Xif's Fixes (ASM Hacks & Spreadsheets)

[LastingDawn]

And an incredible tool becomes even better! Great work Zodiac!

[Zaen]

There are so many possibilities now, it's unbelievable!

[Timbo]

I'm feeling stupid because I still don't get how to implement the Weapon Ability Patch.

Also, how viable would be to rewrite Math Skill to function as a Double Cast skill instead?
The menu structure seems to already be there. Would it just be a matter of calling different routines after each menu and change the menu content?

I see limitless potential in rewriting Math Skill.  Personally, I'd want it to point only to spells your character has equipped as his secondary skill.  Could you imagine being able to double cast any spell in the Math Skill skillset?  Seems a little OP.

I'm no hacker but, it seems like it would be a lot of work to make all the spells target normally, have normal casting times, then of course actually making them cast twice would probably be just as difficult as making a support ability to the exact same thing.

[R999]

Zodiac, awesome work. It often goes under-appreciated just how awesome this is.


I do have one question, is the Elemental Weapon requirement AND or OR?   "Fire Or Ice allow Ability X"    or "Fire AND Ice allow Ability X"?



edit: another question for you to answer in the morning. Can we have Require Sword + Forbid Materia Blade as a single requirement?

[Xifanie]

Requires all elements. If you want to change it it's a pretty simple hack.

edit: another question for you to answer in the morning. Can we have Require Sword + Forbid Materia Blade as a single requirement?

And what are you asking? Be clear in your questions

[philsov]

Can we have Require Sword + Forbid Materia Blade as a single requirement?

"Forbid single item" isn't a function that I'm seeing, neverminding the potential conflict.

[Xifanie]

OH Forbid. I never saw that one. That will have to wait ARH 2.0 I'm afraid.

[R999]

Oops Philsov's right. But what I really wanted to ask was something like, can two different requirements stack together, like "Require Spear" + "Require Regen", as a single requirement.  

Edit: It's currently setup as AND for the above scenario, for those who are wondering. So "Require Spear OR Require Regen" is not possible.

[Zaen]

It's possible.

[Xifanie]

Added:
Innate skillset 0xA9 for all units

Btw this is meant to be used along with the ARH. For example anyone wearing the Masamune in any job could be able to use MBarrier.

[BeoulveBlack]

wow, i see you've all been busy little bees!

i might have to cut short my list of things i wanted to do in ACLR and get back here before i fall too far behind with FFT stuff...besides, all this ASM talk is making me really excited about all the possibilities i didn't have before.

@Zodiac
read your messages!

[Mega_Tyrant]

I'm guessing this wont work with a WOTL ISO seeing as it doesn't have an SCUS_942.21 file?

EDIT:  NVM, it seems the PSP version really is based off of the japanese version of the game, did a search of the forums and found out that for the psx version the japanese equivalent of SCUS_942.21 is the SLPS_007.70, which the WOTL ISO has.

[Xifanie]

Added:

0x000E9358 :
FFFFFFFFFFFF05FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF050505FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF05FFFFFF0505FF05FFFF05FF
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
60402790
11002000
1500013C
2108E100
58032190
13006000
FF000334
02006110
00000000
25382000
10080000
DC040508
12180000
0x000DA36C :
0E410508
00000000
Generic Skillset ability fix.
It should be noted that by default, this hack has every "buggy" skillsets set as 05. This makes the said skillset to copy the functions of skillset 0x05, which is basic skill, a perfectly normal skillset. Else, if the value is 0xFF, the skillset type will remain unchanged. The table reads the original values, so you don't have to worry if you make skillset 0x05 copy 0x06 and vice-versa at the same time.
For example if you want to turn jump (Skillset 0x12) into a normal skillset, you have to make it <default> in the "Action Menus" tab of FFTPatcher, and change the value in the hack's table to 0x05, or anything linking to a normal skillset.
0x000E9438 + 0x12 = 0x000E944A
Like I said, by default all those type of skillsets are set to normal skillsets, so make sure you edit properly before yelling at me.

[Vanya]

This is awesome!!
So this basically uses a 'normal' skillset as a template to overwrite the problematic ones?
If I understand your description correctly this works independently of the specific skills in the set, right?

[Xifanie]

yes x2

[FFMaster]

Awesome stuff. We can fix Jump and Throw now!

[Vanya]

Sweet! Do you need some testing done or is this thing pretty much 'in the bag'?
Also, I noticed it extends all the way into the monster skillsets. Can they be normalized as well?

[Xifanie]

I haven't tested monster skillsets. But it shouldn't matter as they are not generic human skillset to start with, which was the reason for this hack.
Maybe someone tested? I only converted the memory addresses to BATTLE.BIN and I did fucked up with this step before with other hacks.

[Vanya]

I'll give it a shot.
Speaking of memory addresses I have some questions for you about my concept for a Mime fix hack and/or Bard-Dancer split hack.
Re-pointing the the RAM addresses should be easy, but I'm guessing, to start,  I'm going to have to locate whatever algorithm it is that sets the values for a given unit's equipment & learned skills, right?
I'm guessing I'd be looking or something in the menu that checks the current unit's job value and has some sort of branching statement if it detects the value for Mime.
If it detects something other than Mime it should then branch to the algorithm I'm going to need to hack in order to rearrange what values are set.
Does that sound about right?

[Xifanie]

I'm already working on mime.
- Disabled Mimicry
- Enabled Equipment/Abilities
So now I just have to enable the Mimic Skillset, fuse the Bard/Dancer learnt abilities, and set Mime's to use the previous dancer ones.