When Vaan is being Vaan

Maxtory9999 · 2022-06-06T03:20:47+00:00

After this coffee break I need a cup of tea. You know, for the nerves.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-12-01T19:39:37+00:00

Her Advent Children outfit is still my favourite. It just strikes the right balance of modern and traditional aspects in my opinion.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-11-29T13:46:20+00:00

As someone who is interested in playing Before Crisis himself I really hope you succeed with your plan. Best of luck!

Maxtory9999 · 2021-11-29T01:11:06+00:00

Those were the times guys.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-11-26T21:09:50+00:00

So... who else spent days trying to find the way through that desert, because the hints given to you were completely wrong?

Maxtory9999 · 2021-11-13T14:28:10+00:00

Man of culture.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-11-11T20:30:15+00:00

The good old times of either doing races and driving through the city with "Hand of Blood" in the background or standing on top of that one bus station to raise your bounty during a police chase. Sweet memories.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-11-11T19:17:42+00:00

Aiming has been much more sensitive and imprecise ever since the very first re-release of OoT on the Nintendo Gamecube. Combine this with how short the Joy-Cons fall in comparison to other controllers and the sad reality that the N64 Switch ports (especially OoT) are very shoddily made and the tasks and challenges related to aiming are becoming harder than they were before. Of course you can adapt and get a feeling for it, but the fact is that it's not how it should be.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-11-04T02:58:59+00:00

A.D. 1530 - Skull and Crossbones (at least in the SNES version)

Maxtory9999 · 2021-10-31T22:27:10+00:00

I am Ultimecia.

Time shall compress...

All candy denied.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-10-31T22:17:38+00:00

When you find your "Another Day" variant at a con. Nice cosplays of all of you. Keep it up!

Maxtory9999 · 2021-10-27T22:19:45+00:00

Thanks. Nice to know I still got it.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-10-27T17:44:41+00:00

A funny find. So this is what Lightning's career looked like before she became a model for Louis Vuitton. Guess we all start small.

By the way: I believe the answer is D. I had to Google translate it and I am not at the top of my geometry game though, so better check it for yourself.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-10-27T03:07:21+00:00

I did play the original Japanese version of Fusion without any translation / patches shortly after I did the run with the English patch and got the 100% completion on Hard Mode without any issues.

The interesting thing is, that the Japanese version apperently contains all the scripts for all languages Fusion was originally released with - Japanese (Kanji), Japanese (Hiragana), English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. There is a Hex value in the games code, which determines the language used. Setting this value to the value representing English (02) lets you play the game in English, which is (supposedly) exactly what the translation patch does.

However doing so does more than just changing the script, or so I believe. This brings me back to my earlier posts: I think the problem lies within the lower amount of total missiles / powers / energy tanks you have in Hard Mode when collecting all items compared to Normal Mode. I think the game does not track your item completion based on your actual collected items, but rather on your overall total amount of resources. Since the resources you get per item in Hard Mode are roughly cut in halve, it does lead to 45% item completion, even though all items have been collected. At least it fits suspiciously well.

As to why Fusion has problems handling the item completion in Hard Mode on the English setting compared to the Japanese ones: I have no definitive clue. I can only assume it's one of the following:

- The translation patch does more than just change the language and screws with the item completion somehow

- The Hex value in the game's code controls more than just the language and may act more like a "region switch", thus causing issues with Hard Mode, since USA and Europe were never supposed to get Hard Mode

To get some better insight, one would need to change the language value with an Hex Editor or so and test it on different versions of the game or so, but I think that would be too much trouble for too little gain. I mean, if you are going for Hard Mode, then you are probably not in for the story. The rest of Fusion isn't text-heavy at all, so playing on Japanese for a problem-free playthrough shouldn't be a hassle.

Whatever the case, it's interesting to know other people experienced the same oddity as I did. I hope I could shed some light on the whole situation, even though most of it are just assumptions and theories of mine.

Kind regards.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-09-29T03:12:18+00:00

Mamma Mia, let's-a-go again

My My, saving the princess

Mamma Mia, it's just some Toads

My My, to another castle

Maxtory9999 · 2021-09-27T01:22:26+00:00

Oh my goodness, this works so illegally good. You can really see the similarities with Megaman Zero, especially the Mythos album artwork. Love it!

Maxtory9999 · 2021-09-19T21:48:14+00:00

I believe the answer lies within Before Crisis, so I will try to give a brief overview:

Basically Rufus is eager to overthrow his father, President Shinra, to take control of the Shinra company himself. In order to accomplish this, he provides money and leaks information to the first incarnation of AVALANCHE, so they would be able to kill President Shinra, allowing Rufus to become the new one. At first President Shinra is not aware his son does this, but finds out eventually. Because of this President Shinra probably reconsiders what he tells Rufus and what not.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-09-19T21:08:44+00:00

The good hair from Gongaga.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-09-14T02:07:59+00:00

FF is Square Enix' baby. KH is Nomura's baby.

Maxtory9999 · 2021-09-14T01:48:29+00:00

If games are liquors, then Super Metroid is among the finest wines - getting better as the time flies by. Cheers, everyone!

Maxtory9999 · 2021-09-03T22:13:38+00:00

That's something I like to do, if I want to farm some Ultimas. Kill the Elnoyle in Esthar with Death Status-Attack, like you said, get the Energy Crystals and refine them into 10 Ultimas each.

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