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I know it's been a while, but thus will be revisited starting in the next few weeks, rebuilt from the ground up to be cleaner. Everything will remain the same, except for items.

Due to memory constraints, I haven't been able to, regardless of tools used and how I layer their application, get the ability requirement hack to work with expanded item stats. As the ARH supplies more to the mod than the item changes, items are being redone. For the most part, their theme is remaining the same, but there will be a reduction in fully unique properties and an altered scaling method for power where applicable to fit within the memory confines for items already present in the iso.

Yes this has been an off again on again labor of love that's gone on for years, with this one thing holding it back. After trying everything I can, and without documentation of one of the ASM hacks that MAY would make this work at the expense of monster breeding, it's time to throw in the towel on this, accept less interesting items, and get this mod done. Mostly because I'm ready to play it, even if nobody else is
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Quote from: Tytytoast on July 11, 2021, 02:35:49 amI tried patching with the ppf file and it didnt work it kept saying it was out of range :(

Possible it needs to be applied to an expanded iso. I made it using one.

It's currently got several bugs due to memory location conflicts. I'm getting ready to revisit this and looking around at possible solutions at the moment.
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Check spoiler fragments periodically. I am slowly adding more info

Read this first
There are things to be aware of before downloading this patch.  This is a vanilla overhaul that will serve as the backbone to an altered telling of the game events.  This is also my personal playthrough version (i haven't made another yet), and as such Beowulf is a little ridiculous.  Orlandu does not join.  Cloud's attacks require an item that must be synthesized. I need to pick an oil fix to apply; one has not been applied.

Some sprites will swap in a couple events to a different sprite while moving around. This can be seen in Rad when he kneels during the first event. These should be rare, and happen when and event sprite doesn't match the sprite of the character. I have tried to keep these to a minimum. Meliadoul will be fixed in the next version. She's ugly in those events, i know.

JP scroll and item dupe glitches have not been fixed yet.

Mist works but does not display name or graphic. There is a fix for this on these forums that will be applied.

Shops carry very few items.  At first you are a low ranking cadet, then a criminal.  You cannot walk into town and buy military grade gear.  It can be poached or synthesized.  Random battles have had item drops added to help with this.

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.

"Innate" jp up: all skills have had their cost reduced by roughly 1/3 and gained jp up has been removed.
Monsters have access to all their abilities in battle, though the formation screen only shows their non-monster skill abilities.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19vyCiUNP81cVr_I5nEbR2LhnhkgOstWHyEGn0mjz05w/edit?usp=sharing

The synthesis shop is available in the fur shop at trade cities. The fur shops are now avilable during chapter 1, starting when you first get to dorter.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17QgxIaPcOdVkD9MhXs2mVz8HF4DbdRMNXr8ITjIOdW0/edit?usp=sharing

There need to be more ways to cure petrification; currently there is one (design oversight). Stigma magic will go back to having centered AoE, petrify status will be added to the list of moogle status cures.

After playing through, i will be altering the battles further, adding in some basic event edits, and toying with new event triggering and conditionals.

Possible application of snowflakes to have more variation and flavor in battles.

Though it may not work, testing having ramza's ch4 variant gain permanent boosts for mastering jobs, such as ghazi=move +1, monk=hp +100, spiritist=MA +1, etc.

There will also be a version made that is non-immersive and makes fun of Owlgwarlth (Algus) because I hate him.

When Mustadio joins, he has two snipe skillsets equipped. Just remove the secondary one. The skillsets have the same abilities.

The Barrage ability works but is not displaying unit hit animation or damage above the units when it hits. Not sure why yet.

Pressing Select to inspect the Yew Staff bugs out menus until leaving whatever screen you're on(shop, formation, etc).

Innate abilities on some items don't seem to be working.

First, thanks to all those who answered questions along the way, Xifanie, Nyzer, Raven, Celdia, Pride, Glain, Choto.
Secondly, I have used ASMs written by Xifanie, Glain, Pokeytax, Pride, Razele, possibly others, i hope i didnt miss anybody..
This mod utilizes the amazing Ability Requirements Hack and ALMA, Synthesis Shop, Raven's Workbooks, EVSP
The changed sprites are all found on this website in the Sprites section.
I would like to thank the community for their hard and amazing work, without those mentioned above, the coders, the tinkerers, the artists, none of us could do the things we do.  This really is one of the best and strongest modding communities I've been a part of.

LyingWar.ppf

Confirmed working on epsxe. Given the nature of hacks used, it may not work as well on better emulators.
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
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Help! / Re: Sprite replacement and impact on events
April 23, 2021, 12:05:12 pm
Yes i had erroneously drawn the conclusion that unit id in events was tied to sprite id and managed to overlook unit id's existence in the patcher.

Thanks for yalls help.
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Help! / Re: Sprite replacement and impact on events
April 22, 2021, 11:40:59 pm




edit: posted same screenshot twice the first time
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Help! / Re: Sprite replacement and impact on events
April 22, 2021, 07:21:41 pm
I'm necroing this because I'm finally able to get back on it after a year off and still having an issue.

Ok so all of mustadio's sprite 16 were changed to sprite 22 in entd in fftpatcher.

I changed all the events with his id of x16 to x22.

In the goug story battle, mustadio speaks but his sprite is off screen somewhere. Now is an unanimated rudvich during the event afterwards where mustadio reveals he has the stone. Screen fades and unfades. No prompt to join, mustadio not in formation screen afterwards.

Is there something going wonky because mustadio's job in those events is job 16 rather than 22? I should note that i didn't realize until a test playthrough that I DID NOT make the jobs' skillsets match, so perhaps that's it.
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Help! / Re: Unknown opcode f1000000
April 16, 2021, 09:08:40 pm
The issue turned out to be the mime redesign v2 by....choto? Maybe?

Glad for that because it wasn't critical. ARH and ALMA are still playing well together.

Once I'm done with testing I'll be releasing the patch for the community. It has a lot of redesigns, synthesis shop, unpronounceable item names. Fun stuff
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Help! / Unknown opcode f1000000 [solved]
April 15, 2021, 09:40:59 pm
Hey yall! After a wreck and recovery and life and yada yada im back to it!

So i finally got everything slapped together, and can go into more detail if requested, but here is the issue.

I'm using epsxe. It plays the opening up until the characters walk out of the door to begin the battle.

I get the message that the core stopped due to unknown opcode f1000000 at 8002A8DC.

I know it's a longshot that somebody knows offtop what's going on, but figured I'd ask. Anybody have any idea what's up or how i can find out?
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Help! / Reallocating sprite space for larger sprites
April 07, 2020, 11:16:49 am
This may not be possible, buuuut. Valk's trance terra sprite seems to use one of altimas slots. But I'd rather use this in an event without dicking up the final battle. There are sprites that i just flat haven't noticed in game, 40 yr old man, 20 yr old man, etc. But they're smaller than the trance terra sheet.

Is there a way to nuke a few of these that are beside each other and apply the sprite there? I'd imagine you'd have to change the memory location pointer for the next sprite in the list to not fuck everything after the terra sprite up, but I'm not sure if even that is feasible. Is this something that can be done?
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News / Re: FFH's Discord Server
April 05, 2020, 08:21:30 pm
I'll hop on there for sure. Since I couldn't get the mobile irc to work properly for my phone
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PSX FFT Hacking / Re: The Blue Mage
March 29, 2020, 11:19:01 am
Learn on hit with no learn with jp should give you the desired outcome.

As far as enemies, what I did to simplify it is make a second skillset past the generics in the list. Put the monster skills you want to see used by enemy blue mages in there. In ENTD, assign that skillset to the character directly, rather than letting it use the generic blue mage skillset. This will result in the enemy having all the skills you put in the skillset available in battle.
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Quote from: Elric on March 18, 2020, 06:51:26 pm.... just open the fft image in shishi, go to other images, and scroll to unit.bin

I tried that after shishi wouldn't open unit.bin. Did a quick scroll twice and didn't see it, then remembered I saw an export option in GG and tried that. So basically my own impatience is why shishi didn't work.
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Help! / Re: Changing Formation Sprites to 16bit
March 17, 2020, 09:54:18 pm
Shishi wouldn't open my unit.bin and i didn't see it readily in when i opened the iso.  But i resolved the issue.

So you alter the image as normal: setting it to 4bpp, no dither, type A.  Then click the down arrow by palettes and removed unused colors.  Saving this will result in the issue I am having. Rather:
Choose to export the image with these options.
Type: Multiple Files (Combined File will not work)
File Name: doesn't matter
Prefix: whatever you want to name your file
Filetype: *.bmp
Alpha Channel: output as BMP
Trim: leave this unchecked
Frame options: leave this unchecked

This results in a bmp that is not preserving the color depth of the original file
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Quote from: Punkioinapit713 on March 17, 2020, 01:18:33 amHello I just patched my FFT with The Lion War and the tried to play it on ePSXe and when I load up the ISO it just goes black and then crashes. I haven't patched it with anything else and I follow the direction of for the patch on a youtube video.. Not sure what I did wrong ,but that's what happend....

First I'd try it on a couple different emulators because TLW is stable. Epsxe is far from perfect, BUT its imperfections do allow things like ALMA that have potential load delays to work better. That said, tlw worked on epsxe for me.

It's possible the iso you're patching is the issue as well. There is a thread around here somewhere with md5 hashes to compare the iso you're using against.

I know it can seem frustrating when you don't have full understanding of applications and interoperability, but once you work through these issues you're experiencing, you'll have greater understanding to apply to all sorts of none fft modding scenarios. Just keep at it and don't get discouraged.
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Help! / Re: Changing Formation Sprites to 16bit
March 17, 2020, 08:08:40 am
Quote from: Nyzer on March 16, 2020, 02:00:37 pmTry just importing it with Shishi and see what happens.

I always thought it was fftevgrp only for formations and portraits. I'll give this a go today and report back. Thanks for the heads up.
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Help! / Changing Formation Sprites to 16bit [solved]
March 16, 2020, 01:05:45 pm
Using Graphics Gale. I have snipped my formation sprites from their spritesheets.  I go to All Frames pulldown menu, select Color Depth, select 4bpp.  I click the down arrow in the palette window and select to remove unused colors.  I save.  All this is done with GG running as administrator.  I reopen the image in GG without closing GG and see it still shows 4bpp.

I go to FFTEVGRP and attempt to import the formation sprite.  I get the error message that it is not a 16 bit image.  Back to Graphics Gale and it still shows 4bpp.  Close GG and reopen it and it shows the image back at 8bpp.

Am I missing a step somewhere or doing something wrong? Anybody have any insight into this?
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are you making sure to decrypt the saves first?
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Quote from: Nyzer on March 06, 2020, 09:55:59 am*Does* LionEditor even work with the PSX game?

Documentation doesn't state it does and only has instructionsfor psp. Admittedly i never tried, but I assume it doesn't.

Isn't there an editor for psx though? Fftastic or something like that?
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Quote from: C1REX on March 06, 2020, 04:48:26 pmI would like that very much but that's beyond my capabilities.

There's an asm hack that allows the two unknowns for items in fftpatcher to reduce damage by %. I forget who wrote it, but it's in one of the hacking threads linked in Important Links! Check Here First! thread in the PSX Hacking section of the forums.