Final Fantasy Tactics: Mercenaries (Main Info Thread)

[Glenn]

Actually no but good guess! Its my self portrait of how I would look on FFT I guess. I have red hair in real life and its really just a recolorized portrait of Balbanes without the ponytail. I also tried to make him look younger. But I'm not too great at pixel art.  

[Glenn]

I was trying to think of a new Accumulate. I got as far as an idea of a skill that would give maybe 3 to 5 attack power but would give the user Don't Move or Don't Act. However once those wore off you would have a way powerful unit. But really its the same as stacking accumulate but more tedious.

[LastingDawn]

Ouch, unfortunately I forgot for the time that +X and Status don't ever stack in the formula's they all have NS by them, it's peculiar, but it doesn't seem to work, which means I'll need to rethink Yell as well.

[Zozma]

that modded balbanes portrait shows me that it has alot of potential for portrait templates

[Glenn]

Haha glad you noticed that.

[Zozma]

yo BP do you mind if i submit the purple mystery on zodiac's submission page so that everyone can have access to it?

and what should i call that sprite btw?
also im making a special knight sprite just for miluda (wow ive made alot of females huh? its cause im so good at animating hair and the ladies have it lol....)

[LastingDawn]

(Assuming you meant me...)

No...? Not at all... Zozma. Please, feel free. You and Cheetah did the true majority of the work, if only I could get CD Prog to work... I would be able to have her ingame, but alas.

[Cheetah]

I just called her Purple Mystery because I didn't know what Lasting Dawn was calling her at the time. I would probably just continue to call her Purple Mystery since she is a patch specific character and everyone would be confused by Rofokare most likely. In the credits I would note that it was Lasting Dawn's design, I did most of the sprite work, and then of course your contributions Zozma. I was going to submit her soon myself but I am very busy with the Chronicles of Kanbabrif right now.

Lasting Dawn:
Have you still be unable to get Rofokare in there? How did you get Seph in there but can't get Rofokare?

[Zozma]

yeah LD thx, but okay ill leave it for you guys to submit, its just a good sprite  wanted to make sure it wasn't forgotten.

[LastingDawn]

I just called her Purple Mystery because I didn't know what Lasting Dawn was calling her at the time. I would probably just continue to call her Purple Mystery since she is a patch specific character and everyone would be confused by Rofokare most likely. In the credits I would note that it was Lasting Dawn's design, I did most of the sprite work, and then of course your contributions Zozma. I was going to submit her soon myself but I am very busy with the Chronicles of Kanbabrif right now.

Lasting Dawn:
Have you still be unable to get Rofokare in there? How did you get Seph in there but can't get Rofokare?

Well Sephiroth is taking Elmdor's place (He's dead and Stays dead!, just like Wiegraf his only mentions is in a rumor and partially in a flashback). He was the same exact bytes as Elmdor of course, the one place it would fit is over Balmafula, but I have rather large plans for her, and didn't want to replace her. Though CDProg, from what Zodiac says, it should be able to include sprite size +2 KB which is absolutely gigantic.

[trickstardude7]

Lasting Dawn I saw the colliseum battle thing

AMAZING !!

I am excited for this patch i want to be a beta tester

[woodenbandman]

Wow, that opening scene reminds me of Cloud from FF7. Which reminds me: Is he still in there?

[LastingDawn]

Cloud's sprite is still there (so small I can't find any adequate replacement...) but I have no plans for him making an appearance, Cloud's purpose has been completely removed (no way for his scenes to happen now...) also his Limit's have been used and reworked to be... well... not Limit moves.


Well, I do need beta testers. I'll try to make a suitable build for such.

[trickstardude7]

Cloud's sprite is still there (so small I can't find any adequate replacement...) but I have no plans for him making an appearance, Cloud's purpose has been completely removed (no way for his scenes to happen now...) also his Limit's have been used and reworked to be... well... not Limit moves.


Well, I do need beta testers. I'll try to make a suitable build for such.

I cannot wait lol is it hard to do all of this

[LastingDawn]

It's... time consuming, everything requires fine tuning and the new abilities are no exception. The character's unique abilities still need proper testing, and the Shine skills on the Treasure Hunter still need a lot of testing.

[Cheetah]

So here is a pic of Rofokare replacing a few different units. So I feel like you should be able to import her over Cloud if you aren't using him. If he isn't a type 2 sprite, I heard that Zodiac had figured out how to change the type of a sprite file.

[LastingDawn]

Oh? Well I'll need to ask him about that, but it all comes down to use of the CD Prog which my computer seems to be having trouble using it, since Cloud is only 41.5 and Rofokare is quite a bit more then that, how did you put her in?

[Cheetah]

Take the BMP of her with the palette set up correctly, import the BMP into Cloud's SPR file. Then Use CDMage Beta to import the new Cloud SPR over the old one. It might give you an error saying it is too big, but as long as it saves it isn't an issue.

I did the exact same thing, just over the male and female squires.

[BeoulveBlack]

i would love to know how to change .SPR types... it would help me sooo much

[Zozma]

this is an edited version of purple mystery in sprite form. its a slight variation i did to the original, just to share.