Ballos' Eyes

May 1, 2009 at 3:05 AM
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DragonBoots said:
To acheive a fancy e, hold ALT and press (on the num pad) 0223.

Actually that's 0233
 
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Missing an eye?

Eh, I don't think that can be a bloody eye socket, anymore....
If you check the Cave Story artwork from Pixel, you can see two identical black slits for pupils in both of Ballos' eyes, meaning that it's just coloured red.
Oh wait, let me add the picture...
https://andwhyisit.bugsiteguardian.com/cstsf/archive1/p142627-0-ballos.gif
Ah, found it!
..Although, the red eye seems to be looking slightly further down then the white eye....
....Ballos has....LAZY EYE? o.o;

EDIT: Oh, and when I was browsing through the Cave Story sprites for my mod, I noticed that Ballos' Priest form gains pupils, for both eyes, when you've dealt enough damage to make him transform.
And I think I noticed what you meant, Boots. Ballos' eyes change position when he's standing and switches directions, but they'll stay the same if he's charging/falling, even if he changes directions....
 
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DragonBoots said:
But still doesn't explain why his eyes in his first form switch depending on his direction.
This one's easy, assuming you mean what I think you mean. Pixel probably drew the sprite facing one way, then flipped the image horizontally to get the opposite direction.
 
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Celtic Minstrel said:
This one's easy, assuming you mean what I think you mean. Pixel probably drew the sprite facing one way, then flipped the image horizontally to get the opposite direction.
What about the times he doesn't change his eye positions, even when his flips directions?
VoidMage_Lowell said:
....And I think I noticed what you meant, Boots. Ballos' eyes change position when he's standing and switches directions, but they'll stay the same if he's charging/falling, even if he changes directions....
I mean, his eye that's in view of the camera is always white when he's charging, no matter if he turns around....

And no comment on the Lazy Eye theory? D=
 
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VoidMage_Lowell said:
What about the times he doesn't change his eye positions, even when his flips directions?
Clearly Pixel remembered to correct after flipping in some instances but not others. :o
 
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Celtic Minstrel said:
Clearly Pixel remembered to correct after flipping in some instances but not others. :o
The Great Pixel would never do something like that!!....

...He just did it to annoy the hell out of DragonBoots =D
 
May 6, 2009 at 2:16 PM
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Maybe he did it to encourage discussions about Cave Story.
 
May 6, 2009 at 3:24 PM
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lol! lazy eye!

(0 ) ( 0 ) <-lazy eye
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VoidMage_Lowell said:
...He just did it to annoy the hell out of DragonBoots =D

I would be most honoured if this was the case.
But how the heck would Pixel (in Japan) know about a teenaged white kid from the West Coast of Canada? o.o
 
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*Shrugs*

DragonBoots said:
I would be most honoured if this was the case.
But how the heck would Pixel (in Japan) know about a teenaged white kid from the West Coast of Canada? o.o
*Shrugs*
But you're the one who was most annoyed by the Ballos-switching-eyes thing =D
 
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