Portraits not glowing while characters cast spells

[RKS | Splicer]

If my memory serves me right the GC and PS2 versions had this little glowing effect on the portraits of the characters that were casting a spell while in battle.
Was this removed in the PS3 version or is it a bug?

I find this irritating as I don't always know when Genis or Raine are casting a spell and they are the characters that I use the most to use intems in battle, and using items interrupts their casting (and I don't always want that to happen, specially in tight battles)

[[Lethalvriend]]

You're right that a casting character used to have a flashing portrait (at least on GameCube). I haven't really paid attention to this port but I'd assume that if it's removed it probably isn't in the PS3 version either.

Edit: just checked, it's not in the PS3 version either.

[RKS | Splicer]

ugh that sucks I really relied on that for item management in combat.
Thanks!

[RKS | Splicer]

UPDATE: It is actually a bug since the portraits glow when a poisoned character is casting a spell! They won't fix this but it would be great if they did

[Seiggles]

If it's not already mentioned in the patch thread, it might be a good thing to put on there so they can maybe probably possibly fix it....maybe

[[Lethalvriend]]

I've seen it on PS3 videos aswell, apparently this bug was introduced with Ps2->Ps3 conversion. Here is a link to PS3 footage where Genis casts fireball without flashing portrait:

https://youtu.be/cZlsiIddrRA?t=513

Here is Ps2 WITH flashing portrait:

https://youtu.be/kOnQ6cYjkKc?t=792

[Baffan]

Originally posted by Lethalvriend:

I've seen it on PS3 videos aswell, apparently this bug was introduced with Ps2->Ps3 conversion. Here is a link to PS3 footage where Genis casts fireball without flashing portrait:

https://youtu.be/cZlsiIddrRA?t=513

Here is Ps2 WITH flashing portrait:

https://youtu.be/kOnQ6cYjkKc?t=792

At least use correct videos. Your "PS2" video is a Gamecube, you can see it in the description + remember PS2 is only JP, no way it could be PS2 because it's in english.

Here is a PS2 video of a spell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCBZl7TU6w

And yes indeed it glows in PS2 but not on PS3 anymore. This is interesting indeed, I thought the glowing already disappeared on PS2 because they focused on the overlimit glowing instead (that is very useful) but no it's indeed a bug from PS2=>PS3 port.

[Mikey january11]

I've been replaying ToS and just noticed the lack of glowing portraits during spell casting.

Now that we're in 2025, has this ever been addressed anywhere? It doesn't look like TSFix or any other mod that I am aware of rectified this issue.