I've Googled around checked VGM Central, but I haven't been able to find the following albums.:

FF STRINGS EDITION I: UDAR-002 | FF STRINGS EDITION I - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/29032)

FF STRINGS EDITION II: UDAR-003 | FF STRINGS EDITION II - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/29033)

GAMES STRINGS EDITION: UDAR-004 | GAMES STRINGS EDITION - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/29034)

If someone who has these could please share them I would be eternally grateful!

I'm only here to see how the story unfolds!
These should not be missed!

Good to see some more interest in these albums... I'll be contacting Rinkya in a week or two to see if they can get these for me. The commission and shipping fees to New Zealand will probably be far more than the actual costs of the albums, but oh well!

and of course, when/if I get them... FLAC LOVE!

Haa, glad to hear it.
We'll go the old-fashioned way!
I appreciate it.

UPDATE: Rinkya has informed me that they cannot get these albums, as they were sold only at past conventions. However, I have found THESE...

GAMES STRINGS EDITION 2 ????? GAMES STRINGS EDITION 2mp3?? ???? (http://www.xiami.com/album/552226?spm=a1z1s.6659509.6856557.21.kASCeq) (apparently a link to buy STRINGS GAMES EDITION II online from a Chinese company)

FF STRINGS EDITION ? ????? FF STRINGS EDITION ?mp3?? ???? (http://www.xiami.com/album/381469908?spm=a1z1s.6659509.6856557.10.kASCeq) (A third FF Strings Edition!)

Meanwhile, I have contacted Rei Shimizu through his website Unknown Dimension, an also asked a seller on Ebay (champ_des_pins) who I have bought many doujin albums from before. I have asked tem if they cann tell me how I can buy these. So we shall see...

If those don't work, any other ideas? We'll just have to keep looking and hoping...

Bad news... Neither Rei Shimizu nor champ_des_pins on Ebay can get these for me. Rei-San informed me that, indeed, they were only sold at past conventions in Japan and he isn't planning on releasing any more copies.

I tried buying from the Chinese site, and just couldn't get it to work, even with Google Translate. I think you need some sort China-specific Paypal-type thing to do it...

A glimmer of hope though... Supposedly 2 users on VGMDB have them (or had them at one point) in their collections. Perhaps if I contact them they may be willing to part with these gems?...

In the mean time, all we can do is keep searching, particularly VGM Central and BitTorrent. Any one else have any ideas for getting these?

A glimpse of hope we are clinging to!
Even if we couldn't, I'd rather not lose it.

I've had some success with these. An email from 'someone in the know' directed me to this link: DoujinStyle.com - The Home of Doujin Soft, Doujin Music and Touhou (http://www.doujinstyle.com/forum/)

After PMing and posting here without any luck I searched and dug a bit deeper. Alast, I was able to find FF STRINGS EDITION III and GAMES STRINGS EDITION 2!

While I only was able to find MP3 Files they are 320 KBPS MP3 files at least. And, of course, the questions on everyone's minds... "Will I upload them?"

Well, talk is cheap... so here you go... (link to the uploads post): Thread 166010 .