Synchysi

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  1. If I had the time and patience to learn hacking PSX games, Suikoden I and II would be the very first games I'd dive into. I adore the series, but there is a *lot* of work to be done on both of those games.

    For what it's worth, the director of the first three Suikoden games, Yoshitaka Murayama, is directly involved in Eiyuden Chronicle, so I backed the hell out of it on day one.


  2. 11 hours ago, Cecil188 said:

    Thanks to seibaby for testing insights:

    Being Blinded while Jumping causes Jump to respect row; this is the cause of dealing half damage in this circumstance(proc damage is affected as well).

    Normal damage without blind was ~650, Front Row+Blind was ~650, Back Row+Blind was ~325. (Dark) Proc was about 3100 Normal, 1400 Blinded(wasn't paying too close attention to normal proc, might have been less than 3100, either way, it probably falls within variance).

    This information should make the issue much easier to fix.


  3. It's not really gambling if there's no penalty for losing, is it? That's my main problem with the coliseum, and really any type of gambling in a game like this. The player's going to save, gamble, and reload if they don't get what they wants. It becomes less reliance on RNG and more a test of the player's patience.

    To me, making it easy to win and get whatever item you desire is more a QoL change than anything else.

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  4. 23 hours ago, GeradFigaro said:

    She NEVER broods, unless you count the (now forced) suicide sequence, and even that only came when she thought she was literally the last person alive in the entire world. 

    As other have said, the suicide sequence isn't forced, and we actually made it easier to save him. You're either having shit luck with RNG not spawning the right fish, or you're feeding him the wrong fish.


    1. No, because spell names can only be six characters. So Protect won't fit. Firaga would fit, but it would be inconsistent with the other -aga spells. Changing Vigor and Fight are doable, but they're placed rather snugly where they are, meaning no room for easy expansion. To me, it's not worth the effort to make those changes. Aqua Rake is just something we never bothered changing, and X-Zone... never even occurred to me. I think it's fine how it is, though.
    2. Silliness is the point. The game's storyline itself is serious enough.
    3. Because it was actually GrandTrain, and BTB and I both hate camel casing (you'll notice we did away with every instance of it that we feasibly could). We decided to just rename it to something that we could space and capitalize properly.
    4. Balance reasons, and to try to differentiate weapons a little better.

  5. On 3/24/2018 at 4:31 AM, Romi said:

    you can inspect the chest again and it gives "Nothing!", after which you can't interact with it. The chest even closes again if you open the menu or goes back one screen (if you didn't check it twice and got the "Nothing!" message).

    This is an issue with any chest that is handled by an event rather than a treasure object. It's minor enough that I haven't bothered with a workaround, though it's on my list (way down at the bottom) of things to look at.

    On 3/24/2018 at 0:47 PM, SuperHario said:

    Everyone in zozo lies, so you have to use process of elimination.  Even if you talk to everyone, I’m not sure you get enough info to know the time exactly, and you might need to guess a few times.  

    If you don’t want the hassle, you can probably find a YouTube vid of someone going thru zozo in vanilla.  I don’t think the time has changed, just BNW uses Roman numerals instead of Arabic digits.

    I don't remember if we changed the time or not (pretty sure we didn't), but even if we did, the location of the correct options hasn't changed (i.e., if the correct hour in vanilla is the third option, it'll be the third option in BNW).


  6. 10 hours ago, d'Aubigne said:

    Just finished the game. Final dungeon was fantastic, felt like a true challenge. Planning on a writeup/review later this week.

     

    I made heavy use of Phoenix during the final dungeon, and noticed that graphical glitches tend to pop up on the player side (around 2nd and 3rd position) after Phoenix is summoned. This seems like it'd be a known bug, just checking in to confirm that it is. I am playing on Snes9x 1.55. 

    It's a known issue. It feels like some sort of animation buffer overflow, and I've been able to replicate it on a vanilla ROM, I just haven't gotten around to figuring out how to fix it.

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  7. Lovecraft was my first thought, but it's hard to say definitively. The full quote reads (pardon the bullet format, this forum doesn't allow single spacing for some strange reason and it looks like crap double spaced):

    • After the daylight
    • The night of pain
    • That is not dead
    • Which can rise again

    I think it's safe to assume it was inspired by that line from The Call of Cthulhu, just worded in a less... Lovecraftian manner. Or it's original. Who knows.

     

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  8. 13 hours ago, Kaffe Myers said:

    The logical balance would be that you could turn off overworld random battles, but all caves, castles, dungeons, whatever -- "zoomed-in places" -- still have them. If that is anything that they can code without spending 1000 hours of reverse-engineering? 
    Is bob you uncle, @Synchysi?

    Encounters are determined by separate functions for overworld and dungeon areas, so it shouldn't be difficult if we choose to go that route.

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