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Lodoss Tou Senki II - Record of Lodoss War II
The anime of Record of Lodoss War was a HUGE hit in Japan when it came out. The 13-episode TV serie was so popular that it got all kinds of merchandise plus a game for almost every console in the market. Lodoss War was originally a board RPG game. The anime was praised as one of the best animes ever made and it even reached the states. I've seen the first 3 episodes of Lodoss War TV and it sure is an awesome anime, but it ain't the best anime I've seen.... maybe the anime has received a little too much of hype. ^^ I'm not going to tell the whole storyline here... and there must be millions of pages in English which will have all the info you ever want to see. ^^ The game, however is based on the Record of Lodoss War: Chronicle of Heroic Knight, not the original 13 episode one. Record of Lodoss War 2 starts after Parn, Deedlit and CO. destroys the evil witch. Lodoss 2 happens also on the island of Lodoss, but this time we have a new hero: Spark. Spark and his friends, Galakk, Leaf, Slain, Parn, Deedlit and Aldnouva begins their journey to the Evil Island Marmo to slay the evil king Meos. The story begins with a beautiful anime sequence, where the storyteller tells what happens in the first Lodoss War. The anime sequences are stunningly beautiful throughout the game... well, it's a Lodoss game we're talking about. ;) Even though there are only 8 tracks of audio in Lodoss 2, they're near perfection. Even the background music in the storytelling scenes are so damn good that you'll listen to them over and over again. Rest of the music comes from PSG. However, the PSG melodies are as good as the CD audio, so you'll get beautiful music throughout the game, whether or not it comes from the CD. The speech (minus the beginning and ending demos) comes from ADPCM and sounds brilliant. The only PCE games which has as good ADPCM as Lodoss 2 are YS 3, YS 4 and Tengai Makyou Manjimaru. I can only say that Lodoss 2 is one of the best looking and sounding game you'll ever see on the PCE CD system. The game plays like a 2d RPG game, except the battles are fought automatically and the only thing you have to do is to command the party to attack, use spells or defend. The towns are seen from the first person view, and you are given different commands what you can do at the place where you currently are. Track info: Track 1: Half-elf Leaf warns about the CD-ROM system. ;)
Emulation info: Magic Engine: Playable in DOS version, Windows version gives a CD error
after the title screen.
Data track info: Only one data track. Nothing is compressed and the game has one upper-case english font set. A translation could be a possibility except for the ADPCM speech. CD-DA info: The game plays pre-defined sectors, but checks the beginning and ending of each track separately. Only minor adjustments needed. Current Progress: Finished! This project was rather easy and I made a perfect copy on the third burn. There was only a small "tick" sound on the beginning of track 3, and it was easy to fix. No matter how much I adjusted the track positions, I couldn't get this to work in Magic Engine Windows. It seems that ME Beta doesn't like Lodoss' track searching, so ME Beta tries to play the CD from the last track to the beginning of the CD. This is a bug in ME, not in the game nor in my CUE file. The DOS version works perfectly, so use it instead. Downloads: Released CUE file HERE
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