Yes, your eyes aren't deceiving you. I have found more to talk about. First let's discuss Rosenkreuz Tool.

What this handy little app does is extract Music, voice, and SFX. It doesn't do squat for graphics. I found it easier than downloading the tracks one by one over at Rockman Perfect Memories.  

As you can see I've tried this with RKS2 and can only get the music that was used in the first game. If I should ever need Schite's new song, I could always just fire up Audacity.

     I found this on one of my many searches for graphic hackers. First of all, you don't need to cheat to get through Spritia's game. I didn't. But I certainly do need it in Grolla's game. Jeeze. I've seen You Tube videos of people beating the game using Grolla and no cheats. I sure as hell can't. I have yet to find the Infinite Weapon Energy, Infinite E-Tank, or Infinite Lives cheats. INF HP is fine, unless you keep falling in the lava right before the boss door.

     Now I'm going to do something really really weird: I am going to criticize Schwer and Schwer Alike and then immediately recant it. I kept my mouth shut the last time, even now every bit of sanity says keep from doing so. I think in this case, the Dick Solomon approach is what is needed. (I've been watching a lot of 3rd Rock.) When I first came came across SASA my first reaction was "How much can you possibly say about this game? Haven't they learned from Krion Conquest? Or Final Fantasy 7?" When I need to find some hint or cheat for a game of course the first thing I do is check Gurgle. I usually find what I need, from a site that hasn't been updated for at least five years. The hits counter may say 30,000. Two weeks later I go back and check for more info, the counter may say 30,002. SASA seemed to be one of those doomed sites.

HOWEVER.

    SASA seems to have lucked out and chosen the right game. They got fans who usually have something interesting to say, teams of programmers hacking the game, and the ears of the original RKS programmers. So much interest has been generated in RKS (I'll say thanks mostly to SASA) that a sequel is on the way. Most importantly, SASA has realized that it's their blog, they can talk about whatever. RKS Can only carry you so far.

And now Rosenkreuz Stilette 2.

Let's get the criticisms out of the way. First off, still got a problem with the seems.

Why hasn't this been overcome yet? One game as an obvious tribute to Megaman, yeah. But Megaman only did this for a couple of games. Maybe RKS3 will go for the irony and have no seems.

One way to make a game more difficult is to give the badguys more hitpoints. Giving you fewer doesn't help. Makes a game not fun, and cheat codes come up.

There's a slight problem in windy areas. When you grab a power up, you freeze while the life/weapon bar refills. If this happens while standing, the wind will blow you around still. It hasn't blown me into the bottomless pit of doom, yet.

If your main weapon requires a recharge, more power pellets please. Amazing how none show up when you're about empty. You can spend an hour getting the little 2 point ones, when your about one or two away from being completely full, then the big one pop up.

WARNING HYPOCRISY!! WARNING HYPOCRISY!! WARNING HYPOCRISY!!

Overusing the same damn picture. I have a FF7 walkthrough. How many times is the same damn pictures used? Four, five, twenty times? Even Ehrgeiz did the same thing.

Thank God for Advent Children. Finally got some new stuff.

Now the good: Nice to see that the spotlight can shift around. How long did it take for Zero and Protoman to become playable characters?

Config works fine in XP.

Graphically speaking, I can't wait to play the rest of the game. RKS1 had little special touches here and there. RKS2: everywhere. Schite's stage, Wow.

Giving us demos that actually have something to show. The latest is about 75% different than the last. I've only recently got the first RKS2 demo, big improvement. For instance a lot less yelling every time you jump.

Darkside Translations has released the RKS Data Archive Decoder. Unfortunately Spriter's Resource already ripped about 90% of everything you might possibly need. Except for the in game dialogue mugshots. For those who really really needed them, peeing your pants type need, you can get them now.

There is a big bonus: despite what some may be saying, us complete idiots have figured out the the RKSDADlmnop does indeed work on RKS2.

For those of you that may actually care, I did one color change. Unlike Spriter's Resource, I do care if 255 White is used. Why, because background tends to show through the character model. I switched the 255 to a 254 White. Problem solved.

Two things have been bugging me for awhile; first is Rosenkreuz Stilette. Not the game but a lot of people's insistence that some bit of Megaman, Castlevania, anime, manga, or image burned into a piece of toast is a reference contained within RKS. Admittedly I've done some of that, but I made sure to use ones that nobody else has pointed out. (I hope.) Frankly I'm tired of it and could spend all day blubbering on about it.

But.

There has been a hell in the cell steel cage debate going on in my mind for months now: What is a better use of my time? Staring at my lawn in December? Or. Reading Lucky Star? I've been meaning to talk about Lucky Star for months on end, but my oh so busy schedule has prevented that from being able to happen. (Re: laziness.)

So I decided to split the difference.

And now I close this page and invite you to look at RKS 3. Yes, I found more to talk about.

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By the way, how did I ever install the English patch without the original CD? I feel free to talk about it now since there is a patch for the digital download. Now as I mentioned before I translated the readme file. This particular line caught my eye:

"Please copy the content of installation CD in the place where we like inside HDD."

Despite the rather busted English that BubbleFisch gives me. I got the meaning. Now the English patch guys were pissing off everybody (re: those that downloaded the game without buying it, and still haven't) by originally making the patch only workable with the original CD. After reading that line in the readme (I was translating because of the controller issue) I thought to myself: "Self, what if I were to copy the contents of the installation CD back onto a CD?" Took about two tries, got it to work. Installed in XP and WIN7.