Xif's Fixes (ASM Hacks & Spreadsheets)

[Cyril]

Haha, thanks Zodiac! Too tired to test it now but I'll take your word for it. Figured it was something like that.

[Zozma]

i mentioned this in another topic (where it didn't belong) but i thought id ask for hit here.

something has become a big problem for my patch, and that is getting skills from crystals. Due to all the random human  enemies having lvl8 in every job, i REALLY dont want any crystal farming going on. Is there any way you can make an ASM that either:

A) Forces all units to auto accept hp/mp restoration from crystals
(this would also make "auto battle" more "auto")

B) Allows a smaller maximum number of available skills to absorb from the crystal, say 5 instead of like 20.

[Archael]

i mentioned this in another topic (where it didn't belong) but i thought id ask for hit here.

something has become a big problem for my patch, and that is getting skills from crystals. Due to all the random human  enemies having lvl8 in every job, i REALLY dont want any crystal farming going on. Is there any way you can make an ASM that either:

A) Forces all units to auto accept hp/mp restoration from crystals
(this would also make "auto battle" more "auto")

B) Allows a smaller maximum number of available skills to absorb from the crystal, say 5 instead of like 20.

make pre-mastered skillsets for enemies

make all chance to learn %'s zero

[Zozma]

why would i do that when im talking about random encounter humans, there are so many of them and why would i want them to always have a fixed set? and then have to have them have fixed r/s/m skills set as well. that would take away from gameplay if you always know what you're going to run into on a "random" encounter now wouldnt it?

no that's not what im looking for Voldemort. besides, almost all of the blank skill slots are being used to force some units to have some specific skills learned for event fights

and for your second non helpful idea..
thats not possible either, with everything 0% chance to learn what the hell are enemies going to have when you deal with them?

Im certainly not new here and if i were happy with either of those solutions i'd have used them long ago. thats why this is section is here. for ASM hacks.

[Archael]

why would i do that when im talking about random encounter humans, there are so many of them and why would i want them to always have a fixed set? and then have to have them have fixed r/s/m skills set as well. that would take away from gameplay if you always know what you're going to run into on a "random" encounter now wouldnt it?

not at all

just do it like square does it

use all 16 slots

pre-set the r/s/m skills and the mastered primary / secondary skillsets

enable randomly present flags for all, except 1 enemy

bye bye predictability, bye bye crystal farming

and for your second non helpful idea..
 with everything 0% chance to learn what the hell are enemies going to have when you deal with them?

what are they going to have? well... skills and set r/s/m, like explained above

Im certainly not new here and if i were happy with either of those solutions i'd have used them long ago. thats why this is section is here. for ASM hacks.

I don't recall saying you were new here

I'm just explaining that there are ways around simple problems like these that do not require ASM hacks

[Zozma]

well consider this, i do not have any free spaces to give randoms these fake skillsets. they have all been used up. thats why i need it to be the way requested.

the same with auto accepting the hp/mp restoration, plus its currently the only thing besides spell quotes that stops auto battles.

[LastingDawn]

You could just... get rid of crystals altogether, have every class drop only a Treasure Chest.

[Xifanie]

This might be not to hard actually, the game has to check if the unit is controlled by the CPU or the player (don't know which one it is) and all we (or I) would have to do would be to force the check to the desired value.

[Xifanie]

BATTLE.BIN
0x0000AFC8
FCC70108
Forces any unit to automatically recover HP/MP when it steps on a crystal.

Did you want something more complex than this? like that it works in auto battle only. And I think the number of abilities you can learn from a crystal is something like 64 or 128.

For spell quotes there is my fix. And for treasure chests you'll have to make the boxes automatically close themselves... whoever Tactext can't support that function yet but I talked to melonhead about it yesterday.

By the way I don't take requests. I prefer by far teaching you how to do it than actually have you rely on me for asm hacks.

[Zozma]

thank you for doing it even tho it was indeed a request!

btw the fix for the spell quotes is difficult to work with in the fftact text. you should take a look at it sometime, it looks like all of the quote text is crammed into one slot with the space instructions and all, and every other slot shows as no text at all.

also a very long time ago i saw what seemed like a bug with that, it was either midgar swarm or poison frog's quote ran over into the next quote and executed very slowly. (that might have been fixed long ago, im not sure)

but anyway im not asking for anything more (i can disable spell quotes for that auto battle purpose) , but am telling you what ive experienced.

[Vanya]

In that case I have an idea for something you could teach us that everyone would use. How about a workshop on how to make simple changes to formulas. I bet making that common knowledge would keep a lot of ppl out of your hair.

[The Damned]

Hello again.

Since I've been gone for several months and didn't manage to find or see if someone had ever asked this yet, do you know if it's possible to change Reflect so that the reflected technique actually goes back at the caster instead of doubling the distance, Zodiac? (Or anyone, really.)

That seems more in keeping with, well, pretty much every other instance of Reflect in FFT game, though it could perhaps get abusive if you couldn't work out the likely kinks of reflecting only the part of the spell that hits the person/entity with the Reflect status and not the entirety of the thing back the caster.

It might be too complex to do that later aspect, actually, but I must confess that in the months I've been gone, I haven't learned anything additional about ASM hacking, so....

[Skip Sandwich]

I just had a thought about the Malboro Spore ability, wouldn't it be awesome if we could change what that ability changed another unit into, such as turning humans into the undead monster classes?

[Zozma]

Id like the idea of turning the unit into an undead, sealed class

(they will still have all their secondary  and rsm skills and items equipped but they can no longer change jobs)

its pretty much a matter of changing probably only one byte right? from malboro to something else

[Xifanie]

not possible.

Or at least I don't want to.

Back then I tried to create a "Tentacle Rod" and that was the first time I encountered the spritesheet limit. Instead of turning into a malboro, the sprite went all glitchy because there was no malboro spritesheet loaded since there wasn't a malboro supposed to be in the battle to start with.

You have to make sure the target acquires the spritesheet of the host, else forget it.

[Skip Sandwich]

I know about the sprite limit issue, i'm saying change it so that say, skeletons can change other living creatures into skeletons as well, or somesuch.

[Cheetah]

Slightly off topic. But what about enemies who could divide or multiply. Like Flans traditionally do.

[Cheetah]

Slightly off topic. But what about enemies who could divide or multiply. Like Flans traditionally do.

[Skip Sandwich]

would probably only be possible as a special encounter, since there is still a total sprite number limit to work with

[Vanya]

The sprite limit is on how many different sprites are in a battle, not how many units. So that limit shouldn't be a problem as long as at least 1 flan/whatever is loaded into memory.
My question is How many individual units can the game keep track of in one battle. That is the limit that would impact this the most.