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Final Fantasy IX PC/Mobile |OT| How did the source code survive?
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Visualante2
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Some of these filtered images are way to painterly for my tastes. Played with squarealex's scan line filter today and I'm enjoying it a lot more this way. Probably going to try this diagonal movement mod as well soon because it's annoying me during hot & cold.
Did the cotton robe trick today to get rich. Glad one of the later villages sold the ingredients. I'm finding I appreciate the game's nuances a lot more this time around. The way you'll go through sequences without a class are really nicely balanced in my opinion.
Feel like the game is really flying by though.
Did the cotton robe trick today to get rich. Glad one of the later villages sold the ingredients. I'm finding I appreciate the game's nuances a lot more this time around. The way you'll go through sequences without a class are really nicely balanced in my opinion.
Feel like the game is really flying by though.
potatohead
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The detail you're saying behaves like noise for my eyes. I prefer a clean picture like this:
That's far, far too strong of filtering.
I get it looks smooth, but it certainly doesn't look right.
When it's shrunk down into the scale of the game UI, maybe it would look OK though, in the quote box it looks fine, but not enlarged.... there's only so much detail and sharpness that can be gleaned from low-res, it doesn't extend infinitely. Though I do love your SuperxBR work for SNES I've seen you post elsewhere, those look fantastic.
Pretty sure the FF IX PC port portraits are of higher quality anyway.
See, I find that the effects of this filtering on those background images is very hit-and-miss. Some of them look great... but others completely change the feel of the environment being depicted.
I'm certainly looking forward to someone going through the game with it once someone finds a combination that works without making the backgrounds look too much like watercolors.
It's interesting to me that in this composite image, the sharply rendered 3D characters still stick out from the backgrounds. Less so than with what's in the port now, sure, and I would certainly prefer this to what we have... but it still isn't as seamless as it was in the original version.
I'm certainly looking forward to someone going through the game with it once someone finds a combination that works without making the backgrounds look too much like watercolors.
It's interesting to me that in this composite image, the sharply rendered 3D characters still stick out from the backgrounds. Less so than with what's in the port now, sure, and I would certainly prefer this to what we have... but it still isn't as seamless as it was in the original version.
DrForester
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Beware when you're doing Chocograph hunting. You done zone anywhere so it won't autosave. I got caught by a dragon in the islands of the Forgotten Continent and died. Thankfully I only had to redo a few Chocographs , but it was still anoying.
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texhnolyze
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The detail you're saying behaves like noise for my eyes. I prefer a clean picture like this:
Short hair Garnet is the best Garnet.
Meesh
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I'm loving this rerelease to itty bitty pieces, the only real weird drawback was a glitch Steiner had during winning fight animations where his arm disappeared, but overall I'm so happy to play FFIX again. So many feel good moments, really one of the best in the series... Makes me wonder why they departed from the FFIX formula because it's damn near perfect 
DrForester
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Fast Forward + Chocobo Hot and Cold has made my thumb really, really sore...
I'm loving this rerelease to itty bitty pieces, the only real weird drawback was a glitch Steiner had during winning fight animations where his arm disappeared, but overall I'm so happy to play FFIX again. So many feel good moments, really one of the best in the series... Makes me wonder why they departed from the FFIX formula because it's damn near perfect
I don't know, a lot of people seem to think that style of game is "obsolete", even though they can't say exactly why.
TonkatsuAddict
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Because it looks "silly" to have realistic-looking characters lining up and taking turns hitting each other, and we can't have things being silly in our video games.
But seriously, a Final Fantasy game set in a more "fantastic" setting, like 9, 10, or Tactics, with turn-based combat (either pure or ATB), and even just PS3 level graphics would make me more excited than basically anything else could. I'm just glad I have 9 to play again, since it's as close to my ideal as the series has gotten.
What drives me crazy is, you don't have to have the characters all just standing still in a row to have turn-based combat. You don't have to have random map encounters, or any of the other tropes people typically associate negatively with classic RPGs. But people lump all these together and say all of it's obsolete.
But yeah, even if you do have everyone standing in a row with modern graphics, so what? There are a million "silly" aspects of realistic-looking games that no one cares about. I wish Square or some other major studio would take it upon themselves to show people what can be done with a classic RPG with cutting-edge tech.
Someone made a tool to change fonts: https://github.com/Albeoris/Memoria
Future features:
Future features:
- Import text
- Disable cheats
- Exit to main menu
- Export/import textures
- Redesign for battle menu
- Rewrite the game engine
Interesting. Any screenshots of the new fonts? I have no problem with the font as it is now. Mostly just looking forward to the redesigned battle menu, even though I'm already well into Disc 3 and probably won't replay this game again for a long time.
squidilix
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I don't remember them ever having death screams...
Dragon Quest XI on PS4 is our best bet right now. I really hope it's successful enough to justify future entries remaining on home consoles. Please don't break my heart, Japan.
I hope people make some quality difficulty mods for this release of IX like they have done for VII. Since IX is a much more balanced game I'd imagine it'd be a lot easier to do something interesting with its enemies and battle system.
squidilix
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texhnolyze
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There's a whooping 2,3GB patch that just went live earlier. No patch notes yet though.
Fascinating..
Edit: It's up.
Ayy..
Fascinating..
Edit: It's up.
Ayy..
All that for 2.3GB update?
Spiritwalker
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Quina is indeed the best character <3
MekaDragon
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Some more screenshots:
Yes, please. Not playing this port until every background is redone like these.
Are you going to do such a thing? Because, wow, this is game changer.
Well, if someone release a tool to export/import backgrounds to the game, then yes, I'd work on a pack of upscaled backgrounds.
DrForester
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Press F1 and turn on Fast Forward for Chocobo Hot and Cold. You run and dig as super speeds, but the 60 second time will go down like normal. Makes it super easy to get 8 items almost all the time.
Good to know. Sometimes the luck would be so badly against you in that game lol. Still the best overall chocobo sidequests in the series though
NipplesAndToes23
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Did someone find more of the original background art?
What do you mean by analog controls, the analog sticks? They're working for me.
DrForester
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Yeah, that's why I say ALMOST all the time.
You will at one point spend 60 seconds, hitting that button and digging a few hundred times and only get like two things. But I would say something like 95% of the time I was getting 8 items, and the biggest problem was Chocobo Garden and the split sections.
The PS1 games (and, uhh, mouse controls here) allowed for full 360 controls. Here it's the same as playing on the PSP with the analog nub emulating a d-pad, ergo 8 directions only. Serviceable, it's not like playing a game like Mario 64 with D-Pad only, but it's not really something you want if you know there's a better option.
Zantetsuken88
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There has to be more than this in a 2.3GB update? Stealth fixes/additions?
It's probably the movie fix. If it's baked into the FMV and part of a large file then there's only one solution: replacement.
The ending FMV is actually broken up into two segments in the files (bookending the "How did you survive...?" text between Zidane and Garnet which doesn't seem to be part of the FMVs anymore) and neither are nearly as large as that.
texhnolyze
Banned
MekaDragon
Member
Dude. Those look terrific. You are just making me wait until they are released (and being able to be installed).
How do you export them? I mean, if you have them and upscale them, you must have some kind of tool to extract / import?
Thank you and keep up the good work. Well worth a donation btw.
Rawket Lawnchair
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Holy shit Hyllian.
Spiritwalker
Member
Damn, this actually looks good and I don't like upscaled/filtered stuff.
The detail you're saying behaves like noise for my eyes. I prefer a clean picture like this:
This is what happens after a botched plastic surgery job or use of lots Botox.
stargateheaven
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World of final fantasy is for you!
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