hmm… sounds pretty decent, but still not as good as the SNES version
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huh, I thought it was a direct replacement. Well anyway, close to ‘best’ version then
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might be limited by the shitty software mixing on the GBA, i wonder if running this with that new GBA “sound enhancement” thing… fuck i can’t find the link now… anyway there’s an emulator feature of recent note that allows you to hear the GBA audio through a higher quality mixer, running this through that might make it even closer to the SNES (to be fair, it’s already very close)
the other annoying thing about the GBA version is the lower resolution/reduced screen space…
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oh my god i remember that music and thinking “what the hell this is really weird” but i’d never played the original. i should play the original.
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High-quality audio mixing - only works on games which used the sound engine Nintendo provided in the GBA SDK (which is a lot of them). according to the dev, it “replaces the audio playback with a higher-quality audio stream which is calculated from the RAM contents of the emulated GBA”
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The fundamental issue with the GBA’s sound hardware is that (essentially) the output DAC is 8-bit, while the SNES’s DAC is 16-bit. Most of the other sound issues with the GBA are solved problems by now, but that limitation is only circumvented by doing some hacky high-level emulation.
fakeedit: what you just said
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yeah at least do the SNES versions for your first playthrough. I still think it’s the most definitive way, especially with the right hacks. nothing wrong with preferring the re-releases though.
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The original FF5 translation patch must have been hacked for zsnes, I remember it working fine back then but now there’s garbled dialogue boxes during battle in modern emulators
it’s actually really fascinating to think about how much better and more flexible the GBA CPU is than the SNES’ but how many ports still suffered and had slowdown because everyone kept having to implement audio in “software” and taking a massive hit
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the 5 GBA script is definitely better than the old fan patch even with the few bad internet memes. 99% of it is fine and reads more naturally imo
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Meeting Erin was one of the moments I lost my professional demeanor; she made it as loose and funny and as dumb as the game demands.
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BustedAstromech already posted a screenshot of FF7 HD 1.5 Remix, which is the most direct inspiration for this question (featuring the dialogue of NPCs you are walking by scrolling on the left), but I managed to track down more-or-less relevant screenshots of the other three games that made me curious about this:
Monster Hunter: World [January 26th, 2018]
(this actually has animated talking heads like you’re receiving video calls from a late 90s RTS)
Code Vein [September 27th, 2019]
(as far as I can tell, this is just for your current Companion to give you various tips, status updates and bits of lore as you two go on a romantic ruin crawl)
Scarlet Nexus [June 25, 2021]
(this one is a bit crazy, because most of the cutscenes are barely animated but instead told like comic book-influenced VNs, minor conversations/NPCs are conventional stand-and-chat JRPG style, your character gets brain DMs in the status menu, but while in dangerous areas/combat you have that little window which features assorted one-at-a-time remarks from active party members, a reserve party member acting as a Persona-style Navigator and even some of the bosses you fight)
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Dragons dogma was like this with party chat if you turned on subtitles.
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I guess it was unheard of in console games until devs were sure everybody owned at least one HDTV by the early 2010s.
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This reminded me of the beginning of Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door where you’re talking to someone and in the background the Pianta gangsters are threatening a rival gang through auto dialogue.
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I just learned that there was a recent edition of the original fan translation, done with “approval” from the RPGe team (original fan translators), which released in March of last year. Romhacking.net - Translations - Final Fantasy V
I saw someone with a smiling Shinji Ikari avatar somewhere defend it against the claim of someone else that it was made with “an ideology of translation.” I think I’ll go with this option.
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i got $10 in xbux that expire at the end of october, what should i get?
Panzer Dragoon Orta
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This is exactly the tone I try to hit with my D&D adventures, so I should prob play through the GBA translation just to internalize the particulars
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Sega things.