Agung Paramtapa's Journal

I'm back with good news and bad news, to start with this blog post. I'll just start with the bad news first just to explain what the title is all about. TBH, my loyalty over the Blazededge's "Get Home, Be Home, Stay Home" Discord server, especially since my first ARSON Squadron rodeo back in 2021~2022, was worth it, to which I established a fame and a name for myself as one of the pioneers of advanced modding through trial and error procedures. I spent 3 years frequenting myself in that server that Blaze claimed to be  his  home, and I was quite happy that all these years, everything was sailing smooth... until  I got an announcement that the server owner himself, Blaze, has gotten his new low that I do not want to disclose more. Initially, the admins and moderators agreed to let him out of the server to sort things out, but it didn't go according to the plan as Blaze has come down having mental breakdown, going to turn away against the truth so that he will c...

 Idk if I should be doing this, but I think I should because what I create is quite revolutionary. I'm pretty sure you have heard or  at least  played with Skies Restored mod by now. A revolutionary mod created by the one and only, Calamitous (often known with the display name CloakedEnigma on Nexus), that brings you improvements over the overall AC7 gameplay. Although I dare say what he created is enough to impress lots of people within the modding community, there's a good chance that it's not as polished or perfect as I wanted to be. Sure, there are some issues pertaining dialogues in missions, and some original dialogues might've been cut in favor of cut content restoration, but get this; as much as I love Calamitous' work, ofc I wanted my own fixes and improvements. However, as of this writing, I've been asking for permissions in improving his mod on Blaze's "Get Home, Be Home, Stay Home" (G[B]S) Discord server, but failed to respond. Not ev...

 I simplify all map-based mods I have into this one big post. The mods I cover are based on map editing that I discovered while I was developing the 3.0 update of my SPW Swap and VisMod Collection. I gotta hand it to kokeo1 who discovered the idea of actor injection from one mission map to another; although theoretically we  can  edit missions to make a new one, the mission itself is "cooked" in a way that we can only edit what's available at hand. Creating a new mission requires us to have a reverse-engineered source code and dev assets to work with, which is not easily obtainable due to Ace Combat 7  is not even an  indie  game. That didn't stop some modders to modify the existing ones. I'm pretty sure you have heard the Ally F-22A Mobius One mod by now. This accomplishment alone made me interested in learning how kokeo1 (the author) modify such mission in a way that Mobius 1 (for all we know and love in the Ace Combat franchise)  canonically ...

 If you read my old post pertaining Ace Combat 6 emulation through Xenia app that ended up bad (it's been 5 years, holy shit 🤣), well, I have good news for you readers who still care about my blog (as I start to neglect it even more due to more of my daily life updates are spent on Blaze's "Get Home, Be Home, Stay Home" Discord server).    If you have watched it, then you know what I'm talking about 😏. It was out 2 days before my birthday this year (like, holy shit I can't believe this 😱) and TBH, it's not even my birthday gift that I want.  So, what's going on here? Let's start up with the fact that emulation isn't perfect. Sure, you can say that such thing can be perfected from time to time, but TBH, the fact that I wanted to have a try on AC6 even though I don't own Xbox physically is getting my patience dry, so based on what I experienced 5 years ago , the Xenia application was at its infancy. It's not as perfect as today (to wh...

 Well, I come back with two good news. Storm Connections Modding = Storm 4 Modding I'll have to say, the modding techniques used in UNSC is similar to that of UNS4. Encrypted CPK archives, same method to replace images with the hex editor... TBH, it's not far off considering UNSC is a reskin of UNS4 with new features, bug fixes, and more, which makes UNSC as if it's a brand new game. Also, UNSC is the first modern Naruto game entry to return the use of two different Ninjutsus similar to that of Ultimate Ninja 5 on PS2 (no idea if Storm 1 is having that, correct me if I'm wrong tho). Apparently, since I joined Nexus back when I was hyped with Fallout 4 Modding, there is a new game category dedicated to UNSC (I'm surprised since Ik that only VGM is the main source of the mods for Naruto Storm games), and not even a year or two it's filled with model mods, like, bwoaaaaaaaaaaah... I moved away from AC7 modding for some time in a hope that I can enjoy other games w...

 It's been a while since I wrote anything new in this blog. Yet again, I'm fairly having fun and "being cursed" for the life I'm doing. Still, I'm fine, thanks. Again, my life stories are directed towards Blaze's Discord server, so if you want to join me in my life adventure on just about anything and Ace Combat 7 modding in general, click here (you must have a Discord account to join). To sum it up, here are a few updates.   America Rising 2 Remember what I said about "THE America Rising" post that can make you being an Enclave soldier and finish the story with the Enclave? Guess what? 2 or 3 years have passed and Otellino made a breakthrough of releasing a new version called America Rising 2 . This is what encouraged me to rebuild my 8th playthrough solely for that, along with hundreds of mods that I bundled in. OTW, I've stumbled across many useful guides, a few are MOFAM and The Midnight Ride that I got from the PRP mod post 's re...