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Estpolis: Lands Cursed by the Gods Site is Live

I'm not sure how slow I've gotten to this, but the official website for Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods is now live on Square-Enix Japan.

The site contains minimal information right now, describing the story, providing a trailer, and character profiles for Maxim, Selan, and Gades, as well as hosting orchestrated versions of the intro and "For the Savior." (Both of which sound awesome.)

As well, if you watch the trailer below you might notice new character designs for Lexis and possibly Tia, which some people seem to have mixed feelings about.

Also, if you're just passing by, I would encourage you to check out the forums right now. It's quite dead and could use a few Lufia fans to spruce things up. 

Posted by musicman2059 on Wednesday, 25-Nov-2009 16:23 PM

Estpolis: Cursed Land of the Gods Trailer

Posted by musicman2059 on Wednesday, 25-Nov-2009 09:05 AM

More Lufia 5 Info

1-up reports on a few new tidbits regarding Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods. We now have a system, and a Japanese release, so quickly...

1. According to the article, the game will be released on the DS

2. As well, the current release date in Japan is February 25th, 2010 and will retail for 5980 yen.  A US release and name, if it will happen, is unknown.

Posted by musicman2059 on Thursday, 19-Nov-2009 18:13 PM

Some Exciting News

Meow, man!

Well, today TAC rises from the dead with some exciting news.

Of course, I'll be focusing on the good stuff, and that's with a little tidbit that came off the tubes from Gamingbolt, about a Famitsu article that was only recently published about a certain game that has just been announced.  Nothing is known about the game except that Taito is developing it, Square-Enix is publishing it, and... well... it's title, which just happens to be...

Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods

You know what that means, right? Lufia 5 has been announced!

At the moment, people are expecting that the game will be developed for the Wii or DS, although with the change in technology there's no real way to know for sure until they announce more details.

The game is also supposedly going to be developed by the team that originally made Lufia and the Fortress of Doom (not Ruins of Lore as I originally reported... THANK GOD) so hopefully we see some classic Lufia goodness in the upcoming title.

Here's for the best, and let's hope the future of the franchise with this new game!

Posted by musicman2059 on Friday, 13-Nov-2009 17:16 PM

Starting a New Blog

Well, in this day and age when TAC is more of a memory of what I have and haven't done, I've been really bored.  Having not played a Lufia game in a while means that my knowledge is relatively weak.  Cosmetic changes aren't my forte and there isn't much more information that I can add to the site. (For now, at least.)

I've kept a couple of blogs in the past, although in some cases they were only temporary projects or my focus changed.  Ever since then I've always wanted to keep a general gaming-like blog that I can plug all my thoughts into.  There has been many a time where I have documented thougths in my head that have never made it down to paper, and one day I would really like to get back into the habit of reviewing games that I've played.

So I've started to found the roots for that in a new blog that I like to call "A Gamer's Mind."

This blog will be meant to portray my thoughts of the gaming world, about games, about some of the things that I've noted about myself as a gamer, etc...  Eventually I want to expand to include the occasional "first impressions" article that I like to write every once in a while and maybe one day get back to making full game reviews on the side.  I have this blog all started up and ready to go; As time progresses I will get to slowly customizing the theme to fit the purpose of the blog; I picked a highly customizable skin that I think I'll like in the end.  I just need to fix up some extra clutter and it should be all good.  With a bit of luck I should start getting some meat in there in a few days.

And with this, I'm really hoping I can make something out of this, and not have the interest fade away in a matter of weeks.  Expect me to see this one through.

Posted by musicman2059 on Saturday, 24-Jan-2009 00:09 AM

Server issues: July 23rd

This morning, the hard disk array on this server was nearing capacity and as a result, services like SQL and FTP were automatically shut down causing the site to go offline.  From that point on, access to the site was intermittent.

The host has gone in and removed a large amount of unneeded files from the server, which has freed up about 12% of space on the root filesystem.  Although the site is functioning normally at this time I would say it's not safe to assume that this has been resolved completely yet.

At this point it isn't known whether or not this is the culprit behind our intermittent downtime over the past couple of weeks, but at the time I would say that this was most likely an isolated issue.

Posted by musicman2059 on Wednesday, 23-Jul-2008 10:05 AM

Server issues: May 23rd Just so that everyone is on the same page about this, there are some host issues today. (May 23rd)

Early this morning the host's data center lost power, and in the switchover from conventional power to their UPS and backup generator there was a brief power spike that caught a few of the servers. For the most part TAC's shared server seems to be unaffected by all this but is experiencing hiccups every here and there as a result of the switchover to backup power. Although I can't tell you whether or not the outage is over, the host is working on getting all their affected servers back online, at which point the site loading issues that we see over here should eventually dissipate.

At this point it seems that there's still a ways to go before everything is resolved. The host's forum (which I can barely get to even now) is still getting a crapton of threads containing servers that are still down. Just hang on tight and I would think that this should all be done by the end of the day.

I'm just glad I don't have a techie job right now.

This news item can be discussed on the forum.

Posted by musicman2059 on Friday, 23-May-2008 14:17 PM

Re-introducing: The Ancient Cave After nearly ten months of being in "unmanaged mode" and missing its fifth birthday last November, allow me to welcome everyone back to TAC.

UGS turned out to possibly be the biggest mistake I ever made; I was too preoccupied with other stuff *coughvideogamescough* in order to make any headway and never really came up with a general idea to come up. So, last week, I started to come back to my roots and brought UGS' forum back over here, making it the new (old) TACF, and bringing the site back to live action!

As of right now, all of the focus has been rebuilding the community from the ground up. It wasn't very long after the changeover that a couple of old members started filing back in, and for those that have come back I thank you for making an early contribution.

I opened up forum staff applications to see what our returning members and staff members would be interested in, so far I got a somewhat expected response; two applications that I've somewhat anticipated in a sense. Aside from applications I already have offers from our lovely designer of the site's v4 layout to create a v5 layout, something that's always much appreciated because my artistic ability in... graphic arts is next to none, and god forbid I try to code a layout with my rusty HTML skills for now.

Along with upgrading the forums to IP.Board 2.3.5, the site's backend has been upgraded to Etomite 1.0 as well. However, the plan is to eventually migrate the site over to MODx, which is based off of the Etomite backend but with a few extra features that could prove helpful in future development; Although it may require me to go back and play some Lufia for a bit. (I've already got Crisis Core, The World Ends With You, and Mabinogi to worry about!)

I have been trying to get back in contact with some of our old members as well, and would also encourage those that know other old TACFers to do the same. Let's restore our community, and our site, to what it once was!

Posted by musicman2059 on Saturday, 03-May-2008 00:44 AM

Sudden Emergency Hey guys.

I won't go into any details but a family emergency has kind of popped up out east. There's a very good chance that I will be headed out to Winnipeg (or more specifically Morden, an hour south of Winnipeg) as early as tomorrow or as late as sometime late next week. Depending on when I go and how I end up going it could be anywhere from a few days to a week and a half or so. (All I know is that I really can't afford to fly there.) If/when I do leave, I will NOT be contactable until I return.

As I have not made the call to restaff the forum yet, unless I don't leave tomorrow and start to make some ground on rebuilding the community, you guys will most likely be on your own until I get back. However, I know you guys will be... well-behaved, or else my warn finger will be getting a workout. :P

Posted by musicman2059 on Friday, 02-May-2008 14:21 PM

Alert: Recent attacks against host This really only concerns those that are browsing the site during the late night in North America; If you don't have a habit of staying up late like I do, you can ignore this.

As of recent, TAC's host, Surpass Hosting, has been having problems with frequent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on their servers, including the one that we are hosted on. This is causing small spurts of downtime that have been happening mainly between midnight and 1:00 AM Pacific time (3-4 AM Eastern) while the support team attempts to split the rogue traffic from the legitimate traffic. Although the reason for the downtime each time cannot be confirmed by myself, a DDoS attack has been confirmed on at least one occasion. (And another as the result of an update to the server.)

If you are trying to access the site at the times noted and aren't getting through, it would be best advised to wait a few minutes and try again. If any other information becomes available regarding these attacks and the host's progress on squelching it, I will post it here.

Posted by musicman2059 on Friday, 02-May-2008 01:35 AM

Older news
> Reminisence
> Gallery Back Online
> A small glimpse of hope
> TACs Overhaul in detail
> New Gallery Launched
> TACs Future?
> Gallery Script Migration Explained
> Gallery Script Migration
> Reputation, new sites, and absences galore
> Quote and Question submissions disabled temporarily
> Merry Christmas
> Some pre-Christmas work
> TAC Turns 4
> .de E-mail ban lifted
> Re: Blacklisted URLs
> Forum upgraded to 2.2 RC2
> TACF Upgraded to 2.2 RC1
> TAC having DNS Issues
> TAC at its new home
> TAC Switching hosts soon
> No more crappy dynamic URLs!
> New features at TAC
> Forbidden E-mail Addresses
> TAC running on a new backend!



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