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Jul. 8th, 2015 08:01 amI finally did it.
After receiving a non-working capture device two days ago (I was offered a $12 refund this morning after having complained) and looking around online afterwards for anything that would work, I came across this program called HandBrake, along with this set of instructions after failing with it initially.
Upon setting things up right, the program initially only recorded four minutes of the first episode (twice; the first time, I thought it was from closing my laptop). I then set it up to record from the point where it cut off, and it actually recorded the entire rest of the disk. Having succeeded there, I then set it up to record just the first episode, but in its entirety, and it actually did so. Repeated with everything in Japanese, and that takes care of disk 1 of 5 of the main series.
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Decided to check out someone's longplay of Lucky Star: Ryouou Gakuen Outousai just yesterday, in more depth for the first time than just the first few scenes.
Recently, I toyed with the idea of having this particular song play throughout the first few scenes in Day of the Beehive, and then fade out with a pan-over from Konata to Nanako before the latter comments on Miyuki's absence from class. After all, this is a Lucky Star game that we're talking about, and it would only become of it to stay at least somewhat true to the franchise.
Having explored more of the playthrough than beforehand, I did find its soundtrack in general rather interesting, even if it's not the kind of music I normally prefer to listen to. This song, for example, would fit rather easily with Miyuki's exchange with Fuyuki in the restroom, given how clearly about humiliation it is. And then there are one etherial riff (usually involving Yamato), and several different tracks with vaguely the same flavor as New Days from Persona 4 (which I also toyed with before* for any high school, be it Ryouou, Kuki Hokuyo**, or even outside of Japan).
(*After the opening events, I'd more likely use a remastered version I'd likely commission for, of Earthbound Zero's theme for Twinkle Elementary. Both to carry the Earthbound motif, and to poke fun at how childlike the Lucky Star girls appear in canon. New Days would likely take place in visions of various events affecting the adventure during the party's long-awaited meeting with Mikami, in which everyone would be designed much more maturely than normal.)
(**This is where Rokuna and Mondo have been going to school; established at the beginning of Birthday of Destiny.)
I already had mentioned before that, for the sake of author appeal, the game isn't going to be entirely true to the franchise. Especially when such an extremely dark character as main antagonist Ivo Weil gets involved. But, even for the sake of balance or diversity, will such cute music that RGO has to offer coexist well in the same soundtrack with such songs as the boss theme of Grief Syndrome (a Madoka fangame) or Parasite Eve's Arise Within You, which I'd use respectively for the poltergeist attack and the subsequent visit to Konata's house during the beginning events? (Here's what they'd replace accordingly, from Mother and Mother 2.)
In any case, I do hope to find the actual OST anywhere at some point, be it on YouTube, on a soundtrack site, or even an actual copy of the soundtrack CD that the game itself spun off. A fan-translation would be nice, too; even if I were to hire anyone to translate what's already on YouTube (probably for Yamato's scenes in particular), this is one of those games that's supposed to have different routes with different characters, which means I'd still be missing out on stuff.
After receiving a non-working capture device two days ago (I was offered a $12 refund this morning after having complained) and looking around online afterwards for anything that would work, I came across this program called HandBrake, along with this set of instructions after failing with it initially.
Upon setting things up right, the program initially only recorded four minutes of the first episode (twice; the first time, I thought it was from closing my laptop). I then set it up to record from the point where it cut off, and it actually recorded the entire rest of the disk. Having succeeded there, I then set it up to record just the first episode, but in its entirety, and it actually did so. Repeated with everything in Japanese, and that takes care of disk 1 of 5 of the main series.
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Decided to check out someone's longplay of Lucky Star: Ryouou Gakuen Outousai just yesterday, in more depth for the first time than just the first few scenes.
Recently, I toyed with the idea of having this particular song play throughout the first few scenes in Day of the Beehive, and then fade out with a pan-over from Konata to Nanako before the latter comments on Miyuki's absence from class. After all, this is a Lucky Star game that we're talking about, and it would only become of it to stay at least somewhat true to the franchise.
Having explored more of the playthrough than beforehand, I did find its soundtrack in general rather interesting, even if it's not the kind of music I normally prefer to listen to. This song, for example, would fit rather easily with Miyuki's exchange with Fuyuki in the restroom, given how clearly about humiliation it is. And then there are one etherial riff (usually involving Yamato), and several different tracks with vaguely the same flavor as New Days from Persona 4 (which I also toyed with before* for any high school, be it Ryouou, Kuki Hokuyo**, or even outside of Japan).
(*After the opening events, I'd more likely use a remastered version I'd likely commission for, of Earthbound Zero's theme for Twinkle Elementary. Both to carry the Earthbound motif, and to poke fun at how childlike the Lucky Star girls appear in canon. New Days would likely take place in visions of various events affecting the adventure during the party's long-awaited meeting with Mikami, in which everyone would be designed much more maturely than normal.)
(**This is where Rokuna and Mondo have been going to school; established at the beginning of Birthday of Destiny.)
I already had mentioned before that, for the sake of author appeal, the game isn't going to be entirely true to the franchise. Especially when such an extremely dark character as main antagonist Ivo Weil gets involved. But, even for the sake of balance or diversity, will such cute music that RGO has to offer coexist well in the same soundtrack with such songs as the boss theme of Grief Syndrome (a Madoka fangame) or Parasite Eve's Arise Within You, which I'd use respectively for the poltergeist attack and the subsequent visit to Konata's house during the beginning events? (Here's what they'd replace accordingly, from Mother and Mother 2.)
In any case, I do hope to find the actual OST anywhere at some point, be it on YouTube, on a soundtrack site, or even an actual copy of the soundtrack CD that the game itself spun off. A fan-translation would be nice, too; even if I were to hire anyone to translate what's already on YouTube (probably for Yamato's scenes in particular), this is one of those games that's supposed to have different routes with different characters, which means I'd still be missing out on stuff.