

The video file for the closed beta will be watermarked, but otherwise fully functional The video file for the intro will be available, but the rest of the FMV's will be considered a closed beta, which I will make available on a case-by-case basis to people who actually provide feedback The patch file includes all of the video code, which SHOULD fall back gracefully in the absence of the actual video file (please report any issues if it doesn't) I am releasing the patch file openly and requesting testing and feedback So, here is how I have decided to handle this beta release: I am working on writing my own tools to do the conversions myself, but that will take time. The bigger issue right now is that the tools I have been using to convert the videos really haven't produced the level of quality I was hoping for, and some of the scenes look pretty awful. The FMV's, on the other hand, were quite straightforward once I figured out how to properly hook into the scripting engine. Oddly enough, the soundtrack is much trickier than the FMV's to get right, because there are tons of weird edge cases that I need to handle, resulting in a lot more opportunities for bugs to pop up. There are two main parts to this hack, the soundtrack and the FMV's. This game is really big, and I'm just not going to be able to test everything all by myself. I've been teasing my Chrono Trigger MSU-1 hack for awhile now, but I think I'm finally ready to release it for testing.
