WindThunder is faster than Failing Designs

Heroine Anthem II is out. Get yours before it’s sold out. Especially since it probably won’t be pirated for a long time since, thankfully, it was encrypted with StarForce 3.0 and no games using that version have been cracked yet. It only costs a measly NT $580–about $15 US–so why contribute to the financial failure of a company that doesn’t suck?

After two weeks of silence, it’s time for the screenshot game again. I’ve been working on Langrisser I PC, Heroine Anthem and Heroine Anthem II the past few weeks and here’s a quick run-down on what I’ve accomplished:

Fixed the fonts in Langrisser I PC (excluding status window troop names which are the result of poor bitblt math by SoftAction)
Extracted all graphics from Langrisser I PC to PCX format. Translated and re-inserted all but the battle screen ones, which mysteriously crash the game when re-inserted …
Translated Langrisser I up through Scenario 10 and all non-scenario text
Fixed the item description breaking bug in Langrisser I
Extracted the fonts from Heroine Anthem I&II in bitmap form and wrote a script to convert them back to bitplane and inject them into the files
Created a new 12×22 font based on the Solaris CDE 1027×768 mode console font
Resized my old Calligra font to utilize more v-space in Heroine Anthem
Wrote a tool to extract all graphics from the /Ani/ folder of Heroine Anthem II and added PNG recognition to the WT archive extractor
Translated numerous Heroine Anthem II files and tested all my scripts to ensure full compatibility with the new game

If anyone knows of a good PCX image editor besides Adobe Photoshop, please tell me. Photoshop eats PCX headers for breakfast and the Microsoft Windows XP version of MSPAINT.EXE lacks PCX support. Trying to run an older version of MSPAINT.EXE on XP just generates and error and compatibility mode doesn’t fix it.

If you couldn’t guess yet, the games with updated screenshots are the ones mentioned in the update. Far out!

By the way, 射雕英雄传 (2003) really kicks ass, watch it if you get a chance. $25 for 14 DVDs is an unbeatable price. Thirty-seven hours of kung-fu and drama entertainment.