Main Puzzle

Oh well.. it's not a Christmas puzzle at all... but every year in this special time I always feel like a child. In my childhood I had a lot of time to PLAY games, even if it was harder to get them than nowadays. Especialy I loved jRPG because I could name heroes and I never played them using their real names... and in that way Miss Edna, Pix and Els was born.

Those three girls will guide us in our trip to the past for searching real names.
Go to the past ith puzzle

To provide good Christmas mood here is one of my favourites carols: Carol of bells. Feel free to post carols most liked by you in comments, I'll appreciate if it will be your national ones :) For those who are good childs obligatory GA (meh titles which don't fit to solver's train :D)


Hints

  • if you know what to do with q1 grid than no more special knowledge is needed, from this point it's pure thinking puzzle :P
  • if you have idea to use paint.. pls.. dont :D I'm not that cruel :D probably the best solution is using conditional formatting, try it, it's magical for Q2/Q3
  • dont try to guess, everything is on plate, all pieces of puzzle are provided and visible, no hidden parts on imgur desc or in code
  • sometimes 1 piece cant reveal whole beauty of picture, try to put them all to see sth
  • 1+3=4

Puzzle details

End Time: December 25, 2015, 9:00pm unbundled games: January 1, 2016, 12:00am
Games: Update: There was little reorganisation in solvers train. Flockers™, A Story About My Uncle, STRIDER™, Isbarah, This War of Mine, also vote here

Bonus rule: Because my puzzles are hard (don't know why) and always has a problem with CV, I finaly found proper way to deal with it :3 Bonus part solvers will get "wildcard ticket" for future half empty "solver's trains"


Solvers (Main part)

1. summon1ng

2. AleNofx

3. Kuzurreesh

4. malabagaa

5. chour

6. PapaSmok

Solvers (Bonus part)

1. chour


Main Part Solution

First image was nonogram. I used 0 as white, and 1 as black. 2nd and 3 image have more numbers and each of them represent color. Colors was provided by thread image. 4th and 5th is a marge from two previous methods where first number is a color, and second is a number of pixels.

Result of images is posted in hints now: http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/0E0ee6ts/CeSjXECm

Bonus Part

The easiest way to solve main part was take excel from puzzle and put some numbers in grid, then use conditional formatting and it was solved. The main reason I also posted images in all questions was that I hid sth there :D All images has same size when you put all of them together and play with contrast you will get this in 8-9 row. Binary its: 01000111 01000001 00111010 01000001 01110011 01001100 01110110 01010001 -> "GA:AsLvQ"

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8 years ago*

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Bump :3

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Some more bumping.
Had to play this one with real name.

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Yup.. I need to play it, for sure.. not with her real name XD I always play ff naming characters as people close to my heart.. I had better emotional experience that way :D

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The only one I remember playing without real names is FF9.
It's confusing when you then want to search for something online. :D

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Can I ask you how you edit your Title after posting the discussion thread?
It would be very useful. :)

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Just click green buton "open" and you can edit thread and title ;D

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Thank you very much.
How silly I feel right now ... :P

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how im supposed to solve this puzzle? O.o

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Don't know but I can give you cake.

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oh thanks :)
and.. the last hint u gave us in the thread is for Q4/5?

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yup :D

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what was the bonus part solution? ;)

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solution posted

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very nice, thank you ;)

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I have no idea what this kinda of puzzle needs to be solved, first time I see grids like this with just numbers on each side. Anyway nice effort and a lot of work was obviously put into this so have a bump, even if I didn't understand anything about this puzzle. :P

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solution posted :D

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Your puzzle was... well.. sick!!! too hard for my liking, especially the color part was plain crazy and the stuff you did afterwards.. However I appreciate the fact that you reminded me of the beauty of the masterpieces : chrono trigger & FFVI. Those were indeed the days.

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I saw the row 8 and 9 thing, just didn't think about binary.
Tried a lot of other things.

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Sooo next time ask for hints :D I always try give people right track if they make effort to solve my puzzles :D

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