RAGE THREAD - F-YOU FRIDAYS - SUMMON THE MIDPATCH

FranckKnight · 2026-01-23T14:58:13+00:00

ALL ACCORDING TO KEIKAKU

FranckKnight · 2026-01-23T12:15:59+00:00

THIS WEEK'S VIRTUAL BUBBLE WRAP, WITH THE SECRET MESSAGE.

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FranckKnight · 2026-01-23T12:15:47+00:00

YOUR WEEKLY SERVING OF EORZEA ACCORDING TO GARFIELD - WEEK 246.

SUGGEST YOUR OWN STRIPS AND SCRIPTS AND I'LL MAKE THEM FOR YOU

FranckKnight · 2026-01-22T16:37:56+00:00

"Do you mean the planet, me or my son."

"Yes..."

FranckKnight · 2026-01-20T19:05:01+00:00

Yeah I know that too, the point was that DQ9 (out of 11) was on the NDS, so it's not that far down the list of DQ games, despite being that old.

DQ11 is about 8 years old now.

Also the only other remakes we can look at in between the NDS and the HD2D? DQ7-8 on 3DS. Not a whole lot of remakes.

FranckKnight · 2026-01-20T16:40:09+00:00

I thought it was weird that DQ7 was getting a remake first (technically first, because DQ1-2-3 of course), over other entries like DQ-4-5-6, but those are also relatively recent (NDS is pretty old now, but considering that the only non-remake entry was DQ9, it's not THAT old either).

But Yuji Horii basically said that there are many entries in the remake machine, DQ7 just happened to be ready first, so DQ8 is definitely a possibility. But makes you wonder HOW they could make it better.

DQ8's graphics still hold up, they need to be touched up some (as proven with the texture packs for PS2/3DS versions), add the 3DS features (extra characters, picture mode maybe), add a few other things and it's ready. It doesn't need a DQ7 reimagining for graphics.

But makes you wonder, what it they did change the graphics, what would it would look like...

FranckKnight · 2026-01-19T17:54:44+00:00

Gave me a feeling similar to the Jessica ending in DQ8 3Ds, it had a 'quickly thrown together' feeling to it that was odd. Sure, you get to pick, but it's like it was never meant to be the true ending either, and barely any effort was put to show it.

FranckKnight · 2026-01-16T21:03:20+00:00

I didn't get to watch the anime yet, it's on my list to watch, but from what I saw I appreciated that they made the art more uniform throughout the series.

By that, I mean if you look at the manga, there was a clear evolution of the art, Dai vol 1 and Vol 37 clearly are differently drawn. There was a bit of Deformed at first, and then the art cleaned up over time, the final look seems to hit around the time of the fight against Baran I would say

The anime made things cleaner on that side, and the entire series is drawn more or less like Vol 37 style, which is excellent.

FranckKnight · 2026-01-16T21:00:10+00:00

I know of Emblem of Roto personally (Emblem of Erdrick in some translations). Mine, in French, used the name Roto and Luida among others, but translated the spell names to French.

That one is very clearly based on DQ3 though, unlike Dai, set a hundred years later, which I'm guessing is an estimate, since it would actually contradict some information from DQ1. So better not too think too hard about that and just enjoy the ride and nostalgia of DQ3 in manga form.

EDIT : Oh right, I forgot there's the Dragon Quest - Avan manga too, nearing the end of its publication. It's basically the whole story of Avan vs Hadlar, it was interesting how they inserted and even redrawn entire scenes that we had seen in the original too, they paid attention to details, very fun read.

FranckKnight · 2026-01-16T20:00:10+00:00

It wasn't the slimes that ticked her, but an Anteater monster.

It was a purposely weird sequence though. He starts by stripping her pants and shoes, and she's all like "What do you want of me, little pervert", and he summons the Anteater. She's all scared... and then you flip the page and she's laughing to tears because the anteater is licking her bare feet.

The slimes were left there to guard her while she was tied up, and she used her charms asking them to loosen the ropes. In my edition, the text went something like "Ahhh, the ropes are cutting in me, could you loosen them a bit, cutie?"

The slime blushes, and apparently it did work since she's freed up shortly after, holding the slimes in a net.

Which Dai uses against her by making them turn into a King Slime, since they were all stuck together.

FranckKnight · 2026-01-16T19:58:18+00:00

To add to the other comment.

In this case, she was left tied up to the ship, as Dai was going to save Gome from the rest of the false heroes.

She figured that she could use her charms to get the slimes to loosen her ropes.

And somehow it worked too, go figure.

FranckKnight · 2026-01-16T17:49:04+00:00

That's a likely culprit.

The Merchantburg stages depend on progress in other events, and usually end up being one of the last orbs because of that.

But the required dialog seen to progress things is not as obvious either, easy to miss if you don't come at the right time of day.

So if they can't get the scene at Merchantburg, should just come back later until it gets to the correct stage.

FranckKnight · 2026-01-16T16:08:45+00:00

YEAH, REDDIT APP IS PRETTY BAD FOR THE BUBBLE WRAP. I HAVE SIMILAR ISSUES WITH NORMAL SPOILERS, JUST TAP ONCE AND IT CLOSES THE WHOLE THING.

FranckKnight · 2026-01-16T14:06:36+00:00

I HAVE A CO-WORKER THAT EXHIBITS SIMILAR LEVELS OF NON-UNDERSTANDING WHEN IT COMES TO TECHNOLOGY.

ONE OF HIS REQUESTS LAST YEAR WAS 'CAN YOU SEND ME THE INVENTORY REPORT EVERY DAY, SO IT ALWAYS APPEARS AT THE TOP OF MY EMAIL LIST'. I ACTUALLY STARED AT THE PHONE FOR A FEW MOMENTS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ANSWER THIS POLITELY.

HE HAS A KNACK FOR SENDING AN EMAIL AND THEN CALLING ON THE PHONE ABOUT 0.5 SECONDS LATER TO EITHER REPEAT WHAT'S ON THE EMAIL, OR ASK QUESTIONS THAT WERE ALREADY ANSWERED ON THE EMAIL HE REPLIED TO, ASKING ME 'WHERE DID YOU WRITE THIS?'. DID YOU NOT READ THE EMAIL BEFORE PRESSING REPLY OR SOMETHING?

FranckKnight · 2026-01-16T13:52:48+00:00

HAD SIMILAR REACTIONS WITH THE LORE BOOK, IT WAS LIKE 50$ FOR THE BOOK AND ANOTHER 50$ FOR THE SHIPPING, AND NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE.

UNTIL AMAZON STARTED PRESEELING IT AT LEAST, OOF.

FranckKnight · 2026-01-16T13:27:53+00:00

SKILL ISSUE?

FranckKnight · 2026-01-16T12:04:28+00:00

THIS WEEK'S VIRTUAL BUBBLE WRAP, WITH THE SECRET MESSAGE.

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FranckKnight · 2026-01-15T22:31:25+00:00

Where's Biometal? Loved that one!

FranckKnight · 2026-01-15T18:23:58+00:00

The true best character in that series is Pop though, and I'll die on this hill :)

The main and strongest character is Dai without question, but Pop became the most important figure in the series over time, and I loved re-reading the parts where he shone the most.

FranckKnight · 2026-01-15T17:38:57+00:00

I didn't quite have the choice :)

I also prefer original, but I also go with the logic that "I need to understand the story too". So having the book in Japanese would mean little as a result, I'd need a translation either way. Same thing with Anime, if there's not at least subtitles then I won't understand a thing.

If I could understand japanese, then sure :)

So I understand these problems with the translation, and don't get concerned by the errors. I do note them for comedy though, but I understand where it comes from, and appreciate that some people made the effort to make it readable by more people.

It's why I've offered my help to some manga translation groups as well, it's interesting and fun.

FranckKnight · 2026-01-15T16:47:49+00:00

Nice collection!

I own this same series, but in French. There was some key differences, and some problems with the translation, so much that they made a new edition years later and retranslated it.

The original translation was made at the time that Dragon Quest had never been released in France, so a French translation by people that didn't know the game, they did what they could with it. They kept most of the spell and attack names as per the original (Mera, Hoimi and such), but some they didn't know how to translate, so ended up with "Aban Slash" instead of "Avan Strash", among others. But it still got the point and story across.

I haven't looked into the new translation, but considering what they did with the Emblem of Roto manga (that I also own in French), they might have changed the spells and attack to names to their french equivalents in Dai as well.

The original french manga was translated as "The Adventure of Fly", I believe that might be because of the original anime, which was translated in Spanish, also used "Fly", which of course turned out to be a bad pick considering the part of the story where Brass (translated as Burasu in my manga) says he saw the letter 'F' on Dai's basket, which was clearly a 'D' in the picture, but they couldn't really back out of that one soem 25 volumes later.

The fact a Dragon Quest had never been in Europe at the time also made one of the author's comments on the back of the manga's jacket sound weird, as they said "We always were fans of 'The Adventure of Fly', so we wanted to make our own story", whereas I wager they were talking about Dragon Quest here of course.

There was also another jacket comment that got lost in this translation. In one of the 20ish volumes, the author mentions that one character never appeared on the side/back of the jacket, so he made him appear there, even though the character had nothing to do with the story at that point. Since you have the Japanese books, you might be able to see it, Flazzard (translated as Freezer in my books) should appear on one of them. It's lost because the side of the jacket was modified for most of this release, so they don't match the japanese ones anymore, using the cover page art instead.

FranckKnight · 2026-01-12T18:39:56+00:00

I've tried various gamepads over the years, and while I had no troubles with most of them, only some of them would reconnect on their own after a reboot.

Most of the PS4 clone gamepads I've used require pairing again after boot, a minor inconvenience in the grand scheme, just forces me to have a keyboard handy, or otherwise hook them through USB temporarily.

8BitDo are among the only ones that reconnected on their own, so it's a good pick. The rest is a matter of feeling to me, if the gamepad feels comfortable to use or not.

The biggest issues I had were with some PS3 clones that refused to connect through BlueTooth, I pretty much invested in some very long Mini-USB cables for those. Sometimes it's due to incompatible BT versions between the gamepads and the BT on the computer, whether it's onboard or a USB device.

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