Shade the Mystic

I had one of my patented and sadly fleeting moments of sheer brilliance while I was trying to come up with a new type of save point- let's face it, crystals and glowing lights just aren't going to cut it anymore. The idea I had was that there was this old man, a scholar of sorts, wandering the world recording interesting stories in this large book. The problem? as far as I can tell, there doesn't exist a sprite for this peculiar individual. So I'm hoping that someone here can help me out, either point me towards it if I've missed it somewhere, or point me towards someone who can make one. My pixel art...well, it's terrible, otherwise I'd do it myself.

If you still need these, I think I have most of them. Just let me know if you need the battlers, the charasets, or both, and I'll zip them up for you and PM you the link.

I already have the latest Direct X (it's ver.10, I think.) and still nothing. So I just went ahead and dl'd an audio converter and turned all the MP3's into .wav files. Still don't know what the problem was, though.

I had thought of that too, and the only thing I've installed in the last week was Final Fantasy 7.

Unfortunately, I've got about 164 MP3s in my projects soundtrack, and I wouldn't feel right having someone else convert them all. If that's the only way to fix this problem, I can always convert them myself once I've dl'd the right program. I'll let you know if it works or what.

Well I installed it (I think I did, anyways. It opened up a prompt screen for about a second, then closed it up again right quick), but it doesn't seem to have done anything. I still get nothing out of the editor. Bleh. I hate technology.

Right, well, it says, "Audio Codecs Legacy Audio Drivers SigmaTel High Definition Audio CODEC" Does that mean anything to you? It's all gibberish to me.

I have no idea. I got the computer as a Christmas present, so I'm not privy to all it's specs. How would I go about finding that out?

Yeah, the midis work fine. How do I go about reinstalling the sound drivers? I'm sorry if I sound ignorant on the matter, which I suppose I am, but it's not really something that's come up before.

Yeah, the sound works fine for everything else. I can even play the MP3 files in any other app. They just don't work in the editor or in-game. Absolutely baffled by it.

I've had this problem for about a week, my project just stopped playing MP3s altogether. I've tried everything I can think of to get them back, reinstalling XP, enabling the BGM in game, and I'm completely tapped for ideas. I'm not very computer-savvy, so I'm guessing the problem is something I never even considered. This is getting very irritating, and I've found that I can't continue my project until I get this problem addressed, so please, can't someone out there help me figure this out?