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[Rosse]

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

Well, some more screenshots (jpg )


http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/1934/awdorfki1.jpg
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6788/awdorhpa9.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6873/awdoreet8.jpg
http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/8401/awdorgdm1.jpg
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5096/awdordrd6.jpg
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/4108/awdorbsk9.jpg
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/1553/awdoraez8.jpg

I don't get it. Is this prerendered stuff and a ugly black outline or just poorly pixeled? I'm not a big fan of the overdetailed, less contrasted, desaturated background as well. Liked the first gba wars game the most, exaggerated and colorful, as it should be 

[Jad]

Avatar w/o ugly jaggies and unnerving stare GET!

unnerving retarded smile GET!

8-year-old girl aesthetics GET!

EDIT: God damnit, transparency fails

Well, off to bed now so enjoy the WHITE

Now enjoy the TRANSPARENCY!

BYW, new advance wars is looking bland and boring. HULLO WE ARE NINTENDO WE RUIN OUR OWN FRANCHISES.

Hope it brings them joy

[Lawrence]

I'm also not liking how the mountains' lighting doesn't match up with the shadow it casts; it looks like a bloody drop-shadow.
They've obviously darkened the tone of the graphics to match the more serious story, but yet they have goofy-looking characters like this. He looks like he should be in a boy-band, not in an army after an apocalypse.

[Jad]

Aw come on, the SHOUNEN HERO pretty-boy is the only good thing about the graphics of that game

[Darien]

Can anyone help me with Pixen?  Is there any way to do tiling without copy pasting, or any way to merge layers without the colors gradually changing each time?

...or is there any way to get ProMotion on a Mac..grumble grumble

[Rosse]

I'm new to Mac (OSX) since a few days and I tried Pixen, too. But my mouse control was very strange and the palette function is very counterintuitive. But a few minutes ago I tried DosBox for OsX and Grafx2b, works perfectly (in fullscreenmodus). Give it a try. It has no tile features (as far as i know), but the palette feature is quite cool (except that you can't use HSV color model).

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dosbox/DOSBox-0.72_Universal.dmg.zip?download
http://pixel.scene.org/download/gfx2b965.zip

Copy both Folders into 'Applications', then you run Dosbox and a 'Z:' prompt shows up. Press [ALT]+[RETURN] (Fullscreen) type 'mount c: /applications/', type 'c:', type 'cd gfx2b' (or whatever your gfx2b folder is called) and type 'gfx2'. When you quit gfx2b, the dos prompt shows back. type 'exit' to finish your adventure

[sharprm]

Thanks rosse, thats a great solution. I was thinking about getting Deluxe Paint (i had a PC version once) but that paint program seems exactly the same. One weird thing for dosbox is the control F8 buttons dont work unless I'm in fullscreen mode (in case anyone else wanted to know how to increase the frameskip).

[Faktablad]

Doesn't seem to work on my Mac, probably because it's an Intel.

[Rosse]

Strange, I have a Intel Mac too, MacBook , 2.16GHz, OS 10.4.10. Where do you have problems? Just installing (and running) DosBox or mounting c: or running gfx2b?

[Darien]

Okay, thanks, I'll try this out.  Sucks I gotta use it full screen, though, otherwise its unbearably slow.