Yeah, Ifrit's Lair (you wrote Layer in the files) is indeed a little blurry. I'll wait to see the updated version.
I also think the players could be slightly lower on the ground.

The ToS Forest stage is really great. The parallax with foreground trees and the animations are awesome.
The hero seems to be moon running though, maybe you could give him a higher velocity.
Finally, the mushroom and plant seem to appear from nowhere when they enter from the right of the screen. That's a problem I had already faced, and the method I found was to change the axis of the sprites in the animation itself. For example, for the plant, change your code to :
[mcode]
[BEGIN ACTION 4]
4,1,100,0,2, H
4,2,100,0,2, H
4,3,100,0,2, H
4,4,100,0,2, H
...
[/mcode]
and it will fix the magical apparition.

Concerning Flintstones house : so many sprites for the smoke !
More importantly, deltas or bounds need some fixing, because we can see the sky appear at the right of the stage, beside the house (there's a vertical line on the right side).

Mackx, in regards to the FF8 Ifrit background, have you tried 8mimc, the FF8 BG viewer program?  It'll help in getting cleaner rips and the like.

I'm going to try this next:

The floor of the midnight air ship, or the MvC2 ship?
How many MvC2 stages are there anyway?

Also, I was a bit bummed that this stage is lo-res, but meh, I got a ton of lo-res stages, just that I think this stage is worth the hi-res. :/

The parallax is not done correctly again.  
While not blatantly obvious, one character's feet will slide some when the other one moves.  

Use this one instead.  
[mcode]delta = 1.576,1[/mcode]

trans = addalpha
alpha = 55,200

type = normal
spriteno = 3, 1
trans = addalpha
alpha = 75,100

The number before the comma works like the "AS" value in the animation code, and after the comma is like the "D" value.  

It just keeps you from having to add in the action number and match it up with the sprite number.  Less stuff to keep organized.  

It's really is a beautiful stage and obviously took quite a bit of work.  Thanks for creating it.  

Pertaining to walts post about the floor,

would this help?

Spoiler, click to toggle visibilty

http://clubsyn-x-treme.net/floor.gif

Just trying to help and I can do a better rain animation also if needed.

Don't get me wrong, and don't get defensive on me there Mackx, I'm on your side.

This is indeed the best version there is, you actually implementes some ideas I already had in mind about 3D illusion through code. It's innovative, looks good, etc. Your execution is flawless as in this works, and it does it well. What I meant is that it's a bit lacking on the "aesthetics" department.

The lightning bolt flash can be done through a completely white flash, and then a fade out effect at the end. Yes, you're a coder, not an expert animator, I don't expect you to know this, but I didn't think you'd take it so badly. Also, you focused on the rain being transparent, when it was actually not what I was referring to, but the water on the floor when the drops hit it - It does need more trasparency!!

Mackx said, July 06, 2009, 05:50:23 pm

Well like i said, this stage was almost impossible to rip, that is why there is no good version out there.

That's because the good version is here

lol

Many things on this look great, and some others don't.

+ Parallax is excelent. 3D illusion is also great!!
- Rain falls too slow. Water drops hitting the floor should be transparent, and maybe the animation should be faster. It looks ugly as it is.

Since I know for certain the resources were ripped directly from the original game's textures, I won't comment on them, they look amazing... it's just that aesthetically the execution feels a little bit simple, straight forward, and has a lot of opportunity areas.