More than likely there won't be too much transfer. We mainly need to send files to each other when either makes an alteration. I personally think it may be better to have another bash at zipping/rarring the files again and emailing.

It was exe files hotmail complained about before but we don't need to transfer them because we can just compile the source files and create it ourselves. Therefore, the only files which need transferring are source files, models and images, which generally compress quite nicely in an email.

If we do need to send each other files which hotmail deems dodgy, then zipping/rarring has solved that problem in the past for me.

I had a look a couple of months back for free webspace and the sites offering their services look very dodgy. However, I suppose that doesn't mean that they're unreliable. Anyhoo, I look forward to working on this project. I will soon be having a play with Blitz to see how it works and possibly fudge some AI code together which can then be "plugged in" to the current code (ideally anyway). I'm sure it's self explanatory and there will be various tutorials to look through and peeps to ask if I really get stuck.

I was tempted to take you up on that challenge but if I did get them right it would suck coz I don't have a ticket...

England seem to have picked up during the past couple of games but I'm not sure whether they're going to get much further especially with Owen injured. I'd have a guess at 0-0 before ET. England should be able to hold out with their ace defence even if the attack is lacking. But then Portugal will score the golden goal coz of England being absolutely knackered by then.

Also, I'm still convinced that Rooney will end up being sent off before the tournament is finished...the rough bugger...

Well you see there's a good explanation. I missed the penalties and somehow got completely confused about who had actually won when I wrote the message. Then this morning on TV they were saying about Germany winning and then I realised that I was thinking it was Argentina...but it wasn't. Big oops...and apologies...

Excellent news! Fingers crossed it's for the PS3 coz thats the console I aim to get ASAP. If not then I guess I will have to buy 2 consoles . Hey, I'm not missing out on it.

Does anyone know anything about Shining Force 3 being ported to another console. A few years back my brother said it was being ported to the PC. I don't think it's true but it would be great if it was! Damn multiple platforms...

That was very amusing. I'm a little unsure though about the conspiracy itself but a couple of the comparisons are very close...

Everyone at university complained that Shining Force games are crap because they have poor graphics compared to the guff you get nowadays. I HATE people who say "blah blah, games with good graphics are good, games with crap graphics are crap, blah blah". This is definitly not the case at all.

I know it's getting late to answer the original question but here's what I would've said back at the beginning of june:
1 - England
2 - Germany
3 - USA

MS.NET 2003 has worked wonders for me getting through university especially for my final project which was a Shining Force style game. The amount of files I ended up with was ridiculous but .NET made it easy. I'll stop there about that coz it's sounding like an advertisement...

I found that C++/DirectX works well for 2D based stuff. After making a flexible graphics engine, the rest was surprisingly easy. Obviously there's still code maintenance issues but that goes for any language really. I'm not too familiar with things like DarkBasic and Blitz but making your own engine with DirectX/OpenGL means you can fiddle with the graphics a lot more. Apologies in advance if you can do this with them as well.

Long story short...my opinion is starting from scratch = win

Hi,

I've just been going back to various websites which I used for my Final Year Project research and noticed the very VERY cool model!! I am a huge Shining series fan (I made a vague Shining Force rip-off as my project) and couldn't help looking further into what was going on.

Your project looks like it has a huge amount of potential and was wondering whether you needed an extra programmer. I know you have absolutely no idea who I am but hopefully you could have a look at some of my work at some point to see how good my 'skills' are and how committed I am to any projects I have worked on in the past. I have mainly worked with DirectX in the past. Is Blitz3D easy to learn because obviously that would be an issue if you ever considered 'recruiting' me?

Don't worry...I'm not some crazy person even though this post may appear to be completely random...