Final Fantasy Hacktics

You're trying to hack a hack, which is not recommended, especially using gameshark codes. Modifying TLW requires rebuilding the mod yourself using the resources provided and making your changes to those source files, in 99% of cases. If you're not able to do that, then you'll have to get Cloud the normal way, and then you'll be able to use him from then on into NG+

Zozma started a Mon sprite of Altima, but I dont know if it ever got finished. Here's what he had so far:
https://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=3777.msg84789#msg84789

If you want to search more thoroughly, you can use this page:
https://ffhacktics.com/customsprites.php

Definitely feel free to give it a go! We say these things to set expectations, not to discourage. If you need help, reach out here or in the discord, we are always happy to explain things (a lot of this can get complicated!). Gogeta recently (I use that loosely lol) put out a German translation of the game built on TLW, and he was very active in the community, including helping find new info to help with translation mods!

https://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=12989.0

Dont forget the words that are baked into images too, like the status names in frame.bin and all that.

Overall, a full translation is not a small undertaking by any means. The few that have been done did indeed take years to achieve, and even then I dont think any of them are technically "complete" because there's still a few images we dont know how to edit last I checked. But yeah, no such thing as a "small mod" for a full translation of the game, unfortunately.

Quote from: kenchidag on September 26, 2024, 08:27:58 pmSir @RetroTypes is it possible to used the unused sprites slots in vanilla fft marked with ??? which I have seen in Shishi to create a new job or character to the game? see image

Yeah, although you'll likely have to use the "Expand ISO" function first. After that, follow the guides for adding new unique characters. I'll link a few below.

https://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=13205.0
https://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=6702.0

Definitely never seen the giant red sprites bug before lmao. What version of TLW did you use?

Glad you enjoyed it though! If you didnt already do the "new" single player Rendezvous missions, I'd at least recommend choosing the continue+ option from your endgame save and giving those a shot, they're a lot of fun if you like a bit more of a challenge (for the later ones, at least).

Quote from: Raidus on September 24, 2024, 10:34:45 pmI'd like a tutorial on how to use ALMA 4 to make an item have a passive ability, for example, I'd like to make a rod with magic attack up. I've looked at the spreadsheet and I don't understand where I need to go.

Full tutorials for individual spreadsheet hacks, especially one that is known to be super buggy and not recommended for use, are unlikely to be made, sorry. Keep playing with it and see how far you can get, but other than that, you'd probably want to look at something like the Item Attribute spreadsheet hack to see if that can fit your needs, or start learning how to code the ASM yourself.

The key is the word "palette", which is talking specifically about the colors of the sprite. The Squire sprite has, well, one sprite, with up to 8 palettes, or recolors. If you were changing the sprite, it wouldn't be the Squire sprite anymore lol.

If you were clever, you could hypothetically utilize less than the 16 colors available to each palette, and have unused colors be duplicates (probably black/transparent) in one palette while being a unique color in another, thus looking like the next palette was more than just a recolor, but that takes a lot of technique that would be a challenge for even our best spriters. Overall, the answer to your question is indeed "no".

Quote from: kenchidag on September 20, 2024, 03:36:04 amGood Afternoon FFT Hacktics community,

Im fairly new to using custom sprites, and frankly I had success in changing the sprite of a squire male to a Sephiroth Sprite. However, on the first battle in FFT in Chapter 1, there was a glitch in which that the enemy squires became Sephiroth shadows. I dont understand what happen and tried gooogling my problem nothing seems to pop. This was in FFT psx version. It seems like when I import the Sephiroth Sprite to Shishi Sprite Editor it automatically rewrites it and the Sprite pallette for Sprite #2-5 are gone, and then when I revert it back to the original Squire Sprites, it becomes okay.

Did I miss something in Editing it? Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you very much.

Sprites can have multiple palettes, editable in an image editor like graphicsgale. Custom sprites you find here on the forums will likely only have 1 palette because they're often meant for unique characters, not generic units. Enemy generic units use palettes 2-5 in vanilla, so you'd have to add colors to those palettes for those units to display correctly.

Quote from: Mutteo on August 28, 2024, 09:20:27 pmYou're right, it was on my end, sorry about that.  I still like to use epsxe when I emulate games, and for some reason setting the cpu to Interpreter mode broke the game in those places.  I tested it out on the Dynarec setting and it didn't do that. 

espxe is explicitly not recommended in the TLW FAQ because it causes a lot of issues with multiple hacks in TLW, and thus ReMixed. It'll break the RDV treasure wheel as well, iirc. psxfin and duckstation are confirmed to work bug-free

You'll need to go to the action menu tab and change the calculator skillset to be a normal type instead of mathematics. Not sure that's the only thing you'll need to do, but that's a definite change you'll need to make.

It looks like you're in the "view abilities" menu, not the "learn abilities" menu. When viewing a unit, press triangle to open a menu where you can alter your unit's equipment, abilities, etc.

Attaching abilities to items isn't something that you can do with the patcher, no. You'd have to write some custom ASM code to get that, and even then it's been tried before with mixed results at best. If you really wanna give it a go, look into the ALMA spreadsheet, it has a tab for it iirc, but know that it will very likely cause a lot of other issues

We updated the instructions on discord to show the settings option needed to enable reactions as shown in my screenshot above. Try toggling that and see if you can then gain your role(s)

Quote from: Mogget77 on May 24, 2024, 08:37:13 pmI'm not sure what I am doing wrong at this point.
Clicked the server invite link and entered the server as normal.
All fields in the available channels state "You Do not have permission to send messages in this server."
Responding to the bot only opens a DMs channel.
Server speciffic emotes do not work in bot's DMs channel.
I can't seem to be able to react to anything to gain a role in the server.

(Using Discord's website to do this, I cannot run the app on my potato computer.)

In the #roles channel, simply click the emote that corresponds to the version of FFT you plan on playing/modding

Quote from: Krendall on April 15, 2024, 10:35:26 amI am working on using FFTPatcher on an ISO of War of the Lions. I had previously applied the WotL Tweak patch, primarily to remove the slowdown issues. After applying some of the changes I made with FFTPatcher, I found the slowdown came back. Is there a way I can use FFTPatcher without losing the slowdown fix?

EDIT: Never mind, I figured it out. I just have to reapply the slowdown patch with FFTorgASM.

You can also use the patcher itself to ensure the slowdown patch is applied, it's a checkbox in the "patch wotl iso" popup, in the bottom right above the button to locate the iso you want to patch. Either way works though

Quote from: Wiegraf Jr. on April 04, 2024, 12:13:15 amSo I added a handful of ASM with FFTorgASM and now when the enemy monsters counter me they also damage themselves by the same amount? Lol can I fix this?

We would need to know what all you patched, and if you looked at the hacks in the conflict checker to make sure they dont overwrite each other. Any conflicts mean you WILL have issues. Also, if you're patching on top of anything except a vanilla ISO, you're also likely to break things, so you cant just add hacks on top of mods unless they're explicitly stated to be compatible.

Quote from: El Piedras on April 02, 2024, 10:18:30 amI'm importing text from a PSX ISO patched with the WotL translation because that's what I want to use as base. I didn't add any text, just changed numbers in item/ability descriptions to match my balance tweaks. I save it as a .ffttext file, import it, and try to patch the ISO (I tried with both a clean one and the one already patched with the WotL script). The patching process takes more than 10 minutes and just gives a DTE error at the end. I'm using FFTactext 0.497.

Edit: Just realized this is a thread for the FFTPatcher program... Sorry, I searched FFTactext help and this thread showed up. There's already a lot of posts with similar problems about FFTactext so I don't know where to ask about this.

Assuming your ISO isnt on an old HDD or something, tactext taking a long time likely means your ISO is fragmented, you can run a defrag program on it to help with that. As for the DTE error, that means you added too much text to that section, so it cant fit it all into the space allotted. You'll have to cut something out of whatever section it gives that error for.

Quote from: Ramza_purist on March 30, 2024, 11:02:28 pmDo you have a link or know where I can find it?

It is included in the suite, under glain.xml in orgASM, called "Enforce Level Caps".

Quote from: ComplexMessiah on April 01, 2024, 02:35:31 pmI have several questions. First i would like to change a item into a materia blade. Second I would like to be able to add spells to arithmancy (clouds limits, divine ultima, quake, tornado, Midgardsormr Grand cross, unholy darkness.) Secondly i made a new skill set and when assigned to another job it automatically learns those skills. I wish for it to like a standard class.  Third, if possible i would like to remove the male requirement for bards. Also i need to add to the move find pool items above FF in hex.

Most of what you're trying to do is nearly impossible, unfortunately. Not sure what you mean by "changing an item into a materia blade" when that item already exists, unless you mean something like adding additional bonuses to it like ff7 did with adding materia to weapons, but if so that's in the "nearly impossible" category. Adding additional skillsets to Math skill is also super complicated, as it's pretty hardcoded, so that's probably out too. The auto-learned skills are because you have to make sure the unit has that skillset as its job's primary skillset, if a unit has a skillset equipped that they dont normally have access to, it defaults to treating every ability as learned. The bard class not being gender locked is a pretty complicated process, as it's checked in a LOT of places, but TLW's extra job hack might be your answer, as it allows the use of the female bard and male dancer data, so you'd be able to make a female bard that way. And finally, adding additional items will likely never happen for the psx version, as loading more than one byte for item IDs would have to be altered everywhere items are referenced, AND the data table for items would have to be expanded, which there isnt room for. If you want new items, you're gonna have to replace old ones.

Quote from: ComplexMessiah on March 27, 2024, 09:36:56 pmSo i am reasonable new to this modding. I have managed to make basic patches and ran a few test patches. So now i want to go to the next level and make a full on patch with some more major changed. So i am going to outline to the basic concepts of what exactly i want and then ask do to make it happen and preferable the tools needed to do so. first i will list the tools i have and the version i wish to mod:
PSP: War of the lions.
FFTactext
FFTorgASM
FFTPatcher (v0.497.0)
MassHexASM

So this project is split into three main sections. Jobs, Items and reverting my current version into a different version.
Jobs:
I wish to add two new jobs to the wheels one with a mediocre requirement of level 5 white and black mage. The other requiring master summoner, black mage, white mage, level 8 calc and 5 of orator and mystic. I wish for these jobs to be generic jobs and be placed on the wheel. The only other thing of note is the larger job i wish to be a meta job and pull from pre existing spells like calculator.
Items:
I wish to add a few new items. I think the hardest of all is a new Materia blade, I would also like to add that to deep dungeon in the "Move find" pool. Additionally that weapon will require a new damage formula and sprite.

I am currently use the PSP version and wish to change it to the IOS or android version as i believe the changes made there are the most pragmatic way of playing this version.  additionally would like to add a QOL feature of memory of cursor.

These are big sweeping changes there will also be a lot of minor changes that i can expect to escalate into larger issues. Over all is this even viable with modding tools around or will it be a waste of my time.

Welcome! Glad to hear you've already been playing with some of the tools, as that's always the first thing I tell people to do when considering starting the modding process.

To start, I'll point out that modding the psp version limits your options in terms of tools available to you, as our psx documentation is much greater than the psp counterpart. Modding the mobile versions is completely out of the question, at least for anyone here. The only thing we have for mobile is a save editor. The psp version is moddable, but again, you'll be handicapping yourself a bit. The new features are tempting, but most of the psp content has already been added to the psx version via The Lion War mods.

Regardless of which platform you choose, adding items or jobs is not currently possible (other than TLW adding the Dark Knight in, which was crazy complicated and cannot be expanded further). So for both items and jobs, you'll have to replace existing ones with your new concept pieces.

Sprites can be altered/replaced as well, although I'm not sure about the smaller things like weapon icons and the like for psp. Pretty much any image can be modified in the psx version though.

Things like new damage formulas would require minor ASM hacks, and those can be made and inserted into either version.

Making any job work like calculator is a pretty big undertaking, and while it's not impossible, I'd consider it mostly off the table unless you replace calc to accomplish it, or dive decently deep into ASM hacking.

I think I answered everything you asked but if you want more clarification or have more questions, let us know!