New Game Over Screen Help!

[Archael]

We need to figure out which parts of the GAME OVER Screen are used by the game, how, and why. I mean, Goho..!!

Original Game Over image. 256x254 .gif 8 KB





Picture we picked:



My edit:




How my edit looks in-game (lol):





Here's the cut-out GAME OVER lettes I did in photoshop if anyone wants to use them for their own design.

[MiKeMiTchi]

Hmm.. limited space! noooo! I guess we should stick to text edits. w8, I'll try one.

[jimmyjw88]

Too bad with the limited space =.=
I like Arch's edit, with the picture ^^
Well, I guess we either edit text or put a background picture just within the text, however it will look weird as the whole background black but the text background with picture.
So, this means only edit text...Too bad =.=

[Archael]

Why are we limited to text edits again?

I thought my placement for the pic was just wrong?

[LastingDawn]

It is... I'm not... sure what they're exactly referring to.

[Archael]

neither am I

[jimmyjw88]

0.o
What? Wrong placement? I thought it was because of limited space =.=
Hahaha. Sorry. Misunderstood. If it isn't limited, its good then ^^
We're going to have nice "Game Over" background.

[Archael]

yeah, just get my pic working.. somehow... if no one has any ideas I'll work on it next weekend

[jimmyjw88]

I see. Great. Can't wait till then ^^
Well, I wish I knew more about hacking stuff so that I may help a little but unfortunately, I'm a newbie =.=
A lot things I really don't know how they work. Haha.
By the way, one question; how do you make the background transparent?

[MiKeMiTchi]

It's limited, because it doesn't support fullscreen.

Here's my try; Can someone test it out?

[jimmyjw88]

Here's my try; Can someone test it out?

Awesome, Mike. This is really great text edit. I'm liking the texture of smudge a little bit and the colour is great ^^
Well done.

I supposed the black colour gives the transparency

Nono. I didn't mean in the game. I meant like normal picture. You see one of my signature cless has transparent background...I'm talking about that. I only able to make the background colour become portrait background colour, like that cless sprite.

EDIT: Err...Nevermind. I got it figured out ^^

[MiKeMiTchi]

Thanks.. I did a darker color brown shading, to fit well with Mercenaries. In fact, I used the pic given by Sir Voldemort there.
Just smudged a little bit.

[mav]

Hmmm...Voldemort's version in-game seems to focus on his knee, right? Perhaps understanding what portion of the image is used will allow us to develop some sort of alternative...

[MiKeMiTchi]

Yes mav. Also, I would suggest if the border(boundary) would be blurred.

[Asmo X]

Is it necessary to cram new pictures into everything? I think the current game over screen is fine.

[jimmyjw88]

Yes, current game over screen looks fine but with a little touch, it'll look better; like what Mike did here, looks great ^^
And since Mercenaries has its own title screen(I think), so, making its own game over screen isn't too bad ^^
Adding picture is not too bad too, however, if its only within that boundary ("Game Over" text), I suggest don't add picture because with that background black and just a portion of the picture at the text, it just doesn't look really good. My opinion, of course ^^

[MiKeMiTchi]

Well, I think making one is pointless here. I just realized..

Well, anyway, can someone test it?

[jimmyjw88]

How do you test it?

[MiKeMiTchi]

^ That's my problem. I can't import the image using shishi.
I'm sure I did make the image indexed, and has 8 bytes, .gif file.

Hey jimmy, do you want to test it?
Just import the pic into the old gameoverscreen using
the latest shishi.

[jimmyjw88]

But shishi is for sprite right?(sorry, I'm new at this,only know spriting)
Hmm....wait...i try.
Is it by opening the game over.bin file?

EDIT: The image above is .gif file but 8.81kb

EDIT: Sorry. I didn't download latest shishi =.=
I'll try with the latest shishi.