Notices by Matt (zeldatra), page 5

Matt

I have been adjusting valta that nobody touches to change some of these animations. Some of them didn’t even know they exist. It works fine right now but uhhhhh

Matt

Tanimura and Shinada are in the “probably not” category since they don’t have Dragon Engine models so I would have to convert them and all of their animations from Y4 and Y5. Tanimura would be easier than Shinada since iirc Sayama reuses his moveset in Kiwami 2 but neither would be very easy.

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Thought about also doing Majima and Saejima but a) four characters is already a lot! and b) somebody already did that + Daigo

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It’ll be tedious as hell but probably I will separate them—Haruka, Yagami+Kaito, and Akiyama—as individual mods, then also include one all-in-one package with just everybody. That seems to make the most sense to me.

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The larger in scope this mod becomes the harder it becomes to organize. I’ve thought about splitting it into several, one for each character added, but the problem with that is every character in the game is stored in the same bin file, every ability the same, every outfit the same, etc. so at the end of the process I would still need to manually merge everything together into one package or else you won’t be able to use anyone together because the mod loader only load in the highest priority character

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good lord do not ever let me make a video game, i am certain i am violating every coding best practice

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Sigh… Looks like it’s either play as Matt Mercer’s dull Majima for 50 hours… or deal with an entire island of white and Hispanic people who speak fluent Japanese, again. Thanks for that, RGG.

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Kaito never enters a building in Lost Judgment that requires him to take off his shoes. I learned this when his feet suddenly disappeared after I entered a shrine in Infinite Wealth.

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installing Lost Judgment and Like A Dragon Gaiden again JUST to pull animations from them

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Korea have a president serve a full term challenge (impossible)

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Somehow controversial opinion: brutal dictators who gas their own people are bad and should be taken out, all other factors are meaningless.

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“DoorDash steps up driver ID checks” brother my background check from 2022 is still ongoing

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Worth noting that 1915 is the year Japan’s largest irl yakuza clan was established.

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“Huh this game looks kind of int— …I’ve seen that overhead punch before” is more or less the entire track my thoughts took at Project Century’s announcement before the hype set in

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Also Yagami (and Kaito’s) entries in the party database seem to genuinely stem from RGG just adding protagonists sequentially with each new game going back to Yakuza 6; Kiryu is 1, Majima is 2, Yagami is 3, Ichiban is 4, and his yakuza 7 party + Masumi Arakawa fills out the remainder before we suddenly start getting LJ side characters; seems the ones who follow you around worked internally like Y7’s party members even though most of them don’t ever join you in combat.

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>finally figure out how the game decides what songs play for which leader during battle in which cities
>edit those entries according to the files’ numerical values so that Kasuga has the correct battle theme in Kamurocho rather than reusing his Yokohama battle theme as happens in vanilla
>no music during battle in any of the three cities for any character

God dammit

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(and Seonhee of course - interestingly, again, Yagami has an entry that goes unused, as do Kaito and the Genda Law employees)

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while digging in the files i fixed a weird and mildly infuriating inconsistency where Nanba's full name is never written anywhere, in the UI or otherwise. Turns out the reason for this is because RGG literally just didn't write it down in the party.bin file. Everyone else's full name is there except for Nanba.

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...Lotta references to Yagami/his moveset in some of these files. ...hmmm

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http://rainbowdash.net/url/876675 Kaito’s here now too just because I wanted practice

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Haruka now replaces Chitose rather than Saeko for the simple reason of her default job skills make more sense. UI replacement is next.

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Makin’ progress! http://rainbowdash.net/url/876674

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There was a Scooby Doo movie a few years back that included a lengthy scene where they intercut a conversation with computer generated shots of the Mystery Machine moving through traffic and that was kind of goofy but at least there was TRAFFIC

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Like the background is a separate render composited behind the car anyway, you could put LITERALLY anything back there

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it always bugs me in animated shows when car scenes involve two characters talking to each other for a minute or more with no stops, no traffic, barely a passing car, just moving in a straight line while the CGI equivalent of a Flintstones background passes behind them. Add an intersection somewhere. Goddamn.

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A shocking amount of it works out of the box by simply unlocking the party leader slot