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'Vhayste'is a Filipino video game walkthrough, faq and reviews contributor/ writer. Most of his contributions can be found in major gaming sites such as IGN, Chapter Cheats, Neoseeker, Gamefaqs, Cheathappens, and Supercheats to name a few. He started out gaming since the NES days, in the early 1990s. His walkthroughs are mostly for the PS2, PSP, NDS and Xbox 360. Since then, he actively contributed reviews, cheat codes and faqs to help other gamers and non-gamers alike. After his first work was posted, several other gaming sites has taken notice and later published his works on their sites as well. He also accommodates his readers' questions through email.

He is also featured as IGN's "Faq Writer of the Month" for March 2007, recognizing his hard work and the quality of the contributions he submitted. He received the same award last October 2009. He also works as the editor for the technical section of their local company magazine, and also a contributor for another online magazine. Also in the same month, Gamepro's Gamerhelp.com awarded him for the 'Highest Ranked Faq' for March for his comprehensive guide for the PS2 RPG, Rogue Galaxy. He also received the same award for the month of June 2007.

He has written PDF guides, as well as creating TXT format versions of those guides to be accessible to other readers as well. His PDF guides are user friendly, as well as being comprehensive and illustrated. So far, IGN.com, Cheathappens.com, ChapterCheats.com and Gamerhelp.com are the only gaming sites that hosts his PDF guides. All of his exclusive PDF guides are also located in IGN.com.

His game preferences include flight combat simulators, racing, strategy, RPG, FPS, 3PS, and action/adventure games. Some of his favorite games include the Ace Combat Series, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Gears of War, God of War, certain Tales titles, Shin Megami Tensei/ Persona titles, Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile games. He describes himself as a mix of liking anime, mechs, cars, fighter planes and girls.

== Published Faqs and Walkthroughs ==

Vhayste has written both long, in depth, comprehensive faqs and short, specific guides for different games. He also started creating PDF guides for better viewing and readability. One gamesite even stated that it is 'like an official guide for free'.

Normally, only certain game sites allow PDF submissions. First is IGN.com, then Cheathappens.com, Gamerhelp.com and finally Chaptercheats.com. He is actually one of the few that uses PDF as the main medium of sharing user-created guides and distributed freely. Recently, he also started making game maps and gameplay videos. These are distributed individually or compiled alongside a guide. This year, a other popular gamesite, Supercheats.com have acquired his services to write unofficial guides for major game titles. These guides are embedded to the site and features screenshots and gameplay videos to further help readers.
Below is the list of all his published works: (In no particular order)

PC
• Dungeon Siege II (Sidequests guide and Character Classes Guide)
• Aion (Character classes overview)
• Aion (Kinah Guide)
• Aion (Chanter Guide)
• Aion (Ascension Walkthrough)
• Aion (Stigma Quests Walkthrough)

Nintendo DS

• Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
• Luminous Arc 2
• Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
• Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (PDF guide)
• Summon Night: Twin Age (PDF guide)
• The World Ends with You (PDF guide and text walkthrough)
• Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume

Playstation Portable (PSP)

• Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception (PDF and TXT Guide)
• Ace Combat Joint Assault (IGN Exclusive PDF)

• Jeanne D' Arc (PDF Guide)
• Crimson Gem Saga (PDF Guide)

• Star Ocean First Departure (IGN Exclusive PDF Guide)

• Star Ocean Second Evolution (IGN Exclusive PDF Guide)
• Persona 3 Portable (IGN Exclusive PDF Guide)
• Resistance Retribution (PDF and TXT Guide)
• Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (Text and PDF Guide)
• Y's Seven (IGN Exclusive PDF Guide)

XboX 360
• Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (IGN Exclusive PDF Walkthrough)
• Army of Two (PDF and Text Walkthrough)

• Call of Duty: Black Ops (Supercheats exclusive walkthrough)

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Supercheats exclusive walkthrough)
• Battlefield 3 (Supercheats exclusive walkthrough)
• Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (Supercheats exclusive walkthrough)
• Dead Space 2 (Supercheats exclusive walkthrough)
• Eternal Sonata (PDF Guide)
• Fable 3 (Supercheats exclusive walkthrough)
• Fallout 3 (Bobblehead Locations PDF Guide, Behemoth Hunting TXT)
• HAWX 2 (Supercheats exclusive walkthrough)
• Last Remnant (IGN Exclusive PDF Guide)
• Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 (Supercheats exclusive walkthrough)
• Lost Odyssey (IGN Exclusive PDF Guide)

• Magna Carta II (IGN Exclusive PDF Guide)
• Resonance of Fate (IGN Exclusive PDF Guide)
• Singularity (IGN Exclusive PDF Walkthrough)
• Star Ocean Last Hope (IGN Exclusive PDF Walkthrough)
• Tales of Vesperia (IGN Exclusive PDF Walkthrough)
• Transformers: War for Cybertron (Supercheats exclusive walkthrough)
• Gears of War 2 (Achievement Guide)
Playstation 3
• 3D Dot Game Heroes (IGN Exclusive Guide)
• Ace Combat Assault Horizon (IGN Exclusive Guide)
• Fallout New Vegas (IGN Exclusive Guide)
• Dead Island (Supercheats Exclusive Guide)
• Infamous 2
• Killzone 3 (Supercheats Exclusive Guide)
• Yakuza 4 (IGN Exclusive Guide)

Playstation 2

• Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies
• Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
• Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
• Armored Core: Last Raven
• Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny
• Dawn of Mana (IGN Exclusive PDF Walkthrough)
• Drakengard 2
• Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (Special Edition)
• Heatseeker
• Need For Speed: Carbon
• Need For Speed: Most Wanted
• Odin Sphere (PDF Guide)
• Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 (IGN Exclusive PDF Walkthrough)
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES (IGN Exclusive PDF Walkthrough)
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4(IGN Exclusive Walkthrough)
• Shining Force EXA
• Rouge Galaxy
• Tales of Legendia
• Tales of the Abyss (incomplete - sorry :*( )

== Systems Owned and History ==

1995-1999 = Gameboy, Gameboy Color
May 2006 = PS2 Slim
Dec 2006 = PC
June 2007= PSP
Sep 2007 = XBOX 360
Apr 2008 = Nintendo DS Lite
April 2010 = PS3 Slim
== How can you help? ==

Writing walkthroughs is never been easy. Writers like me dedicate countless hours of our lives to play the games and write walkthroughs to help fellow gamers get the most out of their game; not to mention the shortened sleeping hours, frustrations, personal expenses and sometimes, sacrificing social times with friends and families. Our dedication and motivation comes from you, our readers. With the increasing costs in expenses, I will have to resort to request assistance from you, kind-hearted readers. You may support my work in many ways:

1. Paypal Donations
If you can spare me a dollar or two, that will go a long way in helping buy new games to write walkthroughs for. Or even use the funds to pay for my electric bills. You may send your Paypal donations to: vhayste@gmail.com

2. Visiting/Ordering via my Play-Asia affiliate link
Yes, just by ordering stuff from them, I get a small commission - no matter what item it is. They have a variety of items, games, game/anime soundtracks, toys/ anime figures, guides and collectibles. Just simply visit the site by using my affiliate link. Don't worry if you can't order; Play-Asia is generous enough to pay for the clicks/ visits to their site based on my affiliate link.

3. Downloading this text file from here or this link.
This is just another way for me to earn a bit of cash. Please don't mind the Linkbucks ad; the text file I'm asking you to download is a non-malicious, thank you message for your support. It only takes a few seconds of your time :)

4. "Like" my Facebook Page

This is where I put most of my updates since it is linked directly to my Twitter account. This is probably where I'll post often since I don't want people that subscribed for newsletters in my blog to be spammed by my random ramblings.

5. Showing your appreciation
This is probably the simplest, and cheapest thing to do. A simple "Thank you" email means a lot to me, since it tells me that there are people out there that appreciate my hard work. Though it won't help financially, it is still a big deal by giving me "moral support". :)

== Planned / Ongoing Projects ==

(As of 11-22-11) PSP
• Lunar Silver Star
• Persona 2

PS3

• Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Xbox360

• Saint's Row The Third

== Vhayste's public profiles ==

1UP - My 'gamer' blog (edit: I don't maintain it anymore.)
Facebook - My page on the popular networking site
Facebook(2) - This is other non-gaming page featuring stuff from my other hobby: garage/resin kits
Twitter - Updates on my Facebook page are also uploaded here.
MyAnimeList.net - Catalog of the anime and manga I've watched, planning to watch and currently watching
MyFigureCollection.net - Catalog of the anime figures I've owned, ordered and wished
Vhayste's Garage Kits and Figure Collection - A personal blog where I publish my garage kits, recent figure hauls and other related stuff.

Vhayste - Official User Page

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