Final Fantasy Hacktics

it keeps the data for the old characters as long as their slot isn't replaced with a new character.  is there a list of flags for characters blocks somewhere?  maybe there is a flag for activating a charcter?

bugs with wine or with fftpatcher?  where do you even find xp these days?

running fftpatcher using wine on debian testing
installed dotnet 2.0 via winetricks
got this
user@computer ~/h4x/FFTPatcher_483_RC $ wine FFTPatcher.exe
err:ole:CoGetContextToken apartment not initialised
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"System.Windows.Forms"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"System"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"System.Drawing"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"PatcherLib"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"PatcherLib.Resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"System.Xml"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"PatcherLib.Resources.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"PatcherLib.Resources.resources"
fixme:gdiplus:GdipGetFamilyName No support for handling of multiple languages!
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"FFTPatcher.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"FFTPatcher.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"FFTPatcher.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"FFTPatcher.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"FFTPatcher.resources"
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"FFTPatcher.resources"
fixme:gdiplus:GdipCreateHalftonePalette stub

user@computer ~/h4x/FFTPatcher_483_RC $ wine --version
wine-1.4.1

what dlls does fftpatcher need?