Xak - The Art of Visual Stage in WOOMB.net

It will probably sort of run on the latest Wine. But it may stutter a lot more and there are some minor issues, IIRC only fullscreen works... or some more things. Ask Woomb people if you can try it out

Doos this mean you finally return to #life ?

oh, and does this also end the weekly:

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wolf_: this is not the last JP -> ENG localisation to be released by WOOMB, you know

turbor: Linux is currently not supported by WOOMB, the most recent version of WINE does - with some drawbacks - get the job done partly, but can not be guaranteed by Bazix for obvious reasons.

turbor: you could also buy the version of DeltaSoft, they released it on normal disks that can be converted to .dsk files

@snout: Of course I understand the difference between 'supported' and 'working'. I do not care that much for the supported part in this case, I'm more interested in the working side of the story

@sylvester: I already own that version but the version of Woomb is way superior, just look at the comment of Sonic_aka_T...
Especially the improved font routines makes it so much more readable!

turboR: I'm afraid it's more likely (and safer) to assume Xak, running in turboR mode, will -not- work in WINE. Perhaps results with future versions of WINE are more encouraging, but right now I would not recommend it.

As for the differences between DeltaSoft/WOOMB version. Well... the WOOMB version is legal, supporting the original publisher - Microcabin, it's a bit cheaper, the translation is a lot better (the intro demo alone is already a world of difference), includes a translated manual (incl artwork), text routines and menu have been improved and with the thing running in R800 mode by default... playing the game has become a whole different, much smoother experience. I'd say it's a lot of bang for your bucks and I'm sure the people who already bought it can confirm that. End of commercial break

Just finished purchasing this one as well. I think overall Woomb did a nice job with the script and enchancements over the original. The gameplay and graphic transitions are very smoth, the text is easy on the eyes and the music sounds great! It is also nice that they translate the manual information as well even if the manual text seem to me a bit too literal of a translation. I would have phrased things a bit differently myself.

More importantly, I've been talking with some of the folks over at Bazix/Woomb about their plans to distribute the other Xak series MSX2 titles and they seem to have plans to release them all in time which is great news! I'm actually hoping that since they are already a part of D4, the company behind the MSX Japanese Nintendo Wii virtual console lineup, that if/when America and Europe gets access to Wii V.C. MSX games that the Xak series will be one of them. It'd be wonderful to have those playable in English for the first time on a system that can easily be found and accessible by curious gamers who may never have heard of the series before.

As some of you may know, I run a Xak series fansite called XyZ (it is also an Ys and Zelda fansite) which used to host many of the Xak series roms, or at least ones that had not been re-released for sale by companies such as Project-Egg and Amusement Center as well as pre-patched fan translated English versions of the games. I've decided that after learning of these plans to release most of the series into English format that there is no futher use of these roms as they used to be the only means of playing them in English. But now that there exists an option to play them officially in English and support the original developer Microcabin, all of the links to roms have been removed in order to promote the sales of the series through Woomb.net.

I'm hoping that I'll be able to give them additional content for additional extras if they'll accept it as there are plenty of Xak books and articles that I have in my collection that could be translated that would make a nice read.

-SkyeWelse

Into the round .bin (dunno who did that btw..)

I noticed ppl have their opinions on the computer idee issue, as long as these discussions are mature it's not a problem (tho somewhat offtopic for this particular newspost), but just yelling/accusing around makes such a post a potential "release" candidate.