I don't normally cross-post between this site and Esterior, however, but I believe this is relevant. This is what I had stated on my Falcom news website:

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This information comes from Wyrdwad of the Ancient Land of Ys forums.

Currently, on RPGamer, there is a thread started by user MegaLink1 to gauge the sort of response for Sora no Kiseki being released in English. Would people buy it?

This is Wyrdwad's quoted conversation with the user as he posted on ALoY:


MegaLink1: "Rumor has it that those games may just be coming to America on the Playstation Portable in the near future. I'll set up a poll to see how many people would be interested in purchasing the trilogy."

Me: "Curious where you heard this rumor, though, MegaLink. Last I heard, XSEED was interested in them, but dismissed them as not cost effective for English release due to the amount of time and money needed to adequately translate them, versus the amount of money they expected they'd be able to actually make from them."

MegaLink1: "I heard this directly from Mr. Abe, the man who oversees the licensing of their games at Falcom. He had mentioned that a few American companies had been in discussions with them about possibly bringing a number of their titles stateside. I am wondering if we will hear anything following the Tokyo Game Show."


Wyrdwad is recommending that people go to the poll on rpgamer's site and sound off on this subject. This may determine whether or not English speakers will finally get one of Falcom's best RPGs to date.

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[ Thread and Poll on RPGamer ]

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This image says everything I want it to:

For those of you unaware, we have spent the past year or so on this project in hiatus while we searched for someone who could re-hack the game (for a second time). Thanks to the efforts of FES-Sama, we are extremely close to being able to resume progress! Keep your fingers crossed!

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New Site Members! Time for introductions!

I'm sure you already know who Alerith is, but the important thing is that he's got an account for posting access on this site again.
For those who don't know him, Alerith is one of the long-term translators of this project. He's been with us for a very long time, and I'm happy to tell everyone that he's back in action again.

However, the big news is the introduction of FES-sama, our new programmer. He's joined us in the IRC channel through the efforts of Blue-kun (who we've promised a less-girly color of pompoms for a reward. Congrats, Blue!) and has managed to hack the game and rework an insertion utility.

This is very good news, since this is one step closer to this project back to being in full swing.

Both members now have posting access. So- while it seems I'm the most talkative, don't be surprised if you see either of them or Varion post once in awhile.

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We may have some changes that I'll have to update people on soon. I've been away from a steady connection for a few days for a con, but I'll be back at my computer and clarify these things soon enough.

This is just another update to state that we're alive and kicking, and last I checked, our IRC channel has been a bit more active than usual.

Once I can give more detailed information, I'll be sure to make a post here, or have someone else do it- perhaps the next post will be an introduction post. :D

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I just noticed our menu still said 'enterthegame' for the IRC server. I changed that. We're actually on irc.rizon.net now.

Also- you won't notice it, but I made changes on the back-end. Well, actually, you may notice that *all* the site's files are php now.

The reason why? Well... no one knows~~~ :D

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