FFIX Hot & Cold / Confusing hole data

[Xifanie]

I wanted to make the minigame easier, but all I managed was to hack the starting timer.

Before the mountain upgrade, the hole ID generated only seems to be from 0x01 to 0x08. The hole ID is stored at 0x80077E85. The game seems to use different sets of holes depending on how many items you've dug up so far.

I have no idea what I'm looking at, tbh. I tried editing the values, and I'm getting weird stuff like menus popping up, the timer freezing and teleporting chocobos when I hit the right spot to dig an item up. This data, with pointers, starts at 0x800FCC36.

Chocobo's Forest 1st item hole data

	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	0A	0B	0C	0D	0E	0F	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	1A	1B	1C	1D	1E	1F	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
Hole 0x01	05	DD	2F	7D	01	00	17	7D	01	00	24	7F	02	17	00	05	DA	06	DA	08	2C	7F	05	D1	25	7D	01	00	2C	7F	05	D2	25	7D	00	00	2C	7F	01	48	01
Hole 0x02	05	DD	2F	7D	02	00	17	7D	01	00	24	7F	02	17	00	05	DA	06	DA	0A	2C	7F	05	D1	25	7D	02	00	2C	7F	05	D2	25	7D	00	00	2C	7F	01	1F	01
Hole 0x03	05	DD	2F	7D	03	00	17	7D	01	00	24	7F	02	17	00	05	DA	06	DA	0C	2C	7F	05	D1	25	7D	03	00	2C	7F	05	D2	25	7D	00	00	2C	7F	01	F6	00
Hole 0x04	05	DD	2F	7D	04	00	17	7D	01	00	24	7F	02	17	00	05	DA	06	DA	0E	2C	7F	05	D1	25	7D	04	00	2C	7F	05	D2	25	7D	00	00	2C	7F	01	CD	00
Hole 0x05	05	DD	2F	7D	05	00	17	7D	01	00	24	7F	02	17	00	05	DA	06	DA	10	2C	7F	05	D1	25	7D	05	00	2C	7F	05	D2	25	7D	00	00	2C	7F	01	A4	00
Hole 0x06	05	DD	2F	7D	06	00	17	7D	01	00	24	7F	02	17	00	05	DA	06	DA	12	2C	7F	05	D1	25	7D	06	00	2C	7F	05	D2	25	7D	00	00	2C	7F	01	7B	00
Hole 0x07	05	DD	2F	7D	07	00	17	7D	01	00	24	7F	02	17	00	05	DA	06	DA	14	2C	7F	05	D1	25	7D	07	00	2C	7F	05	D2	25	7D	00	00	2C	7F	01	52	00
Hole 0x08	05	DD	2F	7D	08	00	17	7D	01	00	24	7F	02	17	00	05	DA	06	DA	16	2C	7F	05	D1	25	7D	08	00	2C	7F	05	D2	25	7D	00	00	2C	7F	01	29	00
Hole 0x09	05	DD	2F	7D	09	00	17	7D	01	00	24	7F	02	17	00	05	DA	06	DA	18	2C	7F	05	D1	25	7D	09	00	2C	7F	05	D2	25	7D	01	00	2C	7F	01	00	00

[nfitc1]

It looks like a bunch of memory pointers except for those last three bytes which are probably relative offsets. Changing any of these can cause arbitrary code executions. Check the data at those locations for replace the data.