It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, so I thought I’d write something to let anybody who reads this thing and doesn’t talk to me regularly know that I’m still alive.

I’ve tried a game recently and I love it: Fatal Frame. You take the role of a character searching for a lost family member. You haven’t heard from him in 2 weeks and travel to his last known whereabouts. There’s something…not quite right…about the place he was last seen. You soon find yourself in a battle for your life while you try to figure out what’s wrong with the place. Your only weapon…a camera.

You can use it for nearly anything…! Pictures, videos, sending notes…and it has SUSHI!

Hi again! I was searching the internet and writing some SystemBuilder reports for work, and I had a whole bunch of trouble finding information for the levels at which Palom and Porom earn their various magic spells. I finally found a nice reference over at RPG Classics, but it wasn’t in the format I wanted. I reformatted it into a nice, plain, easy to ready text format, sorted by level. See it below.

Palom:
Spell		FF2 US	MP Cost	Level Learned	Description
Bolt		Lit 1	5 MP	Initial		Attacks with lightning.
Fire		Fire 1	5 MP	Initial		Attacks with fire.
Ice		Ice 1	5 MP	Initial		Attacks with ice.
Poison		Venom	2 MP	Initial		Poisons an enemy.
Sleep		Sleep	12 MP	Initial		Puts enemy to sleep.
Ice 2		Ice 2	15 MP	Lvl 11		Stronger ice attack.
Piggy		Piggy	1 MP	Lvl 11		Toggles Piggy status on/off.
Fire 2		Fire 2	15 MP	Lvl 12		Stronger fire attack.
Bolt 2		Lit 2	15 MP	Lvl 13		Stronger lightning attack.
Stop		Stop	15 MP	Lvl 14		Stops movement.
Bio		Virus	20 MP	Lvl 19		Attacks with poison.
Toad		Toad	7 MP	Lvl 22		Toggles Toad status on/off.
Quake		Quake	30 MP	Lvl 23		Attacks enemies with an earthquake.
Drain		Drain	18 MP	Lvl 26		Steals HP. Effect is reversed against the undead.
Dejon		Warp	4 MP	Lvl 29		Transports you one floor back in a dungeon or escapes a battle.
Ice 3		Ice 3	30 MP	Lvl 32		Strongest ice spell.
Fire 3		Fire 3	30 MP	Lvl 33		Strongest fire spell.
Bolt 3		Lit 3	30 MP	Lvl 34		Strongest lightning magic.
Break		Stone	15 MP	Lvl 36		Turns target into stone.
Osmose		Psych	0 MP	Lvl 40		Steals MP.
Death		Fatal	35 MP	Lvl 46		Causes instant death.
Tornado		Weak	25 MP	Lvl 48		Brings HP to single digits.
Meteo		Meteo	99 MP	Lvl 50		Ultimate spell reigns on enemies.
Flare		Nuke	50 MP	Lvl 52		Huge explosion hits an enemy.

Porom:
Spell		FF2 US	MP Cost	Level Learned	Description
Cure		Cure 1	3 MP	Initial		Heals target.
Hold		Hold	5 MP	Initial		Target can't move, thus can't attack.
Libra		Peep	1 MP	Initial		Sees HP/MP and weakness of target.
Sight		Sight	2 MP	Initial		If used on overworld, you can see more of the map.
Slow		Slow	14 MP	Initial		Decreases speed.
Life		Life 1	8 MP	Lvl 11		Brings target back to life.
Protect		XXXX	9 MP	Lvl 12		Increases defense against physical attacks.
Cure 2		Cure 2	9 MP	Lvl 13		More powerful healing spell.
Silence		Mute	6 MP	Lvl 15		Target can't cast spells.
Berserk		Brsk	18 MP	Lvl 18		Berserks target.
Teleport	Exit	10 MP	Lvl 19		Escapes from battle or a dungeon.
Esuna		Heal	20 MP	Lvl 20		Brings status to normal.
Blink		Blink	8 MP	Lvl 23		Makes target immune to physical attacks temporarily.
Confuse		Charm	10 MP	Lvl 25		Confuses target.
Shell		XXXX	10 MP	Lvl 29		Increases defense against magical attacks.
Dispel		XXXX	12 MP	Lvl 31		Removes effects such as Haste, Levitate, Shell and Protect from target.
Minimum		Mini	6 MP	Lvl 31		Turns party/enemies to/from mini people.
Cure 3		Cure 3	18 MP	Lvl 33		Second most powerful healing spell.
Haste		Fast	25 MP	Lvl 38		Increases speed.
Levitate	Float	8 MP	Lvl 40		Levitates party.
Reflect		Wall	30 MP	Lvl 44		Reflects spells.
Cure 4		Cure 4	40 MP	Lvl 48		Most powerful healing spell.
Holy		White	46 MP	Lvl 52		Attacks with holy magic.
Life 2		Life 2	52 MP	Lvl 56		Brings character back to life with full HP.

ZSNES has one of the coolest little easter eggs built in!!!!!

I’m sitting here playing Wizardry V for a bit before bed.

I pressed “ESC” to get to the menu to change a setting in the emulator, and what do I see in the background except

SANTA AND HIS REINDEER DASHING ACROSS THE SCREEN!!!!!!!!

Happy Holidays to all of you who have made ZSNES possible:

Main Coders

* zsKnight
* _Demo_
* pagefault

Contributors

* Pharos
* teuf
* relnev
* prometheus
* theoddone33
* EvilTypeGuy
* stainless
* aaronl
* MKendora
* kode54
* zinx
* amit
* Khan Artist
* hpsolo
* Kreed
* Neviksti

And the same to the rest of you out there as well

edit: I just read the ZSNES message boards and have edited this post to make it a *little* less obvious. I can’t spoil *all* the fun…

I just got back from California…well…I didn’t “get back”, because I already have back…umm…

I just arrived back in Florida after visiting California for a long weekend. If you ever get the chance to see Chanticleer, then by all means DO SO.

Tuesday morning, one of my coworkers decided to attend work while sick. To any of you reading this, please note: attending work while sick is *not* chivalry. And thus, he got all of the rest of us sick for the holidays. We’re all just kind of angry at him right now, because those of us who have mandatory family attendances will likely also be getting *them* sick.

On a lighter note, I just discovered that “Might and Magic” for the original Nintendo has “Canon in D” (very nice arrangement for flute, click the link) as its opening theme!