Just a question

[Squarejord]

Hi there, I'm new and give you good kiss from France.

I'm wanted to ask you. I have FFVII on PSX and wanted to use its 2D backgrounds for the PC version of the game. Is it possible ? What programs must I use in order of that ? And how ?

I must congratulate Reunion's author for his incredible work... but I must say that I'll never use it because of the characters height generated bugs... I think you should make the characters like FFIX for less bugs, some sort of enhanced SD characters... just one idea.

Thanks guys ! Bye.

[Threesixty]

I have a strong feeling, that those are already the same backgrounds that are on the Playstation version. TV's run at a much lower resolution than PC's do.... So when you use the same image...it loses a lot of the clarity.

Even if you can do what you want to do.... I seriously doubt it would look any different, than it already does.

[EmperorSteele]

Plus, I don't know how much work has gone into decoding the psx format, but in the pc version, the background is chopped up into little squares, then recombined; the psx (or any original image) may not be compatible with this process.  I guess someone will have to try and see.

[Squarejord]

Same backgrounds than PSX ?? Are you sure ? Dawn it.... May be you're right. thank you...
I've never thought about TV resolution...

Thanks again.

[Threesixty]

Am I sure?
No....

But TV's resoluiton is about 320x200(?) or something near that... I don't remember. And the highest the game can run at is 640x480. It about equivilent of stretching a picture in photoshop or something. Stuff just gets pixelated with bigger dots.

[Kiggles]

It doesn't have much to do with the stretching of the backgrounds on PC that causes the poor quality to be aparent. it is the progressive refresh of PC monitors which are. I play FF7 PC on a TV and it looks just fine, because typical NTSC displays (North American/Japanese Televisions) are interleaved. In other words: only odd rows of pixels are refreshed in a single pass, then only even rows are refreshed. This makes the image much more blurry, and interpolates the pixelated mess that are backgrounds to a degree. Doesn't have anything to do with the images in either game, or the rendernig method either executable is utilizing to draw the screen. It is entirely dependant on the display device.