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being a fan of something with like 30 total fans on tumblr is funny bc you get like 12 notes on a post and you're like wow the gang's all here

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Lunar Legend Gameboy Advance 2002

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ghalliebutton.clip Another one of the random old doodles I scanned over a decade ago and was like "Well... I might as well color it since I scanned it." Which turned into "I kinda hate this drawing, so I might as well paint over it completely."

It's kind of a pointlessly sulky portrait of Ghaleon, but I like how it turned out! Various process images below:

I reckon the original ink doodle is from around 2009ish.

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"A New Perspective" This 2-panel doodle was inspired by the beep!21 Lunar interviews @indigozeal has been translating over the past couple years!

Specifically, there's a section discussing what Lunar 3 could have been like and it mentions bringing back Ghaleon and taking place on the Blue Star (which is almost but not completely ready for inhabitants.) And my mind just went nyooooooom: Ghaleon getting a view of home from the surface of the Blue Star LET'S GOOOOOO~

I originally whipped out the concept sketch like right after reading one of the first parts of the interviews that she translated, back in 2022, and then poked at it off and on for the next couple of years. ^^;;

But it's finally done! Except for all the little things I keep seeing that I'd like to fix. :B Eh, no, it's done. It's DONE!! Thanks again @fyeahlunar for prompting me to finish this one, and thank you so so much @indigozeal for all the incredible translation work you've done for the Lunar fandom over the years! :3

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Ack, sorry this took so long to finish, @tiphares!! I kinda got carried away. ^^;;;

Hopefully tumblr doesn't mess with the size too much, cuz I specifically made it wallpaper sized.

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Christmas-themed art from Game Arts with Lunar and Grandia characters!

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It's time to make one of these for EBC, now that I'm finally in the endgame. Nobody let me forget.

There is no mental health care on the moon.

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Foldingfacets’s Bus to Nowhere

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A card for very specific fandom niches

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Gotta get my desk rearranged a bit so I can set up my scanner and do the things I said I was going to do. :B

At the very least, I finally got my new 2nd drive installed and partitioned so now I'll actually have space to scan 600dpi images again! \o/

I should also scan my copy of the Newtype 100% Lunar SSSC artbook, that's not up on the internet archive yet either (last I looked, which to be fair was about a month ago.)

Though I'm pretty dang sure there's already an HQ scan of that artbook floating around out there somewhere, possibly in torrent circles... buuuut I can't find it by searching normally and my torrenting skills are about a decade out of date so idk where I'd even start on that end.

So scanning it is probably marginally quicker.

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The main reason I wanted to buy a copy of the TSS guide, besides wanting to fill out my Lunar collection, is there's currently no scans of it on the Internet Archive. So I wanted to be useful and scan it for the sake of preservation.

Still plan on scanning the copy that arrived, but it's really funny that THIS is the version that'll go up on the archive. XD

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I have a new treasure. OuO

It's kinda gross and grubby, here's before and after I gave it an aggressive rubbing alcohol scrubdown:

The ebay seller offered me a tiny discount, $38 down from $40 (+shipping and taxes :p) and I was reeeeeeally depressed (it was last Wednesday) so I caved. This might be the least amount of money I've spent on an English language Lunar book, the prices have been nuts for over a decade and they just continue to get crazier. :B

Anyway, as gross as the cover is, and as theoretically nice as it would be to have a minty unblemished copy.... this pre-owned copy has REAL ACTUAL TREASURE inside!!

First of all, I noticed that every page of the guide has been lovingly annotated with the locations of every item in the game. In purple ink! My favorite!

Then I noticed something funny at the beginning of the book:

I'd just woken up not long before I went down to pull in my mail, so my groggy thought process when I saw this went roughly as such:

Gee, Sandwich Islands Publishing sure cheaped out on the color printing.... wait, that's from SSSC not TSS... is this a reprint--no that's stupid... OH. THE ORIGINAL OWNER GLUED SCREENCAPS FROM SSSC IN HERE!!!!!!!! OMG AHAHAHAHAHA YESSSSS

They went all out!

But the REAL ACTUAL TREASURE? Whoever did this was also a huge Ghaleon fan, like myself:

That's just special right there, you don't get to feel loving connections to gamers of the past like this with mint condition books.

The world might be a constant roiling shitshow, but... the compulsion to be creative never dies. So long as we keep making silly things with love in our hearts, I think we can get through the worst of the crap.

Whoever owned this book before me, thank you for your hard work. I hope you're doing okay, wherever you are.

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And through it all my mutual are still posting about elf pussy. The human spirit is indomitable.

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Lunar Silver Star Harmony

The past and the present on either side of Althena's Sword

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Finished Lucia! Back in the day, something really caught my imagination about Lunar 2 and Lucia in particular. Mysterious girl sleeping in a crystal who can effortlessly obliterate all the enemies you struggled your way past to meet her…

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Evidently, Victor Ireland just gave an interview on the Lunar Remastered Collection in which…some claims were made, apparently. I haven’t listened to it personally, so I’m going to post this summary from Robert Boyd of Zeboyd Games (Cosmic Star Heroine etc.). Boyd is trustworthy, but reminder, given past history: please take everything Ireland claims with a grain of salt.

Summary of what I’ve heard so far: Vic Ireland has been trying to get the rights to rerelease the Lunar games for years. Vic has offered to license the original English translations/voices/recordings for cheap for the new collection, but radio silence. Hasn’t heard back from them. The Sega CD mini - Vic was contacted in advance for Lunar licensing. Vic offered to not only license it but also include a free patch that changed the font so it wasn’t all caps. Vic wanted a royalty (a few dimes per unit). They wanted to pay Vic a small one-time fee that he felt was insulting. He thinks they were expecting more demand in Japan and that they budgeted more money for the Japanese side of things and that other regions were more of an afterthought. Would love to include more extras - he’s got audition tapes, he’s got outtakes that haven’t been heard, etc. Complaining about LRG and how if they do a special edition, it wouldn’t be done as well as something he could do. Doesn’t feel like they have a great track record. Doesn’t want to make a bad situation for Gungho. Don’t want to pressure them. Just letting people know that he’s willing to help and willing to license the stuff he has if they contact him. Mentions Cosmic Fantasy and how the new release is inferior to the Working Designs version. Later versions of Lunar didn’t sell as well as the Working Designs versions. The latest version of Vay was done on their own and didn’t use the WD localization or improvements. Doesn’t think there will ever be a proper Lunar sequel, because Studio Alex was sued out of existence. Some of the people involved are still around, but the team is broken. Saw a document with some basic Lunar 3 ideas, but it never got produced. [Note from indigozeal, not Boyd: I don’t know whether this is the Lunar 0 treatment that Kei Shigema currently wants to produce or not.] Vic says that Phantasy Star 4 coming out on cartridge in US is because of him. Sega of America rejected it, Working Designs tried to license it, and then Sega of Japan said that if WD wants it, why isn’t SoA doing it? And then SoA was mad about being forced to release it so they overpriced it. And Vic made some enemies at SoA then. Ubisoft was doing a version of Lunar, they were just using the WD script because they thought GA owned the rights. At the last minute, they realized they didn’t so GA purchased script rights from Vic, which have been used as a base in future Lunar releases. Vic retained rights to voice performances.

ETA: There's an expanded edition of the notes in this thread, though Tumblr freaks out if I try to post it, plus some folks already poking holes in various claims (such as that it makes no sense to hold out for royalties vs. a lump sum payment on a limited-edition product that has a built-in sales ceiling).