Author Topic: [FF7] Tutorial for Bootleg - Tifa's Bootleg (Read 2443746 times)

EQ2Alyza · « **Reply #2200 on:** 2014-04-27 22:40:08 »

A lot easier said than done. Wishful thinking

Sythik Mime · « **Reply #2201 on:** 2014-04-27 23:28:52 »

all right then sweetness, i got it working, im all good now, thanks a lot for the help

Kaldarasha · « **Reply #2202 on:** 2014-04-28 04:54:29 »

Quote from: Sythik Mime on 2014-04-27 23:28:52

all right then sweetness, i got it working, im all good now, thanks a lot for the help

Oh ho,... Now you embarrassing me

manta · « **Reply #2203 on:** 2014-04-29 04:49:11 »

Ok so I downloaded all the files and followed the instructions properly and everything installed fine as far as I know. Then I opened up the bootloader and went to config and changed settings to my liking and clicked "write CFG" close that and click play FF7 black window pops up and then says FF7.exe has stopped working. So I changed it from full screen to windowed, same thing. I looked at the FAQS and found the one where it says FF7.exe has stopped working and it told me to change my graphic settings if the self test message doesn't pop up. It pops up and it still won't launch. I'm running Windows 8 64-bit. I tried running in compatability mode for Windows 7 as my friend uses these mods on Windows 7. Tried launching it as admin. Always the same error so I have no idea what to do at this point. No idea what an AP log is but I went to a text file called AP in my Final Fantasy 7 steam directory and here it is copy and pasted.

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INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 4.4.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 4
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1280x960, output resolution 1280x960, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: Shader limits: varying 124, vert uniform 4096, frag uniform 2048
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST 
MATRIX INITIALIZE 
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END 
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized

Kompass63 · « **Reply #2204 on:** 2014-04-29 07:32:01 »

Did you at FF7Config also the TAB 'sound' and 'MIDI' times clicked and set everything?

manta · « **Reply #2205 on:** 2014-04-29 19:25:40 »

Quote from: Kompass63 on 2014-04-29 07:32:01

Did you at FF7Config also the TAB 'sound' and 'MIDI' times clicked and set everything?

I went into sound and didn't change anything its defaulted to my sound output and when I click test the test sounds work fine. In MIDI I didn't change anything either MIDI is set to the only choice which is "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" For MIDI Data its set to "General MIDI" with 2 other choices "Soundfront MIDI (Creative AWE32/AWE64)" and "Yamaha XG MIDI" this is raelly frustrating because I so badly want to play this mod.

EDIT: I did the rename hard drive method instead of mounting it.

EDIT 2: I was just checking out the graphics tab in the config and on the side has a list called "Required 3D Features for Direct3D" and they all pass except for the last one which says fail and its called "8-bit Paletted Textures"

Kompass63 · « **Reply #2206 on:** 2014-04-29 19:48:16 »

Your app.log ends abruptly with

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sound initialized

Behind it should be something like

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set music volume: 127

come.

Obviously FF7 or Aali's driver have problems, to set the volume.

Just try to update your sound driver, then adjust again in FF7Config everything.

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EDIT 2: I was just checking out the graphics tab in the config and on the side has a list called "Required 3D Features for Direct3D" and they all pass except for the last one which says fail and its called "8-bit Paletted Textures"

This is normal.
'8-bit Paletted Textures' my knowledge is nowadays supported by none graphics card anymore.

manta · « **Reply #2207 on:** 2014-04-29 20:05:15 »

Quote from: Kompass63 on 2014-04-29 19:48:16

Your app.log ends abruptly with

Behind it should be something like come.

Obviously FF7 or Aali's driver have problems, to set the volume.

Just try to update your sound driver, then adjust again in FF7Config everything.

This is normal.
'8-bit Paletted Textures' my knowledge is nowadays supported by none graphics card anymore.

Hmmmm I'm not really even sure what to update for sound, I currently have my PC connected to my TV, so I have a monitor cable with and hdmi cable hook up at the end and that's hooked up to my TV's LG sound system which is "LG-BDHT-0 (NVIDIA High Definition Audio)" So I'm not really sure what to update.

manta · « **Reply #2208 on:** 2014-04-29 21:31:03 »

Well I thought I had it fixed and working great, but nope its giving me new problems now! Ok so I went back into the bootleg program and clicked on "Mod Listing" to make sure there was no red and there isn't, then I clicked "Run Bootleg" and let that install everything all over again. Once that was done I started up BootLoader and left all the config settings at default and click Play FF7 and it launched and went through the intro credits and got to the main menu where you can click start or continue, I clicked start and my screen went black and made an error noise so alt tabbed and there was an error box saying "Fail to load BVJF.yos" So I clicked ok and it told me to submit my APP LOG again. So here it is.

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INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 4.4.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 4
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1280x960, output resolution 1280x960, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: Shader limits: varying 124, vert uniform 4096, frag uniform 2048
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (coffee) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST 
MATRIX INITIALIZE 
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END 
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\movies\eidoslogo.avi; indeo5/pcm_s16le 640x480, 30.000000 FPS, duration: 12.933333, frames: 388
INFO: slow output format from video codec indeo5; 6
INFO: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\movies\sqlogo.avi; mpeg4/mp3 960x720, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 247.533333, frames: 3713
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
ERROR: COULD NOT CHANGE TO DIRECTORY D:\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\save 
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
ERROR: failed to find file char/BVJF.a (LGP) (path: )
ERROR: offset error: BVJF.a
ERROR: could not open file BVJF.a
ERROR: unhandled exception

Kompass63 · « **Reply #2209 on:** 2014-04-29 22:01:17 »

It looks as if your char.lgp is wrong or missing.
This is in the folder '[gamedir]\data\field'
You can try to find an intact version in the backup folders and copy them there.

manta · « **Reply #2210 on:** 2014-04-29 22:10:34 »

Quote from: Kompass63 on 2014-04-29 22:01:17

It looks as if your char.lgp is wrong or missing.
This is in the folder '[gamedir]\data\field'
You can try to find an intact version in the backup folders and copy them there.

I wouldn't even know where to begin to look for that? Any help please? I'm using the steam version of Final Fantasy 7 btw. Do I need to reinstall Final Fantasy 7 on steam or something? I'm totally lost here.

Kompass63 · « **Reply #2211 on:** 2014-04-29 22:19:07 »

I have bootleg not installed at the moment, so I do not know exactly where you need to look for.
But you can make search for 'char.lgp' your whole hard drive.

manta · « **Reply #2212 on:** 2014-04-29 22:28:56 »

Ok well I tried changing the base models in bootleg to no change and re ran the installer and got this error now "D:\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\BACKUP-dlpb\FF7.exe An error occurred while trying to read the source file: Access is denied. Click Retry to try again, Ignore to skip this file (no recommended), or Abort to cancel installation." I clicked retry which does nothing, so I clicked ignore and it continues installing Final Fantasy 7 Menu Overhaul and gives me more of the same Access denied error, click ignore again and get another error at the end saying "HextChanger 1.0 cannot open file "D:\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\dlpb-mods\ff7.exe the system cannot find the file specified" So now I'm totally lost and getting very angry. Anyway I set it back to what I had before and now I'm still getting the same access denied error with that.

Kompass63 · « **Reply #2213 on:** 2014-04-29 22:57:05 »

Rerun bootleg is not possible because bootleg does not reset the files to the origin.
You're probably going to uninstall the game, delete the registry and have to start over.

EDIT: Have you installed 'norton 360'?

DoomWingAngel · « **Reply #2214 on:** 2014-04-30 01:05:55 »

bump

anyone know which mod setting causes Dio to have no body? and how it affect other NPCs?

and what about Aeris Revival? not working for me either.

and in the Crater the wind won't stop, no way for me to go through, all I get is get knocked on my ass and a fight starts.

any help?

manta · « **Reply #2215 on:** 2014-04-30 03:35:09 »

Quote from: Kompass63 on 2014-04-29 22:57:05

Rerun bootleg is not possible because bootleg does not reset the files to the origin.
You're probably going to uninstall the game, delete the registry and have to start over.

EDIT: Have you installed 'norton 360'?

Yeah I'm going to have to uninstall and start over again, bleh. I have AVG free installed but disabled it for the entirety of the install. Is there instructions to uninstall everything?

EQ2Alyza · « **Reply #2216 on:** 2014-04-30 03:40:09 »

Quote from: manta on 2014-04-30 03:35:09

Is there instructions to uninstall everything?

In the FAQ on page 1.

Sythik Mime · « **Reply #2217 on:** 2014-04-30 12:00:42 »

ok i have a question. say i want to change out the music mods, currently im using FinalFanTim OGG and id like to switch over to OCRemix or Anxious Heart DLPB. how would i do it. would i just remod over everything again or do i have to start fresh again and start it all over again? also same thing with the character mods, if i want to switch out to different mods to change how the char looks can i repatch over it or do i have to remod from a fresh install?

Sythik Mime · « **Reply #2218 on:** 2014-04-30 12:01:53 »

also would be nice if anyone can direct me to any sites/links that i could sample what the music mods available here sound like.

Sythik Mime · « **Reply #2219 on:** 2014-04-30 14:20:01 »

ok i took it down then and ill remember not to post things like that here

EQ2Alyza · « **Reply #2220 on:** 2014-04-30 14:39:36 »

His model parts are ripped from other FF games, so we can't support them here. I think the reason the legs are strangely bent is because some bones in the legs were placed backwards. The only way to get what you want would be to figure out how to rotate them yourself, but please never share those results here. Links will be taken down immediately.

A big reason why this site remains active and alive is because we simply can't support mods such as that, for obvious copyright reasons.

manta · « **Reply #2221 on:** 2014-04-30 20:12:02 »

Ok so I followed the instructions and uninstalled FF7 from steam, I uninstalled the FF7 Music from my control panel, I cleaned my registry with the tool, deleted the whole FF7 installation folder.

I then went into steam re downloaded and installed FF7. I went back through the instructions and followed everything to the T, made sure all the mods I selected we're green and ran the install, it went through the entire installation with no problems or errors of any kind. I mounted FF7 Disc 1 with Daemon Tools, made sure all my configs were correct with graphics, sound, MIDI, left all the settings in the bootloader config as default, clicked Play FF7, launches to a black screen and FF7.exe has stopped working!!!! I'm beyond frustrated as this makes no sense what so ever, I just want to get this stupid thing working!! Here's my APP Log again. It seems to be the same APP Log as before and messes up on the sound for some stupid reason. I have no idea what driver I'm suppose to update for the sound, I have my PC connected to my TV and the sound is being supplied via HDMI which goes from my video card via monitor cable and on the other end of the cable is an HDMI which is hooked up to my LG receiver which outputs my PC sound through my surround sound system. I updated my video card driver to the newest driver which is beta? Please help me get this to work.....

INFO: FF7/FF8 OpenGL driver version 0.7.11b
INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 4.4.0
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Using PBO
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Max texture size: 16384x16384
INFO: Number of texture units: 4
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 1280x960, output resolution 1280x960, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: Shader limits: varying 124, vert uniform 4096, frag uniform 2048
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r25886, Copyright (coffee) 2000-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
INFO: Loading external library Multi.dll
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
ERROR: could not open file D:\SSF_012_beta_R3\Steam\steamapps\common\FINAL FANTASY VII\ff7input.cfg
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized

EDIT: So I tried hooking my PC up where it usually is with a seperate sound source with an optical hook up to my logitech sound system and I'm still getting the FF7.exe crash and the APP log is the exact same thing, ending with "sound initialized" could this be something to do with the music i'm selecting in the BFE? I just left on the default sound choice in BFE. I'm so lost and stuck at this point and frustrated. Please help.

Kompass63 · « **Reply #2222 on:** 2014-05-01 01:21:41 »

Have you tried to start the game after my GameConverter but before bootleg?

manta · « **Reply #2223 on:** 2014-05-01 01:32:24 »

Quote from: Kompass63 on 2014-05-01 01:21:41

Have you tried to start the game after my GameConverter but before bootleg?

Hmmmm I'm not really sure what you mean?

EQ2Alyza · « **Reply #2224 on:** 2014-05-01 02:11:51 »

He means to do STEP 1, then start the game before continuing. Need to see if your game starts up after converting but before modding.