Final Fantasy Hacktics

Hi,

I'm trying to write some ASM formulas, and i run into this code (in formula 15)

001891d0: 3402007f ori r2,r0,0x007f
001891d4: 3c038019 lui r3,0x8019
001891d8: 8c632d90 lw r3,0x2d90(r3) r3 = target current action data pointer
001891dc: 00000000 nop
001891e0: a0620013 sb r2,0x0013(r3)  Set target CT to -127.
001891e4: 3c038019 lui r3,0x8019
001891e8: 8c632d90 lw r3,0x2d90(r3)
001891ec: 34020001 ori r2,r0,0x0001
001891f0: a0620025 sb r2,0x0025(r3) 
I understand what it does, but i'm wondering, why there is two sequences ending to lw r3, 0x2d90(r3) ? r3 is not modified by the command sb r2 0x0013(r3) does it ?

Probably a dumb question...

Quote from: AriusScorpius on December 29, 2020, 11:08:41 pmI couldn't get a decent shot from Shishi

That's odd...

I load your bmp in shishi and the portrait was ok (checking and unchecking the box make him change)...

I'm glad you manage to find another way.

Here's is a tutorial (a bit outdated) but i think you'll find a way to load the portrait's palette correctly

https://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=6702.0

It'll be something like load your bmp in shishi, screen capture it and reload it with the correct palette in graphic gale...

Looks like everything is ok.

I just added routine 001876e4. The link works.
I'll continue later. I'll also look to add the returns locations, if necessary and maybe also to point out the existence of duplicate pages on each page.

Hi,

Maybe you'll have to deal with the checkbox "Always use corresponding palette for portrait" just under the dropdown menu allowing you to choose the sprite number.

If not present, download the latest version of FFTPatcher.

Quote from: Orkney on December 26, 2020, 02:39:48 pmAnd I'm looking for a possible link to see if I can consider diving into it.

I've been fooled by the translator.(and i don't double check it)
If you could point some link to me, i'll go ahead and check it !

Thanks for the tip !

I am willing to edit the wiki, I had no idea that everyone could do it.
I will try and report here.

I had made myself the same remarks with the duplicated links.
The problem is not so much the fact that there are two different pages, but rather that some pages point to only one of the two links.
Perhaps it should be pointed out on each of the two pages that there is another page dealing with the same routine

Hello,

I spent some time on the wiki exploring the formulas, and I found some small problems.

1/ Some routines are missing from the page Routines location.

001876e4 : https://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Store_Reaction/Proc_ID_and_Target

00185d00 : https://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Store_PA_and_PA_+_Y_/_2

00188888 : https://ffhacktics.com/wiki/00188888_-_00188960 (pointed as Calculate Accuracy as User Faith * (MA + X)%)
from formula 1_4)

2/Some dulicate links

0013b590 :  accessible as https://ffhacktics.com/wiki/Get_Script_Variable from the routine location page, but still accessible from https://ffhacktics.com/wiki/0018e660_-_0018e6b4 as unknown_1. In unknown_1 there is a link that is supposed to go to 13b644 but in the page the code starts again at 13b590)

0018433c - two links accessible from the routine page, one of the links (here) specifies 2 return locations that I have not been able to find. The return location 00184360 is not present.

I hope that these are really anomalies, and not just a lack of competence on my part...

Edited the 29/12/20 : wrong first link for 0013b590

Thank you both for your explanations.

I was just trying to get an overview of the execution of the different routines and the implication of the different parameters of the game (dodge, parry, affinity etc).

But what you're talking about is also very interesting (I understand a bit better now). I don't know much about it (for the moment?).

I'm French (I thought it must be obvious from the way I write in English ). And I'm looking for a possible link to see if I can consider diving into it.

Having said that, Niwit was talking about starting from the wiki, I found 2-3 errors while making my file. I don't know if it will impact the extraction to the text file or not, I plan to make a post to bring up what I found (time to settle down and find or do it).

Well, I'm completely out of it...

I don't understand much of what you're saying.

You're talking about formatting the raw code of the wiki in a form that's more convenient to program?

I was just trying to format it to understand it better (at my humble level), as EnderC suggested.
At this stage I haven't written any ASM code yet, I've only read most of the tutorials and links on the site.

I understand that you want to give names to groups of lines (like the confusion example), so that you can then call them up and have them substituted again by the original code . But how can we create these labels (in what form? in what programme?), and above all how can we use them again?

Thanks for looking at it.

Yes I did it in VBA with Excel and a lot of work by hand as well. Since I saw that the VBA language for excel and the office language were different, I gave up the idea of relearning how to write macros.

Since it takes me a long time, I wanted to get some feedback. To find out if I was doing something that could be useful to someone else or not.

I may be considering doing it for something other than formulas (although to this day I have no idea what routines are involved in a fight, or on the roster).

So I'm not particularly looking for help, unless this beginning of work gives someone here bigger ideas (but that would be me helping him at this point).

My skills are relatively limited, and I don't understand much about what you are trying to do on your side... (sorry).

But you have partly answered my question by telling me that you think it is quite useful. The file has been downloaded 6 times (!!) so the subject seems to interest a few people (the current tool maybe less). I will take a little more time to make it more presentable.

Hi and thank you for your answer

I'm trying to make a tool that gives an overview of how the routines interact.

For example, I'm looking at changing the way bravery and faith impact routines, so I need to know what routines are impacted and how they are impacted. In the file I made, if I click on the faith-routine, I will see all the formulas related to this routine (directly or via another routine)

I have very little experience with python, a little more with Excel (experience, no formation). I've downloaded your file, and I'll take a look at it to see if I can find a way to use it.


Thanks for the translation link!

Hi everybody. (and sorry for the poor english)

I'm submitting an excel sheet at an alpha stage, but quite functionnaly. Mostly because i'm losing faith in this project.

At the beginning i want to learn ASM hacking, and i was very pleased by Xifanie videos tutorial. But at a moment in the video, she's looking for a formula that will fit her project (physical damage). At this stage i ask myself how will i pick the good formula for my own project. I start digging in the wiki and a went quite lost.

So i decided to make a sheet with all the formulas in order to quickly know when a formula his affected by zodiac compatibility, elemental modification, physical damage reduction etc...

I've a hard time doing it and i decided to start a map. I went quite mad about it (jal jal jal, then vba vba vba)

Today all the formulas and the routine are on the sheet, they are connected to each other. Even if the very right of the sheet is not clean (because those are the unknown routines, so i was less motivated)
-There is an arrow on each of them that link to the wiki of each of them.
-When you click on a formula/routine, all the non connected routines vanish (if not, the sheet is not usable)
-If you click again on the same routine the sheet return to it base stage (the "what the f...?" stage)
-If you click on another routine (visible so connected to the first) it will either reboot the visible routine (as if you click it at the first time) or either add to the visible routines all those which are connected to the one you just click (i'm quite sure i'm mad at this time). If the word "ADD" is in the cell B1 you'll be in the second case.

I was planning to add another function to color the formulas and routines.
I tried to keep the routine in the order they are called. (that why some link are colored or not). It's probably not totaly acurate at this time.
There are probably some bug too (with connectors to nothing, because missnamed some of the connector (there are a lot of them !!!)
The VBA is probably not ultra efficient (mostly the remaping of the shape) and it could take a few seconds to work - mostly with the first formulas)
And the présence of arrow or not on the links, looks totaly random.

At this stage, i need to know if i'm trying to do something that will help to ASM coding formulas or if i'm (definitively) loosing my time here... Maybe some suggestions will help me to move on this project (or drop it)

Here is an image of what happen when you click on the formula 0C



I was drive to put the routines on different column to avoid multiple link direction, the the jal always go to the right (not true at the very right, but it's understandable i guess)

FORM ALPHA.xlsm

Hi

FFT Patcher will do the job.

You'll find it here

Open your patch or your ISO, and look in the Job sheet for the crossbow thing, and in the job level sheet for the Job lv thing.

You can move skill from the skillset sheet.

It's quite intuitive you'll see.

Glad to read it.

But i'm not sure to understand the TLW part. The fixes are included in it, but TLW use a part of the freed slots/sprites no ?

Hi !

I have missed the release of this patch ? Or did the release take more time than initialy planned ?

Hi

Usually there is a frame per second section in the options (don't know the psp emulator). Maybe you'll have to check this setting.

PS : you can also find a psx emulator and play the war of lion patch

Hi,

Yeah, it would make him more interesting...

Maybe with less asm coding you can give him somes skill that cost mana and limit skill only usable if you've 0 mana (this part will need asm coding (maybe via ARH))

That said, the limit damage based on current target HP serves this purpose (first you'll want to hit your target and when it's hp is low, cast the limit (you can extend this with MP, maybe speed power etc... (you damage the speed first and then you'll use a limit that does low-speed related damage.

With ASM you can create a status (or think how to use an existing one), cloud will have some skill that have a chance to add this status (or better, materia blade could be the only weapon that can add this status) while limit can only work on target with this status (via canceling it), it's a little random based (not like the original cloud, but it could give some fun (or frustration ))

Hi,

Thanks for answering.

This month i've started an attempt to "map" formulas routines in a spreadsheet.
What a mess ! I make nightmares with jal - jal again - "uber jal" - counter jal - hamedo jal routines   
But it gives a clear view of which formula can proc status or not and how status is inflicted.
I know this will require ASM hacking, but i was persuaded that i've seen this hack somewhere on the forum.

I guess i was wrong