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Abaxa Member Level: 14 Posts: 41/45 EXP: 11818 For next: 1253 Since: 08-05-10 Since last post: 1287 days Last activity: 1271 days

Posted on 03-11-11 10:20:52 PM, in Phantasy Star 4 (last edited by Abaxa at 03-12-11 12:15 AM) Link

I started work on the Air Castle since I'm guessing it was the most rushed of the dungeons. The northern exterior map has extra detailing out of camera range. The starry background has some animation where individual pixels change color to make it look like there are blinking lights in the distance. The southern exterior is more interesting. I couldn't fully map this without the debug menu because going sufficiently far south (far enough to be a couple steps down the walkway) triggers the warp to the planet selection screen. Maybe the devs were planning to put in an actual dock for the Landale? That would make Wren's dialogue when the player first gets there more sensible. EDIT: I quickly mapped out room $176 in the Air Castle. I'll only be going for rooms that have something other then padding. The healing panel and surrounding red stuff have animated palettes and I captured them at their brightest for best contrast. The row of scrambled tiles in the south will also function as healing panels.

Abaxa Member Level: 14 Posts: 42/45 EXP: 11818 For next: 1253 Since: 08-05-10 Since last post: 1287 days Last activity: 1271 days	Posted on 03-26-11 08:25:58 PM, in Any Japanese text need translating? Link
	I'm going to do some nitpicky version difference comparisons for SF2 so I'd like to know what it says under the magic and item columns here.

Abaxa Member Level: 14 Posts: 43/45 EXP: 11818 For next: 1253 Since: 08-05-10 Since last post: 1287 days Last activity: 1271 days

Posted on 04-01-11 12:17:56 PM, in Random topics of debate Link

Originally posted by Rick How do I know? Well, here's a test you can do. Use the character modifier code 7E2EF8?? and for the ??, put in 0C (Kintaro), 0D (Shao Khan), 0E (Smoke), 0F (Noob Saibot), or 10 (Jade). Hold "Forward" after the match starts and any of those will walk forward normally. However, if you let go of the button and try to press it again, the game goes kaplooey. I have no idea why either. It doesn't do this on the Genesis. It's likely a crash trying to fetch their walking animations after they've been allowed to idle.

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Posted on 04-07-11 02:53:13 PM, in Any Japanese text need translating? (last edited by Abaxa at 04-07-11 03:41 PM) Link

Originally posted by GlitterBerri Originally posted by Fuzn CMN: I feel like I've done some of these before. Definitely the Maria one, anyway. Earlier in this thread, maybe? I posted some Space Griffon stuff earlier in the thread. I just haven't gotten to writing a page for the game yet. EDIT: I don't have the time right now to work on a Space Griffon page so here's my unused image gallery on Photobucket anyone can grab files from. I did some preliminary work months ago trying to figure out the game's password system but I apparently don't have those notes any more. Hmm. Well I do remember that each segment of the password stores specific information. For example its possible to transplant parts of one password into another and it works just fine. I really need to play through the game again to scour the XA files for what's used.

Abaxa Member Level: 14 Posts: 45/45 EXP: 11818 For next: 1253 Since: 08-05-10 Since last post: 1287 days Last activity: 1271 days

Posted on 04-07-11 03:08:19 PM, in Weird Discoveries Link

I've been doing a ton of Shining Force 2 version comparisons the last few days. I've already dumped tile/collision data for the Fairy Woods from The Caravan for the retail release and the April localization prototype (as a stand-in for the Japanese retail release since as far as I can tell the April prototype hasn't touched that data yet). Collision boundaries and some search points were altered for the US version*. Some other differences in the US version include: Status menu icons for the Attack, Boost, and Slow effects. These are not present at all in the Japanese version. Re-mapped land effect table. For example ground units have a land effect of 0% in desert in the Japanese version but it is 30% in the US version. The Japanese version requires the game completed flag be set before the player can choose a difficulty setting when starting a new game. Using the debug menu's Game Completed option permanently sets this flag. In the US version this is open by default. *I also briefly looked at a European version but other than some additional code (presumably the conversion to PAL but I don't know) that shifted some graphics it seems almost identical to the US version.

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