Final Fantasy Hacktics

It's high time FFH gets back to more research of basic game mechanics:

Deconstructions and Modifications (Debugs/Parts of Razele's Hacks):

Walled units can take damage (v2).  The AI may target walled units with healing or damage (needs confirmation).  The AI still will not target walled units with healing or damage.
BATTLE.BIN
0x120D52 from 0x40 to 0x42
0x124AE2 change 0x40 to 0x42

Remove item duplication (v1).  This deletes the best fit feature.
WORLD/WORLD.BIN
0xB5254 change 8853 to 303D (courtesy of Cheetah at finding the offset and Jack of All Trades for providing me an old backup of my hack to easily spot this offset)

Performing units will evade attacks.
BATTLE.BIN
0x11F3DC change 0x08 to 0x09

Oil takes 2x damage from fire attacks.
BATTLE.BIN
0x11F464 change 982D428C to B74D0508
0xEC6DC
982D438C
5A006390
80006430
03008014
00000000
C74D0508
00000000
F7384490
80008430
03008014
00000000
C74D0508
00000000
CE384384
40180300
CE3843A4
982D428C
1B190608
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000
00000000

Oil takes 2x damage from fire; float takes 2x damage from wind (v2).
BATTLE.BIN
0x11F464 change 982D428C to B74D0508
0xEC6DC
98 2D 43 8C
5A 00 63 90
40 00 64 30
05 00 80 14
80 00 64 30
09 00 80 14
00 00 00 00
CF 4D 05 08
00 00 00 00
F7 38 44 90
10 00 84 30
09 00 80 14
00 00 00 00
BB 4D 05 08
00 00 00 00
F7 38 44 90
80 00 84 30
03 00 80 14
00 00 00 00
CF 4D 05 08
00 00 00 00
CE 38 43 84
40 18 03 00
CE 38 43 A4
98 2D 42 8C
1B 19 06 08
00 00 00 00

Oil takes 2x damage from fire; blind takes 2x damage from darkness (v2).
BATTLE.BIN
0x11F464 change 982D428C to 3A4E0508
0xEC8E8
982D438C
59006490
20008430
06008014
5A006490
80008430
09008014
00000000
534E0508
00000000
F7384490
01008430
09008014
00000000
3E4E0508
00000000
F7384490
80008430
03008014
00000000
534D0508
00000000
CE384384
40180300
CE3843A4
982D428C
1B190608
00000000

Razele's Item Limitation Hack (v2).

BATTLE.BIN
Replace XX with amount of max items you want per battle
Replace YY with XX + 1
Replace ZZ so that XX+ZZ = 0x100 (in hex) or 256 (in decimal).

Ex : For 10 max items per battle,
XX = 0x0A
YY = 0x0B
ZZ = 0x100-0x0A = 0xF6

0x11B864 change 21900000 to 6F4D0508
0x119ED4 change 44384294 to 8F4D0508
0xEC5BC
21900000
0580013C
D0972134
1580023C
AC354234
00002390
YY00642C
05008014
00000000
ZZFF6324
XX000424
804D0508
00000000
21200300
21180000
804D0508
00000000
000024A0
000043A0
01002124
01004224
01005226
0E00442E
EDFF8014
00000000
1580033C
BB356334
000060A0
1980013C
21900000
1A0A0608
00000000
1580023C
BB354290
21004014
00000000
1580023C
00344234
000044AC
040045AC
080046AC
21300000
0580023C
D0974234
1580033C
AC356334
00004490
00006590
21208500
6400852C
0200A014
00000000
63000424
000044A0
01004224
01006324
0100C624
0E00C42C
F3FF8014
00000000
01000424
1580023C
BB3544A0
1580023C
00344234
0000448C
0400458C
0800468C
1980023C
44384294
B7030608
00000000

Only X species of monsters are mountable.
BATTLE.BIN
0x10D3E4 change 0x03 to 0xYY
0xYY = 3 * X.  The monsters will go in order of job number, as listed in FFTPatcher.

Blade Grasp now blocks all melee 1 range weapons except bags (v2).
BATTLE.BIN
0x126054 change F6384290 to 5C4D0508
0x12605C change 0x10 to 0x20
0xEC570
D8384390
40200300
21208300
80200400
0680053C
2128A400
BD2EA590
F6FFA524
0A00A52C
0300A014
F3384290
17340608
00000224
17340608
00000000

Blade Grasp now blocks all melee and lunging weapons (v2).  If you want to exclude bags and cloths, change 0xED to 0xEF and 0x04 to 0x02.
BATTLE.BIN
0x126054 change F6384290 to 564E0508
0x12605C change 0x10 to 0x20
0xEC958
D8384390
40200300
21208300
80200400
0680053C
2128A400
BD2EA590
F6FFA524
0A00A52C
0700A014
BD2EA590
EDFFA524
0400A52C
0300A014
F3384290
17340608
00000224
17340608
00000000

Blade Grasp now blocks all sharp weapons + fists (v2) except axes and flails (which are pathetic as is).
BATTLE.BIN
0x126054 change F6384290 to 564E0508
0x12605C change 0x10 to 0x20
0xEC958
D8384390
40200300
21208300
80200400
0680053C
2128A400
BD2EA590
FAFFA524
0600A52C
0700A014
BD2EA590
F0FFA524
0100A52C
0300A014
F3384290
17340608
00000224
17340608
00000000

Hex Edits

Change brave gain by chickened units.
BATTLE.BIN
0x11C290 change 0x81 to 0xYY
The brave gained + 0x80 = 0xYY.  Obviously, you cannot gain more than 127 brave.

Change brave gain by Brave Up.
BATTLE.BIN
0x124090 change 0x83 to 0xYY
The brave gained + 0x80 = 0xYY.  Obviously, you cannot gain more than 127 brave.

Change faith gain of Face Up.
BATTLE.BIN
0x1240A4 change 0x83 to 0xYY
The faith gained + 0x80 = 0xYY.  Obviously, you cannot gain more than 127 faith.

Arrow Guard now blocks gunshots.
BATTLE.BIN
0x126128 change 0xF5 to 0xF6
0x12612C change 0x02 to 0x03

Change reaction ability activation rate (v1).  Note, this affects all reactive counter abilities.
BATTLE.BIN
0x12639C change 0x64 to 0xYY
The chance of a reaction to activate is (Br / YY).

Change the stat required to activate reactions (v1).  Note, this affects all reactive counter abilities.
BATTLE.BIN
0x126398 change 0x24 to 0xYY
The list of what number corresponds to what stat is here: http://www.ffhacktics.com/wiki/Formula_Hacking (http://www.ffhacktics.com/wiki/Formula_Hacking).

Change initial items.
SCUS_942.21
0x3322C-332A7
I will explain how to fix this without knowing any ASM.  XX 00 0Y 34 means that you will start out with XX copies of any item ZZ 97 2Y A0, where ZZ references the item.  Note how Y corresponds (for the sake of safety, Y should only be either 2 or 3).  You will notice 05 00 02 34 appears first and 01 00 02 34 appears second.  This is because you start with 5 potions (D0), but 1 of rarer chemist consumables.  Thus, changing the 05 will change the initial amount of potions, changing 01 will change the initial amount of all the other chemist items (except antidote and PD).

ASM

Invite will now be appropriately used by the AI (v1).

BATTLE.BIN
0x1271E4 change 08004014 to 694E0508
0x127220 change 08004014 to 744E0508
0xEC9A4
08004014
00000000
59008290
00000000
40004230
03004014
00000000
80380608
00000000
7A380608
00000000
08004014
00000000
59008290
00000000
40004230
03004014
00000000
89380608
00000000
90380608
00000000

Blind and Confuse overrides concentrate/transparent accuracy bonus and now divides accuracy by 2 (v3).  Will affect monsters and humans equally.
BATTLE.BIN
0x11E350 change DC 38 to 82 26
0x11E35C change 42 10 02 00 to 7B 4E 05 08
0xEC9EC
42 10 02 00
00 00 62 A0
24 63 C0 01
00 00 62 90
00 00 00 00
42 10 02 00
D8 14 06 08

excellent stuff!

My goodness!! This is beautiful work! I love that Reaction = YY hack the most! Instead of gawking, I should probably try to assist you as I can. I'll be on IRC for pretty much this week until Friday.

QuoteI love that Reaction = YY hack the most!

It is deliciously tempting, especially with its synergy with the Brave to Fury hack from SB.

Eh? Didn't Zodiac create the Fury hack? Or is my mind playing tricks on me...?

aha, he did indeed.  Don't mind that aspect then >_>.  

Still!  Synergy!  Hoooooooot.

About time you posted this   Good work man.

By the way, let's help me finish that tutorial. This place needs more hackers.

All right, added some stuff on blade grasp to reflect the options I was discussing in my hack's thread.  As for that ASM tutorial, I think it would be easier if we involve more people in the iRC chat or have people here give me questions to answer so I can try to explain what I do.

I'm rare to chat but would prefer the message board format so everything is easily logged.

So as far as questions go... I'm interested in finding the location of the status inflicting reactions (dragon spirit, regenerator, sunken, caution) for use of hex editing.  How can I go about it?  Are there ptterns to look for?  Etc

Nice work, FDC.

I cant find my notes, but i should be able to make time this weekend, and maybe we could collaborate on some of these things...


Why are you overwriting some of Razel's seemingly unrelated hacks? has Zodiac not allotted you space in battle.bin yet?

Philsov, I was about to type up what I have found reaction abilities for public notice, and you just happened to ask that question.  Yes, there are things to search for, but without knowledge of ASM (or at least the ability to recompile hex => instructions either in your head or with a program), it's hard to decipher.  Plus, these abilities are scattered in frightfully illogical ways in BATTLE.BIN.
SB, Zodiac has given me space; I just haven't reassigned offsets yet because my patch doesn't need them (I'm overwriting hacks of Razele that I'm not using).  When I release the latest version of my patch, I'll repoint my hacks.

Misc Reactions:
0x11706C Hamedo
0x11DFB4 Weapon Guard
0x11E3B0 Abandon
0x121324 Finger Guard (note, it has its denominator set at 0x121334)
0x1213FC Catch (note, it has its denominator set at 0x121404)

Check Phase I (route to 0x125AF0):
0x125AC4: Blade Grasp
0x125ACC: Arrow Guard

Check Phase II (route to 0x125C1C):
0x125B3C: Sunken State
0x125B58: Caution
0x125B60: Dragon Spirit
0x125B7C: Brave Up
0x125B98: Faith Up
0x125BA0: Counter Tackle
0x125BC4: Counter Flood
0x125BE0: Absorb Used MP
0x125BE8: Counter
0x125C0C: Blank

Check Phase III (route to 0x125CC8):
0x125C78: MP Switch
0x125C80: Distribute
0x125CB4: Damage Split

Check Phase IV (route to 0x125DEC):
0x125D1C: A Save
0x125D24: MA Save
0x125D34: Speed Save
0x125D44: Regenerator
0x125DD4: Gilgame Heart
0x125DE0: Auto Potion

Check Phase V (route to 0x125DF4)
0x125D68: HP Restore
0x125D70: MP Restore
0x125D88: Critical Quick
0x125DA0: Meatbone Slash

Changeable Elements:

0x125F0C: 5A008290
0x125F14: 01004230
Changing 5a and 01 lets you change what status effect triggers the reactions of Check Phase V.

0x126070: 64000234
0x126074: 24008390
Changing 64 changes the denominator for blade grasp (and possibly for arrow guard too).  Changing 24 changes what status is indexed in the numerator.

0x126134: 64000234
0x126144: 24008390
Changing 64 changes the denominator for some reaction abilities (I suspect the offset I found earlier might not be fully representative of all reactions).  Changing 24 changes what status is indexed in the numerator.

0x1261E4: 2C008294
Changing 2C changes what status is indexed (this indexes MP...I think this is the reference for MP Restore).

0x1262C4: 2A00A294
0x1262C8: 2800A394
0x1262CC: 06008484
0x1262D0: 23104300
0x1262D4: 23808200
This one's tricky.  I'm not sure which reaction is indexed here.  This is calculating MaxHP (2A)-CurHP (28) and then comparing that against the value at 0x192D96.

I'm not sure, but I may have the other half of astra/wall targeting solved.  Change 0x120D52 from 0x40 to 0x42.  Just don't do input this with your debugger after you cast astra (because I suspect once a unit has wall/astra, the game will loop such that it cannot recheck until the unit has lost wall/astra).

Can't seem to find where counter magic or reflect resides.

You sir have now proceeded into one of the most coveted territory! Support and Reactions have long been nearly inaccessible! Thank you for opening the gates wide open for the rest of us!

Keep up the great work FDC. These are some really great gains.

Pretty excited to see what comes out of this.

Bravo! Commence with the showering of much loves!

*Loves begin showering on FDC*

QuoteASM

Invite will now be appropriately used by the AI (v1).

BATTLE.BIN
0x1271E4 change 08004014 to 694E0508
0x127220 change 08004014 to 744E0508
0xEC9A4
08004014
...

My BATTLE.BIN PSX file contains at
0x1271E4 06004010
0x127220 07004014

Is it an error or a minor difference and I can simply overwrite these? And just to be extra-careful, what does the first line at 0xEC9A4 look like to you in your file before change?

QuoteChange reaction ability activation rate (v1). Note, this affects all reactive counter abilities.
BATTLE.BIN
0x12639C change 0x64 to 0xYY
The chance of a reaction to activate is (Br / YY).

0x12639C contains 0x33, the closest 64 i see is at 1263A0. Is it that one?

What kind of fucked up PSX do I have? It looks NTSC English alright...

EDIT : I forgot to praise you, my bad. These are all excellent, especially the Brave Value reaction % since having 100% Reactions is in my opinion a superb game-breaking bug when using Hamedo or Blade Grasp.

Thanks for the useful information.  Though unfortunately, Br/YY is not an accurate formula Blade Grasp and Arrow Guard.  It is the abs(Br-YY) mod 100 = hit rate.  This means if you set YY to anything other than 100, you get roll over issues.  I.E. if I want to nerf Blade Grasp and make it Br-130, at 70 Brave this will work well, abs(70-130) mod 100 = 60% chance to be hit, not nearly so powerful as reducing it to 30% like normal Blade Grasp would.  But if you had 29 brave, abs(29-130) mod 100 = 1% chance to be hit.  That's no good

Also:
126070 is the location for Blade Grasp's YY only.  Arrow Guard's is at 126134.

OK...my blind hack and blade grasp hacks technically don't work as posted.  I'll post the correct versions later.

I'm currently working on a hack from secondadvent's notes.  If used correctly, I should be able to delete the NS and non-elemental status from each weapon formula.  Now, you truly will have dark sword and MP Drain be dark elemental.

And that would be positively fantastic. Welcome back formerdeathcorps. Your presence has been missed.

Removing NS and non-elem from formulas is always a good thing :D Though I'm curious, how is it your Blind hack works then?  I haven't experimented with that yet.

All the ASM hackers here write stuff to the Kanji table in FFT, which for a US ISO, is a waste of space.  The offset you found, Avenger, is in that section.

Blade Grasp now blocks all sharp weapons (except axes and flails) + fists + poles.
BATTLE.BIN
0x126054 change F6384290 to 564E0508
0x12605C change 0x10 to 0x20
0xEC958
D8384390
40200300
21208300
80200400
0680053C
2128A400
BD2EA490
0600842C
03008014
BD2EA490
F1FF8424
0200842C
03008014
F3384290
17340608
00000224
17340608
00000000

Blind and Confuse overrides concentrate/transparent accuracy bonus and now divides accuracy by 2.
BATTLE.BIN
0x11E328
E8FFBD27
1000BFAF
2E15060C
00000000
59000291

0x11E350
DE386324

0x11E360
32004224
000062A0

0x11E4B8
1980083C
942D088D
E8FFBD27
1000BFAF
5A000291

It's good to see the Blind Hack finally updated, it was one of my favorites.

The Blade Grasp blocks all Melee Range 1 weapons still works properly, yes?  I remember you saying there were flaws with at least some of the Blade Grasp hacks and was hoping to use that one, though the fact it blocks Fists does annoy me some.

btw, Razele's ASM of making formula 2E (mighty sword) able to hit monsters for damage, but says ' " broken' is still blockable by maintenance. But it was originally supposed to inflict the hp damage on anything and treat maintenance humans like monsters by only hp damaging them.

Okay as I mentioned in chat. a formula for doing damage on multiple targets but with a backlash of a % of the casters hp as the cost for using it would be nice...

Quote from: Zozma on January 18, 2011, 04:26:46 pm
btw, Razele's ASM of making formula 2E (mighty sword) able to hit monsters for damage, but says ' " broken' is still blockable by maintenance. But it was originally supposed to inflict the hp damage on anything and treat maintenance humans like monsters by only hp damaging them.

Okay as I mentioned in chat. a formula for doing damage on multiple targets but with a backlash of a % of the casters hp as the cost for using it would be nice...

I second that! *Looking at Cecil's sad 'Dark Wave' skill*

Some small/easy hacks.  Many of these are ideas for my patch.

Guns take bow accuracy penalty at night.



Don't Act/Deep Water cancels W/S-EV.  Don't Move cancels C/A-EV.  This is only the physical half for now.



Abandon sets C-EV to 60% instead of 2x.  Intended to work with Xif's global C-EV hack and the above DM hack.

How easy/hard is it to modify the C-Ev hardset of your Abandon hack?  Just change 3C to the % needed, right?  I'm on the fence as to whether I want to use that or the Abandon becomes 1.5x hack, but 60 is too high for me.  Would it be hard to make your Abandon hack go over an existing Support Skill if I tell you which ones I've no need for anymore?  Your version is basically a Support Ability now and I kinda want to use both hacks once I adjust the 60 to something that fits my balance better.

Though, since you mentioned Xif's Global C-Ev hack, could you whip up that one I spoke to you a while back about when you get some time?  It was C-Ev / W-Ev / S-Ev P / S-Ev M applies 100% of total on front, 50% on sides, 0% on back, if you forget. Just toss it over where Xif's Evasion Hack is since you said it'd be shorter.  I'd not bug you about it but it's one I'm in rather high need of and I don't always get to catch you on IRC anymore.

$3C = 60... I'm 90% sure that changing

0x11E3C4
3C000234

will let you set it at will, yeah.

(EDIT: Oh, I see you already know that... nevermind!)

QuoteDon't Act/Deep Water cancels W/S-EV.

I... thought it already did that?

Yeah, it's good to see you're back, FDC.

Quote from: philsov on February 02, 2011, 10:13:57 am
I... thought it already did that?

I think he means only, philsov, instead of canceling C-EV and A-EV as well. That certainly would help (some) monsters.

Oil does 2x against all fire attacks.  Razele's hack didn't include physical fire attacks, weapon attacks, and thrown items.



Arrow Guard has Catch's effect.  Has no compatibility problems with my other arrow guard hack.



Finger Guard can be stacked with other reaction abilities.  Doesn't work.  Better workaround is here: http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=1288.20.

Can be stacked with other reaction abilities how? Just innately without getting in the way (for humans)? Or they can someone how be stacked on the equipment screen?

Otherwise, interesting....

Before, with abandon, you couldn't have it and counter (as innates) because abandon would take precedence.  This is to remove that problem.

Check this thread http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=1288.20 for more details on the problem.

Going to double post.

Defend is +25% to A-EV during Battle.  Overrides the -25% physical damage hack because I never really liked making defend simply a weaker version of protect.
NOTE: To make this hack properly work, you should have make any status effect that cancels A-EV override Defend.  In vanilla, this would be Charging, Performing, Don't Act, Sleep, Confuse, and Stop.


Transparent is -25% to enemy C/W/S/A-EV on physical attacks.  It should properly be called "Focus" now.  It obviously only works on instant attacks, since charged attacks remove transparent before the attack goes off.  This stacks with my blind/confuse hack and hacks that allow the AI to target transparent units.


Items can now give negative PA/MA/SP/MV/JP.  Simply put, if you want -1 SP on armor, you type in FF for SP.
NOTE: It also sets the rollover boundary for PA/MA/SP/MV/JP at 127.  Thus, do not try making items with +/-127 PA.

Rather interesting with that Defend hack. Have you noticed if it affects the AI's use of Defend? For example, will they still whore Defend even if they don't have an accessory (that provides any means of evasion)?

Also, with regards to that hack, does it only boost physical A-EV? Or does it affect magical A-EV as well?

To be honest, I'm not sure the Transparent/"Focus" hack, though that's more because of the AI and the fact that it probably doesn't help that they're still idiots about not wanting to break Transparent. It still has potential, though.

Quote from: The Damned on February 04, 2011, 06:03:06 am
Rather interesting with that Defend hack. Have you noticed if it affects the AI's use of Defend? For example, will they still whore Defend even if they don't have an accessory (that provides any means of evasion)?

It adds A-EV even if you aren't equipping a mantle.  That's the way my blind hack works too.

QuoteAlso, with regards to that hack, does it only boost physical A-EV? Or does it affect magical A-EV as well?

Yes, it does, because defend is in the magic evasion routine as well.

QuoteTo be honest, I'm not sure the Transparent/"Focus" hack, though that's more because of the AI and the fact that it probably doesn't help that they're still idiots about not wanting to break Transparent. It still has potential, though.

If you apply Razele's ASM hack, the AI will target transparent units.  The problem is that the AI puts it at top priority, right under breaking golem.

Wow, that Item one will be amazingly useful for those people who wanted to make heavy armor that gave -SP. Outside of the excellent effort beyond it, does it come at any other cost besides us just not having that much Item Attribute space?

Quote from: formerdeathcorps on February 04, 2011, 07:07:02 am
It adds A-EV even if you aren't equipping a mantle.  That's the way my blind hack works too.

Yes, it does, because defend is in the magic evasion routine as well.

I see. Thank you for the clarification.

Quote from: formerdeathcorps on February 04, 2011, 07:07:02 amIf you apply Razele's ASM hack, the AI will target transparent units.  The problem is that the AI puts it at top priority, right under breaking golem.

Oh, that's not what I meant. I apologize for the vagueness of that.

What I meant that I find it problematic that AI apparently finds Transparent so beneficial status, even when it should know that we can still "see" them, that it often refuses to act when it has Transparent. I was wondering if that had changed given that this is technically a "nerf" to Transparent.

Quote from: The Damned on February 04, 2011, 08:02:55 am
Wow, that Item one will be amazingly useful for those people who wanted to make heavy armor that gave -SP. Outside of the excellent effort beyond it, does it come at any other cost besides us just not having that much Item Attribute space?

No.  I simply changed a few bytes.  Besides, SCUS has no free-space for me to branch to.

Quote
What I meant that I find it problematic that AI apparently finds Transparent so beneficial status, even when it should know that we can still "see" them, that it often refuses to act when it has Transparent. I was wondering if that had changed given that this is technically a "nerf" to Transparent.

I didn't know that.  If it's seriously that bad, we should do what Raven was suggesting and force Transparent, Golem, and Berserk to use normal AI code.

Wait, 255 is -1 SP?  So it rolls down backward to 128, 254 is -2 SP, etc?, or are your instructions on how to use the ASM just overly vague and it rolls over properly at 128 for +/- 127.

And I'm surprised you didn't do what I said yet, since it should save space and give you room to begin playing with other things in regards to the AI while fixing 3 big problems in what's probably the best possible way.

Quote from: RavenOfRazgriz on February 04, 2011, 02:28:33 pm
Wait, 255 is -1 SP?  So it rolls down backward to 128, 254 is -2 SP, etc?

Yes - this is how negative numbers are handled. You might also have to watch out for negative overflow issues - as long as you can't equip multiple minus-MA items in different slots, though, you should be fine.

I was verifying because FDC has a habit of grossly underexplaining things on a technical level.

FF is -1 for people who know negative numbers are handled that way works well to say what to do, but for people who don't it can just as easily come across as saying you can give gear -1 in a stat by giving it FF but that's all his hack does because his "-1 is FF" has no context.

Overflow issues seem like something he should test if he hasn't already.  Regardless, it's a rather useful hack since people have been wanting that utility for ages... though I actually have no intent to use it.  Plenty of others here I intend to mug, though.

It doesn't seem to me like overflow should be an issue unless it's in a LOLhack that gives you +100 PA on 5 different items you can equip at once.

Quote from: Vanya on February 05, 2011, 12:50:25 am
It doesn't seem to me like overflow should be an issue unless it's in a LOLhack that gives you +100 PA on 5 different items you can equip at once.

Overflow was the wrong word choice.

Should have been underflow, which is far easier to have occur if the player gets to the end game at a low level or is just using a job that has one very low XA stat, unless the game already knows enough to stop PA/MA reduction at 0 on the equip screen despite never using that function.

I honestly can't think of why you would want to use PA/MA reduction on equipment to begin with, though. Maybe I'm not being imaginative enough about my equipment, though.

Aren't there natural restrictions in-game anyway? Like not being able to above 50 Sp?

There's not enough space in SCUS to address both overflow, underflow, and keep the existing stat caps.  I changed it to block underflow (which may happen if you do a level 1 run and made equipment like +5 MA -5 PA), and I'm assuming a sane hacker wouldn't try to go overflow the game with +/- 100 PA.

Quote from: The Damned on February 05, 2011, 01:43:36 am
I honestly can't think of why you would want to use PA/MA reduction on equipment to begin with, though. Maybe I'm not being imaginative enough about my equipment, though.

A lot of the Dwarven equipment in passed FF games had negative effects on magical stats and certain items had them on physical stats so there is precedent for it. -SP is a no-brainer as the early games almost always had agility penalties for heavy armor.

Does your "Items can now give negative PA/MA/SP/MV/JP" hack really reduce the number of item attributes?  And are you aware that 0x80 (bit 7) on Jump allows that unit to be used as a stepping stone, like Dragons and Worker 8?  I don't know if there are any other used bits, but you should check.

And I doubt this is feasible, but why not allow items to give negative PA/MA/SP/MV/JP in the range of +7/-8, and use the remaining bits for whatever you find useful/space saving or just leave them blank for someone to link them to some Movement/Jump hacks, or weapon formula hacks?  Speaking for myself, I will never use anything beyond +7/-8, and only them as a "Cursed" item that penalizes to balance Auto-Reraise or something.  And this is feedback, not a request - don't kill yourself to make it happen.

Quote from: Pickle Girl Fanboy on February 07, 2011, 01:00:08 pm
Does your "Items can now give negative PA/MA/SP/MV/JP" hack really reduce the number of item attributes?

No, it doesn't.  The only thing it forbids is bonuses above +127 on units, but since PA/MA/SP caps at 99 and 50, respectively, you couldn't do that in FFT anyways.

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And are you aware that 0x80 (bit 7) on Jump allows that unit to be used as a stepping stone, like Dragons and Worker 8?  I don't know if there are any other used bits, but you should check.

Yes, I know that, but that's only on the byte in the job class section.  It has nothing to do with items.
EDIT: The issue is more likely a problem with signed loading.  You'll have tiamats with a base jump of -124.  I'll probably have to reroute that flag.

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And I doubt this is feasible, but why not allow items to give negative PA/MA/SP/MV/JP in the range of +7/-8, and use the remaining bits for whatever you find useful/space saving or just leave them blank for someone to link them to some Movement/Jump hacks, or weapon formula hacks?  Speaking for myself, I will never use anything beyond +7/-8, and only them as a "Cursed" item that penalizes to balance Auto-Reraise or something.  And this is feedback, not a request - don't kill yourself to make it happen.

It is...but requires more recoding of SCUS.  I'll work on it after formulas if Pokeytax doesn't beat me to it.

Hello formerdeathcorps, first of all thanks for all the wonderful hacks.

I tried to use your Oil fix (no float or darkness), and while it works flawlessly on emulators, it won't on real hardware, since every Fire spell will cause 999 HP of damage, regardless of the caster

I hope you'll try to fix it soon. :)

Quote from: Sephiroth1311 on October 20, 2011, 02:48:09 am
Hello formerdeathcorps, first of all thanks for all the wonderful hacks.

I tried to use your Oil fix (no float or darkness), and while it works flawlessly on emulators, it won't on real hardware, since every Fire spell will cause 999 HP of damage, regardless of the caster

I hope you'll try to fix it soon. :)

I made that hack before I learned about load delay.  A fixed version is included in the attachment.

No, I'm not dead, but the next hack out from me will be the formula hack v0.5.

Quote from: formerdeathcorps on October 25, 2011, 11:31:29 amNo, I'm not dead, but the next hack out from me will be the formula hack v0.5.

*jaw drops*

Quote from: formerdeathcorps on October 25, 2011, 11:31:29 am
I made that hack before I learned about load delay.  A fixed version is included in the attachment.

No, I'm not dead, but the next hack out from me will be the formula hack v0.5.

Thanks! ;)

Quote from: formerdeathcorps on January 16, 2011, 06:51:30 pm
Blade Grasp now blocks all sharp weapons (except axes and flails) + fists + poles.

To clarify,
sharp = katana, knife, sword, knight sword, ninja sword, spear
Poles = Staffs, oracle rod, wizards rod
????

Poles = sticks (oracle weapon)
Sharp weapons = what you just said