[REL] ++ Persona 4 Analyzer - The fusion helper application ++

[freezer250]

I posted this on GameFAQ Board so I will just paste info here:

Ladies and gentleman,
I've finished the development of my Persona 4 Analyzer and I've decided to make it available for public. Feel free to download and check it out.

Thanks for ForteGSOmega and jsmith396 for making great Persona tools! I loved their applications and it inspired me to try it too! Moreover I used the excellent xmls of P4Utility as a starting point to build up my own xmls as database! Thanks! :)

It took me around one month of intense coding to realise all the things I wanted to incoporate in my tool.

Features:
- Persona search / filtering including pics of personas
- Normal/Triangle fusion calculator
- Reverse Normal/Triangle fusion calculator
- Create-A-Persona Mode
- Links to persona ressources

Some notes:
- Please don't throw stones at me when somethings not working!! This was my first VB.NET application and still have many things to learn! In fact, I did this project to motivate me to learn VB for school. :)
- Reverse Triangle Fusion calculations can take long. Very long (1-2min). I know there's room for code optimization. Maybe I will try to optimize code in future.

- Create - A - Persona is an experimental thing:
Basically you choose a Persona you want to create. Then it's inheritance probabilites of skills will be displayed. Now a list of all personas will be displayed showing their amount of junk, noises to the persona you chose. On top of that you can display the best fusion combination for this certain persona which will have the most junk/ lowest noise. This should make fusions decisions easier, when you try to inherit certain skills onto personas!


Screenies:
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7968/searchpersonas.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/8761/custompersona.jpg
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9335/fusepersonas.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9797/ressourcespersonas.jpg

Download and sreenshots here on my site:
http://www.freezerslair.de/persona/Persona4Analyzer.php

[Pibbman]

I suppose it's pretty cool for the windows people.

[Crabman]

Pretty sweet! Nocturne has something similar called Heretic Mansion: (http://www.phpsimplicity.com/heretic/) it also lists all the demons in the game, how to fuse them, base stats, attacks, etc.

[freezer250]

Pretty sweet! Nocturne has something similar called Heretic Mansion: (http://www.phpsimplicity.com/heretic/) it also lists all the demons in the game, how to fuse them, base stats, attacks, etc.
Yep there are already some other excellent tools out there for Persona 3 and for Persona 4 too. Those gave me the ideas to try coding one too - and I had a lot of fun learning VB.Net this way! :) Hopefully Atlus will release another Persona game which will have similar fusion mechanics - then it should be easy to adapt to it!

BTW I updated my Analyzer to v.1.1:

v.1.1
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New Features:
Now when you choose a certain skill in Create-A-Persona Mode, Skill-rank will be displayed too (like "Tetrakern (7)")
For fusion, skills with lower ranks are more likely to be inherited than higher rank skills:
This means when you have 2 passive skills like Tetrakern(7) and Elec Boost, most of the time
you will end up with Elec Boost(1) on your new Persona after shuffeling.

Fixes:
- Corrected Skill Description for Dark/Light Skills
- Took out Hells and God Judgement from Skill-Search. No personas has them anyway.
- Fixed Heaven's Blade and God's Hand Skill search error