Hello again. :D
I read some stuff here and there and I got some things in my mind that I needed some clarification, if anyone can help me, that'd be nice. You also might go to Heaven. *rainbow-puke smiley here*
1. We have 16 families of monsters (not counting demons and apandas). Is it possible adding a new one?
2. Regarding these families, they use a certain colour pallete to differ one from the other. Can we actually make 3 different monsters from a single family pallete? I mean changing all 3 chocobos for 1 cactuar, 1 tonberry and 1 Chimera, for example.
3. Is it possible adding chocobo as an additional sprite to compose a new job, so chocobos would still be in the game, but deeply attached to knighthood? The visuals would obviously be like a knight riding a chocobo, but they would be now one only.
Thanks in advance(d :P).
You can create more monsters but they won't have the same property as regular monsters do such as: They won't be poachable or create a monster egg without ASM hacking
Quote from: Pride on March 14, 2012, 04:59:21 pm
You can create more monsters but they won't have the same property as regular monsters do such as: They won't be poachable or create a monster egg without ASM hacking
I never realized that poachable items are hardcoded to certain job slots.
Yes only jobs from 4E to 8F (all the generic monster families) can be poached. With a little ASM you could extend it, or apply it to other jobs by either moving the poach table or making the poach table read only 1 byte instead of 2 and remove rare poaching.
Hum, interesting... :)
Where is the poach table?
The item list is at 0x00056864 in SCUS (or 0x80066064 in RAM) which you already know from the patcher and the jobs are hardcoded here...
Increase Poached Inventory
0018c680: 3c028019 lui r2,0x8019
0018c684: 8c42f5fc lw r2,-0x0a04(r2)
0018c688: 27bdffe8 addiu r29,r29,0xffe8
0018c68c: afbf0014 sw r31,0x0014(r29)
0018c690: 14400012 bne r2,r0,0x0018c6dc
0018c694: afb00010 sw r16,0x0010(r29)
0018c698: 3c028019 lui r2,0x8019
0018c69c: 8c422d90 lw r2,0x2d90(r2) Load Defender Current Action Data
0018c6a0: 00000000 nop
0018c6a4: 94420010 lhu r2,0x0010(r2) Load Special Flags
0018c6a8: 00000000 nop
0018c6ac: 30420020 andi r2,r2,0x0020
0018c6b0: 10400024 beq r2,r0,0x0018c744 Branch if attack didn't trigger poach
0018c6b4: 00001021 addu r2,r0,r0
0018c6b8: 3c038019 lui r3,0x8019
0018c6bc: 8c632d98 lw r3,0x2d98(r3) Load Defender's Stats
0018c6c0: 00000000 nop
0018c6c4: 90620003 lbu r2,0x0003(r3) Load Defender's Job
0018c6c8: 00000000 nop
0018c6cc: 2442ffa2 addiu r2,r2,0xffa2 Job ID - 0x5D
0018c6d0: 2c420030 sltiu r2,r2,0x0030
0018c6d4: 14400003 bne r2,r0,0x0018c6e4 Branch if Job ID is less then 0x5D and greater then 0x8D
0018c6d8: 34040100 ori r4,r0,0x0100 r4 = 0x100 or 256
0018c6dc: 080631d1 j 0x0018c744 Jump to End
0018c6e0: 00001021 addu r2,r0,r0 r2 = 0x00
0018c6e4: 90620003 lbu r2,0x0003(r3) Load Unit Job ID
0018c6e8: 3405001f ori r5,r0,0x001f r5 = 0x1f or 31
0018c6ec: 0c017833 jal 0x0005e0cc
0018c6f0: 2450ffa2 addiu r16,r2,0xffa2 Job ID - 0x5D
0018c6f4: 10400006 beq r2,r0,0x0018c710
0018c6f8: 00101040 sll r2,r16,0x01
0018c6fc: 3c018006 lui r1,0x8006
0018c700: 00220821 addu r1,r1,r2
0018c704: 90236064 lbu r3,0x6064(r1) Load Common Poach
0018c708: 080631c7 j 0x0018c71c
0018c70c: 00000000 nop
0018c710: 3c018006 lui r1,0x8006
0018c714: 00220821 addu r1,r1,r2
0018c718: 90236065 lbu r3,0x6065(r1) Load Rare Poach
0018c71c: 3c018006 lui r1,0x8006
0018c720: 00230821 addu r1,r1,r3
0018c724: 90249494 lbu r4,-0x6b6c(r1) Load Poach Inventory
0018c728: 340200ff ori r2,r0,0x00ff
0018c72c: 10820005 beq r4,r2,0x0018c744
0018c730: 00000000 nop
0018c734: 24820001 addiu r2,r4,0x0001 Inventory + 1
0018c738: 3c018006 lui r1,0x8006
0018c73c: 00230821 addu r1,r1,r3
0018c740: a0229494 sb r2,-0x6b6c(r1) Store New Inventory
0018c744: 8fbf0014 lw r31,0x0014(r29)
0018c748: 8fb00010 lw r16,0x0010(r29)
0018c74c: 27bd0018 addiu r29,r29,0x0018
0018c750: 03e00008 jr r31
0018c754: 00000000 nop