[FF7PC-98/Steam] Multiple mods and Modding Framework-The Reunion [R06f]

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Hey, thanks for all the hard work; I'm looking forward to playing the new, improved FFVII.

Couple questions:

The home page of this topic refers to a file called reunion-help.rtf. Alas, it's not linked, and I can't find the file anywhere. Little help, please?

The main reason I wanted to read the help (for now) is to see if you can change the setup parameters (e.g., battle frame rate) after installing Reunion. Or do you need to reinstall, or something else?

Thanks!
 
You can reinstall.  The help menu will be inside the installer - the licence part.  I was sure I'd put it in the download, but if not - it's there too.
 
Cool, thanks. Yeah, the name of the file in the download is Reunion-Readme.rtf, so I didn't know if Reunion-Help.rtf was a different file. Makes sense, though.
 
As for the reactor - it's cloud's inner self.  He's remembering the reactor at Niblheim and how it was "more than a reactor" - the actual translation is "Not just a reactor" - but that makes it hard to grasp the intended meaning.  The reactor at Niblheim was not just a reactor - it housed the Jenova Project. You could also perhaps say it isn't the real Cloud this time - but a flashback to the Nibl reactor, caused by being in a familiar setting. 

The real Cloud frequently talks to the fake Cloud during the game - usually when asleep or otherwise unconscious.  It's the conflict of the real cloud trying to break free of the false persona- the one created from a lie based on the life on Zax. 

That first flashback is the first clue we receive as viewers that there is more going on with Cloud than we understand. In the end, it's just Cloud remembering that the Nibl reactor houses a secret. He's having a  flashback.
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If I might humbly throw an idea out there about this, because of the ambiguity of whether a noun is singular or plural in Japanese, what if the line was made to be something like "Wake up!  These things are more than just reactors!"  That might clue in the player more that Cloud isn't just having a premonition about THIS reactor, but that he's (unconsciously) drawing on some mysterious unknown previous experiences (in this case, the incident with the reactor in Niblheim) and applying them to his current situation.  I.e. 'I know from my past experiences that there's something more to these reactor things than it seems at first glance.'
 
It's about the one reactor, because the flashback is to a specific reactor (we see the Nibl reactor) - which housed a secret :)  It's highly unlikely to mean anything else.  Even if it does mean that, we'd need a verification from the writers to change it.
 
Explanation here:

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#xy 164 40{CLOUD}“It’s been a while,Mr President.”------------------------------#xyh 8 64 2President Shinra“Been a while?  Oh,it’s you.”{NEW}“The Soldier who joined  this Avalanche,or whatever.”{NEW}“Only those exposed to Mako  have that glow in their eyes.”{NEW}“Tell me,traitor,  what is your name?”------------------------------#xy 200 56{CLOUD}“It’s… {CLOUD}.”------------------------------#xy 8 64President Shinra“You’ll have to forgive me.  I can’t be expected to  remember every Soldier’s name.”{NEW}“You would have to be  another Sephiroth.”
It was brought to my attention by White Wind that it's unlikely Cloud and Shinra would know each other - or that Shinra would even know Cloud was a soldier.

With much discussion with Luksy too, it seems this is the explanation:

Very unlikely: Shinra has heard reports of a man wearing a 1st class Soldier uniform.
Unlikely: Shinra thinks that Cloud is Zax... a Soldier who disappeared.  Although he was shot dead so...
Likely: The writers created a plot hole because they wanted to shoe-horn in exposition. Cloud thinks he has met Shinra before simply because the elite of Soldier will have met the president at some point (ceremony for new 1st class soldiers, for example).

The above (slightly corrected) is as good as it gets.
 
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Hi, DLPB.
One question, were you able to edit background mds5_5 psx version with Tilemolester?
 
Likely: The writers created a plot hole because they wanted to shoe-horn in exposition. Cloud thinks he has met Shinra before simply because the elite of Soldier will have met the president at some point (ceremony for new 1st class soldiers, for example).
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What's the plot hole - the president having some knowledge of Cloud (as a Soldier member of Avalanche), or Cloud thinking he's met the president personally?

It's possible that Zax met the president as Sephiroth's pupil or simply as a Soldier 1st class, but even if he never did I don't find it implausible that Cloud believes a lot of things about Zax that aren't true (and has thus internalized for his own messed up persona). He spent a lot of time with the guy, but there must still be a lot of gaps that he's filling in for himself.

Either way, the retranslation reads well enough.
 
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Hi, DLPB.
One question, were you able to edit background mds5_5 psx version with Tilemolester?
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I wasn't.  I didn't try.... To edit ff7 will need a dedicated tool.
 
Corrected.  I seem to have a blind spot for "as well as"  or two "as" next to each other :P  This is the second time this has happened. But it likely would have been picked up in the final run through.  At least, I hope it would have been.
 
I spotted one.  :P :-X

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“You’re telling me no-one knew
  a huge ball of fire could rain
  down on on us at any minute?”{NEW}

My brain reads double words as one - and missing words as being there when there should be double.  It's irritating.  Stupid brain.
 
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Speaking of Elevator bugs, have you fixed the glitch in Junon's Cargo Lift where you'll accidentally be warped to junin6 instead of junin1? This occurs if you enter the cargo lift from junin6, then leave again straight away. If you then head out of Junon via the Air Taxi, then Bit 0 [3][235] incorrectly remains on, which is why you are warped incorrectly.

The fix would be to add a line which disables this flag at junele2 - 4 Border - S2 Move - Line 17

-edit- thinking on it, I can't remember if I pointed this out before...
 
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