Text Editor

[Lydyn]

Not sure where else this would fit ... I got the text all spiffy-ed up an' stuff, but it's not really clear on how to get the new text file into the SCUS_942.21 so I can finish patching the game with the new descriptions and stuff...

Can anyone give me some insight to this? Thanks.

[LastingDawn]

Hmm? Melonhead's Text Editor?

[Lydyn]

I think so? I got it here with the .236 FFT Patcher... something like FFTacText or something. It saves as a .ffttext or something.

[LastingDawn]

Ah, well it;s not only the SCUS, it also patches into many smaller files.

[Lydyn]

Okay, well ... how do I do it?  

[LastingDawn]

The files it shows in the lower right hand corner, is what you're looking for, click on that, then click patch.

[Lydyn]

*Cries*

I have no clue what I did wrong, but I edited all Job Names, Job Descriptions, Skillset Names, and Skillset descriptions and ... uh, saved them and imported them in. One said the file I edited was longer (somehow) ... maybe that's the problem? Almost all the text was glitchy and errored. *Sigh*

Hey, thanks for letting me know how to do it though!

[LastingDawn]

It's imperfect currently. It's very tricky to switch anything, at the moment.

[Lydyn]

Ah, hm. Well, I'll leave well enough along for the moment then ... it's not like it's -needed- to function properly, just a really nice feature. It'll definitely have to be in my completed version of my patch though. *Nods*

Anywho, thanks again.

[Vanya]

I've only had problems when patching the compressed file so far.

[Lydyn]

... lucky. All my text messed up. I changed all text in about almost every file though, to make sure I covered all help text, descriptions, skill set names (like in formation and battle), job names, etc.

[Vanya]

I've been doing one file at a time to see what works and what doesn't.

[Lydyn]

Let me know which ones work. ^_^

[Vanya]

I will.

[Lydyn]

You ever figure this out?

Edit: Playing with it myself, and the ability to change the names of jobs, skillsets, and even abilities work just fine if you keep the length as it was originally ... all but the WORLD.BIN Ability Names. I can't figure out why that specifically is messing up though..

[Lydyn]

I think this deserves another post, just to bring this to people's attention ... and maybe that they have some ideas. I found out exactly what's wrong with renaming abilities in the WORLD.BIN file.. or rather, a side-effect of what's wrong. Basically once I edited the names, everything seemed to move down one notch ...

Example..
Stasis Sword became Split Punch, Lightning Stab became Holy Explosion, Cure became Cure 2, the Blank slot is now named 'Cure' since it's the next name down.. Move +2 became Move +3.

Now, they didn't actually become the other skill, but rather just took it's name on. I have no clue why either.. but otherwise nothing else is wrong.

[Lydyn]

Well! Yet another deserving post here ... seems if you edit the WORLD.BIN Class Descriptions, instead of them jumping one noth ahead, they jump 5! That means when you go to see what the description of Squire is, you get Priest instead, or if you try and check the Bard's description, you actually get Delita's Squire class (though you can't tell).

So, it's not entirely unworking, just a bit.. glitched.

[Lydyn]

Another update here! I would suggest not messing with the WORLD.BIN's class descriptions for now... I personally edited all mine with the fact in mind that everything jumps 5 notches down and so forth, and even it was fully edited, I couldn't load from the 'memory card' anymore. So, I don't know what's going on right now.

[Lydyn]

Well, assuming someone cares, lol ... I figured out the problem at least. They all jump 4 spaces ... *Facepalm* So I edited it and I could pull the memory card back up, but strangely.. all the descriptions are still messed up - having taken the job description from the job four spaces down (Squire takes Monk, Chemist takes Priest, etc).

So, I really don't know. Not that it's a huge deal in of itself, just makes things look .. tider. Well, if anyone else wants a go at trying to figure her out, let me know.

[Vanya]

I definitely care. Might be useful to melon, too.
Anyway, I guess the problem would have to with how the editor is inserting the compressed data. That's my best guess.