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Title: I Have 2 Questions About FFVIII [PC Version]
Post by: unh0ly51nn3r on 2011-05-07 01:26:20
1) BUG ISSUE:
Why the game freezes with a black screen after Rinoa & Squall kiss at the ending scene?

2) .sgt FILES & MIDI FILES: <<< [This one really vexes me especially that .sgt]

(http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv280/unh0ly51nn3r/ff8midi.jpg)

Well, according to the picture, it is possible which means not entirely impossible although with only a really slight chance that one can really mess with the .sgt files & MIDI files inside those .sgt files which means that this case really has something to do with that so called .dls files right? Well, to make it simple here, how can I mess with/open those annoying .sgt files and get down to business with/extract those MIDI files knowing that the instruments will definitely lost? What does the .dls files role over the .sgt files & MIDI files anyway?
Title: Re: I Have 2 Questions About FFVIII [PC Version]
Post by: Vgr on 2011-05-07 17:58:48
1) The game is finished by that point, there's nothing after that.
2) Let's be clear. The SGTs, as the MIDIs, don't contain any music. Only the data needed to play the music. The MIDIs have a simple set of instruments that any computer can decode and play. The SGTs are the same thing (with better instruments), but they need the DLS file to decode the music. So, no, you won't get to "extract" the MIDIs from it. MIDIs of FF8 DO exist, but they sounds crap... Square used original MIDIs for the music of FF7PC but they changed to DLS when they adapted FF8 for PC. With Samuel's soundfont (that sounds crap anyways), you can just replace the DLS file instead of all the SGTs and it will work.
Title: Re: I Have 2 Questions About FFVIII [PC Version]
Post by: unh0ly51nn3r on 2011-05-16 00:12:47
Not to sound like Selphie but another 2 question (Both questions are related to that mysterious girl named Ellone)

1. It is revealed that Ellone only knew Squall (And presumably Quistis as well) and never learn about Zell & Selphie. But why she also have power over them? What I mean here is she IS ABLE to drag both Zell and Selphie to the 'Dream World' (A.K.A 'Laguna and co.'s Past') alongside with Squall and co. inside that train that they board to Timber during their first SeeD mission since she never meet both Zell and Selphie?

2. How come Ellone is the only Main Character who doesn't have her own Triple Triad Card?
Title: Re: I Have 2 Questions About FFVIII [PC Version]
Post by: Vgr on 2011-05-16 00:18:51
She knew them. Everyone but Rinoa knew each other before the storyline starts. As for the Ellone Card, I don't know. Well, Odine, Cid Xu and some others don't have their, too.
Title: Re: I Have 2 Questions About FFVIII [PC Version]
Post by: Tenko Kuugen on 2011-05-16 04:59:23
pretty sure there was an Odin card
and as far as I can tell only playable characters got a character card
Title: Re: I Have 2 Questions About FFVIII [PC Version]
Post by: Vgr on 2011-05-16 21:31:29
Odine, the scientist :P

Yes, that's it for the playable characters only.