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Posted June 09, 2015
Thanks Tekkaman.
Posted June 28, 2015
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I've made photos of my Pier Solar Mega Drive manual. I only photographed the pages concerning gameplay and controls (and the only page concerning the backstory) and left out all the credits and console setup pages.
I know these photos are not great, but they are only meant as a temporary solution until Water Melon finally gets around to release a PC manual. And I'm not really comfortable with distributing good scans of a commercial fan work that has still version in print, although the developers themselves do not seem to be capeable of delivering a manual for newer ports in a timely fashion. And I'm not really sure how much these photos help anyway as I neither had the time yet to really play the Mega Drive nor the PC version.
The photos can be found here, I'll delete that file as soon as an official manual is released. Please don't redistribute it, linking to it is ok. The archive with the photos is found here: [url=https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~deusser/Gabelvampir/Pier%20Solar%20MD%20manual.zip]https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~deusser/Gabelvampir/Pier%20Solar%20MD%20manual.zip[/url] (archive-password is my GOG forum name)
Posted June 29, 2015
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Gabelvampir: [snip]
Thank you very much for taking the time to do this! +1 to you, good sir!

As for the e-mail that I sent the devs, it has now been 20 days and I have not heard from them at all. Not a good sign. :(
Posted March 31, 2016
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Gabelvampir: I've made photos of my Pier Solar Mega Drive manual. I only photographed the pages concerning gameplay and controls (and the only page concerning the backstory) and left out all the credits and console setup pages.
I know these photos are not great, but they are only meant as a temporary solution until Water Melon finally gets around to release a PC manual. And I'm not really comfortable with distributing good scans of a commercial fan work that has still version in print, although the developers themselves do not seem to be capeable of delivering a manual for newer ports in a timely fashion. And I'm not really sure how much these photos help anyway as I neither had the time yet to really play the Mega Drive nor the PC version.
The photos can be found here, I'll delete that file as soon as an official manual is released. Please don't redistribute it, linking to it is ok. The archive with the photos is found here: [url=https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~deusser/Gabelvampir/Pier%20Solar%20MD%20manual.zip]https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~deusser/Gabelvampir/Pier%20Solar%20MD%20manual.zip[/url] (archive-password is my GOG forum name)
Thanks man, this was a really nice thing you did for the community. A bunch of us will enjoy the game a lot more now :)
Posted March 31, 2016
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sivartwoa: Thanks man, this was a really nice thing you did for the community. A bunch of us will enjoy the game a lot more now :)
(Almost) no problem. I just wish the developer's would communicate better with their audience (they've been bad at this at least since I first heard about and pre-ordered the Mega Drive version in early 2009). And that they would produce a real manual PDF themselves, they should already have a manual for the PC version laying around that shipped with the physical release. Then I would not have to do something that's probably illegal in my home country )and most of the countries the Pier Solar team members are from) to help people play there game).
And I wish I had the free time at the moment to play the game myself.
Post edited March 31, 2016 by Gabelvampir
Posted June 10, 2017
Yeah, this is ridiculous. It is now June 10, 2017, and there is still no manual provided for download. That's piss-poor. The developers are really slacking here. It simply cannot take a great amount of effort to scan the cartridge-version manual pages to PDF and then include them on GOG for download. And since the game has no tutorial and apparently provides no clue as to what buttons do what, I literally cannot pass the start menu. I've pushed every button on my controller and on my keyboard - nothing.

Negative user experience. And it could have been easily mitigated with a minimum amount of effort by the devs.
Posted February 18, 2021
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Stormwalker: Yeah, this is ridiculous. It is now June 10, 2017, and there is still no manual provided for download. That's piss-poor. The developers are really slacking here. It simply cannot take a great amount of effort to scan the cartridge-version manual pages to PDF and then include them on GOG for download. And since the game has no tutorial and apparently provides no clue as to what buttons do what, I literally cannot pass the start menu. I've pushed every button on my controller and on my keyboard - nothing.

Negative user experience. And it could have been easily mitigated with a minimum amount of effort by the devs.
February 18 2021, and still no manual.
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