Final Fantasy Classic

Hello (06 Apr 17:26)

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:26:46 -0700

I updated a bunch of stuff. Check out the GBA enemies page at least. Now I can start working on fanart and whatnot. May not be done today but it'll be done soon enough.

Ugh... (31 Mar 22:42)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:42:14 -0700

You never realize how screwed up your FF1 website is until you try to fix it. I have a new enemy chart done which includes all the DoS-only enemies, along with screenshots of all of them. But I still can't upload it yet. Almost though. I just need to fix up some sprites pages. Probably this week sometime. Then on to fanart. ps I'm probably also making a new message board for this site. From scratch. Hopefully that doesn't take long.

Progress (23 Mar 00:22)

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:22:40 -0700

The bad thing about having a real job is that I get home at night, and I think "Should I work on the FF1 site? Or should I work on work?" Then I remember that work pays me large sums of money. And the rest is history. But I had today off, so I finished updating a large part of the DoS info, including all the weapons/armor that I've been missing from those pages for a long time. And I realized that all the prices for all the spells on the DoS page are wrong. And so on. But I haven't uploaded any of the new stuff yet, because if I did I'd break the whole site. So we'll have to wait. I have also mentally worked out how the fanart section is going to work. But I can't upload it until everything else is done, or I'll break the internet. Thems the breaks.

Plans (12 Mar 23:08)

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:08:04 -0700

After long months of deliberation, I've determined that the way to make this site good is to find ways of updating it regularly that don't involve much work on my part. This involves either writing scripts to do all my work for me (which is actually fun for me, compared to doing manual labor), or finding other people to do all my work for me. (Thanks again Nicole.) I put in a good evening of work on the site tonight, including a rewrite of a large portion of the scripts driving the NES section. (None of which is uploaded yet, so don't bother looking.) This is in preparation for finally getting off my arse and completing the charts and data for all the remakes. I have figured out a pretty good way of getting this done without much manual labor on my part, so I hope to have it done soon. E.g. I got the DoS armor chart data including all the new DoS-only armors into the database in about 25 minutes; the other charts shouldn't take quite so long, is my hope. I am looking for a photo gallery script that works under Ruby on Rails which will allow people to upload their own fanart automatically, so that the fanart section can be reborn. This will remove my lazy self from the equation (other than moderating uploads). If I can't find a suitable script I'll have to write one, which I hope won't be too hard. I'm also going to be looking for some affiliate sites in the near future. If you run a fairly popular website and would be interested in a link exchange, please email me. Many Final Fantasy sites don't have a very comprehensive FF1 section, and linking to mine can make up a bit for the deficit for your users. I may be asking for volunteers / contributors to help with some other things. If you're interested, stick around.

Behold. (11 Mar 20:35)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:35:03 -0700

Behold PSP Unne in all his glory. Recently I purchased some items which allow me to take screenshots of FF1 on my PSP. This is good news for this site, since I can now work on the PSP section. Here are some teaser screenshots... they look pretty good quality to me.

The tournament ends.... now (08 Mar 13:17)

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:17:20 -0800

Well I guess it really ended a few days ago. Thanks Nicole for doing a great job running the tournament and updating it on time and keeping it interesting. It was the best thing that's happened to this site in a long time. I think Nicole has some more things planned... stay tuned. </mysterious>

BLACK MAGE LOSES (06 Mar 19:44)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:44:22 -0800

FIGHTER WINS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Final Round (03 Mar 20:33)

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:33:39 -0800

Even after all the hacked votes were removed, Black Mage still won out over Chaos. Crime doesn't pay, kids. Final round: Fighter vs Black Mage.

Tournament Round 30 (28 Feb 22:59)

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:59:25 -0800

TOURNAMENT IS SRS BZNS. Thirtieth round: Black Mage vs Chaos.

Tournament Round 29 (25 Feb 18:49)

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:49:30 -0800

Chaos won. I'd post more but I have to go. Twenty-ninth round: Fighter vs Garland.

Tournament Round 28 (21 Feb 10:16)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:16:18 -0800

I decided to end the last round early since I won't have access to a computer from now until Monday, and because it's a foregone conclusion that you're all a bunch of heathens. Twenty-eighth round: Chaos vs Thief.

Tournament Round 27 (18 Feb 18:57)

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:57:23 -0800

Garland knocked White Mage all down. Twenty-seventh round: Dr. Unne vs Black Mage.

Tournament Round 26 (14 Feb 19:33)

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:33:35 -0800

I almost thought Red Mage would pull through, but nope, Fighter won again. Twenty-sixth round: Garland vs White Mage.

Tournament Round 25 (11 Feb 22:57)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:57:10 -0800

Thief barely won, but only because I didn't get online until just now. Speaking of which, I've been feeling somewhat overworked lately, so updates will be occurring later at night for the next couple weeks. Twenty-fifth round: Red Mage vs Fighter.

Tournament Round 24 (07 Feb 19:18)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:18:22 -0800

Kraken is now calamari. Or takoyaki. Or something. Which one is the octopus food? Twenty-fourth round: Thief vs Broom.

Tournament Round 23 (04 Feb 22:15)

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:15:46 -0800

As I came online late tonight, only to find that both of FF1's majestic dragons have been slain in combat, I shed a single tear. Twenty-third round: Chaos vs Kraken.

Tournament Round 22 (31 Jan 21:44)

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:44:44 -0800

As expected, Dr. Unne won again. Twenty-second round: Bahamut vs Black Mage. I'm excited.

Tournament Round 21 (28 Jan 19:11)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:11:47 -0800

Trap Mage strikes again. Twenty-first round: Dr. Unne vs Titan.

Tournament Round 20 (24 Jan 20:29)

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:29:07 -0800

Garland knocked Kary all down. Twentieth round: White Mage vs Sarda.

Tournament Round 19 (21 Jan 20:50)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:50:52 -0800

If we had facepalm.jpg, that's what I would've used for a post icon instead. First BB loses, then you don't even care if I exist or not. That's it. No more internet for you. ... ... Well, maybe I'll wait until after the tournament's over before I shut down the internet. I like to finish what I start. Nineteenth round: Garland vs Kary.

Tournament Round 18 (17 Jan 21:49)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:49:32 -0800

Red Mage is NUKE-proof. Eighteenth round: Fighter vs Black Belt. Remember, if BB loses, it's the end of the internet.

Tournament Round 17 (14 Jan 19:39)

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:39:43 -0800

Broom swept away the competition. I hope there will be no further broom puns. Now we're onto the second level of the bracket. Seventeeth round: Red Mage vs Lich.

Tournament Round 16 (10 Jan 19:51)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:51:54 -0800

The only significant poll on this site has resulted in the victory of ninjas over pirates. Well played, even though I hate Thief. Sixteenth round: Broom vs Robot.

Tournament Round 15 (07 Jan 19:45)

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:45:51 -0800

It was close, but Kraken defeated Nerrick by a tentacle. Fifteenth round: Thief vs Bikke.

Tournament bracket (05 Jan 17:58)

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:58:56 -0800

I finally made a proper tournament bracket script so the old tournament results are displayed more nicely. Enjoy.

Tournament Round 14 (04 Jan 00:31)

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:31:25 -0800

Chaos appears to have won. Fourteenth round: Nerrick vs Kraken.

Tournament Round 13 (31 Dec 19:10)

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:10:54 -0800

Black Mage won. I never saw that one coming. Thirteenth round: Chaos vs Astos.

Snarky (30 Dec 18:16)

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:16:45 -0800

You may have noticed the insightful(?) comments Dr. Unne makes at the top of various pages. Here's your chance to put words in Unne's mouth. We're having a contest on my message board to see who can come up with some witty catch phrases. Feel free to stop by and contribute, Thanks to Hemrawc for the idea for this contest.

Tournament Round 12 (27 Dec 10:41)

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:41:01 -0800

Bahamut wins this time. Twelfth round: King of Coneria vs Black Mage. Don't blame me, blame the random generator. And I'm also updating early because I don't know if I'll have internet for the next couple days. I'll be back before Monday, though.

Tournament Round 11 (24 Dec 23:26)

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:26:10 -0800

Titan won. Eleventh round: Bahamut vs Vampire.

Tournament Round 10 (20 Dec 19:38)

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:38:58 -0800

Unne won that round rather easily. Just as planned? Tenth round: Underhill vs Titan. I should also note that I will be occupied for the next couple weeks, so the tournament may be occasionally delayed. That probably won't be an issue, though.

Tournament Round 9 (17 Dec 22:37)

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:37:59 -0800

Wow, I didn't know Sarda was so popular. Ninth round: Dr. Unne vs Farmer.

Tournament Round 8 (13 Dec 18:39)

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:39:29 -0800

By a landslide, White Mage laid the smack down on Fairy with his hammer. Eighth round: Sarda vs Lukahn.

Tournament Round 7 (10 Dec 20:16)

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:16:52 -0800

Yay, I remembered to update. I love Kary. <3 Seventh round: Fairy vs White Mage.

Tournament Round 6 (08 Dec 00:29)

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:29:52 -0800

Okay, Garland snuck up at the last second and beat Tiamat. Thanks to whoever broke the tie, and sorry for not updating last night. Sixth round: Princess Sara vs Kary. I'll let this one go until later Monday night, and then we should be back on schedule.

Shenanigans. (03 Dec 20:11)

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:11:34 -0800

I call shenanigans on the BB vs. Elf Prince round. That round now has an asterisk by it in the record book because there was some funny business going on. BB, almost defeated by a feeble boy in a coma. That is all the victory I really need. EDIT: Nicole here. Neither Brian nor I was responsible for the shenanigans. Voters should refrain from causing shenanigans in the future.

Tournament Round 5 (03 Dec 20:09)

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:09:33 -0800

It was close, but the site will remain open for a few more weeks, now that BB has won this round of the tournament. Fifth round: Tiamat vs Garland.

Tournament Round 4 (29 Nov 16:32)

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:32:24 -0800

Fighter won, which was kind of expected. Fourth round: Elf Prince vs Black Belt. DO ME PROUD, INTERNET.

Tournament Round 3 (26 Nov 17:18)

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:18:01 -0800

Lich won. Third round: Darryl vs Fighter.

Tournament Round 2 (22 Nov 22:12)

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:12:15 -0800

Red Mage won with a whopping 48 votes to Kope's 14. It's nice to see so many people voting. Second round: Lich vs Matoya.

De wa, hajimemashou. (19 Nov 23:17)

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:17:04 -0800

The Tournament has finally started. I'll update it twice a week on Monday and Thursday evenings. First round: Kope vs Red Mage.

Tournament allllllllllllllmost ready to start (19 Nov 04:06)

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:06:35 -0800

The tournament should be starting today or tomorrow. For real this time. Stay tuned for details.

Email (17 Nov 23:58)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:58:41 -0800

Hey I finally got around to setting up an email server. If you want to email me (why would you?) go look up my address over here. Sssssh, don't let the spambots find it.

FF Origins updates (17 Nov 16:16)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:16:54 -0800

I started filling in some of the FF Origins pages. Armor and weapons and magic are there. I still didn't add the remakes-only weapons and armor yet. I'm getting there.

Walkthrough update (17 Nov 14:13)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:13:23 -0800

The NES Walkthrough and Dawn of Souls Walkthrough both now properly the "Optimal equipment by the end of this chapter" info that's been missing for a while.

Worldmap (17 Nov 13:34)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:34:36 -0800

The World Map is now clickable again. I need to work on getting an encounter list made for each world map location again.

Frontpage comments MOVED (17 Nov 12:47)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:47:14 -0800

Looking for all the comments that used to be on the frontpage? I moved them to a shiny new Feedback page, aka the Comment Graveyard. I do like feedback (in fact, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy), but it was making the frontpage way too big, what with all the news items. And I'd like to encourage people to respond to the news items individually.

News comments (17 Nov 11:36)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:36:53 -0800

You can now comment on individual news stories by using the "Comments" links in each news post. "Hey Brian, why the heck don't you work on the tournament rather than this crap", you ask? Getting this working was necessary to finish getting the tournament working, so get off my back man.

Maps work again (17 Nov 11:18)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:18:36 -0800

I fixed a bug that was preventing any map that had treasure on it from displaying properly.

Magic (17 Nov 10:50)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:50:59 -0800

Area of Effect now shows up properly in the Magic pages. Dawn of Souls magic page now actually works.

I live again (17 Nov 10:23)

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:23:53 -0800

My computer with all my source code for this website finally arrived at my new house a week ago in the mail. I'm going to devote all day today to updating things around here.

Sorry (26 Oct 21:05)

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:05:40 -0700

So yeah, that whole moving across the country thing? That kind of killed a lot of my time this past month. I'm typing this from my spare computer, because my computer with all my website stuff on it is about 2500 miles to the east of me right now. On the bright side, Oregon is pretty nice this time of year. I was working on the tournament before I moved. I put up a teaser link. The good thing is once I finish the scripts, my girlfriend is going to actually do the updating, which means there's a chance it'll be done regularly and on time. Yay.

PSP acquired (22 Sep 13:08)

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:08:03 -0700

I caved and bought a PSP and FF1 for it. I'm pretty impressed. I'll write a review as soon as I'm done (i.e. once I beat the game). Sadly I don't know any way of getting screenshots from the thing other than using custom firmware, which I'm not quite prepared to do. So I'm not sure how much my PSP will directly contribute graphics or things to this site. But I'll see what I can do.

PSP Reviews, Credits (09 Sep 12:26)

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:26:17 -0700

I added a list of PSP reviews. Most sites seem to have given the PSP FF1 mostly positive reviews, which is to be expected. I have yet to play it myself, largely due to not owning a PSP, but someday maybe I will. I added a much-needed Credits page to list some of the many people and places I've gotten info from over the years.

NES Armor (09 Sep 11:00)

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:00:07 -0700

I updated the NES Armor page with some more information.

RSS + bugfixes (03 Sep 18:44)

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:44:31 -0700

Making the new layout broke pretty much every link on the site, due to changing from PHP to Ruby on Rails. I'm trying to get some redirects set up to point you in the right direction of you use an old PHP link, but there probably will be a lot of broken ones remaining. Such is life. I just fixed a bug in the RSS feed. It should have working links now rather than displaying ERB template code. Oops. I don't think I ever used the pink pirate gif before. Enjoy.

Weapons, comments (03 Sep 13:16)

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:16:19 -0700

I updated the NES weapons page to include more information, take a look. I also changed the comments scripts to indicate when I make a comment, as opposed to someone else named Brian, so that people can't pretend to be me. Not that I think anyone would be that sneaky or anything.

GBA Sprites (03 Sep 10:14)

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:14:42 -0700

I've done a lot more work on the GBA sprites. I've almost got them all uploaded again. After that I'm going to start filling in some gaps in the various armor/weapons/items/magic etc. charts for GBA.

Armor, weapons, GBA PC sprites (02 Sep 14:30)

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:30:58 -0700

I got the GBA PC sprites page back up and running today. I also tweaked the Armor and Weapons a bit to be more graphical. I am thinking about how to do the tournament again. I don't want to start it and then have it fizzle out again, so I want to put more thought into it this time. Don't worry.

RSS feed (02 Sep 14:28)

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:28:00 -0700

I put up a new RSS feed for this news page. Link is in the sidebar. (Or here.)

Work work work (01 Sep 11:36)

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:36:20 -0700

I'm working on all kinds of things today. I'm still trying to fix up some errors that may prevent some pages from rendering properly. But things look to be working better than in the past at least. In other non-news, I'm moving to the west coast soon. Right now I'm on a mini-vacation trying to prepare to move. That means for the first time in a long while, I have time to work on this site quite a bit. So expect lots of updates in the coming days and weeks.

Almost there. (29 Aug 19:28)

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:28:32 -0700

I'm still getting the server all set up. You should notice a SUBSTANTIAL speed increase once this is up and running. Hopefully this is all taken care of soon so I can start working on content again. For a while, the front page was all that worked. That problem should be corrected soon as well.

Changes (26 Aug 15:45)

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:45:00 -0700

You may have noticed a few changes. I have been working for the past couple months on a redo of the site, to better incorporate the remakes as well as expand the NES info. After yet another change of hosts for my site I decided to go ahead and deploy this new version. You'll notice many broken links, as usual. But many other things work. For example you can leave comments on any page. Be sure also to check out the NES parties page, I think you'll find it better than before. Also newly completed is Chapter 2 of the Dawn of Souls walkthrough, taking you through Pravoka. Leave me a comment if you have any idea or feedback. I'll be working on the site more in the days and weeks and months to come. In the meantime, enjoy.

Testing 1 2 3 (18 Aug 14:07)

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:07:38 -0700

I am now testing the news posting script I wrote. Part of the testing of this script requires that I type a large amount of text, so as to test the stretching of the layout tables downward. To that end, I am continuing to type things beyond what is strictly necessary to indicate that this is a test post. Eventually I will have reached a suitable amount of text, at which time I can cease typing. In fact that time is fast approaching. Almost here. OK done. EDIT: OK, now I'm testing whether my script gives me suitable ability to edit news postings. If this text appears, it indicates success. If it does not appear, I have failed at my task. Actually I'm typing more here to stretch the tables further, because the text I typed the first time was not sufficiently long as to properly stretch my news-containing table cells downward. Here's hoping this further addition will suffice.