CHERRY'S PROFILE

RMW staff basically stated

@bugmenot: Where did they state it? In the petition thread long before the release, or at some other place now?

It's not in exclusive mode anymore, the alt-tab issue has a different cause, namely the game window being topmost (so that Skype/Steam/balloontips won't pop up above, or traybar icons flicker around - which happened to me in other games) and me forgetting that Alt+Tab exists and therefore I have to monitor it and change the topmost mode if needed.

Only small changes. The battle system is a giant mess and I don't want to mess (^^) with it because it *will* bite me. I know it.

@all:

I've been getting lots of "thank you Cherry" mails/messages recently. I hope you also thanked Archeia. While I helped out technically, she did a very hard job translating this thing (and be haunted by bugs and issues coming up again and again), not to mention that without her setting the course, nothing would have been released at all.

(In my initial sentence of this thread, Archeia was included in "Degica".)

@bulmabriefs144: Thanks for the list, but most of it won't be done... the reason is that we don't have the 2k3 source code, and it takes a long time to some of these things in patches... time I can't bill them because they wouldn't consider it worth the money. And of course, the custom title will be optional. About legality: I can't just create stuff I like and bill it to them without having the order to do so. And I have very very limited, and it already took several night shifts with ~2 hours sleep to meet this deadline for 1.10 (and I didn't even get all the planned fixes in this version).About Non-Steam: I have a guess (which I was unable to confirm yet). I was worried about protection mechanisms breaking my hacks (because they really... hackish at some points). I was pleasantly surprised that the Steam version worked about (apart from that DEP issue), but I was never sure whether the other protection they use for Non-Steam versions would work here.

@Joseph Seraph: Do you have any suggestions about how the formula should be modified and why?

@J-Man: You can copy event commands from a BE to a CE and vice-versa. This is useful because in 2k3, you have a "call common event" feature in BEs which was kind of limited because you couldn't access any enemy/battle-only stuff in a CE. Now you can, but it's still a bit of a hack because you can't modify such commands in a CE (you would have to copy them back to a BE in order to modify them).

@Mason_Wheeler: Some things were done by calling code in the external DLL I wrote. And in the case of the fullscreen, it's rather simple: Until now, the window was strecthed to cover the whole screen (without borders) but then DirectDraw was used on top and the resolution was changed. Now, I just make it draw the game as usually, inside the (screen-covering and borderless) window, but with a few changes in the rectangle used to draw it (so aspect ratio can be fixed). The new interpolation settings works by just changing a flag which is passed to Windows' stretch-draw function.

@Craze: I disagree. Basically, we all (as Liberty said) used a software for free which was not intended to be free, essentially stealing money which could have been used to pay people to improve the software. I know that there was no official version available until now, though, and this is probably one of the reasons why nobody will go after us now. However, "if you want an ancient piece of software, buy it. if not, don't." doesn't really apply here, because in a way, most of the 2k3 users are owing money. And if it was just about the money, Enterbrain could have taken the opportunity (seeing all those non-JP 2k3 users) a lot sooner. --- My two cents.

@PepsiOtaku: Thanks for the catch! I will get this fixed.

@Corfasius: Chessy :O Worst Shipname Ever.

@nhubi: About Alt+Tab: You are right, I will fix this. About boxed borders: I assume you mean black areas left and right of the game screen? OK, are you telling me that you would rather have the game stretched and have all characters look like somebody punched them on their head with a hammer? I always considered this an error/problem (and there were many complaints about this), that's what it was changed. Or did I misunderstand you there?

@Pittmann2011: That indeed sounds like the "Show title screen" option being off, however I updated this so that it should now be on by default. Did you ever had any RM2k3 version installed previously?

EDIT: Hm, the game installer creation seems to be Steam-related. We'll fix it soon. Also it seems like the Steam version doesn't have some settings set up correctly, which means the "open r3proj file from Windows Explorer" doesn't work, the "show title screen" setting is not enabled by default as it should be and the project directory is not in "My documents" as the changelog says.

@Rebezion: We will add custom titles in one of the next updates.