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- <<<THE UNOFFICIAL (SURPRISINGLY) FINAL FANTASY VII ICON COLLECTION>>>
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- COMPILED, CREATED AND MAINTAINED BY JAMES "DRAGON" HALL
-
- Hello and Welcome! Welcome to this, the first collection of Final
- Fantasy VII icons available (that I know of). If anybody has any ideas
- for inclusion in furture updates, please write and let me know. I'll
- see what I can do.
-
- For those of you who have played the game (either on
- Playstation or on PC), you'll know just how good it is. Even those of
- you who haven't played it will probably have some idea of the game,
- and if not, then find out some more!!! It should be played by all!!!
-
- Ahem, sorry. I just had to get that ikkle sales pitch over and
- done. Sorry, but I don't have the faintest idea how to sensibly
- structure documentation, so I'll just guess. So lets start off with
- the Introduction (it would seem a good idea).
-
-
- <<<<<<<<INTRODUCTION or WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
- This is a compilation of Icons and backdrops taken from Final
- Fantasy VII-related themes. Each of the main characters that I
- could get ahold of pictures of has their own little selection of
- pictures, so no of them feel left out. Even the frankly bizzare Cait
- Sith gets his own section. Wow.
- Sorry. Um, where was I? Aha, yes: In the archive you'll also
- find backdrops to use on your workbench. The images are all supplied
- in PAL Hi-res Laced (thats 640 by 512 pixels) and are in 256 colours.
- Those of you with less powerful machines will probably want to drop
- the resoulution and/or the number of colours, but I'll leave that up
- to your own preference.
-
- <<<<<<<<REQUIREMENTS or WHAT DO I NEED?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
- All you need to use these Icons is a fully installed copy of
- Newicons. Umm, that's all folks.
-
- <<<<<<<<INSTALLATION or HOW DO I GET THEM TO WORK?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
- To install the Icon's you'll need to get ahold of a specific
- program. Personally, I find that the "Niconface" Program is perfectly
- adequate and very easy to use. Otherwise just use any other Icon
- alterer program- things such as Iconian, or even the program supplied
- with Newicons (the name of which escapes me right now).
-
- <<<<<<<<MY REASONS or WHY THE HELL BOTHER?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
- Why did I do this? Kind of hard to say, really. basically it
- was a combination of several things, which I'll list here (although I
- doubt that you're particularly interested). Firstly, I wanted to
- actually make my own contribution into the Amiga world, and an Iconset
- was a good way to do that- after all, everything (nearly) needs an
- Icon, and icons tend to get about all over the place. I used Newicons
- because they are cool and colourful, and adaptable, and I don't
- actually have a copy of Magic Workbench.
- Of course, that doesn't mean that I would really just go out
- and make an Iconset of some random thing. Oh no, there had to be some
- other motive...
- Well, I love Japanese games and Japanese animation, and I have
- a Playstation, which I play on a lot. However, in order to allow me to
- play some of these Japanese games on my Playstation, I decided to take
- it to be "chipped" (i.e the insertion of a chip which allows you to
- play American and Japanese games on a Plysation, as well as copied
- games but I'd never do a thing like that honest guv'nor). This meant
- that I would be without my Playstation for a few days. !Horror!
- !Shock! !Lamenations! Nothing to do but spend a lot of time on my
- Amiga (asmittedly I could have done that English essay that I should
- have done a few weeks ago, but that's no fun). So I decided to make
- use of my Amiga's graphical capabilities and produce this beautiful
- collection of FFVII influenced Icons. I don't know exactly what you
- will use them for (for some reason I use the character heads for my
- Hard Disk partitions) but I'm sure you'll think of something.
-
- <<<<<<<<DISTRIBUTION AND COPYRIGHT or LEGAL STUFF>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
-
- This entire package can be distributed freely, as it is
- FREEWARE, so long as all of the contents are present and have not been
- altered in any way, including this readme file. All pictures are
- copyright of Squaresoft (probably).
-
- <<<<<<<<ABOUT THE AUTHOR or WHO THE HELL AM I?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
-
- Hello, my name is James "Dragon" Hall, creator of this little
- package and soon-to-be (hopefully) artist of reknown throughout the
- world. Well, we can but hope! Anyway, I am a lover of all things that
- involve either the words 'Japanese', 'Japanese Animation', 'Manga' or
- 'Anime'. Oh yes, an anime crazed Otaku, that's me. Admittedly that
- will mean very little to many people, but never mind. To those that
- know, it is something which might make them go "Wow, somebody else
- who likes anime!" (or alternatively they might go "oh god what a
- tosser, but hey).
- I own my rather nifty little Amiga 1200- complete with CD-ROM,
- Hard drive, scanner and so on- as well as a whopping 40 Megabytes of
- Fast Ram (something I'm rather pleased with). I also own a
- Playstation, which is where I got the inspiration to make this Iconset
- from. I love music and anime, and Roleplaying, and all sorts of stuff.
- But lets face it, most of you don't really care about that, so you? So
- I'll stop yapping and get on with it.
-
- <<<<<<<<MORE INFORMATION or ARE YOU STILLHERE?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
-
- Myself and two of my Friends, Minkus and Daniel, have set up
- small new Shareware company called Demonsoftware. We have four games
- scheduled for release god-knows-when but when we do, you'll know about
- it. But if you want to know more about Demonsoftware, I suggest that
- you read the documentation in the aptly-titled 'Demonsoftware'
- drawer:)
-
- I have spent several hours and a lot of work compiling this
- selection of icons for you guys, and I really would be very grateful
- if anybody felt like thanking me in some way (be this by means of
- postcards, small donations of money, free games or whatever. I DON'T
- MIND! But I will say this- the person who sends me the most
- interesting or most appreciated gift/donation/game or whatever will be
- sent, in return, their own litte present. It won't be much, but I'm
- sure you'll like it.
-
-
- <<<<<<<<WHAT'S NEXT? or... Um, er... doh! I can't think ofanother way
- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<of putting that!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
-
- Well, I already have another prroject which I am working on-
- a Dead or Alive iconset (based on the hit arcade, Playstation and
- Saturn game, soon to have a sequel on the Dreamcast :)
- This iconset will feature ALL the characters from the game,
- from the feisty Kasumi to the skillful Hayabusa, and will include the
- two PSX-only characters, Bass and Ayane. What more could you want???
-