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Using panoramas is actually pretty fast for whatever reason. You can also animate them with a parallel process event that's essentially "wait 0.1 secs, change panorama1, wait 0.1 secs, change panorama2, etc"

(Sigh, another one of these threads, with the same answers...)
I've researched this:

Molebox v2.2981 works with vanilla 2k3, but doesn't work with DynRPG. It's hard to find, and other versions are even less compatible.

Enigma Virtual Box is the only real answer to this issue that works with 2k3 (any version), including DynRPG patches games. It's pretty cool. You can choose what to pack and how to pack it, it's super flexible and just works. The only thing you can't pack I think is warp.dll and dynloader.dll (if you use DynRPG).

Can't vouch for the impact these packers would have with trigging false-positives in Anti-Virus software. It's definitely a valid concern, but as long as you don't actually include viruses/malware or something (which would be super scummy), then you can just deal with the questions you may or may not get after release.

Technically, anything's possible if you know how to do it. A lot of that would require experimenting with RPG::battleData, which can be pretty tiresome and finicky. You also have to work around internal 2k3 functions that get called upon victory/defeat that haven't been written for DynRPG yet (and might not since I don't have documentation for them).

Continue the battle screen after victory

You might be able to partially do this with RPG::battleData->battlePhase by keeping it valued at BPHASE_VICTORY and then setting it to BPHASE_END when you need to, but it could just loop the existing code for the rewards. RPG::battleData->battlEndTimer is another one to try experimenting with. Try setting that to a high value, although it might just be the timer between the last enemy being defeated and the rewards.

Stop experience/gold awards

Stop the battle

I think you can do this with:
(onFrame)

BPHASE_END is essentially the start of the transition from the battle scene to the map scene I believe, although some stuff might break if the enemies in the monster group still exist... idk.

Record experience/gold etc if desired (for an out of battle awards system)

This is probably one of those function issues where the MonsterGroup gets sent to a function and 2k3 spits out whatever gets added to your inventory, and then draws it as an image in a window class. Whether those end values get stored temporarily somewhere that can be pulled from, I don't know.

Add a custom awards message if desired (either the narrow battle message or the standard text box)

You could try using the RPG::Window classes (or write your own with RPG::Image), but it gets really hairy.

I sort of noticed this back when I made the move from XP to 7. For other people's games, I would just get used it, but if it's your game, there's definitely some stuff you can do. I was okay with the sound differences until I watched NicoB's playthrough of my game on youtube and the music sounded really bad. This prompted me to convert all the midi music to mp3 using Solmire.com. It took some work, but it guarantees that the music will sound the same on every system. Buuuuut it's been a couple years since then and I want to just hire a composer or something now, and replace all the music I did that crap with. :)

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