Final Fantasy Hacktics

Happy Algus Fools!!
I have heard everyone's pleas, a mod idea you've heard of time and time again, "I want to play as the REAL hero of FFT's story!", well you're in luck because I'm finally here to answer your prayers!

Introducing~
Bastard of Ivalice or BOI
Play through the story through the eyes of the protagonist(?) you know and love above all others, Algus Sadalfas!

Why?
Algus Fools of course!

Details?
About two hours of playtime, a small amount of new content, minimal QoL inclusion (damn you Algus! Only Smart Encounters??), a true celebration of the best blonde boy in all of Ivalice.

Credits
Jumza: Creation of this mod! It only took like 3 days
Nyzer: Wrote some scripts for added scenes!
Kokojo: Let me use his excellent Trebalt Tunnel map!

Fully tested and working on Duckstation and pSXv1.13.
Known Issues: I accidentally advanced the shop progression by 1 at the beginning of the game and never fixed it. Enjoy!
Do not go to Mandalia Plains after the scene where Algus has a 1 on 1 talk with Zalbag! You will get softlocked.

After 15 years, play the second part of Call of Power : Remade!

A fresh perspective on the oldest story mod ever made for Final Fantasy Tactics, with QoL updates and a better, more streamlined experience and story!

Feel free to share your experiences on Discord or the appropriate topic!


https://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=13223.0

To celebrate 1 year of time passing since the release of FFT: Reach the Future I've released a teaser trailer for Chapter 2! Check it out!

Haven't played Chapter 1 yet? You can find the download link here!

Happy 1 year anniversary to Reach the Future's chapter 1 release!

I will one day include full readme's with information on all skills, abilities, jobs, items, etc.

For now, enjoy the one piece of official documentation I have actually created, the RTF Job Tree ( / more like a requirements board)

I'm like 50% sure I don't make mistakes, so if you find a bug please report it here! I will address things as they come up.

And thank you for bearing with me! If you've been playing you know this is a complicated mod, there are bound to be errors here and there!

RTF CHAPTER 1 is OUT NOW!
Most up to date version: v1.06 (released June 5th)


I hope you all enjoy playing it as much as I did making it! Download link at the bottom of this post!

EMULATOR COMPATIBILITY

Duckstation - Fully tested and compatible!

pSXv1.13 - Fully tested and compatible!

ePSXe - PC versions of this emulator do not run certain instructions as expected resulting in some strange behaviour sometimes. I do not recommend using this emulator to play this mod. Mobile versions of ePSXe, while not yet tested, may fare better in this regard.

An actual PS1 Console - I haven't managed to get this working yet, but it's on the to do list!

Other - Your preferred emulator not on the list? Try playing the mod and report back to me so I can update it!

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For applying the PPF I recommend using the online tool found here https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/ as I have found that PPF-O-Matic takes quite a while to apply this particular PPF, whereas this site takes a few seconds.

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Previous Version Download Counts:

• v1.0 - 171
• v1.01 (hotfix) - 12
• v1.02 (hotfix) - 38
• v1.03 (hotfix) - 23
• v1.04 (hotfix) - 77
• v1.05 (hotfix) - 83
• TOTAL - 404

Bug Fixes
When I fix some major bugs, I'll report them here! I hope you get a kick out of seeing the peek behind the curtain (and help motivate me to fix bugs pls)
Chapter 1 Bugs / Adjustments INDEX:
Naked Serensward Squire
Blood Suck is Tinker
Revert New Poison / Regen
Leviathan Map Fix

Old - Pre Chapter 1 release
Until the release of chapter 1 of the mod, I will be trying to post weekly updates about the project and its progress.

This first post will link to the various replies that I will make in this topic concerning each of the updates. Feel free to respond to them and discuss them here, or on the FFH Discord channel in #reach-the-future!

INDEX:
Update 1: Tactics Combo In-Depth Explanation
Update 2: Classic Mode Sneak Peek

    

Hey everyone! All of you that caught Kori's most recent map making stream saw him play through an event / battle series that I created for the map pack. This battle series included 7 battles that the player party went through where they didn't recover HP/MP/Statuses/other stuff between battles, and although it looked to be about 9 event slots, it was actually only using 1. This post is to explain how the magic happens!

Here is the video for reference (Thank you ArmoredKori!)
Go subscribe to this man on Twitch ASAP.

Here is a link to the pastebin of the event.txt, which I will also be attaching below. Feel free to use it as reference for creating your own Battle Series events!

The Setup
Here are images showing how I set up the ENTD, World Map Conditionals for triggering the event, Attack.Out, and Event conditionals.

I had to adjust the Orbonne event to make space for my event! I also moved the Orbonne event from its original spot (offset 4000) to its setup event slot (offset 2000).


Just one slot?? That's right!


As you can see, all units except for Worker 7 are set not to be present at all. This meant for me that every time I ChangeMap'd and the ENTD data was reloaded, I only had to RemoveUnit Worker 7 and could AddUnit in the enemies I wanted for the fight.


Again, I had to modify Orbonne's event conditionals to make space for my event. RIP Vanilla, everyone please use TLW as a base (or make a totally custom mod) instead.


I appended my new events conditionals to the end of Vanilla's list. You can see how I got the event to be called over and over again, each time the player wins the fight the event is called again. In the event you can see that I only tell it to go back to the world map if the player beats every fight or if they refuse the challenge.


The world conditionals. This fight is only available in Chapters 2 and 3 because I can control Ramza with his unit ID 02 in those chapters, and I didn't want to put in the effort to check what his unit id was and swap it in if you tried it in chapters 1 or 4 (where his unit id is 01 and 03 respectively). The variable I am using for the check here is actually what background the shops are currently set to!

The Same Event Multiple Times
If you've opened up the event.txt you'll see that it starts with a switch statement.

//Var x0070 will be used to track what part of the event to run
Switch(x70)
Case(x0001) //PART 2
JumpForward(x02)
Break()
Case(x0002) //PART 3
JumpForward(x03)
Break()
Case(x0003) //PART 4
JumpForward(x04)
Break()
Case(x0004) //PART 5
JumpForward(x05)
Break()
Case(x0005) //PART 6
JumpForward(x06)
Break()
Case(x0006) //PART 7
JumpForward(x07)
Break()
Case(x0007) //PART 8 (FINAL)
JumpForward(x08)
Break()
Default() //First part no jump, run part 1 below
Break()
EndSwitch()

Every time this event starts, this Switch checks Var x70, if its value matches a Case, it will run that section. Each of those sections has a JumpForward that brings it to the appropriate part of the event. At the end of every 'PART' of the event, I use JumpForward(x01) to go to ForwardTarget(x01), which is right before the end of the event so I can skip over the parts we haven't gotten to yet. This allows us to create an event that is itself its own Pre-battle, Mid-battle, and Post-Battle events. At the end I use the PostEvent(x80,x0000) command to bring the player back to the world map.

A single event can be quite large, this event has a ton of instructions in it but only uses 5952 bytes out of a possible 8192. If you wanted to create an even longer battle series you could write events that have better looping logic to save space, or use more than one event slot. I just wanted to show that if you really wanted to, you could significantly reduce the amount of space required for multiple events (so don't ever say that FFT doesn't give you enough space!). SOMETIMES using a little more space to keep yourself organized might be the best way to go, especially because condensing things down to this level can make it confusing. Be mindful of why you would do something like this 

Bringing The Team Back
When you load in your party into an event with a battle formation screen and then ChangeMap, they are wiped away like the units in the ENTD that are not flagged Always / Randomly present. I tried AddUnit-ing them back in, but that presented a strange graphical glitch: Units would take hits from enemies and not react, and no damage would show up even though their health would actually change, unless they had taken a turn first. I discovered the fix for this by looking around in pSX's memory editor, here is the excerpt from the event.txt where I talk about it:

//Battle Stats x0001 has to be the same as what it was at the start of the event,
//otherwise when units are hit before they get their turn they will not react
//(But still take damage). This is just a graphical glitch, but an important one to take care of to make things looks good
//It gets set to FF on ChangeMap, so it must be assigned
SET(x0070,x0010)
UnitAddress(x02,x71)
SaveAddress(x70,x0001,x71,001)
SET(x0070,x0011)
UnitAddress(x78,x71)
SaveAddress(x70,x0001,x71,001)
SET(x0070,x0012)
UnitAddress(x79,x71)
SaveAddress(x70,x0001,x71,001)
SET(x0070,x0013)
UnitAddress(x7A,x71)
SaveAddress(x70,x0001,x71,001)
SET(x0070,x0014)
UnitAddress(x7B,x71)
SaveAddress(x70,x0001,x71,001)

I run this code block every time I ChangeMap. I believe that the numbers are correlated to the fact that in battle stats the player party are stored in those slots (The 16th (0x10) to the 20th (0x14)). The event will still run fine if the player brings less than the full party.

Bringing the Enemies Back
ChangeMap seems to reset ENTD data to a certain point, when I AddUnit enemies in that have previously been defeated / crystal / treasure'd after a ChangeMap, they appear with full HP and MP. I have to do more testing to see what happens with things such as Inviting an enemy and broken gear.

Wrap Up
Thank you to ArmoredKori for creating the Map Pack and inspiring me to do this event for you! It was fun
If anyone has any questions about anything I've done here in the event, that I talked about here or otherwise, please respond to this topic or message me on Discord! I hope that we can work out all the kinks of the battle series system and have it included in lots of mods in the future 

Bet you thought you'd never see the day!

Swap Music

This is just a simple byte swap for a few locations (Party Screen, Memory Card Menu, Shop, Fur Shop, Soldier's Office) that allows you to change what song you want to play there. The defaults set for each are the correct songs for them in vanilla. Refer to the ID's listed here: https://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Songs
I'm still working on tracking down the right locations for the bytes for the World Map, Brave Story, Tutorial, and Battle Formation screen.

More hacks to come maybe??? Find out next time on FFHacktics!

Hey guys, I've created a quick event that shows how easy it is to use BlockLoop! As well as a companion video that you can view on youtube to follow along with while looking over the event instructions and comments I've written.

Wiki Links:
BlockLoop: https://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Event_Instruction_2A
BlockStart (Has valid block instruction list): https://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Event_Instruction_2F


The event itself is a little poorly planned lol, but hopefully you can see whats going on and get the idea! Please let me know if you have any questions, I'd be happy to explain any part of the event more.


Jumping back by # of bytes is not covered in this tutorial

I seem to be getting a strange bug with Throw Stone where the noise the rock makes when it hits its target matches the noise of the weapon the user is carrying.
First, I would like to confirm with someone that this is a bug, because to my recollection I've never had a unit with a harp hit someone with a rock till now so I'm not 100% sure.
Second, does anyone know the cause of this? I haven't modified the ability itself in FFTPatcher except where it's located in the skillset. In FFTOrgASM I used the % chance to knockback hack to bump up the percentage to 100.

I wonder what the origins of the FFH birthday cake graphic are.

(Fun fact: Today is my birthday!)

The name, like this project, is a work in progress.


Story Synopsis:



The World Map:


The Main Character:



New Jobs:


New Items:


New Sidequests and Secret Characters:


Other Information~
This patch is being worked on only by yours truly, and I mostly intend for it to stay that way. I am not the best at working with other people and trying to work around schedules and sudden life events. I intend to recruit people for random ASM hacks that I'd like / need and for sprites in the future, but for now I'll be flying solo.

At the beginning of this project, I will be using the sprites that I have access to. Sprites off the site, recolours and frankensprites will feature. Hopefully I can enlist someone in the future to get some cool new sprites for the project.

Of course I couldn't have started this or done any work on it at all without everyone's hard work getting stuff done on the forums. For all the tools, spreadsheets, guides and people that I've helped (and people that have helped me) which reminded of so many things that I would have otherwise forgotten; I'd like to thank every member of FFH.

Special Thanks:
To Xifanie, Elric and Angel (Toshiko). You guys are awesome and all deserve happy carefree lives (Congratulations to Xifanie and Angel (Toshiko) as well!)
So many more people deserve thanks, but this is only the start of the project! I'll get around to properly doling out thanks once more stuff has been said and done.

DEMO?
Not yet! Screw that! It's here! Woohoo! Check below for the download link!

The Demo:
Contains 20 events, spread between just events and pre / mid / post battle events.
The jobs Freelancer, Apothecary, Fencer, Priest and Wizard. (For generics)
The jobs Vagrant and Surveyor. (For unique characters)
New items! Featuring such items as Bronze Sword, Feathered Cap and Basic Harp!
2 Possible random battles! ( )
A mini-boss battle!

Updates:
I'm going to try to update as much as I can! Stay tuned!

01/11/2015: The Beta / Demo download link has been released! A Stone's Ripple v0.05 released!

08/11/2015: Released v0.06, text and some item fixes.



(Let's hope and pray to Ajora that this ppf was made and uploaded properly)
(YOU NEED TO BE LOGGED INTO THE SITE TO SEE THE DOWNLOAD! (Apparently!))

So, with summer either here or rapidly approaching (who can say for sure) I've decided to give away some events! Whee~! Fun!

I'm going to do 5 events, and they will all be ones submitted by anyone who finds this topic and takes some interest. Hopefully you have some sort of an attention span.

Include some kind of outline as to what would happen in your event. A script, maybe some general ideas behind what action is going on in the event, perhaps even a list of things you would like to include such as certain maps (did you know you can visit multiple maps in one event? ), music, custom sprites etc... Be as specific if you want, but if an idea is very clear it probably has a better chance of getting picked.

It can be for anything as well! If you want an event for the project that you are working on, or if you just want something cool to be made just drop off your idea and I might pick it!

The criteria for picking the 5 that I want to make aren't really set in stone maybe you'll be picked maybe not.

Also, this cannot be a secret event. If it is for a project you must be willing to share it with the world, because after I complete each event I will be uploading it to youtube and posting it for all to see.

So, yup. Go ahead and post stuffs. I'm looking forward to making some awesome events
I don't know when they'll be picked, but it'll be soon.

I'm curious, is it possible to change the map that shows up for random battles in certain area's as well as the music that plays? I figure that each dot has it's own Attack.out spot(s) (depending on how many directions you can access it from) that could be edited in the attack.out editor, but I'm not sure if you can, and which numbers are the random battles.

Anyone know?

Namco has re-released the two Tales of Symphonia games in a 2 in 1 package for ps3 with better graphics and some extra content!
Tales of Symphonia is an incredible game and I recommend it to everyone. Though I hear the second one is a bit lackluster, I am definitely going to get this just to play the first over again, and see how bad the second one really is.

Welcome to my event Thread!

I'm glad Elric finally did this so we can start showing off our skills more often.



Events!

For my upcoming patch, Short Stories of Ivalice;

Here you can trade Units, Equipment such as weapons or accessories, Mission items like the Bomb Shell or Caravan Musk and Law Cards such as Frog or Color Magic!

Here are the

Here is the
Think of this as your Item or Unit's passport or For Sale Sign, people need to know what you're trading otherwise you won't be able to!

Finally here is

If you are having trouble trading, send me a PM on the forum and I'll help you out.


With the trading post just opening up, we're looking for as many new sales as possible! Let's increase the hype!
Buyer's beware however, every trade cost's 5000 Gil! It's certainly worth it to get what you want though, don't you think?

I think it would look something like this

edit: postimage.org (among all of my other image hosting websites that I know of) aren't opening for me for some reason, so I'll just attach the image.

This is the best picture of FFT I've seen on the internet

My collection of FFT Fanart is very small, does anyone else have any pics like this one that I could add to it?

Well it's certainly been awhile since I wanted a hooded Meliadoul sprite... I tried making one when I was 11 (Yeah, I was 11 when I originally joined FFH, so... yeah!) Now I'm 15 and I think it's acceptable this time around! It's like, Meliadoul but with a bigger hood!

Here is the portrait: It's just the Purple Mystery's hood (with Meliadouls greens), then about half of Meliadouls face and her metal collar.

It's not a huge edit, but I wanted more action in this part of FFH, I love coming here and looking at the new art / sprites that people post but not a lot of that has been happening recently.

Here's the sheet, give crits on it if you think I should change something.

I got the ok from Elric to make this topic so,

Post your Walkthroughs, Playthroughs, Lets Plays, interesting fights, and anything that you think would go into a Battle Log here!

http://kotaku.com/5973196/why-everybody-loves-final-fantasy-tactics
The Calculator gets some love

So, the problem I'm having is that, while event editing I added an Effect Instruction,
Effect(x00E0,x09,005,010,x00)
EffectStart()
EffectEnd()
I was wondering how I can make the unit this instruction is targeting (in this case Unit ID 09) hold a pose the whole time, because right now it works fine up to the end then she starts walking. I've tried putting UnitAnim's before, after even in the middle of these instructions, and nothing helps. Anyone know what to do?

This is just... Amazing, just found it and have listened to near every song!
He has remixes of FFT songs, FFTA songs, and songs from both games mixed together!

The Channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/ShirkingSloth?feature=watch

I don't know if anyone else saw this earlier and already pointed it out to the community, but even if it was it definitely deserves another mention.

So, the problem I'm having is, when I use this in an event:
BlockStart()
WalkTo(x15,x00,006,001,x00,x00,+008,x01)
WaitWalk(x15,x00)
WalkTo(x15,x00,006,007,x00,x00,+008,x01)
WaitWalk(x15,x00)
RotateUnit(x15,x00,x01,x00,x01,001)
{64}(r1500)
UnitAniM(x15,x00,x06,x00,x01)
BlockEnd()
the second WalkTo causes the unit to sidestep, instead of walking straight.
Any Ideas on how to fix it?
EDIT:Figured it out I forgot to rotate the unit before telling her to walk again.

Sigh.
So this time the problem is, the event goes perfectly until where the requirements for winning are displayed, they dissapear as usual and then people start walking... Then the event starts over... this time the angles on the cameras are the same, the text boxes appear but have no words in them the music command is doing its job in switching the music still, then it shows the requirements as usual... then the event starts over... and over... and over etc.
what did i do wrong this time??? (I honestly don't understand how I can screw up this much...)
Here is the event There is a message in there I just didnt add it (my ability to script is... extremely sub-par).

Ok getting straight to the problem, in the event in chapter 4 in with which Ramza and Co. are chasing Rofel through orbonne's underground library, appears to have some sort of error in it... When I first finished the beginning of the event, the victory scene went as it did in vanilla (text boxes showed coming from the door with Rofel talking etc...) but when i tried to edit it at all, it showed the final message and the game just stopped doing stuff. (the music played and everyone just stared at the door) then when I put the regular event back in with no edits whatsoever, it does the same thing, just with the vanilla text showing up. (I know its rather long winded) I was wondering why this is happening and how I can fix it. It may have something to do with Ramza (Unit ID 03) not being on the field because i also changed the final message to appear for Unit ID 35.