Increasing MAX Character Amount

[Nagafen]

I heard from SentinalBlade it's possible to increase the amount of Soldiers you have from the basic 14/16 (Vague).. to at leat 34 without glitching. If so, how do you go about this?

[SentinalBlade]

First off, its in the japanese version, and the structure of that is a bit different from hte US. All i did thoush was debug it.... searched for my party amount(11 at the time) and searched for a changed difference to 12, when i went and bought a squire. i kept doing so till all the differences were gone and i hit max party. i quickly looked at the segment of code in my disassembler, and within a few seconds and searching i raised the limit.

[Nagafen]

Yow.  So it's impossible in the US/European version?

[Vanya]

But the code should be the same in the us version. All we'd need to do is search for the original code in the US files, no?

[SentinalBlade]

that much is true. i was confusing myself with the UNIT.bin...which now has a completly different structure in the japanese due ot the edits and things...

Basically its the same process. unfortunatly, i dont know the specific file that its linked to, so if i released it, id have to release an edited ISO... >.>

[Nagafen]

Ah.. still, every bit helps. Thanks Sentinal! Soon... my army of 34 will RISE! I hope.

[Zozma]

this will be nice for being able to keep more special units and still have some generics.

[Vanya]

If you release it as a patch would it clash, as it were, with FFTpatcher?

[Cyberblade]

just release the PPF then patch with FFT patcher for said patch, then release a new ppf for more units, and the patch.

[Xeno3]

hmm, this will be a great feature, but I was wondering is it possible to increase the max amount of chars per battle? I mean if you have 34 chars available and can only send in only 4 of them max(during events) it kinda sucks, but at the same time it's only fair as most of the time one's own units are a lot stronger then the AI. So anyone know if this is possible?

[Vanya]

Theoretically you could but you'd have to write a custom emulator and asm hack the hell out FFT to make it happen.

[Zozma]

the whole reason theres such a character per battle limit is because of the limit of different sprites per battle.......... what was it? 9 or 12 or something?

[Vanya]

And that is because of the PS1's limited video RAM compared to other systems.