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TODO

 * Wait for scans of Attack Special: Shining Force II Kouryaku Book Gekan (Shining Force 2 article) to be uploaded on RetroCDN or Archive.org
 * Wait for scans of Shining Force Liner Notes (Hiroyuki Takahashi article) to be uploaded on RetroCDN or Archive.org
 * Wait for scans of Shining Force 1 interview (Shining Force 1 article - RetroCDN - Famitsu) on Archive.org once someone uploads it to there
 * Wait for scans of Famicom Tsuuhin 11/89 issue (Dragon Quest IV article) to be uploaded on RetroCDN or Archive.org

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Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
According to long-time producer for tri-Ace games, Yoshinori Yamagishi, tri-Ace had been always planning to make Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria ever since the completion of Valkyrie Profile in 1999 but titles like Star Ocean: Till the End of Time and Radiata Stories took their attention away from focusing on developing it. tri-Ace's desire to create Valkyrie Profile 2 makes sense considering how Valkyrie Profile 1 sold 300,000 copies by the end of 1999 (Valkyrie Profile 1 came out in December 22, 1999 and the cited Weekly Famitsu sales record for 1999 was compiled days later on December 28, 1999 for the matter) and how Valkyrie Profile 1 's sales totaled over 709,000 copies sold worldwide by September 2005. With the fact that Valkyrie Profile 2 was the only original and main-line tri-Ace game veteran and prominent tri-Ace employees, Yuichiro Kitao (battle programmer for Valkyrie Profile 1 and then leader of the battle programmer team for Valkyrie Profile 2), Eiko Sawamura (map graphic designer for Valkyrie Profile 1 and then art director for Valkyrie Profile 2) and Shigeru Ueki (lead programmer of Valkyrie Profile 1 and then again Iead programmer for Valkyrie Profile 2) were credited on between 2003 and 2006 after work on Star Ocean: Till the End of Time was completed. Development on Valkyrie Profile 2 can be reasonably assumed to have started in mid 2003 after Star Ocean: Till the End of Time was released or the very latest, early 2004 when bug fixes for Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (Director's Cut) were finished. Note: the PSP ports/remasters of Valkyrie Profile 1 (2006) and Star Ocean 1/Star Ocean 2 (2008) were not developed by tri-Ace and were actually developed solely by an outside game company named TOSE.