Welcome to your home for Crystalis on the internet! Crystalis, a classic adventure/RPG game, is one of the greatest titles ever (in this guy's opinion) for the NES (Well at least good enough to be rereleased). I got Crystalis probably back around 1991-92 when I was a young lad of about 6 or 7. My brother and I were in Toys R Us and I remember wanting to get the game because the box cover was cool--we had never heard of it before--plus it was only 16 bucks, a pretty good deal. This page contains general information from the game that is found in the instruction booklet and also contains pictures, music, downloads, the NES ROM, walkthroughs, and more. Hopefully I'll be of aid if you want play the game but you lost the booklet (and are utterly confused by what a 'Tanned Hide' is), if you're stuck somewhere, or if you just want to make sure you're not the only person who thinks this game rocks (It was #59 a couple of years ago on Nintendo Power's top 100 games for any Nintendo system).
Crystalis was released by the SNK Corporation in July of 1990, and was released in Japan under the title "God Slayer". The company went on to make the Neo-Geo system and Neo-Geo Pocket. If anyone has more information on them, please email me. I found a list of all the games they have published (as of a fairly long time ago): SNK Games. In June 2000, Nintendo rereleased Crystalis on the Game Boy Color (GBC); there are a few small changes in game play and Nintendo worked to tie the plot more closely together, as SNK had to neglect the plot when releasing the NES version in order to meet their deadline.
Many people have asked me how to get the game, while there used to be some places to find used NES games (e.g. Funcoland) I 'm not aware of any still dealing in them. The only good source I know of is e-bay. If anyone has had luck elsewhere, let me know.
You can also play Crystalis by using an emulator. An emulator is a program you can get off the internet that makes your computer act as an NES or any other video game system. The best of these, in my experience, are RockNES and Nesticle. You can easily find a place to download them on the internet by typing either of them in on a search engine, or by merely going to zophar.net. Then you need to get the Crystalis ROM which is located in the "Downloads" section. Note: when you play the game on Nesticle you will sometimes see some blue crap flickering at the bottom, to fix this go to "Scroll Fix 2" under the "Settings" menu (thanks to RPG Classics for this info).
Updates
11/3/01-This is a notice to all skilled programmers out there, a guy named Robert Garr is looking for a programmer to work on a Crystalis online RPG game, if you are (or know) one, email him at ston3pony@hotmail.com.
05/23/02-I revised the winamp skin i made, so it will not be back up for a bit (in case you were confused). But i think it looks a lot better now and i'll post again when it's back up. Crystalis Amp
07/23/02-I'm pretty sure the Winamp skin is now up and I added a Fan section so people could submit their fanfics and fanart, there's nothing in it yet, but i hope it will grow
08/07/02-I temporarily removed my Winamp skin cause although the picture on their site was the new version, the one to download wasn't... so expect it back up later. On the brighter side i added an NES link to Nintendope so check it out
10/18/02-I'm in the process of finally making my own Crystalis walkthrough, and I'm also putting maps into it, but right now I'm only about halfway done the game and I haven't been able and won't be able to work on it for a while just cause I'm quite busy, but I'm throwin it up here so you can comment on it, especially the maps, I want to
make sure they're good, thanks: walkthrough
12/08/02-I put my Mario rom hack in zipped ips format for downloading in the "downloads" section so you can get either way.
06/26/03-I added a couple of links, Crystalis related to be exact so check them out in the links section.
07/22/03-Link added for a used video game store.
11/07/03-Fixed the error plaguing the main and many of the subpages... seems like all that was showing up was the counter (though half of the main page showed up for some reason). I got rid of all the nedstat counters, as they seemed to be the cause of the issue. Sorry for the major (though i don't know when it started) downtime.
06/27/04-Added link to incomplete "Monsters" section in the drop-down box... I started it a while ago but hadn't posted it; should be updated later in summer.
03/17/05-Added the sound of Teleport magic when you click the "Go" buttons. I'm quite fond of it, hope you enjoy. Happy St. Patrick's.
06/20/05-Added a section on Godslayer under 'Fanstuff' thanks to a fan's contributions of some great artwork from the original Japanese packaging.
11/04/05-Finally added some stuff to the fan section; check it out and submit some stuff. On a somewhat related note, does anyone happen to have a copy of the Crystalis winamp skin i made? I no longer seem to have it and it's no longer up on the winamp site. E-mail me if so.
01/30/06-Added a navigation page for people who had issues with the drop down boxes; still not sure what causes the problem as it works fine for me with Firefox 1.5, but some people have had problems with the same browser.
07/05/06-Minor fix in walkthrough. Here's a neat link, Game Spot ranks top 10 NES games putting Crystalis in its Honorable Mention... not bad. Also fixed link for Gamefaqs' Message Board. I also turned the song player's autostart option to "false," I think it can get a bit annoying when you reach the page and 8-bit sounds blasts your ears. unfortuantely this fix only works in IE.. still waiting on Firefox. Added a link to Nintendo Repair Shop, a company that will fix your old systems. Pretty neat. Also neat is Console Classix which offers a form of legal online emulation.
12/27/2007-Recently noticed I had not a single 2007 update. Just wanted to say hi to all and that yes, I still answer (and enjoy) email, etc. Maybe 2008 will even have some legit updates... who knows! But Happy New Year in any event.
01/20/2008-A surprising update with 2008 less than a month old! I haven't looked at the intro paragraphs too much over the years and realized they were lacking in both proper grammar and more-recent information. Also, a belated Happy 10th Anniversary to the site! The site first began in Fall 1997... wow. Many thanks for all the emails I've received over the years (and keep them coming!), hopefully this site will continue to spark some old memories and even inspire some gamers new to Crystalis.
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