The Dink Network

I personaly think this is a good idea since it will breath extra life into the game and see it last even longer. A PC equivalent of the ongoing success of Final Fantasy I (recently re-published in Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls on the GBA, which has sold extremly well) perhaps? Could it happen? Could our favourite RPG see that kind of success and still be going strong 20 years later? Well I think it could. Ten years already and still their are a lot of people coming to this site and new members still and plenty of new file being submitted and/or worked on. Ten years and its success is still going strong. Final Fantasy I has only lasted so long because first it was ported and enhanced for the PlayStation, then was expanded for the GBA (while retaining the enhancements of the PSX version). Dink Smallwood has an advantage over Final Fantasy I, however. It has users constantly doing the improvements (redink the program, undink, Windemere, and of course Dink 1.08. Final Fantasy relies on SquareEnix only. And as we all know businesses don't have the time or money to do this sort of thing this often. And who would pay for the a new cartridge with an improved version of Dawn of Souls? Not many people. Dink users can release their improvements for free. So in other words, I think Dink will still be going strong when Final Fantasy I is long buried.

As for 1.08 itself, what I have been reading so far is promising and pretty much all good ideas. So keep up the good work everyone! And I mean everyone, not just those working on Windemere and 1.08, I mean those working on other Dink file, regardless of their success, because even the bad ones add extra life to the game since in many ways the game is like a tree (the more branches the better).