[Old] FFT: Plus battle logs

[Dome]

B A T T L E L O G S
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Welcome to the FFT: Plus Battle and Challenge discussion. Need help? Ask!
Here you can share your battles in video, text, or picture format.

VIDEO CHANNELS
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FinalFantasyHackticx [Official FFT: Plus channel]
VideocatFV [War of the Gods challenge]
Beastly242 [Deep Dungeon Run]
Wizdaddy714 [Story playthrough]

Youtube How-To Guide!

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1) Find capture program.
PC: Camtasia or Fraps
MAC: iShowU or SnapzProX

2) Config the program.
Record at 30 FPS. Set quality to the highest you can afford without your
system seeing any slowdowns. Enable microphone recording if you want
to record your voice. Save the video when it's done. Filesize might be huge,
this is normal. It's a raw video source.

3) Download DivX Converter. (Or use an editing program.)
http://www.divx.com/

4) Encode your video for High Quality.
Run the raw video file through DivX Converter.
Select the following settings:
- High Def Profile
- Advanced Settings: Video
-- Custom Resize: 640x480 OR 720 x 360 if you want to stretch the video to 16:9
and use all of Youtube's wide screen player. Might want to add black borders to avoid stretching.
FFT's native resolution is 4:3, not 16:9
-- Framerate: 30.000
-- Interlacing: Doesn't Matter
- Advanced Settings: Codec
-- Encode Performance: Insane Quality
-- Encode Mode: 2-Pass, 3000 + kbps
-- Max Keyframe Interval: 30
-- Quantization: H.263 Optimized
- Advanced Settings: Audio
-- Audio: MP3
-- Format: 256+ kbps 48000+ hz

NOTE: For HD Youtube Video, do:
-- Custom Resize: 1280x720 OR 1920 x 1280
-- This will make a bigger final file, though (file size wise).

5) Upload to Youtube!

Epsxe FFT Settings:

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VIDEO:
Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Window mode
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 1
- Keep psx aspect ratio: off
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 0
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: on
- FPS limit: 170.0

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 0
- Framebuffer effects: 1
- Framebuffer uploads: 0

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: off
- Screen filtering: off
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: off [00000000]



AUDIO:

[Joseph Strife]

Great topic, i would record my battles, but i can't record videos no matter how i try, must be something with my notebook configuration and hardware. Hope we get testers that can record and show us everything we need

[Dome]

Great topic, i would record my battles, but i can't record videos no matter how i try, must be something with my notebook configuration and hardware. Hope we get testers that can record and show us everything we need

Pics of the battle or walls or text are still welcome here :-)

Here you can share your battles in video, text, or picture format

[Joseph Strife]

Yeah, I'll make a ful report on my game once i begin it serious, now i'm play it just for testing. I'll make it by chapters, that way it doesn't has too many posts 

[Dome]

Yeah, I'll make a ful report on my game once i begin it serious, now i'm play it just for testing. I'll make it by chapters, that way it doesn't has too many posts 

Be sure to playtest on the final version and not on the beta :-)

[Joseph Strife]

Sure thing!

[Dome]

FFT: Plus intro battle - A new adventure begins!

Link to the playlist of the full video Playthrough

[Dome]

FFT: Plus Story battle 1 - Battle in the street

Link to the playlist of the full video Playthrough

[Dome]

FFT: Plus Story battle 2 - Bloody plains

Link to the playlist of the full video Playthrough

[Dome]

Random battle 1 - The only good cat is a dead one

Link to the playlist of the full video Playthrough

[Dome]

FFT: Plus Story battle 3 - Bombs 'n Goblins

Link to the playlist of the full video Playthrough

[Eternal]

Would you mind putting the videos in spoilers? That way it doesn't take up so much room.

[Joseph Strife]

Yeah, so, i just started playing this serious way so i'm gonna post here and update this post with what i've played so far, i'll make one post by Chapters, which obviously means it will take 4 posts to finish my battle log.

Chapter 1:

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Orbone Monastery: So, this battle is hell of easy, using Ramza for sandbagging is the key to make it simple, but it isn't that hard if you don't sandbag
Magic City Gariland: This was a little more hard but i've made it out good, a few potions and i've gone through it well.
Mandalia Plains: Same thing as Gariland.
Sweegy Woods: Here delita and algus were realy helpful, since this battle is only monsters and FFT:+ monsters are strong as hell, potions all the way and the gil problem starts to rise.
Sector 7 Slums, ops, Dorter Trade City: Yeah, Archers are MEAN! Damn they all the way, luck thing i had a chemist and a knight.
Sand Rat Cellar: Iron Sword was realy helpful and some magic, burned everyone with fire :twisted:
Thieves Hideout: Speed problem here, these thief's sure can go for some damage, but i've managed them with some luck. Starting to get desperate about gil.
Lenalia Plateau: This was easier than expected, my archer made a quick work of everyone that was charging something.
Windmill: This was easier than frist battle, some hits and Wiegraf was down.
Fort Zeakden: Again my Archer came to my rescue, shooting like crazy from top of the high building.
That was Chapter 1, see you in Chapter 2!  :D

EDIT: Battlelog for Chapter 1 is complete!

[Dome]

Would you mind putting the videos in spoilers? That way it doesn't take up so much room.

I do, they look awesome the way they are now >_>

@Joseph Strife
Yeah, first battles are very easy (Gariland can become difficult if you are too reckless, though...)
It's normal, Ch1 is supposed to be a huge tutorial for the game after all :-)

[Dome]

Random battle 2 - I'll be a Pokémon master!...no wait

Link to the playlist of the full video Playthrough

[Joseph Strife]

Yeah Dome, Ch. should teach all things you nedd to learn (good or bad way), anyways i think i have figured out how to record gameplay videos at my notebook, if i realy can it put the link to my channel here as well, videos are better than just words i think.

[Dome]

Yeah Dome, Ch. should teach all things you nedd to learn (good or bad way), anyways i think i have figured out how to record gameplay videos at my notebook, if i realy can it put the link to my channel here as well, videos are better than just words i think.

That's awesome!
When you start uploading videos, post the link here and I'll update the first post to put your channel :-)

[Joseph Strife]

Okay, but i'm still having problems, actualy, i'm uploading a test video right now and i'll open a topic at the help section to get feed back from comunity if it is good, the sound, the image, etc.
My net here in Brazil isn't good so don't expect many updates, i'll be uploading them slowly.

[Dome]

Okay, but i'm still having problems, actualy, i'm uploading a test video right now and i'll open a topic at the help section to get feed back from comunity if it is good, the sound, the image, etc.
My net here in Brazil isn't good so don't expect many updates, i'll be uploading them slowly.

Slow but steady wins the race
Just care about the video quality, you can always remove sound and put commentary/random music (Like I do)

[Joseph Strife]

Yeah, i think i may have solved the problem but i still need to check it