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Don't take it personal, I've been wanting to figure out a solution to this for years. I just happened to think of something today, that's all.

Learning abilities in order would require an ASM hack... it would be fairly tedious to code for the player, but quite a bit more trouble to code it for event/battle-generated units since there would need to be code to learn a skillset in a specific order unless you just have your skillsets nicely ordered and every "requirement" ability would need to be above the ones that require it.

You can set a bunch of different requirements, including equipment types, for abilities, just like Holy Sword or Limit would require with my Ability Requirement Hack (I advise against 1.32; use 1.2). My ARH2 is going to be a lot more flexible and powerful, but it will require ASM hacking, something I'm guessing it out of your league (at the very least for now).

Is it possible to make it so that Guests cannot change classes or gear?

You could probably force the game to read slot 17-20 as monster types (only when checking their ability/item menus though), but that would still be a bit of trouble to code.

Long story short, the creator of the mod used to be so proud to call his difficulty mod a community mod here on FFHacktics... he publicly harassed one of our members so much that ~8 of our members personally PMed me to tell me to do something about it. I gave him a one week ban to which he retaliated with "let's lie out of my ass about the situation to everyone to lure them to my new website and try to delete as many forum posts as I can from FFHacktics", so, obviously, it had to become a permanent ban. Today the mod is hosted elsewhere, and it's gotten so much worse than it ever was. Most of the members here are not very familiar with the mod, especially the newer versions, as it is not hosted here anymore. The author also removed all previously existing credits from users here on FFH, and insists that he and only he made the mod.

So yeah:

• People won't get support here, as it is hosted and developed somewhere else now
• It's a relic of the past
• It just really sucks now (that is even disregarding my hate towards difficulty mods; the best version [by like, everyone's opinion] was released few months before the whole thing happened)

Any battle can only have up to 16 units, it can be 11 monks + 5 of the player's units (this is an actual random battle in vanilla).
Any battle can only have up to 9 sprites loaded at any given time. It's just not possible to alter this for random battles. For story battles, vanilla pulls out a trick a few times, like at Orbonne (first battle) where it unloads the sprites of your opponents in order to load in Delita, Ovelia and the Chocobo.

In random battles, as soon as the ENTD has 4 sprites loaded (5 are reserved for the player; 9 total), it will completely ignore units that does not match one of those 4 sprites, and not even try to generate them. In story battle, you'll just have a nice graphical glitch; the sprite won't be loaded, but the unit will exist and will be functional.

AFAIK, "Always Present" means the unit will always be created if the game can afford to load a new sprite, or if it is already loaded. "Randomly Present" has ~50% chance of creating the unit or not. If it fails to, it gives a chance for the next unit at the same location to draw.

Sprites are different looking unit graphics. Male and Female Priests look different, they use different sprites. Chocobo, Black Chocobo, Red Chocobo do not look different, they're just different colours (i.e. a different palette). They still share the same sprite.

For example, let's take this ENTD (let's just assume they all have different X/Y coordinates):

Legend:


It could generate:

Or even:

Or still:


As for the whole undead thing... you can't really make them undead. It's possible, but it's extremely complicated. What you can do though, is either creating a custom job with the permanent undead status (that's what vanilla did), or equip a Cursed Ring and give that unit Maintenance.

If you really want all those units available at the same time, you could only use 4 "Sprite Sets" total, and they would all need to be special character sprites, since you can't select generic male/female/monster sprites under the Sprite Set dropdown.

Well, it would be an extremely simple ASM hack to make, but it would still be an ASM hack... in WotL. I don't hack WotL, so even if I made a hack for the PSX version, I couldn't guarantee its compatibility in WotL.

I really wish the game would just let you see when the action would resolve... just like it does for every other action in the game. :/

This seems to be the routine in question (PSX): http://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Jump
From what I see, it would be a simple matter of replacing
00195ad0: sb r2,0x0001(r16) with sb r0,0x0001(r16)

This should make the jump action take place immediately. You would still be unable to Move after the action, though.

Shishi will show you all the animations you want and highlight each part that it uses with a yellow rectangle... that's how you know. Making a FFT sprite is about viewing the animations in Shishi to make sure it looks good, and edit the sprite bmp itself in the sprite editing program of your choice.

Slow ppf-o-matic? Read this!

http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=11092.msg215954#msg215954 http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=11092.msg211814#msg211814 Did you have fun clicking all the way here? You could've just quoted my post to see faster. It really was weegie I'm serious, you just wasted your time  Why would you do that to yourself? D: *sigh* I give up. /spoiler]

http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=8051.0

But hey, it doesn't work. All I have to say to fdc is:


Because it's an enormous endeavor of astronomical proportions, and with how easy it is with Chotokukyan and SecondAdvent's documentation on the wiki to create custom formulas, I just don't see a point to doing so.