oh, ok. i thought you meant you just couldn’t kill 'em. i’ve never had a problem if i really went after the worms with the intent to kill (a finger on each shooter button)… or at least i get pretty close to killing them if i fail to kill all of them.
[quote=“Megatherium”]
oh, ok. i thought you meant you just couldn’t kill 'em. i’ve never had a problem if i really went after the worms with the intent to kill (a finger on each shooter button)… or at least i get pretty close to killing them if i fail to kill all of them.[/quote]
My version is the US one. I was never really hellbent in destroying them though and I do some damage to them when I’m the back side, so I think they can be killed. I’ll try some cheats as sugested. 
here is the first paragraph translated. it’s not a direct translation, i more tried to get the point across. also note that i’m not a native speaker in both languages.
"Developers Epilogue (or the natural high of those who make it just in time)"
A certain day of a certain month in 1995
(Note) The reprint of this essay in a different media is strictly prohibited.
It?s over, it?s over?.it took long… Finally I can get a good night?s rest. Last month I had 220 hours overtime. It kind of reminds me of my time as a newcomer…
This winter the flu (influenza?) seems to be very popular with the team. Somebody always gets it, and it?s like they pass it on each other in strict rotation. But then, WHY was I the only one who knew no sickness and was alive and kicking? I would have thought, but 4 days before release I was down with 38? fever. Murphy?s Law I guess.
?Panzer Dragoon? shortens to ?Pandora?. Indeed, should this become our ray of hope?? If you want to say so, one of the moons of Saturn actually is called ?Pandora?、now if that isn?t suggestive…
I come from a business hardware background, but I have to say that the Saturn totally outclasses the abilities of all professional boards from those days. When I entered the company, I had never imagined that such a thing would ever enter family households. And we were supposed to know how to make good use of the hardware?s abilities even before that. For this reason, if we ever get the chance to get into it for a second time, we might be finally able to announce a really OUTSTANDING game.
But until that day, See You?
P.S.
You can enter cheat codes in the ?game options screen? (^_^;
Hidetoshi ?WIZ? Takeshita
i’m really busy at the moment, but I’ll hope I can get you the rest until the weekend)
Hey, thanks for translating that, lordcraymen. Don’t worry about English not being your first language, it looks fine to me.
So who was Hidetoshi Takeshita? I recognize the name from the Zwei credits.
Interesting that one of Saturn’s moons is called Pandora…
Huh, interesting.
For some reason, reading that gave me a similar feeling to reading all the old diary-type thingys while playing Myst.
Yes, I am a complete nut-job.
[quote=“Bluefoot”]Huh, interesting.
For some reason, reading that gave me a similar feeling to reading all the old diary-type thingys while playing Myst.
Yes, I am a complete nut-job.[/quote]
It did didn’t it?The same happened with me hehe
Thanks lordcraymen, It’s great to see (and understand) the words of one of the creators of PD.
Is this the only doc or the other japanese PD games have docs like this one too?
Thanks for the translation, lordcraymen; it’s unfortunate that Sega removed this document from the Western versions of the game, and I’m glad we’re getting to see what it says. (It’s strange to think that this was written nine years ago…) The idea of relaunching panzerdragoon.de gets a thumbs up from me too, by the way.
The first two games credit him as the System Programmer; it was his name (well, his “Wiz” nickname) that caught my eye when I first saw this document on the disc.
I’m pretty sure there’s nothing like this on the Azel discs, but I’ll double check at some point. As for PDZ, I don’t actually own a Japanese copy of that… does anyone else have one?
He’ was 1 of the programers of the Panzer Dragoon. He now works for Artoon (makers of BLiNX)
This topic looked interesting so I popped in my Japanese Zwei copy and sure enough there’s a Readme here as well.
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Unfortunately, that isn’t Japanese text though, they’re just random characters thrown in there instead. Maybe if you have Japanese language support installed it might show up.
hahahahahahahahaha thats exactly what thought while looking at it
those guys actually made panzerdragoon fun poems… I wonder how I should translate those… 
It is Japanese text, just go to View-Encoding and select Japanese (Autro Select). For some reason it wouldn’t allow me to cut and paste the actual japanese characters sorry about that.
Hmm, well that’s something I didn’t expect. I wouldn’t worry about making the translations rhyme…
Nice find Raizen, it looks like that document didn’t make it onto the Western discs either.
I’ve had a check through the Azel discs myself, but unfortunately I didn’t find anything else there; the only non-game file I noticed was a text document called “ANDRO”, which contains the address of Team Andromeda’s old website. Oh well…
Hmm… I just attempted to modify that readme text so that it’d display as Japanese characters by default, but after I’d edited the post not all of the text would display (it cut off about halfway through), so I’ve changed it back. Is there a maximum character length for posts on these boards?
I think there is a maximum length for posts, although I don’t know what it is specifically. Scott might know, he’s the phpBB expert around here.