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Maps In Progress / Re: FlyingArmor's Map Projects Present and Future

« on: August 21, 2024, 05:45:13 pm »

Unrelated, but I just had a look at your DeviantArt page. I had no idea you were such an excellent artist beyond your stuff on VGMaps! Your work is really impressive, your portraits in particular remind me of official Phoenix Wright artwork. Cool to see all that variety!

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Maps In Progress / Re: My mapping projects

« on: August 14, 2024, 04:24:42 pm »

I referenced your maps when I played through Sweet Home this summer! Neat little NES game, wish that had made it over to the US back then.

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VGMaps Social Board / Re: Dual-Screen Gaming Handhelds Need a Great Resurgence

« on: July 03, 2024, 07:58:00 am »

I set up DS/3DS emulators on Retroarch recently, I still have both but I haven't jailbroken them and I like seeing what the big screen has to offer. But, the downside is that games like Hotel Dusk lose some of the magic when they use special features like closing and reopening the system. On the other hand, there are so many fantastic RPGs and other games that work really well with one large screen and the other screen off in the corner - especially with the right analog mapped to cursor/clicking, it works really well. I've been enjoying revisiting some of the older DS titles especially that haven't been ported. Will always be a bit awkward to play outside their original hardware for sure.

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Maps In Progress / Re: FlyingArmor's Map Projects Present and Future

« on: June 29, 2024, 04:25:28 pm »

Fantastic work so far as always. I love the world maps for this game, and the SNES version color palette in general

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Maps In Progress / Re: Tony: Montezuma's Gold

« on: June 17, 2024, 08:30:56 am »

cool new C64 game. making it with screenshots?

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Maps In Progress / Re: VGCartography - getting to work on PS1 maps!

« on: May 15, 2024, 04:27:39 pm »

Thanks YelseyKing. I didn't do most of the Laguna alternates yet (or the red Esthar during siege) because honestly I got a bit burnt out on FF8 and it took me a long time to finish these so I didn't have the heart to do the doubles yet. At some point I'll go back and do those and the Chocobo forests as well. I also thought about some kind of Triple Triad-themed map? Maybe the Queen or important unique cards? But I'm not sure quite what that would look like yet.

FF9 I plan to finish up early summer.

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Maps In Progress / Re: VGCartography - getting to work on PS1 maps!

« on: May 13, 2024, 09:56:39 am »

A bunch more maps went up:

- THPS 2-4 (PS1)
- Jak and Daxter (PS2)
- MediEvil (PS1)
- MGS3
- Arkham Asylum
- Twisted Metal 1+2
- Luigi's Mansion
- Wild Arms 1+2 world maps

I need to check, there are others like Mario Sunshine that I finished but I'm not sure I submitted them here. Working on finishing MediEvil, possibly J&D (some levels are being annoying), then maybe some classic Crash Bandicoot maps.

e: Oh! I finished FF8 and half of FF9 + Legend of Dragoon also! Submitting the rest of those now!

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Maps Of The Month / Re: 2024/03: Alone In The Dark (PC) - VGCartography

« on: March 04, 2024, 08:53:16 am »

Thanks much all!

This game also has a special place for me, we had the floppy disks and the big manual and a tiny flipbook you had to use to pass the anti-cheat system where you looked up which object was on a random page. The low-res shapes and polygons made some of the creatures even more unknowable and weird, love how goofy yet sinister they are/move.

I'm not much for drawing without heavy reference material, so I used the game screenshots & tigrouind's AITD-roomviewer to extract 3d models of the actual collision in each room (basically uber-simple cubes) to get scale and layout accurate. I've been doing a similar map for RE1, hope to wrap that up pretty soon.

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Maps In Progress / Re: FlyingArmor's Map Projects Present and Future

« on: February 20, 2024, 07:16:12 am »

Excited to see DQ6, appreciate all the effort!

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Maps In Progress / Re: Doom2D (1996, PC, DOS)

« on: October 28, 2023, 09:53:02 am »

Fun little niche project to pick. I usually email Jon the webmaster with new maps, but he will probably see these posts as well.

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Maps In Progress / Re: eishiya's Maps.

« on: September 17, 2023, 07:23:42 pm »

Thank you for all your work on this one... found the game really difficult but I love studying the spritework.

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Maps Of The Month / Re: 2023/04: Super Mario 64 (N64) - VGCartography

« on: April 02, 2023, 09:29:43 am »

Sweet. Crazy how well this game has held up next to contemporaries like Bubsy. Basically set the template for 10s of platformers in the PS1/N64 era and even into PS2 days with stuff like Jak and Daxter.

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Maps In Progress / Re: VGCartography - getting to work on PS1 maps!

« on: February 08, 2023, 02:43:27 pm »

Haven't updated in too long, but in general..

- Submitted Metal Gear Solid and VR Missions.
- Submitted all 3 Tomb Raiders now
- Submitted Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
- Submitted Banjo Kazooie
- Submitted Super Mario 64
- Submitted Alone in the Dark
...probably others.

I am halfway (Disc 1+2) through both Final Fantasy 8 and 9, should finish them up relatively soon. Also plan on THPS2. Want to spend a little time poking at Gex 2 on PS1 also. Did about half of Mario Sunshine so far.

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Maps Of The Month / Re: 2022/11: God Of War (PS2) - VGCartography

« on: November 11, 2022, 12:41:14 pm »

Cheers. I used Mogaika's God of War Browser to extract the levels into Blender for capturing the backgrounds.

This was one of the earlier games I played where I really liked how it looped back on itself. You hit this massive Pandora's Temple with a cool ring puzzle in the middle, then loop back through it 3 times between other big parts of the temple, modifying it each time. It also had a lot of good buildup to opening various massive doors, rotating massive mechanisms and locking massive levers in place to suddenly turn on an ancient beam of light or whatever. Then the end of the game loops back on the beginning. Overall some pretty nice design from PS2 era.

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Maps In Progress / Re: VGCartography - getting to work on PS1 maps!

« on: August 26, 2022, 09:28:32 am »

Some more things went up, for Vagrant Story (redid them in 3D) and Alone in the Dark, another drawn one.

I have a couple starter maps for Chrono Cross and Legend of Dragoon but not currently doing an organized effort to map them all yet.

(I post more regular updates in the discord channel now too)