Windows application based on Zodiac's Excel workbook

[melonhead]

Updated 2/8/08:
New version:
FFTPatcher - v0.200
Changes since v0.192:

• Added the Dark Knight, Onion Knight, Balthier, Luso, Argath, Aliste, and Bremondt sprites to the fftpack.bin extractor. Thanks to Dakitty for this info.
• Fixed bug in the Equipment Editor where some checkboxes weren't getting highlighted.
• Added "Always present" and "Randomly present" labels to two checkboxes in the ENTD editor. Thanks to Raijinili for this info.
• Added a function to patch a War of the Lions ISO image file directly, so that CWCheat codes are no longer required. Thanks to NeXaR for the hint that made this possible.
• Fixed the cheat.db file generation to use Unix-style linefeeds like CWCheat expects. Thanks to Krakistophales on the GameFAQs forums for pointing this out.

[karsten]

thanks, melo, your work is wonderful as usual!

by the way, how are things looking for the sprite recompressor? hit some hard wall on it?

[melonhead]

thanks, melo, your work is wonderful as usual!

by the way, how are things looking for the sprite recompressor? hit some hard wall on it?

Shishi Sprite Manager (a stupid name) will be released later today hopefully.

[NeXaR]

(M. Burns mode ON)
Excellent!!
(M. Burns mode OFF)

Seriously, thank you very much for your work. This will surely come in handy for my project.

EDIT: Any chance a feature for renaming (skills, jobs, etc) is planned for the future?

[melonhead]

(M. Burns mode ON)
Excellent!!
(M. Burns mode OFF)

Seriously, thank you very much for your work. This will surely come in handy for my project.

EDIT: Any chance a feature for renaming (skills, jobs, etc) is planned for the future?

FFTactext Editor is in the works but it will probably be a few weeks.

[NeXaR]

Good! Take your time, no rush here

[karsten]

when things goes so well i have no words

[Kourama]

Nice update! As always great stuff melon.

Quick question though, in the next update is there anyway that you can have Formula's for each skill shown. For example Asura's formula is Damage = MA * 8 (04C).

So when you look at the screen with the abilities, Formula for Asura would say "(04C) Damage = MA * X" And X would be whatever it is you already have on your program which would be 8 in this case.

It would make it a lot easier to mess around with the current formulas until a way to change the individual formulas is found.

[Xifanie]

Oh man melonhead, to come up with a name like that I suppose your brain was damaged by Final Fantasy TicTacs. ;o

Rawr at new version.

[Kourama]

I hate asking for help but I'm at a loss when it comes to patching the PSP version of the game.

I tried decrypting the War of the Lions ISO with FFT Patcher but I keep getting an error saying that it was unable to decrypt it. So I looked at the forums here and read through NeXaR's posts.

According to his posts extracting Boot.bin, renaming it to Eboot.bin, then copying it over the Eboot.bin maybe it would help decrypting the file in FFT Patcher but then I received an error saying that it didn't recognize the iso as a War of the Lions iso.

Anyone, melonhead or otherwise have any tips or advice to fix this?

[melonhead]

I hate asking for help but I'm at a loss when it comes to patching the PSP version of the game.

I tried decrypting the War of the Lions ISO with FFT Patcher but I keep getting an error saying that it was unable to decrypt it. So I looked at the forums here and read through NeXaR's posts.

According to his posts extracting Boot.bin, renaming it to Eboot.bin, then copying it over the Eboot.bin maybe it would help decrypting the file in FFT Patcher but then I received an error saying that it didn't recognize the iso as a War of the Lions iso.

Anyone, melonhead or otherwise have any tips or advice to fix this?

Blah.
Can you reply with the following info:
Are you using the US or Europe version of the game? Or maybe Japanese?
What is its file size? (Exactly, in bytes)
Open the ISO in UMDGen and give me the info on this page: http://istaken.org/rtload/umd.png

[Kourama]

Using US version
(418,871,296 bytes)

This ISO is a freshly ripped ISO from my UMD.

[melonhead]

I looked at the log you sent me.

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2/9/2008 10:07:17 PM: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Documents and Settings\Twin\Desktop\UMD9660.ISO' is denied.
   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
   at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode)
   at FFTPatcher.PspIso.DecryptISO(String filename)
   at FFTPatcher.MainForm.decryptMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)It seems like it's a problem with something on your computer, not with the program. It's like the program doesn't have sufficient permissions to open the UMD9660.ISO file in write mode. Can you make sure that no other program has it open and that your user account owns the file? You can try moving it to another path on your hard drive also.

[NeXaR]

Did you do the renaming before or after trying to use the "decrypt iso" option in fftpatcher?

[melonhead]

Did you do the renaming before or after trying to use the "decrypt iso" option in fftpatcher?

The "Decrypt ISO" function opens the file, checks to make sure the file is actually a War of the Lions image (by searching for strings like "ULUS-10297" or "ULES00850"), copies BOOT.BIN's data on top of EBOOT.BIN, and updates the file system so reflect EBOOT.BIN's new size.
The "Patch War of the Lions image" function does a DecryptISO first, so there's really no need to do both. There's also no need for the user to open the image in an editor and do the decryption "manually".

On Kourama's computer it's failing to open the file at all.

NeXaR: Are you able to get either Decrypt ISO or the patching functions to work?

[trickstardude7]

this is kind of random.. but Melonhead will there ever be a way to enrypt and decrypt saves to be usable for lion editor?

[melonhead]

this is kind of random.. but Melonhead will there ever be a way to enrypt and decrypt saves to be usable for lion editor?

You can use the plugin that comes with Lion Editor or Hellcat's Savegame-Deemer. In either case, you'd need custom firmware.

I guess we could eventually modify the game's executable to not use the PSP SDK syscalls that encrypt saves, but instead store them in plaintext. But that would mean editing the ISO image and that would require custom firmware to play anyway.

[NeXaR]

@melonhead

I tried the "Decrypt ISO" with a clean dump of a PAL copy and worked (or at least, didn't throw any errors). But I didn't actually tried to run that ISO on the PSP. I'll do some tests when I return home (I'm at my GF's house right now).

[trickstardude7]

this is kind of random.. but Melonhead will there ever be a way to enrypt and decrypt saves to be usable for lion editor?

You can use the plugin that comes with Lion Editor or Hellcat's Savegame-Deemer. In either case, you'd need custom firmware.

I guess we could eventually modify the game's executable to not use the PSP SDK syscalls that encrypt saves, but instead store them in plaintext. But that would mean editing the ISO image and that would require custom firmware to play anyway.

Oh man    

[melonhead]

Updated 2/10/08:
New version:
FFTPatcher - v0.205
Changes since v0.200

• Added detailed formula information to the Ability editor. These are mostly taken from the Battle Mechanics guide.
• Added Sprite Viewer with decompression/recompression support. If you have used Merlin Avery's FFT Sprite Manager, you'll find it works almost exactly the same.