Final Fantasy Hacktics

After spending a day and a half figuring out how to properly replace the male samurai sprite with the
custom made one available on the site, here's a quick tutorial I was asked to write up. 

This is pretty tame compared to replacing a actual story character but will still take about half a hour.

How to Replace a Sprite Correctly in WotL:
(Example used M Samurai by Lijj)

Programs needed:

FFTEVGRP         - For changing formation sprites
FFTpatcher        - Latest Version
Graphics Gale    - To properly edit the formation and portrait sprites
UMDGEN           - For extracting the ISO and re-compiling it

Other stuff needed:
FFT:WoTL ISO
M Samurai.bmp

• Open Shishi and open the iso.


• Scroll down to 7B Male Samurai


• Click sprite import and choose BMP (Shishi has a smaller limit then the SPR file size)


• Select the custom M samurai.bmp.


• Confirm that the sprite now displayed has changed to the new one.


• Exit Shishi (Changes save automatically)

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• Unzip the ISO to get to FFTPACK.BIN


• Start FFTPatcher and select PSP -> Utilities -> extract FFTPACK.BIN


• Close FFTPatcher

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• Navigate to the folder where you extracted FFTPACK.BIN


• In the EVENT folder you can find UNIT.BIN, this is needed next.

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• Launch FFTEVGRP


• Click file -> Open -> UNIT.BIN


• In the Character dropdown box, scroll to 34 Samurai (Male).


• Save the BMP of 34 Samurai (Male)

At this point you will need to use Celdia's Formation sprite tutorial HERE
to convert both the custom images for UNIT.BIN & WLDFACE.BIN

• At this point you should have updated both your UNIT.BIN & WLDFACE.BIN with the custom images via Celdia's Tutorial.


• Start FFTPatcher again go to PSP -> Utilities -> Recompile FFTPACK.BIN

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• Open UMDGen


• Select and Open your WotL ISO and Extract Image to an empty folder.


• Now open UMDGen and open the ISO and Extract Image to an empty folder.


• Navigate to the folder that your extracted your image to.


• Replace the FFTPACK.BIN in that folder with the one you just recompiled with FFTPatcher.


• Go back to UMDGen


• Select New, then Right Click the Large White Open Box and select Add Existing Folder


• Select PSP game in the folder you extracted to earlier.


• Then Right Click again and Add Existing File and select UMD_DATA.BIN
  • (same folder you extracted to, just isn't selected when you clicked the other one)


• Rename No Label to SD then save as ISO.


• Congrats, you're done!

!!SUCCESS!!