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| Cain Highwind 720th Post
 
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|  "Found rare Garou artwork: Unused chars+more" , posted Thu 5 Oct 12:52:
So speaking of Garou 2 and pirated games (FFXII), I just happened to find a torrent of Real Bout Dominated Mind that was uploaded recently. This not only included the game, but the rare Second disc of fan material that came with the limited edition. It's simply some sort of interview game, where you answer trivia questions and get to know more about the characters.
Well since it's pretty much impossible to play through it in English, I ran it through PSicture and found well over 1000 pieces of artwork! I've converted them and split them up into different RAR files.
What kind of stuff is here? Well there IS some material that's in other mooks. But there's also concept artwork of ALL the characters, INCLUDING characters like Richard Meyer and Micheal Max from FF1.
And while some of the mook artwork is familiar like the Younger Geese standing in front of nun while surrounded by younger old characters like Tung Fu Rue and Jubei, or the famous Geese sitting between Ripper and Hopper. There's old pencil sketch drafts of these by Shinkiro!
OH BUT I'M NOT DONE YET!
There's also a section for unused character art (there's also early drafts of other characters here). I found a character looking a bit like either Ai or Athena named Alice, an early Hotaru (?), A Cowboy Terry, an Armored Mai, and old fashioned Yakuza-styled Yamazaki (resembling Amano from Last Blade).
Please note, these ARE how the files were on CD, they are not resized.
Character Sketches: These are all the FF characters with plenty of familiar artwork as well as concept sketches and early designs (and Signatures)
Concept Artwork: These feature a lot of the familiar promotionial artwork as well as Shinkiro sketches, Real Bout Special Portrait Sketches (which were done by Ogura IIRC), and the unused character designs.
Fanwork: These seem to be a collection of Fanart SNK collected. It also seems to have some professional Cosplay photos.
Interview Art: This is simply the artwork for the actual interview game. It features all the different characters sporting different facial expressions.
[this message was edited by Cain Highwind on Thu 5 Oct 15:57] |
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| IkariDC 575th Post
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| "Re(10):Found rare Garou artwork: Unused chars" , posted Fri 6 Oct 05:08
About the size of the pictures, that's the original resolution that the PSX displays on screen. I'm starting to feel like I should start unlocking some of those, cose they are worth watching at fullscreen!
About ripping PS2 music, using PSound I was able to find tons of sound files, like about 1500 or more. There's one file that gets you like 22000 sound files, but I bet it's a dummy file, cos the sounds are repeated.
The problem is, all that stuff are sound effects and voices. They are played alright. I was able to find about 3 music files through all those files, but they don't sound properly. I'm not talking about the sample rate, it's just that it seems that the program can't handle it properly or I don't know what, it's bumping all the time.
There's a program called MFAudio, I can rip the music from the opening and ending video and they sound cristal clear, but if I tell it to play one of those files with tons of sound files, it plays all of the sound one after another! Which is just a pain in the ass, and it seems that it doesn't play those correctly...
I'm doomed.
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| IkariDC 582th Post
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| "Re(6):Found rare Garou artwork: Unused chars+" , posted Mon 16 Oct 02:16
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well slap my ass and call me polly! i was poking around for the same thing the other day
http://pacifi3d.retrogames.com/neocdsdl/
there you go
but you had better have real copies of the cd and not just plain ol iso's otherwise i'll fly over to barcelona and cut you so you're useless to women(and kikkoken)
Ok, I had that one around, it's quite decent but it doesn't play sound effects properly, doesn't display proper loading backgrounds, and the speed isn't correct sometimes...
I've been searching again and found the Neo-Geo CDZ emu, it works like a charm, better than the latest release of Nebula.
Also, you don't have to worry, it only seems to run original games on CD. Anyways, you would have a hard time looking for me in Barcelona!
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| Cain Highwind 727th Post
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| "Bah! Curse you Finnicky PC!" , posted Tue 17 Oct 17:46:
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Also, you don't have to worry, it only seems to run original games on CD. Anyways, you would have a hard time looking for me in Barcelona!
I don't know why, but it seems my computer is just plain stubborn in reading NeoGeo CDs. I don't know how you guys can do it, but when I try to load my real copy of Real Bout Special, the emulator (I've tried them all) just doesn't see it, it doesn't even see any of the audio tracks (yet I can pop it into a normal CD, skip the first track and listen to the music just fine.
Maybe having all the latest patches and updates in Windows XP is stopping me, because I swear I could do it before (although even then, I'd usually have to open and close the emu a few times to get it to work, now it doesn't work AT ALL)
EDIT: Plus my computer can't seem to burn Dreamcast compatible CDRs like it used to anymore, so I can't try the Dreamcast NGCD emulator either ;_;
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| Cain Highwind 728th Post
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| "Re(3):Found rare Garou artwork: Unused chars+" , posted Wed 18 Oct 04:26:
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The files are gone, so sad :(
I only grabbed the first one...
They're still up on MegaUpload, about halfway through this thread I have alternate links.
And Stifu, thanks, it's not the dirvers, they're all updated with the versions you linked me to. I stayed up to 3 in the morning, and just when I was about to go to bed, it worked. Go figure.
EDIT: I tried it again this morning and it just seems like my drive just doesn't like NeoGeo CDs it either sees it as an Audio CD with random track numbers that don't work, it says it's corrupt, or it works but doesn't seem to see the Audio tracks.
I'm going to copy the emulator to my laptop and see if that works.
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you sure dress poorly.
"Re(3):Found rare Garou artwork: Unused chars+" , posted Fri 13 Oct 01:55
