Your very first LF2 steps

[Silverthorn]

It was in 7th grade, a friend showed this Chinese game, called "Little Fighter 2". I immediately like playing it, although I really sucked at the stage mode :P
Anyways, a few weeks later, I "discovered" the sprite-folder, and its marvelous character sheets. Well, soon after I found out that these files are accessed by this game, I started modifying them. Well, if you have no real talent at computer graphics AND possess a $3 mouse, the result won't be very great. Anyways, the first character change was on template, all my friends understood the hidden joke, because we all had the same Latin teacher...



Well, I kinda messed around with the sprites, replaced and changed the graphics, but for a long time I asked myself how to open these dat-files. I thought, they were just chinese text, and my notepad can't display it. So, I started a google-offensive. And finally, I found it: the Data Changer!
Well, I didn't know anything of what I could do now, so I started messing around with everything I could imagine. It took me till the end of my 9th grade until I knew three basic keywords: oid, action, and facing (yes, I started with the opoints, and they're still my favorite part )
Well, later on, I discovered this website called "LF-Empire", and I liked that somebody really did that work and explained every keyword that occurs in the dat-files (I think, because we had dial-up at that time, I extracted everything relating to DC into a Document that is still on my computer so that I don't have to go online everytime)

So, within one month I learned pretty much everything about DCing, and after we got DSL, I registered in the forums that I've watched for such a long time...
I knew that sooner or later I'll want to create my own characters, so I started. I had this character, Zenobia, that I created from scratch, the Data as well as the sprites. I think, she's still overpowered (beginner's mistake :P), although she was, I don't know how often, remade. And that data is really a mess, I guess, I'll have to do more than just a small redo...

Right now, I don't do very much related to LF2, sometimes I feel like creating a new character for my own nameless mod but most of the time I'm a little more in retirement. I still like to play LF2, though

And my Template mod? I gave him some new attacks that are totally not Latin-related. Oh well, who cares?


gosh, that got a long essay, longer than I wanted it to be. To everybody who truly read down to here: congratulations!!!