[FF7] Tutorial for Bootleg - Tifa's Bootleg

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I've got a problem. I can't see the safe combination numbers in the nibelheim mansion. With these mods, half of the numbers window is cut off, so I can't open the safe.

Any ideas?
 
I've got a problem. I can't see the safe combination numbers in the nibelheim mansion. With these mods, half of the numbers window is cut off, so I can't open the safe.

Any ideas?
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Reinstall the Menu Overhaul 05c on top of your install and I think the safe graphics should be fixed no matter what options you choose. There should be backup DLPB files for the reinstall.

*After you finish the Menu Overhaul installer you NEED to reset the mods folder in bootloader or ff7_opengl.cfg to Bootleg and you also need to Cut and paste all the folders and files from inside the new folder labeled "DK" in your game install directory: something like C:\Games\FF7\Mods\DK to the other folder labeled "Bootleg". Make sure you do that part right and overwrite a bunch of files in the process. You also may need to delete the flevel directory inside your Mods\Cache\ folder, or turn off Texture caching just in case. None of this is likely to cause any harm.

If you are not using the retranslation option in the Menu Overhaul installer at all, and this fix didnt work, try the same process but make sure to check the box for the retranslation. You can switch it back after you get the safe fight complete. DLPB designed MO to be reinstallable. Still, FF7 likes to explode sometimes so be careful  :roll:

Here's a little bootleg puzzle for ya:

Why is it that bootleg won't install the Aeris Revival Patch (says the file is missing) IF you don't have the Avalanche GUI in your mods folder with BFE? I started omitting the avalanche GUI from the install because it messes with the MenuOverhaul graphics. Erasing the installed GUi files from the menu mods directory doesn't fix the little issues either... DLPB has specifically stated that the avalanche GUI and MO05c are incompatible.

Not a big deal I just take Avalanche GUI out of the BFE directory and it skips it right? Yes, but then it wont do the Aeris Rivival Patch, either, which is right after that...
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Heh, I tricked Bootleg to not freak out when Avalanche GUI comes up missing. I put a new download of the avalanche GUI in the BFE folder so that when it tries to run it during bootleg Windows asks me if it's ok to run, and I hit cancel. Bootleg thinks the install was successful and then it is able to find the Aeris Revival, right where it should be. Weird little problem, weird little solution. IF you try your bootleg 40 without avalanche GUI like this, you will see it makes DLPB's menu look a little more professional, the way he intended. This is one of about 4 things PB missed out of about 20,000 things he nailed perfectly.
 
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Heh, I tricked Bootleg to not freak out when Avalanche GUI comes up missing. I put a new download of the avalanche GUI in the BFE folder so that when it tries to run it during bootleg Windows asks me if it's ok to run, and I hit cancel. Bootleg thinks the install was successful and then it is able to find the Aeris Revival, right where it should be. Weird little problem, weird little solution. IF you try your bootleg 40 without avalanche GUI like this, you will see it makes DLPB's menu look a little more professional, the way he intended. This is one of about 4 things PB missed out of about 20,000 things he nailed perfectly.
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What do you mean by "...a new download of the avalanche GUI in the BFE folder...?" My torrent has the Avalanche GUI v2.0.8.exe in it, but I never get a message to install it or not. It just does it automatically if the option is checked in BFE.
 
What do you mean by "...a new download of the avalanche GUI in the BFE folder...?" My torrent has the Avalanche GUI v2.0.8.exe in it, but I never get a message to install it or not. It just does it automatically if the option is checked in BFE.
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Sorry Alyza, I just now saw this... If you do downloads separately like I do (out of habit), when you have an installer that hasn't been run before, windows will put up a prompt asking if it's ok to run this application with a checkbox for "always do this action for this file" or something like that. if you dont check that box and just hit cancel, then Bootleg won't install the Avalanche GUI and it won't have a hiccup on the item that comes next or whatever is going on with Aeris Revival. IF Avalanche GUI isn't in the bootleg install folder with the rest of the mods, bootleg will claim the Aeris Revival is missing and move on to the next item, with no more errors as far as I could tell.

There is no option in Bootleg NOT to install the Avalanche GUI, it comes up red if its not in the install folder no matter what. And it absolutely does slightly conflict with Menu Overhaul. There's like 50 extra unneeded files in the mods/menu folder if you use avalanche gui. It is the cause for the asymmetrical black border of the HP bars in the menu. Presumably there are other issues but that always bugged me and that is what causes it.

It is ALSO the reason people can't easily switch out their menu materia icons. If you try to toss my brightened materia pack into your mods/menu folder (made from either Grimmy or Romeo14's graphics; I really don't know who did them), they don't work unless you haven't installed Avalanche GUI with bootleg.
 
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This tutorial is great! Nothing went wrong or felt confusing. These a great variety of mods to pick from but don't expect a remake like I did.

By the way, I love your avatar image, if you're still live on this thread could you send me a link for download or something, that would be great  :)
 
I need some help that been making me flip table left and right...

I have no music so I looked through the troubleshoot/solved section and found a-couple of thing's but they have not worked, One of them may have made thing's worse I can't say till I check the game one more time tomorrow, Let's just say when I clicked the exe and went as normal but Instead of going to the logo It just went as a black screen that I could not escape from AT ALL so I had to shutdown >.> help please "Begs"
 
Sorry Alyza, I just now saw this... If you do downloads separately like I do (out of habit), when you have an installer that hasn't been run before, windows will put up a prompt asking if it's ok to run this application with a checkbox for "always do this action for this file" or something like that. if you dont check that box and just hit cancel, then Bootleg won't install the Avalanche GUI and it won't have a hiccup on the item that comes next or whatever is going on with Aeris Revival. IF Avalanche GUI isn't in the bootleg install folder with the rest of the mods, bootleg will claim the Aeris Revival is missing and move on to the next item, with no more errors as far as I could tell.

There is no option in Bootleg NOT to install the Avalanche GUI, it comes up red if its not in the install folder no matter what. And it absolutely does slightly conflict with Menu Overhaul. There's like 50 extra unneeded files in the mods/menu folder if you use avalanche gui. It is the cause for the asymmetrical black border of the HP bars in the menu. Presumably there are other issues but that always bugged me and that is what causes it.

It is ALSO the reason people can't easily switch out their menu materia icons. If you try to toss my brightened materia pack into your mods/menu folder (made from either Grimmy or Romeo14's graphics; I really don't know who did them), they don't work unless you haven't installed Avalanche GUI with bootleg.
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Thanks for that brightened materia pack will use this when im done installing ffvii 2012 on my fresh pc, btw should i follow those steps when i install with Bootleg to make sure the Menu Overhaul install was more successful or not damaged? Haven't been able to play this for a long time due to crappy pc now ahh finally ^^ ..haven't installed yet will do sometime today
 
I've updated the Tutorial:

1. Added the new Steam release as a modding option.
2. Added Kompass63's GC as a STEP 0 (Hopefully PitBrat can take a look at it for possibly implementing into 040.1).
3. Added disabling UAC to STEP 3.
4. Added Template's workaround to skipping Avalanche GUI 2.0 in STEP 9. This is to avoid incompatibilities with Menu Overhaul.
5. Added three more Q&A's:

  • How to fix a black screen with red triangles on the start menu.
  • How to fix cut off counters/timers, such as the Shinra Mansion Safe.
  • How to fix a crash when opening the last chest on Floor 65 of the Shinra HQ

If I've missed something or anything else would like to be suggested, please let me know  :)
 
hi, when using the BootLoader i set the resolution to 1920x1080...but when i go to start the game it says "failed to set the requested fullscreen mode, reverting to original resolution windows mode"... how do i fix this so i can play full screen
 
hi, when using the BootLoader i set the resolution to 1920x1080...but when i go to start the game it says "failed to set the requested fullscreen mode, reverting to original resolution windows mode"... how do i fix this so i can play full screen
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Please post your APP.log with code tags.
 
INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
ERROR: failed to set fullscreen mode
INFO: Intel Intel(R) HD Graphics 2.1.0 - Build 8.15.10.2827
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 8192x8192
INFO: Number of texture units: 8
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: Shader limits: varying 41, vert uniform 512, frag uniform 1024
INFO: vertex shader compile log:
No errors.

INFO: fragment shader compile log:
No errors.

INFO: main program link log:
No errors.

INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Games\FF7\FINAL FANTASY VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; indeo5/pcm_s16le 640x480, 30.000000 FPS, duration: 12.933333, frames: 388
INFO: slow output format from video codec indeo5; 6
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
WM_CLOSE
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Field Quit
UNINITIALIZE DD
END UNINITIALIZE DD
 
Please post your APP.log with code tags.
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INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
ERROR: failed to set fullscreen mode
INFO: Intel Intel(R) HD Graphics 2.1.0 - Build 8.15.10.2827
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 8192x8192
INFO: Number of texture units: 8
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
INFO: Shader limits: varying 41, vert uniform 512, frag uniform 1024
INFO: vertex shader compile log:
No errors.

INFO: fragment shader compile log:
No errors.

INFO: main program link log:
No errors.

INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Games\FF7\FINAL FANTASY VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; indeo5/pcm_s16le 640x480, 30.000000 FPS, duration: 12.933333, frames: 388
INFO: slow output format from video codec indeo5; 6
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
WM_CLOSE
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Field Quit
UNINITIALIZE DD
END UNINITIALIZE DD
 
Be careful about double posting.

I see you're running on Intel HD Graphics, which isn't supported. Are you running on a laptop? Does it have a dedicated graphics card? Give me some system specs please.
 
Be careful about double posting.

I see you're running on Intel HD Graphics, which isn't supported. Are you running on a laptop? Does it have a dedicated graphics card? Give me some system specs please.
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i dont know how to find that specs... ive played ff7 on full screen before
 
i dont know how to find that specs... ive played ff7 on full screen before
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can i change these resolutions....and how?--> Original resolution 640x480, window size 640x480, output resolution 640x480, internal resolution 640x480
 
Open FF7 Bootloader and push the "Configure" button.

You're going to have crashes/freezes if you don't have it play off a video card. Are you playing on a laptop or a desktop?
 
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