First Fantasy II, a graphical TI-84+CE RPG using CE Textlib hax

u/utz April 06, 2016, 08:18:31 AM

Glad to hear you've decided to turn your experiment into a full game! I have no intentions of getting a CE, but I'll just need to grab an emulator in order to run this, right? Haven't played an RPG in ages, though I very much enjoyed the genre back in the day.

u/TIfanx1999 April 06, 2016, 03:41:14 PM

The new character sprite definitely looks better.

u/Dream of Omnimaga April 06, 2016, 04:29:31 PM

Thanks, guys.

And yeah Utz you need to dump a ROM from a real calculator for use with CEmu, though. You can also use the 30 days trial of TI-Smartview but it's slow and I don't know if CE Textlib will run it it. CEmu or a real calc is recommended.

u/Dudeman313 April 06, 2016, 06:50:27 PM

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on April 06, 2016, 04:29:31 PM
Thanks, guys. And yeah Utz you need to dump a ROM from a real calculator for use with CEmu, though. You can also use the 30 days trial of TI-Smartview but it's slow and I don't know if CE Textlib will run it it. CEmu or a real calc is recommended.

TI-Smartview is paid?

u/utz April 06, 2016, 09:13:15 PM

Damn, I somehow though TI started making the ROMs of their newer calcs freely available at some point. Wonder what gave me that idea.

u/Dudeman313 April 06, 2016, 09:40:17 PM

Quote from: utz on April 06, 2016, 09:13:15 PM
Damn, I somehow though TI started making the ROMs of their newer calcs freely available at some point. Wonder what gave me that idea.

Probably the idea that TI making the ROMs of their newer calcs freely available is totally reasonable.

u/Dream of Omnimaga April 07, 2016, 04:38:02 AM

Quote from: utz on April 06, 2016, 09:13:15 PM
Damn, I somehow though TI started making the ROMs of their newer calcs freely available at some point. Wonder what gave me that idea.

The OSes are freely available (the latest version for calcs still in production, at least), but not the ROMs. OS files cannot be used inside emulators. There are other ways to obtain a ROM files, but they're not necessarily legal.

68K OS files can be used in TiEmu, though, because unlike Z80 and eZ80 OS files, they contain everything needed to be used inside an emulator.

Quote from: Dudeman313 on April 06, 2016, 06:50:27 PM
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on April 06, 2016, 04:29:31 PM
Thanks, guys. And yeah Utz you need to dump a ROM from a real calculator for use with CEmu, though. You can also use the 30 days trial of TI-Smartview but it's slow and I don't know if CE Textlib will run it it. CEmu or a real calc is recommended.
TI-Smartview is paid?

Yes, and it's nowhere as good as CEmu (I was gonna quote Angry Video Game Nerd here to describe the emulator since they're actually selling this for money, but let's be nice

). During a BASIC program, if you press keys or hold them down for too long, the emulator starts lagging and then queues up your keypresses, only to process them very slowly afterwards. Plus it doesn't emulate 1, 2, 4 and 8 bits LCD mode anyway.

Last Edit: April 07, 2016, 04:45:23 AM by DJ Omnimaga

u/Dudeman313 April 07, 2016, 02:38:01 PM

TI-Smartview sounds crapppy(please excuse my language)!

u/Dream of Omnimaga April 07, 2016, 05:40:01 PM

Yeah, it suffers from severe speed issues. It's not necessarily the emulator fault, because it runs very fast if used with the third-party web JS wrapper. But in its executable form it's much slower and barely useable inside programs (even math ones)

u/Dudeman313 April 07, 2016, 11:57:43 PM

That sure doesn't sound like something I'd pay for.

Did you buy it?

u/Dream of Omnimaga April 09, 2016, 02:24:20 AM

Nah, I just got the trial version that lasts 1 month. I used it to make First Fantasy CE screenshots then got rid of it. I'm glad CEmu got done now

u/Dudeman313 April 09, 2016, 07:00:34 PM

Maybe I should get the trial so that I can screenshot Pac-Man CE's still unattended bug.

u/Dream of Omnimaga April 11, 2016, 03:42:25 AM

Did you report it to Mateo in his topic? I forgot if it was on CW though, but you should probably tell him (unless it's the "enemy won't move when game is paused" thing, which isn't a bug

)