After spending a day and a half figuring out how to properly replace the male samurai sprite with the
custom made one available on the site, here's a quick tutorial I was asked to write up.
This is pretty tame compared to replacing a actual story character but will still take about half a hour.
How to Replace a Sprite Correctly in WotL:
(Example used M Samurai by Lijj)
Programs needed:
FFTEVGRP - For changing formation sprites
FFTpatcher - Latest Version
Graphics Gale - To properly edit the formation and portrait sprites
UMDGEN - For extracting the ISO and re-compiling it
Other stuff needed:
FFT:WoTL ISO
M Samurai.bmp
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At this point you will need to use Celdia's Formation sprite tutorial HERE
to convert both the custom images for UNIT.BIN & WLDFACE.BIN
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!!SUCCESS!!
custom made one available on the site, here's a quick tutorial I was asked to write up.
This is pretty tame compared to replacing a actual story character but will still take about half a hour.
How to Replace a Sprite Correctly in WotL:
(Example used M Samurai by Lijj)
Programs needed:
FFTEVGRP - For changing formation sprites
FFTpatcher - Latest Version
Graphics Gale - To properly edit the formation and portrait sprites
UMDGEN - For extracting the ISO and re-compiling it
Other stuff needed:
FFT:WoTL ISO
M Samurai.bmp
- Open Shishi and open the iso.
- Scroll down to 7B Male Samurai
- Click sprite import and choose BMP (Shishi has a smaller limit then the SPR file size)
- Select the custom M samurai.bmp.
- Confirm that the sprite now displayed has changed to the new one.
- Exit Shishi (Changes save automatically)
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- Unzip the ISO to get to FFTPACK.BIN
- Start FFTPatcher and select PSP -> Utilities -> extract FFTPACK.BIN
- Close FFTPatcher
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- Navigate to the folder where you extracted FFTPACK.BIN
- In the EVENT folder you can find UNIT.BIN, this is needed next.
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- Launch FFTEVGRP
- Click file -> Open -> UNIT.BIN
- In the Character dropdown box, scroll to 34 Samurai (Male).
- Save the BMP of 34 Samurai (Male)
At this point you will need to use Celdia's Formation sprite tutorial HERE
to convert both the custom images for UNIT.BIN & WLDFACE.BIN
- At this point you should have updated both your UNIT.BIN & WLDFACE.BIN with the custom images via Celdia's Tutorial.
- Start FFTPatcher again go to PSP -> Utilities -> Recompile FFTPACK.BIN
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- Open UMDGen
- Select and Open your WotL ISO and Extract Image to an empty folder.
- Now open UMDGen and open the ISO and Extract Image to an empty folder.
- Navigate to the folder that your extracted your image to.
- Replace the FFTPACK.BIN in that folder with the one you just recompiled with FFTPatcher.
- Go back to UMDGen
- Select New, then Right Click the Large White Open Box and select Add Existing Folder
- Select PSP game in the folder you extracted to earlier.
- Then Right Click again and Add Existing File and select UMD_DATA.BIN
- (same folder you extracted to, just isn't selected when you clicked the other one)
- Rename No Label to SD then save as ISO.
- Congrats, you're done!
!!SUCCESS!!
Elric