DARTHZANNACROSS'S PROFILE

I see, well, I want to go with the one that will best get across a 16 bit Final Fantasy feel, but can have decent backgrounds and effects. I guess the fan RPG's that inspired me the most are the guys behind this, http://rpgmaker.net/games/2051/

and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h86QOglo5sU

I don't know if either of the guys who made the games are here, but making those games is what made me see that fan games can look good enough to feel like its a real game from one of those series.

I don't doubt it takes a very long time to be able to pull something like those games off, I am curious how they got the backgrounds and effects to look that good.

I do image even if I can one day be good enough to make the programming make the art legit looking, it would still look odd. But then again, Smash Bros can be odd with all of the various cast and settings interacting and it still works so, guess there is only one way to find out lol.

I am shocked that 2003 version is better suited for such things, I assumed it would be easier with the newer version but it seems to not be the case.

I guess a key thing I am trying to figure out is if I need just the pictures of the borrowed characters or the ROMs of the games themselves, I seen a few animated frames in those fan RPG games, not sure how they did it to look decently smooth.

Well , I suppose I don't really know yet, what would be the best engine to work on such a project?

For on map well, a bunch of them have sprites one way or another all ready, for the others, if I would have to make new ones for my original cast, getting a few more would just be another extra push I suppose.

In addition, maybe it would help that I am serious in wanting to make this if I show how thought out the blueprints are, thus

Tales of the Cosmic Wars Episode One Fan RPG Thesis

Cast of fighters
Original Hero one= Ben Auro. Job Class Magical Swordsmen/ Enji Knight

Original Hero two Doug Fitter. Martial Artist

Original Hero three James Elrond. Job Class Mage/ Quincy Archer

Original Hero Four Lacus Raystar. Job class, holy swordsmen

original Hero five Ezan Kaiba. Job Class, Enji Samurai

Primarily Unoriginal hero's AKA hero's from other games that I would feel would be essential for a party: Cloud Strife, Mario, Yoshi, Sonic, Shadow, Kirby, Link, Samus, Megaman X, Zero.

Secondary unoriginal Hero's , AKA hero's that would be nice to have as party members, but if its not enough space could also fit as moves for the Primary Characters. = Luigi, Tails, Knuckles, Axl, maybe another Final Fantasy hero or heroine and a pair of hero's from the Tales of series.

Worlds in Game, each world would use its own world map, worlds would be selected like some sort of level select screen, choosing a planet would then descend player to a world map.

World one, Capital planet of the Lylat system Corneria, capital planet of the Lylat Kingdom.

Town one Capital City Neo Arcadia, would have five blocks, sort of like New York city. Also has the castle where the Lylat King, AKA the ruler of the univures resides.

Town two, Transford, hometown of the main hero Ben Auro, has Ben's house and a few other small places, like Shire Woods.

Town three, Enji Headquarters, AKA Hallowed Bastion, primary base of the Warriors of Light, the Enji.

World Two, the Mushroom Kingdom.

Town one Toad Town and Peach's castle, mostly based of Paper Mario design. Mario's Pad would be its own area.

Other locations would be Bowsers Castle, Star Shrine and Underground tunnels.

World three, Mobius, AKA Sonic's world

Locals are Station Square, which would include Twilight Park, Mystic Ruins, which would include Angel Island, Tails Workshop, Lost World Temple/ Egg man Base, and Zeon Garrison Zone, AKA enemy base.

World 4, Hyule.

Locals, Hyule Castle/ town, the Lost Woods, Hiya Lake Zora's Vally, Great Fairy Temple, Kakakrio Village, Death Mountain,

World 5. Popstar

Locals, Dreamland, Dedede Castle, Fountain of Dreams and temple of Dreams, the Halberg.

World 6 Sr388

Locals, Chozo caverns, Chozo Temple, Space Pirates warship, Phazon Mountain.

World 7, planet Cetra

Midgar ( Part of it at least, even if its just a section), Forgotten Capital/ Sithantos Cultist base. Centra Temple, Icicle Inn, Northern Crater,

Other Locals, Twilight Town Space Colony, Final level/ Nexus of the Dark Dimension.

Battle System, normal Final Fantasy battle system, Double and Triple team attacks would be nice to add if its possible, the same as some sort of Limit Break attacks, not sure if RPG makers support that kind of thing though. Gear would be normal weapon/ Armor/ accessory system, skill system from Final Fantasy 9 seemed like a ideal way to learn things in a unique way.

Lastly, I don't want to explain everything from my fic but to just explain a bit ill go over a few things.

Lylat Kingdom is the galactic constitutional Monarchy system that serves as the primary government for the universes, current leader is King Atem Lylat, yes, the one from Yu Gi Oh body and basic personalty wise.

Enji Knights, a galactic group of warriors composed of the best hero's from all over space. Current leader is Grand Master Myers, think of the Green Lantern Corps or the Jedi Knights.

Zeon Federation is opposing government, sort of like the Separatist from Star Wars, and well, the Principality of Zeon from the UC Gundam shows, leader is president Weil Zabi, altered version of Weil from Megaman Zero series.

They are one group of enemies but the primary enemy force is the Order of sithantos , a dark cult order that seeks to reform existence, by reviving the god of darkness. Leader is Xehamaru, fallen apprentice of Grand Master Myers, he revives villains such as Ganondorf, Sigma and others, and also recruits those like Bowser and Doctor Robotnik to build a powerful enough army to get the needed sacrifices he needs to realize his goals.

All right, that's the basic gist of what I had in mine. As said previously, I know things would need to be altered to make it work, this is just how I saw it in my head. I am not sure what's the limit of the most up to date RPG maker but I seen fan RPG's have more then one world map before so it seemed possible.

So, that's the thesis, not sure if it changes anyone's mind but I did want to show people I thought a lot about this.

Oh, I know just how time consuming a project it would be, hence why I sleeked help in the first place.

Well, thanks for the advice, ill see what I can do. Sigh, at the very least in the meanwhile anyone know the best method to import pictures and backgrounds in to games, for enemy sprites, and backgrounds and that kind of thing?

Well, if I can do it ill be happy to expand my voice acting history lol. So, what now?