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General Discussion / FF7:AC

« on: 2006-02-19 00:03:49 »

The deleted scenes aren't in the movie. The movie's unchanged, there is two cd's in the box 'movie' + 'special features'.

If you want to see one of the deleted scenes go watch threw all the trailers on the jap website, one of them has a part on the moterbikes thats was never in the movie.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Ifalna v1.40 Bug

« on: 2006-02-17 15:27:25 »

I have found an ugly bug in ficedula's Ifalna tool.
After loading the Battle.lgp (german) into Ifalna, my screen looked like this.

Does anyone else encountered this problem?

As for my OS:
Windows XP Pro SP 2

 - Alhexx

I've had this problem before, and its definatly not to do with just ficedula's Ifalna tool because ive never used it before.

It could be to do with the way the app is handling resource's. Might not be cleaning up something it should.

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Completely Unrelated / Corrupt-A-Wish

« on: 2006-02-17 15:22:26 »

I wish pro-gaming in Korea would branch to the USA.

Granted, korea invade's the USA and brings pro-gaming with it along with any other cultural differences.

I wish my computer would stop with the error's... i messed it up somehow :weep: . now its crashing every time i do something.. even the smallest thing crashes it ... ARGGRGGRG.. ..bugger, today suck's already & the sun hasn't even come up yet.

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Completely Unrelated / Corrupt-A-Wish

« on: 2006-02-17 14:37:59 »

I wish I received a dollar for every wish made.

Granted only if you then give them all to me.

I wish i understood what the hell was going on in Lain.

I probley shouldn't have watched donnie darko before it, my perception of reality is getting all fucked up today... it doesn't help with been sick with a fever of some sort either.

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FF7 Tools / Re: Yet Another Multi-Patcher

« on: 2006-02-16 21:58:43 »

something useful would be a mp limit break

It does that.

Features:

Maximum amount of HP
Maximum amount of MP
Maximum HPDamage that a character can do
Maximum MPDamage that a character can do
Maximum HPDamage that a monster can do to char
Maximum MPDamage that a monster can do to char
Maximum amount of HP restored by Full-HP-Restore items/magic
Maximum amount of MP restored by Full-MP-Restore items[/list:u]

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Completely Unrelated / Corrupt-A-Wish

« on: 2006-02-16 21:43:28 »

I wish that pirates and ninjas could get along.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/rup/NinjashatePirates.jpg
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/rup/ultimatemurder.JPG
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/rup/NINJAvsPIRATE.jpg

sorry... couldn't resist

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FF7 Tools / Re: Yet Another Multi-Patcher

« on: 2006-02-16 08:34:34 »

Download YAMP and only those patches you want to apply.

didn't notice you had changed the links, last time i downloaded from the yamp&patchs link & then removed the ones i didn't want installed... but that didnt work for some reason.

Yes, but it's not its real purpose  When the FMV starts, press Ctrl+S. If the screen turns black, press Ctrl+D. Should work.

Eh, that's good enough for me.  

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General Discussion / FF7:AC

« on: 2006-02-16 07:44:02 »

On the dvd or cinema?

Yea, on the special features dvd - listed in the previous links
here : http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/781726
&
here : http://www.square-enix.com/na/company/press/2006/0213/

Special Features:

11 never-before-seen deleted scenes
'Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VII' story digest feature brings viewers up to date with the story from the videogame
'Distance' documentary on the making of the movie
Behind-the-scenes feature on the film’s screening at the Venice Film Festival
Trailers [/list:u]

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Completely Unrelated / Corrupt-A-Wish

« on: 2006-02-16 06:26:58 »

Granted, but you're physically and psycologically addicted to caffiene forever...

I already am dammit      . Thats actually why im tired, i drank WAY too much coke & coffie yesterday and so im having a huge low after the high effect  :z .

I wish that humanity invents a practical and safe-for-humans FTL drive technology to use in space travel.

Granted, as long as there is no other places to travel too.

I wish for nothing ... for i am content.

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Completely Unrelated / Corrupt-A-Wish

« on: 2006-02-16 04:07:41 »

I wish the dinosaurs were not killed.

granted .. but they eat you alive.

I wish i wasn't so tired

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General Discussion / FF7:AC

« on: 2006-02-15 22:47:28 »

"Sneak Peek" of the Upcoming FINAL FANTASY VII Games

I wonder if this was meant to be:
Sneak Peek of the Upcoming FINAL FANTASY VII Game
- or -
Sneak Peek of the Upcoming FINAL FANTASY Games

That special feature wasn't listed on the link that i provided so i wonder how true it is, the second one would make sense but not the first.

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FF7 Tools / Re: Yet Another Multi-Patcher

« on: 2006-02-15 22:41:42 »

Hey dziugo, how do you install the patch's without the transparent dialog boxes.

Also can that other patch be used to skip any FMV, because im sick of waiting for the startup movie each time i want to test something out.

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Completely Unrelated / Corrupt-A-Wish

« on: 2006-02-15 22:28:59 »

Granted, but now your head hurts from trying to figure out what just happened.

Interesting game though, logically speaking... as in, the exact opposite wish should work about as well:

I wish that my wish won't be corrupted.

Granted, because your wish is already corrupted by been such a waste of a wish.

I wish i was imune to 'wild magic'.

- edit -
sorry chaoscontrol, i was a bit slow at posting.

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Completely Unrelated / Corrupt-A-Wish

« on: 2006-02-15 08:48:56 »

I wish for world-wide peace.

Granted, as long as there's no free will

I wish i didn't have to go back to uni next week.

btw, noticed this on your website "dwNumberOfYourBaseThatAreBelongToUs", lol..  

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General Discussion / FF7:AC

« on: 2006-02-15 02:22:35 »

The special features dont look half bad either in the tin box edition.

see here - http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/781726

Thats usually where i get all my dvd's from.

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / FF7 Savemap

« on: 2006-02-15 00:42:44 »

From Offset 0x0FC4 to (?? bytes)
All flags about chests and items to find during the game. For instance :

Offset 0x0FC4
bit 1 (LSB) : Potion #1 on KOed guards (beginning of the game)
bit 2 : Potion #2 on KOed guards
bit 3 : Potion in front of Jesse (in the Mako Reactor)
bit 4 : Phoenix Down in the chest

Does this mean you can edit what item's are found and where they are found??

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Archive / FF7 8bit geforce 6600

« on: 2006-02-09 04:00:05 »

Thanks got it sorted

How?

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Archive / vincent mod

« on: 2006-02-09 03:58:52 »

post a screeny

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / 8 bit pallete textures

« on: 2006-02-08 20:13:07 »

Actually Direct X borrows most of its useful API ideas from OpenGL, as originally DirectX... was horrible to program for.  That's why many refused to touch it tell the last 8 years.  When first introduced people were.. well pissed. (See circa 1992/3).  The current interface as I said is quite openGlish.

I must have another look at openGl, the version of openGl i was looking at was very old compaired to the Dx version i was looking at. It looked ... uh messed up & difficult so i havent looked at it since that first encounter really.

8 bit palettes are slow on modern hardware because they are not supported in the hardware and instead have to be decoded to 32 bit textures in software THEN used in rasterization.

Cheer's, thats what i wanted to know. I assumed that a 16bit palette would be backwards compatible in a way, what i thought was that by providing support for it you shouldn't need to support 8bit.

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Troubleshooting / Junon Crash

« on: 2006-02-08 12:30:10 »

There's various codec's out, it might be worth the time trying a few out such as divx. Or its even possible that one of them is the source of your problems.

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / 8 bit pallete textures

« on: 2006-02-08 12:09:43 »

You like t3h borg don't you ;P

Actually I hate star trek.. too boring for me.

anyway, in FF8 I used to have this problem, the menu colors would be shitty and not smoothly run over in eachother. now 8-bit etc works its gone and everything looks way better! just wanted to know why actually

The was reciently a topic on a forum about how particular cards running in 32bit mode mess up(not look as good) 8bit texture's in Quake2 - and there is actually a fix for it (Theres a test for your 8bit textures... play Quake 2) Maybe your card has the same problem. On mine the game looks normal with a ATI Radeon 9600.

If you want to see what the problem that im referring to looked like set your gamma up really high and it will give you a simular effect. It will make the different shade's in colour very different and very grainy.

side note: OpenGl is/was limited to 16bit texture's DX9 Isn't. As far as i know Quake 3: Arena was the first to break this rule supporting 32bit colours in an openGl program. In my opinion OpenGl runs smoother and faster however is harder to program for.

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Troubleshooting / Junon Crash

« on: 2006-02-08 11:29:35 »

all these crashes seem to be related to video's... try updating or downgrading you video codec's.

Update media players the easiest way to do that.

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / 8 bit pallete textures

« on: 2006-02-08 11:20:14 »

It's just how many colour's the textures go up to.. so 8 bit will only go up to 256. The Vodoo card's (3&4) i think used to only go up to 16bit and then about the time T&T's started comming out graphic's cards started to go up to 32bit.

so a card that can handle 32bit can also handle anything before although its sometimes disabled for performance optimisation as 32bit is also quicker(dont know why.. just is), so by forceing the game to use 32bit you increase the overall fps. So basically its just how many colours are used to display the textures.

The most noticeable thing about a screen shot between a 32bit and a 8bit will be where the colours blend together (e.g. like in the menu when it goes from light blue to dark blue) also transparencies when it blends the foreground with the background. However unlike what everyone seems to think none of that should cause the transparencies to go black!!! the fact that theyre black means that the card is not even trying to process the transparencies or is doing it completly wrong. Also the fact that the rest of the textures are displayed correctly meants that your card can handle the 8bit textures... otherwise nothing would be displayed at all, except maybe vertex colours.

textures are made up of several layers, one of these (alpha channel i think) is used to tell the gfx card which parts of the textures are transparent and just how see threw they are ment to be. If the card fails to do this then the transparent area's will appear as either black or blue dependant on what its been programed to see threw. games as old as ff possibly expect only one layer for texture's and a result make every pure black pixel transparent.

correct me if im wrong about any of that... im not a perfect machine of unmistakeable accuracy as much as i wish i was

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General Discussion / Hey everyone

« on: 2006-02-07 01:37:46 »

At the cost of sounding really stupid (yeah sounding) what exactly is a ping? And what will the ping of death do? Yeah, I'm really dumb...

Ping is the time delay between a packet been sent & recieved. The ping cmd on the otherhand is used to test if another computer is on the network. You can try it out by going to dos and typing ping.

Ping of death would be a really slow internet connection, kinda like a modem.

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Archive / FF7 8bit geforce 6600

« on: 2006-02-07 01:24:52 »

-edit-
-- opp's -- sorry, messed this up... just ignor.