Friday, August 27, 2004

Silvie reporting in. ^_^ Yes, Masa makes me look really, really bad, and I have to apologise to him and to you guys for my slowness. Like TML, I have Tales of Symphonia to blame for it too. (Go play it! O_O)

Back on track, I have a news article reporting on some new screenshots of Minish Cap. Go check it out. ^_^

~SilverWind

Thursday, August 26, 2004

So I've been slacking. I have my reasons, most notably this wonderful little magic game called Tales of Symphonia for Gamecube; if you don't have it, get it. Now. It rocks. But because of this, I've been lax in writing, and even worse, yes, in my E-mail correspondence as well. If you've sent me E-mail recently and I haven't answered it, please give me time. I'm suffering a nasty backlog that never seems to go away. I will answer it soon, I promise!

Well, we've finally done it. Two million visitors over the past three years, and that's just half of the history of The Grand Adventures. I promised I would have something special prepared for you, and well, I'm having such a problem getting my own book written. However, there are some secrets on the way, and I'm sure you'll love them.

Chapter 27, "The Airborne Citadel," of The Book of Mudora is posted after a long wait. I'll try to keep these coming much more frequently in the future, but work and upcoming college classes might sap my time here in the near future. Thank you for all of you who have E-mailed me over the past week about the possibility of publishing my story. Just so you know, I can't get publishing rights through Nintendo of America directly, but I do have a second lead on where to go after that, so it's still a possibility. However, I think I'm going to have to finish a lot more of the book before I actually worry about seeking rights to publish. I will keep you up to date when that happens.

While we're on the subject, I have a favour to ask all of you. Anyone who's gone to History of Hyrule of late will have noticed that Melora, the webmistress there, has taken her site offline temporarily. Melora has been a staunch ally and good friend to me since I've came back to complete my book, and it's with great disappointment to hear that it is the Zelda community itself that has caused her into taking a break from the site. The reason, if you read her rant, is because of the French Zelda site puissance-zelda.com. They stole the manga that she and Annie from Zelda no Densetsu had translated into English without giving them any credit whatsoever. Well, a small force recently began sending E-mails to the webmaster's inbox, and in a hissy fit, he took them down with a vow to bring them back to the site one day. Be it known that I don't like this guy's attitude much, and picking on my close friends particularly burns me. So, along with other sites like Indie Zelda, we are staging a boycott of their site. Please, for those of you who go around to other Zelda sites other than TGA, if you see them linking to puissance-zelda.com, please write them a quick E-mail telling them that you do not approve of puissance-zelda.com's actions and ask that they take that link down. This is a personal request, but it is also good for the good of the Zelda community. After all, if we lose our integrity, what else do we have?

~ The Missing Link

Monday, August 23, 2004

Here's an article on Camp Hyrule with some nice interviews with various Nintendo people.

~ Hero of Winds

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Do I live to make Hero of Winds and Silverwind look bad? Why yes. Yes I do. GameInformer reports the US release date of the Classic NES Series port of The Adventure of Link. Read all about it.

~ Masamune

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Yes, I'm a day late and a dollar short. Such is the way it usually is with my updates. However, the long overdue Chapter 26, "Magic in the Wind," of The Book of Mudora is finally posted. As you probably already know, this delves into Four Swords' introduction.

The story is now up to 231 pages in length, and as you can tell, there's a lot more still to be written. One of the thoughts I've pondered, now that I've come so far in this novel, is the idea of one day asking Nintendo for permission to publish this and to create a paperback copy of The Book of Mudora to sell to the fans of TGA. Of course, I have to finish the story first, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts on it. If I were able somehow to sucker... I mean, acquire Nintendo's permission, would you purchase a copy of the book? Please E-mail me and let me know to see if it would even be worth looking into.

~ The Missing Link

Thursday, August 5, 2004

A very quick update tonight. I am back, and I have started writing Chapter 26 of The Book of Mudora. Hopefully that will get posted by Monday as this weekend is another busy weekend, this time me moving one of my friends (who I'm obligated to move because he helped move me!). As such, I'm going to write this chapter as fast as I can. Meanwhile, on a subsidiary note, I've actually got a second surprise for TGA coming up very soon, so I hope to be revealing that to you within the next three or so weeks. Needless to say, I'll give you a small hint; if you liked The Book of Mudora, you're bound to like this.

~ The Missing Link

Sunday, August 1, 2004

The OZE has been updated with over 60 new entries under Characters, Creatures, Items, and Places. Expect the next OZE update in the beginning of September.

~ Masamune