You may have heard the phrase “rich as Croesus”. He was the last king of Lydia. And as far as the Hellenistic world is concerned, they invented coinage, so at one point that meant “literally richer than anyone else”. The story goes that Croesus was wondering whether it was wise to attack Cyrus of Persia. The Oracle at Delphi famously gave him a non-answer, and to make a long story short, it turns out it was not a good idea to attack Cyrus of Persia.

Today, that kingdom’s legacy is largely confined to abstract affairs. For instance, a “Lydian” modal scale starts on the subdominant note of a major (or “Ionian”) scale; the Cerulean City theme from the first generation of Pokémon uses this scale, and may be the only place you have heard it (one of the Magypsies from Mother 3 is named Lydia, which may be the only place you have heard of it). But it is only a name; we know only slightly more than nothing about what most forms of music in ancient times sounded like, and the music of ancient Greece and its surroundings is no exception.

Nice.

(BTW FCEUX does have a screenshot button. F9, or maybe F12, it should be in the Hot Keys list. )

Still need to fix all the special codes (namely, line breaks and its delightful friends), but now the original tiled dialog rendering code has been suppressed and replaced with a sprite-based one. This should fix most of those stupid text alignment issues with the VWF (they were even in the original, check the scrolling intro with the bg picture of Baron).
There are also other invisible hacks, like 8-char names for characters and Huffman string compression (many thanks to Kingcom for all the codec procedures!). The last of these new additions made it possible to have a much expanded script in there with no need of unnecessary encoding tricks like dte or mte (heavily used in the original).

I could probably insert the GBA/PSP script fixing whatever is necessary (i.e. random line wraps) when the hack is complete, hence why I've been using that funky font for the current tests.

I'm actually going with the official Japanese set of names, so it's gonna be Rydia in the end. That "Lidia" you see in there comes from an ancient save I had sitting in my Memory Card.

EDIT: I'm pretty much done with the dialog parser:

Now it supports most special codes (I've still got to reverse delays and auto-close) and I was also able to add a new one to clear an entire dialog page, so it's no longer necessary to use a ton line breaks just to split stuff. And guess what else? Now it's all automatically formatted, too!

Awesome! I feel the aura surging inside me! That's probably the only Genesis game I ever thought about working on myself.

Where did you get that font? That looks exactly like what I used in Wozz and Tenshi. I can't remember anymore what my source was. Wherever you got it may have been where I got it, and my missing memory can be put back together again!

It is appropriate (as it's been said they're based on the same engine), but now when I see it I'm going to think of Transcorp instead.

I'm liking your stuff Gemini, I always liked that FFIV DS theme.

I would word the last sentence as "It is best played on (the) Super Game Boy." The way it is right now is rather awkward sounding.

Are you trying to make Blue look more like Gold? Reminds me of the GSC pokedex somewhat.