're extremely lucky, give it back to Animeigo at a bargain price.

Either way we lose.

I'm suprised, I've gotten about a dozen PM's asking for the song.

I'll be making a temporary DL of it instead of sending it via email, since it'll be easier.

I am however, currently hampered by server-based complications, which will be resolved in the next few days, and the looming personal deadline for the completion of SVFA-88.org so hopefully the download will be prepared along with the site, which is, by the way, entirely devoted to Macross II (and a few different RPGs) and open to guests.

I'll let all those who requested it know when it's ready.

I appreciate your patience.

Will do, as soon as I get home to my PC with the song on it.

Damnation...

I'll see to it as soon as I finish chasing down a hack attempt on my website's forums.

I have a copy extracted from the DVD and was digitally cleaned up by a buddy of mine with Sony Soundforge.

She's singing the notes to the same song Wendy Ryder sings during the UN Spacy Moon Festival. She's singing a less upbeat version of "Only Your Friend"

If you'd like more info, email me.

First Macross that grabbed me was Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, and a few weeks later, confirming my addiction to Macross was Macross II: Lovers Again.

Nah Outpatient, pretty much any four-letter curse you can think of is used to describe robotech.

See you back on Arcadia,

Signed,

Schwarzwald

Maybe the animators suffer from the same problem most people do, when someone facing them says left, they think that it's that person's left, in other words, their own right hand. Maybe they got it reversed and by that time it was too late to do anything about it.

It does bear a strong resemblence to a VF-1R from the 2036 art. Perhaps a preliminary sketch?

Excellent work.

Oh like that hasn't been obvious over the last ten or so years, with the Master-Piece-Of-Crap models, the re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-mastering of their DVDs, and the overall quality of their work. They'll do anything for a quick buck.

The ugliest head definately has to be the Masterpiece VF-1R "Jack Archer" model made by Harmony Gold. It's beyond ugly, it just looks like someone's been drawing VF-1A's without their glasses.

The VF-1R? The animation error Robotech VF-1R or the MacII VF-1R?

Um... hate to burst your bubble there, friend, but there is no Macross II VF-1R. The only fighters in Macross II are the VF-2SS, VF-2JA, VF-1MS and VF-1XX. The supposed VF-1R that you're thinking of is one of two things. It's the Harmony Gold interpretation of the Macross animation error, which has three head lasers on a VF-1A head, or it's the Palladium lineart of the VF-1 chassis with permanently attached FAST packs.

So you're either thinking of this (the art error from SDF Macross)

http://www.robotech.com/infopedia/mecha/viewmecha.php?id=57

Or this... the palladium books concoction.

http://www.robotechresearch.com/rpg/mecha/...f-1r/vf_1r.html

The page says it's from "Entertainment Bible 51: Macross II" but no such fighter ever appeared in Macross II: Lovers Again. The only fighters appearing in that series were the VF-2SS Valkyrie II, the VF-2JA Icarus, the VF-XX Zentran Valkyrie and the VF-1MS Metal Siren. (The fighter is also absent from the Macross Compendium)

1.) VF-2SS Space Superiority Valkyrie Mk II (Macross II: Lovers Again)

2.) ARX-7 Arbalest (Full Metal Panic)

3.) VF-1S Skull Leader (If you don't know where this is from...)

4.) M-9 Gernsback (Full Metal Panic)

Heh... that just proves my point. "If Ultraman and a YF-19 had children... the result would be..."

I still prefer the Macross II Valkyries to the Macross 7 ones. I'll concede that the VF-1MS Metal Siren and VF-1XX Wicked Angel (Zentraedi Valkyrie) aren't the most aesthetically pleasing fighters out there, but they're better than Nekki Basara's "Ultraman Jr."

My fave has always been and will always be the VF-2SS Valkyrie II