If anyone would want it, and when I notice you do (I'm not online every day), I will post it shortly.

See, I am a serious Telenet/Reno idiot. One of my tasks in life is to finish all games ever made or published by those guys...

A while ago, I finished Fantasm Soldier Valis (1986, Telenet). I also wrote a short "journal" which describes how to do it, including passwords, battle strategies and important hints/tips.

If there is any interest in such a document, state it, and I will enrich you with the "holy grail" of how-to-play Fantasm Soldier I.

For those who want to finish Fantasm Soldier II but still did not manage to, I once did publish a how-to-play of that one too. So... Just ask, and I will bother to remember.

Always glad to help you out,

Johnnyboy

I'd love to have a peek! Never understood fully the game but I really want to!

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If anyone would want it, and when I notice you do (I'm not online every day), I will post it shortly. See, I am a serious Telenet/Reno idiot. One of my tasks in life is to finish all games ever made or published by those guys... A while ago, I finished Fantasm Soldier Valis (1986, Telenet). I also wrote a short "journal" which describes how to do it, including passwords, battle strategies and important hints/tips.

wow.. isn't that game nearly impossible to finish?

Telenet/Reno fan I see... hmm... Wolfteam as well (and non-MSX games too, perhaps)?

I would love to see a different-than-MSX-version of this game...

Maybe a tad faster, with more colours... More than 2 channels of music...

It should exist, right? Do you know on which system? I don't know...

Valis can be discouraging when you start, because, in the beginning, it looks like some kind of LCD game or something, right?
But as you proceed, the background and the sprites will be better in balance, and the game gets clearer and more "friendly" to play.

I see there is interest, so I will try to post the full how-to-play tomorrow (wednesday) or the day after that.

Samor, I do not know about about Wolfteam connections to Valis, so if you do I am very interested!
I understand Wolfteam and Telenet used to share some staff members?

In this topic, I will post the how-to-play shortly, so you guys can all add this game to your "Outlist"! Yeah baby!

Wolfteam...

Yaksa... Maybe an underrated game... I have an original, but could not get into it maybe as much as it deserves (because the music/graphics/storylines are good, but the game scrolls too slow, don't you think?)

Arcus I... Too much Japanese text, too less gameplay

Arcus II... Got locked up in it...

I can't remember more games of them... Let's look on Generation MSX...

Oh yeah, Midgards!

Did you guys see the MSX2+ version? Not a bad game!

Gaudi - The Winds of Barcelona?

http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/1290

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I would love to see a different-than-MSX-version of this game... Maybe a tad faster, with more colours... More than 2 channels of music... It should exist, right? Do you know on which system? I don't know... Valis can be discouraging when you start, because, in the beginning, it looks like some kind of LCD game or something, right? But as you proceed, the background and the sprites will be better in balance, and the game gets clearer and more "friendly" to play. I see there is interest, so I will try to post the full how-to-play tomorrow (wednesday) or the day after that. Samor, I do not know about about Wolfteam connections to Valis, so if you do I am very interested! I understand Wolfteam and Telenet used to share some staff members? In this topic, I will post the how-to-play shortly, so you guys can all add this game to your "Outlist"! Yeah baby!

Valis saw various rereleases. Let me dig up a wiki.

about Valis1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valis_%28video_game%29

There were lots of sequels to Valis on the 16-bit consoles as well....

Some of the related Wiki's don't seem quite complete, as usual people tend to forget to list MSX games in them.
Anyways, Wolfteam was originally a part of Telenet Japan..its likely they worked on Valis as well. Reno was also Telenet Japan (Sa Zi Ri)

I asked about Wolfteam because they were quite active on the Mega CD, hunted down a few of those games recently.

GREAT!

That's a lot of useful information at once!

Oh yeah, now I will be after those games!

I did play Valis 4 on the SNES, allright. But that's the only non-MSX version I did know about.
Apart from some screenshots from a mobile phone version of Valis II which I'd like to get my hands on as well.

Thanks, dude!

By the way, with Metal Gear, they are better informed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_%28video_game%29

But with Ys etc., lot of games, they forget, so I see... Oh well... As long as we know!