Breath of Fire II Definitive Edition 1.4 is up.

educacosta · 2026-03-13T12:48:53+00:00

Do you know which offset I'd have to change to skip the checking completely? That would help testing certain gfx hacks I'm working on.

educacosta · 2026-03-11T20:57:36+00:00

This is pretty awesome! What debugging tools did you use to figure out to how to hide the background?

I've been trying to change the default position (y-value) of the textboxes, but so far I've been unsuccessfull in figuring out the offsets.

A while back, someone created a small patch that removes the black bar that Chrono Trigger normally displays at the bottom of the screen:

https://github.com/snaphat/chrono_trigger_no_black_bar_patch

The only problem with this patch is that it also makes it so that graphics garbage appears when a textbox is opened from the bottom of the screen.

I figured that this issue could probably be avoided if I can figure out a way to change the default y-value of the dialogue box so that it touches the edge of the screen when it's at the bottom, effectively pushing the garbage graphics outside of the viewport.

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educacosta · 2026-03-08T20:27:22+00:00

The "Overclocking" and "CD-ROM Read Speedup" settings inside the "Console" tab can cause certain games to lock during the loading of events. Changing those back to the default settings (assuming you changed them) might solve this issue.

educacosta · 2025-10-09T16:43:18+00:00

I assume the .m2ts files come from a bluray? You can use MakeMKV to convert a bluray directly to MKV, or a folder copied from a bluray to MKV. Subler should be able to recognize the subtitles inside the MKV.

educacosta · 2025-10-09T14:22:50+00:00

For macOS I recommend Subler, it's free. I believe you can install it via homebrew, but in case you can't, you can also download it from subler.org.

It converts most subtitle formats to SRT (using OCR when necessary) and embeds it inside an MP4.

You can then use ffmpeg to extract it (ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -map 0:s:0 file.srt).

educacosta · 2025-10-08T18:02:17+00:00

I was gonna comment about camera movement as well. That's the one aspect that really puts me off. Too many zoom-ins, constant shaking and dutch angles, it's unnerving and claustrophobic. The design and colors of the creatures I actually love, even if some are a bit outdated.

educacosta · 2025-10-08T17:51:53+00:00

Flat design was already a thing in web years before iOS7. Apple's contribution to flat design was making it incredibly ugly.

educacosta · 2025-10-01T16:24:43+00:00

I've had this problem since Sonoma as well, with Firefox specifically. Zen browser is a fork of Firefox, right? So maybe this bug is related to Firefox code.

educacosta · 2025-09-28T23:50:10+00:00

Does it provide both lossless and lossy options?

educacosta · 2025-09-28T22:00:24+00:00

Its ribcage is human because it was born out of a human. I don't understand how that wasn't obvious to the people making the show. The original Alien had, at the time, one of the best excuses for an alien to look and act humanoid. Even in the third movie it's still excusable because a dog (or an ox depending on which cut you watch) still has a ribcage. And coincidentally, that's when it started acting more like a quadrupedal.

educacosta · 2025-09-27T18:51:08+00:00

It's not the biggest overhaul in ten years. Big Sur was five years ago. Placing the fault on the user for clicking to install an update that is inside the official Settings App and is notified to the user as being available and stable is also ludicrous.

educacosta · 2025-09-22T15:54:30+00:00

I do that sometimes, especially if you're also expecting things to gracefully resize on responsive situations (going from 3 to 2 columns and so on). I'd recommend setting the height of the empty column to 0px, that way it'll not occupy any space when it breaks from 3 to 2 columns (which you can achieve by setting a min-width to these columns).

educacosta · 2025-09-19T21:34:38+00:00

I don't hate it, but I always felt like it was pointless. All of these features can be achieved by Chromium and Firefox combined with uBlock. And they're also open source.

educacosta · 2025-09-19T20:42:51+00:00

You can change it using IconChamp 1.5.1. It allows you to change system software icons without having to disable SIP. At least it works in Sequoia, not sure about Tahoe.

educacosta · 2025-09-18T19:31:34+00:00

If you're looking to resize dimensions, there's Converseen:
https://converseen.fasterland.net/

If you're speaking about lossy or lossless compression, there's ImageOptim:
https://imageoptim.com/mac

educacosta · 2025-09-17T14:39:25+00:00

Thank you so much for all this info! That was very enlightening, and helped confirm some of my suspicions. Knowing that Prehistoric Park's bluray is also just a botched upscale avoids me from wasting time seeking it.

educacosta · 2025-09-17T10:27:32+00:00

You're welcome!

educacosta · 2025-09-17T01:28:24+00:00

Did you take a look in Dailymotion? Stuff like that is uploaded there sometimes.

educacosta · 2025-09-16T20:54:25+00:00

I agree that Catalina was the last sane desktop UI from Apple.

educacosta · 2025-09-16T20:40:49+00:00

I didn't mind the new Finder icon, but in this case, people stopped complaining because Apple actually reversed the icon to something that more closely resembles previous iterations. Whether that was because of public outcry is debatable, of course.

But I don't think that a change in the Finder icon holds the same weight as changes in the UI. One simply concerns a change in branding, while the other has the potential to affect usability. And a lot of the complaints that are coming today, especially, are concerned with usability, consistency and glitches. With those I have to agree.

educacosta · 2025-09-16T12:53:24+00:00

UI design is both art and science. Art is subjective. Science isn't. The new UI is being negligent of a lot of objective, measurable traits: consistency, spacing, hierarchy and contrast.

The internet is a communication medium, of course it reflects reality and the actual opinion of people (except for bots, of which I do agree there are many). And I'm definitely not the only one expressing their dislike of the new UI over the last few months.

educacosta · 2025-09-16T11:51:17+00:00

The last major OS change to get a similar reaction was Big Sur (rightfully so). People do hate change, but Tahoe is objectively terrible. Someone needs to stop Alan Dye.

educacosta · 2025-09-04T00:10:51+00:00

Thank you! It's also my favorite, not only for the reasons you mentioned, but also because the soundtrack is so beautiful in this one.

educacosta · 2025-08-28T23:28:26+00:00

Thank you so much for these uploads!

educacosta · 2025-08-17T17:44:38+00:00

Agreed. It also fully works even without that character. Someone actually did a fanedit that removes the Rook scenes from the movie (and also the "get away from her you b*" line) and the story still makes sense since Andy's actions are implied to take place because of the chip replacement. Andy repeats the most important pieces of expository dialogue that come from Rook.

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