Mods

[Anonymous No.3321862]

Do you guys ever mod old games?

[Anonymous No.3321913]

Mostly just bug fixes or improvements from romhacking.net

Also the smooth day to night castlevania 2 patch is worth its weight in gold.

[Anonymous No.3321917]

>>3321913
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCfnehhRBsk

This one.

[Anonymous No.3321937]

>>3321862
im the only one who loves the FFVII big head models ? i think they where really charming and part of what made the game special

[Anonymous No.3322045]

>>3321937
Naw bro, only *you* have the appropriately fine-tuned aesthetic sensibilities that allow a real appreciation of the original visual style the game was designed around

Literally everybody else thinks these mods are rad and we don't think combining those models with backgrounds that were designed proportionally for 4½ heads-tall characters produces a ridiculous dissonance at all

[Anonymous No.3322062]

>>3321937
It's not the big heads, I just don't like my characters to have dumbbell/bleach bottle arms.

[Anonymous No.3322294]

>>3321937
Nope. I dig them too.
They were going for that chibi-look they had in previous, 2D FF games. Partly because the PS1 and 3D tech was still so new and hard to figure out, and partly because the pixelated 240p visuals projected on the old tube-TVs via shitty cables of the yesteryears made the image already hard to follow, so exaggerated shapes helped follow the game.

[Anonymous No.3322301]

>>3322294
Except they're not chibi in the FMVs, or in battle.

[Anonymous No.3322302]

>>3321917
Wow that's gorgeous!

[Anonymous No.3322305]

>>3322301
Yeah inconsistent character models gave that whole game a very strange feel.

[Anonymous No.3322471]

>>3321862
No, not really, especially not graphically.

Your OP image is a perfect example of why: PS2 era models for the main characters against a prerendered backdrop and legoman soldiers. It clashes.

At least having everyone be legomen is consistent. Graphics never bothered me much anyway.

[Anonymous No.3322476]

>>3322471
>PS2 era models for the main characters against a prerendered backdrop
REmake called.

[Anonymous No.3322480]

>>3322471

There are mods already that transforms all legoman into people. This is the year our Lord of 2016 already people. Tifa's Final Heaven (google it faggot) is already done.

Stop talking about a non-issue, jesus christ.

[Anonymous No.3322482]

>>3322294

That post makes no sense.

[Anonymous No.3322493]

>>3321913

For some reason I can't get patched/hacked ROMs to work in my NES emulator (nestopia).

[Anonymous No.3322496]

I used to have a ton of fun modding Dungeon seige. Could have huge tough monsters, cool spells and unque characters.
Also, I did play System shock 2 with a mod for better graphics.

[Anonymous No.3322508]

>>3322493

Then you're definitely doing something wrong. I play a ton of ROM hacks and translations using Nestopia. You don't even have to patch the games manually since the emulator can soft-patch them for you.

[Anonymous No.3322525]

>>3321862
For FF7 specifically, the retranslation and not much else. The PS1 version comes with some bugfixes too but I'm still waiting on that to get better.

Near everything else I've used outside of Doom are bugfixes or objective improvements.

[Anonymous No.3323139]

I can't believe they can make all these mods yet no fucker has figured out how to make the battles run at anything beyond 15fps.

[Anonymous No.3323790]

Doom is an obvious answer.

[Anonymous No.3323819]

Is there a single visual mod for FF7 that isn't total eye cancer?

[Anonymous No.3323831]

>>3322482
>takes the time to explain reasons for thier opinion
>basically "the chibi style was chosen to make the characters more readable on older tvs" is a valid point

Looks like you just cant into reading comprehension

[Anonymous No.3323903]

>>3321862
No I don't typically polish my shit.

[Anonymous No.3324130]

>>3322480
that one puts Cloud in the fucking retarded Advent Children trenchcoat thing despite the fact that it's a literal plotpoint in the game that he's wearing a SOLDIER uniform

[Anonymous No.3324145]

>>3322301
in the mideel lifestream quake fmv there are prerendered chibi models. looks like ass

[Anonymous No.3324218]

So what does romhacking mostly consist of? Simply altering sprites or level data with bespoke tools? Or do you actually disassemble the game code and rework it from there?

[Anonymous No.3324438]

>>3323139
Long been dealt with in the fan translation's package, I think.

[Anonymous No.3324481]

>>3322294
>>3322062
Anyone who thinks the "chibi" models are how they are due to technical restrictions are retarded.

Explain to me why couldn't they have used the battle models in towns and other environments when those consist only of 2D pre-rendered backgrounds... Even though the battle models are used in full 3D environments, with often many models, many effects, and with backgrounds too anyway.

It's not like they didn't have the budget or ressources to build more models, considering the budget they did have.

It's called art direction, in the same manner that FF4 and 5 used different, more detailed, sprites in battles.

[Anonymous No.3324686]

I muck about in Hammer for HL1 just making rooms and corridors. It's so satisfying, kinda therapeutic.

[Anonymous No.3324695]

>>3324218
most are assets, sprites or translations, but more is possible, if you're patient and insane enough