Archives for August 2004
RPGFan got it right
28 August 2004 | Rants | No Responses
RPGFan: Magna Carta PS2 Delayed Until November
“The Softmax-developed title is based on the highly popular South Korean PC RPG by the same name. No reasons were given for the delay.”
Based on. It’s not the same game. Much as I already said in God damnit! You kids are retarded!
Hopefully since this is now the same source as before announcing it’s just based on the PC game, you people will realize the game being translated is not the same thing you will see if the PS2 one ever comes out in English.
Update to FEIDIAN
26 August 2004 | FEIDIAN | No Responses
I updated FEIDIAN, and this one actually matters.
Remember the bug MadMalkav turned up in v0.8b that caused bitmaps to corrupt when using his Final Fantasy Tactics tile definition? We couldn’t figure out why, so I told him to just dump 16 columns since that always works. I also added a FORCE_PROPER_WIDTH variable that apparently did absolutely nothing.
Today when Nightwolve was trying to dump 15 columns of 8×8 from Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys, the same thing happened again. After scratching my head for an hour I finally figured out what was wrong — the arse who wrote the bitmap document I’ve been following for all these years failed to mention all data has to be in DWORDs, not BYTEs.
It took 10 extra lines in every bitmap read or write instance, but now FEIDIAN has zero problems regardless of how many columns you’re using or what size the tiles are. It will always properly pad everything so it ends up in DWORDs. I’d like to give a friendly finger to whoever wrote that s–tty format spec for all the trouble it’s caused me.
You suck.
It’s finally been found
22 August 2004 | Rants | No Responses
After years and years of asking people, I finally know the name of this instrument thanks to the KCMGS Collection. It’s called a Dvojnice and is an eastern European folk instrument used primarily by shepherds through Yugoslavia and Croatia.
If you’re wondering what one sounds like, check out the NIU World Instrument Collection for a sample MP3. No, mine doesn’t sound anywhere near that good and I really suck at it. No, I’m not really planning to get better at it.
I just always wanted to know what it was called since my mom’s uncle gave it to me when I was really young, it went in a box, and I never got to see it again for many years and by then I had forgotten.
Progress on the Mambo modification
19 August 2004 | Jargon | No Responses
Yeah, I’m insane.
Blast from the Past
10 August 2004 | Rants | No Responses
I found this wedged between two boards falling out the bottom of my bookshelf today. I decided to scan it in because … well … it’s old.
Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Final Fantasy V translation, a mystery never fully explained. This was an old logo from the early days of the project that predates RPGe by at least around 4 months (very early 1997).
As I recall, it was originally just me, then I added Timko’s name to it myself when he started helping.
I have no idea who made this thing anymore, so if it was you or you know who, post a comment and tell me. I still appreciate it.