Suikoden Cake and gifts!

Today is our colaborators birthday!
Even if thats something personal, I had to show the images of the cake!
Just sweeeeet!

Hoy es el cumple de nuestro colaborador Winds.
Incluso si es algo personal, tenía que ensenyar las imágenes de la tarta^^
Coooooooool!
It was as good as it looks ;P Its done by Don Pan, a bakery company :3 its really well done, isnt it? It was sad to swallow Nanami's face :_( XDDDDD

Está tan bueno como aparenta ;P Está hecho por Don Pan, una cadena de panaderias y pastelerias :3 Fue triste masticar la cara de Nanami :_( xDDDDDDDD

And a birthday needs gifts for being perfect, so lets show the new suikoden items that Winds got today!

Y un cumple necesita regalos para ser perfecto, así que aquí están las cosas nuevas de Suikoden que ha conseguido Winds hoy.
Suikoden card stories guidebook, suikoden IV promo cellphone straps (Sasarai, Hugo, Chris and Sierra ones), Lyon figure, Suikogaiden 1 schedule book, suikoden II stamp set, Suikoden II fan.

Suikoden Calenders

One of the things we always wanted to talk about but have held off for a long time are the Suikoden Calendars. The reason we procrastinated this post for so long is because we didn´t have info and pics, and now we do! (Maybe we are still missing one or two :P)
Let´s go through his chronologically, shall we?

Suikoden II 2001 Schedule Seal Calendar
This was one of the first calendars released from Animate for Suikoden.















Suikogaiden Vol 1 Animate Calendar

















Suikogaiden Vol 1 2001 Calendar














Sample Picture















Suikoden 2 2001-2002 School Calendar
This tiny calendar was another one from Animate.







Suikoden 2002 mini-Calendar
This calendar has really cool images from Suikoden 1, 2, and Gaiden. It is a mini stand up calendar. This is very hard to find.

Suikoden 2002 Poster Calendar
This calendar is quite huge, every month is the size of a poster. It has very good and unique images. This is hard to find but not impossible.








Sample Picture















Suikoden 2003 Calendar

















Suikoden IV 2005 Calendar
This calendar is the same size as the 2002 one. It is hard to find.














Suikoden Tierkreis 2009 Calendar 1
One of the latest calendars, it is relatively easy to find.







Suikoden Tierkreis 2009 Calendar 2
This other calendar was released when Tierkreis came out, and its part of the Complete Limited Edition, but they sell that separately too. It is still easy to find.

Nanami new items!

Últimamente no posteo demasiado por esto de las vacaciones, pero intentaré no dejar el blog muy abandonado. Aquí dejo una foto de mis nuevos items, ¡gracias, Winds!

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Lately I havent been posting too much because of the holidays, but Ill try not to leave the blog anymore. There's a pic of my new items, thanks Winds!

Items:
Suikoden II 2002 calendar
Suikoden II necklace strap
Suikoden II NTSC-J sealed!
Suikoden III purse set A
Suikogaiden Vol. 1 place mat and coaster
Suikoden III pamphlet
Suikoden III Chris PostCard

Suikoden III Memory Card Case

This is an update to an the "Suikoden: las memory card" post by Nanami located here.

Every once in a while Nanami and I are pleasantly surprised by a new piece of Suikoden merchandise that in all of our combined years of searching and collecting, have never seen before. It just goes to show us that even when we think we've seen it all, there are still some hidden gems and surprises left for us to find ^^. It just so happens that recently beautiful Nan and I came upon an item like this, and it turned out to be a Suikoden III memory card case. As you can see its very similar to the original Suikoden 1 memory card case pictured in the other article. It opens like a dvd case and inside houses 7 slots for playstation memory cards to fit in. As a little bit of an upgrade too, this time in each memory card slot is a little bit of artwork to look at. The extremely cool thing about this is I won the auction for it :), nerdy Nan tried to win it, but in the end she was just no match for me :D (actually she let me win it, isn't she the best ever? *kisses!*)

Here are the pictures of the inside and outside of it. Enjoy!

Suikoden CDs

Aquí dejo una lista de todos los cds de Suikoden que conozco con algunas descargas.
There is the list with all Suikoden cds I know and with some download links.



Suikoden I OST










Suikoden II OST vol. 1










Suikoden II OST vol. 2











Suikogaiden Vol. 1
Download/descarga









Suikogaiden vol. 2
Download/Descarga










Suikoden III OST
Download/Descarga









Suikoden IV OST











Rhapsodia OST
Download/Descarga
(Downloaded in http://bluelaguna.net and redownloaded in .rar by myself)









Suikoden V OST










Suikoden Tierkreis OST
cd1
cd2
Additional disc
(Found on Emuparadise forum)







Suikoden Tierkreis Extra Soundtrack










Suikoden Ongakushu by Hiroyuki Nanba










Suikoden III Ongakushu ~Rustling Wind~
Download/Descarga










Suikoden Vocal Collection ~La passione commuove la storia~










Suikoden Vocal Collection ~Echoes of Love~










Suikoden Sokyu no Koe- Voices best Himekami









Suikoden II Orrizonte
Download/Descarga








Suikoden Asian Collection










Suikoden Celtic Collection vol. 1










Suikoden Celtic Collection vol. 2










Suikoden Celtic Collection vol. 3










Suikoden IV Music Collection: Another World










Suikoden Music Collection- Kentaro Hano










Suikoden Piano Collection I
Download/Descarga









Suikoden Piano Collection II

Winds Suikoden......room?

Hola everyone!
In light of sweet Nan's recent suikoden room post, I thought i'd share with you my suikoroom as well. This has been several years in the making, and involves lots of blood, sweat, and tears so I hope you are completely jealous ^^
Glorious, no? Okay so I lied, it looks like urine. It isn't so much a room as it is a couple of drawers and bins :(. I haven't had the time or wilpower to build something as nice as Nanamis yet, but I plan to move houses in the not too distant future. Once i'm nice and cozy in this new place, you can be sure i'll be getting out the ol' hammer and nails to build my suikoden collection a nice display area, as well as building lovely Nanami her very own Suikoden castle ^^.
Why did I chose to collect Suikoden you may be wondering? Let's travel back in time to when I was a young scrawny boy vs the body building hunk I am today. I would have been about 15 years old when I first saw Suikoden 2. At the time I considered rpg's to be the most boring types of games imaginable, I was more into games like Resident Evil, Goldeneye, and Mario Kart. I remember I was in my friends basement and he was playing some game that seemed highly outdated, as if it were a port from Super Nintendo. In fact I even remember making fun of the game, calling the graphics horrible and laughing at the sound effects. He told me the game was called Suikoden 2 and that I absolutely HAVE to try this game, even if I didn't like rpg's. Usually I would have told him to go straight to hell :D, but I had recently had my playstation 1 modded to play backup games, and I was copying every game I could get my hands on, so I copied this "suikoden 2" game he raved so much about. I have to admit I was very intrigued from him telling me I could recruit 108 members to build an army. Not more than a few days later I tested the game out based on his recommendation. I tell you, playing this game was one of those sweet moments in life that you'll never forget, like getting married or having a child :). Something about this game was so magical that no one can easily explain without actually playing it for themselves. I literally played this game 15-20 hours a day, I would wake up very early in the morning and play it until very late at night, repeating this schedule until I beat it. I remember even calling my friend at key moments in the game and discussing it with him as we both played. No game has ever touched me in the way Suikoden has. About a month later I was in a flee market when I found the original Suikoden for $20 used. I snatched it up right away and immediately fell in love with that game as well. One of the only games I actually spent money on instead of copying, that says a lot haha.
Now fast forward to not so many years ago in 2005. I was living in England for the better part of a year making tons of cash for school. I came back to Canada with loads of money to spend :). I had never owned an official copy of Suikoden 2, and it was always something I wanted to own. So I looked it up on ebay and saw how much a used copy was selling for (over $100). Then I saw one auction for a brand new sealed copy, at the time I had no idea about people collecting this stuff as a hobby so I figured a sealed copy must be SO rare, thinking this copy might be the only one in the world haha, I decided to buy that for an outrageous price (over $200). From there I researched everything about suikoden merchandise including all the stuff released in Japan. This led me to some wonderful sites which in turn led me to meeting the most beautiful girl in the world, and I think we all know who i'm talking about :).
It really is quite an amazing thing to reflect on after all these years, to think how it all began with a game that I once called a cheap super nintendo port. Suikoden holds a huge place in my heart, and so does the girl I met because of it.