I haven't forgotten this place
Without going too deep into it, I moved in August of last year. I expected to be away for a bit because of that. What I didn't expect was for my new health insurance to fuck with my ADHD meds for the next 5-ish months. But as of today, I'm finally back on the medication that I was originally taking. I have a lot to catch up on, so this project will still be on the back-burner, for the most part, but I will continue the work I've started!
My most-desired pages to create and complete are play guides for The Return of Ishtar and the Game Boy port of The Tower of Druaga (particularly Another Tower, which has more differences from the Famicom version than I would have expected).
Renaming articles
With the release of an English translation patch for The Blue Crystal Rod, I intend to rename applicable articles to match the translation used by the patch. All of the discrepancies are names that otherwise do not exist in English, officially or otherwise. Therefore, it doesn't make much sense to keep the mismatched names. I will come back and list any I change here as I update them.
- Moved "Lost Woods" to Wandering Woods
- Moved "Girru" to Garru. While the original article notes where the spelling of his name may have came from, with The Blue Crystal Rod being the only game with an English patch he appears in, I think it best to change it for now.
- Moved "Sumer Empire" to Sumar Empire. May change this tho, I haven't played Nightmare of Druaga mysel…
Site To-Dos (personal)
This is a list of what I would like to personally contribute to this wiki over time. Some will be short term projects, while others will take much longer.
- Edit the site's "Wiki Content" drop-down, if I'm able to, as it's currently borked.
- Play guides for the following games, vaguely in order of priority
- The Return of Ishtar (AC) - documentation about this game on the English-speaking web is bad lol
- Another Tower (GB) - I did a recent playthrough and initially used StrategyWiki's guide, but many floors were incorrect. There is a single guide I managed to sniff out on GameFaqs, but it is limited in the scope of what it actually covers. (Also some of the strategies were confusingly worded.)
- The Hidden World of Ishtar (PS1) - if RoI has bad documen…
Wiki Adoption
I think there's approximately one person who might read this, but just in case: hello! I intend to apply to adopt this Wiki, as (1) there is currently no administration, and (2) there is still a huge dearth of information on the Babylonian Castle Saga games. Oftentimes, I've had to poke through the Japanese internet to try and find an answer to something, because either there is no information easily available in English, or what I've found in English is flat-out incorrect.
In the short term, I hope to clean up what's already here. In the long term, I'd like to write out guides for most the games that are reasonable to play in English. Return of Ishtar especially could use the help, as there is no English walkthrough, as far as I can find, …