Topic: Castlevania AOS Genya Arikado Hack [RELEASED]

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Ok here is another update, thanks to FanOfDracula I was able to replace the Devil transformation with that of Alucard's gargoyle demon form from SOTN.

[FanOfDracula]

hey hello DarkPrinceAlucard, as is everything? jajaja 

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

hey hello DarkPrinceAlucard, as is everything? jajaja 

Well I've been a bit busy but I managed to get the Faerie familiar from SOTN that you provided and replaced the flying armor with it, I'll post images later along with the new recolored Demon transformation.

But I ran into a problem with the devil familiar you sent me since its won't fit because its to big, its not showing up correctly in game.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

- UPDATE -

Ok so this game is hack is kinda shaping up to be a quasi sotn sequel lol, play as a modern day Alucard (Genya Arikado) and it featuring these new elements from SOTN, first I replaced the demon transformation with his SOTN gargoyle/demon form and now here are some more nods to symphony of the night, I have replaced the flying armor soul with the Faerie Familiar and the Alastor soul with the Sword Familiar (fully leveled form), also thanks to FanOfDracula I was able to get a better palette to work with for the Demon transformation to give it a color akin to Dracula's own previous demon forms, so here are the images!






All I have left now is to replace the Balmung sword with a weapon version of the Sword Familiar and also replace the Imp with the Demon familiar from SOTN and I should be done with the hack assuming I don't get any more ideas for more SOTN related sprite edits.

[Shiroi Koumori]

This hack is looking really good! 

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

This hack is looking really good! 

Thanks Shiro

Ok here are some images of the new changes without a filter, I have begun to find out that a great deal of people would love to see this without filter so here you go.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Those are all still with a filter...
Everything is blurred out.  Are you resizing them, perhaps?

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Those are all still with a filter...
Everything is blurred out.  Are you resizing them, perhaps?

No those are without filter, I made sure I turned ALL the filters off, but yes I did resize it to make them smaller but I also made sure to click the keep aspect ratio button so there was no quality loss between this and the original screen capture, after all there was no stretching  that would occur if I was trying to make it bigger for example, that is where blurry comes from with that type of resizing, but I instead made it smaller and kept the aspect ratio/quality intact.

Then again this was captured in 1600x900 display (my laptop resolution) so I resized it down to 640x360 so that could be the reason for some quality loss, but this is how it looked at 1600x900 only bigger as far as quality goes and I dislike using the GBA image capture since the images come out very small, but the filters are definitely off.

Here is a image captured in the visualboyadvance windowed mode not resized and with filter off,

[zangetsu468]

i always thought that sword was going to stab Alucard in the back when I started SOTN... It gave me the creeps.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

It may not have the Visualboy 'Filters' on, but the renderer being used is still blurring it out, thus creating what resembles a filter.

THIS is what a non-filtered, non-blurry GBA picture is supposed to look like:


Maybe, as I said, you're resizing them in the emulator or in the web browser or something?
This is the same picture, resized:





If it's difficult to see the pixel squares, it's filtered.  Maybe it's the renderer filtering it (switch from DirectDraw to something else, I know DirectDraw often blurs out the shots but it varies upon your graphics adapter), maybe it's a filter you aren't aware it's on, but it's definitely in your pics.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

It may not have the Visualboy 'Filters' on, but the renderer being used is still blurring it out, thus creating what resembles a filter.

THIS is what a non-filtered, non-blurry GBA picture is supposed to look like:


Maybe, as I said, you're resizing them in the emulator or in the web browser or something?
This is the same picture, resized:





If it's difficult to see the pixel squares, it's filtered.  Maybe it's the renderer filtering it (switch from DirectDraw to something else, I know DirectDraw often blurs out the shots but it varies upon your graphics adapter), maybe it's a filter you aren't aware it's on, but it's definitely in your pics.

The render I use is Direct 3D9, and I have a picture in my previous post where i did not resize anything, I only captured it using the windows capture feature and then cut the gba borders and uploaded it directly to the web, it was also captured in visualboy windowed mode and was not in fullscreen.

Its weird because I uploaded the same images to romhacking.net forums and the members who where complaining about me not having filters off seemed ok with the new ones, guess you have a sharper eye then them, when I get back from work (I'm currently on lunch break) I will capture some images with a different render and also capture it using visualboyadvance screen capture and see if that is to your liking.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Thanks.
But do YOU see the difference between your pictures and mine?

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Thanks.
But do YOU see the difference between your pictures and mine?

Yes I do actually, I just checked my render and when I switched from Direct3D9 to OpenGL is also had some blurriness, but I found out that going to the Direct3D9 Render options that It had Filter: Bilinear ticked on, once I changed over to Filter: Nearest I noticed that the blurriness disappeared, so maybe that is where the mystery blurry images where coming from.

Here is a new image with Bilinear switched off and Nearest switch on and also its been shot within the visualboyadvance screen capture so its the native gba resolution,



And here is the image resized,

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Ahhhh, now THAT's the stuff.

Looks glorious.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Ahhhh, now THAT's the stuff.

Looks glorious.

Thanks.


- UPDATE -


Ok here are the final images I will be posting, after this I will release a gameplay video either later on today or tomorrow and then the hack will be released, these new changes are I changed the Final Guard soul to Alucard Shield, I changed the imp soul to the Devil Familiar, and I changed the Balmung weapon to the fully Leveled Sword Familiar, here are the images and enjoy.






And here are images without the filter