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Graphic Differences

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Portraits#

0.9.0.8

0.9.1.5

Many portraits have very minor differences that were touched up in the final version. Most portraits had large amounts of solid color softened at the edges to make the picture smoother.

  • Sue's sad/confused face has a less detailed mouth, and the line on her forehead is also not shaded. All her portraits have smaller tufts on her head sized up slightly and her eyes were outlined more.
  • Balrog's first portrait lost the sparkle in his eye, and his second portrait had his eyes more shiny.
  • Toroko's arms were made larger in first the two portraits, as well as removing the depth shadow from her second portrait's arm.
  • Jack had his nose redrawn and his hat was given highlights to define the shape.
  • Kazuma's smirk lost a pixel to make his expression look less displeased.
  • Jenka's mouth was slightly extended.
  • Booster's ear received shading.
  • Curly's eye was moved down.
  • The Doctor's crown was given a small design on the sides, and his neck was reshaded.
  • Misery's angry portrait was given ruffled hair.
  • The unused Human Sue portrait from the final version is a unique surprised Misery portrait, presumably planned to be used during her first encounter as it used nearly similar sprite shape as her second one.
  • Ballos had his nose shortened and rounded more.

Tilesets#

Outer Wall#

0.9.0.8

0.9.0.9

The clock room sign instead reads "`04.12". ("December 2004"?)

The upward spikes are simpler and match the downward ones.

Living Waterway#

0.9.0.8

1.0.0.0

The water only uses one color, much closer resembling the water graphics in the pre-reset versions.

Blood Stained Sanctuary#

0.9.0.8

0.9.1.1

Instead of statues of the heroes, there is an orange Doctor and a cage. The skulls were moved to make room.

Items#

0.9.0.8

1.0.0.6

There is a copy of the in-game heart tank sprite instead of the 290 Counter.

The used heart tank has different ends, The tow rope is less detailed, and Charcoal is simpler and not smoking.

Other items have very minor pixel differences.

Ballos#

0.9.0.8, 0.9.1.0 onwards

0.9.0.9

In version 0.9.0.9 only, the graphics for Ballos' final phase are replaced with Volanda from Fantasy Zone- most likely as a joke, seeing as the two bosses share similarities to each other.

This would be reverted back in 0.9.1.0 and Volanda would never be heard from again.