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Messages - hitokiro

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Hey everybody! I've been replaying the PSX FFT on my vita, and wanted an organic way to farm better gear without just editing my game to add it to stores earlier or at all. I decided to try changing a single direction of the Mandalia Plains random battle set to always be only human opponents, with progressively more advanced jobs appearing in later chapters.

Right now when you approach from Gariland, you will always fight a knight, 2 squires, 2 archers, and a priest (at least in chapter 1). In later chapters, I swap out basic jobs for things like lancers, ninjas, black mages, and samurai.

I've found this is a fantastic way to mix up your leveling/grinding experience, since human enemies are much more dynamic and challenging. Not only that, but since they're pegged at roughly my party's level, they usually carry gear that is better than what I can get in stores, and are prime targets for stealing.

This got me thinking of a patch that would introduce some lore-based human-only random encounter spots on the map. Things like remnants of the corpse brigade in the maps surrounding igros, lionel gryphon knights around lionel castle, etc. I think it's a cool idea to be late in the game and still encountering vestiges of enemy forces you've already fought and/or defeated earlier in the game. Especially since they'll be carrying sweet loots.
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PSX FFT Hacking / Re: ASM Requests
April 21, 2019, 02:47:19 am
Quote from: Glain on April 19, 2019, 11:56:37 am

<Patch name="JP Never Decreases">
  <Location file="WORLD_WORLD_BIN" offset="11FAD6" offsetMode="RAM">
    40
  </Location>
</Patch>



Works like a charm! Thanks so much for the response.
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PSX FFT Hacking / Re: ASM Requests
April 20, 2019, 10:26:06 pm
Quote from: Glain on April 19, 2019, 11:56:37 am
...Does this gameshark code actually work? It looks like it should crash the game...

But anyway, yes, this one would be:

<Patch name="Crashes game when learning ability">
  <Location file="WORLD_WORLD_BIN" offset="11FAD4" offsetMode="RAM">
    00 00
  </Location>
</Patch>


However, if you want one that doesn't crash the game:

<Patch name="JP Never Decreases">
  <Location file="WORLD_WORLD_BIN" offset="11FAD6" offsetMode="RAM">
    40
  </Location>
</Patch>



LOL I had not tested the code myself, so I appreciate you giving me both the busted version and the real one. I'll test this out tonight (the good one that is). Thank you!
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PSX FFT Hacking / Re: ASM Requests
April 18, 2019, 09:12:22 pm
Exactly! It's less about making it easier to buy skills, and more about avoiding the grind with jobs that have multiple 600+ JP skills. I like to think of it more like "well this black mage is pretty experienced...why couldn't he/she just buy all the *aga spells at once?" Having all the jobs cost nothing would mean there'd be no progression, but having the JP just be sort of a flat bar to raise means you're gaining experience and unlocking skills, not buying them with expendable currency.
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PSX FFT Hacking / Re: ASM Requests
April 18, 2019, 08:05:29 pm
Hello everyone~

I was wondering if there was a straightforward way to transform a gameshark code into an ASM hack? Specifically I'd like to patch "JP Never Decreases" into my game. The code I found for this is:

D004760C 0001
8011FAD4 0000

Or I suppose if there's already an ASM hack for this, that would also be super. I looked through as many lists as I could but didn't see it.