I’m not sure, but if I had to choose one track from Secret of Mana to sum up my entire experience with the game, this one might be it:

Repeating Eternity - Hiroki Kikuta - Secret of Mana
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I think the track embodies the feeling of wonderment I got the first time I played the game. The whole song just builds up and up and has a real sense of there being something big to it, and something adventurous and mysterious.

I dunno, that’s just how the song feels to me.

Also it’s always bugged me that this track has eight bells ring in it, but it wasn’t the track actually entitled Eight Ringing Bells which has zero bells in it. It’s another track that I think pretty much defines Secret of Mana to me. Actually let’s listen to that one too, why not?

Eight Ringing Bells - Hiroki Kikuta - Secret of Mana
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See? There aren’t any bells in that. Unless the beginning is supposed to be glass bells maybe, but it’s much less obvious than the eight bells ringing in the other song. I wonder if maybe the titles got mixed up, it seems like the title Repeating Eternity could fit either of them really.

Hey look I’m doing updates! I just redid the entire Secret of Mana Item Page! You might think that’s a really dull update, but why don’t you go look for yourself?

Yup, that’s right, those are the official art of all the items from the game! Well, except the barrel, they didn’t draw that one for some reason. They come from one of the Japanese guides, and I’m working on getting all sorts of other items, armor and weapons scanned as well!

Here is a little preview showing what I do to get these images ready:

See I gotta clean up those ugly lines that they throw in front of stuff and make sure everything is all nice looking and stuff.

So yeah, I hope you all enjoy these images! As far as I know Seikens is the first place on the internet to display these. I’ll work on getting bigger nicer versions into the gallery soon as well!

Today’s track comes from Seiken Densetsu 3 and personally I think it’s the best song in the entire game.

It’s really neat and I love how it flips from very sad sounding to very hopeful sounding. It reminds me of the boss track from Secret of Mana, except that one flips back and forth between hopeful sounding and oh no oh no oh no we’re all gonna die sounding.

Anyways I hope y’all enjoy this track, and that this news post won’t stay in isolation here on the main page I pray, as I plan to actually get some updates on here this week. Hopefully.

Hope Isolation Pray - Hiroki Kikuta - Seiken Densetsu 3
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- Sorry for no update last week! We’ve only got two things this week though.

- Yeah, I think Neko has been influencing people on eBay, all of the Mana stuff is pretty expensive.

- It is how I want it to be.

- Anyway, check out the last update because things haven’t really changed much from there. But there is also this Secret of Mana Map and Manual They look kinda rough from the picture, but not too bad. And at 16 dollars with shipping it’s practically a steal compared to the other copies of the same thing going for upwards of 20 dollars without shipping.

-Just how I want them to be.

- Another thing you might be interested in is this Rabite Strap for your phone or whatever! You might think it’s too expensive considering the same thing goes for 9 dollars on the official square site, but that site forces you to buy at least 23 dollars worth of product. So if you only want this strap then this is your cheapest bet.

- Well that’s it for now, see you next time!

Today we have two songs since I forgot an update last week. And for the two songs I have four names, two for each.

That’s because the info my media player gathered for song names and the song names we have on the site here are different, so I figure I’ll just include them both cause I have no idea if one is more correct than the other.

These two songs are pretty overlooked I think, but they’re really good. Also they pretty much go together considering when you hear them in the game.

To Reach Tomorrow/Morning is Here - Hiroki Kikuta - Secret of Mana
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This Sole Wish/One of them is Hope - Hiroki Kikuta - Secret of Mana
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Today’s MMM comes from the special disk that comes with the SwoM soundtrack that is full of some really awesome piano versions to different songs from SwoM and FFA.

Pure Smile - Kenji Ito - Piano version of A Girl’s Longing from SwoM
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- Whoa, the studio is all dusty, what happened?

- We thought you were never coming back!

- Whoa, Neko, you’re still a cat?!

- We’ve been locked in here the whole time and Neko wouldn’t share any of his candy!

- I can’t just give those away for free, what kind of business model is that.

- Sounds like you two had fun, anyways, want to get this thing started?

- Can I get a snack first?

- Nope! Here we go! Check out this neat looking Secret of Mana Wallscroll! It’s got the art from the mobile release and it looks super cool!

- It is pretty expensive but here is a Legend of Mana Rabite Necklace. They are not so easy to come by anymore, but this price is pretty high regardless. Only buy this is you are desperate to get your paws on one of these. Also finding a complete Seiken Densetsu game any lower than this price is pretty rare. Pick this up if you’re a collector, it has free shipping.

- Maybe just a little snack? Medicinal herb? …Dead Rabite?

- Also, it’s been forever since I’ve mentioned the seller japan-ssdyuk and their store on eBay. Here is just a sample of the awesome stuff they have: Final Fantasy Adventure Guidebook, Seiken Densetsu 3 Prologue Book with Cards, Legend of Mana 4 Panel Comic Book, Old version of the Legend of Mana Manga, New version of the Legend of Mana Manga, Sword of Mana Comic Books, Sword of Mana Novels, Seiken Densetsu Piano Book.

- If they seem too expensive you are overlooking the fact that each of the auctions have a “buy it now” option you can use to submit a price you think is fair. From other people I’ve heard that making an offer with this seller tends to work.

- Anyway, we’ll see you all next week with more stuff!

- Bring food.

You’re all feeling nostalgic about the way the site used to update with these each week right?

No?

Oh well you get a song with the word Nostalgic in it anyways. I think Yoko Shimomura must really like that word since it’s used in songs from Lom and HoM. This song is from HoM and it’s a really nice track.

Tale of the Old Nostalgic Kingdom - Yoko Shimomura - Heroes of Mana
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Anyway, updates are coming back. Expect to see the shopping channel and I’ll try to get some other stuff going as well.

Hey everybody, Rozovian from the Seiken Densetsu 3 Remix project I’ve posted about a few times before (here and here) is looking for help on the project!

This time he’s working on making a trailer for the album and is looking for different videos from Seiken Densetsu 3 to fill it out.

The videos need to be good quality (better than what you can find on Youtube) and of anything you think is especially cool in Seiken Densetsu 3. It can be an awesome battle, your favorite cutscene, your favorite spells or just exploring your favorite location in the game.

Mix it up and be sure to include different characters so the video has lots of variety to it so it can really showcase all the different great things in SD3.

Just make sure you’ve got a good quality video and that it’s around a minute long for each little adventure you include. You can contact Rozovian on his OCRemix profile once you’ve got the stuff.

Thanks for your help!

Via Siliconera

Square Enix set a date for Legend of Mana’s debut on PlayStation Network. Shinji Hashimoto announced the digital version will be ready on July 28 over Twitter. You’ll need 365MB of free space on a PSP memory stick or PlayStation 3 hard drive to run it.

Like other Game Archive titles, Legend of Mana costs 600 yen ($6.50). The PSN re-release has not been announced for any region other than Japan at this time.

Thanks to Kimiko for pointing this out to us.