FRONT MISSION 5

I must say, this is freaking impressive, you guys keep up your good, nay your great work.  I will reserve questions for later.

Also Fab, these guys (and possibly ladies, you will have to excuse me I just got back here) are obviously working their asses off, I would leave everything to them, particularly something like the font.

Ok. here are new bugs I’ve found:
1) On a mission fighting against tanks (dessert one - firs time figting against tanks) there’s a unit name something like that: “reconnaissance ground unit” the sentence is to long almost half of last word covers enemy signature. Wouldn’t be better to write “Recon Ground Unit” ?
2) Second is option in setup of wanzers. “Output” status, shouldn’t be “Power”? I think that in FM4 that status was called “Power”, this word better describe the meaning. There's also W / P on right column when we setting them up (that's probably Weight / Power).
That’s all for now.

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thank you for your testing, it is actually very helpfull, if you could please save everything you notice in some txt file that when we'll start fixing menus you could upload it, so we woudn't have to look through the forums to look for them, again thank you for your work

Megaten can you visit my topic and give me some hints ?
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,5575.0.html
Thx.

Hi all.
I have a question about Japanese inscription that showing up at the beginning of mission in simulator. What does it means and is it stored as a text or picture ??

I think they are stored inside the TIM2 picture format. Look what I found :

This screen is from the Tim2 file as you see it contains some name from one of the bases. So its very easy to change them and put it back to game. Since I have no idea (but I guessing that Japanese words means same as the English) what does it means in Japanese, I was thinking about replacing Japanese words with English and write some additional info on lower part. Some thing Like this:
- Gym
- Training area
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Hangar
- Wanzers Armory
Etc… What do you think ? Or may be if I find Tim that is responsible for dividing screen (you know that background thing) I will change it and leave only place for English words. But this kind of modification will cause patch to be much bigger. But who cares

we know about this tim2 files (363 359 355 351 347 343 etc)
mungos extract about 500 but in iso its about 4000
then we search fonts we found this tim2 (but while not found needed fonts)
now the base pics its not priority...

ps: example of experiments on 21 jan:

of cause its only experiments
if&then we will more close with it we do it more good (change fonts and borders)

The game's font is usually stored in the elf file if there's not a specific archive.They're usually in 4bpp linear reverse.

The game's font is usually stored in the elf file if there's not a specific archive.They're usually in 4bpp linear reverse.

i had some suspect about elf
but first file in big-dat is font in tim2...but no this font needed
ok
i will try to find infos about "4bpp linear reverse"

That's what i found:










I found menu to:



But still i can't find this crap :



Could this be stored us different file type or it's just text ? Can some one confirm this ?

how intresting....
to much fonts but no that in dialogs.....

You mean this one ? Its in First TIM file.



Ok. everybody 20$ for first person who will tell us where this is stored:



AK_ how many TIM files have you found ? I have 4245. But 8 files look like this:

no this font...
font from dialogs
examples in previous page

AK_ how many TIM files have you found ? I have 4245. But 8 files look like this:

in big-dat 4235 entries of "TIM2"
i don't work with pics close & don't have it all (while interesting fonts, pics yourself have very small amount of information for trans project vs text)
about this strange files: maybe this file "swizzled"...

AK_ how many TIM files have you found ? I have 4245. But 8 files look like this:

in big-dat 4235 entries of "TIM2"
i don't work with pics close & don't have it all (while interesting fonts, pics yourself have very small amount of information for trans project vs text)
about this strange files: maybe this file "swizzled"...

Hmm AK_ what TIM unpacker do you use and what do you mean by saying "swizzled"??. BTW. about that text screen in simulator i talked about so much... It's probably stored in the same format as other "moving" shots like for example skills notification "Terror Shot" ; "Helli Hunt" etc. I’m sure there are different graphical formats (i just don’t know what kind) i mean wanzers, maps, characters, background of bases must be stored some how. If we only could have a pugin to this game...