Tifa's Bootleg
Install Tutorial for Bootleg Configurator
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Hello! First, let me just say thank you so much for writing this guide! I've got it more or less working now, and FF7 has never looked better!
However, there do seem to be a few annoying issues that I cannot seem to fix. The first is that the bottom inch or so of my screen is always black when I am not in battle. My screen has a native res of 1920x1200, and that's exactly what I set in the Booloader Configuration, but it doesn't seem to listen to me. It looks like it's only using the first 1080 rows of my screen outside of battle (ala 1920x1080) and refuses to recognize the remaining 120 rows of pixels. The worst part is that this issue does *not* occur during battle! When I'm in battle, every single pixel on the screen is used (if I uncheck "Preserve Aspect", that is), so the game definitely understands what 1920x1200 means. Is there any way to fix this? :-o
Here are some of my Bootloader settings that may be pertinent to this issue: 1920x1200, Fullscreen, VSync 60Hz, Advanced HDR Bloom, Internal Resolution 3840x2160. I realize that 3840x2160 is a 16:9 aspect ratio (double 1080p on each side), but I have tried changing it to 3840x2400 (double my native res on each side) and it made no difference. (By the way, I've uninstalled and reinstalled the game+mod about a half a dozen different times now, mainly to test out different options and so forth, and this issue is *always* present, so it doesn't seem like it's an issue with any particular mod that I chose.)
Next, I was wondering if there is a way that I can keep the old FF7 style menus while still enabling certain options such as "Always Run", "Save Anywhere", and "Allow Movie Skip"? It seems that these are tied into the "Menu Overhaul" option that forces me to have the FF9/FF10 menus, which I do not like much. If not, then I might consider using the FF9 menus, but there is another issue. When using the FF9 and/or 10 menus, battle scenes do not fade out properly. When the battle ends, the part of the screen containing the menu goes completely black, whereas the upper part of the screen is still visible. I can understand from a programming stand-point why this glitch might happen, but it's very undesirable. When using the FF7 menus, everything disappears at the same time. (Whether it fades to black, or switches to the next screen instantly, I forget. But it does not have a third of the screen disappearing at a separate time.)
Furthermore, it looks like there's a lot of seemingly important "fixes" that are only available under the Menu Overhaul. I would love to install these without being forced to use a menu that I don't like.
However, the FF7-style menu is not without its problems either. I did a fresh install, but I'm getting graphical artifacts in the menus, as seen below. How can I fix this? :-o
(Sorry if the image is too small here. Please right-click and copy the image URL to view the original.)
Lastly, I really love the idea of Grimmy's FMVs, but somehow they have even *more* letterboxing than the enhanced originals! (Well, I've only seen the intro video, but I love the idea already.) For instance, the "Rumbah 1280 Smooth" option gives me an upgrade of the original FMVs that takes up my whole screen if I have "Preserve Aspect" turned off (actually, the bottom 120 rows of pixels are blank, but that's a separate issue). However, the "Bootleg+Grimmy" option gives me an intro with black bars at the top and the bottom of the screen (even when I'm telling the game to just use the whole screen and ignore Aspect Ratio). In other words, if I actually tell it to preserve the original aspect ratio, then I end up with black bars on all 4 sides of my screen! I don't see why that should ever happen. That means I'm staring at a little window inside of my screen, which is not watchable IMO. Is there any way to make it use the full height of my screen?
And... that should be about it. Oh, except, where would I find a Tifa battle model similar to the one in
this video? I'm not terribly satisfied with any of the Tifa battle models available in the Bootleg Front End (nor the Tifa field models, for that matter), so I'd really love to get my hands on the model in that video!
(So to speak... ;-))
Thanks in advance for any guidance you may have!
