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Okay guys, I just rarely check back into these forums, but still regular enough to get to know the latest stuff on upcoming volumes and other attention-worthy news… Could you please stop talking about weird THEORIES and stuff, in a Volume thread? Everytime I check here, I think there's possible news of the volume and SBS or something else... But instead, well, there's this non-sense.
Sorry guys, but keep this stuff to a minimum, that's not the General Theory-thread or something like that...
(Damn, I can't believe that I checked AP once every two hours, back in the day...)

Great chapter, but a HORRIBLE translation, though… There were so many grammatical and spelling errors, daaammn... And 'General'...? You can't be a fucking GENERAL of a NAVAL institution...

@Tragic_johnson:

Wait a second, were they even doing scanlations back then during the Alabasta arc? Or did you guys start on the japanese tanks, and shonen Jumps?

I can remember quite well that I mostly read raw scans side-by-side with pure-text-translations. Those were the good old times. Must've been around the end of Skypea. Kinda weird, but I miss it. g (We are just so spoiled, nowadays, aren't we?)

Hello Stephen, you don't know how much I missed your translations and how much it meant for me. (Especially the Naoki Urasawa-ones)
Straight to the point(s):
Will you translate the missing chapters from "Pluto"? I am STILL wondering about the last sentence of BRAU-1589 concerning Atom's "heart" and so on and hoped for any real explanation for it since you stopped…
And will you put up translations of Urasawa's "Billy Bat"? I really hope for it, because you were the one translator who got Urasawa's "voice" in the best way.
Thank you so much for that. Really.

This episode was FANTASTIC!! Suspense from the first to the last second, tear-jerking moments (Jin & Sawyer+Co. meeting / Faraday & Charlotte…), and finally some loose ends tied up. And at what an neck-breaking pace it was, in comparisson to other Lost-episodes!! Simply fantastic.

Okay, guys…
I've thought about Radzynski being someone of the Losties, and there are important clues, most probably he isn't one of them. (I did not read RuNa's spoiler, so I have no idea, who he "really" IS or whatever was in there.)
First and most important one:
The map he made is mostly commented in LATIN!! So, if Sawyer doesn't suddenly learn Latin, during this season, he most probably isn't Radzynski. And the map contains information about Smokey ("Cerberus", anybody? a.s.o.), so there's also still an large amount of information to be filled up.
BUT, we DO know, who speaks Latin, don't we?
Okay, so it will most probably be one of the Others, OR even Faraday, since I think he knows a farily great amount of stuff about the Island AND I think he's capable of speaking Latin, isn't he?
But, there's still one thing on my mind... Did Kelvin ever reffer to Radzynski as a HIM? Did he, or didn't he? I have no idea, that's why I'm asking. If he did NOT, the possibility of "him" being Julliett arises.
Just my two cents on this.

@Mumbo:

What's there not to get? A big mystery about "Cabin Fever" was why the hell Alpert showed up when Locke was born and why he showed them those objects. Then in this episode Locke told Alpert what day he was born and showed him the compass, since that's now obviously what Locke was supposed to pick as a child but didn't, confusing the hell out of Alpert, so now that mystery is all cleared up.

Ahhh, okay, totally forgot this particular scene happened in Cabin Fever, that's all. But still thanks. ^^

@Greg:

2. 'Cabin Fever' makes COMPLETE sense and it's even better that we see EVEN FUCKING RICHARD was in the dark about Locke. THAT'S what happens when you make your story from the back forwards.

Would you care to share your theory on this? O.o Well, how does it make sense to you? (I'm not arguing, it DOESN'T make sense, but I'm just curious ^^ Spoiler-tags?)

Just a little theory of mine…
Episode 5x01, in the beginning... Shredders (Geek-joke) baby, they are showing. How about Miles? There is never shown anything without a reason, in Lost. So, why would they suddenly be showing us a little baby, we never knew existed? Simply thinking about that...

Perfect Episode, which gave us many new clues.
So, does anybody have an idea of who Faradays mother could be?
How about

! Ms. Hawking
If, that's the case, it would be a great opportunity to unite Desmond with Ben and all the others, to go back to the Island. But that's just my silly speculation.

For me, it also seemed like there IS tension between Kate and Sun, at least on Sun's part. Yeah, she most-likely doesn't seem to blame Kate, but still there is something left in the dark. I don't think, they wouldn't have mentioned it without some thought, back in the mind.
Still, it totally amazes me, how I didn't pay attention to Kate's "promise" and those, now visible, reprecussions it has had on Sun. Fantastic. Greg is nailing the point.

Wowowowow….. I've finally watched the premiere-episodes, and right from the first scene on, I was thrilled.
First:

! I called it!! Back, when the first trailer was shown, I called Farraday talking to yellow-jump-suit-guy, who happens to be Desmond. And wasn't that scene HILARIOUS?! "Hey, Desmond, you have absolutely no idea who I am, and I was banging like for half an hour at your door, on an Island you BELIEVED to be hazardous and without any life at all on it, because of this mysterious disease, but hey. Now I'm gonna tell ya all that stuff, you will have to remember, to SAVE THE WORLD, but besides that, you will just NEED to believe me. Yay!!" I was totally laughing my ass off!

Okay, as Mumbo already said:

Now, we most probably know, how they'll be able to tell us about the island's past, Rousseau and stuff along those lines. And this also lifts the mystery around the "new" story-telling-scheme without clear Flashbacks and -forwards, they were talking about back then.

The Hurley/Sayid-Tag-Team-Action was just hilarious, and the whole fighting-in-the-apartment-thing was pure comedy…
Great premiere, just simply great!

I'm so hyped, folks…
I'm gonna watch it most probably half a day after most of you guys, since I'm currently residing in Germany... XP (Help me God, I hate German people...)
The show airs at ~4 AM (German timeframe), is up an hour later, I will wake up at 8 AM, put it in my DL-list, go to university, will be at 11 AM home again, and be finally able to watch it on my own...
It's always one HELLUVA burden NOT to take a look at this particular thread in the morning, when I'm getting up... Just like this, I was partly spoiled last year's "Ji Yeon"...

Please, guys, I would appreciate it, in case if somebody is talking about the sole CONTENT of the episode to put it in spoiler-tags, at least for the first few hours.
Just like we did last year.

And from now on, I'm wishing you a happy Locke-Blowing-Things-Up-Filled Lost-Premiere-Event-Day from the bottom of my heart !!! ^^

And it's a 3-hour-premiere, which means, we are going to get TWO new episodes (+ the crappish-recap-BS nobody of us needs for certain.)!!!

and:
holding onto Bad-Beat

Same way I'm watching it here in Germany…

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
Without a doubt.
This is the game which definetly comes nearest of the title "perfect game". Even GTA IV isn't topping it, and I loved GTA IV.

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New trailer, again. Short, but filled with new stuff.

New Trailer!!!!!

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Oh guys, I thought somebody already posted it, since it's been days, it's already out… But well, here I go, all alone..
Have fun with it.

WOHOOOOOO!! OH GOD!! I was JUST WONDERING YESTERDAY, when the S05 Promo would show up… Freaking SWEEEET!!

Now, just to clear things up...

Greg, what is it with you and the plane? XD Are you talking about the Banana-Water-plane, we see crashing down?
And the yellow-jumpsuit-guy is most probably Radzinsky, or however he's spelled.
But who's white-shirt-guy? Doesn't really look like Kelvin Inman to me. But it's definitely the hidden-hatch-entrance/exit, we are seeing there.

And to talk shortly about the Stonefoot, mentioned afore...
During season 03 Darlton said, the foot will make a large appearance in S04, but well, due to the Strike, it was postponed to Season 05. So we'll definitely see it there, and hopefully get to know, what it's all about.

But the comic-con-question with Richard in connection with the statue was just a joke, for me at least. Well, I don't think the statue has something to do with Richard IN PARTICULAR; that's what I wanted to point out.

New-Content-Videos!!!

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/276192.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/276199.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/276217.html

Singing Mountain, pretty please… ;___;

New-Content II looks most promising to me. Is this thing, first seen in the video the so called "Dimension-Distortion-Dungeon"? Looks really nice. Takes the kid out of me again, kinda.
And the thing seen in the New-Content III Video is most probably the "Monsters-Arena", they were talking about. Seems like you can battle as a monster, you wish to be, against another preferred opponent.
The other way around, it could just be an "Let's see what happens if monster-X battles monster-Y"-thingie.

Enjoy the clips!

@Refii:

Well I played this in HS when I was playing FF7/6, and some american rpg's I can't remember the names of.. I remember Torment though, which surpasses Chrono Trigger in my opinion (of course it had no bishi character for Sasuke fans to huggle), only a talking skull.

PLANESCAPE TORMENT!!! WHOOOO!! Morte, the floating, talking skull!!
(Besides Baldur's Gate II THE BEST RPG on the PC… Well, and isn't it strange, that both games, BG II and PT are from Black Isle?g Oh man, Black Isle was THE RPG-forge...)
I'm sorry for off-topic, but yes, Refii, you are right. Planescape DOES exceed CT. And believe me, I'm so fucking in love with CT, I would kill anyone for it. XP (Now, wasn't that a statement?)

Besides that, PT is the most text-filled game I've ever played... Aww, loved it. Just loved it.

@ RuNa:

Thank you very much for the dungeon info!! What a coincidence, I just thought about the "new dungeon" today, and went on a hunt for information... And you came up with it. ^^
Sounds great, but I'm curious about the "affects End of Time in some way"-Thingie... What the hell does THAT mean? How will it show off?
Just 2 more months...

Thank ya. With the translation already up, this is a very fine surprise, today, indeed.

New information coming in:

OP#52 is scheduled for Decembre.
This is NO prediction.
What I'm actually predicting is the exact date: 4th or 5th. (Just like most of the time)

Did you already watch the movie, Greg?
If so, how was it? Tell us every dirty, little detail. XP
(I'm most curious in, which Volumes the first movie's mostly covering…)

News:

The game will feature the animated-PS-One cutscenes… Which is a huge let-down for me. I didn't like them at all, and the "ordinary" 2D-graphics cut-scenes were just HUGE in their own way.
It really sucks.

@Greg:

Student of mine suggested the line from Sentoumaru was to be taken literally and that three days later they're going to land exactly where they were on the island. Their ship will be ready and they can proceed after they find Rayleigh.

EXCELLENT idea!! Never thought of that, and didn't even took it in consideration! But yeah, the pointy thing is: How will they survive? g

I'm asking myself, moreso, why Kuma told Luffy, they wouldn't see each other again? What's his motivation for helping them, anyway?
Was he so impressed with Zoros "sacrifice", that he wanted to safe them, or at least just not let them get into WG hands?
So many questions…

"Namor doesn't tolerate ignorance"

How funny, he's one of the most ignorant guys in the MU. g
Oh man, that's why I love him so much.

Does anybody read Amazing Spider-Man, here? Opinions on New Ways to Die?
I just love JrJr, and his skills are at its best, currently.

Gotta check that Namor-series out. Thanks, Tizoc!

@Fiasco.:

I still believe that Oda will add more than just canon fooder to Smoker's crew, I mean just him and Tagashi is boring, and they would have to become insanely strong to handle the new pirates. So I still think a crew for smoker is really possible, it is Oda's style.

Well, you said it yourself… I think you did not get my point:

@Fiasco.:

I'm not exactly sure but what happened to Smoker and his "crew" that he said he needed to survive in the new world

Where did he say, he needed a crew? THAT's my point. He did NOT say, he needs a crew. Now, THAT's the mis-translation I was talking about. He's just talking about rank, not a CREW.

So don't confuse your wishful thinking, that he MAY get a bigger "crew" with things that are clearly NOT STATED in the manga.

Uh, guys, this is a topic, often discussed, so far. Just use the search-thingie.

Aaaand… well...
This is just a translation-misunderstanding.
There is and won't be no team.
"What we need is a rank."
That's the most fitting translation, for Smokers words, in my opinion.
It just means, they need some kind of reputation... Some EXPERIENCE, for the new world.
As you've seen. Most of the Super Novas are plain ROOKIES, and... non-existent in the large view.

He didn't want to assemble a crew or team.

@Greg:

Plus, I'm excited about the prospect of just who that baby might be

WHOA!! It didn't even come to mind, that it could be somebody we KNEW or even some hint at something… To me it was just a baby! But now that you mention it... Oh GOD!!
Since we're now OFFICIALLY dealing with time-travel and stuff (and an possible Faraday-timetraveller-thing at some point, if that's him talking) it could be ANYBODY!

But GREAT thing, you've turned that baby-notion upsidedown!!

At first, the movie kinda seemed very silly, and I didn't give it much credit, but after rewatching it, it seemed rather interesting and gave us some clues. But well, nothing we didn't know yet.
But that didn't really sound like Faraday. It was too messed up and there was a lack of "Faraday-ish squeal" in the voice. He kinda has some kind of squeal in his voice… g

Hey guys, since the S05 threads up now, here are the FANTASTIC comic-con-panel-videos:

PART 1:
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PART 2:
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PART 3:
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PART 4:
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Damon and Carlton are so loveable guys, just take a look at the panel, and you will know what I'm talking about. Just great.

One Piece #51 is schedulded for September. No exact release-date, yet. (4th or something like that, as from former experiences.)

No, just no. You are assuming and interpreting WAY too much into things, which weren't stated as explicit as you want them to be.

@skarlath:

hi traffalgar law

bye traffalgar law

Everyone's a hero in their own way~~

Well, now let's find out in which way he is…

(Dr. Horrible was SO AWESOME!! ROTFL!!)

@kikiboudka:

even though we don't really like volumes released outside IRC, there'll always be persons who'll do it, so whatever.
however thank you for your nice comments, it's always a good motivation.
Btw v49 HQ should come soon and v43 HQ hopefully soon too =).

Oh sorry, I didn't know that.
I just thought, it would be nice to share it, since I've got the feeling, everybody's waited for it, for like (felt) years.
I totally love your scanlations, that's for sure.
I will edit my post, and delete the sendspace-mirror.

But, thank you. Please keep up the great work!

Now, THAT was fun!!
The songs were all kinda catchy and very exciting (and even more in act II and III), and there were some jokes I really had to laugh hard.
The end was kinda totally SURPRISING and UNEXPECTED, but great.
I totally loved it.
But you should hurry up, if you want to watch it, cause it will only be until 20th of July available for free, to watch, with further DVD release, later this year. (I think in Septembre.)

www.n-u-l-l.net

Fetch it there (IRC).
Including SBS and gallery.

Null is still, by FAR, the best and most appreciated scanlation-group, concerning One Piece.
Thank you guys, for all the hard work. You are the best.

Now Enjoy it.

Some new pictures, but not showing anything "NEW". Maybe the whole article tells us something interesting, but well, i don't understand Japanese…
So... Uhm... Greg? XP

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@Solid:

There's no new info from what I can tell, or could it be that new video from yesterday?

If so thats disappointing.

That's it… The only thing we got to see, was that trailer... Yeah, a little bit disappointing.

@captain:

I more wonder, why Frog and Ayla have different names in the Japanese version. Translation seems a lame reason to me, as they didn't change marle, or lucca. and even robo is robo, which is english. (not that I know what frog is in japanese. maybe it's his name, like glen)

Eira/Ayla:
It's the simple L and R exchange. As in… Raito/Light from Death Note. So Ayla is fine.

And well, Kaeru means Frog in Japanese, so this one's also fine. ^^
I hope I was able to clear things up a little bit.

@Greg:

How are those graphics polished?

Okay, now that there's an HQ scan, it's clear.
At first it looked like the colours where in a different scheme than on SNES and the map looked kind of different. (Still the colour-thing.)
Now it's clear, they are not.

I read, eitherway on Gamespot or somewhere else, that the graphics are supposed to be polished, so with that post in mind and seeing the cam-pics my brain connected things, which weren't there.

My mistake, I'm sorry.

EDIT:

They added a real countdown to it:
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/ctds/

So, it is monday, July 7th, new information should surface, then.

THX!! Wow, such an early chapter!!
Wowow… Haven't seen such a LQ-chapter in quite a time.
Remembers me like it was in the old days, before 3 years...
Yeah, good, ol' cam-pic-chapters..

NTSC and PAL are the two common encoding-thingies, respectively for USA and Europe.
NTSC is the usual thing in the US, as is PAL in Europe.
It is not possible to play NTSC Games on a PAL console, and vice versa.

But there are some loopholes, through which you can slip, to play PAL/NTSC games on their code-counterpart.

Through this thingie you can play NTSC games on an PAL console, or even SUPERFAMICOM (Japan) games on a PAL-console. That's the only thing you need.^^

Singing Mountain was a dungeon which was playable in an early Alpha-Version of the game (and was shown on V-Jump-Festa '94), which was accessable via 65.000.000.000 BC. (Near the Vulcan-thingie)
It was later cut out of the game, cause they thought, there was already too much going on in 65.000.000.000 BC and so it never made it to the full game.
(On the official Soundtrack of the Game, you can still listen to it's theme, cause it is put there as a bonustrack. (Which is EXCELLENT, to be precise!))
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Here's the track on Youtube, so you can listen to this great piece of music.

So, now hopes are high the extra-dungeon will possibly be this Singing Mountain.

@rusashi:

Break was meant to be a direct sequel to Trigger. Cross just had some tie-ins to make it known that it wasn't a completely new game.

If I remember correctly, I saw Crono in the first "screens" of Break. Could've just been art or something though.

Yeah, I know. That's why I said, I'm hoping for "Chrono Break".
But still: If they decide to do a Chrono Break, that doesn't mean that Chrono Cross Story doesn't count anymore. (Even still I'm hoping that they retcon it…)

The Wiki-article about Break is very informative. So take a look. There's sure something to be found, you didn't know already. ^^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrono_Break

EDIT: Oh GAWD!! I've just thought about the new dungeon to be integrated, and came across an idea…
What, if it's going to be the cut-out and overwritten "Singing Mountain" ? Wouldn't that be great?
If that's the case, we are going to hear it's BEAUTIFUL theme finally directly in the game.

EDIT#2: http://www.gamekyo.com/Webmasters/Images/72551020080703_170508_0_big.jpg

A clear picture of the new game graphics.
We can clearly see, it's still the old 2-D graphics, but still polished a little bit, and remastered. Perfect. THAT's what I was hoping for.

@Yoska:

But since I have been whoring with emulators it really needs to be much more than almost the same 13 years old game all over again or I will just pass it.

Well, the advantage here is:
You can play Chrono Trigger whenever and wherever you want. That's a thing I always wanted to do. ^^ Going on vacation and take my GBA/NDS with me and still being able to play CT.

@rusashi:

If it sells well enough, it might just be the trigger (yohoho title joke) that makes SE finally start on Chrono Break

And hopefully retcon and leave Chrono Cross behind.
Dammit, the game WAS good, but not something I imagined, being an CT-Sequel.
But that's the point, most Users are hoping now: The port to trigger a new wave of CT-Games, or even Chrono Break.

And hopefully in the DS-port there will be tied lose ends with the Schala/Magus Storyline, after you join forces with him.
THAT's something I was wondering for years about…

@The:

As a european too consicence-heavy to use emulators, having grown up seeing CT hit the top 5 of "Best game ever" time and time again, you have no idea how happy this makes me.
And even if it never hits EU: REGION FREE DS, OOOOOH YEAAAH!

Did you ever come across the idea to buy an NTSC-converter for the SNES? That's how I've done it. ^^
Bought myself a converter (for, like, 10 Euro), and right after that bought the game itself on ebay… (Though, it wasn't really cheap....... XP)

The day the game arrived, 6 years ago, was like the happiest day of my life..

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I'm having tears in my eyes, out of joy, out of happiness, out of PURE DELIGHT!!!)

Oh GOD!!… The best news EVER...
Now only an Seiken Densetsu 3 Remake, and the best games of all time are remade into formidable things...... Oh God THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

EDIT:

I hope SO MUCH that it will still be 2-D... Oh dammit, how much I LOVED the 2-D-Graphics-thingie. For me still much better than 3D in most of the current RPGs.

Does anybody know when it is expected to be released? This year? 2009?
How FANTASTIC!!! Oh guys, I just bought an DS 5 DAYS AGO!!! And right after that I'm reading SUCH FANTASTIC NEWS!!

EDIT #2:

Okay, as I've read on an german page it is scheduled for a release in Winter 2008. This means, this year, guys... Oh goddammit... I love Square...

EDIT #3:

Great news for America:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/07/02/chrono-trigger-ds-confirmed-for-north-america-this-holiday/

And well, I'm living in Germany… So please, hope for me, that it will be released there as well...

@Monkey.D.Tadios:

edit: why is there no chapter?

Uh, because Odas taking a break, as it's the case, here and there, after some weeks.

Uh, that's just absolutely soap-opera-drama-style - Fake.
And well, nobody's mentioning, that there will be no One Piece next week - Fake.

Just so you all know, and prepare for it: Next week no One Piece.