The Flame Stealer

(This is Chrono'99 again. I posted on the second page.) http://www.youtube.com/user/CEMemorial The leak was apparently from a beta-tester, though it’s a really old version from way back in January or February. We had just began recruiting beta-testers at that point and you might as well call this an alpha. We do NOT endorse the leak and are trying to take down the links when we find them... Trying. By May the game had changed a lot as we polished events, fixed bugs, actually inserted the final dialogues, actually balanced the game’s difficulty, and inserted new graphics and techs (obviously there were peaks and lulls during development, we're not robots or slave workers). When the C&D letter struck we were about 98% complete and that’s the version we’re showing on YouTube. The leak is NOT the 98% complete version. SE prohibited the game, but images and videos are akin to fanart, so we can still show them. We're releasing about 3 videos a day because we want to keep the interest going throughout the month of June, though if you look at the dates they're being uploaded earlier than they are published. Believe me, if we could have released the game, we would have done it already (it was set for May 31), but we can't. These videos are the best we can do to let people experience the game and prove it actually existed and was actually near-finished. If you have the leaked version (and you shouldn't), the videos show that it's different than the 98% version.

Yup, the letter is loosy but it IS legit. Guys, it's kinda easy to focus on a scapegoat, but Zeality was "only" a script writer in this project. The director/main programmer was someone else, and there was a whole team working on it too (I was the co-programmer). And yes it was 98% completed. There are two old-ish trailers on YouTube showing parts of the game. People are surprised because this is (probably) the first 8-bit/16-bit ROM hack to ever receive a cease & desist letter. Besides, a complete CT ROM hack had already been released two years ago, Prophet's Guile. It never got C&D'ed, not until this collective letter anyway.

Thanks, I'll see if I can do something if I find the time to (yeah school really sucks). I don't have a larger pic unfortunately. The artwork was originally even smaller than this...

I'm glad LatentSanity can help actually, as I don't think I came up with something that great for the second disc (I tried to make the stuff green but it looks like some XBox art...). http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/flamestealer/album/9ab4fcde.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/flamestealer/album/1b6bd622.jpg Here's the .psd LatentSanity so you can edit the stuff and the words (I don't have the police you used so I didn't put "Disc the..."). http://www.parkyourpic.com/uploads/a1479ed9ff.psd http://www.parkyourpic.com/uploads/31f6085d7d.psd I'm Chrono'99 from Chrono Compendium and meteorcross from GameFAQs by the way, there were some topics about this project on those 2 boards.

Hi. Nobody knows me here, I've just heard about your project and thought I might stop by and try to make some art. Here's something for the first CD (the original drawing comes from Missing Piece) : I could have put the track names at the bottom left of the pic, but I don't know what's supposed to be on the disc 1...