Windows application based on Zodiac's Excel workbook

[Xifanie]

Alright, I'll do some tests today to see what's the problem with all this. ;o

[Armorvil]

It looks like Knights and Lancers are the ones affected, by the way.
They can be equipped with robes, and I've seen another level 20+ Knight equipped with a Mythril Vest (but I concur, that's only in the patch I'm currently working on thanks to your awesome work, as I allowed Knights to wear hats and light armors).

[Xifanie]

Robes are really special. From what I can see, If the unit doesn't have the required level for a Light Robe, it may take a randomly robe available (depending on level) or the best available armor.

I also don't understand why they don't always wear circlets but they do always wear Feather Mantles while it's level is only 1 over Dracula Mantle.

If anyone can find logic in all this, please, shoot.

# of items for 9 Lancers
Item Name
(Item Level compared to Unit Level)

Level 25 Lancers

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 Javelin (-13)
  Spear (-9)
  Mythril Spear (-4)
9 Partisan (0)
  Oberisk (4)
 
  Bronze shield (-19)
  Round shield (-16)
  Mytril shield (-13)
  Gold shield (-10)
  Ice shield (-3)
  Flame shield (-3)
  Aegis shield (-3)
9 Diamond shield (0)
  Platina shield (4)
  Crystal shield (11)
 
  Leather Helmet (-24)
  Bronze Helmet (-21)
  Iron Helmet (-18)
  Barbuta (-16)
  Mythril Helmet (-13)
  Gold Helmet (-10)
  Cross Helmet (-8)
  Diamond Helmet (-3)
9 Platina Helmet (0)
  Circlet (4)
  Crystal Helmet (2)
 
  Leather Armor (-24)
  Linen Cuirass (-21)
  Bronze Armor (-19)
  Chain Mail (-17)
  Mythril Armor (-14)
  Plate Mail (-11)
  Gold Armor (-8)
4 Diamond Armor (-3)
  Platina Armor (1)
  Carabini Mail (5)
  Crystal Mail (12)
 
3 Linen Robe (-22)
2 Silk Robe (-20)
  Wizard Robe (-14)
  White Robe (1)
  Black Robe (6)
  Light Robe (13)

I forgot to note thier accessories :/
Level 30 Lancers

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 Javelin (-18)
  Spear (-14)
  Mythril Spear (-9)
  Partisan (-5)
9 Oberisk (-1)
 
  Bronze shield (-24)
  Round shield (-21)
  Mytril shield (-18)
  Gold shield (-15)
  Ice shield (-8)
  Flame shield (-8)
  Aegis shield (-8)
  Diamond shield (-5)
9 Platina shield (-1)
  Crystal shield (6)
 
  Leather Helmet (-29)
  Bronze Helmet (-26)
  Iron Helmet (-23)
  Barbuta (-21)
  Mythril Helmet (-18)
  Gold Helmet (-15)
  Cross Helmet (-13)
  Diamond Helmet (-8)
  Platina Helmet (-5)
3 Circlet (-1)
6 Crystal Helmet (-3)
 
  Leather Armor (-29)
  Linen Cuirass (-26)
  Bronze Armor (-24)
  Chain Mail (-22)
  Mythril Armor (-19)
  Plate Mail (-16)
  Gold Armor (-13)
  Diamond Armor (-8)
  Platina Armor (-4)
1 Carabini Mail (0)
  Crystal Mail (7)
 
2 Linen Robe (-27)
2 Silk Robe (-25)
1 Wizard Robe (-19)
3 White Robe (-4)
  Black Robe (1)
  Light Robe (8)
 
  Battle Boots (-20)
  Spike Shoes (-10)
1 Germinas Boots (0)
  Power Wrist (-10)
  Magic Gauntlet (5)
  Bracer (30)
4 Defense Ring (-5)
1 Magic Ring (-5)
1 Diamond Armlet (-4)
1 Jade Armlet (-5)
1 108 Gems (-5)
  N-Kai Armlet (-5)
  Defense Armlet (-5)
  Small Mantle (-20)
  Leather Mantle (-10)
  Wizard Mantle (0)
  Elf Mantle (10)
  Dracula Mantle (19)
  Feather Mantle (20)
Level 40 Lancers

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 Javelin (-28)
  Spear (-24)
  Mythril Spear (-19)
  Partisan (-15)
9 Oberisk (-11)
 
  Bronze shield (-34)
  Round shield (-31)
  Mytril shield (-28)
  Gold shield (-25)
  Ice shield (-18)
  Flame shield (-18)
  Aegis shield (-18)
  Diamond shield (-15)
  Platina shield (-11)
9 Crystal shield (-4)
 
  Leather Helmet (-39)
  Bronze Helmet (-36)
  Iron Helmet (-33)
  Barbuta (-31)
  Mythril Helmet (-28)
  Gold Helmet (-25)
  Cross Helmet (-23)
  Diamond Helmet (-18)
  Platina Helmet (-15)
5 Circlet (-11)
4 Crystal Helmet (-13)
 
  Leather Armor (-39)
  Linen Cuirass (-36)
  Bronze Armor (-34)
  Chain Mail (-32)
  Mythril Armor (-29)
  Plate Mail (-26)
  Gold Armor (-23)
  Diamond Armor (-18)
  Platina Armor (-14)
  Carabini Mail (-10)
  Crystal Mail (-3)
 
  Linen Robe (-37)
  Silk Robe (-35)
  Wizard Robe (-29)
  White Robe (-14)
  Black Robe (-9)
9 Light Robe (-2)
 
  Battle Boots (-30)
  Spike Shoes (-20)
  Germinas Boots (-10)
  Power Wrist (-20)
  Magic Gauntlet (-5)
  Bracer (20)
  Defense Ring (-15)
  Magic Ring (-15)
  Diamond Armlet (-14)
  Jade Armlet (-15)
  108 Gems (-15)
  N-Kai Armlet (-15)
  Defense Armlet (-15)
  Small Mantle (-30)
  Leather Mantle (-20)
  Wizard Mantle (-10)
9 Elf Mantle (0)
  Dracula Mantle (9)
  Feather Mantle (10)
Level 50 Lancers

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 Javelin (-38)
  Spear (-34)
  Mythril Spear (-29)
  Partisan (-25)
9 Oberisk (-21)
 
  Bronze shield (-44)
  Round shield (-41)
  Mytril shield (-38)
  Gold shield (-35)
  Ice shield (-28)
  Flame shield (-28)
  Aegis shield (-28)
  Diamond shield (-25)
  Platina shield (-21)
9 Crystal shield (-14)
 
  Leather Helmet (-49)
  Bronze Helmet (-46)
  Iron Helmet (-43)
  Barbuta (-41)
  Mythril Helmet (-38)
  Gold Helmet (-35)
  Cross Helmet (-33)
  Diamond Helmet (-28)
  Platina Helmet (-25)
3 Circlet (-21)
6 Crystal Helmet (-23)
 
  Leather Armor (-49)
  Linen Cuirass (-46)
  Bronze Armor (-44)
  Chain Mail (-42)
  Mythril Armor (-39)
  Plate Mail (-36)
  Gold Armor (-33)
  Diamond Armor (-28)
  Platina Armor (-24)
  Carabini Mail (-20)
  Crystal Mail (-13)
 
  Linen Robe (-47)
  Silk Robe (-45)
  Wizard Robe (-39)
  White Robe (-24)
  Black Robe (-19)
9 Light Robe (-12)
 
  Battle Boots (-40)
  Spike Shoes (-30)
  Germinas Boots (-20)
  Power Wrist (-30)
  Magic Gauntlet (-15)
  Bracer (10)
  Defense Ring (-25)
  Magic Ring (-25)
  Diamond Armlet (-24)
  Jade Armlet (-25)
  108 Gems (-25)
  N-Kai Armlet (-25)
  Defense Armlet (-25)
  Small Mantle (-40)
  Leather Mantle (-30)
  Wizard Mantle (-20)
  Elf Mantle (-10)
  Dracula Mantle (-1)
9 Feather Mantle (0)

[Austin]

Is mp adding equipment considered "better" by the game? If so that might have something to do with it. And circlets come out in the shop at the same time as platina helmets but I don't know if that affects anything. Either way the robes were the only things that were really off, so its not a big deal.

[Armorvil]

Wow, great testing work !
It looks like Austin might be right : the MP boost could be what the AI's looking for.

[Armorvil]

By the way, in FFTPatcher, checking the box just below "Load Formation" in the ENTD tab, will activate the Zodiac monster check. In other words, one needs to check it to multiply by 10 the Zodiac's HP (and MP ? I'm not sure) and completely hide its status.
It doesn't seem to work with other characters.

[Xifanie]

What!?

Booooring  

Still a good thing it's been figured out. I'll be able to make my super Lucavi random battle much harder.

I'll check that out who exactly can be affected.

[Xifanie]

If Unit's JOB == Zodiac Monster OR Monster (ouch at 10k HP tiamat) OR Humanoid
1000% HP, 1000% MP
Cannot View Status
Hidden HP/MP/CT
Max HP/MP = 32767?

Else
1000% HP, 1000% MP
Cannot View Status
Hidden HP/MP/CT
Max HP/MP = 999

Holy shit... I PHAIL!

so much; really. I was certain that this status wasn't in the ENTD because I tried recreating a complete Zodiac Monster (in another battle) and it still had Viewable stats. However it looks like I either:
- Didn't copy the byte containing this boolean
or
- Forgot to import the file for my second test. (This often happens to me)

Thanks you so much Armorvil because I was clueless about all this and never though of ever trying to search for it in the ENTD.

If any of you want to hack the mini-bossed with invisible stats, you will need to give Miluda a special job with lower stats... Else she's gonna be one heck of a Knight. O_O

Hey, wait I need to make one of those controllable and see how it goes.

[trickstardude7]

YES!! i wanted to make a battle with old dead characters (Milleuda, teta, and many others) to show in a video as a boss fight!

[Zozma]

ive used that check before, i thought ppl already knew about it...
thats what i used to hide my blue chocobo's status. it does work on humans as well!

By the way... has anyone done a hex text hack at all? an example you have to remplace 5 occurances of each spell and 10 occurances of each job name.
well... after doing changing elmdors job do Daimyo and algus's job to Fencer
i tested it and it was fine... but after applying a newly modified patch to the scus i noticed it changed some of them back! (to be exact when i searched thru the hex again after patching i found 9 occurrances of my new job name and the one that re-patching changes is the one that appears in battle when you look in the characters job list... well maybe its a good thing if the text editing is ever implemented?

[Xifanie]

melonhead is coding it right now (generally speaking).

He even sent me a version that can load & compress text (but not save it) and it was doing pretty good, but not for things that has many instances like the ones you mentioned.

[Zozma]

thats great, i think ill stop playing around with the hex editor now i keep putting FA where an FE should be and that throws all the job names out of allignment XD cause elmdor is NOT delita's sis lol...

and then things like , ! ? - bla bla bla take like 2 or 3 letters to make.

[Zozma]

hey uhh i dont know where i should mention this to melonhead but in the slot in items editing where you put in the spell you want randomly cast by the weapon.. you're only able to select a value up to 7F XD i cant get to the sword skills or anything

[melonhead]

New version:
FFTPatcher - v0.236
Changes since v0.205

• Fixed bug in sprite viewer when loading a BMP with an invalid palette
• Changed the abilities formula combo box to allow all 256 possible values
• Changed Weapon formula combo box to be more descriptive
• Changed Item formula combo box to be more descriptive
• Added "Zodiac monster" checkbox to the ENTD editor. THanks to Armorvil for this info
• Added beta release of FFTacText text editor
• Updated the FFTPACK.BIN file extractor with the locations of SPELL.MES, WORLD.LZW, and SNPLMES.BIN

The text editor right now is kind of crappy, but it (mostly) works. Check out the hints in the text.txt file. If you posted any bugs or feature requests to the forums since the last release, I probably haven't implemented them yet. Sending me a PM or email is the best way to get my attention, since I don't read the boards a whole lot.

[gomtuu]

• Added beta release of FFTacText text editor

Awesome!

[Asmo X]

wow. Melonhead is a machine.

[karsten]

you kick ass melon!

EDITED: can we add extra chars to descriptions?

[Sen]

Don't be happy yet guys although I appreciated Melonhead's hard work.
After testing the text editor I have found so many bugs.

Changing the job's name from the psp version some generics change to Death Seraph,Impure etc. some jobs have misplaced thier true name or even thier skillset name which I renamed, some skills required JP turned to 0000 and also some skills name were changed to monsters like Cure changed to Serpentarius Holy changed to Protect2. Boco became a Wizard? then every time I choose buy,sell,etc. at the store the store keeper's portrait changes to the Soldier Officeman then going to the Soldier Office its now the clerk.

everything is misplaced!! but during formation or battle its back to normal

[Xifanie]

That's because melonhead forgot to add BATTLE.BIN's text.  

I pheered things like that would pop up

[Sen]

I just patched WORLD.bin