Xif's Fixes (ASM Hacks & Spreadsheets)

[Xifanie]

- Generics can join as guests
Without major asm hacking, it is impossible to have this effective unless you never have any generics in your rooster...

[Skip Sandwich]

well, I suggest keeping that hack around, since there ARE projects like Mercenaries where that is exactly the case (having no generics)

[Xifanie]

+ generics join as guests and "Load Formation" based on roster number (with "Sprite Set")
+ Ramza can join as a guest

I fell on the first one by accident, so I was able to hack it to make my previous hack usable. As it can't be effective alone in any way, I merged them.

[LastingDawn]

Hmm, Zodiac I recall you mentioning having guests in the Formation screen and that you had cracked it a while back, am I just blind, or have you not posted it up yet? It's what I'm going to use for Rad in Mercenaries.

[Xifanie]

SCUS_942.21

0x0004A3D0
8300422C
0x0004A7BC
06008510
Allow generics to join as guests and "Load Formation" based on roster number. Example: Sprite Set 0x10 (17) with Load Formation will load unit 17 in roster.

I still have to make a hack for the removal of a specific roster ID as well.
Gonna do that soon.

[Yuri Otani]

I've poked through threads here looking at things, and asked a couple questions, which people directed me to ASM hacks as the only solution to what I was asking for. I was wondering if you knew of an ASM hack (or if it would be too hard to make one) that makes secret hunt activate on any attack instead of just regular weapon strikes?

or if there was/could be one to make malboro spore effect more than one target.

[TentacleCassanova]

Change Poach to Eat - kill a monster with a normal Attack and get full hp & mp restore.  
EDIT
Now that I think about it, it would be cool if monsters could do the opposite... eat humans to restore hp and mp.  It's more realistic, at least.  But it would also be realistic for a human to kill and eat a monster.  Maybe Poach should be for humans to eat monsters, and monsters could get a support ability that lets them eat generics and other monsters.

Allow Charge and Jump to follow target.

Allow Short Charge and Non-Charge to effect Jump and Charge.

Make JUMP work like...
Vertical+1
Vertical+1
Vertical+1
Vertical+1
Vertical+1
Vertical+1
Vertical+1
Vertical+1
Horizontal+1
Horizontal+1
Horizontal+1
Horizontal+1
Horizontal+1
Horizontal+1
Horizontal+1
Horizontal+1
Every ability will add 1 to your base jumping ability, and they should all cost the same.  This is the system Sqeenix should have used in the first place.

Change the base level from 1 to 0.

[Skip Sandwich]

instead of having so many duplicate abilities, it could just be the following (with all skills stacking, as you suggested)
Vertical +1
Vertical +2
Vertical +3
Horizontal +1
Horizontal +2
Horizontal +3

[Cyril]

0x0011F468 :
##000534
(#+1%) chance of Knockback for Dash/Throw Stone

Perhaps I'm doing this wrong, but I can't seem to get this ASM hack working? Every single other one I've tried (and on Razele's list) has been successful so I find this weird.

I tried using both dec and hex values for the ## portion and Throw Stone/Dash still refuse to change from anything but roughly 50% (want to alter it to be 100%). Is there something I'm missing?

[Asmo X]

You aren't trying to throw stones at Ramza/Delita/Immortal-flagged units are you? They are all immune to knockback

[Cyril]

Nah, I'm testing them on my generic PCs and on random monsters. It still works at roughly the original rate, like I said (so it's not running into immunity or anything), just doesn't seem to have changed at all.

[Zozma]

it seems like the knockback for mine isnt 100% either, but perhaps i was testing it on immortal flagged units as well.

[Cyril]

The thing about immortal-flagged units or anything that's immune to knockback is that it should never work. My Throw Stone was working on the stuff I tested, just not at the expected rate (which I tried at 99%, 90%, 100%, 10%, etc. in both the dec and hex values for the ## digits) - over a lot of testing it roughly correlated to the original 50% rate.

So, yeah. Can anyone confirm that this ASM hack does indeed change the rate as expected?

[Archael]

The thing about immortal-flagged units or anything that's immune to knockback is that it should never work. My Throw Stone was working on the stuff I tested, just not at the expected rate (which I tried at 99%, 90%, 100%, 10%, etc. in both the dec and hex values for the ## digits) - over a lot of testing it roughly correlated to the original 50% rate.

So, yeah. Can anyone confirm that this ASM hack does indeed change the rate as expected?

I can in 13027.

Make SURE you are not trying to knock non-immortals back into terrain that doesn't allow knock back.

You'd be surprised how often the unit is standing in front of obstacles, water, cliffs or voids or other terrains which the game will simply not allow knock backs to go into, even if 100%.

Even the slightest elevation change in mandalia plains can prevent a generic from getting knockbacked.

[Zozma]

aha, so thats why

[Cyril]

Nah, again, that can't be it - I'm using savestates to reload to use the -exact same- Throw Stone and sometimes it knocks back and sometimes it doesn't. If terrain was blocking it, it wouldn't work ever.

Could you give me the exact address value that's being used for 13027? I'll try it out again, but I'm pretty confident I tested this multiple times.

[LastingDawn]

When did you make this savestate? Before you put in the extra %?

[Cyril]

No, I make new savestates everytime I make a change - I know they don't retain when you patch/edit the ISO. These were on an individual basis.

[Xifanie]

...why haven't I fixed this yet? Fuck... I thought I did; twice!

sorry the offset is 0x0011F9C8 I'll be updating the main post NOW.

[Archael]

No, I make new savestates everytime I make a change - I know they don't retain when you patch/edit the ISO. These were on an individual basis.

You were using the wrong ASM hack

use the one Zodiac just posted, it works 100%