Final Fantasy Hacktics

BATTLE.BIN

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activate paletted portraits for special units

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Custom palette for special units and generic humans

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Custom palette for special units, generic humans and generic monsters.

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Number of maximum palettes that can be used. 08 recommended.

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Number of allowed spritesheets; override. This one is risky if you aren't aware of the consequences. Normally the spritesheet limit is 9 and the game will always calculate that you bring 5 units in random battles, even if the squad allows less. Therefore the game will calculate that only 4 enemy spritesheets are allowed to be loaded and will not even try to load any different spritesheet units after that. By raising the limit to 13, it allows 8 enemy spritesheets. Whoever you have to make sure the amount of units the player is allowed in the squad plus the the total spritesheets the ENTD can generate doesn't exceed 9. Else you create the possibility that a graphical glitch will occur for some units just like in story battles or the Deep Dungeon.

Here are some demos I made with my crappy bmp palette
 generator spreadsheet. (making some myself would've been too long and too ugly ^^)

EDIT: fix in beta test

That's really cool stuff, Zodiac.
As for the crystal/palette problem. It sound's like the generics have all sorts of problems. Is it that their implementation was sloppy, or to specific for their own good?
Since generics don't have the glitch, then I could make 8 special monsters that share one sprite file with no problems, right?
Anyway, thanks for the new data! ^_^

You misread, and anyway I've looked into the bug and it works for special units too. it seems that targeting a panel (attack, ability) sometimes activates the freezing bug, that is, unless a unit already crystallized/treasured.

I'm working on it but the best I could do yet is remove the bug by removing the graphic...

This is definitely cool stuff. The only thing left would be to implement more palettes in Unit.bin and assigning them correctly so that even more palette swap monster could be used as party members right?

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Number of allowed spritesheets; override. This one is risky if you aren't aware of the consequences. Normally the spritesheet limit is 9 and the game will always calculate that you bring 5 units in random battles, even if the squad allows less. Therefore the game will calculate that only 4 enemy spritesheets are allowed to be loaded and will not even try to load any different spritesheet units after that. By raising the limit to 13, it allows 8 enemy spritesheets. Whoever you have to make sure the amount of units the player is allowed in the squad plus the the total spritesheets the ENTD can generate doesn't exceed 9. Else you create the possibility that a graphical glitch will occur for some units just like in story battles or the Deep Dungeon.

this should be a HUGE help for mercenaries

thank you

Indeed, you have been a great help to me through all this! I'll look forward to using your other hacks as well.

zodiac this is great!

theres another thing now...

crystals can only have 0-5 as palettes
and treasure chest can only have 0-4
(there is absolutely no more space for color data due to other "sprites" like the frog and chicken using palette space as well.)

soo... is there any way you can make it so if the sprite has palette 5-8 it defaults their crystal and treasure palettes to the first palette so you dont have glitchy looking stuff?

or perhaps make it so crystal and treasure always uses palettes 0 for any assigned palette?

That would be the most sensible solution.
Bypass the glitch entirely.

Hey guys, try out the fix... I haven't tried it much but it seems to be working perfectly normal on my side.

By the way this isn't a normal fix, but the bug itself was extremely odd in the first place.

It fixes crystal/treasure/frog/chicken palettes with a MOD (example: 7 mod 5 = 2; 4 mod 5 = 4; 5 mod 5 = 0). And the other part of the routine prevents the freezing bug.

Sweet! Thanks a lot for this.
BTW, do I set the palettes in the job or in the ENTD?

ENTD only, that is why I made an option with or without monsters; since you'd have to reset the palette of every monster in every ENTD. For people like me that's easy. But as for some others, I doubt.

freezing bug?

i thought it had been because i had given the unit R/S/M skills in places they weren't supposed to have them.
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well its good news about the crystal/chest thing

I thought it didn't matter where R/S/M are placed because the game only treats them differently for sorting purposes.

But, yeah this is a pretty big step forward for the community. ^_^

now all id like is for any unit to auto accept "hp/mp restore" from crystals instead of giving the option to absorb an ability.

i dont want crystal farming in my patch... because the generic enemies have too many skills unlocked

To my surprise, it seems the game is storing the palette. I forgot to reset to 0 the palette of a character that joins as a guest, and when I entered a random battle, it had the same it joined with. I reseted the palette and everything went to normal. So it works for special characters at the very least.

something in this causes the game to crash


Raise palette limit + fix wrote:
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under which circunstances?

Z Falls, after all the event stuff and battle conditions display, as soon as the first character got her turn it gave the error

I didn't manage to reproduce the bug at all; I even changed everyone's palette.

Can you give me a quicksave or something?