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SMT IMAGINE Thread
So I talked about this last night, and I would have made this thread earlier but I didn't wake up until 1 PM central time, so yeah. Sorry about that.

Anyway, for the uninformed, SMT Imagine was an official SMT-themed MMO complete with demon negotiations and alignment system. The west only got it for a few years, and the official servers shut down last year in Japan. But, fear not; there's a chinese with optional english patch you can find here: http://megatenonline.proboards.com/thread/1035/chinese-private-server-play

So with that out of the way, let's all start playing together! I started a long time ago, but I dropped off since none of my friends were playing anymore. I think it could be a fun time. Just reply or something if you want to give it a shot. I'll probably bump this thread later on, so our friends who have to work today can see it.
Oops, forgot a few words.

There's a chinese private server with an english patch. Haha, sorry.
curious. But my computer is trash
I have an account on the Chinese server. I should redownload it and get back to playing. I'll let you know how that goes. I think I'm like level 25-ish? No I'm not willing to make a new character to be even with everyone else. I've come too far.
@Liam: How trash, because the game is old as hell and doesn't require high specs
My Ipod is trash
I never got too far, like maybe level 8.

I did get a Jack Frost though, me was my boy.
hmm.. I don't know how trashy. Maybe I will give it a go then.

I know I can play Touhou without a hitch
but not tonight. too tired.
Oh my god.
Dude, I love you. (no homo)

MegaTen Online was a personal favorite of mine.
Time to redownload this all over again. I'll bump this when I finish.
i'll look into this when i get home!!
Important note:
WHen you make an account, it will only let you log in if your account is made of pure numbers.
I'd love to play it honestly. it sounds fun ! I just hope mara is tameable
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I'm getting nostalgia chills all over again.

I'll have to play when I get a chance.

Back to packing
You're already done downloading....
It's only 1gb
http://imgur.com/a/376HF

My boy Srooky lives again
Mine's still going...
I would love for this to be a thing for the Phansite to get onboard with lol

Hazama, do you remember if guilds are a thing?

I honestly never got far into the game because I couldn't wrap my head around the game as a child. (Didn't stop me from trying though)
I can confirm Guilds are thing, though they are technically called Clans I believe.
Your Clan has a hometown and depending on the hometown the price to make it can vary from 10,000 to 100,000 Macca.
Shinjuku Babel is probably the best choice to use as a Clan's Base since it's basically the center of the world map, but Home III is the first area and the cheapest. I probably have the cash to set it up if I can access my old account, the only question is which would be the better place
aim for 100 k
I'm on break at work now but I'll check this out tonight.
@Liam: If I remember correctly the bases that cost 100k are the Alignment cities. While I don't think there's anything preventing a Chaos character from entering the Law City, it would be a bit awkward to put it in either of those towns.
I LIVE
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Ayy, I have an account on this. I'll log on in a few.
We need a Phansite clan :3

also, bump.
The ultimate goal:

Kill the angry tattooed man.
Is the Angry Tattoo man on the Private Server? It uses an old version I believe.
I'm currently using an old English client to get the game in English. But when I'm done I'll try and meet up with anyone else online and, if I have the cash, try and set up the Clan. If I can, I may or may not be broke.

Probably broke.
I'll try and join tomorrow. I really want in xD
That's a good point, he might not be.

I'm in the middle of setting up this cool P5 theme for my phone, but I'll hop on when I'm done.
If I don't have the cash well... welcome to the grind once more I guess. Maybe I can sell off the outfit I'm wearing and get proper armor.
Mao
Seems interesting
@Hibiki don't prostitute your clothes ! they didn't ask for that !
I guess since I also like smt I'll give this a try.
So it turns out I have 2,000 Macca.
So the price of a clan in Home III is 20k, or 80k in Shinjuku Babel, what's the plan guys? Just buy one in Home III, or save up for Shinjuku Babel?
Is it possible for us all to pitch in?

If so, depending on how often everyone plays we could probably work up to 80k.
Yeah you can trade cash, so yeah. If everyone wants to pitch in. I'm heading to go grind now so I'll be working to get some, but it might take a while.
Would someone kill me if I mentioned the yukata I'm wearing cost me 100,000 Macca, so I could have easily set up the clan if I didn't buy this last time I played.
...I would, probably.
I'll pitch in too if I can play
So is there a place we could meet up in game? I'm gonna try to get to Shinjuku Babel right now.
I'll be grinding in dungeons, if anyone wants to add me my username is Amaya
@Akechi-kun: Most of the people here are low level or so, meeting up in Home III is a better idea.
Okay nevermind, I won't go into the dungeons. I suddenly remember why I quit SMT Imagine
@Hibiki If that's the case then maybe setting up a clan at Home III is a good idea as well.
Yeah. I prefer Shinjuku Babel but it takes a while to get there and Home III is significantly cheaper.
So, I had a lot of 30-34 damage weapons in my mailbox. Neat.

Did anyone else have them?
Yeah, you get them when being a new user. Unfortunately, by the time I figured that out, I had already purchased better stuff.
That's depressing.
I'll attempt to install when I get home in a couple hours.
Pretty easy installation process. Just got to unzip a few things.
Do note to everyone here, there is a user on Page 2 who links you to the original English installer. If you follow their instructions, you can play the game entirely in English.
Didn't know that bit, I'll have to look into that. I don't know how to do most things but I can get almost anything to run on my computer through patching and whatnot.
You had me at MMO. Time to lose all sense of time again..
Got it working, none glitchy music makes this game much more enjoyable.
My music is STILL glitching

How did you fix it butterfly man?
@hazama: Do the thing I did.
That's not very descriptive friend
I said it like a few comments ago.
N-nani?! Oops, didn't see that.
I finally have time to play :D

I know Amaya, and Srooky
anyone else? I wanna start adding people as soon as I get my bearings on the game controls.
i'm gonna get this as soon as downloading it won't cause lag for my roommate!!

i'll probably just be pure-anon or something!!
I'll be on once I finish washing dishes. But yeah I have to readjust myself to the game because I've been playing shit like LoL where right clicking moves the character...
My username is mediuspotentia for anyone curious.
By the way, Yu-narukami = Persona, thought I'd make that clear.
The lag is real on this lol
forgot to mention, my characters name is KiyoshiTakeuchi (god i really should've named it after my usual social network stuff) tried to add hibiki but i should've said it was me
I'm hanging out by the Jack Frost merchants at Home III if you guys want to meet up
I suddenly might have to suddenly do stuff tonight.
@Akechi-kun: Yeah good job I saw you add me and rejected it cuz i was like who dis
Wild Akechi-kun spotted
Shit I've been spotted.
I forgot how real the lag is...
I never seem to get lag, I wonder why that is.
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Gonna get this when I can get outta bed...
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whoa this is some intense nostalgia!!
I had some lag trouble and had to sign out but I'll be on again soon enough.
I'll get it when I get home from work. Is Home III the server? Also, my name will be imtherealklib...as usual..
We actually managed to beat Garm on our own, so NICE
Also, everyone online meet up at Home III

Home III is the first "town" by the way Klib
What's a Garm?
Ah kk, is there only 1 english server?
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I'll head there now then.
@ThatOtherHibiki: There's no English servers period, heh.
Just an English translation.
It's a Chinese private server but you can use files from the old launcher to patch it to English
Ah, gotcha! And dawwwwww....what a cute puppers...I mean, save for the weird lizard underside it has, but still cute.
Wait hold on... why are you on the Shadow Hibiki account
Kalib what are you up to
I'm hanging out by the suicidal Jack Frost merchants
I believe it's to GM a rp thread.
how is everyone building their characters!! i would like to do something that compliments everyone!!
I'm a lv27 running a Magic Bullet build personally
I'm leaning towards Blades and Destruction Magic, but my stats are low enough rn that I can afford to be flexible
I'm going to mainly go for physical two-handed attacks, not sure if I want to major in any magic yet.
uh!! some guy just gave me 100k!! so where did we want to set up the clan!!
Oh, IMPORTANT!!!!
Here you can find Chain Expertise, this is very important to make sure you know what you wanna build towards because Expertise has limited points and its expensive to respec
He offered me as well, but I replied with nani and he walked off

I guess he thought it meant no?
jeez!! how fortunate!!
wtf i want 100k....
Anyway pure-anon, I'd say in Shinjuku Babel.

If you have Ariadne's String then teleport there, if not then we're in for the long haul
You could give me the cash if we wanna do it in Shinjuku, it is my homepoint
i don't remember how any of this works so someone take the money from me!!
For some reason, I've lost my ability to type in the chat.
Okay I got the money, I'm gonna TP to Shinjuku, I assume we want to name the clan "Phansite" correct?
and we're absolutely sure we want it in Shinjuku?
@Hibiki nothing....probably...
shinjuku is the center of the world so it seems to be the best choice!!
True, so Phansite in Shinjuku?
someone plz respond this is expensive and i dont wanna fuck it up
the money was free, so it's not a big deal!!

shinjuku is the best place from what i remember though!! it was always the center of activity since the alignment cities are so far away!!
Sorry, had to do something real quick.

Anyway, Shinjuku seems like the best pick in my eyes. Also, I asked nice and got free cash as well, so hooray.
I'm good with whatever.
i want cash im gonna cry
Also is it very pay to win?
I'm gonna relog to fix chat
Not from what I've seen, just a lot of grinding.
No, it isnt pay2win, most objects you can buy with real money is cosmetic... but you can just buy the same items off other players for ingame cash anyway so
@hazama that I can do! Is there exp caps once you're like 5 levels over a monster?

cause in Digimon Masters they stop giving you exp after you're past the level of the given area
I'm gonna ban hazama and pure-anon from the clan for getting free shit while i cry
I'm the master of getting things for free without asking
okay he gave me bats you're all forgiven
bats? like baseball or the flying mice?
:/
The lag is so bad, I havn't been able to to complete the tutorial.
That's weird, you'd think the tutorial would be the least laggy place
have you turned down the graphics settings to Shit Quality
It's not the graphics that's lagging me, it's ping.
I've spent 10 minutes trying to just walk forward without being teleported back to the middle of the room.

"Rubberbanding" if you will.
Weird, my ping in games is usually shit but its going fine here for me
Fun fact:
If it disconnects you, you have to redo the entire tutorial

T_T
@Joker

OOC: Well it seems to be in China so it might be REALLY laggy.


Unless you live next to China.
Poor Joker...
That sounds awful. Hang in there Joker!
Okay so an update to everyone not in the game, we're just hanging out in the first base waitin on ya, Phansite has been established as a clan, we're hanging out with some people who gave us free stuff
Will be with you in roughly 5 hours...fuck work...I wanna go talk to demons and shoot magic...wahhh
I can't log in anymore.
Max users have been logged in after it disconnected me :/

I may not have a choice but to just give up on this.
Being over here in America is murder on ping for a Chinese server
i wonder what the problem is
i have a shit connection andalso live in america but the ping is fine? it lags to fuck sometimes but its fine most of the time
U.S.A forever Joker
Same Hibiki
ISP? Some are just better then others methinks..
makes sense i guess
rip Joker
That's quite unfortunate Joker.

My computer is a pile of partially functional poopoo, and my internet is meh but I hardly ever encounter problem.
20$ graphics card....that is all....I'm impressed at what my rig can do for less thank 600
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Incase you guys are curious as to wtf I'm talking about.
it occurred to me that I wasn't GMing, so I didn't really need to be under the other account..huh..dumb me...
What class is everyone btw?
I'm always a mage so...hopefully we don't have a ton of those..
There really isn't any classes. DW too hard about it anyway, respecing isnt too hard, maybe a bit costly but its fine
gonna try it.
I live in SEA so there probably won't be any ping issues for me
i think i'm going to go the heal/enhancement/curse route!!
Currently run an MB build but might respec for DPS
AkiraKurusu...why you live in the SEA? you a merman? or a mormon? I get those two mixed up sometimes..

And okay, I'll try to think of what I want to do, but I won't min/max my brains out.
i posted the wiki, you can check that link to get an idea of the type of builds people do
Aye Aye Cap'n!
bump cause screw the shitstorm
shitstorm? what did i miss
We were boarded Cap'n! Anons left the cesspool and came on land.
is that legal
They won't tell if you won't tell.
Sounds like I missed a good time
Something like that.
We go on a dungeon raid and this is what happens.
speaking of, did you guys get good Mac and Mag from Celu?
Yeah, I think I got that 177 Mag I used to summon Macha back.
Oh boy. I'm going to be so lost whenever I start.
probably klib
probably
Ok well I got my character made. After I figured my account name and pass needed to be all numbers after trying for like 4 hours off and on.
So how early do I get mara, and is it mountable?
Well I have a bird with a sword so that's pretty neat.
I will be logging in now. My username is Amaya and I will be hanging out by the Vendors in Home III. I am just informing everyone because I am the owner of the Clan, and I believe the only one who can recruit people. So make sure to find me and tell me who you are so I can recruit you to the Phansite clan.
I've gotta drop someone off after work, so I might be a bit late. But I'll be around shortly after 7 I hope.
Sounds interesting.I'm not an MMO-fan but I'll give it a try.
Pretty fun combat for an mmo actually.
So what's the story of the game? Who are we fighting?
dw Klib I will probably be here for a while so Take Your Time
Demons, same as every other main series SMT, the world ended and now there are demons so fight them.
@Kalib: Basically the plot of Imagine takes place between SMT I and SMT II.

World got destroyed, Demons are everywhere, humans have holed themselves up in a few safe spots and Devil Busters go out and fight demons.
I have not gotten far enough in the story to know specifics other than there are artificial humans, government investigating some mystery
the storys final boss is Seth

....
Lucifer is there
(as a rather attractive woman for some reason)
I knew there was a perk to going to hell
I'm in. When can I start adding people?
Also MMO bump
I guess I could hop in.
I'm currently wrangling pixies
I believe I know where you are, I just got mauled by a group of cats there.
I tried adding you. My username is imtherealklib and my IG name is just Kalib
Can't seem to find you in the friend request thing. Maybe just try meeting in the first town?
Also why is the chick from a certain scientific rail gun an NPC?
I'm waiting by the terminal in Home III
ACG7 is the server right? It was the only one I saw.
Well I'm getting off. I gotta crash. I'll be on later.
See ya.
Don't think, Bump!
Yes there is only one server, it is a private server after all.

The reason why the NPCs might be anime characters or cute girls is because the Chinese server client has custom character models for most NPCs. If you want a more authentic experience, you can do what I did, and use the Aeria client to install the game, and overwrite some of the files in the Aeria client with the Chinese Server ones
aside from changing the character models to the actual ones, this will also make the entire game in English, and fix the music glitches, at least for me
i explained how to do this way earlier and im tired so i wont give a step by step guide here
BBumPPPP
Oh, yeah. You probably saw but Klib did get on, I got him in my friend's list.
@Hibiki
"
1. Download and extract the chinese client in the original post in this thread
2. Download and install the client from this link: gamefront.online/files/13323597/MegaTenSetup_2009_02_18.exe
3. Select all the files from the chinese client's root folder (in other words not any files in the sub-folders), EXCEPT for "ImagineClient.exe" and "ImagineOptions.exe".
4. Copy them over to the install folder of the official Aeria client."

So copying everything except those two files from the chinese client to the Aeria client?



Yes, then you will become a God! Also important to note, launch the game from the new client not from the desktop icon installing the client gives you.
@Persona: Yeah too bad I crashed before he got on rip

@IamThou: Copy everything from the root folder, so everything except those two exe files, AND the subfolders, do NOT copy those over
I had the english patch installed a while back. All my cutscenes remain in Chinese? Is this normal or..?
@Hibiki
Alright. Thanks.
Demons just speak Chinese.
@Marsh: Did you just replace the one file like the OP says or did you do the client thing like IamThou is doing because that should fix everything
I just did a file. I probably need to read through this thread and fix it.
Alright did those steps and everything's in English.


Nice.
Okay so it does work then. I played through the opening sequence so I'm lost on story, if it even matters. This was a few weeks back tho.

I'm gonna fix it when I can.
I should probably log in now so anyone who plays now can find me and join the Clan
So just a reminder my name is Amaya, I have a Lilim and I will be chilling out in the western part of Home III.
I'm pissed that I left off on the part with the fat guy named snakeman or some shit. I wanna behold my demons already.
I have a bird with a sword so that's pretty cool.
yes his name is snakeman
or for the cultured of us
big boss
I'm gonna see if I can find an hour to play today lol

I gotta download that client but now I really want to get started.
Wait since it's a chinese private server does that mean that there are a lot of chinese players on?
hey if you're on now find me so i can just invite you lol

as for chinese players, i have seen several but it depends on when you play
its pretty popular so i usually see more English players than foreign ones, though i also usually play when it would be late at night in china
Snrk! H-huh? Yeah, I'm awake. Man, all you people waking up before noon, I envy you.

Anyway, I'll probably be on here in a few; I'm going to install the old client to fix the music. It may take a bit to download.
I never slept.
inb4 we start RPing in Imagine



ecksdee
I'm tempted to try a trial of WTFast to see if it fixes my lag problem
I did finally encounter a bit of server lag.
That'd be interesting to say the least.
The combat system is pretty good btw.
RPing in Imagine? Don't tempt us
I'll do it, you know I will.
Maybe I should've made a female character then...
no big deal, you can always just make another account if need be
I mean we get more benefits the more people there are in the clan so making spare accounts with secondary characters isnt exactly being discouraged here yknow what i mean
Funny how the second we're given a goal we all consider how to cheat.

Anyway, I'm online, going to go leg it to Shinjuku Babel. I could use the EXP.
I could get on but I'll probably be distracted with everything happening on the forums.
i hate to ask but whats happening now
this is the only tab i have open
That spamming anon just got banned by joker it seems and the ramen god palace raid is happening.
Oh thank god i hated that "anon"
Also, a lot of misc rp stuff I'm involved in.
To be fair Hazama, Sloth and them last night were the ones to suggest cheating in the first place
I didn't hate them, in my opinion, there have been worse anons, but they were really annoying.
Really? I actually thought pure-anon brought up the question of alt accounts costing any money. Oh well, guess it doesn't matter.
I must be laggin' man this snake man is screamin at me in Chinese and I'm doing what he says but he won't talk anymore
she brought that up but Sloth or whoever was the one who brought up the idea of making a hundred dummy accounts so the Clan could hit Rank 10 lol
Does anyone know if this guy teaches you demon negotiation?

If he doesn't, I'm totally running away.
Snakeman doesn't teach you negotiation, some guy in Suginami does ALSO MARSH WHO ARE YOU WHERE I YOU I NEED TO RECRUIT YOU
Lmao I'm just stuck in Snakeman's matrix room trying to get him to talk

And I'm not lagging actually, he just won't say anything else.
if you're in the matrix room and he wont talk its probably because he gave you a task and is waiting for you to do the thing
Oh, it just disconnected me.

And I thought I wasn't lagging.
Let me get back on and try again. Can we add each other even if we're in different zones?
Yeah i will be able to invite you if i have your username
well, character name not username but yknow what i mean
My user name is MarshDaddy

I'm lagging like shit now but I did manage to log back in, maybe it'll go through idk
Ayy, logging in now.
....so for some reason it wont let me type in MarshDaddy
only MarshDad
.....so......
lmao

new character time I guess

if I can log back in, i'll send you a request and maybe that will do something
okay i cant invite you unless i can find you and idk where you are
I was still trapped in that room.

I wasn't able to log back in after three tries, so I'm going to download the remainder of the English patch and try again tomorrow maybe.

Bear with me here
I think I'll log in soon if no one calls on me in the rp. The pain of having too many rp accounts...
you sure i mean a friends like willing to give ya stuff
have you tried looking up on the wiki or like
fucking gamefaqs to see if you can find an answer
well he told me he needs to do something first so nvm rip next time then
Should we make like some kind of chat for this somewhere to talk about this

like an IRC or some retro shit
okay Marsh he gave me the stuff to give to you later
Oh you were talking to me about that stuff lmao

sorry i'm actually looking up some shit right now

I'll download the patch and look up some lag-killing stuff ;_;
bump
hey Pure are you on
Sloth asked me if i wanted to keep the bats or would prefer like sakura blossom effects on my character and i said it tmight fit you better, what do you thin
oh!! that sounds nice!!

i won't be able to log on for a little while, though!!
SLOTH FOUND A FEMALE FRIEND WHO GAVE ME SHIT HOORAH
im a Persona Protagonist now
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I wish I could be a Persona protagonist.
Did somebody say... 72?
....no?
No, I don't think so.
I'm bored so I think I might go grind.
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Have fun with the grind.
who on
I could be on I realized grinding is really slow in solo.
yeah ngl i probably wouldnt have gotten this far without mootching off of higher players carrying me through harder runs
OOC: Doing the tutorial and already got a friend xD
I won't be on until like later today at best.
'Grats on the friend tho.
OOC: Legit feels like when Yuki met his teacher on "innocent sin online" xD
oh...is it:

lol XD i m so drunk r n !! ;3
OOC: woah just realized how much pure-anon sounded like that
If pure-anon is a cute high school teacher I think I'd like them so much more. And I like them a significant bit.
@imtherealklib "Oh? I'm not cute enough?" she said jokingly.
teaching high school was a career path i considered at one point, but i didn't end up going that route!!
@Miss_Kawakami Nah, you're totally adorable! Don't worry!

@pure-anon Same, but then I realized that I still wasn't sure what I wanted so I hesitated, and didn't end up doing that.
OOC: Confirmation: Demi-Fiend is not in this version
That's the tattooed fella who is pretty damn strong right?
OOC: Some guys are trying to revive the old JP version though
Yeah, the Chinese server is fairly outdated so it lacks things. I'm awake now so if anyone's on hmu
sorry i crashed YET AGAIN so i couldnt try and add anyone last night
bumping this cuz it fell to the depths of hell
bub
How's it going Marsh did you fix your issue?
I'm on my way home, the English shit is all downloaded.

I may have an hour or so to log in again. I hate fuckin working man you have no idea how bad I want to run around with a pixie and be free
Nah man I totally understand...
except i dont use a pixie
that really sucks though jeez
im glad i get so much free time
Yeah lmao

I woulda said Lilim but you have that and we have to keep our demon gang unique.

Are groups based on alignment?
one day ill ditch lilim if i can get a succubus tbh im gay for SMT Succubus
and if you mean the clan no, its not, just players and demons
Ah alright I was thinking Chaos demons, tho pixie is neutral..

In that case, I'll take damn near anything.
you can fuse and use any demon regardless of alignment but the mag cost can increase a LOT
so you need Mag to summon demons and if you're a chaos player, then high level law demons will have insane mag costs compared to a chaos demon
So I'm online right now and probably will be for a while so if anyone wants to join in
I'm currently trying to figure out how to open the game. I'll start playing ASAP
How to open it? wdym?
I'll log in.