Won't post more of my obsessive observations concerning the
P4U2 tease after this, but here are some notes I made:
- I guess I hadn't realized how much documented character height in Arena was carefully considered. The pixels in-game match up proportionally to the characters' written heights, like Yosuke being 175cm tall or Yu being 180cm tall. Modifiers such as Mitsuru's high heels, Naoto's platform shoes and Junpei's baseball stance are also accurately depicted by how it affects their real heights. The only thing is that, from the calculations I made, the P3 cast haven't actually grown taller between P3 and P4A (except for maybe Yukari) as depicted by their sprites (minor detail, but still).
Example:
By capturing Niconico video screenshots in order to determine the dimensions of P4U2 characters in relation to the aspect ratio and then scaling those shots to 1200 x 675, I was then able to deduce, by comparing original P4A sprite sizes, that I could scale those P4A ripped sprite images down by about 84.6354% so that 1 cm was approximately equal to 1.937143 pixel, which proved to turn out pretty much right. For Yu above: 180cm*1.937143 = 348.69 px. For Yukiko: 164cm*1.937143 = 317.69 px.
- The stage in the P4U2 tease is most probably the P4A version of the
Stairs stage. I tried comparing it to a bunch of 100 x 100 px Gaussian blurred images of stages and the only one that fit was
this one for the Stairs stage.
- The match in the tease is just starting. It's obvious by looking at the health bars for both characters when it starts, which are the standard teal blue for when a character has 100% health. About 1-2 seconds in, player 2's health bar turns green, which indicates that a character has taken damage. (
Example)
- Considering the previous points, both insanely blurred silhouettes of the characters on both sides of the stage should still be accurate to the dimensions of their position 00 sprites, which means looking at the color patterns of both characters properly would give me a good idea of who they are, among other things. So, of course, I did that.
I had thought that the character on the left was Junpei before due to their movements which were awfully reminiscent from how much P4U2 footage I've watched. Comparing footage of the same aspect ratio with the whole pixel conversion I had done before in addition to cutting the bottom of the preview picture to the area the characters stand on in order to ignore those golden P4U2 promotional words, I determined that height for the character on the left (292px) is indeed that of Junpei's (291px):
- Which, I guess finally, brings me to the character on the right. From what I can tell, this is an approximate image of their height:
Image height is 274px (width is 110px). This isn't close to any other character's sprite 00 height in P4A except for Teddie with 268px (even Naoto's is 309px thanks to her platform shoes). And, given how some of the background image is perceptible around the character in question, I find it hard to think it's Teddie, who has a pixel width of 232.
Dividing 274 pixels by 1.937143 results in a height of 141.44cm. Ken's height is 140cm.
tl;dr: I'm crazy.
