Re: My introduction to the Sakura Taisen ML
Jon Stern (kayama@SNET.NET)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:54:15 -0400
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:54:15 -0400
From: Jon Stern <kayama@SNET.NET>
Subject: Re: My introduction to the Sakura Taisen ML
>When the rest of you played Sakura Wars for the first time, which girl
>did you end up with at the end?
Well... this is probably pretty embarrassing, especially considering I'm
supposed to be the Mr. Know-It-All ST Translator (just kidding :P - I
affect no such pretense ^_^; ), but when I first bought ST1 a couple
years ago, I didn't have a modem, so the only information I had on the
game was a little blurb in the "Sega Soft Information" insert that came
with Fighting Vipers. It had screen shots of Kohran and the Gorai-go
spinning around. The text next to those pictures gave no clue as to the
plot of the game, but instead mentioned that the game 1) was produced by
Hiroi Ouji, who brought us "Tengai Makyou: The Apocalypse IV" which was
at the time one of my favorite Saturn games, 2) included character
designs by Fujishima Kousuke, whose 'Aa Megami-sama' manga and general
art style I really admired, and 3) included Yokoyama Chisa, known the
world over, as our shujinkou, Sakura. That sold the game for me. But
- and this is the embarrassing part - I had no idea that the point of
the game was not only to save Teito Tokyo and the rest of the world
from evil, but to end up with that special someone too (hangs head
in shame of his abject foolishness -_- ), until it was almost near the
end of the game. But I ended up getting Kanna's ending, and I was ready
to go through the game five more times, so it wasn't a total loss. ^_^
>>I heard of a program that would let you watch the movie clips from the
>>Sakura Wars game disc on your PC. Does anyone know anything about this?
>>
>
>cpk2avi....but IIRC it doesn;t work on the ST1 videos.
>
It does actually work on the ST1 videos, but not directly off the CD
(well, maybe for that one video of falling cherry blossoms), as far
as I can remember. I had to use a program called 'sakdiv' to break
up files on the CD into cpk files on my hard drive which could then
be converted with cpk2avi.
>....another college student in our midst, as it seems most of us here
>are :)
>
I'm not...... yet...... ^_^
- Jon Stern
"Smile smile de ganbarimasu!" - Nonomura Tsubomi