Context: I guess I should share this as actual proof the motherfucker was lobbying me hard to begin the Ys Origin project and that I was part of it (something him, Tom-chan, XSEED effectively deny) ?? There's only one other place where the SOB actually publicly credited me, a romhacking.net post (I saved it in WayBack in case more evidence gets deleted). "March 29, 2007, 01:38:26 PM Ys I (PC) with Nightwolve Ys III (Famicom) with Kitsune Sniper Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys (PC Engine) with Nightwolve Ys Origin (PC) WIP with Nightwolve. Nightwolve's done all of the work needed for me to handle this one almost completely on my own. Roughly 66% complete, because I don't like Yunica and I'm having difficulty getting up the motivation to work on her script. :P" Session Start (Sef1roth:DeuceMUGEN): Mon Jan 29 19:29:37 2007 Deuce: And Origin will be done MUCH more readily. I want to have it done and close to ready by July. Deuce: If not sooner. NightWolve: That's certainly ambitious. Deuce: Blow these motherfuckers off the face of the world. Deuce: My Ys obsession is in very full swing, my friend. NightWolve: How is this possible? NightWolve: Job, a gang of kids now... hehe Deuce: Eh? NightWolve: Well, your time. NightWolve: Your situation now was not the situation when you did Ys II. NightWolve: Or Ys I, back then. Deuce: I know. But work is also VERY slow lately, due to a sluggish housing market. NightWolve: It defies logic that you'd have the time for this. Let alone motivation. Deuce: How it will be done. Get me the script dumper for Origin, with CRCs. I cheat-dash through the game, will translate each storyline in turn, then spend the time putting those translations into the game, already context-edited and ready for final inclusion. Show me how to edit the DDS files and I will do them as rapidly as I can.

Session Start: Wed Jan 31 22:16:57 2007 (Oh boy, this below sure was a psycho lie! I remember it well, hahaha! He solved the "problem" by becoming the "secret translator" behind my back to WyrdWad Tom's team despite doing right by him in paying the $550 cut he deserved... I help him in his disgusting life, he thanked me for helping him pay rent that month, and all the motherfucker ever did since is virtue-signal and pander to my detractors (like Tom-chan & omgfloofy in Ys forums) to score points, engage in secret collusion to throw me under the bus rather than be upfront/honest about his, "I'm altering the deal... Pray I don't alter it further" change of mind. Well, the motherfucker SURE DID alter the "deal" A LOT further than any of us ever could've imagined, huh ?? DeuceBag: Well, if you're amenable to the idea, we can keep Origin for ourselves for however long you wish. I still want to see it translated, and if nothing else, if we do the setup we discussed, you can leave it to me to do the translation, and when you play it, you can experience it fresh. Deuce: Without any of the spoilers inherent in the stuff we've done so far. NightWolve: It's quite a bit of work to get that going and my mood isn't ready unfortunately. Deuce: I hear you. Well, no rush. ... Deuce: But yes, that's the sticking point. People act like they're entitled to these games. Deuce: I've told them in the past, "Welcome to capitalism. You vote with your wallet." (Here the psycho motherfucker called us a "team" for the first time!:) Deuce: But at any rate, I should probably get to bed. I will leave you with the following: Deuce: You and I make a damn good team... even in spite of our rather polar ideological differences. I'd hate to see that all get tossed down the drain because of this. NightWolve: haha Deuce: I'm serious. ... NightWolve: I wanted to big bang it with Felghana and ease off a bit, find a job, and see how I can do this on weekends. NightWolve: It keeps trapping me in. Deuce: Not this time. I told you, I want to take this [Ys Origin] off your hands inasmuch as I could and let you get things settled like you need to. I want to get a final ready by summer. I've still got the fire. Deuce: More so even than with Oath, I think. NightWolve: I'd like to start getting to the point where I can sort of pull the plug on the thing. NightWolve: Well, alright. I'm going to sleep to actually. Deuce: I'd never be able to do a patch from start to finish without you, but you don't have to do the lion's share anymore. NightWolve: night Deuce: All right man. NightWolve: Yeah. Deuce: Sleep well. NightWolve: cya Deuce: I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Session Start: Sun Feb 04 21:58:55 2007 Deuce: Give me YsO script-dumper kernel or I breaka you face. NightWolve: heh Deuce: break break' ... Deuce: And I want the YsO script dumper anyway. Now, give me what I want. My birthday's coming up. NightWolve: Yeah, "breaka you" is why I thought it Mario style.

Context: After the Felghana leak, I informed him I'd shut down my website and quit for several reasons. He started acting REALLY nice for a while, biting his tongue the cunty cocky cock-flasher that he is... It's eye-opening compared to seeing all the hatred now and what he went on to do with Tom-chan and the vile XSEED Games! But that's what you're dealing with a psycho, he's faking empathy! Session Start: Thu Feb 01 19:46:04 2007 Deuce: How are you feeling, dude? NightWolve: hehe NightWolve: I'm still trying to finish up reorganizing my address book in my yahoo account of all my contacts. Deuce: Gotcha. Deuce: Have you cooled down at all? ... Deuce: I don't know if I've ever told you, but I have to take a fair share of medications to stay functional. NightWolve: No, you haven't. What for? DeuceBag: Asperger's, clinical depression and anxiety. DeuceBag: The translation stuff is very important to me. S'one of the few things I'm genuinely proud of. The idea of losing it honestly scares the shit out of me. NightWolve: Hm. Depression? You're sad, to say it bluntly I guess? Deuce: Yeah. I'm on Cymbalta and Wellbutrin. Deuce: A bit of an oversimplification, but yes. Severe bouts of irrational sadness when there's no actual reason. Deuce: Suicide attempt some thirteen years ago. (Losing fan localization work "scares the shit" out of him because I suggested I need to quit AFTER 5 years, and focus on my offline life... BUT NAH, HIS NEEDS MATTER MORE, I gotta just get right back to work for the psycho motherfucker! IT'LL BE FINE, JUST KEEP WORKING FOR JEFF, "HE'S FEROCIOUSLY LOYAL TO 'FRIENDS' AND EXPECTS THE SAME IN RETURN!") ... Deuce: Ironically, you and I get accused of being self-aggrandizing, but people who release warez stuff are all about the personal glory. Deuce: Get there firstest with the mostest. NightWolve: Yeah. Deuce: Hell, I am a smug, self-aggrandizing, egotistical asshole. I'm not exactly shy about the fact.

Session Start: Thu Feb 01 19:46:04 2007 Deuce: Are you still willing to do the prelim work and let me take over the reins for Ys Origin? NightWolve: Thinking about it. Deuce: If it comes right down to it, I'm willing to pay you what I can to do it. NightWolve: Nah, s'alright. NightWolve: It's a time and motivation issue. Deuce: I know. Deuce: I don't mean to come off as pushy about it. It's just really important to me, in a way I really don't know how to explain. NightWolve: I have computer time because of winter and low temps at the moment. NightWolve: Only reason. hehe Deuce: Makes sense. DeuceBag: You probably think I'm a freak for offering to pay you. :P (Years later AFTER the disgusting XSEED deals, the psycho now says, "I owe NightWolve precisely NOTHING!" and persisted in keeping 100% of whatever XSEED money was paid! My my how convenient! Not just because he was ALWAYS full of hatred for me, wants to kill half the country that's republican/Christian and is likely having a meltdown as we speak in witnessing Trump's TOTAL victory (House, Senate, Popular/Electoral Vote) thanks to republicans like his sister which he absolutely despises to the core, but because he's also a broke-ass bankruptcy loser and needs every penny he can find! His offer to pay me for my work/time was yet another fucking lie in a series of lies by a psycho liar! He counted on me refusing/declining the offer as it's obviously unfair, that's all! NOW that he doesn't need me for labor anymore is when you get the REAL uncensored personality of who the psycho motherfucker was all along, same thing with the pedo-predator Tom! Not only that, the 2nd phone call with Ken Berry in 2012 went very well: Ken said he'd see about the crediting and call me back, but when he did, he reported Psycho Jeff was "adamant" he did nothing wrong (as did Tom)!!! Ken reversed-course, Jeff effectively protested/resisted, fought to "conserve" (yes, him and Tom are VERY conservative on this ONE issue!) cheating me out of credits when there was an opportunity to STOP IT!!!!! THAT'S WHO HE AND TOM ARE AND ALWAYS WERE!!!! He pocketed 100% payment/100% credit off my back, my research, my advanced CAT translation software, MY consultation time as you can gleam from these logs and only ever demonized my name to justify it to the world!!!! PURE SCAMMER SCUM!!! AND THEN! When there was a chance to show decency, respect, for me to be fairly credited, to end this peacefully, privately and fairly, he fucking protested!!!! WHAT DID I DO TO HIM OR TOM ? Did I kill his dog or snake, steal his car, WHAT ???? Also, how do you get your reputation/character and time back after dealing with a Jeff Nussbaum and Tom Lipschultz ????? I'D LIKE TO KNOW IF THERE'S A WAY!!!!) DeuceBag: You probably think I'm a freak for offering to pay you. :P NightWolve: Yeah, a little surprsing. NightWolve: Normally it'd be the other way around. Deuce: I wouldn't do it if it weren't Ys. NightWolve: I once offered Neill Corlett to hack Ys IV for us. NightWolve: To finish the job, get the font working, write the recompressing code, etc. NightWolve: Flat offer for $250. NightWolve: I was prepared to do it. NightWolve: But he said while he respected the offer and was appreciative of it, his attention was towards other things at the time. Deuce: Even if it doesn't get a public release, I want to be able to have the game in English for myself. Deuce: Yeah, I imagine he's got a lot of balls in the air. NightWolve: I figured because he never got paid for any of the work and stuff, and all the freebies (FREE-FOR-ME babies) out there, he'd take up the offer pretty quick. NightWolve: My financial condition was still good back then, so $250 wasn't a big deal. Deuce: I think most folks aren't in it for money. Deuce: Apart from Ramat or whatever his name was. Deuce: The iNES guy. NightWolve: Oh, but wait. hehe NightWolve: I remember I asked him a question some time ago and he made a side comment of, "Maybe I should've taken you up on that old offer." Deuce: Hah. NightWolve: Well, not a problem now. Dave [Shadoff] and I finished the job. Deuce: Indeed, and fine work it is. Deuce: Halfassed efforts on my part and all. ;P NightWolve: I thought it did the job, but yeah, if you made it better it'd be nice.

*** Feb 13 2007 The 40%/60% royalty split discussion. Demands a 40% cut on future earnings of Ys Origin payware-modeled patch and threatens to quit if I don't agree... I agreed to 25% which he disapproved, felt that "40%" was perfect... NightWolve: It's an operation that I built and worked on day and night, etc. NightWolve: Granted you didn't have the time that I had, cause you're not in that situation. Deuce: You're right. I have, however, been at your disposal most any time you've needed me, and I've spent time at work I could have been using to take on more training to advance my career to do these scripts, because it's a passion of mine, and more importantly, it's something I committed to with you. ... Deuce: But in the end, it comes down to this, and only this: Deuce: I am willing to continue working for free, if the patches remain free. If not, I think a 60-40 split in your favor is quite fair. Failing that, then I suppose that we won't be working together anymore. NightWolve: Well, you better hold off on that Origins work you started on then. Deuce: So it would seem. NightWolve: Let's see what happens a year or two now, and we'll go from there. Deuce: I'm sorry it came to this, Nick. For what it's worth, it's been a good run. ... Deuce: But I hope you'll understand that I won't hold my breath waiting for a maybe and a what-if. NightWolve: Understood. Fri Feb 23 07:56:38 2007 It ended with: NightWolve: Alright, so you'd be happy enough with 25%/75% down the road *if* we go forward like I talked about? Deuce: That is correct. NightWolve: Alright. And when I get working I'll probably come up with a flat fee in addition for your past work [the $550]. NightWolve: Well, a gift, if you will. DeuceBag: All righty. DeuceBag: I fully plan to make YsO a "blow Nick away" project. Especially if you give me the means to test on my own. ;) NightWolve: I'd like to so you'll leave me alone for a long long time. NightWolve: :P Deuce: Hah. You wound me to the quick, sir. (Funny to read this now... The vile shitstain DID make it a "blow you away" project AND he did try to leave me alone for a long long time as I sarcastically asked... In the end he held a grudge and this discussion mattered greatly! I made obvious mistakes like I NEVER should've talked about politics with a psycho who wants to kill Christians/republicans like his sister and half the country! And I was better off just retiring on the spot right after the Felghana leak happened. I had a 5 year run at that point, it was good enough, I didn't need to prove myself any further, but the motherfucker dragged me in and a sticking point was I just didn't wanna work for free at that time... I knew he had some kind of hate, he kept his distance but now all of a sudden we're nearly equal 40%/60% partners ??? It didn't compute, and now we know his REAL royalty split was 100% for himself, 0% for me with a one-in-a-billion translation export commercialization opportunity as XSEED Games shows! HOW DARE this motherfucker ever call us a team or partnership in ANY context! Nobody ever went up to him on social media and straight up asked him, "Hey, whatever happened with 40%/60% partners, remember that ?? Seems you prefer 100%/0% on the XSEED commercialization deals! You scammed NightWolve for thousands in free labor/work hours so you could export 4-5 finished translations to XSEED and only YOU are supposed to be credited and paid for it ??? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!!! WHY ?"

FUCK YOU, YOU MOTHERFUCKING SON-OF-A-BITCH!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'RE A PSYCHO NAZI CUNT AND ALWAYS WERE!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU DON'T DESERVE ANY OF IT!! NOT ONE BIT!!! A GOOD FREELANCER LOST THE YS FELGHANA CONTRACT SO A VILE, UNDESERVING SOB LIKE YOU COULD SNEAK INTO THE LOC INDUSTRY VIA THE BACK DOOR OFF THE BACK OF YOUR PARTNER WHO YOU PRETENDED DIDN'T EXIST!!! EVERY ONE OF THOSE YS GAMES SHOULD BE RETRANSLATED BY A PROFESSIONAL!!!!

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*** Jan 08 2010 (The 6 years of silence/playing-stupid would begin months later ~May 2010) (Indication of "secret translator" double-cross status with Tom's team, XSEED hired Tom in March!) NightWolve: So what's going on in your neck of the woods ? Deuce: I wanted to get current/most recent copies of the databases for the various Ys games we've done. NightWolve: Alright, all the databases ? ... NightWolve: You want just script dumps or with the [CAT] tool ? ... Deuce: BTW, did I send you a copy of the the Origin database after I'd done inserting all of Yunica's transcripts? Deuce: The tool, probably. NightWolve: You never inserted anything else I recall. Deuce: If need be, I can get the script dumps out of the MDe. (Context: Eventually when I would find out that he exported the Ys Origin script as "the secret translator" to Tom's Italian team (before XSEED hired the same Tom), Jeff knew I'd ban/block him, never give him ANYTHING else, so he's still pretending we're "friends" at this point, asking me to synchronize all the CAT translation software databases so he's up-to-date. I never got around to sending him the databases, so what remained on his computer were the rough draft copies full of all his errors, context failures, no global spell/grammar check applied or outside editing help which would happen on my computer. This, he/Tom feels, was an advantage months later when it came to the XSEED deals so they could use the ole line, "Jeff typed every word, we took NOTHING NightWolve typed, so we cheated him fair and square!")

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Felghana + Origin special on Falcom's site

« on: Aug. 22, 2007, 12:36:07 AM »

I just saw the news update

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https://www.ysutopia.net/index.php?ind=news&op=news_show_single&ide=31

Can anyone tell when the deal ends? I see a bunch of dates floating around on the order page: 8/23, 8/12~8/19, 8/21, but my Japanese isn't anywhere near good enough to make sense of what the dates pertain to (the kanji, the horrifying piles of kanji!!!).

I actually received Ys I+II Complete and Felghana earlier this month, but if it's not too late, I might get in on this deal and find a friend who would appreciate the extra copy of Felghana--or rather my old regular edition of Felghana while I keep the special edition.

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Re: Felghana + Origin special on Falcom's site

« Reply #1 on: Aug. 22, 2007, 10:40:01 PM »

Abrupt change in question!

I went ahead and put in the order, but the shipping is a lot higher than my previous order for Ys I+II Complete and Felghana (which was about 2400 yen). This time it's about 4700 yen, presumably because of the giganto Limited Edition Felghana with all of the CDs.

So I was wondering if there are any recommendations for something additional I could order to help distribute the shipping cost a bit? I see so many games which intrigue me, but I really know very little about Falcom's other series.

Is there anything else with translations available, or anything which is fairly gameplay-heavy and story-light? I've got some very basic Japanese courses under my belt (my professor inopportunely decided to die before I could go on to more advanced stuff), and I can usually pick out place names, items, where to go/what to do next, if I have to.

Er... I guess I'm kind of straying off topic for the Felghana board, so if a moderator wants to move this to the General board...

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Re: Felghana + Origin special on Falcom's site

« Reply #2 on: Aug. 24, 2007, 03:56:53 PM »

It looks like you got everything that you wanted for from ????????, eh?

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Re: Felghana + Origin special on Falcom's site

« Reply #3 on: Sep. 03, 2007, 04:08:24 PM »

Quote from: macroidtoe on Aug. 22, 2007, 10:40:01 PM

Is there anything else with translations available, or anything which is fairly gameplay-heavy and story-light?

You pretty much have everything that has or will have a translation patch by the looks of it. Maybe Xanadu Next would've been a nice addition. The old Zwei!! game and Gurumin are other more action oriented types that people here have beaten. The ED6 series is traditional RPG stuff and very very text heavy, as in novel quantity so I guess you'll want to avoid those. Anyway, I arrived late to this and you obviously already made your order.

Quote from: MP83 on Aug. 24, 2007, 03:56:53 PM