News

Courtesy Herald Sun... (Ooh, a new sort of source for once.)

The title of this article, Game Over, is appropriate.  Playstation consoles can no longer be fixed to run games made to run on different models (that is, to say, they can no longer be modded).  Sony sells games in three distinct regions, and they are not supporting the modding of playstation consoles because of the evident threat of piracy.  This is an interesting and kind of unexpected decision by Sony, when the threat of emulation seems to be much greater than modded games.

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I don't own a modded playstation or know anyone that does, so this doesn't affect me.  However, as Tiddles kindly pointed out to me, this "sucks for Australia [because] nobody ever releases games there."  The Australian guy mentioned that their consumers can't use legally imported games anymore.  I don't know how much of a blow to their ecmonomy that is, but that pretty much shuts down imports entirely, except of course when people mod their playstations illegally.

Courtesy RPGamer.com

Well, this news makes me drool.  Apparently, the original Wild ARMs is being remade to include five new playable characters, full 3-D graphics with realistic character models, voice acting, and presumably, a story rewrite to include those five new characters.  The original Wild ARMs, if people remember, was rushed out because the company wanted it to be the first game on the Playstation with 3-D battles, and they needed to beat Final Fantasy 7.  As a result, the game wasn't what it could have been.

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A lot of details are lacking from this news article...unless I just completely missed it, they're not even saying what system this is on.  I'm assuming it'll be for PS2, which will kick butt, since the company has already shown what it can do with the fabulous Wild ARMs 3.  I will definitely hope and write letters to the companies to get this one released in the United States...dang...

It's like a potluck dinner on independence day.  Take your pick!  We've got a little bit of FF4, a little bit of FF5, and a little bit of FF6.  Mmm, that Bartz salad looks rather tasty, and you might enjoy some delicious Rosa cookies.

Okay, enough with the silliness.  Josh and I worked on it today and got twelve new fanarts updated, along with two new layouts.  You can see the fanart by visiting the Fanart sections (or the New Fanart section), and you can see the Gau layout by refreshing the FF6 main page, and the Bartz layout by refreshing the FF5 main page.  Keep in mind that with the new style options, you will need to be using the CoN5 layout to view the fanart layouts.

Special thanks to the following who submitted art in today's update:  Kris-Chan, Narratorway, Firia, and Viger.  Three of those four definitely need to join the forums, eh?

After hours of work today, the CoN has 34 new pieces of fanart among 23 various FF characters, most of which were drawn by Narratorway, with help from Kame, Hikaroo, Seventh, Bond, and Kris-Chan.  As always, everything can be seen at http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/fanart/.

Also in store for the CoN today is a new FF4 layout of Yang, for Kame.  It's an awesome layout made up of her recently-uploaded artwork in the Site Submissions forum.  Check it out by going to http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/ff4/ and refreshing until it comes up.

The Caves of Narshe has expanded again, this time offering one of the most complete and innovative Final Fantasy Tactics sections available on the net.  I could write all about the different sections that are available in the new section, but it's probably best for you to check it out for yourself.

http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/fft/

The CoN staff is extremely proud of this section, and we'd like to ask you to post your comments and reactions to it right here, as well as beginning discussion in the newly-opened FFT section.  Enjoy!

And there will be even more added once all of NP's awesome caricatures are finished.  Enjoy two pieces of fanart each from Kame and Narratorway, and one each from seventh and Hikaroo!  

Visit http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/fanart/new.php for all the newest fanart.
Visit http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/fanart/ for all fanart!