Phantasy Star Portable

[Terra Branford]

(04-03-2015 06:23 PM)[Unknown] Wrote:  

(04-03-2015 07:46 AM)Terra Branford Wrote:  is that the fix was a part of many of the "build releases", and suddenly removed... and then forgotten all about ever since, as if Portable 1 just isn't important enough for anyone to care if you can read the dialogue text in newer versions of PPSSPP.

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Really, I don't think it should have been that hard to fix the dialogue text. It was fixed before, it can be fixed again. I just think it's one of those "not a priority, so it's ignored" situations. Which is a shame.

Well, this simply isn't true, sorry to say.

The change that caused Phantasy Star Portable 1's text to display broke many other games, because it was a bad change. Think of it this way: let's say I lit a fire in my house because I was cold. The fire went out of control and burnt a lot of my stuff, but at least I wasn't cold. I've tried to light fires again, but every time so far it's gone out of control and I've had to put it out really quick.

Just because the fire makes you warm, doesn't mean that's really a solution to the entire problem. In the same way, just because the text in Phantasy Star Portable 1 worked doesn't mean that's the right solution either.

I know and understand why that change (although it was incorrect) made it work. I've actually spent hours upon hours debugging the game and figuring out exactly why the text doesn't show. I even added the entire GE debugger feature with this game as one of the things in my mind it might help with. Unfortunately, the change is a bit hard to fix correctly.

Also, future releases of the games draw the text in different ways. It's not at all surprising to me that they work. It's kind of like wondering why your new electric car is able to charge using the wall, but your previous car still needs gasoline. Well, they're different, that's why... even if they appear to operate the same way from the outside.

I've never once said or heard anyone saying some Pony game was a priority over this game. However, if you disagree with our priorities, feel free to actually contribute yourself instead of just griping, and change them with your own hands. I became the programmer I am today with no more resources than you have (in fact, probably less.)

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I honestly didn't realize the "fix" broke other games... that's poor research on my part. I also didn't know you had been (and appear to still be) researching a way to fix the game. So I apologize for my comments, and feel like a total jerk for spazzing off about it, especially as I don't know a thing about programming, and can't fix it myself.

I do get that Portable 2 and Infinity have different methods to draw the text, given they are released after Portable 1 (it would make sense that they'd use different rendering methods, since they are different games). I was mentioning (poorly, I assume) that the Japanese version of Portable 2 does not correctly render NPC text, much in the same way as Portable 1 fails. And figured it was all the same issue, and the PPSSPP team had done fixes specifically for Portable 2 (especially seeing that Portable 2 has a Depth Range Hack in the settings menus) and Infinity, but had somehow skipped/missed Portable 1 and the JP version of Portable 2. That, again, was on me, for making false assumptions.

So, again, I apologize for my negative comments. I was flustered, since Portable 1 is one of my favorite games, and it seemed to be ignored in the latest round of fixes. Which, again, was a foolish assumption on my part.