I dont know how exactly this happened, but it did none the less. I made some changes to the scene.bin with Hojo and adjusted a few monsters ( more or less, making them stronger ) Funny enough, I didn't actually touch any locations.
Now ALL battle pointers are messed up. For instance, the first fight in the game are two goblins dealing >1k damage
Battles in the train graveyard are from reactor 5. This only happens when I start the game via hardcore though. ( and no, thats not 'intended' )
my guess is that I messed up, somehow, the scene.bin or overwrote the wrong scene.bin ( which shouldn't happen, since I didn't actually use save as... but just save ) I have a couple ( 10 or something ) of backups of the kernel.bin files but forgot to make one of the scene.bin.
I am just.. weirded out that this happened. I mean, it SHOULDN'T.
Anyone an idea what caused this? And sigh, oh the pain of doing all this stuff again.
edit 1:
after further testing, I can say, its not the scene.bin thats messed up
something else is.
I suppose it can only be the kernel.bin as the same bug happens even if I replace scene.bin with a brand new h_scene.bin and rename it to scene.bin
But what in the world could cause that?
edit 2:
I tried replacing the battle.lgp but that did nothing
edit 3:
from the wiki:
Every time you modify scene.bin file you must also keep this table updated or you'll end with VERY random encounters (wrong battles in wrong places). You can use SceneFix (
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=7127.0) program, which'll update the table for you.
refering to kernel.bin
now, the link for said tool is dead and I haven't the slightest how to fix it manually with wallmarket at the scene look-up tab. It also puzzles me since I only adjusted the HP of some mobs and nothing else.
edit 4:
..... *head @ desk*
ok, i obviously didnt pay attention so I didn't see the GLARINGLY OBVIOUS "Update kernel.bin" function in Hojo. Not knowing that the scene.bin changes need an update in the kernel.bin, I overlooked it.
somehow delete this mountain of shame please.