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  • [May 01, 2012, 04:53:01 AM]
Re: FFT Patcher .478 Source Code
« Reply #160 on: May 01, 2012, 04:53:01 AM »
not sure if this one fell through the cracks, but i think its worth putting in there for the next build. Death to monk over-poweredness.

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Not sure if you saw my question earlier but i'll re-ask it because i dont want it to be lost in the mix, what exactly do the "Sprite Hacks" do?
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  • [May 02, 2012, 12:09:52 AM]
Re: FFT Patcher .478 Source Code
« Reply #161 on: May 02, 2012, 12:09:52 AM »
Were the sprite hacks added into the default XML for FFTorgASM recently? If so, I think fdc might know what they are, but I'm not sure.
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  • [May 02, 2012, 10:55:07 AM]
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« Reply #162 on: May 02, 2012, 10:55:07 AM »
I think they're the ones made by Xif that let you use all 8 palettes.

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  • [May 02, 2012, 09:53:27 PM]
Re: FFT Patcher .478 Source Code
« Reply #163 on: May 02, 2012, 09:53:27 PM »
Off-Topic: Do those hacks work, bug-free?  Because that's awesome.
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  • [May 04, 2012, 01:32:30 AM]
Re: FFT Patcher .478 Source Code
« Reply #164 on: May 04, 2012, 01:32:30 AM »
AFAIK the palette hack works, since I use it in events to make 2 versions of the same non-generic sprite have different palettes, but if this is the
one I'm thinking of, it caused bugs when picking up the crystals/chests of the higher numbered palettes (6-8 ?)

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  • [May 06, 2012, 03:00:41 PM]
Re: FFT Patcher .478 Source Code
« Reply #165 on: May 06, 2012, 03:00:41 PM »
Pride pointed out a problem with the ASM encoder in MHA; since the one in FFTorgASM uses the same one, I'm also patching it here. I'm just calling this 482 v2.
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  • [August 05, 2012, 06:49:06 AM]
Re: FFT Patcher .478 Source Code
« Reply #166 on: August 05, 2012, 06:49:06 AM »
Getting some serious bugs with the FFTacText.  I need to do further investigation tomorrow, but it seems that the Ability Names that are supposed to display overhead are being written as blank text data and the Ability Name list is being written to the Post Action Battle Messages because I'm getting things like Brave Up displaying "Death" after use and Break skills displaying "Slow", etc.
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  • [August 15, 2012, 07:05:42 PM]
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« Reply #167 on: August 15, 2012, 07:05:42 PM »
Can we come up with a reproducible scenario for this?
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  • [August 15, 2012, 07:50:47 PM]
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« Reply #168 on: August 15, 2012, 07:50:47 PM »
For reference, I fixed this by patching the same .ffttext file with FFTacText .457.  I can edit in .482 but it seems I need to use .457 to patch things after I finish doing my edits.  Either my FFTacText glitched the fuck out from the fact I'd basically rewritten everything inside it, or there's an error in the writing-to-game procedure.

Also, unrelated, not sure if this is true for other versions of OrgASM, but with .482 OrgASM, once I apply ASMs to an ISO, it won't allow me to choose new ASMs and apply them to the ISO without restarting the program.  Visually, I can click the boxes, choose a new ISO to patch, etc., so it looks like it works... but if you actually check the ISO, no edit has been made with your new choices.
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  • [August 15, 2012, 08:24:41 PM]
Re: FFT Patcher .478 Source Code
« Reply #169 on: August 15, 2012, 08:24:41 PM »
Glain, could you tell me how to setup my Windows to edit FFTP's source? I want to add the MON SHP + SEQ to finally allow spriters to test their monster sprites in shishi. I have already messed with those file format in the past btw.

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  • [August 16, 2012, 03:32:13 AM]
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« Reply #170 on: August 16, 2012, 03:32:13 AM »
I just uploaded the current FFTP source to the Google code page I made for it (I have a separate one from melonhead's original) at http://code.google.com/p/fftpatcher-mod/downloads/list

You basically just need to open the .sln file with a C# IDE. I'm using SharpDevelop, as it's open source. When you compile the project, it builds all the EXEs at once (Patcher, Tactext, FFTorgASM, Shishi), and you navigate to that folder into the bin/ directory to find it. Generally it's bin/x86/Debug in each project folder, I believe.

In theory, you should be able to use source control like SVN to check out all the source code, but I'm having some issues with that, because I used SVN to check out from melonhead's project when I started updating FFTP, and I think SVN still thinks the two are tied together even though I've separated them. So anyway, for now I just uploaded the source as a zip file.
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  • [August 17, 2012, 05:23:10 AM]
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« Reply #171 on: August 17, 2012, 05:23:10 AM »
Quote from: RavenOfRazgriz on August 15, 2012, 07:50:47 PM
For reference, I fixed this by patching the same .ffttext file with FFTacText .457.  I can edit in .482 but it seems I need to use .457 to patch things after I finish doing my edits.  Either my FFTacText glitched the fuck out from the fact I'd basically rewritten everything inside it, or there's an error in the writing-to-game procedure.

Also, unrelated, not sure if this is true for other versions of OrgASM, but with .482 OrgASM, once I apply ASMs to an ISO, it won't allow me to choose new ASMs and apply them to the ISO without restarting the program.  Visually, I can click the boxes, choose a new ISO to patch, etc., so it looks like it works... but if you actually check the ISO, no edit has been made with your new choices.

I've heard .457 is the only one that does the PSP changes correctly, too. Maybe there was something changed between .457 and .478 that did something weird when you have large amounts of text changed? The only thing I really changed in the later versions of Tactext was QuickEdit, and that just tells TacText what to change without modifying the patching process, so if that part works I would assume it's a problem from before I started doing anything with it, though I haven't really done all that much testing myself.

That's interesting about orgASM too. I'm not sure I noticed, but then again, I usually just open, select ASMs, patch ISO, and close...
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  • [September 21, 2012, 12:36:28 AM]
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« Reply #172 on: September 21, 2012, 12:36:28 AM »
So, random thought. Is there any way we could get a Copy Item function in the next update, if/when that happens?

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  • [September 21, 2012, 02:29:32 PM]
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« Reply #173 on: September 21, 2012, 02:29:32 PM »
Probably! Copy/pasting one item over another, with ctrl+c/ctrl+v support, like in other sections?

Sounds good.  I haven't edited FFTP code in a while but this certainly sounds doable.  If I get a few more feature suggestions I could make a sizable update out of this; otherwise I guess I could do an update with just this in it (I don't really know of anything else to put in... maybe I just need more suggestions).
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  • [September 21, 2012, 07:59:09 PM]
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« Reply #174 on: September 21, 2012, 07:59:09 PM »
Exactly that. I know it'd save me a lot of time, at least.

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  • [September 22, 2012, 01:22:22 AM]
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« Reply #175 on: September 22, 2012, 01:22:22 AM »
We really could use a rename feature for stuff inside the patcher.
(i.e. let me rename the displayed name on the patcher, so skill 002 isn't referenced as "Cure 2/Cura")
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  • [September 22, 2012, 02:22:32 AM]
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« Reply #176 on: September 22, 2012, 02:22:32 AM »
Export Resources.zip and edit the files inside it.
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  • [April 18, 2013, 03:43:09 PM]
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« Reply #177 on: April 18, 2013, 03:43:09 PM »
Apparently the unknown flag under hit allies is "Top down targeting" as referenced by SA:

00179360: 10c00006 beq r6,r0,0x 0017937c      Branch if Top-down Targeting = False
00179364: 00e4102a slt r2,r7,r4
00179368: 14400003 bne r2,r0,0x 00179378      Branch if Low Height < High Height
0017936c: 00000000 nop            (basically target from top down)

Although i'm not exactly sure what this does, just figured i'd make a note of it. It's in the "Check vertical tolerance and if tiles can be chosen" routine: http://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Check_Vert_Tolerance_and_if_Tiles_can_be_Chosen
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  • [April 26, 2013, 05:02:29 PM]
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« Reply #178 on: April 26, 2013, 05:02:29 PM »
Working list for the next version:

More copy/paste functionality (Items, Animations, Monster Skills, Action Menus, Status Effects, Inflict Statuses, Poaching, Move-Find Item, Propositions)
Rename flag under Hit Allies? (Need to trace routine / decipher what it really does)
Label/group AI bytes in ENTD based on Raven's post (http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=9618.0)
Add one to IDs in Shishi sprite dropdown
Display Shishi frame/animation number in hex
ASM patcher offset mode attribute
Add Effect dropdown to more abilities (Items, Other?)
Fix Proposition default values for level bonuses
Proposition Entries should display * next to name if changed

That's actually still not too much stuff.  I guess "Fix TacText" would be pretty high up on the list, but I'm not really sure what its deal is.  My best bet might be to just try to analyze what was changed in TacText between .457 and .479.  Also, the PSP apparently has problems with everything past .457? 

Edit: Updating this post to make my list into a working list for the next version.  I'll update it periodically and bold things that (I think) I have working in my local build.
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  • [April 26, 2013, 05:41:00 PM]
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« Reply #179 on: April 26, 2013, 05:41:00 PM »
IIRC, I used the latest Tactext for KO PSP, and it worked fine. You just need to cut away a ton of Kanji and shorten some text in certain files.

Can we incorporate Raven's AI findings into the next version somehow?

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