Final Fantasy Hacktics

Mighty Sword Hack:

This makes it so that the mighty swordskills have a % chance to break equipment, but always function as normal damage swordskills. Maintenance prevents item breakage, but not damage. Change "XX" to whatever chance to break you want. I also changed the damage formula to (WP+Y)*PA like the other swordskills, and divided the damage by 2 to prevent roflstomping. If you don't want this, change the bolded line to "00000000".



Giving FFM's suggestion a shot and making the break chance be whatever the ability X in FFTPatcher is. If anybody gives this one a shot please let me know if it works correctly as I didn't test it yet.



Spells can Crit Hack (Needs fixing, does not work)

Here is a Beta "Spells can crit" hack. This trades compatibility for critical hits in formulas 08, 1a, 1f, 21. Its only a quick and dirty version but with an initial test it seemed to work. Oh, It also cancels the knockback routine for critical hits because last time we tried this it seemed to mess things up. I'd like to expand this hack to make a couple other formulas able to crit.



No Zodiac Compatibility Calculation:

Finally fixed, thanks Pride and Glain!



Blank Support ability Hacks:
FFM's originals fixed for load delay

Blank support below Non-Charge increases damage and healing by X%. Blank support 2 under Non-Charge reduces damage/healing by 20%. Note: X value is hexadecimal. Default is 0x14, or 20%.



Addend: This removes the decrease in healing for the 2nd blank support under Non-Charge.



@ Raven: Revised these to work with Item and fixed the decrease to be 20% for simplicity.

Blank support Accuracy Hack:

Edit: Apparently the second hack doesn't work correctly. I'm leaving it up just for record, but the first hack after this description will null 20% of the targets evade. This is the one used in JOT5 and should work fine. Thanks to Grond for the tip-off



Combined this with an altered version of Xif's hack that should add % hit to all abilities. This is not thoroughly tested so please report any abilities that are not affected by it.



Weapon Guard innate all v2:

Fixed a bug with Xif's Weapon guard innate all hack



Sprite ID causes Game Over when crystallized/treasured:

You can put up to 5 different sprites that will cause game over. If you need less, just make the excess ones duplicates and it should work fine.
Special thanks to Glain for basically figuring everything out for me and explaining it.



Sprite ID cannot be dismissed:



Jump Hacks:

This will change the time it takes for a jump to land. The default formula is 50/speed. Right now you can only change the constant and the stat chosen. I'd like to expand it a bit and put it in Raven's spreadsheets.




Break skills miss if break does not occur

This will keep formula 25 from defaulting to a regular attack if no equipment is present. Good for using break skills as a proc-effect and preventing a double-attack. Cheer to Raven for the idea.



Formulas 43, 45, 4F damage divided in half:

This divides all of the health-difference formulas damage by 2, not including self-destruct. Also credit to Raven for the idea.



Ninja Ball Effect Hack:

This hack is a little strange, but it allows you to change which ability effect is used for the thrown bombs. It uses the Evade and Unkown bytes together as the EFFECT ID. Edit these values in FFTPatcher and apply the ASM. Fingers crossed for no bugs :)     (It's the unknown byte to the right of "Range" in the Items tab)

Ex: to make Fire ball use Choco Ball:
Unknown = 0x01
Evade = 0x3d
Total ability = 0x013d



Item Effect Hack:

Ok, bear with me. The effects ID's are stored in reverse order. Also, instead of ability ID's over 0xff being 0x0100, they have 0x0900. This simply means that there's an 0x0800 flag active for some reason. In order to not break anything you may need to keep that flag. Edit as follows:

X potion is currently 0x0a09, which is really 0x010a (09 turns into 01 and is placed in front)
To change this to 0x0001 (cure), turn the 9 into an 8, and place it in front again: 0x0801

It's a bit strange for the time being, but these will be assimilated into Raven's workbooks where they will be much more intuitive.



Short Charge affects Charge Skillset

FFM did this hack originally, but it didn't work for JoT5 for whatever reason. I guess just posting it for fun lol.



Weapon Strike Fix

This allows you to keep striking with your equipped weapon on multi-strike/weapon strike abilities. If two weapons are equipped, it will alternate between right hand and left hand weapons.



Two hands affects abilities with weapon strike/ranged weapon

This hack doubles WP for any ability using weapon strike/ranged weapon flags. If WP is not in the abilities formula it will have no effect. It also has no effect if the weapon is forced two hands just like vanilla. Brought to you by Limited Testing LLC™.



Equip Change only allows weapon switching

Just putting this here for now. I need to add a portion that prevents act from being disabled along with this.



Multi Hit Editor v1.2



This has 2 parts. The Multi-Hit editor allows you to designate how many hits each ability will have, if it is a random or set number, and if having two swords will allow 2 hits (attack, break skills, etc.).

The Weapon Effect editor will allow you to give a weapon an effect when used with ATTACK. It mimics an ability, so the designated ability ID must have the effect that you want to set. In other words, this will make a weapon function like a Magic Gun, but adhere to its own weapon formula.

Multi-Target Effect Files

These effect files should allow effects like Wave Fist to display on all targets hit by the ability instead of just a single target. This was done using my effects editor, so there might be some that don't work. Having things like too many particle effects at once, or the camera switching too quickly will cause a crash too. Please post if you find one that doesn't work and I'll fix it up. Just import these via CDMage in the Effect folder. These effects are in the Effects.rar attachment.



R/S/M Freedom Hack
This hack allows you to designate which R/S/M adhere to reaction slots, support slots, and movement slots. In FFTPatcher if you click on one of the RSM abilities, you'll notice a textbox called "Ability ID". To use this hack, change those numbers to the following:

Reaction - 1
Support - 2
Movement - 3

From what I could tell this byte had no effect in vanilla. Hopefully it won't break anything.



Hamedo Fix and chosen ability hack

This will allow the original attacker to hit after the unit with hamedo equipped hits.



This one will let you choose what ability Hamedo performs. You have to input Skillset number and Ability ID. The Ability Id bytes are swapped, so if I want ability 0x01FF, I need to put in 0xFF01.



Chocobo and Unit move independently

This hack will allow both the chocobo and unit riding it a movement per turn. That means you can move from unit to mount, and then move with the mount. Or if you start the turn mounted you can move with the mount and then move off the mount with the unit.

** This hack has bugs, but I can't recreate them. If anybody uses this hack and notices that they can move multiple times, try to get a savestate before the unit moves so I can fix it =)



Status removed by hp damage

Makes these status effects behave like sleep and charm in that they're removed when hit by HP damage ability



Chicken is not applied when brave is low

Removes the application of chicken status when brave is low; useful if replacing chicken with a different status



Equip change uses Move instead of Act



Disable unit leaving because of brave/faith



Mime Redesign v2.0

All Mimes start with 0 abilities in their mimic skillset. Whenever an ability flagged "mimicable" is used, it gets put into their skillset. In this manner they learn abilities over the course of the battle. Original Mimic functionality is deactivated.

Caveats/to be fixed:
-Max number of 16 abilities
-Item, charge, jump, throw, etc. cannot be mimic'd yet
-Katana abilities are usable regardless of inventory (I think). Katanas may not break
-Additional miscellaneous bugs that are bound to exist

Is this your ASM hacking thread?

It will be, but for now only 1 hack till i hack more hacks.

QuoteMighty Sword Hack

Just going on record that I love this idea. A great first contribution to the ASM hacks around here, Choto.

FDC pointed out an error in the Mighty Sword hack that broke the AI usage of the abilities. The OP should now have the fixed version. My bad!

Updated with a no zodiac compatibility hack

That Zodiac compatibility hack is exactly what I was looking for. I'll try this out after I get some sleep.

glad to be of service :) I should mention that all i did was prevent formulas from calling the routine, so if you use any formula hacks that DO call the routine, it will still calculate zodiac compatibility. Down the road i'll have to do it the correct way.

If you're looking to make the game skip over the compat section, couldn't you just start of with, at the start of the compat routine, a jump and return?

jr r31
nop

Probably the reason why it's freezing is because all of your offsets past 0x122018 are off by 0x1000.

But, like Pride said, all you really need for this hack is to make the zodiac compat routine do nothing, instead of removing all the calls to it... which can be accomplished with a simple [jr ra] followed by [nop] at the start of the routine.

ah thank you sirs. I didn't do it that way because i didn't know if it would mess something else up register-wise, and i didnt' have time to really look into it. I'll give it a shot when i get a chance though. Thanks!

No Zodiac Compatibility fixed and tested!

Ack, what's up with that offset? That seems to be in the middle of the Gained JP Up section. Shouldn't it be 11D964?

You can make a routine immediately return. You don't have to put a nop before it. (You do need the one after it in the branch delay slot)

Ack indeed... i thought i changed that lol. Thanks :P. Ya I wasn't sure just wanted to play on the safe side with the pre-emptive nop.

This hack is dedicated to cherrie, for sharing my desire to nuke the zodiac compatibility system. ^_^

Hooray :D

As a small suggestion, instead of XX000534, make it load X instead, which is unused, and hence you can change destroy% for each skill separately.

The formula will end up as Dmg_[(WP+Y)*PA] or Dmg_[(WP+Y)*PA/2] X% chance to break equipment, depending on whether you remove the bolded line or not.

I see what you mean, thanks! I'll put this on the big pile of crap to do... eventually i'll throw it in there long as I have the space.

updated with a fix for Xif's Weapon Innate Hack. It wasn't adding RH shield evade or LH weapon evade... i think.

Updated with the Game Over Hack

QuoteSprite ID causes Game Over when crystallized/treasured

Amazing!!

Just an idea so you don't have to keep repeating code if you need to check against more sprite sets...

You could store a list (array) of sprites somewhere in the kanji table, and end it with some value that indicates the end of the list (say 00). Then you could write code to just loop through all the sprite set IDs in the list. Something like this (If you don't need this in routine format, you could eliminate the return address tomfoolery):

hmm.... i kind of get it, just gotta reread it a couple times. Thanks Glain for the advice, i'll give this a shot probly late next week

Thank you Choto! Now Rad no longer has to be "invincible" to make sure he doesn't Crystalize/Treasure Box. He can die and cause a game over.

Added the Unit Dismissal hack. It seems to work fine with qoutes.. but report any bugs if they pop up.

That useful Unit Dismissal Hack. It's undoubtedly a must have for all custom patches out there with new playable main units. Hope there aren't any bugs popping. :)

Added Jump CT hack

Added a Break skill hack (formula 25) see OP for details.

I can't seem to expand the details for the new hack in the original post.  Could be a problem with the tags/formatting?

Spoiler tags can't have apostrophes in them, Choto.

Oh, how 'bout that lol.. Should be fixed now

If you have two weapons equipped will you still get two chances to break a weapon?

Yes, all this ASM does is make it so that if your opponent has no item, the skill automatically fails.  Like Mighty Sword.

Added Thrown Ball Effect hack. Happy bombing!

hint: removing the feather from feather bomb will yield a perfectly good grenade effect!

Edit: Also added an Item Effect Hack. I dunno why it wasn't included in FFTPatcher in the first place.

Good thing nobody bothered with the unit dismissal hack.. cause it was totally broken.. AND... it had the JoT5 values in there. Silly me...

hopefully fixed now.

So the bomb/item effect hacks just change what effect is referenced, right?

yup, but in different ways. The items are just read from the ability effect table. I forget what I did with the bombs... I think it may just be hardcoding them?

Added a fixed version of Short Charge affects Charge skillset

Quote from: Choto on December 11, 2012, 09:08:46 am
Added a fixed version of Short Charge affects Charge skillset

Actually, I used FFM' hack for FFT: Plus and it worked...
What did you fix?

Really? Lol... It must have had some issues with the other hacks for jot5... I wrote that one because it wasn't working for us.

Do you know if it displayed the correct turn when you open the skill set? Also do you know if it displayed correctly in the AT list?

Yep to both your questions, it worked perfectly :-)+
And now, a question...which version should I use for 1.02? Yours or FFM's?

I guess... either should work. If it don't work don't fix it. Use FFM's if it's been working for you

Quote from: Choto on December 11, 2012, 03:39:13 pm
If it don't work don't fix it.

That philosophy makes things much easier! :)

I like not fixing things that don't work.  Buying new things is so much better.

I like deconstructing things and reconstructing different things from the pieces

broken stuff can be pretty useful that way

like you can create some pretty cool abilities by "breaking" them (counter-tackle via modification of the dash skill for example...)

You can also change which ability counter tackle actually causes.  I'm sure I found where that's stored at one point...

Should be here!

/* Counter Tackle */
0017e30c: 02202021 addu r4,r17,r0 Move Unit Data to r4
0017e310: 3405000b ori r5,r0,0x000b r5 = 0x000b
0017e314: 0805f8f7 j 0x0017e3dc
0017e318: 34060093 ori r6,r0,0x0093 r6 = 0x0093 (Dash)


Added Multi-weapon-strike Fix

Sweet! That was such a huge thorn in MY side that I stopped working on my hack a couple of years ago. Now with this major stumbling block gone, I can go back and try to finish it.

Added the Two hands affects abilities with weapon strike/Ranged weapon flags hack

Added the Weapon Effect Editor to the Multi-Hit Editor and attached it to the main post. This will allow you to give weapons an effect when used with the ATTACK command. I didn't test this for what happens when things miss or are blocked.. actually now that I think about it I have a feeling it might display the effect anyway. Just aesthetic preference though I guess.

Yes it's totally unnecessary, but hey, why not?

Fixed the Two hands doubles WP hack, was defaulting attack to 00 damage.

Tested your very cool weapon effect hack by giving the flare effect to a rod. While it had the desired effect, whenever my mages cast a spell it is accompanied by a punching animation. It's a fresh ISO with no other patches/hacks. Anyone else that can test this?

ugh this is a massive failure on my part. I will fix this since this hack is actually one that i care about :(

Fixed some bugs with the Multi-Hit Editor, see the changelog. I also closed that thread just to unify everything in one thread, so post any future issues here

This still causes my mages to punch when casting spells.

Quote from: DuxorW on April 17, 2013, 10:02:38 pm
This still causes my mages to punch when casting spells.

That's cause your spreadsheet is haunted. Light 10 candles and download the new one I just uploaded (for some reason the fix wasn't saved o.O)

fixed a formatting error with the Item effect hack that caused it to not load into FFTorgASM. Thanks Raven

Edit: Fixed another formatting error that made it straight-up not work.

For Glain and anybody who does coding in C# I guess.

Spy++, allows you to see the processes, windows (and handles), and threads running on the computer.

Added Multi-Target Effect Files

Thanks for the multi hit effects. I had several in mind that I was planning to do. Awesome.

Added an R/S/M hack that allows you to designate which abilities use reaction, support, and movement slots. Now you can take all those redundant movement abilities and turn them into Supports or reactions if you know how to. Shout out to Krendall for the idea.

Added Hamedo fix that lets the original attacker have a turn to attack and a hack that lets you choose what ability hamedo performs.

Woah, Choto that's awesome!
I love how everyone else's response to people asking for that was "No one's done it before, and it seems difficult" and your response is "Here you go, I did the thing"

Haha thanks... I really really lucked out on this one though. It was the equivalent of looking for something in a box in a room full of boxes... and the second box you opened happened to be the right one.

I love when that happens, sadly there are more:
- That's going to be easy... DAMMIT THAT'S TOUGH!
than
- That's going to be really tough... well darn that was simple.

Good job anyway :p
If you didn't do it, either no one else would have or it would've probably taken a long time.
It's definitely the kind of hacks we need.

Added a Chocobo Movement hack. See the description for details. This hack went through many iterations of testing, so let me know if something is wrong with the version I posted. Actually... I just found a bug. If the units act and move are spent it will end turn without giving you a chance to move the mount. I'll fix this soon

Edit: Yaaaa we got issues. Don't use this yet..

Edit2: Ok, think i fixed it. Probly more bugs in it but it works at least ^_^

Consider it done. This hack is brilliant, very creative.

Well, that's pretty goddamned impressive. I wonder how much it would conflict with in my patch if I tried to apply it. XD

Tyty! I can always find some more space for you Celdie. With Raven's Kanji Space Nopper it's much easier to see how much real estate you have =)

I'm left wondering if that claim accounts for ALMA 4.

ALMA 4 is very hungry... if you have an .xml with all of your hacks, send it to me and i'll kanjispacenop a battle.bin, apply your hacks, and take a look. Maybe I should take a pass at those hacks sometime...

Nice work on the Chocobo hack. I'd be curious to see what you could do with ALMA. And for that matter RAD.

If I use hacks to make other monsters mountable. Will this affect them as well?

My bad Jack i thought I replied.. It should work exactly the same way for other monsters if they're mountable.

Great mount hack for chocobos and whatnot. I really like it. However there does seem to be some bugs. Example I'm not mounted, and if I move and attack someone, if I'm guarded I'm allowed to move again.

Thanks, and thanks for the feedback, but what exactly do you mean by if you're guarded? More details the better.

Sorry but I'm not exactly sure how to reproduce it. It seems rather random, but it happens most often if I am guarded/parried, or if my attack misses. Its happened about 3 times so far. Usually while I'm testing in random encounters, twice with no mounts deployed at all.

Edit: With further testing it seems to always happen with specific tiles on the map. Not sure whats special about said tiles.

I couldn't reproduce this but I know I've noticed it before.. do you have a savestate with a battle that it was happening in?

Hello, nice hacks you've made here:)

However, your "Blank Support under Equip Change adds XX% to final hit%" patch doesn't seem to function as described. I tried it and it seems to double the base hit rates, and then adds the XX/YY value on top of that, which can lead to very high success rates.

Also, I'm having a minor issue with the Hamedo Fix, though it isn't a bug as much as it is an unintended side-effect, I suppose, but using this patch I noticed that giving Hamedo and Counter to the same unit (all monsters in my mod will have Counter + a second reaction innate) allows the unit to perform Hamedo and/or Counter in response to a single attack (letting it potentially get two hits in retaliation) when normally only one of the two reactions should randomly trigger. I haven't tested if this happens paired with anything besides Counter. I'm not too bothered by this, but if you can fix it without much trouble it would be nice, I suppose.

Added two status-related hacks. One that allows you to set which status get removed by hp damage, and one that breaks the chicken status application when a units brave is low.

Grond, forgot to address the Hamedo thing. It probably could be done but it's not really a high enough priority since it's easy to work around. Hamedo is handled pretty uniquely in the code so it's like a high-effort little reward situation.

No worries about the Hamedo quirk. I actually had it (+Counter) on a monster class that had Two Swords innate as well, so they were able to get 4 attacks in on whoever hit 'em.:D But I've just removed Two Swords from them to compensate for the quirk (it didn't function with their normal attack anyway). So yes, it's easy to work around.

Hello Choto, I have a little bit of a request, but its a request I can put forth with full details, I would try my hand at it myself, but I'm not really sure about correct PSX ASM terminology and the like or where this formula is in RAM or ROM.

Do you recall the "Libra" skills from other FF games? It shows you the enemy's stats, weaknesses, etc. Well I always thought that the "???" would be a perfect reason for a Libra skill in FFT. In a normal sense its plain why they didn't use anything like that, because removing the "???" normally means they have about 999 HP.

But with the ability to change the divisor of HP that "???" increases there's no need for any HP increase at all.

Here is the thought. To take formula 5D Dragon: Set_Quick and change it to 5D Clear ??? from Target if applicable.

The way to go about this is rather simple. Have the code look at the target's stats. Look at 0x0006 (where the formula for Steal Heart would look) and have it look for a 04 bit. If found, Libra would minus that value by 04, thereby showing you the stats and equipment of the enemy in question. The exceptions would be if the enemy is a Monster and Male/Female to allow players the choice to have enemies that they don't want scanned to not be scanned (or use an unknown in the ENTD if easier)

This is just a thought I'd throw out there, but it might help people who want to keep more than the Lucavi mysteries, but also in giving it a classic FF feel with Libra.

Well the formula end of it would be cakesauce. The hard part would be finding the "divisor" that modifies the HP amounts and stuff. AFAIK it's tied to raw stats....

The harder part would be finding the time to do it. I'll put it on my list of back burner stuff but if you can find the divisor or where the game makes the modification it would make things very easy to do.... assuming there are no other complications. fwiw I think it's a neat idea.

Edit: Well I happen to have found where it uses the divisor... maybe i'll look into it soon

Ah, sorry about that. The Divisor is in Raven's Terrain, Status, and Multiplier Workbooks. I wouldn't have mentioned this at all had that part not already been found, hehe. My first worry was that it wasn't dynamic, but that was also my first test. The "???" is dynamically loaded and can be added and removed whenever one would please, had there been functionality for it in the game itself.

So you have all the stuff you need except the formula. It's as simple as load a value, subtract from the value, store that value.

Here is where the targets data is loaded from:


So we do:


then we just need to put it into the right spot of the formula but I'll get into that later. I'm going to edit this post as I go along in the hack since it's simple. If you want to learn the ASM side of it perhaps it will help you to see the process.

Hmm, that does seem remarkably simple. Very similar to SNES ASM in many regards. It's just a matter of knowing where the mirror data is and what is located there. It seems like FDC did a large disassembly of FFT's Battle.bin as I did with FFIV, it seems like it's mostly a matter of knowing what each Formula works to from that specific area. The Current Action matter is lost on me though, what does that particularly refer to?

Added a mime redesign hack. Some things need to be added later on so this is v1.0

Lastingdawn, sorry I just saw that I dropped the ball on that hack. Now of course I have no time but remind me down the road and we'll finish it up.

That's pretty awesome, I love the idea. It's mostly the only way it can work; well if we wanted it FFVI style, you could have one ability slot per ally on the field, but I'd just keep it the way it is.
I just wish compatibility was better than it is... stupid skillset types.

Bravo, Choto. That is a waaay better Mime.

Excellent work!

Holy crap, that's crazy and amazing Choto!

Love the redesign idea! Great job, Choto. ;)

tyty guys :D was a fun hack

Quote from: Xifanie on September 16, 2014, 10:07:39 pm
I just wish compatibility was better than it is... stupid skillset types.

If I ever get to it, I think i can trick the game into accepting other types of abilities in normal skillsets. I got potion to work from a normal skillset once.. we'll see

What hacks do you want to see Choto?

Quote from: nitwit on September 19, 2014, 05:29:08 am
What hacks do you want to see Choto?

What are you asking? Are you implying that you are going to take requests or just want my opinion of what I think should be done?

Quote from: Choto on September 19, 2014, 09:03:23 amWhat are you asking? Are you implying that you are going to take requests or just want my opinion of what I think should be done?

Hahaha take requests from Choto!  As if could pick up MIPS that fast!

I wouldn't say I'm asking what you think should be done, although I do want to know that.  More like what kind of things do you want?  You could make two lists, one realistic which considers time and effort and the other assuming infinite time and resources.

I don't know.  Most people seem to ask hackers for requests.  I want to know what the hackers want.

I think this is kinda what my topic is for? :v
ASM Hack Proposals (http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=10535)

Quote from: Xifanie on September 19, 2014, 10:53:17 am
I think this is kinda what my topic is for? :v
ASM Hack Proposals (http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=10535)

Wrong thread :P

I have some desires that are kind of pipe dreams. I'd like to load formation sprites into sample.lzw and get them to load correctly. I'd like to be able to allow a unit to end up somewhere else after they use an ability.

More.attainable ideas... getting ability types to work in any skillset. I have a berserker.hack that I want to get to. I'd love to get a much better handle on effect editing. I think I'm close to attempting a legit red.magic skillset. I think pride cracked into that a bit but it may be doable now. I have an alternate crystallization mechanic in mind that would just set the unit unusable for some number of days.

I also want chapter 2 of jot5 to be finished because until then I have to try to pick up other people's slack with spriting, forcing me to put off any further asm hacks.  Speaking of which there should be a reaction hack associated with that which will give us much more freedom in terms of proc triggers/chances and counter abilities

When you say legit red magic skillset, what exactly do you mean? Just curious/interested, as I use red mages in my personal hard mode patch.

By legit I would assume he means (not to put words in your mouth, Choto, so feel free to correct me here) something like how RM worked in previous job-oriented FF games where if you learned Cure and Esuna as a White Mage and Bolt and Fire as a Black Mage then when you changed that character's job to Red Mage they would have Cure, Esuna, Bolt and Fire all already learned on the RM skillset.

Mechanically speaking, I would guess that the Calculator routines could be most-easily modified to do it...but that's just a non-ASMer's opinion.

Yeah, that's what I was assuming as well.

I wish there was a similar fix for blue mages so that they could learn monster abilities from crystals. Learn on hit doesn't care what skillset the caster's ability is in as long as the same ability is in the target's primary skill set, so it would be great if crystals operated similarly.

The both of you bring up good points and are probably hacks that should be done if I do the doublecast one too.

I was more referring to how one would pick an ability and target a unit, then another menu would pop up of skills as well and allow you to pick another ability and target another unit. It would essentially be like charging and executing two skills instead of one. They would each resolve at their respective CT's.

Quote from: Choto on September 19, 2014, 11:21:30 am
I'd like to be able to allow a unit to end up somewhere else after they use an ability.

If you ever crack that nut, let me know.  that is a routine i would be greatly interested in.

Update: Fixed the Chocobo hack somewhat. You shouldn't get multiple turns by accident now. BUT, sometimes when you first mount a chocobo it will be tired from its last move and not be able to move. Hopefully it happens consistently so I don't have to fix it again ^_^

Hey Choto, I'm trying to use the Mime Redesign hack (v1.0) but it doesn't seem to be working as intended. The mimic skillset does appear at the start of the battle greyed out (because no mimicable actions had been taken yet), but even after using throw stone, dash and heal I couldn't get anything to appear in the skillset. It stayed grayed out. But the mime didn't mimic the action either, so a few parts of the hack are working for me. Any idea as to what's up?

Mime hardcoding OP

Quote from: Pride on March 13, 2015, 06:55:39 pm
Mime hardcoding OP

I'll take a look tomorrow

Hi Choto,

Sorry to bother you but could I ask about the hack you made for statuses breaking on HP damage?

I'm a bit unsure as to what the inputs are. At first I thought they would be the status IDs but I'm not sure. It looks like it's looking at the list of statuses from the Data/Table section.

So I should be using those IDs. And I'm guessing Status 1 is for Table 1 (0x20) and Status 2 for Table 2 etc.

Or am I just interpreting this completely wrong?

I also wanted to ask if it's possible to specify the type of damage ie. whether it's physical or magical. I'm trying to create a Magic Ward-like status at the moment (like in Vagrant Story) so I'd only want the status to cancel on magical damage.

Thanks in advance :)

They correspond to this data:



so setting status 5 = 0xC0 would make faith and innocent be canceled by HP damage. nah mean? Any combination of statii for each group can be added to make a hex number. 0xFF would be all status of the group.

As for physical vs. magical... I forget how the hack is laid out but I'm guessing it mimics how sleep is cancelled when hit. Same rules should apply.

Update the Mime Redesign hack. Should work more good now. I have to see if mimes keep their abilities after battle though.

It could be interesting to have a version of this patch that allows Mimes to keep the abilities they pick up.
That is supposing there is a way for the player to remove individual mimed abilities.

That is an interesting thought.... I think there's a way to do it too. Maybe someday, would be a pimped out mime

Lol. Pokemon-ized mimes that can only keep 4 abilities. :P

Uploaded Mime Redesign v2.1 - abilities now get reset after battle. Everything should be working in a usable fashion now.

Hey Choto!  I was trying to apply your unit dismissal hack and failed miserably..... I tried to double and triple check this sucker, but no success :(  My game didn't crap out on me (I keep cyclical backups), but my units got kicked out just like before....


.... so .... I have no idea....

Sorry CONMAN, I just saw this thread since I got internet back after like 2 weeks of the dark ages. If you post a savestate I can take a look at what's happening.

I feel like I'm doing something wrong with the multi-hit hack -- for PSX, are 165-16B not usable? The game freezes in battle :< (troubleshot it to be the multihitter)

Quote from: Luiakyn on June 14, 2015, 12:25:14 pm
I feel like I'm doing something wrong with the multi-hit hack -- for PSX, are 165-16B not usable? The game freezes in battle :< (troubleshot it to be the multihitter)

Is the AI even working for you? I've messed about with the multi-hit editor as well, but it makes everyone in the Orbonne Monastery battle just walk around without doing anything.

Nay, it just freezes :<

I'm editing 5 skills, and then putting it from the psx to psp. so I'll edit 1 skill at a time, now, to see

You are awesome choto!

The specials:
chelsea: job> Ace: (originally olan's base job-*15 in patcher)
Jenna:  job> Indigo: (originally Rafa's guest version of heaven knight *19)
LaLa: job> Outlaw: (I think this was teta's job? *1C in patcher)

Sorry for the extra bother, but is the multi-weapon-strike fix working for anyone as well?

i'm sorry guys, life's been crazy lately. I'm gonna try to get to these as soon as I can... i'm bummed out so many hacks are having issues >_>. If you guys can post savestates with some info about what's happening I'll fix things up when I get a chance to.

Don't worry. Take your time. We are, after all, just bloodsuckers leeching of the time of someone who actually has RL things to do, anyhow.  *shifty eyes* :mrgreen:. Attached together are my saves (in .psv format) for both the weapon strike fix and the multi-hit edit. They are separate ASM'ed ISOs, with the only ASM I did were the weapon strike fix, and multi-hit edit, respectively.

For the former, I added Dark Whisper to my Guts skillset, giving it weapon strike, and changing its animation to 07 00 00. First strike was a nice sword strike, the rest, not so nice punches.

For the latter, I changed Dash to do a crazy 12 hits, which works, but results in the rest of the AI-controlled characters just moving and not using any of their skills. I once got the enemies to actually attack, but I can't seem to repeat that feat.

Updated the weapon strike fix with a fix. Apparently I fixed this problem before but never posted it lol...

Hopefully this takes care of the issues:



this multi hit thing.... whaaaat the fuck. Apparently if I attack something, the AI will then use attack, but nothing else. Idk what happened here. I'm gonna have to mess with that for awhile

Weapon strike fix is working now! Thanks a lot! Take your time with the multihit editor though, as I can always hack Malak's formula to my liking!  :)

No worries Choto! I've been uber busy myself. I *just* now started messing with the hacks, again.

Posted Alternate Permadeath hack I was talking about awhile ago.

Wow! This is classic Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest work with this! I am eager to see how people use this.

Thanks LastingDawn, hope people get some use out of it!

Posted a hack that lets berserk units use abilities in a specifiable skillset if they are weapon-range flagged. Go Go Deathblow!

Woah, that's super creative! How does the AI pick which ability it will use from the skillset? Will it always prioritize high damage (ala crazy berserk AI :P)?

Thanks :) and well... nope. It's basically random. The game gets a random number, then does (random % number of usable abilities). That's the modulus symbol which gives you the remainder of a division. So you wind up with a random number between 1 and the max number of usable abilities. Then it counts to zero. So if it was 5, it uses the 5th ability. TMI, I know...

(Hey, I already knew what a modulus symbol was! ... Fun fact about me :P)

But it's good to know! That let's people who are going to use the hack know what they can put in the skillset... Which is everything! Woo!

Choto, I have a request for Mighty Sword.

I like your fix, but I would want to tweak it a bit myself. Vanilla game, the Mighty Sword attacks break gear and deal damage, else miss.

Can we change the algorithm to: If gear = yes, then break gear, deal no damage, Else deal damage. The intent is a sort of "one-two" effect where breaking gear AND doing damage hurts too much, while failing completely on a pack of monsters, or against humans who have no gear (weapon break against monks, for example), where Meliadoul sits on the sidelines stripped of gear.

I say "we" because I will attempt to do the same thing myself, based on your hack, but I have no assembly experience. I dunno how well this is gonna turn out :)

the logic isn't hard at all to put in there. ASM takes a little effort to learn but it's pretty simple once you get it. If you have any questions you can always post on here. I'll try to post something by the end of the weekend to help but time is crunched atm >_>

The berserk hack is really cool.

How hard would it be to repurpose it? I have always wanted to be able to make bosses use more powerful skills (at a low frequency, to add some tension to the battle) but the "random hits" flag doesn't necessarily work for that, and sometimes neither does tweaking the CT of skills, especially when it comes to status effects. I could imagine something similar to this except instead of berserk, it is tied to another status (like dark/evil looking) or ??? stats that you could make innate to bosses. Instead of having a 50% chance of physical attack, it could give an X% chance of acting normally and a Y% chance of randomly using an ability from a specified skillset (could it just check the units secondary skillset? That would allow you to use different abilities for different bosses). You could indirectly control the relative frequencies of the random abilities, ie if you put galaxy stop in the random skillset twice, then, when the enemy is forced to use a random ability, it would be chosen 2/16 of the time instead of 1/16. I guess a problem would be to keep the unit from using the uber-abilities when acting normally, but if you unchecked "used by AI" in fftpatcher would it prevent them from using it normally but allow them to use it when they are forced to use a random ability from the specified skillset?

Sorry for the rambling in your asm thread, the berserk hack just got me overexcited :)

I'm not sure you necessarily need ASM to get ai units to do what you want.  In my experience, AI units will more frequently use status effects if their stats are lower (too low to get a kill on anyone), and/or if you give them the defensive AI flag.  You wouldn't want something that'll use moves that the player is immune to, which can happen with a random ability. 

That's kind of my point, you have to weaken the enemy's stats in your example. Or give them an AI flag that might change their behavior in other ways. And what if I wanted them to randomly cast a more powerful offensive spell? In my hands they will default to it most of the time even with random hits flag, if their skillset has other offensive spells in it. Maybe what I want for myself doesn't have broad appeal, but I'd just prefer to have them randomly use a powerful ability now and then without having to micromanage their stats and abilities to get them to use it at the desired frequency.

That hasn't been my experience... with Random Hits flag, the behaviour I've gotten was:
- Never use the ability UNLESS it is randomly forced.
- If it is randomly forced, and a target is in range (won't target allies if AI isn't checked to target allies), ALWAYS use it, even if the consequences are negative.

EDIT: i erroneously said that an enemy would default to a spell flagged as random hits if it were more powerful than other offensive skills in their skillset. It has been some time since I experimented with this and because of Xif's observation I went back and tested it since I knew there was something about random hits that wasn't working the way I thought it should, and noted the following.

If I only have one ability flagged as random hits, it works like it should. And I can increase the frequency with which that attack is used if I put it in the skillset more than once.

However, if two skills, say flare2 and ultima lvl 2 are flagged as random hits, the ai will choose the stronger one if all else is equal (ct, can hit the same number of units). For example, I made Adramelk's lvl 4 black magic spells random hits, and also gave him flare 2 and ultima lvl 2 (both flagged as random hits). He essentially never used his skills that weren't flagged as random hits, and spammed ultima over and over (with very rare exception) since it was his strongest spell.

I'm guessing that when the ai is forced to use a random hits ability, if there is more than one ability flagged as random hits, it decides between them in a way that is nonrandom? Maybe it acts the same way it normally would if the abilities flagged as random hits were the only ones in the skillset?

In my case with Adramelk, I had flagged the lvl4 black magic spells, flare 2, and ultima as random hits. I am suggesting that when he is forced to use a random hits ability, he only sees the abilities labeled as random hits and chooses accordingly in the same way he would if I put those skills in his skillset (not flagged as random hits) and removed everything else. If this is correct, being forced to use a random hits ability is random, but which ability is chosen when there is more than one ability flagged is nonrandom. So, there could still be some utility to the hack I suggest, although I guess I might be the only one interested.

Hey Choto,


Just wanted to report that the RSM Freedom hack makes A Save disappear from the list of abilities.

I just wanted to let you know that the Alternate Permadeath Hack conflicts with the Sound Test Hack. Is there any way you could change that?

Hey Choto,where are all your hacks gone?And is the AI problem from Multi Hit Hack fixed?

I honestly have no clue how my hacks disappeared. It says that I edited it but unless I got reaaaaaaaaally drunk I have no recollection of it. Sorry guys, but I think I put all the hacks into the default FFTPatcher hacks. So I think it's available. I hope

Actually Choto. At least 1 hack didn't make the cut. You made a hack that allows the AI to use skills in a certain skillset. Do you have a copy of that lying around?

I'm working on restoring the OP to its state as of 2015, if any are missing after that Choto will need to fill in the blanks as 2015 was the latest snapshot i could find of the thread.

It'll be a bit later today since I have to watch my kid until my wife is home from work today, but it'll be fixed later tonight.

Fixed OP as of 2015, Choto will have to fill in any blanks on hacks that may have been added after that, such as the alternate death hack.

I apparently have a notepad file with Choto's name on it last modified Jan 8 2016. It's got the Alternate Death Hack on it. I don't know if that's any use to you guys here, but if so, here it is.

Hi Choto, I found this formula of yours back in the ASM request thread:

Broadening Finger Guard:
I tried using it to block the swordskill formulas (2D, 2E, 2F, and 30) and it's working perfectly... Too perfectly in fact.  It appears to block the formulas 100% of the time, regardless of brave.  Can we get a version that works Brave% of the time like reaction abilities normally do?