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Post by KAndrw on May 27, 2006 5:12:00 GMT -5
At the moment I am borrowing the office Gamecube to play VS3 and Full Metal Crash (the office GC is an american version, with a switch to allow japanese mode), and the fonts display correctly.
Skye has confirmed that if I were to buy a Pal gamecube and use Freeloader to play the zoids games, the fonts would get mangled. Since there's nothing I want to play on GC in english, that would seem a bit of a shame!
Does anybody here use Freeloader/Action Replay on an american GC to play the Zoids games? Do you get mangled fonts?
I'm thinking I might need to buy a US GC and get it shipped over. Either that or wait for the Wii and hope that it's region-free as well as backwards compatible!
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Post by Dano on May 27, 2006 5:55:48 GMT -5
Freeloader on US Gamecube caused weird fonts on Zoids Versus II, too.
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Post by Shenny on May 27, 2006 9:07:11 GMT -5
VS I also.
The Wii will be compatible with GC games, but I don't know about region-free or if it will even play GC games from different regions at all. I haven't heard that it won't, but I also haven't heard that it will, if that makes sense.
By the way, where do you work that you have a Cube at the office, let alone one with region switching? <_<
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Post by raptros on May 27, 2006 9:37:32 GMT -5
well im from portugal so i have a pal game cube when i use freeloader to run zoids games the fonts do get wierd with loads of @ and stuff like that i read that the pal cubes edont support japonese font thats why it gets all wierd because th texts were writing with a american and or pal keyboard witch are pretty different as we all know. the cube simply replaces the japonese symbules with romanic letters that are on th same place as the japonese symbole should be for exemple: you get an @ because the japonese symbole is located in that key but the cube cant read kanji, so it probebly reads as the @ but sonic adventure 2 had a japonese option for both text and voices and the cube used the font correctly,so i belive it was implented on the game thats why the cube could use it. its just a guess anyway  |
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Post by KAndrw on May 28, 2006 18:29:46 GMT -5
By the way, where do you work that you have a Cube at the office, let alone one with region switching? <_< The Gamecube was for the purpose of playing Super Monkey Ball, as part of the research into GripShift's market position. It looks like the font problem is only when using Freeloader - having the hardware switch doesn't cause any text weirdness on VS3 or FMC. It seems like the best thing to do is to keep fingers crossed (or thumbs held, if South African) that the Wii will fully embrace the region free concept. |
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Post by raptros on May 28, 2006 18:55:13 GMT -5
yah i totally agree, by the way is there any zoids game announced or to be announced for wii
edit:oh yeah im getting my FMC soon probebly tomorrow if im lucky ;D
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Post by Shenny on May 28, 2006 19:37:38 GMT -5
How does one hold one's thumbs?  |
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Post by KAndrw on May 28, 2006 21:55:26 GMT -5
Make a fist with your thumbs on the inside.
My south african workmate who told me of this bizarre practice said that if you don't get the luck you were hoping for, at least you'll be prepared to do some punching. But only if you think breaking your own thumbs is a clever fighting technique.
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Post by KAndrw on May 28, 2006 22:00:33 GMT -5
edit:oh yeah im getting my FMC soon probebly tomorrow if im lucky ;D Quite possibly the best game you will ever buy!  Let us know whether the text looks okay when playing it with Freeloader - because the game will almost certainly use Renderware font rendering rather than the system renderer built into the GC, I suspect that the fonts might turn out fine... Ow! Crossing fingers and holding thumbs are not compatible! |
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Post by X23s Savior on May 29, 2006 16:31:51 GMT -5
I'm thinking I might need to buy a US GC and get it shipped over. Either that or wait for the Wii and hope that it's region-free as well as backwards compatible! Well I had heard from some people that I know that the Wii might NOT be regon-free....which makes no sense to me because wouldn't having a regon free system bring in more money? |
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Post by Dano on May 29, 2006 17:01:33 GMT -5
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Post by raptros on May 30, 2006 18:40:45 GMT -5
i saw that tread it said something about it i just hope its a zoid game. the game didnt came  i'll wait till friday, to see what happens  hehe im sure it is a great game i got hooked to struggle the first time i tryed it quite good game. by the way there is soemthing thats been puzzling me does the unlockeble zoids are all varients of other zoids or theyr all different models i only know about the genesis ones,geno saurer elephander the 3 liger zero CAS and phoenix,death stinger of course besides the ones struggle originally had |
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i'll wait till friday, to see what happens 