PURE HOPE: Technosoft webiste

postman · Post by **postman** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:42 pm

Check this out:

http://www.tecnosoft.com/

Will restart soon? I can only ooze hope after reading this message......how long has this been up, did I miss it?

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:45 pm

i cannot believe... i think it's fake...

http://www.who.is/whois-com/ip-address/tecnosoft.com/

nope, it's isn't fake...

Lawfer · Post by **Lawfer** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:02 pm

Pure hope? Or is it LAST hope?

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:09 pm

WOOOOH! Dreamcast in 2008, baby!!11~1!!eleven

Seriously though... I hope they manage to pull Thunder Force VI back together and hopefully opt for a late PS2 release.

Lawfer · Post by **Lawfer** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:14 pm

Kiken wrote:Seriously though... I hope they manage to pull Thunder Force VI back together and hopefully opt for a late PS2 release.

If it happens, it's a first day buy for me. Especially since I already know it's going to become quite rare and will fetch a high price on auctions.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:42 pm

That's crazy. I hope they can revive the TecnoSoft spirit from 1992.

Varuga · Post by **Varuga** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:52 pm

omg, my pants all of a sudden became tight...is that wrong?

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:03 pm

Wow, great find.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:05 pm

Someone registered that webpage to hurt us, even more after Broken Thunder.

Yeah, I am that cynic.

postman · Post by **postman** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:19 pm

I just thought of something fishy - why is it in English?

(crosses fingers) please be real please be real

Lawfer · Post by **Lawfer** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:27 pm

postman wrote:I just thought of something fishy - why is it in English?

(crosses fingers) please be real please be real

You meant to say, why is it in engRish?

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:38 pm

Lawfer wrote:
postman wrote:I just thought of something fishy - why is it in English?

(crosses fingers) please be real please be real
You meant to say, why is it in engRish?

Yeah, it looks very much like a japanese site. Both design and language. Maybe it's in english because they're hoping for all us western DC fanboys to buy their shitty new shooter in LE packaging, just as some did with Milestone's and Triangle Service's games. I hate to be pessimistic, but I highly doubt they will bring anything new to the genre (or old, as in awesome pixel graphics, parallax scrolling and FM music - Elemental Master 2?). I hope I'm wrong, though either way, TecnoSoft's return makes me smile.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:46 pm

I am excited about this too. It would be the comeback ever

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:54 pm

Considering it looks optimized for Netscape Navigator 2.0, it's probably a Japanese site.

jp · Post by jp » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:26 pm

I don't believe it.

And even if it is true, I doubt Tecno Soft will be as good as they once were.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:37 pm

IF it's a real comeback, then we owe it all to Broken Thunder. Tecnosoft guys should've played it and said "no way!!"

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:45 pm

Compile-Heart, Tecno Soft... What's next? I vote for Toaplan. Too much Cave lately.

BTW, haven't there been rumours obout Tecno Soft hiring staff for over a year? Anyway, might still be a hoax.

Zuhzuhzombie!! · Post by **Zuhzuhzombie!!** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:02 pm

Expires this year.

Last updated last year.

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:24 pm

I hope its for real.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:12 pm

That's some very basic coding and the source reveals nothing indicative of being owned by a real company. I wouldn't be surprised to find that this isn't a real deal.

Is there any way to find out who purchased the web address/domain/whatever...?

Not trying to be a bummer or anything but it just looks to cheap. Still - ThunderForce 6 would rock!

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:16 pm

circuitface wrote:Is there any way to find out who purchased the web address/domain/whatever...?

See P_HAT's post.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:54 pm

ohzorz. sryzorz.

RyanDG · Post by **RyanDG** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:25 am

I hate to be a wet noodle -

The update to the Tecnosoft website was done last year in November. It has been up and down for a while now and each time it comes back up, it has the same things on the website.

With that said, the website itself expires this November.

The true test of whether or not this should be taken as a sign that something new is indeed coming from Tecnosoft, we really need to wait to see whether or not they let the website automatically expire (which I'm unfortunately suspecting they will).

Like I said, I don't want to be a wet noodle, but they've been taunting us with the words "wait a while" for almost a year now.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:35 am

I think 'a while' would be about a year in developers terms. There could still be something in the works here.

Someone in Japan go track down their offices!

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:38 am

I'm not getting my hopes up for a true sequel at this point... Even if that webpage is bone fide and its owner also holds the Thunderforce IP rights, the URL could just end up being a platform to promote the inevitable release of Thunderforce II,III,IV on Nintendo Virtual Console. But you never know...

gunbird18 · Post by **gunbird18** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:50 am

Lawfer wrote:Pure hope? Or is it LAST hope?

Oh, snap! Lawfer beat me to it!

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:01 am

Ceph wrote:Compile-Heart, Tecno Soft... What's next? I vote for Toaplan.

Someone revived http://www.toaplan.com, but the whois suggests it's most definitely fake. The only thing listed on the product page is Zero Wing. That is hilarious.

sideshow · Post by **sideshow** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:14 am

Come on Technosoft. Make a new Thunderforce for the XBOX 360 and dont do it like Project Sylpheed.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:50 am

A friend of mine in Japan shared quite a probable theory. Apparently, Sega had contacted him recently about rereleasing Compile games for Wii (his company owns the rights for some of them), and have in general been positive about releasing games from their 8- and 16-BIT days. So quite possibly, Tecnosoft have been contacted for the same reason, and are now reopening their site to promote their old games.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:54 am

zinger wrote:A friend of mine in Japan shared quite a probable theory. Apparently, Sega had contacted him recently about rereleasing Compile games for Wii (his company owns the rights for some of them), and have in general been positive about releasing games from their 8- and 16-BIT days. So quite possibly, Tecnosoft have been contacted for the same reason, and are now reopening their site to promote their old games.

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