Final Fantasy Hacktics

Modding => Help! => Topic started by: Pickle Girl Fanboy on February 29, 2012, 05:23:05 pm

Title: Everyone look at the wiki
Post by: Pickle Girl Fanboy on February 29, 2012, 05:23:05 pm
http://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

There is some amazing work going on at the wiki right now, and I just want to say that everyone there is awesome.

http://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Formulas
Look at the formulas page.  Every formula links to a commented disassembly of that formula.  The grunt work required to do this, to format it for a wiki, and to test it and tweak it, is exactly the right thing to do.  This makes specialized information freely available to anyone who wants it.  It lowers the entrance barrier for ASM hacking.  It serves as a useful tool for learning ASM hacking.

This is the best thing I've seen in a while.
Title: Re: Everyone look at the wiki
Post by: Glain on February 29, 2012, 06:13:17 pm
Yep, this blows my function list out of the water. Kudos to Choto for organizing and spearheading the wiki edits, and secondadvent for doing most of the actual ASM commenting (without ever posting it or telling anyone :P). We should continue to use the wiki heavily going forward. I know when I was getting into ASM hacking FFT, I ended up investigating a bunch of routines we already had documented, which I could have avoided if we'd had something like this up.
Title: Re: Everyone look at the wiki
Post by: Pride on February 29, 2012, 06:46:36 pm
Funny how almost all the current ASM work is based off of what SA has done even though he rarely post and never really posted his documentation. It just got handed around =p
Title: Re: Everyone look at the wiki
Post by: Choto on February 29, 2012, 08:55:48 pm
Go team go! I've got return locations for the routines up to about halfway through the SCUS routines, that's slow treading though. After that we'll through in links for the jump commands. I was hoping to get some of the experts of FFH to fill in subjects that I know pretty much nothing about, like event editing, map editing, etc.

In regards to lowering the ASM learning barrier: http://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Learning_ASM

I pretty much just threw the tutorials and some random notes in there, but we should build that page up with any other info, as long as it's delivered simply and understandably. I also wanted to make some learning threads for other things like spriting, event editing, etc... Or making a Tutorials header on the main page. I'm just not sure what the best way to organize it is yet.

Soon we'll have the most badass wiki on the block son!