Hiya all,
Been shadowing this board for many years, mainly because I forgot my password and was to lazy to retrieve it. But alas that time has passed.
I'm here now for a new reason.
I have over the past 4 weeks been making a "modable" phantasy star version 2 from scratch.(after work and weekends mostly)
now I have only just got some items running at the moment, but most of the stuff is in there as place holders.
So I thought it was time to release a working demo and gauge the users response.
Soon I will also be asking for help building maps of towns and dungeons etc.....
The game comes with its own map editor, and as for the media, well its all external and changeable.
Soon I will be making the entire engine completely modable, after I get all the basics running flawlessly.
In this demo the map editor is disabled and you start directly in test mode.
Scenario:
You start in pasoe on motivia as you know, and you have your main first four characters Rolf, Nei, Rudo and Amy.
you will only see nei on the map (who wants to look at guys? )
you control her with you left mouse button.
all controls are right and left mouse button.
left = select, choose, move
right= deselect, exit, and open/close wandermenu
sounds complicated, but its really not once you try it.
So far only a couple of menu functions work(if you choose a menu item and you cannot do any thing, just right click until you can)
but equipping, purchasing and reviving is totally functioning.
now, I'm no artist or musician, so obviously the graphics and sound have come from both the new PSG2 and the original ps2, but I would love someone to be able to help with this later if your interested.
At the moment you cannot leave town, but all enterable buildings can be entered.
there is no battle system yet, I have made many in the past for my own pleasure (shhhh), so it will not take long to incorporate after the basics are finished.
The hospital is next on my todo list, so at this stage it is not working, just enterable.
Now remember, I said a lot of things are place holders while I get them running, so be gentle with your critique LOL, I bruise easily.
I was going to do screen shots, but we all know what the game looks like, so I'll just give the link instead, your welcome to post screen shots at will.
http://www.filedropper.com/psg2its a zip file, just (scan first as always) then extract anywhere with dir structure intact. file is roughly 8.67 meg
Please let me know what you think of this small demo, and of course, any bugs you may encounter.
Cheers
Crighton
PS. If the link doesn't work, please let me know a better file storage place.