The Ultima: The Terror of Exodus Manga

The manga adaptation of the Ultima: Exodus NES version of Ultima III. Synopsis, synopsis, let me see..."A space pilot named Genji gets sucked into Sosaria to battle Exodus, Mondain, and Minax, where he encounters the mage Aida, a robot named Bigelow, and a bard named...Lennon." Argh, wrong description! ::crumples paper:: ...Oh......wait a minute...

Nobuo Uematsu's Liner Notes for the Final Fantasy IV OSV

Oh, so you think it's easy being the most gifted game music composer on the planet? Think again, my friend - it's nothing more than one hardship after another, having to cope with whiny staff and evil evil EVIL vending machines and not even being allowed to go to a SINGLE MC Hammer concert...*sniff* it's horrible. At least it was in 1991.

Final Fantasy IV Settei Shiryou Shuu

A rough draft of the FF4 compendium that's sat on the shelf for three years. It needs a rewrite to eliminate some stiltedness, but in light of the recent release of Final Fantasy IV Advance, it's time to throw this thing out the door. The info is accurate, but the phrasing will be rejiggered in the near future.

Final Fantasy IV OSV Track List

A caveat - this is easily the most insubstantial piece on the site. Explanation in a nutshell - I noticed that the FFIV OSV tracks, like those of Estpolis Biography, had Japanese title names as well as English ones, thought that a translation of said track list would be a nice li'l addition to the site, and went to - only to discover that only about a fifth of the Japanese track titles differed significantly from their English counterparts. *sigh* Oh, well. This ain't called a "junk drawer" for nothin'.

Final Fantasy VI Doujinshi "Dan Dan" by T. Tayaka

Another one of the truly junk-drawer pieces (as in "miscellaneous and included for arbitrary reasons", not as in actually being junk), this's just a translation of a FF6 gag doujinshi that I once had but sold.

Rudra no Hihou/Rudra's Secret Treasure Manual

"Long ago... In the days when the earth still dwelled in chaos..." A wonderful game, this. (And the knight's name is "Sion"!) [Note: this document needs to be "word wrapped" for easy reading, so you might just want to save this on your computer and read it off-line if you're interested.]

Estpolis Biography Liner Notes Etc.

Estpolis Biography is the OSV (soundtrack) for the games known as Lufia and the Fortress of Doom and Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals in the West. Included in the following HTML document are a track list (both English and Japanese track titles), the Japanese prologue to Estpolis II, basic chara stats and info for Estpolis II, and game designer Masahide Miyata and composer Yasunori Shiono's thoughts on the creation of the score. It almost makes up for the OSV's beyond-chintzy packaging.

Hiroki Kikuta's Liner Notes for the Seiken Densetsu 2 OSV

Yeah, yeah, music is not a message, blah, blah, blah. All I have to say about this document is that it was damned annoying to translate - Kikuta writes in run-on, clause-ridden, neverending sentences from hell. I swear, the man's worse than me.

Yasunori Mitsuda's Liner Notes for the Chrono Trigger OSV

Translation of the liner notes of the original Chrono Trigger soundtrack (not the Playstation remake's arranged album). Mitsuda talks here about how he came to be a composer and how he believes his craft relates to his life - basic bio stuff, but interesting nonetheless - and I do love his argument as to why composing game music is one of the toughest gigs in the music industry.