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FF7 Tools / Re: [PSX/PC] KERNEL.BIN editor - WallMarket (v1.4.5)

« on: 2020-07-19 23:30:37 »

Take that discussion to another topic, please. This is about WM. If we’re convinced that WM is not the cause then the solution would be found easier in a new thread.

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General Discussion / Re: [FF7 PSX] How to find enemy encounters in memory?

« on: 2020-07-10 15:56:38 »

There's just that that much done with the WM because there's not much that can be done with it. There is one script editor which is limited primarily on the lack of information of the format of the scripts themselves. The bulk of the game takes place in fields or battles so more time and effort has been focused there.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Error code: YARR! Unable to continue. Please report this error on the Qhimm foru

« on: 2020-07-05 05:53:01 »

Modification is not illegal. Reversing and extracting assets for the purpose of using in another title is. Square knows what's going on here, one of our members works at Square (or at least did). If I own a copy, I'm allowed to make changes to it (or any other byte on MY computer) so long as I don't pass those changes on as my own personal work. Original content (custom models, etc) is also completely legal to pass on so long as no actual copyrighted code/files are passed along with it.

The PC port is a different license from the PSX port. A different team handled it and published it even if it is the "same game". I paid to own the original PC port, not all iterations of FFVII classic ever made ever. Some studios will allow that, but those are almost always the choice of the publisher. Squenix does not do that. As such, there are four or more Playstation editions and three or more PC editions for each region. You pay for one, you get one. Want another? Buy that.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Error code: YARR! Unable to continue. Please report this error on the Qhimm foru

« on: 2020-07-02 03:34:55 »

There have been false positives in the past. It might even detect my copy as a false positive since I’ve rewritten big chunks of it.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Error code: YARR! Unable to continue. Please report this error on the Qhimm foru

« on: 2020-06-30 20:34:33 »

Buy the game. It's on sale now.

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General Discussion / Re: DF Retro: Final Fantasy VII (featuring Qhimm site)

« on: 2020-06-29 17:32:15 »

That document takes me back. I read through that some 15 years ago. It was the first time I learned of the MDef bug. I had never noticed before.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Why would game stop just by changing enemy attack skills?

« on: 2020-06-29 02:32:26 »

Bit confused, you tell me I'm wrong about something I didn't claim and then repeat the instructions I made about setting an animation to the attack's ID? The spell does need to be in the scene anyway, because the enemy needs to have the ID in one of the attack slots to set an animation to it; the attack data can be whatever, but it does need the ID to be in there somewhere.

You are correct. I read what you had entirely wrong. I thought you were talking about something else and I was getting distracted. Sorry for the confusion. The action in question doesn't directly need to be in the scene. It's a limitation of PrC that requires it to be there. That really should be changed. A great deal about that tool needs to be changed. I've washed my hands of it the way it is now and the new tool I'll eventually make will be way better.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Why would game stop just by changing enemy attack skills?

« on: 2020-06-28 23:00:09 »

@Sega Chief. That's not entirely correct nor do I believe that is the issue. Kernel.bin actions (player-accessible magics and E.Skills) are always loaded and don't actually need to be in the scene. Only actions with indexes greater than 255 look at scene data. That's the way it is on the PC anyway.

What I believe the issue you're having, Abashi76, is that you haven't set the animation of the actor you want to change the action from to react to the new action. It's the exact same issue that the Adamantaimai softlock has. It is actually trying to perform Cure, but it has no animation assigned to Cure so it doesn't work and the battle engine softlocks.

Go to the Animations and Formations menu of the enemy in question and change the dropdown that says Bolt2 to Fire2.

Not all instances of actors have to be the same. I have a theory as to why the are the way they are in the scene.bin file, but as far as the battle engine cares each scene is entirely isolated from all the others. Every actor in the game can have the same name and appearance and still behave entirely differently. There are some issues with some animations cooperating with certain actions, but you could replace every actor with the model of a Tonberry and have them do the "knife animation" for every action those actors do and the game would "work just fine".

Unfortunately, the AI Editor of both WM and PrC is sorely lacking in...consistent workingness. You shouldn't see a 22 in that code.

Why did Yuffie break? You need to be more specific. Did you verify the KERNEL.BIN's SLUT when you saved?

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General Discussion / Re: what happened tp dlbp didn't really teach nothing to the administrators right ?

« on: 2020-06-28 22:46:56 »

Instead of insulting "idiots", there are three things you can do that would be infinitely more constructive:

1. Listen to the "idiot" and keep an open mind. Unless they are saying verifiable fallacies as truths then they might actually be right and YOU might be the "idiot".
2. Teach them the truth in a way that can be independently verified by providing mutually agreed upon sources of authority.
3. Walk away. Some people will choose to NOT adhere to the above two directives and are choosing to remain idiots. If you've done the above two your work is done and you need to move on with your life rather than let the troll take over.

Exceptions to this are opinions. Everyone's opinions are valid. Even loathing and hatred are valid opinions. If someone doesn't like something you did they're not wrong, but neither are you (inherently) for what you did/do. Grow up and keep living.

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General Discussion / Re: [FF7 PSX] How to find enemy encounters in memory?

« on: 2020-06-28 18:13:30 »

I can tell you the addresses on the PC version (0xCFF45C). I don't think it translates directly to the PSX. That points to the data in memory that you're looking for. I think the memory structure it points to goes something like this:

0x0 - word; overall encounter rate
0x2:0xD - words; 6bit encounter chance/10bit formation value. There's a chance that these can be encountered "preemptively".
0xE:0x15 - words; special formations in same format as above. Checked first in order. I believe they are two preemptive followed by one back attack and one side attack. Those formations cannot be overriden by preemptive, but can go up/down in probability of encountering with preemptive materia.
0x16 - word; probably nothing. Likely an alignment buffer.

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General Discussion / Re: Steam Summer Sale Until July 9th! Get FF7 for $5.99!

« on: 2020-06-26 12:32:18 »

I don't buy into the whole "brand loyalty" mentality that the boomers were dedicated to, but EA does have a blanket-ban on my shopping list. I can't remember the last thing I bought that was EA. Mass Effect 2 was probably the last thing I bought on purpose. Some other things came in bundles. I've seen that Dead Space 3 is now on "Steam". In reality it's a proxy purchase through Origin apparently.

Eh-hem; FFXIIZA is still expensive even with the 50% discount. The port was handled so awkwardly that SquEnix have probably pushed it to the side hoping people forget the state it's in. After hacked license boards were "patched" (they weren't) and running like a yam on my laptop I gave up on it too. I guess IX is still the price it is because it's one of the most recent re-releases.

So far I've picked up Tales of Vesperia and Darksiders III Deluxe (which is cheaper if you buy it in the bundle with the other Darksiders stuff). Considering other things too. Maybe FFVIII (I don't actually own my original copy any more ). Not taking recommendations because my backlog is now ~6 months long.

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Announcements and site development / Re: Should we rearrange the forum by game?

« on: 2020-06-24 22:38:31 »

It's six of one and half a dozen of another the way it is now. We have dedicated boards for project types which are subdivided into games. You're suggesting boards for games subdivided into project types. I've thought we need to further divide the subboards into release, WIP and actual support of each of these categories. That way all releases can be found in one place not cluttered by people asking questions or WIP projects. I like the flow of the idea that you've got pictured

Code: [Select]

FFVII
|-> Graphics
|      |-> Release
|      |-> WIP
|      |-> Support
|-> Audio
...

I'm voting yes for this.

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FF7 Tools / Re: [PSX/PC] KERNEL.BIN editor - WallMarket (v1.4.5)

« on: 2020-06-24 14:52:30 »

You may have either too long of a string or an invalid character on either an item or a materia. I don't recall the limit (or even if there is one) and the characters don't work past code 240 or so. Double check your texts. If they aren't too long (16 for names and probably 40 for descriptions) then PM me.

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FF7 Tools / Re: [PSX/PC] KERNEL.BIN editor - WallMarket (v1.4.5)

« on: 2020-06-18 13:47:12 »

Yup. If you're able to play the game you have that file. This file exists on all versions in the same location. You won't likely get it from the downloaded PS store edition without some unpacking which I'm not qualified to walk you through.

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FF7 Tools / Re: [PSX/PC] KERNEL.BIN editor - WallMarket (v1.4.5)

« on: 2020-06-18 12:16:23 »

The ONLY file you should open is the KERNEL.BIN in the INIT folder.

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Troubleshooting / Re: Mega-All removing functions

« on: 2020-06-17 19:52:10 »

This is why I always put copious amounts of addresses in my posts. So I can refer back to them and find what's what.

In this case, if you want to remove functionality to commands, you can make a similar change to 0x001CC3C3 from 7D to EB. This will bypass the command-level assignment of the mega-all. Combine with the change in that other post and there will be no modifications to commands.

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Announcements and site development / Re: Forum upgrade

« on: 2020-06-16 19:15:49 »

Might I suggest more strict adherence to topic relevance? I believe a lot of the trolling and such could have been avoided if people had just stuck to discussion of the topic and not deviated into digging up past events or side projects. Personally, I see a lot of posts in the WM and PrC topics that ask more of how to do things with the tools (like asking for help on blocks of AI) rather than questions about the tools themselves. Such questions belong in their own topic.

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Re: bar fill gradients in FF7

« on: 2020-05-24 20:26:09 »

I found it at one point. At least the base colors. I imagine the gradient wouldn’t be too far from that. I’ll have to take a look later.

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General Discussion / Re: [FF7 PSX/PS1] Exp Sephirot and Young Cloud - Wall Market/Suggestions

« on: 2020-05-17 17:09:34 »

Only the initial stats/equipment are hard-coded for Vincent/Cait. Their growth curves and limit data are pulled from the KERNEL because Sephy and little Cloud don’t have limits.

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General Discussion / Re: What do you hope to accomplish ?

« on: 2020-05-13 15:24:20 »

Karma is little more than a popularity contest. I think it was added in as a stand-in for "liking" posts. I don't believe it has any bearing in your ability to post or PM people. Don't think too hard about it.

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General Discussion / Re: There's a FF7 Disassembly?

« on: 2020-05-05 21:02:35 »

Better question is how do I apply this disassembly and extract my own?

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General Discussion / Re: FF7 Exp/AP Mod?

« on: 2020-04-29 15:29:14 »

PrC doesn't require Power Packs. That's specifically a WallMarket thing.

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General Discussion / Re: [FF7] Could someone create a mod to give Aeris a chair as a weapon?

« on: 2020-04-29 15:27:39 »

It would probably require a different model like Barret/Vincent use for their weapons because she'd have to hold it differently from a staff/rod.

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General Discussion / Re: What on Earth is this mod?

« on: 2020-04-29 15:26:08 »

With all the hate Java gets, it's deserved and unwarranted at the same time. Java has some severe limitations due to the way it's created. It was designed to work in its own memory region that a lightweight VM manages. As such, it's lacking the robustness of some other languages like C#. There are pros and cons to each approach. Java's biggest pro is code never needs to be adjusted for whatever OS you want it to run on. You compile it once and it can run on nearly anything that has a jvm. With C# et al, you have to compile them in individual formats for various platforms (Windows, Legacy Windows, Mac, Linux, etc) and maintain different codes for each of them. Java also does its own garbage collection, but the vm can cause longer than necessary startup times and larger than necessary memory requirements. Java is also a little behind the curve when it comes to implementing what some would deem essentials. Lambda expressions (anonymous functions that return values) have existed in C# since version 2 back in 2005, but Java only picked them up in version 8 in 2014.

It really boils down to what you need a program to do. My preferences: Want to cross platform? Java. Want to read direct memory addresses? Anything with pointers. Need to get a grasp on how programming mechanics work? Scratch. Want to write a script? Python, Perl or Ruby (they're pretty equal for my needs). I started learning programming around 16 and I know several languages, but I'm always having to refer to the documentation for syntax and keywords (is "on" a keyword in Java or Perl? Does this language use "AND" or "&&"? etc).

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7th Heaven / Re: Is a one click launch possible?

« on: 2020-04-27 21:24:49 »

The issue is with Windows UAC, the bane of many.  There are ways to get around UAC, but they don't work with the batch, or at least I haven't figured out a way to get them to work together.

Have you tried this?
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/stop-annoying-uac-prompts-how-to-create-a-user-account-control-whitelist-windows/