That's right, the famous procrastinator is back to work. I've gotten the FWF displaying the good old Latin alphabet, finally: it uses the same tile mapping table system as BoF2.

So yeah, not only has d4s taught me some good programming practices, but I think I'm also going to follow his example with FWF for the menu system and VWF for the dialogue and "special" cases, rather than full VWF throughout. I've got plenty of room for monster names IIRC, so it's character names I'll be trying to add VWF for: yes, getting "Gilliam" and "Builder" to work is a high priority for this project. XD

Still, there's the matter of my magnum opus in this project: the new menu system, and how it overlaps the character data. I can't really do anything about it until I've gotten a party big enough that the characters start filling up the right-hand column, but I could kickstart the interface overhauling process if I had a save with a full party.

Can anyone provide?

I had a brief freakout when I realized that my translation is based off the Japanese version while your savestates are going to be from the U.S. one...thankfully, I checked just now and the two are cross-compatible, apart from the garbled names (hi there, TSUnome!).

EDIT: Oh, and I think I've figured out a clever way to make it work. :3 The stats displayed on the menu are already truncated: no names given, just level, HP and AP (and those are marked with "H" and "A" instead of the full abbreviations). So why not just go the distance and cut out the max HP and AP indicators on the display? The level indicator aligns with the current HP and AP indicators, anyway. Then I'd easily have room for all the characters...I think. ^_^;

Right now, the character panels look like this:


But when I'm done, they'll look like this:


Any objections?

I agree with Hamlet. In one case I actually went so far as to *add* Max HP and MP displays where there were none.

Ancient Magic for SNES.

Thank You.

Another RPG for the SNES I had no idea of...

I don't suppose you could somehow do what the battle screen does, and let you hold Select to see max HP/AP in place of current?
(though I forget if Select was also used as a "close menu" button. I know it was used to open the menu, if you didn't assign any shortcuts to X/Y/L/R)
(although the game, or at least the US version, had a bug where if you held Select as you finished entering commands, the max values would be displayed during the entire round)

Damn. Holding Select does work.

And it backs out of the menu, so yeah, not really an option there. So much for that clever plan. Plus, the game's insistence on having all eight party members on screen at all times puts a hamper on my ability to include item names of decent length, especially on the shop's trade-in menu. >_<#