Final Fantasy Hacktics

I have almost no idea. I'm guessing it's all linked to a character's ID, but even then I don't know how to change what classes it can access.

Quote from: FrozenDragon150 on December 04, 2014, 05:09:04 pm
Hey, Blue, did you manage to find out anything about the text pointers?

I've only found them in memory; I haven't found any in the game's data yet. This has been my first priority for a while now, since a lot of skill renames won't be possible without this. But there's no need to ask - I'll post anything I find as soon as possible.

Quote from: FrozenDragon150 on November 28, 2014, 06:13:10 pm
I wonder, why aren't there any more tools for this game, other than Lennart's, when there is so much research made? Sure, it's no PSX FFT but there are lots of stuff that can be edited, A-Abilities, Jobs, Names, Descriptions, THE WHOLE GAME SCRIP, etc.

I mean, it's not like i'm really bothered by it, just wondering.

...And no, this has nothing to do with wanting to edit the story's dialogue or anything, nor does it have anything to do with me hating how everyone speaks in the game, with rhymes all the time or anything, no sire, not at all

There aren't a whole lot of people actively interested in FFTA2 unfortunately, so no one's bothered doing anything else with the game.

This might be what you're looking for.
http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=6512.0

Quote from: bcrobert on November 28, 2014, 02:08:38 am
But without Magick Frenzy I can't have my kickass dual-wielding Illusionist of uber-death!

OP units are definitively OP, but you can't tell me that they're not satisfying to use.

Quote from: FrozenDragon150 on November 28, 2014, 06:51:07 am
This, if you don't want to ruin the game by using OP units, make stronger enemies that make you actually need these OP units

Alright, those are actually good points. I think I'll leave it in.

Magick Frenzy? As awesome as that ability is, I'll likely end up removing it. It's broken on a whole new level. Either that, or I'll nerf it so that it only works with weak magick spells, but I don't think even that would balance it out completely.

There are codes on this page that modify units' stats to 999. You can get one of the "alternative" codes, and change 3E5 to whatever value you want, but make sure it's in hex. I've done this a couple of times in the past for convenience.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/gba/560436-final-fantasy-tactics-advance/faqs/26118

The changed stat growths do in fact affect enemies.

I'm not sure how to make the enemies scale with the highest leveled unit in the clan, but you can change the maximum level of every enemy in each battle, up to 99.

You can already edit all text, but you can't go beyond a certain number of characters, depending on what you're editing. For example, you can't change "Parivir" to anything longer than seven characters without the text overflowing. 

Job slots 8C and 9A are free.

You can use the AIO editor. If you want a class's speed to grow at a static rate, like +3 per level like you said, change that class's speed growth to 3.0.

3.1 would give a 10% chance for a speed bonus of +4, 3.2 20%, etc.

I was just doing some memory editing - and I believe I have discovered some text pointers. I'll dig into this further.

There are two unused slots, if you don't plan on creating more than two classes.

"Gifted One" and "Nightfall" aren't actual classes. They're just the normal Hunter and Ninja jobs with specially assigned job names for specific battles. That's why they're not present in the editor.

Gimmick units are things like pots and chairs. They're all used in the game at some point, I believe.

It's definitely possible, but I don't think it's simple.

Also, text editing has its limits right now. No one has found where the pointers are yet AFAIK, so any new text you add in can't be longer than what it was originally.

All of those skill ideas are great. I'll be sure to take note of them.

If Montblanc is anywhere on the field after Mimic Montblanc is used, all Berserked units, allies and foes alike, specifically target him.

Quote from: FrozenDragon150 on November 26, 2014, 01:28:15 pm
Good job, i have a few questions though:

How can you do the following?
"- Remove all laws.

- Give enemies increased levels, more abilities to choose from, and better equipment.

- Make all hidden jobs available from the start of the game. "

Also, how can you change Job's names? Do you know how to change job descriptions? What about skillset names and descriptions?

As for Mediator... Well, i don't really remember many skills right now, but what about making them a 'dialogue' based status effect job? With things like Provoke, Advice and the like?

Well, I already know that the Mediator is a speech-oriented job. I'm just not sure of which statuses they should inflict, ability range, etc.

To answer your first two questions, look at Lennart's "Enemy Data" spreadsheet. You can find out where to mess with enemy data there, along with laws. Setting the Law byte to 00 removes laws for that specific battle, but if you want to remove laws completely, you'll have to do this for every battle in the game.

I don't know how to make hidden classes available yet - I'm not even sure if this can be changed on hex level. I'm still looking into it.

If you want to change game text, Lennart's spreadsheets include what bytes correspond to which characters. I did make a table file from all of it, which you can use in WindHex, or any other hex editor that can load table files. I find editing text this way to be much easier. If you're using WindHex: File > Open Table File > Table #1.

Anyone have any ideas of what abilities could be used in the Mediator's skillset? I'm not exactly sure what direction to go with that job.

This is awesome. I'll definitely be using this every time I play through the game again.

Quote from: ArcticPrism on November 20, 2014, 07:39:17 pm
How did you make units start with full MP?

It was Darthatron's discovery - modify all of the bytes at these addresses in a hex editor.

BD180: B8 03 C4 E1
BD18C: 00 10 A0 E3
BEC44: BA 03 D5 E1

The primary point of this patch is to make Final Fantasy Tactics A2 much more of a challenge than it was before. I'll be looking over pretty much every aspect of the game, and changing what needs to be changed. This will definitely take a while with all that I have to do, so if anyone is interested, feel free to give me any ideas or suggestions for improvement that you may have. I'll consider anything.

If you don't like the pace at which this patch is progressing, remember that one person can only do so much in his/her spare time.



- Examine all jobs, abilities, items, and equipment; make changes if necessary. This also applies to monsters and bosses.

- Fix/remove anything game-breaking. This applies to the aforementioned.

- Balance out all stat growths for every job. This is one of the tougher things to do.

- Remove all laws.

- Give enemies increased levels, more abilities to choose from, and better equipment.

- Make all hidden jobs available from the start of the game.

- Create new "Challenge" missions. These will replace Clan Trials.



General


Jobs



Equipment
Coming later.

Abilities

Hi, welcome to the forum. I hope you'll have a fun time while you're around.

I hear a lot of good things about HxD, and that's personally what I use myself. I can't really say for sure that it's the best though, since I haven't tried anything else due to HxD suiting all of my needs.