[1.2] SRB2 Persona DEMO

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The SRB2P modding doc!

SRB2Persona is a mod I've been working on with the help of a few friends every now and then for about 4 years now. The entire point was to recreate Persona's general gameplay into SRB2. Yeah, it doesn't get any stupider than that! It started off as a barely playable weird tech demo that would error about everytime we tried playing it. Honestly I was unsure whether or not it was going to ever be something playable or stay as a fever dream.
Yet here we are, today. After 3 entire rewrites and countless hours of testing over the course of 4 years, I have no idea how my motivation lasted me this long, but I'm happy to release the first SRB2Persona demo!

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Spoiler: If you ask any question that's answered here in this spoiler I will come to your house with a briefcase full of material and a bat. The bat is just for show.

Play the tutorial
I cannot stress this enough, even if you've played a Persona game before, I recommend you check it out.

5029 UDP.
That's the port you need to forward for people to join your hosted games. The method to portforward varies between ISPs so this one is on you to figure out, chief.

Netgame issues
It's nothing new that SRB2's netgames were never the most stable.
There is no guarantee that netgames with more than 8 players (or any amount for that matter, but bigger playercounts amplify the problems) stay stable forever depending on each individual player's connection.
Joining mid-game (after parties have been made) also frequently causes problems, so it's much better to make sure your lobby's all filled up with all the friends you wanted before confirming the parties. I have tried to the best of my ability to limit this issue to the maximum, but it still frequently occurs.
To limit mid-game joinings and the myriad of issues that come with them, there is no Master Server support, only LAN is supported for now. In other words, you need the host's IP to join

Singleplayer?
Outside of the tutorial, this demo of SRB2Persona offers absolutely no entierely singleplayer content (yet??), but you are free to play the Tartarus exploration & challenge battles by yourself however which recreates the intended feeling!

Modding?
There is modding support and custom characters can be added. Modding documentation for the mod will come at a later date. ...Or is it already out somewhere?

So, what's in the package?

Frantic turn based battles
Experience the flashy aesthetic of the Persona battle system, with a hint of Shin Megami Tensei buff system topping to add some flavour, alongside literally hundreds of available Persona skills and a varied selection of characters!
Find out and exploit your enemies' weaknesses to knock them down and get additional turns! Manage to knock them all down, and you can unleash the powerful All-Out Attack to deal massive damage and maybe just end the battle in a flash!
If you either finish a battle with an All-Out Attack, or within a single turn, you may even get a chance to get some more mileage out of it!


Dungeon crawling with up to 4... 8...? wait, 16 players!?
Crawl within the mazes of Tartarus. Ambush the Shadows impeding your way, earn EXP to get stronger and make your way up to and destroy the floor guardians with a party of 4... Or up to 4 parties of 4! (Nope there's no guarantee the netgame will even stay stable, do that at your own risk!)
...Just be careful not to spend too much time on a single floor, or bad luck awaits...


Fight it out in a 4V4 PvP duke out!
Experience the many intricacies of how stupidly unbalanced the battle system is by unleashing your most devious strategies on each other!


Test your skills on Challenge Battles!
Take on timed boss rematches and endless battles with up to 3 other players to set the best times and scores! Serves as a good training session to know what to expect from the many dangers of Tartarus!



FULL DOWNLOAD (v1.2):
An existing install of vanilla SRB2 2.2.8 or above is necessary for SRB2Persona to run. Put them in the same dedicated folder.


Windows
SRB2P files
SRB2P files (MIRROR)
Patch (v1.x -> v1.2)

MacOS
SRB2P files (MACOS)
Courtesy of Lach, please contact him if you encounter issues with the MacOS installation process.

Linux
No direct download available as of now, but Linux users have reported being able to compile and play SRB2P.
You can compile yourself from the source code.

Android
Unsupported. You are free to fork the source code and try making it yourself, but I do not intend to add or maintain an Android support myself.

Spoiler: Changelogs

• V1.0
  
  • Initial Release
    
  
  
• V1.1
  
  • Gameplay
    
    • Amy no longer has Recarm in PvP.
      
    
    
  • Quality of Life
    
    • Added OpenGL menu options under Display settings
      
    • Added 'Return to Lobby' options in multiplayer escape menu
      
    • Custom battle music is now previewed in a prompt before being added in your list
      
    • When leveling up, you can now see the skill descriptions of your new skill and the skill you are about to forget
      
    
    
  • Fixes...
    
    • Improved mid-game joining stability.
      
      • This is done by temporarily pausing the game to resynchronize the RNG which seems to be the cause of the issue.
        
      • I still don't recommend mid-game joining as I can't guarantee its stability.
        
    • Fixed Analysis being repellable by Makarakarn
      
    • Fixed duplicate Emerald Skills
      
    • Fixed being able to sustain critical hits during the tutorial, potentially softlocking it.
      
    • Fixed Succubus having an invalid skill.
      
    • Fixed enemies not disappearing if they had died from a repelled auto attack of theirs.
      
    • Fixed the Rampage Drive targetting dead players still.
      
    • Fixed the lives count displaying outside of Tartarus exploration mode if a session had been played beforehand
      
    • Fixed being able to create parties outside of Tartarus exploration
      
    • Fixed the complete inability to make custom challenge battles.
      
    
    
    
  
  
• V1.2
  
  • Gameplay
    
    • You now have 1/3 Max SP in PvP instead of 1/2.
      
    
    
  • Fixes
    
    • Fixed being able to access the Sub-Persona menu with no Sub-Personas via the shortcut in Skills, resulting in errors.
      
    • Fixed invalid frames when reviving Knuckles or Shadow
      
    • Fixed Brainwash constantly resulting in the fallback 'dummy' Skill being used in 1.1
      
    • Fixed the camera jittering in some occasions, it should look a lot more fluid now.
      
    • Fixed a specific Challenge Battle not saving completion.
      
    • You can no longer set Enter as any of your keys in the menu and get softlocked.
      
    • Fixed status condition effects not playing sounds when they should.
      
    • Fixed Baton Pass' screen overlay not going away until the next turn started.
      
    
    

CREDITS

Spoiler: Credits

Sonic Robo Blast 2: Persona
Mod by Lat'

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Additional Mod credits:

Snu: General programming & graphics assistance
SoapSurfin: Titlescreen Sonic art
DylanNeyaz: Cut-ins
Q.T.D.: All-Out-Attack artwork
DaveLite: Evoker poses

LJ Sonik: PRNG library

Inazuma: Shadow The Hedgehog sprites
DrStephen: Dr. Eggman sprites
.Luke: Blaze The Cat sprites
(All permissions / re-usable content status check out)

Amicitia Comm: Persona 3/4 modding tools

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Sonic Robo Blast 2 belongs to Sonic Team Jr.

LEGAL STUFF:
Sonic The Hedgehog is property of SEGA
Shin Megami Tensei / Persona is property of ATLUS / SEGA
No copyright infringement intended, this is a fan project meant as a love letter to some of my favourite game franchises ever.

THIS GAME SHOULD NOT BE SOLD!
This is a non-profit project! (In fact, I lose money!)

It's kind of surreal for me to finally release something like that after working on it for so long. Although there isn't exactly a ton of content to speak of, I'm still incredibly proud of myself for managing to pull that out and eternally thankful to those who have helped me make it this far, be it by their supportive words, their contributions to the mod, or their everlasting ability to break the shit out of the game to help me find and crush bugs.

[Pyrakid Wolfo]

[redacted]

[Lat']

Originally Posted by Pyrakid Wolfo

I cannot get this to load, i'm using 2.2.8
It seems like you need to add the mods in a specific order

You need to use the proper exe with it. It loads the files for you and is required for the mod to work properly ayway.

[Pyrakid Wolfo]

thank you lat idk how i didnt see that

[TheKillerEmerald]

I'm having trouble getting this to work as well could some one tell me what to do step by step?

[sonc]

Good.

That's literally I can say about this, this is just good.

[SkyeBy]

Is it supposed to take a really long time to start up? Or am I doing something wrong?

---------- Post added at 08:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:56 PM ----------

Originally Posted by SkyeBy

Is it supposed to take a really long time to start up? Or am I doing something wrong?

Nevermind I just had to restart my laptop lol.

[Basic Bronze Sonic]

Oh my God this mod looks so good but unfortunately I'm an Android user so I can't play this but if I could play it I totally would.
great job on the mod dude.

[Lynk]

about time...like Akihiko says: "I've been waiting for this!"

[DawnLix]

Unfortunately, I don't have a windows, since I play on an android. So I will never be able to play this mod, sad.

[Pyrakid Wolfo]

I never knew which type Tails attack does, but i'm guessing maybe
Sonic - Spin Slash - Slash
Tails - Pierce
Knuckles - Strike
Amy - Strike

...those are the only chars ive played as lol
im guessing some elements are from newer games (never heard of Psi)


anyway pros - shadows are extremely easy to dodge

cons - reaper somehow comes quicker
- tartarus feels harder to navigate even with a bigger map
- reaper is mad scary
- some weaknesses i swear differ from p3 but thats subjectively a con
- are there access points or a save thing or does it autosave / no singleplayer mode ATM but perhaps the singleplayer is meant for PERSONA rather than TARTARUS RUN
- some very small things like maybe 1 or 2 songs aren't in ig? subjectively a con

really cool beta tho i really liked it

[Cman!]

You Just made Me Add Cman Support.... Nice To Force It On Me Like That!
I May Unleash My All-Out Attack!

[Calliebuncle]

yo where are the character renders stored? me and my friends wanna make them our discord pfps

[Basic Bronze Sonic]

Alright so y'all Android users now that running exe files is not doable but if you're thinking about just adding in all the stuff via add-ons through vanilla srb2 but I think the title screen speaks for itself.

[FelipeTH]

i would sing mass destruction here but i think it would spam, so i going to sing one line


"Shadows of MASS DESTRUCTION!"


(there we go)
anyways, great job as always! can't wait for the full release!
(also add an hud system based on the persona games, i kinda didn't like the new one)

[Rapidgame7]

Looks sick, can't wait to mod the fuck out of it then complain it isn't balanced enough and that something is broken

[Cman!]

I wish a modding tutorial is out there or is it?.......

[yeet69]

so i kind of need some help
when i launch the exe, it crashes and then i cant run it again
i suck at stuff like this so srry

[Logan8r]

I did not know how much fun multiplayer Persona could be!

[EvilWigi]

So I was just running around as shadow using his chaos control in the lobby area when I accidentally clipped out of bounds when I fell out of bounds.

[vonitare]

this kicks so much ass