Post AwhEKWYnISisgi0dtI by foone@digipres.club
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 (DIR) Post #Awh7okmiH95loRzGzo by foone@digipres.club
       2025-07-31T14:04:17Z
       
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       So I took a look at Final Fantasy Tactics Advance for the death generator: 1. font extraction shouldn't be too hard, but I've not done it yet. I can automate setting the player's name and letting the game render the result, to iterate through all characters.2. The bigger problem is the portraits: I looked but I don't see any existing tools to extract those, and doing them myself is a lot of work.
       
 (DIR) Post #Awh86xEMjxRvcrbHhg by CypherSephiroth@piaille.fr
       2025-07-31T14:07:36Z
       
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       @foone great game!
       
 (DIR) Post #Awh9uRh4MtOoFUBo4O by rk@mastodon.well.com
       2025-07-31T14:27:43Z
       
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       @foone There’s a “fun” bug in FFTA. If you play all the way to the endgame without ever saving, the game will soft lock.You are presented with an unskippable menu asking if you’re ready to go to the final battle or if you need to prepare more; if you’re ready, the game will save and you go to the final battle.The problem is it cannot create a new save there, so if there isn’t one it will boot you back to the menu and ask again. Anyway the first time I played FFTA I just used save states…
       
 (DIR) Post #AwhCfCa2ZpO2tVKBSS by foone@digipres.club
       2025-07-31T14:58:39Z
       
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       okay I'll try dosspinning it
       
 (DIR) Post #AwhEGC8zGIq4D3sFSS by epithumia@mstdn.social
       2025-07-31T15:16:30Z
       
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       @foone I know it's not as fun as doing it yourself, but the portraits can be found here : https://www.spriters-resource.com/game_boy_advance/fftacticsadv/
       
 (DIR) Post #AwhEKWYnISisgi0dtI by foone@digipres.club
       2025-07-31T15:17:17Z
       
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       @epithumia I know, but I don't use spritesheets as a rule: the colors are often wrong (because of different emulator settings) and I don't know if they're complete. So I basically always do my own sprite extracting
       
 (DIR) Post #AwhH2PgqOv0Y1wpY4O by epithumia@mstdn.social
       2025-07-31T15:47:32Z
       
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       @foone Ah, I see. FFTA looks like a proper pain, best I could get out of Tile Smasher are sprites of a font that doesn't look like the dialogue's in your screen shot.Everything else is either garbled or has a weird offset that prevents tiles from lining up to make a proper sprite.(Whereas FFTA2 seems to have a tool that can handle sprites)
       
 (DIR) Post #AwhMUJmYSXhPaQcvYm by cinebox@masto.hackers.town
       2025-07-31T16:48:35Z
       
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       @foone kids should definitely not be high on “speed”
       
 (DIR) Post #AwiSbdw4ilcr0Auqjg by Canageek@wandering.shop
       2025-08-01T05:31:55Z
       
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       @foone Thank you thank you thank you for looking at one of my favourite games from my late childhood. I loved that game so much, even if I never finished it. I look forward SO MUCH to reading your decompilation notes, if any.