A gaggle of followers are porting a Persona buying and selling card game from 2003 to the web to be able to protect their beloved however little-known TCG.
Digital Devil Story Trading Card Game is a discontinued Persona buying and selling card game that isn’t archived within the west. As a outcome, it’s fairly tough to get your arms on playing cards – which is why a gaggle of followers try to construct a digital equal that’s extra broadly accessible.
“This is a trading card game Atlus had in circulation starting in 1997,” the poster wrote on ResetEra. Apparently, it was printed with help from an organization known as Enterbrain till 2003, earlier than Media Factory took over till 2004.
“The pictures I took are from a lot of 20,000 plus cards I bought,” reads the publish. “It covers 8 out of the 9 parts of the Enterbrain game since the person I bought it from stopped collecting around that time.”
“There are multiple copies of every card as well as cards that come in multiple rarities and 15, (now 13), unopened packs of part 4,” it continues.
Apparently this model of Digital Devil Story consists of characters from Shin Megami Tensei 1, Shin Megami Tensei 2, Shin Megami Tensei If…, Devil Summoner Saturn, Soul Hackers, Persona 1, Persona 2, and Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne.
The poster notes that additionally they have about 80 playing cards from the Media Factory variant of the game than ran from 2003 till 2004.
You can view scans of each single card here. The poster is engaged on translating the rulebook and the entire playing cards earlier than digitizing the game.
The poster concludes by noting that they bought the set of 20,000 playing cards primarily as a result of they needed to port the game to the web. They additionally say that there’s nonetheless numerous work to do to be able to full the compendium, and the one motive they’re making such fast progress is as a result of their pals are engaged on the venture, too.
This is unofficial, not like the Persona 4 Golden PC port – which, because it seems, a Yosuke romance mod is being developed for.
