I just have to show this...

[Cless]

Well, I just spent the better part of the afternoon on this. I don't want to wait until I post another news update. I am just INCREDIBLY happy with the result of completely rearranging the titles menu.

Here's how it used to look:



Fine, you say?

...but after a couple hours of work...



I have no idea how this menu could possibly look better.

Although I was pretty satisfied in general with the title list as it was, this allows for MUCH longer title names and allows us to use the full name of a couple titles that had to be truncated.

Not only that, but the left column with the character status was pretty scrunched, and is no longer!

[Kogahazan]

Looks excellent. We know how much you don't like truncating things when avoidable. Speaking of which, how goes that Increase/Decrease Item Quantity issue in the shop menus?

[Cless]

Looks excellent. We know how much you don't like truncating things when avoidable. Speaking of which, how goes that Increase/Decrease Item Quantity issue in the shop menus?

You must have missed the post...

[Kogahazan]

Oh, pft. Sorry, I tend to forget some things after two months.

[Datschge]

Great work!

[Demon000]

I really like the top with the character stats.
Maybe is just me but I think the middle section looks a little small heightwise for its contents. Probably the only way would be modifing the description space and I guess that's out of question. (Unless you can reduce the size of the description text)
Also, the text alignment of the top and middle sections are really different from the one in the desciption which makes it look out of place. (Doing it must diminish the middle section height stuff I just mentioned, at least visually)
Sorry if I'm being too critical. I will stop there before you start hating me (or is it too late )

[Cless]

I dunno dude I think you might be trying too hard to find something wrong. :p

I think 2px vertically between each is enough to separate each title. And for the bottom thing... different fonts have different needs. :p

Anyway in my quest for perfection I made a couple of very minor adjustments that may or may not be very obvious.

[Kogahazan]

Putting them side by side, looks like you moved everything in the middle and bottom boxes a few pixels down. I guess it sort of was a little too close to the top of the box.

[Wildwurger]

Goddamn, dood. You're good. I mean, wow. That's pretty impressive.

[Demon000]

Well you're probably right, when I try to be critical sometimes I get carried away. It's just that when you look at the frame with the character stats the spacing from the border seems to be different when you compare the left and right...

I think 2px vertically between each is enough to separate each title.

That isn't exactly what I was trying to say, I meant the space between the text and the top/bottom frame border. Anyway, as I said " I get carried away" easily. Sometimes I like to get out of the script, you know something like: "Great work" and all of it's variations.

BTW Great Work!! 

[Cless]

Anyway, I'm really amazed at how many things I've found throughout all the menus in the last few days that I felt needed adjusting and further refining. I've done a LOT more work than the just the Status and Title menus that I've shown here in the last few days. My frickin' ASM code file for the main menu has gained an additional 10KB since I started on this stuff (the file was 20KB when I started, and it's now 30). Everything I've done so far looks really good, I think. I'm really not sure I'll be able to refine the stuff further than I have. But who knows...

I can feel a whopper of an official news update coming soon. It'll be tossed on the main website, and I think it may be even larger than the massive one in august.

[Riketz Karlom]

It's only been a few weeks since I stumbled across this project, but I'm impressed even at the work you've done alone, Cless. To the progress you've all made, I say yatta. Especially with the choice of skill and name translations used being some of the better names that they've been dubbed; it looks like something that even someone new to the series will fully enjoy.

[Olimpior]

Tales of Phantasia AND Tales of Destiny 2, u guys are really something! Great work fellas, and thanks, I'm also looking forward to seeing/playing these ones when they're done!

[GummySnake]

Great Work as usual from what I've seen.

[luizzeross]

Whoa! This the best fan translation I have ever seen out there, it's even better than the old Dejap Team. So, you guys change even the layout of the menus, and make it look even better. I liked the new layout, and seeing your skills hacking, I have a single question:

Ever thought of changing the pattern from the menu background (that "Secret Of Evermore" painted BLUE menu background) with 3d borders? Just that default patterns sucks and even the SNes version looks better than this version, and since you guys make miracles happens out there, I just thought that you guys could think about it. So, that is it! I'm proud and lucky to have meet that tales-cless.org in 2003 while looking for Tales Of Destiny's secrets.

[Cless]

Well, the background isn't terribly difficult to change, but I don't have any problems with it. I think it's a tad more interesting than the simple gradient the SNES version used, myself. The color can be changed if you like, but I'm a blue man and like the default...