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The unknown flags in shishi are actually for the sprite's "height" value - most units are 36 (3 tiles), Altima 1 is 60 (5 tiles) and Altima 2 is 120 (10 tiles) tall. This affects things like arrow arcing and deciding where a unit can pass on the map if there's a spot where there's a higher tile on the same X/Y (like in the cases of bridges).
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Help! / Re: Question about Martial Arts/Brawler
September 25, 2013, 03:35:16 am
Quote from: formerdeathcorps on September 24, 2013, 03:09:44 am
This all looks reasonable until we have a healing / drain spell on an undead who is both weak to and absorbs an element.  After UR flips the sign, what's next?  Do we always apply absorb first and then weak?  Vice-Versa?  Or do we manipulate the order to always damage the target?  Or should the target always be healed instead?


The problem is that Absorb and Weak are essentially complete opposites, so combining them is a bit of an oddball (which I forgot, because derpy me didn't think about the two being able to coexist). Some possible outcomes could be:

1). Cancel both and make the resistance Neutral.

Sort of a "can't stack" situation, similar to haste and slow. Would be a way for a person to cancel their weakness by adding absorption equipment (rather than stacking effects), or a way to cancel an enemy's absorb effect by inflicting elemental weakness.

2). Combine them to enhance the effect of Absorb (higher elemental effect due to weakness, but still absorbing).

Since there's already a way to cause reduced absorption (Absorb + Half), this would be a way to potentially boost the Absorb effect (Absorb * 150% or so). Could be overpowered though, but could also be useful on enemy units.

3). Skip checking Weak if the unit has Absorb, since Absorb takes priority (or vice versa).

Not the best solution really, but would allow either the Weak effect or the Absorb effect, but not both. Kind of a way to prevent potential OPness of 2 while still allowing some effect, but I'd rather see one of the other options used.

4). Have the same effect as Absorb + Half, but able to stack with Half (potential quarter absorption).

Another possibility, this time making weakness essentially causing your Absorb "skill" to be reduced due to having lower affinity with the element... or something. Since weakness normally causes additional damage, having it reduce the beneficial side of things (essentially giving or taking 50% depending on the situation) could be a decent solution.


Overall, I think I'd prefer either 1 or 4 as possible solutions, with 1 probably being the easy way out while still having potential tactical use if there's weakness-inducing abilities like Oil, or to neutralize a weakness from one piece of equipment/the character's job with another piece of equipment. There's obviously lots of stuff that could be done with elements, and all of them have their ups and downs, so which one's the "best" is kind of hard to decide. :P
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Help! / Re: Question about Martial Arts/Brawler
September 23, 2013, 06:43:49 pm
Quote from: formerdeathcorps on September 23, 2013, 04:53:46 pm
2) Healing Spell: How should it apply if it is both elemental and undead reverse?  In other words, if it hits an undead target that absorbs the element, what should we do?


Here's my take on how elemental and undead reversal should work together (this is using example values to show how things would work):

Healing spell:
Resistance = Normal healing/UR damage
Absorb = 150%/-50%
Neutral = 100%
Half = 50%
Null = 0%
Weak = -50%/150%

Healing causes damage to undead by default, but absorbing the element of the healing spell they'd be able to heal a small amount of the spell - absorbing the element cancels the damaging part, leaving the elemental absorption effect. Being weak to the element would cause additional damage due to the base damage from reversed healing and damage from the element itself.

Absorption spell:
Resistance = Normal damage/UR healing
Absorb = -50%/150%
Neutral = 100%
Half = 50%
Null = 0%
Weak = 150%/-50%

If you absorb the element used normally, you'd be able to override the absorb effect of the caster and instead absorb some of their health, while being weak to the element causes them to absorb more from you. Undead would combine the absorb effect from elemental affinity and from being undead to absorb more from the caster, while being weak would cancel out their undead "bonus" and leave them with their weakness, allowing the caster to absorb from the undead.

NOTE: Caster and target of absorption abilities both being undead could have a different effect, possibly reverting to normal absorb effect. Could also allow undead weak to the absorption attack's element to just halve the effect, still causing the undead to absorb from the caster (same goes for normal absorption of the element).


Feel free to hate on this idea, it's just how I see the element and undead reversal working together. I've also been away from this section of Battle.bin for a while, so forgive me if I'm forgetting stuff/derping hard.
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Well, I know how to change the displayed status names, but I haven't found the actual code/tables for the status bubbles (the ones with the symbols in them) that I remember. Just another thing I'll need to go through eventually.

Also, I hate graphical code.
:gay:
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Spam / Re: The room adventures - ressurection.
June 08, 2012, 03:57:07 am
Absorb SUPER-HEATED SINGING OOZE to gain FIRE BREATHING, then breathe fire on the JUKEBOX. We are evil - we can't have GOOD MUSIC, only CRIES OF AGONY!!
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Spam / Re: The room adventures - ressurection.
May 25, 2012, 04:19:25 pm
Break EMERGENCY GLASS and don the EMERGENCY TOP HAT to perform the EMERGENCY RAIN DANCE (rain may or may not be fiery  :twisted:).
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Spam / Re: The room adventures - ressurection.
May 22, 2012, 10:05:41 pm
Jump left into the POSSIBLY BOTTOMLESS PIT (because the door is an obvious trap) and use the CAPE OF INVISIBILITY as a parachute... of invisibility!
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I am definitely in. Now I just need to get around to making a team...
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PSX FFT Hacking / Re: ASM Collective BATTLE.BIN Map
February 08, 2011, 07:42:34 am
Throughout your code here, you have 1938F0 as XA2's location (which is actually Ability's Range) when XA2 is located at 1938D0; if you were to use 1938F0 as the ending pointer, your initial loop would override everything past the actual XA2 location until it stopped at 1938F0. 1938CE + 2 = 1938D0 = XA2's location.


Instead of:

andi r3, r3, 0x0003
sll r3, r3, 0x0002
addiu r3, r3, 0x0001

you could instead do:

srl r3, r3, 0x02

and just change the checks around a bit to achieve the same thing (instead of checking for < 4/8/12, you can check for < 1/2/3; in the following section you could change = 5/!= 13 -> = 1/!= 3). You would also need to flip the flags around in FFTP so that 0-3 = XA1, and 4-C = XA2 (instead of 0-3 = XA2, 4-C = XA1), otherwise it'd check XA1 for determining things in the support check code.


As for the:

sra r3, r3, 0x1F
mfhi r4
subu r4, r4, r3

section, do you really need to have the sra/subu? Maybe I'm missing something, but I never really saw the reason for this :/.


I don't really notice anything that is wrong, but you'll know for sure if anything is off by following it while the game is running :P. I can't really think of anything else to change; it looks pretty good.
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PSX FFT Hacking / Re: ASM Collective BATTLE.BIN Map
January 06, 2011, 05:20:00 am
http://www.filefront.com/17756931/New-Folder.rar/

I should have had a bit more done with this, but i jump around WAY too much :P. Maybe once we get a group together to work on stuff, i will be more motivated to stick with it.

I will continue to work towards cleaning up my data locations file a bit, and updating the pointers to the many sections of the formula data, which i started on but didn't finish :/.
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Eternal
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FFT Arena / Re: Arena battle topic
September 08, 2010, 05:19:44 am
Came up with a new team that will hopefully last a bit longer than my old joke team :P.

EDIT: Modified my Samurai/Summoner a bit, and rearranged order.

Celes
Female
Virgo
40
70
Wizard
Time Magic
Absorb Used MP
Short Charge
Move-MP UP
Wizard Rod

Golden Hairpin
Chameleon Robe
Genji Gauntlet

Flare, Fire, Bolt, Ice 2


Terra
Female
Taurus
60
40
Samurai
Elemental
Counter Flood
Equip Shield
Move-HP UP
Venetian Shield
C Bag
Circlet
Platina Armor
Diamond Armlet

Murasame, Muramasa, Bizen Boat
All Geomancy


Fina
Female
Serpentarius
40
40
Chemist
Elemental
Counter Flood
Magic Attack UP
Move-HP UP
Mythril Gun

Thief Hat
Black Costume
Magic Ring

Hi-Ether, Phoenix Down, Maiden's Kiss
All Geomancy


Yuna
Female
Capricorn
40
70
Summoner
Time Magic

Short Charge
Float
Wizard Staff

Green Beret
White Robe
Magic Ring

Moogle, Ifrit, Ramuh, Shiva, Fairy, Silf, Cyclops
Haste
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FFT Arena / Re: FFT Arena: Item Discussion Thread
September 08, 2010, 12:56:28 am
It seems to me that the Wizard Robe is fairly low on overall stats compared to the other robes (other robes 125-130 total HP/MP, some with bonuses, and Wizard Robe has a measly 72 total with MA + 2), which I think could do well with a slight increase to 55-60 HP/25-30 MP, which still isn't much, but is better than where it stands now.

Even if you leave the above where it is, it would still be nice to have a MA + 1 option for the robes, similar to what the clothes have (with around 60-65 HP/35-40 MP or so), just to have something else to use for MA instead of the Wizard Robe/Outfit.
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FFT Arena / Re: Arena battle topic
September 07, 2010, 03:17:47 am
Super Craptastic team GO!

Palette 1, 5

Cecil
Male
Scorpio
50
60
Paladin
Yin Yang Magic
Counter
Defense UP
Move-HP UP
Rune Blade
Venetian Shield
Ribbon
Chameleon Robe
Cursed Ring

Primary Abilities: Dia (150), Consecration (300)
Secondary Abilities: Spell Absorb (100), Life Drain (200), Zombie (200), Paralyze (100)


Terra
Female
Taurus
60
40
Samurai
Item
MA Save
Equip Shield

Escutcheon II
Murasame
Circlet
Platina Armor
108 Gems

Primary Abilities: Murasame (200), Kotetsu (200), Asura (200), Heaven's Cloud (200)
Secondary Abilities: Phoenix Down (100), Soft (220), Ether (100)


Celes
Female
Virgo
55
70
Scholar
Summon Magic
Counter Flood
Equip Shield

Rune Blade
Aegis Shield
Flash Hat
Black Robe
Small Mantle

Primary Abilities: Mad Science (50), Bio (50), Bio 2 (180), Bio 3 (350)
Secondary Abilities: Moogle (80), Ifrit (180), Fairy (200), Silf (200), Odin (200)


Balthier
Male
Pisces
70
40
Archer
Punch Art
Speed Save
Concentrate

Night Killer
Crystal Shield
Thief Hat
Judo Outfit
Power Wrist

Primary Abilities: Seal Evil (200), Greased Bolt (250), Execute (200)
Secondary Abilities: Chakra (300), Revive (420)

Can only imagine how hard this team will fail  :P.
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Spam / Re: The room.
May 14, 2010, 04:01:52 pm
EAT LINK'S HEART to satisfy HUNGER, thus becoming LINK yourself.
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Help! / Re: Patching Error w/Onion Knight Sprite
March 18, 2010, 03:23:59 am
Every other change carries over BUT the sprite change. Here is a pic showing the first battle after installing the most recent patch which should have had the onion knight sprite replace the squire sprite: