Final Fantasy VII Remix - A compilation of FF7 Mods [1.0-2.5.1]

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Just got owned by the new bosses at shinra building after the midgar parts puzzle... 3 berserks straight and I watched my chars go down slowly.

Anyway this pack seems to be really nice.
Ogl plugin is not very friendly, but I guess it's better that previous options. Fancy_Transparency and Linear filtering need some fixing done.
It somehow lacks NPC hi-detail textures like cloud and barret (tifa looks so bad between them).
Ficedula is awsome as always.

But what really makes this a new experience is the hardcore mode. It actually makes you use some tactics instead of attack + cool magic + attack + cool magic. Oh... And some heavy grinding. I got 5 game overs in 3 hours of gameplay.
 
Finally I discovered I had to write 3 times in a row because of the lack of support for international fonts in the forum (I wanted to exemplify some vowels with accents and apparently that was what caused so much trouble when posting). When I stopped writing examples everything went fine. I also tried to delete the previous posts but there wasn't a button for it.  ::)

Anyway, big thanks for your support! You were right, and linear filter was what I needed to get rid of those pixels in the battle backgrounds. As you said you lose some detail on higher quality textures but it's worth the change in my opinion.  :D
Also, titeguy3 I got the chance to read your post before you edited it to show agreement with sl1982; so I modified the file you suggested. It solved the problem with accents but still shows the main menu in English; therefore I'd like to try the Avalanche installer mentioned by sl1982. Does it have another purpose or was it mainly developed to change ingame fonts? And, could you provide a link for it? I don't want to download an older version and screw it up.  :-D
 
There is a whole subforum dedicated to team avalanche's overhaul. Check it out, its at the bottom of the screen on the main page.
 
Thank you once again sl1982. I've installed the Spanish fonts, but I believe I've found a problem with files USBHxx.PNG and USBLxx.PNG (where xx are all the numbers included in them).

The problem is nothing serious, but I'd like to tell you in case you could fix it (or at least tell me how I could fix it myself). It's related to the height of two capital letters with accents that are included in those files (A and E). More specifically, how their height including accents affect two other letters that are right above them in the chart: "l" and "n". Check these pictures taken from the chart, so that you can see it clearly:

usbl00c.png
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usbh00d.png


As a result, every single time letters "l" or "n" appear on screen they include annoying dots below (which are, in fact, remains of the accents of the capital letters below them in the chart):

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You see? So, is there a way to adjust those letters in the charts to avoid this?  :?
Sorry for all the trouble I'm causing you all.
 
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Sk-F, the charts are just PNG files, so opening them with a decent editor like Photoshop or paint, and changing them should work fine. Try cutting a pixel off the top of the text, or moving the letters down a pixel, and see if that fixes the issue.

I'm sure SL1982 will address the issue in the next version of Team Avalanche's 2D Overhaul, though.
 
I will probably not get around to fixing them so i would do as titeguy suggested and try to fix them yourself. I don't really support any other languages at this time, those were just made as a favor for someone. Feel free to fix them and submit them to me for addition to the next release.
 
Thanks to both. BTW just two more questions  :-D isn't there a way to get rid of the black part of the screen that's ALWAYS down there? I remember screenshots from Gamespot that didn't have it.
Like this one:
finalf7_790screen001.jpg


And, titeguy3 are you planning to release a similar patch for FFVIII? I miss playing that game too! I know your patch is made of many, but it's really easy to apply and many of us would be really thankful for that.
 
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Thanks to both. BTW just two more questions  :-D isn't there a way to get rid of the black part of the screen that's ALWAYS down there? I remember screenshots from Gamespot that didn't have it.
Like this one:
finalf7_790screen001.jpg


And, titeguy3 are you planning to release a similar patch for FFVIII? I miss playing that game too! I know your patch is made of many, but it's really easy to apply and many of us would be really thankful for that.
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Hm, I'm not sure, it's never really bugged me so I've never tried to get rid of it. If there is a way, I don't know it off the top of my head. You could try playing with different resolutions and toggling the "maintain_aspect_ratio" option and the windowed option, but I don't know that any of that will work.

As for FFVIII, seeing as how I only own the game for PSX, I doubt it.
 
Actually, it isn't a matter of changing resolution; it's more like making that specific portion of the screen visible in battles. If you were to change resolution the black zone would change too. Never found a way to fix it, though. I suppose Gamespot screenshots were promo pictures, since I've never seen anyone without the annoying black strip under the character status bar.
 
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It's quite easy to get rid of the black area under the battle menu, but personally I just find it annoying. You can't really see anything down there since it's so small so it just ends up being distracting noise.

It could work with a semi-transparent battle menu though, but that's a bit more work for me.
 
Wow, really? You could get rid of that black part? Looking forward to seeing it!  :)

The semi-transparent battle menu would be AWESOME, by the way.
 
It's quite easy to get rid of the black area under the battle menu, but personally I just find it annoying. You can't really see anything down there since it's so small so it just ends up being distracting noise.

It could work with a semi-transparent battle menu though, but that's a bit more work for me.
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I'm pretty sure I remember someone exploring this option a while back, but they found out that nothing was rendered behind it...  Could be wrong though.
 
Does this patcher work for the german version of FFVII?
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Try it out and see. I think most of the features should work. If you want to keep the game in German, there's instructions for that in purple on the first page.
 
I'm having some weird glitch running version 2.5 of the remix. I've never tried any previous version before by the way.

In battles, my characters that aren't selected by the cursor become untextured, just blank. Pics below:




Any ideas of what could be causing this? I'm running it on Windows 7 64bits, on a Core2Quad Q6600 and a Radeon 5770, Catalyst 10.2

It happens on either fullscreen \ windowed mode, aspected ratio preserved or not, and fancy_transparency on \ off

Thanks
 
Thank you once again sl1982. I've installed the Spanish fonts, but I believe I've found a problem with files USBHxx.PNG and USBLxx.PNG (where xx are all the numbers included in them).

The problem is nothing serious, but I'd like to tell you in case you could fix it (or at least tell me how I could fix it myself). It's related to the height of two capital letters with accents that are included in those files (A and E). More specifically, how their height including accents affect two other letters that are right above them in the chart: "l" and "n". Check these pictures taken from the chart, so that you can see it clearly:

usbl00c.png
//////////
usbh00d.png


As a result, every single time letters "l" or "n" appear on screen they include annoying dots below (which are, in fact, remains of the accents of the capital letters below them in the chart):

05b.png


06b.png


You see? So, is there a way to adjust those letters in the charts to avoid this?  :?
Sorry for all the trouble I'm causing you all.
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Hey Sk-F I will look that up when I get home It shouldn't be to hard to fix. Look for a release later today or early tomorrow.
 
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