View Full Version : Anyone else not realize that Meseta is from Phantasy Star?
CullJeff
05-25-2005, 07:08 PM
I was looking through some of my video game stuff and found a Phantasy Star III hint book. In a page about one of the stores it says: "without Meseta all you can do is window shop"
am i the only one who did not know this. in my defense i wasn't a big Phantasy Star fan.
Promophile
05-25-2005, 07:27 PM
mesta is in a bunch of games. possibly breath of fire or wild arms i think.
CullJeff
05-25-2005, 07:28 PM
I need to start paying even closer attention to my games.
Mattiekrome
05-25-2005, 07:29 PM
I knew that it was a video game currency, but as far as which game I wasn't sure :embarrassed:
I thought it was from "message" (mes) + "peseta" (money)= meseta.
I always thought "DPeseta" or "Presseta" was better, but now that I know...
At least it's not "gil". :D
Cmosfm
05-25-2005, 08:23 PM
They shoulda called it "BLING BLING", we'd have attracted more younger and hipper users. :P
No really, I didn't know at first, I called it Menesta and Joe corrected me, I felt shamed. :embarrassed:
digitalpress
05-25-2005, 08:29 PM
mesta is in a bunch of games. possibly breath of fire or wild arms i think.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Ed Oscuro
05-25-2005, 08:32 PM
don't forget zenny, you pick it up in lots of Konami games u c
By the way, I am very very saddened and disheartened that nobody has taken the time to open up a Phantasy Star weapons/armor shop :( I would put ALL my meseta into a suit of titanium armor! :D
Wavelflack
05-25-2005, 09:08 PM
I didn't know it was in any other game besides PS.
Time to buy a transer.
Ed Oscuro
05-25-2005, 09:12 PM
<-- NEEDS VISIPHONE AND AEROPRISM. BADLY. Will convert various currencies (gil, meseta, copper pieces, zenny, skulls, bottle caps, and much more)!
NE146
05-25-2005, 09:18 PM
Meseta is probably my FIRST console money I've ever known! Isn't it? What else was before it besides Mario coins? :?
Wavelflack
05-25-2005, 09:19 PM
rupees
Promophile
05-25-2005, 09:20 PM
mesta is in a bunch of games. possibly breath of fire or wild arms i think.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Is the outrage due to my mispelling or the fact that the games I listed don't contain meseta :? ? Cause I'm almost positive I've seen meseta in a PSX RPG.
NE146
05-25-2005, 09:20 PM
rupees
aah yeah :D
Guess I didn't think of Zelda as my mind was stuck in console RPG's :) (And no I don't want to get into the debate about Zelda: rpg or not) :P
Needle
05-25-2005, 09:29 PM
mesta is in a bunch of games. possibly breath of fire or wild arms i think.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Possibly the best Joe response ever. Couldn't stop laughing. LOL
I wonder what a meseta looks like? I don't an actually visual representation of the meseta has ever been seen in a Phantasy Star game.
tededfred
05-25-2005, 09:43 PM
mesta is in a bunch of games. possibly breath of fire or wild arms i think.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Possibly the best Joe response ever. Couldn't stop laughing. LOL
I wonder what a meseta looks like? I don't an actually visual representation of the meseta has ever been seen in a Phantasy Star game.
Yes, in PSO. Looks like a little yellow diamond shaped thing.
Wavelflack
05-25-2005, 09:43 PM
I actually have a mental picture of meseta (and always did), and I imagine the coins to look like sand dollars.
Reason?
Every once in awhile, my Great Grandmother would come to visit from Brownsville, Texas, and she would bring things from Mexico with her. One of the things she brought each and every time (besides REALLY GOOD VANILLA EXTRACT!) were cookies called "Mesetas", and they were very sweet, sand dollar shaped cookies about the diameter of a grapefruit. They came in a very large box (strangely enough, it was about the size of a grapefruit box) and were thin, and that meant we had quite a supply each time she would visit. Which means the name and association permanently stuck in my head.
So there it is. When I got PS, I didn't consciously make the Meseta/cookie connection, but I just instinctively felt it was little sand dollar type things. Later on I figured out why I thought that way.
Ed Oscuro
05-25-2005, 09:50 PM
I wonder what a meseta looks like? I don't an actually visual representation of the meseta has ever been seen in a Phantasy Star game.
Hmm, it probably looks like gold :O
Not really related, but what the hell:
http://home.comcast.net/~edoscuro/md_psii_anne-s_adventure.gif
http://home.comcast.net/~edoscuro/md_psii_huey-s_adventure.gif
http://home.comcast.net/~edoscuro/md_psii_kind-s_adventure.gif
http://home.comcast.net/~edoscuro/md_psii_shilka-s_adventure.gif
Ed Oscuro
05-25-2005, 09:50 PM
Yes, in PSO. Looks like a little yellow diamond shaped thing.
Oh, that's right. :P
Promophile
05-25-2005, 09:57 PM
mesta is in a bunch of games. possibly breath of fire or wild arms i think.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Possibly the best Joe response ever. Couldn't stop laughing. LOL
I wonder what a meseta looks like? I don't an actually visual representation of the meseta has ever been seen in a Phantasy Star game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meseta
never really played PSO so I'm not sure what the "visual representation" is.
and could someone tell me what faux pas I must have violated? I don't really see whats so funny about the misspelling of meseta and/or my comment in general :hmm: .
Needle
05-25-2005, 10:08 PM
Wow, totally forgot about the PSO "diamond" meseta. Thanks of reminding me! Although I imagine carrying around 10,000 meseta in a little bag could get particularly heavy. :)
mezrabad
05-26-2005, 10:14 AM
I want to virtually spend a trigantic pu.
Rugal
05-26-2005, 10:55 AM
I knew i heard of that term from somewhere, just like you i wasn't big on Phantasy Star series.
kainemaxwell
05-26-2005, 11:27 AM
mesta is in a bunch of games. possibly breath of fire or wild arms i think.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Wow, and people say I'm slow to pick up on things! LOL
Aussie2B
05-26-2005, 11:45 AM
I caught the reference right away. My intense dislike for Phantasy Star 2 has burned little tidbits of Phantasy Star trivia into my head. :P
tynstar
05-26-2005, 11:56 AM
I thought Phantasy Star the first time I saw it.
Wavelflack
05-26-2005, 06:12 PM
I caught the reference right away. My intense dislike for Phantasy Star 2 has burned little tidbits of Phantasy Star trivia into my head. :P
Yeehaw! I thought I was the only one who didn't like PS2.
tylerwillis
05-26-2005, 07:06 PM
I actually looked it up in the wikipedia... and went, "Oh. Ok."
I'm an RPGer, but I've only played a few hours of PSO, and none of the other games.
hezeuschrist
05-26-2005, 07:23 PM
I knew it had to be from some game, but I never knew what since I was never a Sega guy. I made the connection at E3 this year when I played PSU at Sega's booth though, heh.
Cryomancer
05-27-2005, 07:13 AM
I thought PSO, since I'm a longtime (and current!) PSo player, however I yet to actually sit down and go through the other PS games. Plus I never had any of them growing up, that doesn't help much. Someday i will play them though...maybe if / when the english versions of the sega ages 2500 remakes come over.
Daria
06-13-2005, 12:10 PM
mesta is in a bunch of games. possibly breath of fire or wild arms i think.
Breath of Fire use Zenny. Which Ed said was a Konami thing, it's actually a Capcom thing. Unless Konami uses it as well.
Wild Arms uses Gella.
Meseta is not used in any PSX RPG that I can recall.
vultar
06-13-2005, 12:52 PM
Breath of Fire use Zenny. Which Ed said was a Konami thing, it's actually a Capcom thing. Unless Konami uses it as well.
Zenny shows up in a lot of places, under different spellings (Zenny, Zenni, Zeni). From what I've been able to tell, its a Japanese term from the 1600s for bronze coins.