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boff wrote

Post a picture, man.

There are red block artifacts in battle mode or if you press pause. Just fight a monster fly or scorpion right outside the residential wall.

I think this problem may be unique to you...

Maxim wrote

I think this problem may be unique to you...

I'm using real hardware, Master System RGB bypass fm with everdrive (old ver) not x7.

playing at 50 or 60 Hz?

sverx wrote

playing at 50 or 60 Hz?

I have 60hrz NTSC. I've tried 2 different consoles, the other is totally stock never modded and one is modded with rgb bypass and fm.

Same result with both Master Systems. Has anyone else got this? Fight a few battles at beginning out in open by residential area with fly or scorpion. You should see a flickering block if you watch the enemy name box at start of battle. May take a couple battles.

Otherwise it could be my Everdrive, I have old version not x7.

Maxim, the only known bugs so far in version 2.0 are text errors when trying to buy the cake for the governor with little money and wrong attack value for myau at the maximum level?
Have you corrected anything else?

You can see the open issues and commits in Github to see what’s pending or done. There were a few minor script errors (eg spelling inconsistencies) and the item renaming mentioned above.

Maxim wrote

You can see the open issues and commits in Github to see what’s pending or done. There were a few minor script errors (eg spelling inconsistencies) and the item renaming mentioned above.

I was wondering, have you tested on real hardware? I have old Everdrive v9 and I'm still getting artifact during battle (it's very fast). I tested using 2 Master Systems one was stock.

Can you make a video or photo?

Maxim wrote

Can you make a video or photo?

I've been watching this process for months and frankly it's been amazing to see the entire translation rewritten. It's a lot of work to finish up a project like this. In support of nategamrdude's observation, I see the glitch in the upper right corner during battles on a 1 chip Game Gear as well. (2 chip Game Gears seem to have glitches all over the place starting from the intro scene even in the original Phantasy Star without patches.) It has a McWill display installed and has been recapped, but is otherwise stock. I observe the same behavior on a Japanese Game Gear (MK Rayearth edition), also recapped and McWill modded.

As you can (hopefully, codecs allowing) see in the attached video starting at 2 seconds, the glitching doesn't usually last long. It's overwritten not long after it shows up. I'm using an Everdrive GG to play it, but I have the prior translation sitting in my SMS Phantasy Star cart (the original ROM chip's safely tucked away.) I could re-write the EPROM with this new translation to try on my Beeshu SMS to GG adapter to verify that it's not an EverDrive issue, in case you think that both SMS and GG Everdrives might be the cause.

MOV_20201007_0134036~2.mp4 (3.96 MB)
PS Retranslation glitch

That looks like a VDP access speed issue, I’ll look into it, thanks for the video.

nyandeyanen wrote

Maxim wrote

Can you make a video or photo?

I've been watching this process for months and frankly it's been amazing to see the entire translation rewritten. It's a lot of work to finish up a project like this. In support of nategamrdude's observation, I see the glitch in the upper right corner during battles on a 1 chip Game Gear as well. (2 chip Game Gears seem to have glitches all over the place starting from the intro scene even in the original Phantasy Star without patches.) It has a McWill display installed and has been recapped, but is otherwise stock. I observe the same behavior on a Japanese Game Gear (MK Rayearth edition), also recapped and McWill modded.

As you can (hopefully, codecs allowing) see in the attached video starting at 2 seconds, the glitching doesn't usually last long. It's overwritten not long after it shows up. I'm using an Everdrive GG to play it, but I have the prior translation sitting in my SMS Phantasy Star cart (the original ROM chip's safely tucked away.) I could re-write the EPROM with this new translation to try on my Beeshu SMS to GG adapter to verify that it's not an EverDrive issue, in case you think that both SMS and GG Everdrives might be the cause.

You found it! Awesome lol. Sorry to everyone and Maxim, I've been too busy to make a video. At least you guys got it and people won't think I'm crazy.

I think I have (belatedly) fixed this enemy name top border issue. Can you try the latest build at https://ci.appveyor.com/project/maxim-zhao/psrp/builds/36127817/artifacts and confirm it's good now?

Maxim wrote

I think I have (belatedly) fixed this enemy name top border issue. Can you try the latest build at [link removed by nyandeyanen because I'm recent and spammers force the forum to do this] and confirm it's good now?

It looks good here, I haven't been able to reproduce the bug with this version after several battles.

Great :) I have a little more I’d like to do and then I’ll make an official 2.01 release.

Hi, Maxim.

I went to the GitHub you created for PS (https://github.com/maxim-zhao/psrp/issues) and saw that you are going to add a Shop QOL improvement. I thought it was very good.

I have a small suggestion: make PelorieMate recover MP. In addition to making this item useful (an item that recovers MP is what is missing in PS!), It would give a nice change in the gameplay.

What do you think? Consider my proposal with affection!
Big hug.

I’m trying not to mess with the gameplay (anti-grinding aside). I guess the designers didn’t want a way to replenish MP.

I will argue just one more time, Maxim. After all, the project is yours.
Recover MP is also present in the Sega Ages 2500 (PSG1).

What do you think about making this optional, just like you did brown hair for Alis?

Anyway, thanks for listening. : D

And, look at this:
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5248/
Really good, right?

It would be good to understand the changes in some of the later releases, I’m going off some YouTube video descriptions for some of these. Certainly the anti-grinding measures are nice to have, but only if they remain optional.

I don’t like the sprite changes. I know I did the brown hair thing - which seems like it was one of the most interesting things for the flurry of publicity when we released 2.00 - but overall I don’t want to mess with the artwork. The brown hair hack was just to make the in-game sprite match the cutscene and title artwork.

Maxim wrote

It would be good to understand the changes in some of the later releases, I’m going off some YouTube video descriptions for some of these. Certainly the anti-grinding measures are nice to have, but only if they remain optional.

I don’t like the sprite changes. I know I did the brown hair thing - which seems like it was one of the most interesting things for the flurry of publicity when we released 2.00 - but overall I don’t want to mess with the artwork. The brown hair hack was just to make the in-game sprite match the cutscene and title artwork.

Hey Guys,

Wonderful Job on PS to all of you. I wanted to say one last thing...When healing the text says " STAMINA increased" I just feel like it should be HP, it is hp right? stamina is like endurance.

[quote="nategamrdude"]

Maxim wrote

It would be good to understand the changes in some of the later releases, I’m going off some YouTube video descriptions for some of these. Certainly the anti-grinding measures are nice to have, but only if they remain optional.

I don’t like the sprite changes. I know I did the brown hair thing - which seems like it was one of the most interesting things for the flurry of publicity when we released 2.00 - but overall I don’t want to mess with the artwork. The brown hair hack was just to make the in-game sprite match the cutscene and title artwork.

Hey Guys,

Wonderful Job on PS to all of you. I tried "beta" wanted to say one last thing...When healing the text says " STAMINA increased" I just feel like it should be Health, right? stamina is like endurance. noticed pause is broken again and Fishman and couple others still have "block glitches" Probably be fixed in official 2.1.

I'm hoping to wrap up 2.01 for the 33rd anniversary on December 20th.

What do you mean by "pause is broken again"?

The health restoration says stamina because that's kind of what HP is, it's not really "healthiness". Maybe it'd be clearer to say "health"?

Are the "block glitches" the same as the enemy name box glitches mentioned previously?

I have just released (for the 33rd anniversary - 20th December 1987 to 20th December 2020) version 2.01 of the retranslation. There are some minor changes and bug fixes compared to 2.00, and an "original names" version with some names closer to the original English release.

Well, one more reason to play it again next year :-) thank you!

I made a small modification to the Alisa, Tylon and Lutz sprites based on this hack:

http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5248/

I just touched up the sprites from this hack, see how they look (.IPS here):

https://mega.nz/file/bY9HlSQQ#LRQuMbW2I3F2jMNvxpBxleEHQFIql1zGrwsSdOl2ohU

Now imagine if instead of just having the Brunette Alisa option on the menu, you had these three characters modified? What do you think?

Maxim, I played version 2.01 from start to finish. The game went perfectly.

I let the tarantulas tie me up at will: all messages appeared without errors (probably the user who reported them was using an old sram).

I think I found only one error in the text of the NPC that gives us access to the Luveno ship.
He says [... Go head ...].
Wouldn't that be [... Go ahead ...] ?

Wonderful translation. Good work.
Happy new year to all.

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nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:23 pm Last edited by nategamrdude on Sun Oct 04, 2020 7:32 pm; edited 2 times in total
nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	boff wrote Post a picture, man. There are red block artifacts in battle mode or if you press pause. Just fight a monster fly or scorpion right outside the residential wall.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13497 Location: London	Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:17 pm
	I think this problem may be unique to you...

nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:43 pm Last edited by nategamrdude on Sun Oct 04, 2020 7:31 pm; edited 1 time in total
nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	Maxim wrote I think this problem may be unique to you... I'm using real hardware, Master System RGB bypass fm with everdrive (old ver) not x7.

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 2807	Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:05 am
sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 2807	playing at 50 or 60 Hz?

nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 11:10 pm Last edited by nategamrdude on Sun Oct 04, 2020 7:30 pm; edited 1 time in total
nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	sverx wrote playing at 50 or 60 Hz? I have 60hrz NTSC. I've tried 2 different consoles, the other is totally stock never modded and one is modded with rgb bypass and fm. Same result with both Master Systems. Has anyone else got this? Fight a few battles at beginning out in open by residential area with fly or scorpion. You should see a flickering block if you watch the enemy name box at start of battle. May take a couple battles. Otherwise it could be my Everdrive, I have old version not x7.

boff Joined: 16 May 2020 Posts: 7 Location: Brazil	Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 4:16 am
boff Joined: 16 May 2020 Posts: 7 Location: Brazil	Maxim, the only known bugs so far in version 2.0 are text errors when trying to buy the cake for the governor with little money and wrong attack value for myau at the maximum level? Have you corrected anything else?

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13497 Location: London	Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 10:49 am
	You can see the open issues and commits in Github to see what’s pending or done. There were a few minor script errors (eg spelling inconsistencies) and the item renaming mentioned above.

nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 7:39 pm
nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	Maxim wrote You can see the open issues and commits in Github to see what’s pending or done. There were a few minor script errors (eg spelling inconsistencies) and the item renaming mentioned above. I was wondering, have you tested on real hardware? I have old Everdrive v9 and I'm still getting artifact during battle (it's very fast). I tested using 2 Master Systems one was stock.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13497 Location: London	Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 9:29 pm
	Can you make a video or photo?

nyandeyanen Joined: 07 Oct 2020 Posts: 2 Location: California	Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 8:48 am
	Maxim wrote Can you make a video or photo? I've been watching this process for months and frankly it's been amazing to see the entire translation rewritten. It's a lot of work to finish up a project like this. In support of nategamrdude's observation, I see the glitch in the upper right corner during battles on a 1 chip Game Gear as well. (2 chip Game Gears seem to have glitches all over the place starting from the intro scene even in the original Phantasy Star without patches.) It has a McWill display installed and has been recapped, but is otherwise stock. I observe the same behavior on a Japanese Game Gear (MK Rayearth edition), also recapped and McWill modded. As you can (hopefully, codecs allowing) see in the attached video starting at 2 seconds, the glitching doesn't usually last long. It's overwritten not long after it shows up. I'm using an Everdrive GG to play it, but I have the prior translation sitting in my SMS Phantasy Star cart (the original ROM chip's safely tucked away.) I could re-write the EPROM with this new translation to try on my Beeshu SMS to GG adapter to verify that it's not an EverDrive issue, in case you think that both SMS and GG Everdrives might be the cause. MOV_20201007_0134036~2.mp4 (3.96 MB) PS Retranslation glitch

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13497 Location: London	Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 10:56 am
	That looks like a VDP access speed issue, I’ll look into it, thanks for the video.

nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:23 pm
nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	nyandeyanen wrote Maxim wrote Can you make a video or photo? I've been watching this process for months and frankly it's been amazing to see the entire translation rewritten. It's a lot of work to finish up a project like this. In support of nategamrdude's observation, I see the glitch in the upper right corner during battles on a 1 chip Game Gear as well. (2 chip Game Gears seem to have glitches all over the place starting from the intro scene even in the original Phantasy Star without patches.) It has a McWill display installed and has been recapped, but is otherwise stock. I observe the same behavior on a Japanese Game Gear (MK Rayearth edition), also recapped and McWill modded. As you can (hopefully, codecs allowing) see in the attached video starting at 2 seconds, the glitching doesn't usually last long. It's overwritten not long after it shows up. I'm using an Everdrive GG to play it, but I have the prior translation sitting in my SMS Phantasy Star cart (the original ROM chip's safely tucked away.) I could re-write the EPROM with this new translation to try on my Beeshu SMS to GG adapter to verify that it's not an EverDrive issue, in case you think that both SMS and GG Everdrives might be the cause. You found it! Awesome lol. Sorry to everyone and Maxim, I've been too busy to make a video. At least you guys got it and people won't think I'm crazy.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13497 Location: London	Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2020 6:15 am
	I think I have (belatedly) fixed this enemy name top border issue. Can you try the latest build at https://ci.appveyor.com/project/maxim-zhao/psrp/builds/36127817/artifacts and confirm it's good now?

nyandeyanen Joined: 07 Oct 2020 Posts: 2 Location: California	Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:53 am
	Maxim wrote I think I have (belatedly) fixed this enemy name top border issue. Can you try the latest build at [link removed by nyandeyanen because I'm recent and spammers force the forum to do this] and confirm it's good now? It looks good here, I haven't been able to reproduce the bug with this version after several battles.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13497 Location: London	Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:53 am
	Great :) I have a little more I’d like to do and then I’ll make an official 2.01 release.

boff Joined: 16 May 2020 Posts: 7 Location: Brazil	Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 4:50 am
boff Joined: 16 May 2020 Posts: 7 Location: Brazil	Hi, Maxim. I went to the GitHub you created for PS (https://github.com/maxim-zhao/psrp/issues) and saw that you are going to add a Shop QOL improvement. I thought it was very good. I have a small suggestion: make PelorieMate recover MP. In addition to making this item useful (an item that recovers MP is what is missing in PS!), It would give a nice change in the gameplay. What do you think? Consider my proposal with affection! Big hug.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13497 Location: London	Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 8:36 am
	I’m trying not to mess with the gameplay (anti-grinding aside). I guess the designers didn’t want a way to replenish MP.

boff Joined: 16 May 2020 Posts: 7 Location: Brazil	Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:26 am
boff Joined: 16 May 2020 Posts: 7 Location: Brazil	I will argue just one more time, Maxim. After all, the project is yours. Recover MP is also present in the Sega Ages 2500 (PSG1). What do you think about making this optional, just like you did brown hair for Alis? Anyway, thanks for listening. : D And, look at this: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5248/ Really good, right?

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13497 Location: London	Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 7:45 am
	It would be good to understand the changes in some of the later releases, I’m going off some YouTube video descriptions for some of these. Certainly the anti-grinding measures are nice to have, but only if they remain optional. I don’t like the sprite changes. I know I did the brown hair thing - which seems like it was one of the most interesting things for the flurry of publicity when we released 2.00 - but overall I don’t want to mess with the artwork. The brown hair hack was just to make the in-game sprite match the cutscene and title artwork.

nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 7:50 pm
nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	Maxim wrote It would be good to understand the changes in some of the later releases, I’m going off some YouTube video descriptions for some of these. Certainly the anti-grinding measures are nice to have, but only if they remain optional. I don’t like the sprite changes. I know I did the brown hair thing - which seems like it was one of the most interesting things for the flurry of publicity when we released 2.00 - but overall I don’t want to mess with the artwork. The brown hair hack was just to make the in-game sprite match the cutscene and title artwork. Hey Guys, Wonderful Job on PS to all of you. I wanted to say one last thing...When healing the text says " STAMINA increased" I just feel like it should be HP, it is hp right? stamina is like endurance.

nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 8:13 pm
nategamrdude Joined: 20 Sep 2020 Posts: 9	[quote="nategamrdude"] Maxim wrote It would be good to understand the changes in some of the later releases, I’m going off some YouTube video descriptions for some of these. Certainly the anti-grinding measures are nice to have, but only if they remain optional. I don’t like the sprite changes. I know I did the brown hair thing - which seems like it was one of the most interesting things for the flurry of publicity when we released 2.00 - but overall I don’t want to mess with the artwork. The brown hair hack was just to make the in-game sprite match the cutscene and title artwork. Hey Guys, Wonderful Job on PS to all of you. I tried "beta" wanted to say one last thing...When healing the text says " STAMINA increased" I just feel like it should be Health, right? stamina is like endurance. noticed pause is broken again and Fishman and couple others still have "block glitches" Probably be fixed in official 2.1.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13497 Location: London	Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:10 pm
	I'm hoping to wrap up 2.01 for the 33rd anniversary on December 20th. What do you mean by "pause is broken again"? The health restoration says stamina because that's kind of what HP is, it's not really "healthiness". Maybe it'd be clearer to say "health"? Are the "block glitches" the same as the enemy name box glitches mentioned previously?

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13497 Location: London	Version 2.01 released Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 10:13 pm
	I have just released (for the 33rd anniversary - 20th December 1987 to 20th December 2020) version 2.01 of the retranslation. There are some minor changes and bug fixes compared to 2.00, and an "original names" version with some names closer to the original English release.

PrOfUnD Darkness Joined: 29 Jun 1999 Posts: 339 Location: Brazil	Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:13 pm
	Well, one more reason to play it again next year :-) thank you!

darthvaderx Joined: 07 May 2011 Posts: 19	Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 7:20 pm
darthvaderx Joined: 07 May 2011 Posts: 19	I made a small modification to the Alisa, Tylon and Lutz sprites based on this hack: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5248/ I just touched up the sprites from this hack, see how they look (.IPS here): https://mega.nz/file/bY9HlSQQ#LRQuMbW2I3F2jMNvxpBxleEHQFIql1zGrwsSdOl2ohU Now imagine if instead of just having the Brunette Alisa option on the menu, you had these three characters modified? What do you think?

boff Joined: 16 May 2020 Posts: 7 Location: Brazil	Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2021 5:26 am
boff Joined: 16 May 2020 Posts: 7 Location: Brazil	Maxim, I played version 2.01 from start to finish. The game went perfectly. I let the tarantulas tie me up at will: all messages appeared without errors (probably the user who reported them was using an old sram). I think I found only one error in the text of the NPC that gives us access to the Luveno ship. He says [... Go head ...]. Wouldn't that be [... Go ahead ...] ? Wonderful translation. Good work. Happy new year to all.

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