Final Fantasy Hacktics

Quote from: Ferdorf on October 07, 2022, 10:07:45 pmJust wanted to ask how to fix the Balthier Cutscene on slums in dorter, after ramzas dialog, the next actions or movement of the characters does not seem to work, already patched a clean iso with 2.03 and mappack. please help. appreciate it

Quote from: nitwit on October 05, 2022, 01:19:17 amFrom what I've seen you're adhering to the short & sweet story beats that made FFT and Vagrant Story stand far above Tactics Ogre. You and your team should consider making a game with Godot engine or something, you really have something there.

Quote from: nitwit on October 04, 2022, 05:01:06 pmI argued (of course) with someone recently that Ramza seems to shrug off the events of Zeakden pretty fast, these extra events are exactly what are missing. Granted it was a year between those events and Chapter 2, but nonetheless this is it. Looking forward to playing this.

Quote from: vyntharin on October 04, 2022, 08:15:06 amI did the first randeveous.  completed it with no deaths and nobody down at the end of the battle.  faith was 70 brave was 53.  unit was not on my team and not on my bench after i got back to game

Quote from: nitwit on October 03, 2022, 09:45:29 pmThat Lenalia post-Zeakden event perfectly bridges the events before and after it. Excellent work!

Quote from: darkskyx on October 03, 2022, 06:42:40 pmGuys, do you know what causes a patch to be broken? I mean... With a message of "file corrupted" when you try to open it.
Example: "Patching ppf files 2 times with two different hackmods will corrupt a file". Usual mistakes like that one. Someone that is trying my hackmod is asking for a fix, but it works fine for me.

Also, I had some weird issues with FFTPatcher while I was finishing my hackmod, while saving it broke my ISO and I finished with a file of 4GB instead 400MB once I applied ppf file. I don't know what I did wrong, but I think it failed because I opened other hackmod ISO (or savefile) and saved that patch into the my hackmod. I tought it was good to say this to let other people know it.
If it's only 1 skill... You have to report it on the post that you've downloaded your patch, not here. Each project/patch is different.

Quote from: ActionMan000 on September 30, 2022, 02:20:44 pmIf the event calls the same sprite, then the sprite you replaced her with in ShiShi will appear in that event. A lot of custom sprites don't have the full range game sprites do, so you'll see some weird color pallettes. Valma has a standing sprite, and she's in a scene where she draws a dagger. You'll probably see weird colors there.

I haven't worked on PSP, but I think a general consensus is to make use of 3A and 3B. They're Celia/Lede models, but as noted in ShiShi, they're never used in game, so you should fine over writing those sprites and not worry about your sprites appearing elsewhere.

I believe ShiShi is pretty good about adding little extra notes for sprites. 3A and 3B have "(Never Used)" in their name. Some characters - like Meliadoul - have two sprites. I imagine you could over write one of her sprites with what you want, but you'll also need to update the ENTD/Event where the overwritten sprite appears, and apply her unmodified sprite, otherwise your sprite will appear.

In a project I'm working on, I did the obligatory special jobs for Rad, Alicia, and Lavian. I used 39 (Male Squire) for Rad, 3A for Alicia, and 3B for Lavian. In my test runs, I have not had any issues with my custom sprites popping up in the game, so I think PSP would be similar.

These sprites don't have Unit/Formation sprites with them, so you'll have to overwrite something else. There are some "?" sprites when you look at UNIT/WLDFACE sprites that aren't used, so I overwrote those sprites for my custom jobs.

There are a lot of unused Skillsets that you see, but in my experience, a lot of them seem to be hard coded in they auto learn skills (like monster jobs). I made a post about it in the Help! section as well, so you can check that for my observations. My solution here was to take some of the double skillsets (Dark Sword is a Skillset twice), and over write them with the skills I want them to have. Just have to be sure you update the jobs/skillsets characters use in Events, or NPCs will be using your custom skillset.

Quote from: Schlagwerk on September 26, 2022, 02:29:04 pmHello!

I am trying to create a patch of The Lion War Of The Lions that excludes the fix of the JP Scroll Glitch and Item Duplication Bugs. I downloaded the resources and tried to follow the instructions listed but I am not having any success and I'm slightly overwhelmed at how much there is to dive into in order to just remove this one aspect of the patch.

Does anyone have a step by step set of instructions to follow in order to build a patch for TLWOTL that does not include the fixes for JP Scroll Glitch and Item Duplication? Better yet, does anyone already have a patch that exists for that configuration that they could share? I'm not great at compiling this stuff myself and would appreciate any help I can get.

Thank you, especially to all the folks out there who have created this amazing modding community and provided excellent content updates to such a fantastic game. I appreciate it.

Quote from: darkskyx on September 18, 2022, 02:50:26 amNew update: I just uploaded a .ppf patch preview for version 0.99. Test it and let me know if you can see sprites.
Some changes are still not done but I'm still working on each one. When I finish each character or job it will be uploaded as a pre-patch for v1.0.

Sprites done are:
Vincent Valentine:  Fully done.
Fran:  Fully done.
Llyud:  Fully done.
Blonde Agrias:  Fully done. No portait change.
Melia:  Fully done.
Paladin M:  Fully done.
Paladin F: Fully done.
Merchant F: Fully done. No portait change.
Brown Female Monk: Fully done.
Brown Male Monk: Fully done. No formation sprite change.
Mentalist M: Fully done.
Mentalist F: Fully done.
Geomancer M: Fully done.
D. Knight M: Fully done.
D. Knight F: Fully done.
Rogue M: Fully done.
Rogue F: Fully done.
Samurai F: Fully done.
Rebel M: Fully done.
Rebel F: Fully done.
Math C. M: Fully done.
Math C. F: Fully done.
Mime M: Fully done.

Red XIII: Fully done. Sprite animations were not finished by the original author. Testing to see if it's fine.

I'll share all custom spritesheets in a future post. Here are more custom portraits that my hackmod will have:
(You can thank original authors, some are re-edited by me)

Quote from: kybard on September 23, 2022, 12:15:23 pmHey everyone. This is my first post, but I've long been a fan of the work done at these forums; FFT's among my favorite all-time games and I love having new ways to play it. It seems like most modding action happens on the PSX version of the game, which makes sense, but the PSX version's main downfall for modern gameplay is the lack of non-stretched widescreen support. If I recall correctly there's a patch for WotL to make the 16:9 look better than it did originally (alongside the slowdown fix).

Anyways, I was hunting around for patches and found out that just a few weeks ago, someone seems to have discovered a widescreen patch for the PSX version. You can find the original post here.

This guy has a (Russian) webpage where he has some of his codes assembled into patches -- which means he also has a Final Fantasy Tactics PSX widescreen patch! (You'll need some kind of translation in place if you don't speak Russian, but the patch is the fourth download link listed and is for the US version.) Buuuut the patch is called "Nose Version", because... the guy also wanted to add noses to every single avatar in the game.

Love the widescreen; hate the noses. Does anyone here have any interest and ability to use patching tools to create a PPF patch that just applies the widescreen fix? Having this, in conjunction with any of the comprehensive QoL improvement patches we have these days (Lion War, Cerabow), could produce the best possible versions of FFT available barring, say, decompilation or remaster (and I don't have a lot of faith in the quality of a remaster).

I'd do this myself but dabbling with some of the tools required makes it clear I don't really have the time or baseline skillset to pull it off, so I wanted to share the info in hopes some enterprising someone takes an interest...

Quote from: Kalre on September 15, 2022, 12:57:04 amHi, is there any way I can get this into a Lion War mod iso ? Thanks in advance.