Changed One Ability for Squire with FFTPatcher and Now Copies Contain Errors

[JoGrSeventyFive]

Hi guys,

Disclaimer: I'm a complete n00b with no clue what I'm doing. I spent most of the day reading the forums and trying to get a semblance of how to use all the tools, but am clearly still failing.

I made a few copies of the game and left them in my work folder. Using FFTPatcher, I only made one alteration to see if it would work: I gave the Squire class the spell "Fire 4." When I started a new game to see if it worked, I found that there were strange markings in the jobs/abilities menus for the characters. The squire *did* have Fire 4, though. Now, though, all the copies have the same problem. I even downloaded an entirely NEW copy of the game, and even *that* copy had the weird markings everywhere.


Any ideas as to what I did wrong? I'm feeling pretty lost with all this stuff, despite having spent the better part of my day trying to acquaint myself with it all.

Thanks!

[Jumza]

It's an emulator bug, not a game bug. Don't worry about it. Just fiddle (or download new video / graphics plugins) until they go away.

[JoGrSeventyFive]

Thanks for your response! I'll keep fiddling and try to make it work out! 

[3lric]

I assume you are using ePSXe. Consider downloading pSX 1.13 (aka psxfin) it's much more lightweight in terms of plug-ins and what not, and also allows for debugging and save state eventing.

[Kurosabes]

I'll second that. It took me a while to figure out how to not have a black world map in ePSXe, for instance. You can tweak a bit and get rid of your error, too, but with psxfin, you probably wouldn't have run into an issue like this in the first place.

[JoGrSeventyFive]

You guys are pretty experienced, it seems. You're absolutely right, I'm using ePSXe. I'll switch over to the other one and see if it makes a difference in the way it all plays.

I can't believe it took me so long to even hear that modding FFT was a thing. I've beaten it so many times and it never gets old, so I'm excited to see what I can do.

Thanks again!

EDIT: Just wanted to let you guys know that you're geniuses and guessed the problem right away. After switching, I no longer have any issues!

[3lric]

Glad you got it working man.