FFT: Complete Main Info thread

[TRC]

O_O

awesome guys, just awesome

[mav]

Holy shit...this is monumental. Keep at it, fellas.

[Asmo X]

ballin

[melonhead]

Why are the video and sound so choppy? It doesn't look like that on my emulator

[Cheetah]

Yeah I put a disclaimer on the video saying that it was just poor recording quality. I'm emulating windows, running the game in an emulator in windows, using a mac recording program, and then trying to record a FMV which already slows stuff down. So it came out a bit choppy. Mac has really shitty PSX Emulator options.

But the real thing runs smooth as silk normally.

[Cheetah]

Well after the script and text is inserted on of the next hurdles will be inserting the new graphics text bits. Which will be quite daunting given all the different stuff this is used for; world map location names, status names, battle conditions, and etc. So I was checking it out today and hoping for easy ways to do it when I took a look at the psp's version of Bonus.bin. The PSX is on the left and the PSP on the right. Is it just me or is the original font for the psx version much more attractive?

[Archael]

great job

and yes, the PSX font is better

[mav]

I agree, the PSX font is much classier...

[Dominic NY18]

I'm just now noticing that they used a san-serif font for the PSP version.

One thing to keep in mind about the font is that the PSP font was changed to make it more visible on the PSP's screen. I can tell you that while the PSX font might look better in those pictures, when seen on the PSP screen, it doesn't look as good in comparison.

On a related note, the PSP's font for menu text, though not too different, does look a bit better than its PSX counterpart (especially the I's). For example:

A screen of one of Delita's (new ) descriptions on the PSX version:


And here's the PSP equivalent:


Not a big difference, but it's there.

[melonhead]

The fonts for menus and dialogue are almost identical between PSX and PSP:
(animated image)

[townknave]

This is outstanding.  I'm really impressed with the attention to detail here...  what you have so far looks a lot better than the typical professional translation job.

How will this be distributed?  It'll be patched over the US ROM, right?

Will it be compatible with 1.3 from the start?  How about with the currently known ASM hacks?

Again, you are all teh awesome and Town Knave approves.

[Cheetah]

Melonhead: That is very cool, very nice visual representation. Damn those dashes drive me nuts.

Townknave: There are already beta patches available on the first post. How it will eventually be distributed is still up in the air. I thought it would be a rather small patch, but Melonhead is making it larger with new videos. Yeah just get or rip a clean ISO of the game. FFT 1.3 will likely be combined with this patch at some point. This patch is meant to be a base for other patches to build off of so if others want to use new ASM hacks they may.

[trismegistus]

Incredible! I've been meaning to play through this game for my wife (Polysci grad) but I was averse to using the decent-but-sloppy PSX script, was about to drop yet another 160 bucks on a PSP but I happened upon this incredible project! Amazing work to everyone involved and I eagerly await its completion!

[DarthPaul]

Incredible! I've been meaning to play through this game for my wife (Polysci grad) but I was averse to using the decent-but-sloppy PSX script, was about to drop yet another 160 bucks on a PSP but I happened upon this incredible project! Amazing work to everyone involved and I eagerly await its completion!

Coming from  someone who test plays this awesome patch, even though it is a great implementation of the script I would still buy the psp. Once you have it modded you are not only set for playing hacks for WoTL (which is a must have), but you will also have compact portability. Also there are some good GBA, SNES, and N64 emulators out there to allow for a very great time. The psp is probably my second favorite console, next only to the xbox 360.

[trismegistus]

Yeah, I actually have the game, got about halfway through chapter 2 before my brother sold the PSP...I'll buy another one sometime, just not now.

[trismegistus]

Just downloaded the patch, giving it a spin...first thing I noticed, in the prologue at least, is that Ladd's name is still Rad...he's called Ladd in the intro, but Rad during the battle. I thought maybe the names just hadn't yet been translated, but Gaffgarian is Gaffgarian, so I think I'd let you know. More notes as events warrant.

[TRC]

I guess I'm the only one that thinks the PSP text looks nicer.

[Cheetah]

Trismegistus: Good point about Rad's name, I will have to check in with Dominic about that. Thanks for the comments though and I hope you enjoy what we have so far.

TRC: They looks fine and crisp, they are just very plain in my opinion.

[Havermayer]

Good work so far guys :D

[Dominic NY18]

Yeah, I think I may have missed one of the files that contain the special units' names. I'll check again and get back to you guys (going out, so I don't have the time to check it now).