First Fantasy: Mana Force Screenshot Thread

Snektron · April 07, 2015, 02:23:39 PM

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on April 07, 2015, 02:01:15 AM
Houston we got a problem:

Amazing

exactly what i had in mind

Dream of Omnimaga · April 07, 2015, 03:14:54 PM

Thanks.

Yeah people suggested the fire thing but I didn't want to put it too early in the game.

Unicorn · April 07, 2015, 04:26:29 PM

Wrong topic.

Dream of Omnimaga · April 07, 2015, 04:27:35 PM

Quote from: Unicorn on April 07, 2015, 04:26:29 PM
Cumred, there is a small one on the money walrii thead.

Erm to which post in particular were you replying to?

Unicorn · April 07, 2015, 05:30:56 PM

Ooops! wrong topic

Dream of Omnimaga · April 07, 2015, 11:10:41 PM

Ok so there was an issue causing flickering when it was your turn to attack. This is fixed now. Also, the final boss fight behavior is complete, although there could be more estethical enhancements. This is the only game fight where parts of the background uses actual sprites rather than just ASCII art.

The only spoiler I will give is that the final boss changes elemental weakness every few turn (like one of the bosses in Illusiat 13 and Final Fantasy VI). This can be a long battle if you don't pay attention because regular attacks, poison, mini and Omega don't work against him. But it should be easier than the one in Illusiat 13 due to color.

123outerme · April 07, 2015, 11:37:16 PM

The fire screenshot looks really great! And I'm glad to hear that you're almost done. I won't mind the file size, and since I have so many programs (test programs, games, old stuff I probably don't need, little notes and documentation for projects, etc) that I won't mind 6 or 7 more as you described, adding to my PRGM menu. I use DCSE anyway.

Dream of Omnimaga · April 08, 2015, 01:44:25 AM

One issue with this game is that some files require to be in RAM and they almost take all of it. I could have opted to keep them archived and copy them when needed, but one of them is over 10 KB large and I am unsure if I want people to have to sacrify an extra 10 KB of memory with a 2nd copy of the same program. I guess I'll see. But now the game is complete

, which is the important part for now. The entire ending (although basic) is done and the final battle was tested thoroughly. Unfortunately I cannot make more screenshots because there are too many spoilers at this point. I'll most likely make new screenshots of earlier areas in the game, though, for the ticalc.org release and CW post.

Unicorn · April 08, 2015, 02:30:47 AM

Couldn't you use the celtic archive/unarchive command?
Anyways, GREAT JOB on completing this! I can't wait to play!

Dream of Omnimaga · April 08, 2015, 03:47:48 AM

I won't use archive/unarchive because that wears down the Flash or at least causes lots of lag and Garbage collecting. And thanks

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · April 08, 2015, 05:16:25 AM

Is the CSE's flash slower than 84's?

Dream of Omnimaga · April 08, 2015, 06:17:20 AM

Nah, but I assume that when it's heavily fragmented it can get quite slower, since you have over twice as much Flash available. I still remember how much slower archiving got with a fragmented TI-83+SE Flash compared to 83+.

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · April 08, 2015, 12:49:22 PM

Aoutch, right, calculator's flash formats are quite bad, tricky to be easy to do but still quite unneasy to deal with. :/

Dream of Omnimaga · April 09, 2015, 03:08:35 PM

That said, now we can unlock flash, but yeah we almost wish that everything was done from Flash like with the higher end calcs. Being forced to store programs into RAM is annoying.

Duke "Tape" Eiyeron · April 09, 2015, 03:16:23 PM

Crash with them in the RAM is worse. :/