Final Fantasy Hacktics

Yo! You still remember me? I'm the crazy German guy who made a tool to edit text once (this one). Well, it wasn't nice and most likely full of bugs ...
However, I was sick the last days so I decided to just do this again. The result: A nice Java-Tool that can read and write texts, woohoo. It supports uncompressed texts, single-byte texts and LZSS-compressed texts*. It's still a beta because I'm too busy to test everything. It's a start at least .

* Written LZSS-texts are still uncompressed, but marked as LZSS-compressed. That's necessary because texts in scripts have to be compressed. At least it looks like it.

The tool requires Java 8, get it here. The source code is available at Github. Complete without docs because I'm lazy.

You can get the latest version from Github, too: https://github.com/looperhacks/FFTAText/releases

Usage
After starting the tool, you get prompted for a file. Just choose your rom. The next window has two textfields: The big one for text, the small one for the offset. Everything else should be self-explanatory.

Oh, this tool doesn't support all the nice characters the game supports. If you look at the character-table, only characters starting with 0x80 are supported. Kana aren't supported, either, but all the characters from the European version are supported (äßúîò, etc).

So ... that's it. If you find any bugs, please post them here. I'm planning to add some features later, but if you have an idea, you can post them, too .

Posting it in General, because I'm not sure whether this could be considered as a suggestion.

I've seen the FFT:Arena Mod and the tournaments... Did you ever thought about a FFTA-Tournament? (I don't know whether FFT had Multiplayer and whether it works with Emulators^^)
There's the possibility to battle against each other and with the VBA-Link you could battle over the Internet. You could also use a rebalanced Patch^^
With each sentence I believe more and more, that this should be written in "Suggestions"...
As someone who played FFTA before FFT(and never player FFT for long, sorry) and whose PC is too slow to emulate FFT properly I really like the Idea of such a tournament.

What do you think?

... I'll introduce myself.
My last post here is a long time ago, but hey, I'm still a hacker and a FFT Fan, so I thought that I could look what's up here again.

I'm looper, a German hacker who earns his money with programming. Even now my English isn't the best, but I hope that I can train a little.
Some maybe remember me (yeah, sure.[/sarcasm]) I made some crappy and partly not working tools for FFTA, but I'll look into FFT hacking, too. (Now.)

Well, I hope that I won't leave FFHacktics that fast like last time 

Okay, here the 2nd. Tool...

I didn't tested it for long, but it should work

Overview:

Version: 0.1 Beta

What does the program?
It's made for editing the jobs in FFTA(U)

Features in V0.1 Beta

    * Editing of Jobs
    * Editing of Job-Requirements(no perfect handling)

Features that won't work

    * Adding new Jobs
    * Editing Races
    * Editing the playable-property

Features which I will add in the next Version(maybe)

    * List of Jobs

Other

    * tested with american FFTA-ROM(FFTA_USVER AFXE)
    * Job/Racelist: http://datacrystal.romhacking.net/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Tactics_Advance:Jobs#Default_List_of_Jobs
    * There is an issue: After editing a job, it can happen(and I think it will happen) that selecting the "Status" in the menu will cause a blackscreen. I didn't find out why it happens and I have no Clue how to fix this. Sorry.
    * I'm not sure, wether all properties which are available are listed in the program, but I thik it should be.

Downloads

    * Actual Version: FFTA Job Editor V0.1 BETA

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I recently started hacking the jobs. It looks good, and I think that I can present a tool soon.

But now I have the following problem:
After I changed some of the status values, there is a great bug: When selecting the status option, the screen fades out and freezes black.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

You can keep language mistakes

Hey, I want to present my first RH Tool, the FFTA Texthacker

Overview:

Version: 0.1a

Features in V0.1a

   * Editing of normal Texts
   * Saving(truly)

Features, which won't work in the current Version

   * Searching of Offsets
   * Use of hexadecimal Numbers(=>u must use decimal Numbers)

Features, which are waiting to be added

   * Editing of encoded Texts
   * checking Offsets
   * checking number of Chars left
   * uhm, i Don't know a word, but working with Pointers

Miscellaneous

   * Offsets for American Version: http://datacrystal.romhacking.net/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Tactics_Advance:String_Tables
   * Long Texts seem to be encoded, I didn't find them.
    * .NET Framework V3 is needed

Downloads

   * Actual Version: V0.1 AlphaFFTA_Texthacker.rar


Have Fun!
For Questions: looperhacks@yahoo.com or "shakutorimushi" or "looper" at http://board.romresources.net (german)

Be gentle about Language^^

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