Final Fantasy Hacktics

I've read Celdia's spriting tutorial I don't know how many times. I've tried to watch all the spriting videos I can find. Maybe I'm missing a step, but I can't figure this out. My menu portrait and sprite come out fine.

My battle portrait comes out messed up.

Wondering if anyone else has encountered something similar. I'm working with the PSX version.

I created a special character with a unique skillset that includes all the 'Draw Out' actions. I modified all of the abilities but for Ashura specifically

• changed the Y-value in the damage formula


• Inflict status: Dead

Don't know if this had anything to do with it but I also changed the WP and shop availability of the Ashura katana.

When I tried my character in Gariland, he can use the Ashura ability even though I don't have an Ashura in my inventory. When he used the ability, another sword (mythril sword?) appeared, but not directly above the character as it normally does. Otherwise, Ashura animated correctly.

I adjusted all enemies in the event battles to scale with the player's party level. Then I realized a player who grinds could end up with some really wimpy guest characters.

Is there a way to select your guests during random battles? I would have liked to use Delita more during Chapter 1 so he can hold his own at Fort Zeakden.

I got the idea for implementing equipment weight from a few posts on the forum. I found that FFTPATCHER does not allow (to the best of my knowledge) for negative values. To implement weight, I would have to give speed bonuses to lighter equipment, which throws a whole bunch of other stuff off (long bows come to mind).

I'm not sure if this is a feasible mod, or already in the works, but I thought I would put it out there.

I apologize in advance if there is already an answer to this somewhere on the forum. I tried searching the forums and found nothing exactly like what I'm asking.

I've made a few edits, like Ramza's chapter 2 & 3 base job renamed to Vigilante, and following Jon's Character Creation Tutorial to the letter adding my own unique to the Gariland battle.

When I open my patched ISO in FFTactext, all my edits are there. When I open my patched ISO in FFTPATCHER all my edits are there. When I run the ISO, it still plays like the vanilla FFT. Ramza is still a "Squire" in that first battle outside Orbonne, the one archer is still named "Dish" instead of a random name, my unique character is no where in the Gariland battle. I tried playing through the whole battle to see if I would be prompted for him to join at the end. Nope. I checked the formation screen after. He's not there either.

Why isn't my patch working even though FFTACTEXT and FFTPATCHER both tell me my ISO has been patched?

Has anyone got this error before when trying to import a PSX ISO into TacText?

QuoteError loading file: A generic error occurred in GDI+.

I'm using the PSX version. I've tried it over and over again using a clean ISO (just unzipped from my zip file). I've tried both version 0.482 and 0.457. I keep getting this error. 

*Update

FFTacText v0.482 and v0.457 could not open the ISO giving me the error

QuoteError loading file: A generic error occurred in GDI+.

I just downloaded FFTacText v0.478 and it opened the ISO just fine.