gog2002x: That probably depends entirely on CAPCOM if they want to allow GOG to do that. Also, swapping out the OST depends on who owns the rights to it and again, if CAPCOM allows it. So it's not always simple if the developers intended it.

(For example: One of the Alan Wake games had to have some file (music I think?) removed at some point since the Developer didn't own the rights to it and rights holder wanted it removed)

I wouldn't mind the best version of each part of the game being in the PC port, but I can also see that if they gave in to every request, it'll never likely end for them. Time and money is a factor after all.

On a side note: They released 2 more hotfixes (4 total now), so that's at least good news for everyone and they even credited a community member for reporting the issue on the store page for the game itself (hotfix 3 I think). So they are listening to the community, so who knows what all will happen. =)
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gog2002x: That probably depends entirely on CAPCOM if they want to allow GOG to do that. Also, swapping out the OST depends on who owns the rights to it and again, if CAPCOM allows it. So it's not always simple if the developers intended it.

(For example: One of the Alan Wake games had to have some file (music I think?) removed at some point since the Developer didn't own the rights to it and rights holder wanted it removed)

I wouldn't mind the best version of each part of the game being in the PC port, but I can also see that if they gave in to every request, it'll never likely end for them. Time and money is a factor after all.

On a side note: They released 2 more hotfixes (4 total now), so that's at least good news for everyone and they even credited a community member for reporting the issue on the store page for the game itself (hotfix 3 I think). So they are listening to the community, so who knows what all will happen. =)
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Odjn Ryu: Capcom owns the rights to Breath of Fire IV's music. They sell the entire OST on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1335100/Breath_of_Fire_IV_Original_Soundtrack/

nintendo1889: Great so that means it's a no go then. Bloody fantastic. Damn.
Welp back to the ps1 version then, if the awful bug ridden music ain't getting fixes

Odjn Ryu: Capcom owns the rights to Breath of Fire IV's music. They sell the entire OST on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1335100/Breath_of_Fire_IV_Original_Soundtrack/

Odjn Ryu: I don't understand why you interpreted that to be a "no-go". That's not what I was implying at all. Breath of Fire IV as a whole is Capcom's property, including this GOG re-release. Which means there shouldn't be any "licensing issues" stopping GOG from implementing the PS1 version's music.

Odjn Ryu: I've done extensive research on the PC version of Breath of Fire IV and how it stacks up to the PS1 and other regional versions of the game. Here are my findings, and I hope GOG is able to address and patch some of these.

[SOLVED] 1. Bilinear Filtering https://www.dragnier.net/breath-of-fire-iv/breath-of-fire-iv-version-differences/#bilinear-filtering

NaroLucian: Some more info on the button prompts being all over the place. The help text for minigames and menus will often display the wrong button. Forget the buttons being tied to keyboard icons.

nintendo1889: Every day that passes by, I lose more and more faith in ever seeing this, among other issues, getting fixed lol

Simply put, they don't give a damn IMO

The silver lining is people are starting to figure out how to mod the games internal files, save editing etc. So at the very least, passionate BOF fans can fix the things GOG refuses to.

Odjn Ryu: Added # 13 to the OP for Fou-Lu's attack animation.

Regarding the battle transition, the BoF Discord discovered the following:

"Breath of Fire IV's swirling screen effect is not an effect for effect's sake, its actually the loading effect for the battle itself, to use as a visual placeholder for people to look at something while the battle loads. the reason it "skips" on PC is simply because the battle loads too fast, because computers, especially modern computers, are just processing much faster than PS1 did.

This 'skip' is not something that is a conscious choice, its done by design . For example, in my computer, which is not a gaming computer but a normal laptop AND an 8-year old one at that, which certainly does not have nearly enough processing power as dedicated gaming PCs do... I get the swirling screen effect because my PC HAS to put some processing power to load things up, so until it does, I can see it just fine.

In short, the effect is still there, its not skipped, its the modern computers that just load the battles too fast for the effect to stay on the screen long enough."

If you want the full long battle transition, play on a crappy PC. j/k ;)

Thanatos-Zero: Or
"It should automatically go into the battle screen after an average of X seconds with X being the normal time the PSX needed back then."

"That actually COULD be another parameter that could be coded in, true.
Didn't think of that.
Well, maybe some of our tech-heads over there can figure something out, once modding tools for the PC version sprout enough. XD"