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[just-ghaleon]

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.

[just-ghaleon]

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).

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Hey, um. Please always feel free to send me images of Ghaleon.

You might see one and think "Oh surely Pandor has seen this one."

And I'll be honest, there is a good chance that I have... BUT the internet is big and I haven't really been keeping an eye out for my boy the way I used to prior to 2020, back when I had a boring office job and needed to cling to sanity somehow. By obsessively combing image searches in order to stave off the ADHD Intrusive Sleep response. :B

So, you never know! Might be one or two I missed over the past few years. :3c

Also even if I've seen it before, it will still make me happy to see it again. :3c

So, uh. Yeah. =w=

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Hmmm. I want to draw Leo and Mauri wearing these gowns. 🤔

Evening dresses, 1930s.

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Currently working through my toxic feelings cesspool by drawing That Elf in Situations. Idk that they're all tumblr-safe Situations tho. And idk where I'd post them... maybe bluesky? Pillowfort?? Uhh.

I could do the sensible thing and put the uncensored drawings on my patreon and post censored teasers to advertise, but ugh that sounds like work. And I do not trust patreon to remain safe for filth, that's already been an on-going battle as far as I'm aware.

Seriously though what do I do now that I seem to have busted through the NSFW 18+ art block that's been tormenting me for most of my adult life???

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Happy Halloween! Want a wallpaper? :3c

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Happy Halloween! Want a wallpaper? :3c

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🎃 INBOX TRICK OR TREATING 🎃

HOW IT WORKS

🍬 Reblog this on halloween before 4pm your timezone.

🍬 If you see this post on someone’s blog drop them a trick or treat inbox!

Then you will be given a trick or a treat!

🍬 You can hand out png’s of candy, rick roll links, unnecessary facts, bad photoshops, gifs of deep sea creatures, whatever trick or treat your heart decides (a trick, however, is not malicious! Don’t be mean)

If you go inbox trick or treating I recommend making a lil post of all the tricks and treats you got!

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Completely lost track of who's open for trick-or-treaters on my dash, but feel free to beg me for candy lol :3

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Please reblog if YES so your followers will know!

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in that case, how about luna and lucia interacting? whether it's luna's older form, her as althena, whatever you want

Sorry to make you wait, had to take a bit of an art break! But I'm all refreshed now, so have some Luna and Lucia Lunacy! OuO

(poses by @mh-presents !)

And also a more somber Althena and Lucia interaction:

(pose meme by @gaminegay ! I had fun completely changing the tone of the original pose, heeheehee :3)

[just-ghaleon]

in that case, how about luna and lucia interacting? whether it's luna's older form, her as althena, whatever you want

Sorry to make you wait, had to take a bit of an art break! But I'm all refreshed now, so have some Luna and Lucia Lunacy! OuO

(poses by @mh-presents !)

And also a more somber Althena and Lucia interaction:

(pose meme by @gaminegay ! I had fun completely changing the tone of the original pose, heeheehee :3)