I remember sometime ago we had a thread to talk about vr books, guides, art-books, etc.
can we do that again?
this one arrived an hour ago and i took some scans
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Some setteis
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Nice. FEoE has great art.
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If my current lighting set up wasn't so shitty, I could scan some Princess Maker 2 guidebook, but I don't. And even if I did I doubt I'd have the willpower for it.
I also have an old US Bubsy guide. That should be scanned for it's cheesiness like the game.
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I'm not familiar with this. What is it? It looks really cool.
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Tengai Makyou/Far East of Eden, JRPG series. Japan-only, but I think one or two games have fan translations out.
Getting a HQ Popful Mail doujin scanned AND translated was a miracle
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And there was one game that was localized here, welp it was a fighting game tough, so its release was more due to contractual obligation.
Tengai Makyou shinden/Kabuki Klash
I have a copy of this stowed away at home somewhere. Pretty funny to read through. There's a parent's guide towards the end of the book on violent NES games. I think Bionic Commando took the top spot on the list. The book came out in like '89 or '90 so there are a lot of games that weren't included from later on. Also, they didn't score a single fucking game less than a 7/10.
Thanks for the scans
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I have two Apocalypse IV books. Wish I had a scanner to share. I've been sprite ripping from the game though so I may post a couple of those.
The main guide is funny in that it has bible verses inbetween chapters. The small art book is weird too in that is has little details like listing personal pronouns used by the characters.
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It also has some pretty sweet gloss on the front to show 666. Looking at it from the front, it's pretty much invisible.
>>3193385Probably me in 10 years.
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This is a pretty expensive book, right? At least I've never seen it affordable on ebay or anything. The Manjimaru books are occasionally pretty up there too.
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actually, would you believe that the ones selling the book for over $125 are HORRIBLY OVERPRICED?
like this guy selling it for $140 shipped!!!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Far-East-of-Eden-Tengai-Makyou-Video-Games-complete-works-book-Turbo-Grafx-16-/281379745419?hash=item41838a2e8b:g:NosAAOSwd4tTuqXS
I got it for $48 shipped from this seller, he also has another one on sale.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TENGAI-MAKYO-ART-BOOK-JAPAN-1990-/272186377024?hash=item3f5f928340:g:xGMAAOSwGzlTsTDZ
So i saved 100 dollars!, plus the book is quite small, it mostly has screenshots from the OVA (tough directly scanned from the cels, which is far superior from the shitty washed out video the ova is available) and only has a few character sheets (setteis)
I found the cheaper one by misspelling by accident the title as "Tengai Makyo" as opposed to "Tengai Makyou"
the seller from which i got mine is also selling a book of part IV!
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He means character models sheets
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Breath of Fire IV has probably the best artbook in the entire series, and even though I can't read any of it to save my life, it's just that fucking cool, I don't even need to understand what's written to enjoy it.
As it were, I talked with one of my friends about the game, and got him interested because of how pretty the official art is, as well as the manga. He apparently has a Japanese friend who speaks English very, very well, and he was actually considering buying the artbook so his friend could translate it.I went and told him that pretty much the entirety of BoF fans, especially the ones on /vr/, would be willing to blow him to see it and get translations. Was I wrong?
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The only thing spending three years toward translation projects for /vr/ will get you is to be called a pathetic faggot.
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Sorry for the late reply. Will post some more photos. Sorry theyre not the best way to do it.>>3195046
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My phones fucking up on me. Sorry theyre sideways but I figure thats easy to fix on anyones computer.
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Another party member, although the game kinda picks who is in your party and when at all times. He's only in the party for a very short amount of time.
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His face-up sprite in game makes him pretty cute. Again, Seiya's in the party a couple times and only in short spurts.
>>3198434
Second favorite party member. I mainly just think his "civilian/scaredy cat local sheriff" self is really cute.I want to humiliate him.The flashy cowboy getup is pretty hot too though, not gonna lie.
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Best party member coming through. A lot of times its his dialogue that really carries the game-de gozaru.
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The glare's kinda shit, sorry.
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Another limited party member. Not too much really goes on with him. Comes with a subtle Kikaider reference or two in-game.
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Last one. Just a zoom in for those with similar priorities.
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Thanks man.
Hey, i forgot to mention, i also bought a novel of Tengai Makyou a couple of weeks ago too, i share some scans, again sorry for the mediocre scans of most of them, but the harsh truth is this, unless you cut the book, you can scan the pages in proper bold way.
I bought this book thinkin it was a manga, and nope, its a novel, so mostly text, but it has some illustrations.
i am sharing them
keep the tread alive and please keep it safe from shitposting.
he will come back;_;
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Reposting this NES guidebook I scanned last year (pic related): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BygtoIlrrQitU3dYeC1LRXFWaVk
I found out there were a couple other books in this series but I can't find scans of them, what I'd really like to know now though is who was the artist for the cover art?
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huh, why i put it on spoilers
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Interesting that they would go with translated names like that. I sort of imagined they would keep them i Romaji for that part
The pics are great though thanks a ton.
I'll contribute. I bought this not long ago and am really excited about it because TGL is one of my favorite games. Guardic Gaiden (The Guardian Legend) Japanese technique / artbook. Here's the front cover.
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And here's the back. Sorry about the sideways pictures. They were taken from my phone and i have no idea why it does that.
>>3201090
Interesting, never seen this game before. Its kinda cute how drastically different the fronts and backs are.
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>i have no idea why it does that.4chan strips exif information from photographs, except on /p/, because dumbasses leave the GPS recording turned on. You'll need to do a real rotation on the image instead of relying on the automatically set exif rotation flag.
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I do not.
>>3199606
This sounds very similar to a book I picked up for a quarter called "How to Win at Nintendo #3." The author was kind of an idiot but it's still pretty fun.
