Re: My introduction to the Sakura Taisen ML
Niki-chan (niki-chan@SANCTUM.COM)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:06:04 -0400
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:06:04 -0400
From: Niki-chan <niki-chan@SANCTUM.COM>
Subject: Re: My introduction to the Sakura Taisen ML
I think I ended up w/Iris...*shudder* Scary...I felt like a child molester.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Stern
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Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 6:54 PM
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