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Awesome sauce, congrats for finishing the writing improvement-run Wildbill
So each beta tester will need about 80-100 playing hours, this beta test phase will probably be considerably long

Yep! I imagine it will be! That's kind of why I'm hoping for several people to test things out for us. Many hands should make light work (I hope!)

@WB - I'll e-mail you back tomorrow... Must get some sleep right now Big Congrats though, and a huge thanks on getting the project moving again.

I'll probably be contacting all testers (those chosen) later this week with details. Thanks again for your interest.

Could you guys ask Pennywise if you can use his Bugtrack Lite System for the beta-phase? I worked with it in Arabian Nights and found it very handy and cool!
I gonna send you a PM with a link, Draken.

I really like that idea of using a Bug Tracker. Looking into at the moment - will let you know later if we go that route.

How does one sign up for Beta?

Just by posting in here, I guess. I'm more apt to choose people who have been a part of the community here for a longer time. I don't mean to discriminate or hurt people's feelings... It's more about keeping the project "safe" from the chance of being leaked. I'm sure you are all very trustworthy people, and I hope you understand. Don't let that discourage you from trying, though

Also, right now we're looking into getting a bug tracker implemented so that we have a great centralized area for bug reporting. I really think it's a great idea (thanks ChronoMoogle), and I'll let you know when things are ready to move forward... Hopefully soon!

I understand, I guess I probably should've made myself more vocal from the start as I've been closely following progress on that particular project.

Can't wait to experience this game with an actual story I can read rather than constantly referring to my notes of poorly written kanjis to get around. Good luck to the testers!

Our CS beta plays perfectly, so far, on a Windows 8 phone using SNES8x. However, the SNES emulator - unlike an NES emulator I have loaded on the same phone - apparently does not capture screen shots. So, I took some samples with a regular digital camera. The game screens are a bit fuzzy captured this way; however, they appear perfectly brilliant viewing the actual phone display.

Heh, who would have thought in the 1990's that we would be playing our own translated Super Nintendo Japanese RPGs on a dad-gum telephone someday!?

Edit: Okay, the controls are very unresponsive for me in cave-building, room cleaning, and especially fighting. First, I can't remap the buttons. For many years I have made the A button closest to me and the B button to its right. I've also switched X and Y so that all of the buttons proceed from left to right in alphabetical order. This is the way my head works and my fingers respond.

Since fighting relies on executing a combination of buttons, I don't find that a touch pad can replicate actual physical three-dimensional buttons. My conclusion is that virtual buttons on phone emulators are not very well suited for action games. The solution for me would to convert a USB game pad to a mini-USB adapter, plug it into the phone port, and somehow be able to drive it, map it, and make it work with a downloaded emulator application.

I've played Mystic Ark and DoaE-II successfully on the phone, and I find that these virtual buttons are adequate for turn-based RPGs.

Touchscreens are not really suited for action games like Chaos Seed... I would recomment to get a emulation handheld like Pandora to play games like Terranigma, Secret of Mana and Chaos Seed on the go