Slime Salad

It'd be much more fun to do a Magic only run (I am playing the NES version), but I was interested to see what people choose for me without much knowledge of how well each class does. The fact that I would need to do special challenges (no magic? Really? Magic is too interesting to give up) just to a...

I beat FF1 again last night, with the party of Ninja/Ninja/Black Wizard/White Wizard. The characters ranged from levels 28/29 at the end, but they were under level 20 for the vast majority of the game. I ended up gaining several levels at the end due to poor planning and needing a certain amount of ...

I can remember some games like Earthbound Zero and Final Fantasy having enormous worlds to explore, along with the occasional sprawling dungeon, and neither were terribly fun to explore since I kept getting interrupted by monsters. I haven't played Earthbound Zero, but FF's encounter rate isn't as ...

Just look at FF1 (yes, FF1) or DQ2-4 dungeons, as I find those to be the best balance for creating explorable dungeons. Phantasy Star 2 is probably the one game I would avoid using as reference, and this is coming from someone that loves "archaic" RPGs. I think a really bad maze is one tha...

By the way, from what I learned from working on my demo Hedgemaze in terms of dungeon layout: 1) OHR maps are a lot smaller than you think. 2) It's hard to make a map that isn't a straight line. 2a) Stairs are awesome to help this without being too convoluted (see Tales of the New World 2 for a grea...

That's not contradictory. It just means that exploration is more of a focus than puzzles are.

Your story, being a dungeon based game, and your stance on puzzles (I'm never good at puzzles in games) has me pretty interested.

ideas to improve the Sprite editor

The ability to retain undo changes when returning to editing a sprite after leaving it momentarily.

Similar poses (which aren't even exact) and pretty much nothing else a sprite edit does not make, and I know there are many that'll argue that sprite edits aren't immoral in the first place.

So what's the problem?

Sounds like your Master Palette keeps getting messed up for some reason.

My guy looks like his legs have been broken in several places.

Well, you were able to identify the problem, which is good. Do you have any ideas on how you could fix it?

Doing some research. So far I've found:

http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/ - An MS Paint Clone

And a program called Acorn whose biggest feature is its price tag.

Grafx2 apparently works on Mac OS X, so that's probably the best program.

I notice that menu/accept/cancel sound effects don't play in battles when you're navigating battle menus.

Unless there's an option I missed.

How'd that happen?

Outrage.

It's pretty much the most over-centralizing thing in the game, and why Smogon hasn't banned it is just beyond me.

Funny thing about that is that they just banned a Pokemon weak to it.