Final Fantasy Hacktics

Hey all! So, I've been trying to expand my knowledge by going into the bin files of the ISO with HxD and manually applying ASMs myself. I've had success with almost everything I've done, and learned quite a bit! But now I've run into a small snag I didn't expect.

I finally decided to modify some of my Equip X abilities, and had no issues changing tables and values until I tried to set Equip Spear to allow poles as well. I've changed the values 90 and A0 to 94 and A4 to activate the secondary slots, but the behaviour doesn't seem to be as black and white as I thought. I have it set to table 4B to allow it and 4C as the secondary, in theory... but It doesn't actually give the unit access to poles? It gives them access to the armors in tables 4C if I set those values, but not the weapons--so even if I add value 80 for example, it still doesn't make poles available.

I, in my desperation through extensive searching both on Google and here at home, did find out that philsov intended to do the same thing for FFT: ASM'd. I even downloaded the demo to check it out and see if I could learn from what had been done. Used FFtpatcher to make Equip Spear immediately available. The name is changed to "polearms", but still doesn't allow poles for the unit.

So... is this a known issue? Or am I missing something in the sequencing that allows weapons or armor exclusively on the respective ability?

So I thought I could edit the TRAP file in Shishi and just reimport it, but I guess it's not that simple?
Now all of the effects from said sheet have lost their transparency.
Does someone know where TRAP is located in the IMG so I can copy it from a vanilla one?
Or if anyone knows how to edit it properly and import it through Shishi that would also be fantastic. (:

As the title says, I'm having an issue with my Ahriman and Mindflayer using the Mindflayer's sprite.
Hoping someone knows of something that could cause that! 

So as I was saying. Editing the first event for Igros. All I did was edit text in the scene with Dycedarg and then add another character to the event with Zalbag, Alma, and Teta.
I just made it so they'd appear, and say soemthing. I added ONE new message to the event. And when it ended, Sweegy Woods NEVER SHOWED. The dot never appeared! :s
Halp..

If it is, even if people don't necessarily wanna use them, that makes two more formation sprites/portraits.
So... Is it possible?
What about the Dark Knight and Onion Knight slots in the job wheel?

Extending the ISO 'supposedly' gives you extra sprites you can change?
Where and how and such? =\

THE FIRST ONE;

When I enter a battle, Gafgarion(usually) is nonexistant. Just a shadow where he would usually be.
Then when the battle starts his sprite turns into agrias. (It's the beginning of chapter 2)
He has NO stats, 0HP, 0MP, MAX. Never gets a turn. and this is a freshly patched ISO.

I think this is linked to my next glitch.


At the end of the battle after "Victory" and battle trophies are done, it says "Parting Shot" at the top of the screen.
Then a quote pops up with the unit name "Reis" and no portrait. A person who wasn't even in my party left at the end
of that same battle. Seems interesting, but when I go back to the formation menu Ramza isn't in my party... o_____O

Raise, Raise2, Revive. They all bring the target back to life perfectly fine, but don't heal HP.
They just come back to life with '0'HP.

Solutions? D:

I can't for the life of me figure this out.
Pfft... and I wanna be a game designer.. -_-'

I wanna know how to edit the character poses.
Instead of telling me what to do, would it be possible for someone to give me an EXAMPLE of some kind? <=/

I've looked everywhere, but can't find anyone else that's having this problem! ):
When I start up the Compiler, it loads for like 5 seconds then does NOTHING. Literally.
It won't even give me an error or anything. The proccess just sits. Dx  HELP?

I've always wondered this but never asked, is it possible to change the animation of the sprites for certain attacks?

Like, say for example I got rid of the Bard (Which I did) and I still wanted to use those abilities for something else, would i be able to make it so that instead of the preset bard attacks making the character sing, they weapon struck instead, like the knight abilities.

This is just a preview for now, just to get some feedback on colors and whatnot. It was hard to get all the colors to fit, cause there's so many, and they're really bright.

4, 3, 2, 1!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZkllM8znx4





 

I wanted to give her hair, because i hate the fact that she looks bald. This is the result.






Your probably thinking; "The arms blend with the hair, why would you make them both brown."  BUT the shading i did esperates the arms from the hair. It looks good ingame, I tested it.

Everytime I try to add my new fftpack (I've made sure it's the exact same size of the original), It never let's me either,

A. Patch afterward with FFTPatcher

OR

B. Let's me boot it up.



It seems UMDgen like to resize it to 379mb from 399mb after saving it.

what do i do?

Idk what happened, but for some reason, after patching my WOTL... my lag's been completely disabled.

It doesn't lag anymore. For ANYTHING.


Any reasons why?  

This is my first attempt spriting in the FFT style.

It's got gauntlets with spikes.





Tell me what you think.

My friend stumbled across these and showed me, these three made me laugh. They're stupid puns with pokemon.

Every... EVERY problem I had been resolved thus far, which is a plus.


My next question is, i haven't found a program that let's you edit storyline event text... is that possible with WOTL yet?

Don't mean to offend fans, but I HAAATE Twilight.   |:<

I extract fftpack, edit unit.bin, rebuild fftpack.

I try UMDgen and it won't let me save the new ISO file properly.



It'll save as an ISO, but it saves as up to 4 gigs. |:

UMDgen won't let me save it as a proper PSP ISO. ):

I have finally found something out.

It will only freeze when someone is about to crystalllize. D:


I think it has something to do with the test, because when I find an item, it says "found" and then cuts off the item name at the first two letters. =\

I've learned alot in the last couple days from  using these programs, but It's still bugging me, is there any possible way to add characters sprite slots?

Like, add slots to the character sprites list, or more preferably, the Unit.bin?

Becuase I'm really limited with my choices if there's no possibly way. =\

OKay well, I'm using ShiShi, and I want certain sprites to be my jobs, cause I (for the time being) want to just have some fun with this. xD

Ex. Firion as my Male Knight.




The problem is, Firion only has one palette, is it possible to make a new palette for him? and if so, how? ><

I looked through every page all over this website, and couldn't find any info!

I just found this stuff yesterday, and I've got a psp. I Have the fftpack.bin extracted, but how do I extract the data pack from the bin file using FFTpatcher? =\