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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: November 16, 2014, 09:39:00 am »

So, question time for those of you who are import-savvy!

It's gotta be common knowledge by now that I've been playing + loving Tears to Tiara 2 lately.

I've now also fallen in love w/ the game's music too.

I've imported < 5 times in my life, and even those times were just buying from JP sellers on Amazon.

Amazon doesn't seem to have any listings for Tears to Tiara 2's OST.  In fact, I could only 'find' it on one site and, even there, it's "back-ordered"; hence my questions:

- Firstly, anyone know of other places to find/buy this?

- Anyone ever heard of, dealt with, and/or know anything about the reputation of a site called "AmiAmi"?  If so, ever "back-ordered" any items not currently in stock from them?

- And lastly - how much would 3,240 yen cost me in dollars; if, that is, they'll even accept American orders & money?

Thanks!

I guess this is the post you wanted me to reply to?

To answer your questions: Amiami are very reliable and yes they do accept foreign orders. I've bought all sorts off them for several years now and there's never been a problem with anything from cheap Gundam kits to limited edition 3DS', so order with confidence! If you want to try somewhere else, go to CDJapan - I've used them for longer than I've been married (10 year anniversary this year)

As for your conversion question - type "2000 jpy into usd" (without quotation marks) into any Google search bar and it'll work it out for you - obviously replace that 2000 amount as necessary. Hope that helped!

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: January 10, 2014, 10:27:04 am »

Thank you everyone for the kind words, I'm pretty chuffed myself! If you do get to read it I do hope you like it

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General / Re: January 2014 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: January 09, 2014, 11:27:27 pm »

Had this turn up the other day -



Yay!

Even better, I got Fire Embem Awakening free (download version) thanks to a Japanese Club Nintendo promotion that started yesterday

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: January 09, 2014, 11:22:08 pm »

So a while back I vaguely mentioned something I was working on that I didn't want to talk about... well now I can! If you go grab yourself this month's Retro Gamer magazine (the "Speed Kings" one) you'll find an article in there by me!

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General / Re: January 2014 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: January 03, 2014, 11:42:19 am »

had a Vita arrive in the post today - currently stuffing it full of games

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: December 26, 2013, 12:05:35 pm »

So...Gimme some suggestions as to what to spend ~$450 worth of GS cards on?!

Spend them on me!

Err... honestly, I have no idea what to recommend :O

Oh, Kimimi 

Sorry

Sounds like Soera's got the best idea

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: December 26, 2013, 12:00:42 pm »

So...Gimme some suggestions as to what to spend ~$450 worth of GS cards on?!

Spend them on me!

Err... honestly, I have no idea what to recommend :O

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Classic Video Games / Re: Let's Name the top 50 Arcade Cabinets?

« on: December 22, 2013, 11:06:56 pm »

I liked DDR! Then again this is only the early Japanese ones, I didn't touch the local releases or the PS2 stuff. There was a bowling alley near where I used to work a few years ago that had a DDR cab - we all used to go down there for a few games of Virtua Cop 3 and killing ourselves on Max 300 XD

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Classic Video Games / Re: Import Dreamcast Games? Some Awesome Obscure ones? :]

« on: December 22, 2013, 10:47:11 pm »

I only really go for the text-heavy stuff so I'm not much use here, but you might want to have a look at these -

Cosmic Smash
Musapey's Choco Marker
Puyo Puyo DA
Lack of Love
Hanagumi Taisen Columns 2

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: December 21, 2013, 01:30:00 pm »

I can't remember who it was but IIRC someone from here mentioned that they didn't "get" NiGHTS a while back... and it inspired me to write this blog post ^^~

http://shinjuforest.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/nights-into-dreams-is-score-attack-game.html

Yeah, that was me. I still think it's a pretty, but boring game. I sold my copy.

Ah, thank you for the inspiration!

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: December 21, 2013, 09:56:34 am »

Thank you!

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: December 21, 2013, 08:21:06 am »

I can't remember who it was but IIRC someone from here mentioned that they didn't "get" NiGHTS a while back... and it inspired me to write this blog post ^^~

http://shinjuforest.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/nights-into-dreams-is-score-attack-game.html

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General / Re: December 2013 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: December 21, 2013, 05:41:07 am »

Going to pop this in my NGPC right now

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General / Re: December 2013 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: December 20, 2013, 12:03:39 pm »

Now I just have to wait for it to arrive! D:

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: December 19, 2013, 10:02:47 pm »

I love it!

I used to paint fantasy miniatures years ago, really enjoyed doing it even if I'd end up cross-eyed trying to paint shine highlights on gems and things like that XD