Final Fantasy Hacktics

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The following tables may look a little silly.  They are the ones i used for development and just cut lots of notes out of.  Prettier ones will come along.  When? I dont know.





LyingWar.ppf

Please feel free to give feedback.
There will be a version placed into completed mods section as a vanilla overhaul, based on community feedback, with better balancing.
This patch must be applied to an expanded iso.  This can be done in Shishi

Quote from: Pride on Yesterday at 02:02:03 pmI took the opportunity to make a xml to do this without having to upload each gns file.  Faster and easier. Apply with FFTorgASM like most xml files.

what a bro

I took the opportunity to make a xml to do this without having to upload each gns file.  Faster and easier. Apply with FFTorgASM like most xml files.

The below steps are the only way I've been able to get LionEditor to work (tested on PSP-2000 and PSP-Go), it's a huge pain in the butt process but now am curious if such alternative ways are possible since PPSSPP cannot load .prx plugins and AFAIK using FFTSaveHook.prx is the only way. There's been discussions on PPSSPP forums about supporting .prx plugin loading and I've seen a few dead projects trying to port the decrypt/encrypt save thing to PC (which should be possible but is an odd squaresoft and/or sony format IIRC). Not sure if anyone actually finished one not requiring a PSP - especially due to popularity of Android/iOS save modding now.

• Ensure FFTSaveHook.prx is enabled on your CFW modded PSP (if not, connect to computer and click top right icon in LionEditor and point it to your PSP. If PSP-Go ensure ONLY on ef0:\ not memory stick. If not working; check seplugins\GAME.txt is correct and all files exist only on ef0 (System Storage) - seplugins\FFTSaveHook.prx, wotl iso in ISO folder, and FFT saves in PSP\SAVEDATA - I never got it to work on memstick and duplicates cause confusion and other issues but not tried too hard)
• Copy ULUS10297FFT0000 or ULES00850FFT0000 folder to PSP\SAVEDATA\ on PSP
• Delete any existing "lioneditor.bin" files created with FFTSaveHook
• Launch game on PSP, load a save, then quit game - this creates a lioneditor.bin file if none exist in folder. If not working, refer to step 1 and step 3
• Connect PSP again, open US or open EU save in LionEditor and select root folder of PSP (or select ~\Documents\PPSSPP\ if you copy entire folder containing the decrypted "lioneditor.bin"
• Make your changes in LionEditor, then save. If you edited save copied to PPSSPP folder, then copy entire folder back to PSP otherwise skip to next.
• Load game on PSP, load save (it should be reading from lioneditor.bin here) then save game (here it should save to normal file and re-encrypt as usual).
• Quit game, delete lioneditor.bin to avoid confusion. Now your saves should be modified and can be copied back to PC/PPSSPP. Rinse and repeat for further modifications.

One important thing to note is the prx plugin doesn't seem to overwrite files so you need to delete lioneditor.bin each time you edit save and re-encrypt by loading/saving game, I recommend "CMFileManager PSP" for quick filesystem access otherwise you need to plug PSP into PC just to delete stupid file if you forgot something before creating decrypted save. Sometimes I wish there was a a LionEditor homebrew app for PSP CFW like the iOS one, since this is long and tedious but not worth anyone's time due to dead platform and PSX being preferred modding version (though most large mods don't work in POPS when converted to a ps1classics style eboot.pbp - only mods that work as intended on real original PS1 hardware, but this is off topic; not related to LionEditor).

Other notes:
-Stat editing doesn't seem to work properly, as well as changing level doesn't change stats properly.
-Rearranging formation is prone to enormous bugs, however you CAN often bring back a dead/crystalized character back with checkbox if slot wasn't filled/overwritten (this might be just copying char from another save slot, which seems OK if its a direct copy NOT over another character who filled that slot already)
-If you're looking to add a special char it's best to edit a ENTD in FFTPatcher and have them officially "Join after event", otherwise it's not always correct and/or they get added to weird spots in formation and/or ability quotes don't work and other weird stuff.
-LionEditor is buggy/quirky but does seemingly work OK for a lot of stuff like changing equipment, changing zodiac sign (like making Ramza Serpentarius sign), adding 20 kills required for DK, adding items to inventory (including multiplayer-only and poach-only items), changing gill, changing time played (99.9hr max time on saves gets annoying), and a few other things like adding JP and skills (though best to add JP and learn skills in-game manually) but beware it can break your saves, glue your cat to the rug and possibly burn your house down.
-For equipment I recommend adding desired equipment to inventory rather than directly editing the character's equipped items due to possible stat miscalculations but I've not checked this, since the game _usually_ recalculates properly upon loading an equip-edited character.
-Another annoying thing to note about skills is you can't learn or de-learn any skill slots that aren't in vanilla-wotl if you're playing a mod (technically this should be possible with minor code modification but LionEditor is hardcoded with vanilla skills/skill slots for each job, I wish it had 16 ability checkboxes and 6 R/S/M checkboxes for every job since they go by slot number anyways). I only noticed how annoying this is when playing Emergence and everyone was throwing stones (Stone is ability slot 15 on almost every job in Emergence), reminded me of snowball fight in FFTA

ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR SAVES!!!! It's very easy to break things (winrar preset with date appended to archive name comes in handy).

That's a really good idea that didn't even cross my mind. I will look into it as soon as I can.

I may be mistaken, but I believe there are features in FFTOrgASM which allow a degree of customization for asm hacks. You could use that to make your formula 19 hacks check for any debuff, by altering the byte loaded and bit checked for.

Should be pretty obvious how it works (and how to customize it without such niceties) for anyone with freshman level coding experience who wants to change the status effect used, but it's something to consider if you're so inclined and want to make it easier on other people.

Yeah, you can use any of mine, too!

God damn, that one looks good.

This thread has a collection of ASM Hacks that I either made or altered/fixed to use in Lapis Tactics as well as some notes on other hacks I tried out and had issues with.

Hacks I wrote:

1 HP Golem:
Golem works exactly the same as vanilla except its health is capped to 1. What that means is that it will only block a single instance of physical damage.

Formula 19 is Seal Evil formula for Dark/Evil Looking:
This makes Formula 19 into a (Sp+x)% ailment infliction that only works if the target has Dark/Evil Looking. In my patch I used it to flag Animal type monsters so Ranger abilities could hit them specifically (for example, a Red Panther can be Charmed by a Ranger but not a Skeleton).
You will need to use ASM hacks to make Dark/Evil Looking march normally and recolor the sprite to look normal if you use this (provided below).
These status recoloration edits were made with Raven's tools https://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=7271.0
The ASM to make Dark/Evil Looking march normally is also included in the spreadsheet.

Formula 19 is Seal Evil formula for Wall:
Same as above but uses Wall isntead of Dark/Evil Looking. This is what I was originally going to use in the mod, but turns out that the ASM to make Wall lose all hard-coding does not lose the bit of hard-coding that makes Walled targets immune to Invite. Needless to say, you will need an ASM to make Wall lose all hard-coding if you want to use this one. It does not require recolors, but beware of the Invitation caveat if you wish to use this version.

Faith magic with 100% proc:
Same as the regular Faith magic formula but with 100% ailment proc rate. Weeks after writing this one I realized there was already a similar hack included in the orgASM download. This one does not overwrite base formula 8, however, allowing you more freedom to choose the proc rate for your faith spells. (base formula 8 for 19%, formula 13 with separate flag for 25%s, formula 13 with all or nothing for 100%, etc)

Weapon Guard innate all:
This one needs a bit of a longer explanation:
First I tried the (Choto's untested fix) included in orgASM's download. Apparently it works for other people, from what I could gather from forum comments, but in the emulator I was using, it would crash the game every time I tried to attack someone. I have no idea why this happened and I will elaborate on why in a bit.
Then I tried Xifanie's original version. It seemed to work perfectly at first but, considering there was a fix to it, I knew there should be something wrong with that version. Upon further testing, I found out that weapon evasion only worked on the right hand and shield evasion only worked on the left hand in that version.
After that I just decided to take matters into my own hands and check the wiki for how Weapon Guard is checked and see if I could make my own version of the ASM. Essentially just turn the lines that ask "do you have Weapon Guard" off and voila, hack done.
After writing that version of the hack, I went back and checked how the other two versions were done. Xifanie's original version was skipping a few too many steps of the check, and that's why it disabled Shield evasion in one hand and Weapon evasion in the other.
Choto's untested fix seems to have been made to dirty patch on top of Xifanie's, because it has a redundant line of code that overwrites a default line with itself. Other than that single line, it is the same as the version I had written myself. And that is why I am very confused about how that could have caused crashes for me.
Anyway, all that story is the reason I classify this under limbo. I wrote it from scratch, checking only the wiki for reference, but it is also a (tested) fix for a hack that already existed before.

Edited/fixed hacks:

Blade Grasp dodge percentage is (Brave * Multiplier) / 1024 and only affects certain weapons:
This is a Glain hack that didn't even load in orgASM when I tried loading it. The problem was in how the customizable variables were set. I don't know how to make them customizable, but removing them and just adding the values manually worked to fix it.
The values I have set up for it make Blade Grasp work on Daggers, Ninjato, Swords, Knightswords, Katanas and Axes.
The bolded portions are what you need to edit if you want to change which weapons it works with and the brave multiplier for its success rate.


Miscellaneous notes on other hacks:

Took about 15 hours, but below is my first custom map: The Prison


We'll be back to working on the Alternate Map Pack on Friday!