Wolfheinrich's World

Like a blink of an eye really, one whole year has gone by and I have finally achieved one of the major milestone of any bloggers – hitting the first anniversary!  I must thank you for all of your support, visits, clicks, comments and encouragement!  Looking back when I first started blogging, my original goal was to introduce myself to the worldwide of Otaku that I – Wolfheinich exists here!  I think I have mentioned in the past, I was very much like a closet otaku, I have little real life friends that share my interest, I have no way to share my joy of unpacking my new figures or do I have anyone to converse with how cute this 2D girl is or what not.  What I desire most, is to seek out to like minded otaku who can share my interest, making new friends.

Stumbling onto Dannychoo.com was a major turning point for me, I never knew there is an online community like that before!  After spending a few days on Danny’s site, I decided I too want to become a blogger so I can really introduce myself to the community.  After one whole year, I am confident to say that I have achieved way more than what I had in mind.  I have made a bunch of new friends, gotten into Dollfie Dream (which is like the greatest thing since sliced bread), and even traveled to Japan to see Odaiba Gundam, Kamen Rider Decade and Evangelion 2.0 movie with fellow Dannychoo member Fumoffu.

Let’s take a quick look at the transformation that Wolfheinrich’s World has gone thru in the past year!  I really had no idea what to blog about at the beginning, so I started off with a my room post soon after I began! (continue reading…)

This is your last chance to put your pre-order in for the White Album Dollfie Dream girls, the super early pre-order period will end for the Volks USA customers at 6:00pm PST today!

A few days ago, we got a chance to catch a glimpse at the face mold of the actual Rina and Yuki, and as a world renowned Rina expert, I have to say they got the likeness of Rina pretty much dead on!

Let’s take a look at some reference artwork~

Volks went with the brown eyes instead of the blue as shown in the anime, which is understandable because Rina’s original design has brown eyes. (continue reading…)

For the past couple of days, I have been focusing entirely on Fortune Arterial game progress.  I really should have played this game several months ago but I blame it on a short summary that I read and gave me a totally wrong impression on Erika… but since the 64 bit compatibility problem surfaced last month, I quickly picked up my pace and decided to dive right into the game.

My main focus on playing Fortune Arterial is of course to learn about the stories of the two heroines I am interested in, namely Sendo Erika and Kuza Kiriha.

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I talked about writing an update post the other day, finally got around to do it now.  To tell the truth, ever since I migrated to Windows 7, I have been on a scramble to get all the eroge games I love running; the fact that I have a huge pile of them sitting didn’t help at all!  So on the top of the agenda this month was to tackle some of the games that I absolutely need to finish, such as Madou Souhei Kleinhasa and Fortune Arterial. One of my greatest fear before migrating to Windows 7 64bit edition was compatibility issues with all the legacy eroge games and all the support applications I use to play them.  Luckily there were very few problems so far.  Most the eroge games I want to keep running have been able to run so far; however, there were a few exceptions, most notably the new regional protection scheme being deployed by one of my favorite eroge game companies Triangle, their fierce regional protection scheme have left me in fear for quite some time.

In my last post on this topic, I talked about how I bypassed this regional protection scheme, by using the free Windows XP mode Japanese language edition, however that method is by no means perfect, most notably the color support is only up to 16bit and sound support also left a lot to be desired (a certain Austrian Otaku has pointed me in the right direction, which I will talk about in a little bit).  After more thorough searches, I finally managed to locate a proper regional patch on a Chinese forum that will enable Madou Souhei Kleinhasa to run on a non-native Japanese OS (for whatever reason, it was never leaked back to the English forum such as Hongfire, no idea why it hasn’t happened yet).

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It’s been a while since I got a chance to write a new post, I have been very busy tackling a few eroge games lately plus a few other things, planning to write an update post tomorrow but first, I got to bring the news of the Rin Tohsaka Portrait Book that is planned to be released next month.  It’s been months since I have heard about this portrait book but there was no cover art, no detail information on what would be included in this book.  But if the previously released Saber Portrait is any indication of what we should expect from this, most of us Rin fan will be in for a real treat!  I have been keeping taps on Amazon Japan since November last year, and finally we got the cover art when I checked again today!

Perfect, just the way I want it!

Hobby Search has it on pre-order for a while but it has been closed off since, HLJ doesn’t even have this listed yet, AmiAmi doesn’t have it either, I am not sure what other source carries this book other than Amazon Japan at this point.

Here is the information from Amazon Japan

• Publisher: 一迅社 (2010/2/12)
• ISBN-10: 4758011621
• ISBN-13: 978-4758011624
• Release Date: 2010/2/12

And I was able to dig up some sneak preview pictures from browsing some Chinese Forum

And supposedly, there are some pre-order bonus as well, so it might be prudent to pony up the cash to get the pre-order bonus.

The Super Early Pre-Order period for the White Album Dollfie Dream has finally begun today!  And I have obviously completed the preliminary adoption paperwork to bring my 11th daughter Rina, and 12th daughter Yuki home.  I have done something unique this time though.  This is the first time I am committing to bring new daughters home before seeing their faces.  Why would I do that?  Am I crazy or something?  Well no, it’s all very well calculated, for one, I have already determined to take one of the most elegant bishoujo in recent years -- Ogata Rina home, that’s a given, she needed a proper representation in my harem lineup.  And Yuki, pretty much serve the function to that of Nanoha for Fate; I have to pick her up to keep Rina company~

The other purpose, is of course to ensure that Rina would have a color matched partner to perform their Cho-Henshin!

The term Symmetrical Docking is, in contrast to popular believe, a borrowed term from the hot blood super robot show, The King of Braves -- GaoGaiGar.  Symmetrical Docking can only be performed when the “SympaRate”, a measure of the synchronization and unity of the blue robot -  HyoRyu and the red robot -- EnRyu reaches 100%, the result of their Symmetrical Docked form, also known as Cho Ryu Jin, serves a much greater purpose than what could ever achieve individually.  The same criteria applies to my Rina and Yuki, and their combined form would certainly come in handy in the Dollfie Dream Theater as well.

Now, keep in mind that these pre-order bonus are only available for those of us who are willing to put our order in before seeing the final product, as a reward.  Volks has no plan to reveal the final product until the 2nd pre-order period, which doesn’t come with the bonus.  But in any event, the actual transaction do not take place until mid-March, which means there is still a chance to cancel the order if the final product do not meet your expectation.

There are also some very lovely casual outfits for Rina and Yuki, some preview pictures are available at the Sumika Times Blog.  The Yuki dress and boots is my personal favorite among the 3 sets.  I am not sure why they are giving Rina those pink boots because she has never wore pink boots within the anime!

I seldom talk about anime in general because there are plenty of blog site that cover those area; but when when I heard about the new sequel of Space Adventure Cobra coming out in this season, I feel that it’s my turn to say something about it because, well.. it’s an old boy anime!  It’s been over 30 years since the manga came out back in 1978, it was later adopt into an animation in 1982.  I watched Cobra when I was a little kid in primary school… it was leap and bound ahead of most animation of the time, it was a futuristic science fiction back in the 80s and it still feel very fresh when I acquired the DVD set a few short years ago.

I was looking around in youtube trying to locate the original Cobra OP and was in shock that I couldn’t find a decent one…. so, it was time for me to take the matter into my own hands!  I took my DVD set out and ripped the OP video file.

Here is a more modern look with the original song mixed into it.

Just who is this Cobra guy you ask?  Well, he is a space pirate, has a signature weapon, “Psycho-gun”—a cybernetic arm-laser  connected directly to his brain and capable of targeting enemies without having a line-of-sight; he is very tough and is nearly unkillable.  Like the other manga draw by artist Terasawa Buichi 寺沢 武一, such as Goku Midnight Eye, Space Adventure Cobra is filled with very gorgeous looking women wearing bikini style clothing, quite a shocker back in the 80s, mind you… but they were never being portraited as being any less significant… it was just the artist’s idea of futuristic clothing for women.  The original TV series focused on the Cobra’s encounter with Captain Nelson’s triplet daughters, Jane, Dominique, Catherine and their quest to the greatest treasure of the entire universe.

I am keeping track of this new sequel so far, probably the only anime that caught my old boy interest this season.

The date I have been waiting for the past month or so has finally been announced.  The White Album Dollfie Dream Super Early Pre-Order period will begin from January 20th to the end of the month!  Those who place their order during the Super Early Pre-Order period will get an extra bonus swimsuit that has been announced before.

The five items that will be available for pre-order are as follow:

• * DD Yuki Morikawa ( + Pre-Order Bonus)
• * DD Rina Ogata ( + Pre-Order Bonus)
• * DD Outfit: Yuki’s Everyday Wear Set (Coat & Jeans Ver.)
• * DD Outfit: Yuki’s Everyday Wear Set (Skirt & Boots Ver.)
• * DD Outfit: Rina’s Everyday Wear Set

There was a sneak peek at Rina’s wig and her bonus swimsuit the other day, for those of you who are interested, check out DD blog’s page.

So today, I would like to set a little time aside to talk about regional protection of eroge game in general.  Before Windows XP came along, the only way to “properly” run Japanese eroge games was to purchase a separate copy of Windows 95 or Windows 98 and install them into a separate partition in the main hard disk using an off the shelf MBR overlay software such as System Commander… that was how I used to run Windows based eroge game back in the early 90s.  Windows XP changed all that, with the ability to install East Asian language pack and applocale basically took care of all the language compatibility issue for the past decade or so… However, the situation is starting to change again … quite possibly after a public outrage of having an eroge game called “Rapelay” released by Illusion being offered for sale in Amazon UK in early 2009, a string of Eroge game publishing companies have begun tightening the sale of their software outside of Japan, some companies have decided to ban all ip addresses except for those in Japan, some companies have implemented tough regional protection scheme, company such as Triangle.

I have have always been a fan of Triangle Soft’s game, their long line of Mahou Senshin games

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For the past couple of days, I have been playing L4D2 with several Punchi Blurbers from figure.fm, it’s been a long time since I had play any PC game for real.. (besides eroge games that is!).

There aren’t many better alternatives to foster better friendship than fighting hordes of Zombies together! (continue reading…)