Topic: Castlevania: Symphony of the night HACKED! I bet you thought I had quit? ;)

[Esco]

ATTENTION PLEASE:

As a thank you to everyone who has been so patient and supportive of my work for all of this time, I will be having a Q & A session on my blog starting tonight at around 12 AM EST, and ending Sunday sometime after 2AM EST (I will be out Saturday night, so it basically ends when I get in and remember to close it, lol). The rules are simple:

• Place a question on my blog in response to the Q&A blog post I will place up at 12 AM tonight
• I will randomly pick from all of the submitted questions, and answer 10-20 of them on Sunday; I will try and give as detailed an answer as I can to each question. No tricks on my part or double talking.

Please note that anyone who does any of the following will have their question COMPLETELY ignored:

• Acts rude (this one should go without saying, lol)
• Puts up more than one question (don't be greedy, give everyone else a fair chance too)
• Asks a smart ass question in an attempt to get SEVERAL questions answered at once; an example of this would be something like "can you tell me what ALL of your plans for the hack are?" You should all know better.
  

Other than that, feel to ask me anything at all related to the SOTN hack. Have fun, and good luck to everyone. 

EDIT: POST IS UP! Sorry about the delay.

[Esco]

IS IT THE ORIGINAL SOTN......... OR IS IT THE HACK!? YOU DECIDE! 

The video is here on my blog: http://sotnhacked.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/demo-video-1-prologue/

Check it out peoples and decide for yourselves.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Very nice job!
I'm happy to see the 3D ClockTower and 3D GrandCross in Action!

Is the black hole also the one I sent, or is it a whole new thing?  Just wondering.  It looks pretty amazing.
"Where are you looking...?"

[Esco]

Very nice job!
I'm happy to see the 3D ClockTower and 3D GrandCross in Action!

Is the black hole also the one I sent, or is it a whole new thing?  Just wondering.  It looks pretty amazing.
"Where are you looking...?"

Hey Jorge, glad that you like it, thanks again BTW they look gorgeous in game.  I assume that you also saw the video I put up for you of the tower a while back right?

The black hole is actually completely coded in GM by someone from their forums. It took him only about an hour to do. Sadly I could not use the one you sent me.  It had several issues when I tried it in GM, but worked fine when used in a 3d program. I am honestly not sure why.

BTW did you ever see my U2U message on here about the remake track I sent you? I was responding to your question about which one I would need. 

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I saw the video a while back and it was just as impressive... but now, coupled with the Dracula and the other effects, I guess it enhanced the awesomeness.
I already have remade that requested music track.  I can remaster it with my newer instruments but I'm not sure it will approach the style that Michiru Yamane did with her games.

[VladCT]

Just saw the video, and let me ask you one thing: What moves, aside from the Whip Dash and Item Crashes, grant invincibility frames? I have a bad habit of exploiting them, you see, and I can foresee that this will be harder than Serio's Dracula. XD

[Esco]

I saw the video a while back and it was just as impressive... but now, coupled with the Dracula and the other effects, I guess it enhanced the awesomeness.
I already have remade that requested music track.  I can remaster it with my newer instruments but I'm not sure it will approach the style that Michiru Yamane did with her games.

Yeah I saw, but if I remember right it didn't seem like it would fit in with the other SOTN tracks. I was going to use the judgement one but... it just doesn't sound too good compared to the original.

If you want to give it a try go ahead; how long do you think something like this would take anyway? It seems pretty complex to me. 

Vlad: This one time I will answer your question here; going forward please ask any and ALL questions on my blog. That is why it is there and makes things easier for me.

Frenzy Whip, and Crashes will have invulnerability; that is it. Double jump and high jump will be available in the demo, but not the final version in the prologue stage.

[VladCT]

Yeah, got it. The rest of this post is just me thinking loudly.
Let's see, Frenzy Whip eats up the entire MP bar and takes 10 seconds to recharge, and Grand Cross eats 20 Hearts a pop (which means 4 shots max) plus 5 seconds recharge if I counted correctly. Yep, this is gonna be harder than Serio's Dracula alright.

[X]

Good job there Esco! I loved the fact that you gave Richter a longer Vampirekiller and that you've kept the proper spike ball for it too. Well done! Although I might be nitpicking a bit, I thought that the whipdraw before the whip attack itself was inferior to what we see in the original SotN. I realize this is still only a demo but will the current whipdraw remain the same or do you have something better in mind?

[Chernabogue]

Very good job, Esco! I'm looking forward Dracula's Second form moves (and the rest of the game!)

[Claimh Solais]

Yo, Esco, I sent you a PM with Richter's Harmony of Despair voice files so that you might use them. I have Alucard and Dracula also, but I gotta remember where I put them. I'd give you Death and Maria while I'm at it, but they sound TOTALLY different than they do in DXC (Death has a whole new VA, who is the same guy who played as Julius [David Lodge], and Maria has her actress from Judgment [Philece Sampler]).

[Esco]

UPDATE: I want to thank everyone for their patience since I know I am running about 2 weeks behind with a release. On that note, I should be able to finally release the demo in the next 3-4 days. I have updated my blog with some info on this, as well as several screenshots. Here is one in particular that might be interesting to many of you:



Link to the blog: http://sotnhacked.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/111911-making-some-final-tweaks-bug-tests-and-testing-before-releasing-a-complete-demo-of-stage-zero/

[Esco]

ATTENTION PLEASE: The Castlevania: SOTN Hacked engine version A10 R1 is up for download on the blog here: http://sotnhacked.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/release-a10-r1-of-the-castlevania-sotn-hacked-engine-is-out/

On this same blog you will also find links to the artistic suggestions/critiques post, as well as the bug report post. Please utilize both of these for their respective topics, rather than posting this type of info all over the forums.

Please make sure to read the rules first on the blog posts (ESPECIALLY for bug reporting) before posting to them. If you have questions on running the engine or controls please read the main post (linked to above) before sending me a message.

I hope everyone enjoy this demo; let's see who manages to get the highest possible rank on it first! 

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Nice job!  It's funny 'cuz with my PC's power, the 3D visuals are really awesomesauce.
I had no idea what the controls were, so I ended up with Maria giving me her power, and a D ranking, hahaha.  Still, nice demo.

I see you never got that Z-Depth variable working with the Clocktower, but it's such a minor detail that it doesn't take away from the awesomeness of the demo.  Again, nice job.

[Esco]

Jorge: glad you like it but what do you mean by Z-depth?

ATTENTION: If anyone is using the Hacked engine on windows 7 or vista, please confirm for me that it works. I have only been able to test it on windows XP thus far.