2009-05-02, 05:35 AM
^That is good news... I spent a bit of time investigating capturing Armored Core data from PS1 and PS2 emulators 
Almost always Japanese companies compile crucial intellectual property data like that directly into the programs code rather than loading it from another file I think. Especially back in the day... these days maybe hard encryption is preferred. Japanese are notoriously more likely to make such data hard to find. Possibly because they're not likely to litigate if someone does find/use it (even for gain)
I think most of the weirdness went away after I used your patched filetree. Though I still recall getting a save game screen when using the action button near a gate... but I haven't seen that in a while. I'm pretty sure that was after the patch went thru... possibly I did something, like save something that made it go away.
Still I'm missing some odd stuff... possibly just Sonellian's Charm's graphic file. I think that is probably something Tom cooked up himself. It's not in the Ring selection at least, and I'm pretty sure it would have to be Ring class.
The internet has been no good for playing an MMO' I play with a weekly weekend event tonight, so I had some time in my schedule to fuck around.
My biggest conclusion after tonight, is the equipment selection is so piss poor. Also I was disappointed to find how nailed down the bad status effects seem to be. There doesn't even seem to be a way to adjust poison potency, global or otherwise from what I can see (poison's biggest threat seems to be annoying you to death with flashing lights / distracting you from when you're really being hit)
Is it even possible to recognize the players status with a global event and do things to them during that time? I did some event stuff with NPCs, but I don't see how to do global events really... even per map. I'm guessing maybe you must attach them to some object anyway??
PS: Also not being able to copy (or at least cut) paste stuff on the activity map is a pain in the ass.
Almost always Japanese companies compile crucial intellectual property data like that directly into the programs code rather than loading it from another file I think. Especially back in the day... these days maybe hard encryption is preferred. Japanese are notoriously more likely to make such data hard to find. Possibly because they're not likely to litigate if someone does find/use it (even for gain)
I think most of the weirdness went away after I used your patched filetree. Though I still recall getting a save game screen when using the action button near a gate... but I haven't seen that in a while. I'm pretty sure that was after the patch went thru... possibly I did something, like save something that made it go away.
Still I'm missing some odd stuff... possibly just Sonellian's Charm's graphic file. I think that is probably something Tom cooked up himself. It's not in the Ring selection at least, and I'm pretty sure it would have to be Ring class.
The internet has been no good for playing an MMO' I play with a weekly weekend event tonight, so I had some time in my schedule to fuck around.
My biggest conclusion after tonight, is the equipment selection is so piss poor. Also I was disappointed to find how nailed down the bad status effects seem to be. There doesn't even seem to be a way to adjust poison potency, global or otherwise from what I can see (poison's biggest threat seems to be annoying you to death with flashing lights / distracting you from when you're really being hit)
Is it even possible to recognize the players status with a global event and do things to them during that time? I did some event stuff with NPCs, but I don't see how to do global events really... even per map. I'm guessing maybe you must attach them to some object anyway??
PS: Also not being able to copy (or at least cut) paste stuff on the activity map is a pain in the ass.