new intro

Today I finished the completely new-and-rewritten intro that was coded from scratch in pure 65816-assembler. Not only does it feature a short introduction of all playable characters, but also sports breathtaking visuals (for an SNES anyway, have a gander at the screenshots) and a streamed song complete with vocals, just like Tales of Phantasia!
The song sounds even better than Tales of Phantasia’s, quality-wise anyway.
I chose the song that was composed for the original japanese Breath of Fire 2 commercial in japan, a really nice one if you ask me, you can even hear the background vocals humming"breath of fire". ;)
For the curious, heres an MP3: download mp3


And now, some eye candy:

this is the new titlescreen sporting animated translucent flames:




this is the splash screen with me and my man bredator whos doing all the german translation work. some sexy hdma effects here, multilayer scrolling, background-waving, colour substract, you name it. ;)



some shots showing off the characters:
i repainted all of these images (which happen to be official bof2-artwork) in 16 colours to use them in this intro.
that was some _serious_ work, i can tell you. ;)