Exodus; Public Alpha Patch 0.06

[Smitson]

Alrighty, i'll look up some stuff now, and try it when I get home tonight.

[Smitson]

Tried, had no luck.

[SentinalBlade]

Tried googling or tried it on your psp?

Ill do some Riverbed searching, but i dunno if ill get any pearls with google on this subject.

[Smitson]

Tried on my PSP.

[SentinalBlade]

What did you try it with? just a converted ISO with SoR on it?

It seems for the most part all the asm hacks work, in that they dont freeze teh game, but each one seems to freak another portion out, such as the Catalyst weapons not being equippable and appearing in the potion menu.

This isnt true for attacks taht edit command routines. such as my Endurance hack, zodiac's Fury, or Razele's item % hp hack.

[Smitson]

Yup a converted ISO with SOR on it. Maybe I did something wrong but I Downgraded - - - > put OEA on and tried it. I went to battle, the cpu's had a couple of turns, I took an action. Bam. Crashed. I hope it ends up working, so then I can finally play . Please and thank you .

[SentinalBlade]

I didnt do one on event editing yet, ive been meaning to, but to many things have come up. i did do one for editing event text in a hex editor, but its outdated now.

You will soon, ima try and see if i can get ahold of dark alex or his small support team, see if there is a way to circumvent this issue.

[Smitson]

It'll be great if there is, but it sounds pretty challenging.

 I remember you saying SOR had a new story, is it in right now?

[Oblivion]

haha, as cool as Dark Alex is, he is more busy than i am, and then he is working on hacking the psp firmwares. He cant handle them all.

Short update;

Texts are 90% done. i have to go in and fix a status and Draw Out/Summon, as well as about 15 monster abilities.
Tithin's Character is nearly complete. figuring out how to remove the blocks on his special spell effect.
Chapter 3 Revised and reworked.
Chapter 1 Difficulty smoothed into hard, instead of spiking directly into it.
Celdia's Character started implementation
SuperJupi's Moves rebalanced
Several Items unglitched and shop inventories revamped.

I should have an update released Sunday. I have to go visit my dying grandma, and my laptop has like 1 hour of life max and cant be on while plugged in. So ill work when and as much as i can to get this to you guys. IF its not out sunday night, look for it monday afternoon.

Im going back to school Tuesday, so im going to work my absolute hardest and fastest to get as much done as i can before i become ultra busy.

Also on the PSP note; I was messing around and made one with minimal ASM hacks. that is one without endurance, everything else included. It works, in battle at least. My brother played it and started yelling at me cause he thought i put things where i shouldntve.

Truth is, during the convertion process, something happened. Catalysts(i.e. the items with katana icons) are now in the potions catagory and cant be equipped. the Lune Knight in mandalia had 40,000 HP, and Cats CONSTANTLY did 999 damage and had 78 PA, but in the patch, it had normal growths and a lower multipler. at level 4 it should have around 6-7. not 78.

I was looking around, and i think maybe OEA has a much better emulator, if that one has one at all(i cant remember which one i was looking at) if someone has time to try out that firmware, ill send you a special update to try out for me. I dont have my pandora battery right now, so i cant revert right now if i brick(my psp normally does when updating)

That is on the PSX Game played on the psp.

lol the cats pwn
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[SentinalBlade]

^ Agreed

It will get one, but it wont be included until exodus phase is complete.

Exodus is the mechanics, gameplay and jobs, that you will see. they needed a severe amount of testing, as you can see. and im still implementing jobs like a madman(hence why this is alpha, im still putting major content in)

Hopefully if i get some free time i can work on getting lancer/geomancer/ninja/samurai skillsets fixed up.

Symbols of Rage will have teh storyline included, but it wont be for quite awhile; after all Chapter 4 still needs doing on Exodus. Rest Assured, i completly plan to finish it all up. regardless of the amount of time it takes.

[tithin]

SentinalBlade: OE-A is Dark Alex under a pseudonym.

Dark Alex -> m33 -> m33 oe-a -> m33

was how it went, iirc. When he moved to m33, he took on a few new people to help him out.

[SentinalBlade]

Would explain alot, thanks for the info on that part tithin.

Emailed DarkAlex, but lord knows when i will get a reply.

[Smitson]

Lets hope its soon!

Btw how do you even know him Sentinal?

[SentinalBlade]

Connections. Im not planning on bothering him on his personal email yet, But his support one is wide open on his homepage.

Truth be told i just bummed of Jorgen(known for his final fantasy 5 plus hack, and FF5 dissassembly documentation). I guess he knows him, cause i mentioned the problem and he gave me the email.

Ima give it a week before i send him one on the email Jorgen gave me.

[Smitson]

Yeah  you don't want to be that pesky/annoying guy that sends him an email for 20mins lol.

[SentinalBlade]

Yea, i try not to be that guy, cause i know how it is getting emails when someone doesnt genuinly need help. Although this could be considered genuine, he does have more pressing matters.

[Smitson]

Making the PSP ASM ready wouldn't be simple by any means though would it?

[SentinalBlade]

IT could be that it just runs a few checks on the more popular games to make them run without glitches. like how you can input a few fixes on EPSXE. or PSCX2.

That would be my only guess, and if thats how he set it up, it may be awfully hard getting it upright.

[Oblivion]

Sorry to say this, but Dark Alex stopped doing cfw related stuff.

Here's a link:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/03/psp- ... -it-quits/

[SentinalBlade]

Not to rain on the parade Ergheiz(which i love that reference btw), but Dark_Alex left the CFW scene on the border of 4 times now, and is still out there producing things and applications to combat the evil empire that sony has become.

The most recent return happened i think mid november of 08. he thought he would be leaving, or it was at least rumored he was, and then he pops out another cfw update.

His firmware is up to 5.00 m33-6 last i saw. which was released just a bit ago.