Barver Battle Saga - The Space Warrior (Chinese Genesis translation)

Don't worry about it, it's not a big deal or anything :p

Next gen Cowboy, you can make up for it by helping with Yase!

I did some Verybasic things with Yase, and Steve knows if I can ever help him, he is welcomes to ask.  My point still remains, I am happy for him, I do not think that we have enough focus on Chinese games on this site (simply personal opinion)

that is absolutely true.
First of all we have a couple of Mega Drive-RPGs that would be very much appreciated by english speaking Sega-fans due to the lack of typical JRPGs on the system.
And the PC has got a great selection of chinese and korean RPGs as well; It surprises me no western company ever licenses these games, they seem pretty awesome for as far as I can tell not understanding a word.

Looks cool.  Hoping to play this once it's released.

Well, they do use a lot of stolen content. For one graphics are ripped off from other games i.e Barver has some graphics from Romancing Saga 3, though not directly copied but rather someone drew something very similar. I've actually been wanting to show people this just cuz it seems interesting to me but anyways look:

Barver's Tata treetops(same pic as first page):


Romancing Saga 3's Fairy Village:
http://www.spriters-resource.com/snes/saga3/sheet/10126

Look similar? I'm sure that's the inspiration for this area. Here's another one, and very convincing:

One of Barver's temples:


Romancing Saga 3's Holy Temple:
http://www.spriters-resource.com/snes/saga3/holytemple.png

So what's clear is that rather than directly ripping, they tried to copy other games. Even the battle system I'm sure many notice by now looks like Breath of Fire. I've still been trying to find other games that have similar art but it's proving tough...

And besides that all of these games seem to use the same sound engine that you find in Data East's Captain Havoc. Heck, the first town theme in Yase Chaun Shuo is a direct rip of the end theme of Captain Havoc, just tuned down in pitch!

So unless someone wanted to waste a lot of money getting someone to replace all of this stuff, plus remove the sound engine and replace it with their own, and make new music at that...well, that's probably not worth the effort. There's a limit to "localization" I think, especially for any private companies like.....those guys(you know who I mean) 

BTW I should ask Djinn about fixing the text on the intro. It's practically unreadable with all that other stuff in the back 

I think I remember reading on a website that the treasure chest sprites were stolen from Final Fantasy VI too.

Are there any plans for outlines for these scrolling text portions?

cYa,

Tauwasser

@Steve
I did not mean to question why publishers do not license the old MD games; I am speaking of the many great modern RPGs from China. Those don´t seem to have so much stolen content.

About BBS.
Another thing they copied was Seken Densetsu 3. If you look at the grass and water it resembles SD3 quite a lot.

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5382/comparision1.png

@Steve
I did not mean to question why publishers do not license the old MD games; I am speaking of the many great modern RPGs from China. Those don´t seem to have so much stolen content.

About BBS.
Another thing they copied was Seken Densetsu 3. If you look at the grass and water it resembles SD3 quite a lot.

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5382/comparision1.png

Oh..my mistake

Nice find. I'm really interested in seeing what their material comes from. The grass looks like it's a direct rip to me.

Interesting... just curious, aprox how long till we see a patch of some sort

There's probably now way to make an estimation for that sadly. Djinn's the one doing all the work now, and I think he's busy with other projects along with this one. It wouldn't be fair for me to make one up off the top of my head 

Bump.

Been a long while. I've messaged Djinn and was assured the game isn't dead. He's still finishing other projects. I asked about a patch release, but he's persistent to get this to a 100% finished state before releasing anything.

Just wanted to assure everyone that this hasn't died. I'm still very much anticipating the release, which hopefully will be within this year, but you never know...

I noticed in that comparison shot of 108 stars', the stairs and bridges look a lot like chrono trigger as well.   

I can't wait for this, it looks good, even if it's scooped a lot of material from other games for it's backgrounds.



(woo haven't posted in awhile, but i've been lurking)