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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #60 on: March 04, 2014, 03:21:56 PM »
Good to know, Dragonsbrethren, but the portrait was just an example (because it was easy to show).
Does YY-CHR have other-sized modes as well like, say, 16x24 for (most) battle characters?
If so, then this is probably something I should have.

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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #61 on: March 09, 2014, 05:31:55 PM »
Not by default, but you can create custom layouts (it ships with one that does SMB1's sprites and tiles).

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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #62 on: August 03, 2014, 01:07:12 PM »
Just a random helpful thing I figured out:
You know how, when you are in the menu and you go to Edge's magic screen, it says Ninja instead of Black, but it never does anything like that for any other character, even if you give that character "Ninja" as a command instead of "Black?"

$01/AFB2   C9 12    CMP #$12

12 being Edge's Character ID (Actor, in Ff4kster terms). Change this to, say, C9 03, and Child Rydia will have "Ninja" instead of Edge.

Anyway, thought that may be of use to someone at come point...

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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #63 on: August 04, 2014, 04:49:06 AM »
I'd like to add a box to the Actor editor that says something along the lines of "Replace (Black) with (Ninja) for (Edge)", where all those things in brackets can be selected and will bring up a menu: (Black) could be Black, White, or Call; (Ninja) could be whatever string of text of five letters or less that you type; and (Edge) would bring up the actor selector.

We have the address for which actor it is; do we have addresses for the other info as well?
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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #64 on: August 04, 2014, 05:13:48 AM »
Probably easy enough to find now that I know this. I'll put it on my to-do list.

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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #65 on: August 04, 2014, 06:15:27 AM »
Thanks! I'll still add the box with just the actor selectable and add the other things in as they're discovered.
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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #66 on: August 14, 2014, 09:33:57 AM »
Has anybody else played the android FFIV:TAY?

The graphical style seems to be based on that of the DS remake of FFIV (polygons instead of sprites), whereas every screenshot I've seen before of any version looks more like it's mimicking SNES (or GBA).

While I do loves me some retro gaming, I can appreciate when SquareEnix puts the effort into revamping old favorites, but I find it hard to believe they did it solely for the mobile market (which I imagine is still pretty small vs the console market for the FF series).

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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #67 on: August 14, 2014, 10:36:08 AM »
Indeed I have played a bit of it, I feel though that it is a remnant of larger plans which either due to time or laziness never properly panned out. My thoughts is that this was supposed to be on the 3DS possibly in the episodic format that was used with the original Wii release, but for some reason Nintendo didn't want the idea or partially through development Square-Enix decided that it would be mobile only to go with the new revamped FFIV 3D for the Mobile already out at the time.

It's a distinct possibility that FFIV-3D did really well on the mobile market so they thought to follow up that success and it does seem to have worked. From reviews I've read people seem more satisfied with TAY in 3D than they did with base TAY (Despite it actually losing some content). It is essentially the same game, still the same flawed battle system of FFIV where every normal foe has far too little HP, any improvements from the DS game such as Augments or revamped enemies is completely missing and the only changes are some changes to chests that now contain Adamantite instead of finding it in the Challenge Dungeon final chests in a random fashion.

This is why I feel there was laziness involved, a proper port of the game to the 3D format would have followed in suit with its predecessor, if nothing else they could have at least easily taken the FFIV DS enemies and worked with that, but no.

That said the presentation is much better. Some specific cutscenes have actual emotions, camera angles are put to fantastic and expressions put on the character's faces and the 3D actually looks really good. All in all it is still a solid package, yes it's flawed like the original FFIV, and you can't expect much different going into it (if you've played before which you have not. So it will be a brand new and possibly more well-crafted expereience for you), but it's still a worthy venture and a good pickup for the mobile.

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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #68 on: August 14, 2014, 04:03:55 PM »
I've played through the whole game on a tablet.  I'll stick with the PSP version for future playthroughs though.  The only thing I felt improved in this version was learning and leveling up bands by participating in a certain number of fights together.  I dislike the content removal and I prefer a regular control pad and buttons.  I'm glad they didn't add augments as that was something I hated about FFIV DS.

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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #69 on: August 16, 2014, 02:54:04 PM »
I've played through the whole game on a tablet.  I'll stick with the PSP version for future playthroughs though.  The only thing I felt improved in this version was learning and leveling up bands by participating in a certain number of fights together.  I dislike the content removal and I prefer a regular control pad and buttons.

The newest one I played was GBA...shame on me  :isuck:

I want to go through the 3D version of FFIV at least (I did go through WiiWare TAY a few times). Should I try an play the DS version of IV or the iOS/Android version?

I'm glad they didn't add augments as that was something I hated about FFIV DS.

I like the idea - but there are way too many - working out getting the right ones is a pain and...most importantly...every video I've every seen makes Kain Cry...just NO!  :angry:

And that's just as an observer - I haven't even played it yet but in my head I was thinking of just playing it straight - even if I get augments pretend I didn't.

Some might still be cool as options - maybe even in some of our hacks!  :wink: - I know lots of cool things have already been done
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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #70 on: December 07, 2014, 02:45:37 PM »
Just wanna say, very glad to see slick up and running again.
I only have fragments of my summon/special sizes tutorial saved on my own computer. I was beginning to think I might have to learn how to do it all over again.

Thanks to Lenophis and anybody else who was involved in what must have been a nightmare to deal with.

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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #71 on: December 07, 2014, 05:14:52 PM »
Very true! I was just thinking: Had I been working on something that required some of the info you put together here... It would have been simply impossible - no way I could remember that or reconstruct it! Better copy and paste some of this just in case...  :whoa:
You've got to be kidding me with that Dynasty Warriors registration question??!!
I barely know such a series exists...

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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #72 on: December 07, 2014, 05:16:13 PM »
Glad to see you also came back Gedankenschild, your graphics project was one of the most ambitious from a technical standpoint and it looked like you were making good progress!

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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #73 on: December 07, 2014, 07:27:11 PM »
Glad to see you also came back Gedankenschild, your graphics project was one of the most ambitious from a technical standpoint and it looked like you were making good progress!
Why, thanks. I kept checking and also noticed all of you doing your thing on Romhacking.net!  :happy:

I realize I've been so busy with my stuff, I didn't even get to try out some of the stuff you guys have been doing... But it looks like Tomato has Let's Play plans with Combat Boost! That should be interesting to watch, I love his stuff.

And yes, I kept working on the graphics backport and the enemies are pretty much done. There are some things I've been thinking about: The summons use some additional tiles for their different animations in the remake and getting those in would be SUCH a pain in the ass! Not only would all the complicated stuff chillyfeez described concerning summon graphics be necessary. Tables would have to be rewritten and placed elsewhere since they wouldn't fit their original locations in the ROM anymore...  :whoa:
Now that I type it out I realize I can't be bothered to do it, probably. The perfectionist in me doesn't like it, but I guess some mild pixel artistry will have to do it! Except if there are volunteers...  :wink:
I'm still contemplating at what point to release a patch. The battle backgrounds simply must be done as well. And gradient menus wouldn't hurt the overall impression at all... Then there's everything outside battle...  :childish:
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Re: Apropos of nothing (except of course FFIV)
« Reply #74 on: December 07, 2014, 08:18:01 PM »
Yes, Tomato playing through my mess of a mod is a higher honor than I ever expected.

Sounds like that project is progressing well, but you mean to say that the GBA version actually includes extra animation tiles for the Summons? That's a bit surprising.