woomb.net translations?

Let's wait for Sama to answer this one

Woomb.net was a very interesting service. I was a premium service subscriber there for three of their releases, Xak: The Art of Visual Stage, and Golvellius I and II. The translation of Xak I was especially top-notch work done by Rieks Warendorp Torringa. He not only offered a nice translation for Xak, but also translated the entire instruction manual into English in a PDF format. This was also done for Golvellius and for several of the extra materials released in the original packaging for Premium Woomb subscribers, which was a fee-per-month type model, not unlike Project Egg today. These extra materials were also in PDF format and of a very high resolution quality.

Overall, it was an interesting service while it lasted, offering several MSX titles, including Aleste I and II? as well as some original titles too! I was very disappointed the day I learned that they were pulling the plug, especially given that I was unable to completely finish playing through the new translation of Xak and Golvellius II... since the games, even though you downloaded them would not play unless connected to the Woomb.net service.

I've also been hoping for these to be re-released again in some form, especially if it could be released on real hardware. I I would re-buy these again in a heartbeat! Even if the import prices were expensive since I live in America.

I've been asked by the Hardcore Gaming 101 community to start thinking about gathering material for a upcoming article on he Xak series that I've been asked if I would be interested in writing about. The editors there had decided that I might be a good candidate for writing such an article given that I had already put so much content together for the Xak series together at the XyZ site and the Wikipedia pages. I would LOVE to do an interview with the folks who worked at Woomb.net sometime, especially Rieks.

I'd also like to chat with some folks that could provide me some extra details about the original fan-translation work for Xak I at Delta Soft. I've seen old pics of first releases of Xak before and I would love to know the full story. Furthermore, if someone had one of the original releases that they woudln't mind parting with, I'd definitely be interested in purchasing it from you.

Edit: Here is a myspace profile still setup for Woomb.net that features some BGM and screenshots from many of the games they had been working on. Kind of nostalgic for those interested. : )

-Thomas

Hi Rieks, it has been awhile and I'm glad to hear that you are still active with new MSX translations on the horizon. I'm very happy to hear that you would be interested in an interview sometime regarding the official release of Xak and whenever you have the time or when it is most convenient for you is definitely fine by me. The article on the Xak series is still being put together in pieces at this point without a definite deadline as of yet. : )

This is great news about the woomb.net patches being made available again in the future as IPS patches. I'm very much looking forward to that. I had not heard about Project Melancholia until now. I've actually not played through Snatcher or SD Snatcher yet, so I'm sure it will be a real treat when it is released. I've just place a pre-order for this. Question is now, which should I play first, Snatcher or SD Snatcher? I've heard that the storylines are different...

-Thomas

Snatcher is available in English and Portuguese :

http://www.caetano.eng.br/snatcher/

Sorry to bump this up, but has there been any news regarding availability of IPS patches with Woomb's translations?