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And one more thing, Recap. I remember a while ago you had told me that the next issue of Postback (which I guess meant either the previous one or the current one) would be the last. What was up with that? Have you already started work on the next one?

That's perfectly clear now. Should have figured it out sooner -- thanks for the explanation.

I think the title is: Hirameki Action: Chibikko Wagan no Oukina Bouken...

http://insomnia.ac/reviews/ds/itsuwarinorondo/

I am beginning to wonder whether the backgrounds have no animation because Examu's engine/hardware can't handle it. I don't mind the quality of the backgrounds you see, I don't think the settings are bad, it's just puzzling why there are no bystanders, elephants, leaves blowing in the wind -- something moving, at any rate. I mean how much extra work can this possibly be?

Again, though, I don't mind it. I think the sequel looks much better overall, with a lot more attention paid to menus and such. I still haven't watched more than a couple of videos because youtube annoys the hell out of me. I want high quality, and I want to be able to fast-forward at will.

Yeah, same here now. Guess they must have had server problems for a second there.

Man... between this and KOF XII, Capcom's gonna get creamed in the arcades. What a shameful end for the Street Fighter series.

Recap, I've seen Brandon from IC state several times that the sprites are upscaled. WTF is he talking about? Do they look upscaled to you?

So I've been messing around with Irfan View and a couple of emulators these past few days and I've got a ton of questions. Some of them are of a theoretical nature while others are more practical, but I must also confess that several of your instructions don't quite make sense to me at this point. I am hoping you won't mind explaining to me the reasoning behind your choices.

I guess my number one question would be this: Why take a capture of the emulator window with Irfan View instead of saving the screenshot with the emulator and THEN working on it? The only possible answer I've been able to give is that you prefer the emulator adding the scanlines instead of an external application... However, my experience with screen-capturing applications is that they degrade the image quality. Isn't the image I get from capturing using Irfan View worse than the emulator's native output? Irfan View seems to save in .bmp format, so perhaps not...

But the problem here seems to be that many emulators do not allow me to resize a window to exactly twice the size of the original resolution. I was able to use ZSNES with no problems as you instructed me, but I had no such luck with MAME32. In MAME32 I can only get a window the size of each game's original resolution, but resizing is done manually by using the mouse and enlarging the window, and if I do that I have no clue when I've exactly doubled the screen size. Kega Fusion allows me 640x480 in windowed mode, but that is not the correct doubled resolution for any Mega Drive games. And with ePSX I wouldn't even know where to begin -- the video options in that emulator are so complicated they give me a headache. Not to mention that -- apart from MAME, which tells you each game's native res -- I wouldn't know how to figure out the native res for most games running on other emulators. I mean, how do you know at what res a Super Famicom game runs? I am sure there must be a way to see this; I just don't know it yet.

Since I was only able to use your tutorial with ZSNES, my snapshot was 512 x 448 so there were no added borders. Still the game ITSELF (R-Type III) has black borders at the top and bottom. Am I supposed to crop those off?

What I found strange about this menu is that, by default (i.e. the first time you click on it) it adds a whole load of effects to the image. Here they are:

Scanline Strength
Scanline Thickness (pixels)
Vertical Shift
Curvature
Static
Ghost Strength
Ghost Offset
Breakup

All these sliders were at random values and I had to set them all to zero. Then I selected 8 for curvature.

Is this what I should be doing? All the sliders at zero except curvature?

And do you have any idea what the "Random Seed" option is at the bottom? I try to set it to 0 but it automatically resets to 1 when I exit the menu and re-enter it.

Also, why are you choosing such a low curvature number? I was always wondering about that. I know that different monitors have different curvatures and all, but the curvature you are adding is so imperceptible you might as well not bother, no?

This is where I got stuck. The Resize/Resample menu has no option for automatic resizing to 4 : 3 aspect ratio. I have to set the size manually by entering pixel numbers... Frankly, I am completely lost here.

Here I have to ask: Do you really add blur to your screenshots? They look crystal-clear to me... And if you do add blur, do you really think it's necessary/desirable? I guess you are doing it to get closer to what you'd see on a real monitor?

Again, I am completely lost here. So lost that I feel like a complete moron. I mean, why mess with the colors? You say that we darkened its "original colors" by adding scanlines, but I don't understand how this works. Scanlines are just lines added between the regular lines, they are not added on top of the regular lines. So how did we darken the image?

Besides, the Enhance Color menus scares the hell out of me. How am I supposed to figure out the best positions of all those random sliders? I don't even have a clue as to what I should be aiming for.

How do I tell if more blur is necessary?

So anyway, here's one of my tries:

This is 512 x 448 including the game's own borders, with a curvature of 8 and one dose of blur. I have not resized the image to 4 : 3 because I couldn't figure out how to do it, and I have not messed around with the colors because I wouldn't know where to start.

So... let me know what you think about all this... It sure is a more complicated business than I would have imagined. (I am still loving the results, of course!)

So I just went carefully through all the "properties/settings", and did not manage to find any option to tell IrfanView to use Photosop plugins. There is even a "PlugIns" tab, but it's useless.

Then I checked the "Installed PlugIns..." option under the "Help" menu, which gives you a list of all the installed plug-ins, and their location. So I went to that location and copied the Xenofex 2 DLL and 8BF files, then restarted IrfanView, and when I checked the "Installed PlugIns..." option again I saw the following, right at the very bottom of the list of installed plug-ins:

PlugIn                                                  Version            Info/Formats
XENOFEX 2 DEMO CORE.DLL                  Unknown          Unknown

Does that mean that I have installed it now? How do I use it to make sure it's working?

I would be very surprised if it worked since -- apart from the 2 files I copied -- all the rest of the Xenofex 2 files are in the separate folder where I installed it, and IrfanView does not seem to know its location.

Okay, I downloaded a trial version of Xenofex 2, which lasts for 30 days (the licence costs $130!), and installed it to work both with Photoshop and in a separate folder. I also got the extra DLLs for the 8BF_FILTERS thingy, and installed them. The problem is that I can't find how to use the 8BF_FILTERS plug-in. I went through all of Irfan's menus but couldn't find any option to use that plug-in (which would presumably allow me to tell Irfan the exact location of Xenofex 2).

I also looked through a couple of .txt files, but no luck.

I'll try again tomorrow. Let me know if you think of something in the meantime.

It is a very surprising game. Very interesting indeed. Whether you end up enjoying it or not is another matter...

This is true for those of their readers who are comfortable with English. Most of them are not, however. The French- or Spanish-speaking people who are comfortable with English are already reading those other sites you mention.

For people who are only comfortable with their native language, however, sites like Neo-Arcadia are providing a valuable service. They could be doing a better job, but what can you do. At least they are not charging anyone for their poor service.

(And please don't tell me that all young Spanish and French people these days are comfortable with English. It is astounding the degree to which this is not true.)