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Hello, first of all i'd like to say that I am new here and I have been playing fft for a long time. I have also been playing patches for some time and I am just getting into modding the game myself with fftpatcher and such. Lately, I have been watching some fft Arena AI battles on youtube and I think it is a very cool patch. The abilities and new mechanics make it very interesting and it looks very fun. Personally I would actually like to play something like 1.3 or war of the gods with Arena mechanics and skillsets. In fact, I have already tried to use patcher to take everything from arena and put it in an already done patch and save as a custom fftpatch, considering I have done something similar before.
I started up the "custom" patch and since war of the gods starts you out completely random I got ninjutsu as a secondary skillset. When i tried to use most of the skills they were pretty much broken, tsumazuku said "c-bag" when i tried to use it, and all the skills I used in that skillset brought up item names. I looked over the master guide page just to see if I could find a clue to as what was wrong and after looking at mechanic changes like fury, and unfury I thought about the possibility of asm hacking. So I found the topic "FFT Arena: List of ASM hacks used" and tried to apply those asm hacks i found on the page through fftorgASM. I applied everything I could find in the program that matched the list. When I restarted the game I felt like i had made a little progress because fury was working but ninjutsu and mechanics like unfury were still broken.
I looked in the patcher to see if something was wrong and some formula's were blank. So then and there it was clear to me that I didn't completely have all the asm hacks since some end up changing formulas or creating new ones. Since i couldn't find all of them i decided to apply the custom patch with war of the god changes onto an fft arena iso. I tried starting a new game but I got the black screen you always get when pressing new game on fft arena. When I loaded my actual progress i started a random battle and saw that mostly everything was working perfectly and all the arena changes were there. The major problem is that only random battles work, and the victory screen is broken (don't so much mind the game over screen is replaced by "player 2 wins").
Unless I can easily make the first battle accessible, make story battles possible, and fix the 2 screens I think patching war of the gods is the best method of going about this. All I would really need to know is what are ALL the asm hacks used in arena then apply it and I think I would be good. I'm open to other options as well such a version of arena with no ai battles or something. I'm even up for no options and it turns out this is hopeless really, I just want to know if this is possible or not lol. As I said i'm a newb when it comes to things such as this so if i got anything wrong please correct me
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I started up the "custom" patch and since war of the gods starts you out completely random I got ninjutsu as a secondary skillset. When i tried to use most of the skills they were pretty much broken, tsumazuku said "c-bag" when i tried to use it, and all the skills I used in that skillset brought up item names. I looked over the master guide page just to see if I could find a clue to as what was wrong and after looking at mechanic changes like fury, and unfury I thought about the possibility of asm hacking. So I found the topic "FFT Arena: List of ASM hacks used" and tried to apply those asm hacks i found on the page through fftorgASM. I applied everything I could find in the program that matched the list. When I restarted the game I felt like i had made a little progress because fury was working but ninjutsu and mechanics like unfury were still broken.
I looked in the patcher to see if something was wrong and some formula's were blank. So then and there it was clear to me that I didn't completely have all the asm hacks since some end up changing formulas or creating new ones. Since i couldn't find all of them i decided to apply the custom patch with war of the god changes onto an fft arena iso. I tried starting a new game but I got the black screen you always get when pressing new game on fft arena. When I loaded my actual progress i started a random battle and saw that mostly everything was working perfectly and all the arena changes were there. The major problem is that only random battles work, and the victory screen is broken (don't so much mind the game over screen is replaced by "player 2 wins").
Unless I can easily make the first battle accessible, make story battles possible, and fix the 2 screens I think patching war of the gods is the best method of going about this. All I would really need to know is what are ALL the asm hacks used in arena then apply it and I think I would be good. I'm open to other options as well such a version of arena with no ai battles or something. I'm even up for no options and it turns out this is hopeless really, I just want to know if this is possible or not lol. As I said i'm a newb when it comes to things such as this so if i got anything wrong please correct me
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