Is there going to be a way for us to thank you? Maybe not by sending money, I understand how that would be wrong. But maybe there could be a way to get you some fan mail, or something, in the way that everyone at Starmen.net decided to thank Mr. Itoi.

Maybe you think the comparison is ridiculous, and maybe a little creepy, but I think that there are a lot of us that have been dying to play this game, and really think you’re deserving of at least some sort of thank-you gift. I don’t mean this as pressure to give off your personal information or anything, I don’t think anyone would benefit from that. But maybe a anonymous P.O. Box where we could send you a little something as a form of appreciation?

I feel kind of frustrated that you’re undertaking this time-consuming and difficult project for the enjoyment of every single one of us, and that there’s nothing I can do to help or thank you. It just feels kind of wrong somehow, and I think there’s many among us who feel that way.

PKB: The main script doesn’t use sprites for text. It’s a comletely different evil scary beast, probably 10x more complicated than the battle text routine. THe main script hack will of course make sure the script is printed letter by letter, it wouldn’t make sense otherwise.

Menu stuff like item descriptions just chunk all the text on the screen in one frame, right? Totally different from the main script being typed one letter at a time (or two if fast, apparently). Do I understand all that correctly? If so, here’s what I’m thinking:

SUGGESTION 1. Would it make sense to sprite-weld the item descriptions like you’ve already planned, but then change only the main script to display true-text?

~ OR ~

SUGGESTION 2. What about sprite-welding all that menu stuff like planned, and doing a *different* sprite weld to the main script? I’d draw this, or make a video, but I’m limited, and shall do my best in ascii. I’ll assume, for easy math, one letter displayed per frame.

Example line.
FRAME 1: E
one sprite
FRAME 2: Ex
one sprite
FRAME 3: Exa
two sprites (”a” is split between “Ex” sprite and its own sprite)
FRAME 4: Exam
two sprites (”a” is split, “m” finishes the sprite)
FRAME 5: Examp
three sprites
FRAME 6: Exampl
three sprites
FRAME 7: Example
three sprites
FRAME 8: Example
four sprites (” ” has started the next sprite)
FRAME 9: Example l
four sprites (” l” is fourth sprite)
FRAME 10: Example li
four sprites (” li” is fourth sprite)
FRAME 11: Example lin
five sprites (” li” plus half of “n” is fourth, other half of “n” is fifth)
FRAME 12: Example line
five sprites
FRAME 13: Example line.
five sprites
Exa
am
ple
lin
ne.

Same principle as the all-at-once sprite welding, but recalculating and redisplaying sprites *per* screen-refresh. I know that’s an awful lot of work — especially with control code stuff — but it appears the “normal” sprite welding is a lot of work already.

Suggestion 3 would be to display all the main script at once, but I’m sure you don’t want to do that, if for nothing else comic/dramatic timing. And I’m sure we’d all love that EarthBoundy one-letter-at-a-time feel anyway. $:^ ]

Looks like Suggestion 1’s code rewrite (of only the main script) might be about as bad as Suggestion 2’s code rewrite (of primarily the main script). But whatcha think?

Curious Programmer

Too many exclamation points!

Honestly, I’d never be able to do this stuff, since I pretty much am one of the biggest retards knowing how to do anything on the computer XD

Keep up the great work everyone, I’m rootin for ya

Others: The offer is appreciated, but please just accept it that we don’t want any money involved and we don’t want donations. Besides, if this were about money, or if money mattered, it’d be so easy to slap some ads on the site and get money that way. We get enough traffic that it’d probably produce a decent amount of money, but the project’s about translating a game and that’s it.