Thanks for sharing, looks right up my alley: challenges, shortcomings and all. I'm very close to finishing the third, I believe.

Hmm... Sounds challenging.. A challenge I'd like to accept! June 12th is the first game's 30th birthday, so that may be a great time to begin.

I dabbled in the second game for a couple of minutes after patching it, just to see if it worked okay. It did feel more traditional, I liked that. They both sound like games of patience and dedication, sounds something right up my alley too. Thanks for the heads-up on both, that's information that'll definitely come in handy when I sit down with 'em.

If you'd like to link me the vids go ahead! I can check 'em out.

LOL it's all good, I don't mind if you post from your emu account.

That's alright that it won't let you follow, I'll be on in a couple of hours, most likely going to continue that tough SMW hack I've been working on the last few weeks. I appreciate you coming regardless!

I played a tiny bit of the first Heracles, a little more of the second, but I'm more familiar with the third. Now that there's finally a translation of IV, I'd like to get to that sometime, but I may play through the Famicom versions before getting there. We shall see. Thanks for watching the vid, too! Glad I could help bring more interest to playing through them.

Esper Dream is really good, it gets progressively harder to the point you're like "wtf is this shit" but a little grinding and you'll overcome that pretty fast. I think I'm nearing the end. I played a little of ED2 a few years ago and, from what I remember, it was much better. But ED1 is still pretty enjoyable.