Final Fantasy Hacktics

HUGE Thank You!

I kept doing site searches for "Character Age" and the post you shared never popped up, only unanswered Help posts with similar questions. But this looks like it's going to point me exactly where I wanted to be.

I appreciate this so much. Hopefully anyone looking for this in the future will see this link too!

Hey all!

First, I'm super impressed by the amount of information in this forum! I have been trying to customize FFT since I was a little kid playing with gamesharks to make new skill sets for jobs and finally I find this place that has blown all of that away!

So now I'm trying to make something very custom and I wanted to create some new characters from scratch and integrate them into the story and events. I'm modding the original PSX version and I've got the events basically figured out and was working on creating character Bios that would be added to the Brave Story section after the characters introductions. It's working pretty well so far but I'm having issues with the age variable.

I was following this tutorial to create custom character bios:
https://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=12338.0
So I can get into the WLDMES.BIN with the text editor and create profiles, but for character ages the tutorial only states:
 "{0xE4} is a stand in for a variable representing that character's age."
I have been searching all day and haven't been able to find where the reference for {0xE4} is, or how it's calculated on a per-character basis. So when I create a new character and enter (Age: {0xE4}) I keep getting 0s for character slots that didn't exist before, or duplications of what the age would have been for a character I replaced.

Does anyone know where 0xE4 references characters base ages? I feel like it should be a simple table that addresses slots to some kind of hex code, like I would imagine Ramza's character address probably lists a beginning value of 0F, and then 1 is added each time the calendar crosses his chosen birthday or when the story time skips. But I've checked through hundreds of events and the ENTD entries of the Patcher tool and now I'm searching through ASM code on the disk img but I'm still not sure where to look and I haven't been able to find any kind of addressing that looks like that yet.

If anyone knows where to look for that I'd be very appreciative!

Thanks!