Weird Last Ninja related story

Laffer · Newbie Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 34

Years ago, I sent my Last Ninja boxes (LN1&2) to Kai, the owner of the Last Ninja Archives web site (very good site btw, best LN site ever) so he could scan them and put them on his site.

Years later, I bought this UK Retro magazine that came with the C64 versions (plus some other versions) of the Last Ninja games.. and to my surprise they had used my boxes on the cover disc box. I could clearly tell due to some very distinct scratches on my boxes (especially LN2).
It's funny how things turn out sometimes Very Happy

Edit - I'm sure everyone knows this already, but just in case - here's the link to the best web page for the greatest C64 series of all times :

http://lastninja.lemon64.com/main.htm

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Laffer wrote:

here's the link to the best web page for the greatest C64 series of all times:

http://lastninja.lemon64.com/main.htm

The link must be wrong, because that points to a Last Ninja web site. Wink

/runs
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Mr Do · Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 1:30 pm Post subject:

That's pretty cool to see pictures of your box Cool

I think someone used google picture so that this lazy guy didn't had to take any picture with his own camera and put it in his pc.
I did the same when I sold my Sega Genesis.

That Last Ninja site is a very cool site indeed.
The funny thing is that I found Lemon 64 this way Wink

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Haplo · Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject:

Mr Do wrote:

That Last Ninja site is a very cool site indeed.
The funny thing is that I found Lemon 64 this way Wink

Me too

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Laffer · Newbie Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 34

Mr Do wrote:

That's pretty cool to see pictures of your box Cool

I think someone used google picture so that this lazy guy didn't had to take any picture with his own camera and put it in his pc.
I did the same when I sold my Sega Genesis.

That Last Ninja site is a very cool site indeed.
The funny thing is that I found Lemon 64 this way Wink

Hmm but that lazy guy was working for an official magazine and the pictures of my boxes ended up on the coverdisc cover that came with all of those Retro magazines. I don't think they actually had the games themselves so they probably found the roms on the net and the game box art too.

Mayhem · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject:

Actually the ROMs came from me. Even System 3 didn't have them to give Live, so the previous editor Martyn Carroll asked me if I could supply them for him. So I managed to getting protected versions of LN1 and LN2 off my disks (ie. untrained, uncracked), but LN3 refused (I don't think any emulators support its protection system yet) so we had to run with a cracked release for that.
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Laffer · Newbie Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 34

Live? Perhaps that is a different magazine then, I'm talking about Retro Magazine.. and I think they only included cracked versions of the games.

Btw, do you have the 100% original copies? Could you send them to me you think? I would really appreciate that, they're some of my favourite games ever Smile

LeeT · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 1:37 pm Post subject:

Laffer wrote:

Live? Perhaps that is a different magazine then, I'm talking about Retro Magazine.. and I think they only included cracked versions of the games.

Live was the original publisher of Retro Gamer.
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Laffer · Newbie Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 34

Oh OK, didn't know that. I only have the Last Ninja issue and I bought it on eBay Smile

Mr Do · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:

They have this kickass Last Ninja wallpaper over there.
Sunset, reflection of his blade, those eyes etc etc.
Go grab it Cool

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Mayhem · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject:

Laffer wrote:

Btw, do you have the 100% original copies? Could you send them to me you think? I would really appreciate that, they're some of my favourite games ever Smile

The copies of LN1 and LN2 for C64 on the CD are uncracked and untrained. If you copied them back to proper disks, they'd be exactly as if you'd bought them from the shops Smile

(though you'd need a parallel connection for LN1 as I could only get it to work in emulators as G64 images not D64)
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Kim Lemon · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 11:25 pm Post subject:

Interesting story indeed. I've seen stuff from my site in the most unexpected places as well. Smile

I'm glad they didn't use my LN fan art: http://lastninja.lemon64.com/fan_art_kim01.htm Razz

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heechee · Groupie in Training Joined: 10 Jan 2002 Posts: 125

Or mine: http://lastninja.lemon64.com/fan_art_kai01.htm

Heh.
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knoeki · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject:

Haplo wrote:

Mr Do wrote:

That Last Ninja site is a very cool site indeed.
The funny thing is that I found Lemon 64 this way Wink

Me too

I found lemon because i was googling for 'Commodore 64 forum'...

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Haplo · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject:

heechee wrote:

Or mine: http://lastninja.lemon64.com/fan_art_kai01.htm

Heh.

Here cometh the ninja master himself! Cool

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