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5th March 2010

Here's the srt sub file for part three of the Salamander anime - 10k, just incase you don't want to download a large file again.

You can use MKVToolnix for remuxing the new srt sub file into the old mkv file.

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/

4th March 2010

Salamander Anime, I've added the missing subtitle text on part three of the anime ('previously on Salamander' intro).

I've decided to seed the new version as no one is seeding the old one anyway.

If you have downloaded the files before, just download part 3 as the other files have not changed.

In utorrent, go to the Files tab and right click each file you don't need and select Don't Download.

Encoding Date....: 7th February 2010
Source...........: DVD
Runtime..........: 1x01 54.03 min - 1x02 51.43 min - 1x03 52.12 min
Size.............: 500MB each
Video Codec......: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
Video Bitrate....: 850-900Kbps
Framerate........: NTSC 29.970 fps
Resolution.......: 720x480
Aspect Ratio.....: 4:3 (1.500)
Audio Codec......: AC3 - 2 Channel - 448Kbps - 48KHz
Audio Language...: Japanese
Subtitles........: English - updated 4th March 2010
Genre............: Anime

Salamander Anime - DVDRip MKV AC3 Japanese - English Subtitles - 720x480.torrent - 1.46GB

2nd March 2010

Gradius Arc グラディウス・アーク

Could this be a new Gradius game for the PS3 or Xbox 360?

http://gs.inside-games.jp/news/222/22233.html - Translated to English

18th February 2010

The Hi-Res Scans section has been updated to the new format (no new content yet) still some things to sort out but it works ok at the moment..

Also changed some of the Japanese text with the help of Fujix from MAME Testers.

14th February 2010

Change the roms for Amstrad, C64 and ZX Spectrum, added screen shots to the rom packs to show the game differences.

Change the way the Cheats section works, all data is now in the database making it easier for me to update and add new stuff.

I've decided to move the Fan Based games to it's own section rather than mixing them with the official games, also made the navigation better for browsing the Fan games.

13th February 2010

Just when you thought you have seen all there is on the C64, I find a cracked version of Nemesis with a new loading picture by ASH.

Gradius C64 Loading

Nemesis C64 Loading

I already knew about the fan art by THE SORGE but the new loading image by ASH is pretty good too, as you can see they are much better than the official shots above for Nemesis and the US version Gradius which look like ZX Spectrum images.

Fan art by THE SORGE

Fan art by ASH

7th February 2010

I've re-ripped all three parts of the Salamander Anime with the latest x264 codec and direct AC3 audio, tweaked the translations as well as scanned the front covers and DVD.

They are now MKV files with the embedded srt subtitle file.

Please seed as people have been taking the p*ss and leeching the files making it slower for everybody else.

No longer needed.

Part three has no translation for the short 'previously on Salamander' intro, this bit was cut from my last version but I've decided to add it back again.

31st January 2010

Added arcade Sexy Parodius Special Stage to the cheats section.

30th January 2010

Added release date information for the Arcade, Saturn, PlayStation games.

Gradius 20th Anniversary is now on 29th May 2010.

Sorted out some site display issues in the games section.

10th January 2010

Just finished making all the icons for the various sections, Contact, Links, Emulation, Multimedia and Cheats.

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Contact Links Emulation Multimedia Cheats

6th January 2010

Added Konami Logo History to the Guides section, the images now have the correct alpha transparency this time, same with the four Kukeiha Club Logos in the Multimedia section.

I've started work on icons for the all the sections, to make the site more consistent, I already had one for Games, the new icons I've added today are for Artwork, Cameo, Downloads and the Guides section..

Added a little reminder of what section icons I still need to do.

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Games Guides Downloads Artwork Cameo

You may have noticed that I've based the Cameo icon on The Goonies cameo of Vic Viper..

The Goonies

3rd January 2010

Lots more cheat action added to the Wii Gradius ReBirth, Six new extra stages and four 5000 points with screen shots.

I believe I've got all the Extra Stages but there are lots more 5000 point bonuses to find.

2nd January 2010

Finally got around to grabbing the elusive 29th of the month option screen image change on the Sega Saturn Gradius Deluxe Pack (only in Gradius), see the cheats section for the image.

I tried grabbing it a few days back but the SFF Saturn emulator kept locking up when loading the game.

I tracked it down to a corrupt iso of the game, four hours later I've re-ripped my collection of Saturn and PlayStation games with ImgBurn as all had bad sectors.

ImgBurn, my favourite small does the job nicely burning program that rips to cue-bin iso files as well.

http://www.imgburn.com/

CDmage is an iso checker and converter, great for checking if there are any corrupt sectors on your rips, I know the program is old but it does the job and it's portable.

http://cdmage.orconhosting.net.nz/frames.html

Sega Saturn Emulator - SFF Ver0.11 alpha R2 (their naming scheme is a bit odd but the emulator play games quite well).

http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~phantasy/ssf/index.html

1st January 2010

Happy new year

Updated all the Arcade roms to the latest version of MAME 0.136 (release yesterday).

Funny that there are now six different versions of Gradius II GOFER no Yabou (グラディウスＩＩ～ＧＯＦＥＲの野望～).

It would be nice to know what the differences are between all the versions.

Changed all the downloads from zip archives to rar archives (apart from the Arcade roms as MAME only does zips at the moment), this has save some server space so I maybe able to add some new stuff.

30th December 2009

Added modified intro images for Saturn Sexy Parodius to the GameStone section in Art Work.

Sega Saturn game logo's have finally been added to the various sections.

Sexy Parodius intro images added to the Saturn section.

Anciently created some display bugs in my php scripts (games_games.php and games_system.php) with the Cheats update yesterday, all have been fixed hopefully.

29th December 2009

Change the Cheats section to list games in the correct order of release rather than by game name.

Move some of the text about in the MSX Cheat section to make it more readable as some of the text in that section came from translation software.

Added Gradius MSX hidden stage information, thanks go to GOGS for the info and screen captures.

26th December 2009

Added some cheats for Gradius ReBirth, lots more to add but I don't any more at this time.

Gradius ReBirth Sprite rips have also been added to the Downloads - Sprite Rips section.

25th December 2009

Merry Christmas

Changed the Contact page a little bit.

Updated the Gradius Home World logo on the top right, much sharper and more refined compared to the old version.

Gradius Home World - New Logo Vs Old Logo

Gradius Home World - New Logo Gradius Home World - Old Logo

Also change the random logo shadows.

24th December 2009

Tweaked the new layout to look more like the dark forum theme (when set to Dark Style).

Got around to doing some image buttons for the site Style switcher, see it at the top of the page next to the GameStone logo, I personally prefer the Dark Style, there are only two themes at the moment but there's no reason why more could be made.

Finally sorted out annoying bug that would stop the java Countdown displaying in IE6, IE7 and IE8, I was not that bothered as I use Firefox but I thought I would sort it out as it was bugging me.

22nd December 2009

Three great site Japanese sites from the same person, excellent information and layout.

http://bhdaamov.hp.infoseek.co.jp/parodius/ - Strategy Parodius - Translated to English

http://bhdaamov.hp.infoseek.co.jp/gradius/ - Gradius World - Translated to English

http://twinbee.ninja-web.net/ - TwinBee World - Translated to English

Added System link icons to the Genre section of Games, also remove some broken links in the Links section.

6th December 2009

Added all the box art for the Game Packs, some are poor quality but they are the only ones available at the moment.

Tweaked the width of the site wider by 50px, move the region selection flags on all the Game section pages to the top right, this makes the pages a little shorter and easier to view.

The System images in the Games section are a little large for the fixed width layout, I will modify then at a later date.

4th December 2009

It's now the Arcade - Gradius III ~ Densetsu kara Shinwa e ~ 20th Anniversary

グラディウスＩＩＩ～伝説から神話へ～（ＡＣ）コナミアーケード

Chat about it in the forum.

2nd December 2009

Gradian is selling some of his great one of a find sculptures on eBay, these could make some great unique Xmas presents for Gradius fans.

Choking Weed

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280432287241

Golem of Salamander 2

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280432288141

Antenniod

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280432289291

Slash Fighter

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280432290331

Big Core (includes micro Vic Viper)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280432290743

28th November 2009

As you can see the site is in a bit of a mess at the moment, hopefully it should be sorted out today.

Update: New top navigation and fixed site width, I will be working on some new colour themes over the next few weeks.

26th November 2009

Magnet links for the Salamander Anime.

All three films are, DivX5 720x480 1500Kbps - mp3 48000Hz 128Kbps Stereo.

No longer available.

20th November 2009

GameStone's Chiptune Collection v1.00

Gradius ReBirth v2 tunes (three extra tunes in the updated version), sound effect and speech added.

Now contains 1033 files at a total of 179meg, see Downloads, Movies and Music for the listing and download.

Official Art section updated with original files rather than resized jpgs from years ago:-

Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius ~forever with me~ - PlayStation - OMAKE
Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius ~forever with me~ - SegaSaturn - OMAKE
Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus - SegaSaturn - OMAKE

Made the Guide section easier to navigate.

Changed the heading in this section, made the page less busy with borders, tweaked some of the positioning and colour code, still a work in progress while I try some new coding techniques.

15th November 2009

I've been doing a general clean up of the GameStone site code and scripts (not just the Gradius Home World section), it's taken two days of hard coding and hopefully it's completed.

No new content has been added but what's here should work better and more consistent between browsers.

This site is fully tested in Firefox but should display fine in Internet Explorer.

13th November 2009

Sorted out the broken link to Gradius Deluxe Pack for Windows, also split the file into six 20meg RAR files, as I was having trouble uploading the original 110meg file.

26th October 2009

Finally Gradius Deluxe Pack for Windows has been found and uploaded to the Downloads Games section, its quite large at 105meg.

Thanks to Dimetra for the information.

Windows Gradius Deluxe Pack tunes added to GameStone's Chiptune Collection v0.95 (now contains 610 files at a total of 125meg!!!), see Downloads, Movies and Music for the listing and file download.

25th October 2009

Updated the Emulation section with the latest links, also added the Wii emulator Dolphin.

17th October 2009

Salamander Anime torrents.

I've ripped and encoded them from the DVD and replace the crappy DVD subtitles with a much better separate srt subtitle file translation.

All three films are, DivX5 720x480 1500Kbps - mp3 48000Hz 128Kbps Stereo.

I recommend µTorrent as it's quite a lightweight program for downloading these files.

I'll seed them for a few weeks to see how it goes.

11th October 2009

Change the Art section to remove some doubles and add some artist credits.

Gradius ReBirth has been updated on 13th October 2009 with some new features.