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War of the Lions Hacking / "Soft" Patch
February 15, 2012, 09:23:59 am
Hello there, guys! After some time away from FFT, I recently started playing it again. And one of the games I played while I was away is Monster Hunter Portable 3rd. In case you don't know, it is a somewhat popular game that, unfortunately, didn't see the light of a western release. That didn't stop third party translators from messing with it, though, and the latest patches really made a difference.

I'm telling you that because those guys use a very interesting technology to apply the patch to the game: instructions. Basically, you leave the ISO untouched and tell the PSP to use a plugin that will load certain instructions from a separate file, patching the information coming from the ISO (and if that's the case, AFAIK, from the UMD too) on the go. Of course, we are talking simple text substitution here, but if something like that could be applied to FFT:TWotL, think of the possibilities! You could have several mods installed at once using a fraction of the patched ISOs space, not to mention how easy and fast it would be to test new patches! And, if I'm correct, you could also "patch" an UMD!

Now, I know (ehm, at least, IIRC) most of you guys prefer to mod the PSX version of the game. Also, I'm aware that I can't code anything (well, maybe I could code some "Hello world!" message in .net, but I wouldn't count even on that =D), so I can't really help developing the idea. But I thought maybe you guys would like the idea, and be intrigued enough to give it a try, so I decided to share it with you! Hope it can be of use :)

Ehm, of course, this isn't simply a "look what I thought!" topic; discuss to your heart's content, and tell me what you think about its feasibility :)

PS: Not sure this would be the right forum section to post this topic, but lets hope it sees some love :)
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Hello, there, guys.

I'm trying to finish up this small mod I'm making for WotL (as already described here), and one of the things I wanted to do is edit the graphic that shows when a character attacks using a Materia Blade. I don't want to use a custom graphic, mind you, I just wanted to make the game use another inbuilt graphic.

Now, I've read these topics:
http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=5024.0
http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=296.msg4873#msg4873
http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=1483.0

But I couldn't really understand what to do. I extracted a battle.bin from my .iso, but when I look it up using a Hex Editor (I tried using Notepad++ with a hex addon, but ended up using WindHex, found somewhere else in these forums), the offset pointed by Vanya doesn't really match what he said... IF I understood correctly what he said.

So, I really just want to change one or two values to make the game show another graphic. What's the easiest way to do it? I'm not completely clueless, but a walkthrough as detailed as possible would be greatly appreciated!
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Help! / FFTacText Issues
May 02, 2011, 10:12:39 am
Hello there, guys!

I am making a little modification for my personal use. I am basically applying 1.3's changes to Cloud to a vanilla game, since the guy is pittiably weak in it.

The problem is, I want to do this to the PSP version of the game. While I figured it out what to do in the FFTPatcher department to apply the latest version's changes (and it is working all right), I can't quite solve the problem I'm having with FFTacText. It goes like this:

DTE for BOOT.BIN 5 failed.
The ISO has NOT been modified.

I reckon this is quite a common case with FFTacText .478 while trying to patch WotL. I've seen most people saying to just give up and patch the PSX version instead, but this isn't an option, since I play Melee and Rendezvous all the time with some friends, and this will be something like a fix for our play group.

I was wondering: would an older version of TacText work with patching WotL? If so, where could I find some? I have a very old one lying around, .271, but I don't know of its stability, and unfortunately it doesn't have that extremely useful option of "QuickEdit'.

If I can't find a way to do this, I might just as well note down the changes and send them to the guys, but I wanted to do something a bit more tidy and "complete" =/