I'm shooting for new content up until Egg Corridor. Should feature new ogg music, 4k graphics, voices, and some extra things. Not sure if I'll incorporate my old New Game+ mod and add more to it. Might make each component optional. We'll see. Since it's a lot of work for my slowness, it'll take some time.
Busy, but a status update for you zxin :D Missing: 3-4 songs, 1 full tileset, 1(?) background, redrawing all monsters, lots of redrawing for NPCs; voice acting... didn't go so well so far; might just use optional TTS voices, with a simple guide to encourage people to add voiced characters over time. So they can just record, replace, share and I could run effects on them. https://postimg.cc/n9Q89XMH
Since CS+ isn't freeware, I've been using the original sprites, resizing and starting from there. Right now, only some of the NPC sprites have taken inspiration from CS+. Like King's portrait and his whiskers, or the Doctor. (If you're saying that because of CS+ Quote in that pic, I just haven't replaced it yet.) Originally, all had CS+ gfx, but slowly replacing it with edited CS sprites.
As for voice acting, yeah! I should probably make a basic version of CS for this, documented, so anyone can record lines and just drop them in. Then anyone can just pick a VA mod they want. And maybe eventually create a version with all the voices already included.
@zxin - here are all the lines for the english demo, along with the file names: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7nvtkiatl5who1i/Voices.txt?dl=0 I.e. 0001 = 0001.ogg, 0002 = 0002.ogg etc. I was going to make an item to toggle all voices off/on in-game. I was recording in 48KHz mono myself. But, shouldn't matter what format you use. Maybe I should use excel or make a database, to easily create lists by character? Eh...
If you want the japanese along with it, I can look into doing that. I mean if the voices end up being made, might be worth making the item toggle english or japanese voices as well.
@zxin You mean, switch between English and Japanese text, along with the VA? I wasn't really considering that, I was thinking more along the lines of how people enjoy english subtitled anime with japanese VAs. I mean it's possible to change text too, but sounds like that should be saved for CSE2, so images can be easily changed as well. Or just edit a japanese version of the game.
But, it would be neat to have one unified game where you can change the text language at the touch of a button... (And VAs...)
I'm not rushing to add work until I actually have a demo though lol.