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NEWS: Mega Drive Mini 2 Console Reveals Next Slate of Games

Lunar: The Silver Star
Lunar: Eternal Blue

I'm guessing that ultimately if Game Arts wanted to assert control over the LUNAR games and Popful Mail for a North American release they would be unable to use any of the assets that Working Designs created, and would thus have to re-translate from scratch. In a way that might be a good thing, considering the way Working Designs handled games polarized people considerably.

Lunar 2 has that unique save feature as where you need save points to make a save.

Borderite92 wrote:

Lunar 2 has that unique save feature as where you need save points to make a save.

think you mean you need to use experience points to save your game

Siegfriedl88 wrote:

Borderite92 wrote: Lunar 2 has that unique save feature as where you need save points to make a save. think you mean you need to use experience points to save your game

I can't remember was that in the NA version only?

In what may be Working Designs' most infamous alteration to any of their games, the US release forces the player to pay a certain amount of Magic EXP (Hiro's level times 15) to save the game, and prevents saving entirely if the player doesn't have enough. (Quoth the manual: "We felt that this would make the game more challenging by making you, the player, decide if the necessity of a save was worth giving up valuable magic experience points.") None of this was in the Japanese version, and this "feature" was left out of the localized version of the game's PlayStation remake Eternal Blue Complete, with the official strategy guide acknowledging that "it was much more annoying than challenging."

Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote:

Siegfriedl88 wrote: Borderite92 wrote: Lunar 2 has that unique save feature as where you need save points to make a save. think you mean you need to use experience points to save your game I can't remember was that in the NA version only?

yup

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In what may be Working Designs' most infamous alteration to any of their games, the US release forces the player to pay a certain amount of Magic EXP (Hiro's level times 15) to save the game, and prevents saving entirely if the player doesn't have enough. (Quoth the manual: "We felt that this would make the game more challenging by making you, the player, decide if the necessity of a save was worth giving up valuable magic experience points.") None of this was in the Japanese version, and this "feature" was left out of the localized version of the game's PlayStation remake Eternal Blue Complete, with the official strategy guide acknowledging that "it was much more annoying than challenging."

yep I booted my Sega CD and "legit copy of lunar 2".. I'll never understand the localization changes working designs, did to the gameplay/mechanics that essentially broke some games. The only thing I've run across is/was to stop rentals? I mean the Sega CD wasn't a massive failure selling over 2 million units "not terrible for an add-on" but I never recall seeing any rental store growing up, renting out Sega CD games.

On topic.. While I do want one of these, the fact it's only being sold on amazon at 100$. You have to pay over 20$ for an import fee is a turn off. I'll wait and see what the final North American lineup is before making that choice, but I highly doubt I'll spend that much money on an mini console.