Razele's ASM Hacks

[Zozma]

i think it causes a problem with equipment tho. you might not gain the benifits from equips because of the monster gender.

[Kaijyuu]

Ooh, you're right. Didn't notice that...

Alright, change my request now to what's probably a difficult one: Characters with monster gender can gain benefit from equipment.

EDIT: Tested the suggestion of checking both "female" and "monster", too. It limits the correct jobs, and has the equipment side effect. Adds additional problems though: Sprites on the job wheel are female; I'd prefer them male (are when monster gender alone is checked). And the death scream is female.
Limiting classes through the monster gender alone would be preferred.

[Dokurider]

Couple of questions:

1. Is it possible that Defense Armlet, in addition to lowering Brave vs Reaction Commands can also reduce Brave vs Brave Weapons?

2. Now that you can change crit rates, can you increase hit rates for Katanas?

3. Can you rework Drain so that it doesn't rape Zodiacs and thus can be reintroduced?

[Austin]

For #3 you can just make the spells dark elemental and make the Zodiacs immune.

[Dokurider]

That doesn't work. Drain effect overrides immunity somehow.

[Vanya]

IIRC, one of the drain formulas doesn't override dark immunity.

[Skip Sandwich]

that would be the Demi formula

[Kaijyuu]

Doesn't this one work for that?

Formula 10 [Life Drain, Drain]
10 AbsHP_(Y)% * MaxHP Hit_F(MA+X)% NS becomes 10 AbsHP_(Y)% * Min(999,MaxHP) Hit_F(MA+X)% NS
BATTLE.BIN
0x11F62C change 00000000 to FF4D0508

0xEC7FC
E803622C
02004014
00000000
E7030334
8D190608
00000000

Caps the drain's formula at 999 hp, if I'm reading it correctly.

[Skip Sandwich]

what is does is cap the drain at a % of 999 hp if max hp is higher then 999, so if it is set to drain 50% max hp from a target that has 20k hp, then it'll do ~450 damage instead of the normal 999.

[Kaijyuu]

Yup. So I think that'd fit the criteria of "doesn't rape zodiacs."

[Desocupado]

What about draining workin like: drain Min(X% of max hp,300)  Y% hit
~300 damage and healing is still good for a move.

Or even drain min(X%,Y) hit 100% , i.e. gives total control over maximum efficacy.

[Kaijyuu]

IMO, a more appropriate formula would take the caster's health, not the targets, to determine how much to drain. Or just take that variable out entirely and give it similar scaling to any other damage spell.

Arbitrary caps are well... arbitrary.

[Skip Sandwich]

actually, capping the amount drained based on caster health is a great idea! something like drain Min(X% of target max hp, Caster Max hp - Caster Current hp) Y% hit

[Yuri Otani]

sorry to butt in with a question from way long ago, but back on page 28 there was brief speculation on editing secret hunt so that any monster killed would make an item at the fur shop. later this was changed to combine secret hunt with equip bow (if I remember correctly)

was any progress made on that all attacks can poach an enemy ASM hack, before it was dropped for another edit? that's something I was looking for on my own and I was happy to see it in here when someone directed me to ASM hacks.

[Dokurider]

You guys should bring that to Voldemort's attention then.

[Archael]

You guys should bring that to Voldemort's attention then.

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There are no ASM hacks on this page I like

[Kokojo]

Request : Undead units can't revive afther 3 turns. (Oh, im gonna get so much hated...)

[Kokojo]

Request : Undead units can't revive afther 3 turns. (Oh, im gonna get so much hated...)

[FFMaster]

Defend Up innate all
BATTLE.BIN
0x11F2E6 change 0x40 to 0x20

Magic Defend Up innate all
BATTLE.BIN
0x11F336 change 0x40 to 0x20

Is there a way to make it enemies only?

[Razele]

Ooh, you're right. Didn't notice that...

Alright, change my request now to what's probably a difficult one: Characters with monster gender can gain benefit from equipment.

EDIT: Tested the suggestion of checking both "female" and "monster", too. It limits the correct jobs, and has the equipment side effect. Adds additional problems though: Sprites on the job wheel are female; I'd prefer them male (are when monster gender alone is checked). And the death scream is female.
Limiting classes through the monster gender alone would be preferred

Changing a unit's gender to monster will make that unit can't get HP / MP / stat bonus from equipment.
I'll work on this someday.
For now, just use Male / Female gender.

would you be able to do that for actual command sets since defend is in the list of skillsets. like for example what if i want the materia blade to have "holy sword".

Last time I check, AI can't use items with "Item innate all" hack.

1. Is it possible that Defense Armlet, in addition to lowering Brave vs Reaction Commands can also reduce Brave vs Brave Weapons?

Defense Armlet isn't Leather Mantle.

Defense Armlet : Increases chance to use reaction ability by 20% (Brave +20)
Leather Mantle : Reduces opponent's chance to use reaction ability by 15% (Brave -15)

2. Now that you can change crit rates, can you increase hit rates for Katanas?

I can increase Katana's hit rate, but it's not necessary.
Samurai prefers Draw Out rather than Katana anyway.

3. Can you rework Drain so that it doesn't rape Zodiacs and thus can be reintroduced?

Oracle's skillset :
Blind, Spell Absorb, Life Drain, Pray Faith, Doubt Faith, Zombie, Silence Song, Blind Rage, Foxbird, Confusion Song, Dispel Magic, Paralyze, Sleep, Petrify

Almost none of them works against Zodiac boss.
If I make Zodiac boss immune to Life Drain, is there any reason to bring Oracle / Ying-Yang Magic secondary against Zodiac boss (Hashmalum, Queklain) ?

What about draining workin like: drain Min(X% of max hp,300) Y% hit
~300 damage and healing is still good for a move.

You can easily do this by increasing Y formula of Life Drain to 33 in fftpatcher.

sorry to butt in with a question from way long ago, but back on page 28 there was brief speculation on editing secret hunt so that any monster killed would make an item at the fur shop. later this was changed to combine secret hunt with equip bow (if I remember correctly)

It's not combined with Equip Crossbow (support ability), it's combined with crossbows (items).

was any progress made on that all attacks can poach an enemy ASM hack, before it was dropped for another edit? that's something I was looking for on my own and I was happy to see it in here when someone directed me to ASM hacks.

Go to http://ffhacktics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1785
Ctrl+F "Secret Hunt innate all"

You guys should bring that to Voldemort's attention then.

I believe 1.3 won't use any asm hack unless it deals with balance issue that can't be solved with fftpatcher
(Rafa, Undead & Phoenix Down, Transparent issue, etc)

Request : Undead units can't revive afther 3 turns. (Oh, im gonna get so much hated...)

Any good reason why you want this hack ?
This means any unit with Undead status can't get healed and revived.

Is there a way to make it enemies only?

Yeah I can make it for enemies only, although it won't be compatible with several hacks since they will use the same trigger.