Final Fantasy Hacktics

Just an update for anyone who wants to do this. It can be done, but it is a bit of a hassle.

1) First you need a jail broken iPhone. This allows you to install the older version of the game (v.1.0.0) to your phone.
2) Then use iExplorer to copy the save file to your PC, change it name to lioneditor.bin and edit it with lion editor.  Change it's name back to FFTSAVE.bin and copy it back to your iPhone (using iExploer again)
3) open the game and minimize it.
4) delete the save file
5) maximize the game and save again.
6) update the game

All the edits will be there and your game will be current (HD graphics, no glitches or crashes).  The old version is really unreliable and looks really bad, making the update essential to enjoying the game. Step 4 and 5 makes me think the editor "corrupts" the save in same way. Hence the need to delete it and save again.  If you skip those two steps it will result in the same "no save file found" error. Not sure why but it does work. Hope this helps any iOS players.

Ah thanks.

I think I will just jail break my iphone and install an older version.... just have to wait for the jailbreak for 5.1.1 to come out....

Lesson: never upgrade your iOS or games unless it fixes something really big...
Thanks everyone.

Hmm I need to find this tool then.

Compressed?  Would that be why it can't be read by the new versions of WotL?  Because lion editor can only alter uncompressed save files? 

I guess I'll have to jail break my phone and install an older version of the game (if it even exists). Who is this Archemic?  Is he someone who can decompress the save (so it can be edited) and recompressed (so it will read on the iPhone)? 

Still no luck?  Anything I can do to help?

equiped itmes
right hand: ninja blade
left hand: iron flail
head: green beret
body: Brigandine
accessory: power gauntlet

abilities
secondary: mettle (ch 2,3)
react: adrenaline rush
support: poach
movement: Move +2

Here's the link for it.

http://www.2shared.com/file/7_F2AIqM/FFTSAVE.html

It has two saves on it, I'll give you the later one.

Gil: 31060
Ramza ninja 54: hp=212, br=84, fa=70, mp=39, sp=12, PA=13, MA=7
Osric black mage 51: hp=216, br=51, fa=60, mp=103, sp=8, PA=7, MA=13
Arkeisios red chocobo 8: hp=82, mp=9, br=46, fa=57, sp=7, PA=467, MA=9
Orrick geomancer 49:hp=271, mp=66, br=72, fa=61, sp=8, PA=12, MA=8
Dametta geomancer 50: hp=265, mp=65, br=73, fa=63,sp=9, PA=8, MA=12
Helena Arithetican 49: hp=190, mp=50, br=74, fa=74, sp=5,PA=3, MA=6
Katherine black mage 49: hp=198, mp=103, br=46, fa=63, sp= 9, PA=5, MA= 15

more later...

Excuse my amertuerism but how exactly do I post a save?  What is it supposed to look like?  It's a .bin file that somehow isn't read once it is edited by the game. I have no programming know how so please keep it in laymen's terms.

I'm also baffled as to how the app can tell an edited save file from an unedited one. Thought is was just a bunch of hex lines.

Thanks for the help eternal.

You used to be able to access the save file with a firmware, use lion editor, place it back into the game and play.  But the newer versions don't read the edited saves at all.  Trying to install an older version is not possible without jailbreaking my iphone, which i don't want to do (and can't thanks to the new software update).  Plus the old versions are hard to find and had considerable slowdown issues.

No one has any insight into this?  Help a fellow fanatic out here.

I hear that the multiplayer items are not availible at all.

Just tried to import an edited save and no luck. Is there a patch on the lion editor for the iOS version?  It would be much appriciated.

Long time lurker first time posting. I've played FFT on the PS1 and the original game save editor from this very site. I never got the PSP but just recently got the WotL on iPhone and I love it. But not being able to get the multiplayer items really bums me out. After two patches, multiplayer feature were not added and don't ever seem to be. Lion editor also doesn't work on these newer versions.
I was wondering if it was possible to develop an lion editor app for the app store. I certeinly would pay for that app, afterall I did she'll put 15 dollars for the game (most expensive I have ever made on the app store).  Are there copyright issues preventing this? 

Barring that is there a way to patch the lion editor so that I can work for the newer versions? 

Thanks in advance.