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Troubleshooting / Re: ff8 fps drop...need help

« on: 2007-11-05 07:03:04 »

Have a read through this topic:

8800 Graphical Glitches

Their problems were fixed with a driver update and modifying some settings.  Not sure if it will work for you, but it's a start.  FF8 may be tricky...

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Get Organized!

« on: 2007-10-28 16:10:14 »

I'm glad you like it.  I do remember Dewey some time back, but it stopped working for me also.  I think it's done by one developer, and he does take suggestions on his forums.  I do think that webcam feature is neat, but reading the DVD disc would be a nice add-on as well.  The IMDB support makes perfect sense, I guess its just popular to have your search link to Amazon. 

I've also used Libra to store my CD keys for my games.  You can edit an info tab for each individual game, so I'll put login information or the CD keys.  Next install I'm not searching around for the codes.  I know Shadowdane's CD key has encryption, but I'm sure that if someone really wanted a serial they would find it much easier to download a keygen than hack my system. 

I have experienced some crashes, but nothing life threatening.  It's just a small helpful free program, so I'll make some concessions.  Making skins for your bookshelf is pretty easy, I'm making a copy of what mine looks like at the moment.  With a little xml editing you can add some flashy details to it as well.

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Completely Unrelated / Get Organized!

« on: 2007-10-23 23:34:53 »

Well I found a little application that may be useful to many here.  I'm sure plenty of you here have a big collection of DVDs, Books, Games, etc.  I found this little app a fun way to organize it all.

Libra

It uses the Amazon search, much like MediaMonkey, to create an entire library of all of your stuff.  If you have a webcam, you can even use that to scan the barcode to find the product info.  You can then edit the items in your library.  Say I let my friend borrow a book of mine.  I'll select the book, and I can make a record I gave friend x book y on z date.  I don't have Vista yet, so I'm without the games explorer.  Who needs it?  With this you can make a games collection, change the properties so when you press the "Play" button it can launch your game.  This is also perfect if you have plenty of eBooks, so when you press "Play" it can open the .pdf file, a virtual bookshelf it you will.  I would love this if it worked on Linux.  The developer said it may work with WINE, but hasn't been tested.  Give it a try, and tell me what you think of it.

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Archive / Re: Order to install patches/mods

« on: 2007-10-18 06:14:32 »

its probably the same.. i never really noticed or thought to look for him here...
but why do you ask?

Well I wasn't really asking, I was using sarcasm.  I'm pretty sure that odds are it's the same person.  It's just funny that there are forum rules against helping those that pirate the game.  Now we have a link to a pirate tutorial video, but why do you ask? 

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Star Wars Jedi Knight Academy Final Fantasy VII Mods

« on: 2007-10-18 06:01:26 »

I'm pretty sure you're looking at the Midgar multiplayer map.  Here's a link to their latest release, that I'm aware of, and some tasty screenshots.

Final Fantasy VII - Midgar 3.0

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Troubleshooting / Re: FF7 NPC-RP help, game freezes when I enter battle

« on: 2007-10-16 07:04:02 »

Where are all the techs that made this program??? You know, the guys that actually made it themselves,  I thought NPC RP was developed from this website



So where is everyone??

Techs?  No, they're not paid tech support.  So they might be attending to their lives.

without npc v6 it works...  but thats the most important patch!!

Should I just get the damn reunion patch>

If it works without the NPC patch, then that certainly looks like the culprit.  Sounds like you made a misstep in installing the patch, or there was a problem when LGPtool extracted your field character archive.  Oh, and it's not the "damn reunion patch,"  lots of people work hard on this forum to do with this game what we thought unthinkable even two years ago.  Try to show a little respect for others' works.

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Archive / Re: Order to install patches/mods

« on: 2007-10-16 05:05:00 »

Wow... a "How to Pirate Final Fantasy 7" video.  Please tell me that it's a different mr_nygren then the one registered at these forums. 

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Archive / Re: [Release] Reno for Tifa BETA

« on: 2007-10-11 21:07:16 »

I like the idea of Reno being a party member.  Maybe you could replace Cait Sith with him.  Then he is the Shinra spy that comes around, and you got more room to re-write his dialog.  Plus there's no chance of homoeroticism!

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Troubleshooting / Re: ff7.exe still runs after quitting

« on: 2007-10-11 20:51:46 »

Same for me too, but I'm just glad all the mods work for me. 

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Portal (and the rest of "Orange Box"

« on: 2007-10-11 20:48:24 »

A friend of mine pre-ordered the Orange Box, so he had the TF2 beta.  I played a bit of that and wow!  When I first saw the character design over a year ago, I thought it was rubbish.  After playing it, I see why they went in that direction.  This is just a really fun multiplayer experience, not a serious tactical shooter.  I think they wanted to separate Team Fortress 2 from Counter-Strike, otherwise it's just CS with multiple classes.

I think I'll pick up the Orange Box and give my other copy of Half Life 2 to a friend.  I got it for free with my 9800xt many moons ago anyway, and I haven't even played any of the extended episodes yet.  As EmperorSteele mentioned, Portal does look great, but I've only seen video demos of it.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Pat Condell: Hello angry Christians

« on: 2007-10-05 01:14:29 »

Oh, I suspect that that's pretty much exactly what he wants.  Well, that and to make people laugh, since he is a former stand-up comedian, nowadays a writer.

Ah, that makes more sense why he is so vocal about it.  You're not a good comedian if you don't draw attention to yourself and poke a little fun here and there.  Never heard of Pat Condell, but this all makes perfect sense now.  Worried he was some sort of Atheist televangelist or something. 

Maybe. Might also be because they are most familiar with it, or some of them might be cultural relativists to some degree, meaning that they might see the concept of religion silly in modern western culture, but are less judgmental when it comes to cultures of other kind.

Or they don't see other religions as 'their business', or they simply don't see a point in mocking other religions in a place where there are not that many believers of the said religions to listen to them.

I see your point.  It could also be that other religions in the US are just not as vocal here about "converting" you.  If you fly below the radar and not annoy people you won't be a target I suppose.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Pat Condell: Hello angry Christians

« on: 2007-10-04 08:22:05 »

That video was pretty funny.  He lost me when he talked about praying to Elvis though.  His whole point was how he was anti-combative towards Christians, but by mocking their belief that makes him no better than the ones saying he will burn in hell.  Disprove it fine, but I think everyone's beliefs should at least be respected, whether you're Christian, Buddhist, or Atheist.  What does he expect "believers" to say to him?  He mocked their belief in something, can they mock his belief in...nothing?  No, they're going to push on him what they believe are the consequences of his actions, eternal damnation.

Since I came to the US, I've found atheists mock Christianity but not other major world religions.  Why is that?  Is it because that is the country's largest followed religion?  If someone is being "naive" to you and believes in a greater power that gives them comfort, why do you care?  If someone believed in the Giant Spaghetti Monster as their deity, I don't care.  It just seems like 99% of conflicts today are started by what color you are, who you have sex with, and who you do/or do not pray to.  I guess it shows as a society we haven't come far, which Pat Condell pointed out nicely.  I just seems to me if your a true "believer" in a deity or atheism, you wouldn't go around pushing your beliefs or confronting those with differing ones.  Both sides are certainly guilty of both.

EDIT:
Box Kitten is adorable. 

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Archive / Re: [Release] NEW Better Avatar Replacement(clearear ver)

« on: 2007-10-03 18:22:15 »

I pity da fool who doesn't download dis avatar patch! 

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Troubleshooting / Re: Black Textures Problem (Or Graphical Glitches with GF8800)

« on: 2007-10-01 13:16:31 »

Well some found a solution from the topic you previously posted in.  Start reading from here.

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Releases / Re: [Release] Higher Resolution FFVIIPC [v1.00] - Part II

« on: 2007-09-11 05:11:59 »

Seriously... it's called the "Edit" button.  When you edit your posts here they are flagged as new posts.

Your movies load up much faster by using the movies on your hard drive tweak.  Then it will not depend on your CD spinning up to play the movies.  The 1280x1024 patch just adds a black bar at the bottom of the screen to fit this resolution simply because many monitors have this resolution supported.  If it runs on the 1280x960, that's fine and will fit a 4x3 monitor full screen.

What type of graphics card are you running?  I had trouble with restarts on an old Radeon card before.  I got it working by putting a fresh .exe and applying the patches again.  Make sure it's running in Win98 compatibility mode.  Last I checked, Radeon cards don't play nice with FF7 and some graphics features, such as Anti-Aliasing which was causing the "grid" effect.  Computer restarts are not supposed to happen.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: What to do with a four-year degree?

« on: 2007-08-28 22:56:04 »

With your bachelor's in business administration, try a financial institution.  A friend of mine got a job with a respectable US bank with his BA.  He worked as a loan officer/customer service representative.  I gave him a shout about the pay, he won't give me the specifics, but he said he made around three times your current hourly rate and PPO health care was included.  The bank even assists you with furthering your education.  He continued to take classes, the bank funded part of it, and in a few years he earned his MBA.  After that many doors started opening for him.

I'm sorry to hear about your hardships.  I'm also a starving college student who is working his way through school, just like you did.  With your degree I'd check for the banking position because you are certainly qualified.  My friend told me you will probably go in for your banks "college" which is just paid training for a week or two, then no more hydraulic hoses!

I wish you the best of luck.

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Archive / Re: [Release] Otokoshi's Videos

« on: 2007-07-22 06:53:17 »

Links have been updated and are provided in the first post.  I still got my fingers crossed to one day be able to change the scenes background images.  I have another video which uses the entire tech demo and improved frame rate, and it's just itching to be used. 

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General Discussion / Re: Yaz0r has shut down! :(

« on: 2007-07-15 03:50:16 »

If you want to know, I wasn't contacted by square-enix or anything. But I feel that the viewer is becoming a touchy subject and I honestly don't want to have legal issues.

For my next projects, I have a few things in mind, but nothing really decided yet.

I guess you could take that response with a grain of salt, whether he was contacted by a developer or not.  Either way I see his reason for stopping.  He's a talented programmer probably looking to move into some type of software development and these hacking tools give him the risk of legal action, with no benefit to him.

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Q-Gears / Re: Advetising?

« on: 2007-07-09 17:18:57 »

"The fearless leader" has already posted a topic at the GameDev forums.  I would leave all the PR stuff to him.  I'm not sure how big or how small the coverage he wishes to get from this project at this time.  It's good to see the enthusiasm from everyone though.

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Releases / Re: [Release] NPC Reconstruction Project

« on: 2007-07-05 04:41:32 »

Maybe...finished what you started?  I don't know...

I mean weren't you guys really close to finishing?  I love how people polish old games, but they seem to never finish what they started because they always find newer and 'better' ways to mod.  I'm surprised no one agrees with me...I mean if you do please speak your mind.

I do agree with this second remark.  Many of the most anticipated mods never finish because those developing them feel the need to "polish" it more until the team is worn out or everyone loses interest.  The second comment conveys your point more clearly.  You're known for many valued constructive posts on the forum, the only reason I responded is because your first comment didn't appear to be very constructive.

"Don't like it?  Fine, they aren't in sweat shops making the patches for us...."  OK 'Otokoshi'.  That just made me laugh.  You can't be serious.  Sweat shops?  Because of one suggestion out of the 40 pages of compliments?

That's right, I wasn't trying to be serious.  I hoped someone would laugh at it, and I'm glad you did.  I wasn't going to flame on you, but your first "suggestion" in a nutshell was "I don't like the new style and finish it the way I like it."  At least that is how it came off to me, which is why I commented.  I understand your view better and no worries.  We're all looking forward to NPC RP 1.0 one day, no reason to get up in arms right? 

Back on topic:

I'm really liking the 3ds Max works storm, keep it up!

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Archive / Re: Long time no post

« on: 2007-07-02 03:58:37 »

Be sure to check out the Q-Gears Project section as well.

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Releases / Re: [Release] Slayersnext's Customized Models

« on: 2007-06-26 00:00:21 »

That is certainly fine.  People have lives and other projects to work on.  No harm in asking right?  With the time you all invested on the JA map, out of respect, we should get your permisson before using any of your works.

Oh, and welcome to the forum.

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Releases / Re: [Release] Slayersnext's Customized Models

« on: 2007-06-25 20:46:20 »

The FF7 map for Jedi Academy is impressive.  They must be fans.  How about someone ask them if they would like to participate on a project?  They won't take part in model ripping, and to me that's fine.  I enjoy community made projects far more than "ripping parties."  For example, our very own NPC RP.

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Releases / Re: NPC Reconstruction Project

« on: 2007-06-24 22:55:04 »

Maybe... finish what you started?

Maybe... let him do what he wants?  All he is posting is WIP.  Don't like it?  Fine, they aren't in sweat shops making the patches for us....

On PSP sorry for any typos.

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Completely Unrelated / Re: Super Mario Bros Z

« on: 2007-06-21 07:58:33 »

It is indeed, as it's in the rules you agreed when you registered , before me, but unlike you I follow these rules.

No you're not following the rules.  If you want to continue this pointless argument, it's probably best to do it via private messages.  This is the most retarded forum argument I have ever seen.