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Troubleshooting / Show two .exe files side by side and highlight differences

« on: 2014-12-02 00:01:26 »

Anyone know if there's a program for this?
I need to document all the changes I made to my .exe so I can apply them again to a clean one since the old one is kinda irreversibly trashed since Aali dropped support for the old Menu Overhaul with his latest driver.
On that note, does anyone still have the old Menu Overhaul mod? I need an .exe with just that to compare a clean and MO-only .exe so I can ignore those changes for my documentation of my own changes to the .exe

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Troubleshooting / Flevel corruption - Fields crashing randomy

« on: 2014-12-01 02:00:59 »

We've come across a ridiculous CTD in the game that leaves me puzzled as to what could be happening.

The situation is basically as follows:
The book rooms in shinra HQ F62 cause crashes. Sometimes. Randomly.
Yes, it really is that. I exported fields from the vanilla flevel and imported them (tried all variants each time with a new flevel) and the error persists. Then I copy the flevel and replace the flevel with the copy I just made and I can enter the room. Once or twice. After that it crashes. And crashes again non-stop when I restart the game.
It works with a complete vanilla flevel so it's not the .exe or the driver. At least I don't believe so. But then the crashes make no sense, considering I did replace both book rooms.
I did get to the point where I replaced both book rooms with the uncompressed exported field and could enter one of them but then the other crashed, whichever I imported first worked.
I can supply the flevel and the actual fields but I am at a loss as to what is actually happening since all the app.log tells me is that there's an unhandled exception.
The crash is instant upon entering the room before the screen loads but after the music (if placed) loads

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Troubleshooting / Battle Menu Transparency Messed up

« on: 2014-09-23 17:24:29 »

With the previous version of Aali's driver, I had a nice and fancy transparent battle menu.
With the latest version, I get this. (And it actually get's worse than that, when the enemy model touches the battle menu)


Aali said it was a feature that was dropped because of Menu Overhaul, which not only I can't find on the forum anymore but I also cannot use a clean ff7.exe because I have over 200 changes hex values in there that I don't remember all and would be a legendary pain or close to impossible to replicate.

I would be happy just un-doing the transparent battle menu thing, even if I have to do it by hand, one hex at a time. If I can solve this by running MO over the .exe (and without completely screwing my current .exe) that would be great, too.

I tried installing the reunion MO over my .exe but while that fixes the transparency, I would have to re-do all of my custom edits, some of which I don't even remember anymore but still need.
Sadly, the hex documentation is a little over my head

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Gameplay / Worldmap Submarine and Buggy Movement value

« on: 2014-07-11 06:04:21 »

This is, probably, stored somewhere in the .exe but obviously I have not a clue where.
If possible I'd like to make both twice as fast, if not the buggy even 2,5x as fast, unless that causes massive problems with the collision.

And so I shall cast Summon NFITC1, Exe overlord.

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Troubleshooting / hard drive mod path

« on: 2014-06-30 22:28:30 »

Essentially, this

INFO: tried to load g:\game\ff7\/mods/bootleg/field/blin62_3/blin62_3_15_00.png, failed

times 200 is my problem.
As you can see it tries to find an impossible path like ff7\/mods
thats \ followed by /, not a V
Where does the game store this path? I searched the registry but couldn't find it and it's also not in a config file.

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Bootleg Questions / Bootloader unable to write config

« on: 2014-03-10 16:32:51 »

After I had a funny encounter with a game breaking glitch ( which I attempted to fix by installing Ali's latest driver over the older version I had ) Bootloader is now unable to write the config.
I'd rather quit modding (and playing FF7) entirely than to reinstall all the shit I have installed and then get my stuff back in place so that's not an option.

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Gameplay / Break Manipulation state when receiving any kind of damage

« on: 2014-03-08 16:53:37 »

Manipulate (Or Seize as I call it in my mod), is a fairly ridiculous state and you can safely nuke an enemy with spells that way.
Physical damage breaks the state, but magical damage doesn't
I'd like to change that.
But really, I should just call this the Call-NFITC1-for-help thread since he's been the one constantly helping me out with these things. (Not that others cannot profit from being able to look these things up, though)

I'd like to know if this is possible (and by possible I mean doable without rewriting any big functions)

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Gameplay / Percentage value for sadness, anger damage change and the limit bar change?

« on: 2014-02-15 10:00:30 »

I know this has to be handled in the .exe somewhere but don't quite know where to start looking
Sadness reduces damage by 30%, Anger reduces accuracy as far as I remember
I'm not sure on the exact percentage changes to how fast the limit bar changes under those statuses.

What I am looking for is to completely null the limit bar increase under sadness, increase damage taken by 50% under Anger and increase Limit bar gain to 1.5 and halve accuracy under Anger
If all of the values are clean percentage cuts, that should all be possible. If the functions are more complex, I'll need one of the .exe wizards like NFITC to look into the value ranges of those things

Does anyone know where exactly sadness and anger are handled in the .exe?

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General Discussion / The amazing Brando-Sephiroth

« on: 2012-11-17 20:40:42 »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnN13HtVeEQ&feature=plcp

I am Sephiroth, I am awesome - you are not
You are emo - I am goth - Just in case, you forgot
Sephiroth
8 bit awesomeness
Sephiroth

Bow down to your lord
Oh my God, Giant Sword
I destroyed the dinosaurs - just because - i was bored
I'm - Sephiroth
Sephiroth

You're so lame
I rule you
What's my name?
BIRDTHULHU

You will never be, even half as cool as me
You are just a crybaby - I explode Mercury
I'm SEPHIROTH

Sephiroth!

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / World Map Audio info?

« on: 2012-10-06 17:43:28 »

I'm trying to look into where the game stores what music track ( music ID ) plays where and when on the worldmap, but alas, I'm not getting anywhere. Has anyone ever documented any of this?

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Gameplay / Change what (Cover) materia effect actually covers

« on: 2012-10-05 21:06:02 »

excuse the pun

as far as I can see, cover or rather the actual covering in battle depends on which damage algorythm the enemy uses for a particular attack
I've stumbled on some attacks that, no matter what, don't seem to want to let themselves be affected by cover
they do not break def, they do not break status def and they do not target multiple
they do have a physical element ( or sometimes no element at all ) attached to them
so far it seems that any variant that uses fixed damage ( exact * ) or special modifiers, or all magic variants bypass the cover materia

NFITC1 is probably the only one who has a chance of knowing, again, so here we go again, haha.
If you know anything, feel free to drop a note.

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Status defense breaking inflictions require status breaking removal

« on: 2012-10-03 12:19:10 »

I just found this out by accident
When [Character] is immune to [specific status] ( doesn't matter if it's effect materia or accessory or armor )
and something inflicts [specific] status on [character] then that status can never be cured unless the removal method, Item or Attack, also breaks status defense.

An example:
Cloud and Tifa fight Enemy A. Both are immune to silence.
Enemy A first inflicts silence on Tifa. This silence cannot be healed by regular methods. It even carries over through death. killing Tifa and resurecting her will still leave her with silence. Only an attack or item that breaks status defense and removes silence ( or similarly, an attack that causes silence, breaks status defense but is absorbed by Tifa via element ) can successfully remove it.


I haven't tested if status breaking alliments can be cured if the character is not immune.

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Gameplay / Change field / menu functionality of items

« on: 2012-10-03 11:28:11 »

I went through 4 pages of the search engine before I gave up on finding it. I believe someone once told me where in the .exe the items are but I can't find it anymore.
I know that the last item IDs handled in the .exe ( for field functions ) are the limit learn items, but that's fine. I only need to adjust some items like potions, elixirs and stuff
anyone know where in the .exe the items start and what format they have?

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General Discussion / Lore question: Gil ( only ff7, ignoring side stories or prequels or whatever )

« on: 2012-10-01 10:59:18 »

What kind of standard issue in hard cash does Gil have?
I mean, Euros have 1 cent, 2 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent, 20 cent, 50 cent, 1 euro, 2 euro, 5 euro note, 10 euro note, 20 euro note, 50 euro note, 100 euro note, 200 euro note, 500 euro note
iirc, dollar is similar but goes higher in the notes and has some odd stuff like 25 cent

now, I'd assume that Gil is somewhat modelled after the Yen because the game was made by the japanese after all. I can't remember there ever being any actual indication ingame of what kind of standard issue Gil has

so.. anyone knows something I don't?

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Graphical / Change prelude credits

« on: 2012-09-24 01:43:40 »

From what are the credits names actually pulled? I've changed so much, might as well do something about this

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Troubleshooting / HP overroll due to materia

« on: 2012-09-18 19:06:37 »

With my new custom materia effect offsets ( technically it should be possible with a lot of KOTRs too )
you can reduce your HP to below 1% base and then it turns into 30k.
This might have something to do with the 9999 disable patch as well as the .exe that allows for stat growth above 100 ( still have that pm from NFITC1 )
Is there any way to prevent this?

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Gameplay / Change duration of status effects, also make haste time limited

« on: 2012-09-17 00:49:31 »

pretty much what the topic says.
any info appreciated.

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Gameplay / Allow for growth beyond triple, alternative growth rates

« on: 2012-09-17 00:47:10 »

I'd like to give one specific armor or weapon per characters a triple and maybe quadruple
I assume this is likely unproable, but it was worth asking anyway.

So, does anyone know if that's possible?

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Gameplay / Change Materia stat bonus amounts

« on: 2012-09-17 00:45:39 »

for example, we have
Byte    STR    VIT    MAG    MDEF*    DEX    LUCK    MAXHP    MAXMP
0x01    -02    -01    +02    +01                                  -05%    +05%
0x02    -04    -02    +04    +02                                -10%    +10%

I'd like to change these to different values, like
-01 -04 +01 +04 +01 -01 -04% +02%

I know these have to be hardcoded somewhere, but that shouldn't be something that requires me / us to rewrite the entire function or anything. Someone know where these are stored?

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Gameplay / game time as variable in field?

« on: 2012-09-06 04:12:45 »

does the game keep track of time as a variable such as gamemoment or battlecount / escapecount?
if yes, which variable is that?
specifically, i'd need a variable that runs only seconds

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Gameplay / Prevent Materia from displaying Element in materia menu ( done )

« on: 2012-09-04 02:24:26 »

Many materia, such as fire or ice, display "flame" "ice" as their element under their actual name in the same window they also display their stars and stats. I want that to disappear entirely. I checked if its a simple text edit, but it doesn't appear to be. It might be that the game uses the same text for the elemental menu in status but I'd like to avoid nulling that entirely.

done, was 30a4eb = 02 in the .exe

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / world_us.lgp -> enc_w.bin

« on: 2012-09-04 00:26:02 »

Aali put out a bit of info, I'll collect that here just so it doesn't get lost

So far it looks like any given 'block' of encounters covers several battle forms, usually about 3 normal battles and a few specials like back attack, side attack and so on. It also seems like there is a new block for each walkmesh type
means an area like kalm, which has dead earth ( grey, rocky ), grassland and beach will have 3 blocks
a regular block looks, in hex, like this

01 XX YY PZ YY PZ YY PZ YY PZ followed by a lot of 00's. Then, depending on the block, it adds battles after the 00's, with a much, much lower probability chance. those are again, YY PZ YY PZ YY PZ YY PZ. Those battles are back attacks and attack's from both sides.
01 starts the new block but otherwise unknown what it does
XX is the rate of encounter. FF is maximum, 00 seems to be none at all for all practical purposes
YY is 2/3 of the encounter ID ( such 01A0 in PrC )
Z is the enncounter rate for that specific encounter
P is half X and half Y, see below

Here Aali's info
The string in question here was 01 20 6C 58 for the first encounter in a new block
(Aali) okay so the last 2048 bytes of the file holds 128 bytes per area for a total of 16 areas
(Aali) each location has a map of which walkmesh types correspond to which of those 128 bytes, this data is hardcoded in ff7.exe however
(Aali) not speaking hex at the moment
(Aali) each of the 4 possible walkmesh types for an area has 32 bytes of data (duh)

(Aali) 6C 58 is 1011 0000 0110 1100 in binary
(Aali) of those bits, 1011 00 is the encounter chance
(Aali) while 00 0110 1100 is the battle ID
(Aali) 5 and half of 8 is encounter chance, the other half of 8 and 6C are the battle ID
(Aali) and I derped up that binary so the numbers aren't really correct but the theory is still sound

(Aali) I guess the last 16 walkmesh types could be omitted if you wanted to save space
(Aali) so 8 bytes


Now if only someone who knows how to do editors ( *cough*NFITC1*cough* ) could make one for this.

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / List of animations?

« on: 2012-09-03 04:54:15 »

So far, I've noticed that items seem to have their own list of animations by ID
ID X for magic is not equal to ID X on items
Is there a list somewhere of those IDs?
If not, I'll have to go through the IDs one by one

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Solved Problems / SOLVED: Script behaving oddly [solved]

« on: 2012-09-02 16:58:28 »

edit: apparently it didn't like using variables that high for the gil count

Code: [Select]

Instantly turns the field model to face the party member #0
Deactivate the movability of the playable character
Disables access to the main menu
If Var[15][24] == 1 (else jump to byte 29)
Resizes/Repositions the window #2 (X=40, Y=120, width=238, height=57)
Displays the dialog ""Get out of my face."" in the window #2
Reset the window #2
Jump to byte 262
If $GameMoment < 191 (else jump to byte 54)
Resizes/Repositions the window #2 (X=40, Y=120, width=238, height=57)
Displays the dialog "“Are you interested? You seem a lit... But not now. The don is watching."" in the window #2
Reset the window #2
Jump to byte 262
If $GameMoment == 191 (else jump to byte 237)
If $KeyItems & (1<< 4) (else jump to byte 85)
Resizes/Repositions the window #2 (X=40, Y=120, width=263, height=57)
Displays the dialog ""Thanks for your business. hehe... you won't regret it..."" in the window #2
Reset the window #2
Jump to byte 262
Resizes/Repositions the window #2 (X=40, Y=120, width=263, height=57)
Displays the dialog ""Hey... listen. I saw you ask about.... hehe... If you know what I mean."" in the window #2
Reset the window #2
Resizes/Repositions the window #2 (X=40, Y=120, width=263, height=73)
Ask Question ""So how about it? The card is 2,000...'ll buy it Give it to me or else..." in the window #2 (and put selected answer in Var[15][76]) first line=2, last line=3
If Var[15][76] == 2 (else jump to byte 207)
Copies the amount of gil in Var[6][8] and Var[6][10]
If Var[6][10] == 0 (else jump to byte 160)
If Var[6][8] < 2000 (else jump to byte 160)
Resizes/Repositions the window #2 (X=40, Y=120, width=263, height=57)
Displays the dialog ""You don't even have any money! Come back when you do."" in the window #2
Reset the window #2
Jump to byte 262
Resizes/Repositions the window #2 (X=40, Y=120, width=263, height=57)
Displays the dialog ""Thanks for your business. hehe... you won't regret it..."" in the window #2
Reset the window #2
Remove 2000 gils to the party
Play sound #360 (position=64/127)
Resizes/Repositions the window #0 (X=85, Y=10, width=133, height=41)
Displays the dialog "Received Key Item [Member's Card]!" in the window #0
Set the 4 bit to 1 in $KeyItems
Reset the window #0
Jump to byte 262
If Var[15][76] == 3 (else jump to byte 237)
Var[15][24] = 1 (16-bit)
Resizes/Repositions the window #2 (X=40, Y=120, width=263, height=57)
Displays the dialog ""Threatening me? You must be f*ckin...on't get that, get out of my face."" in the window #2
Reset the window #2
Jump to byte 262
If $GameMoment == 192 (else jump to byte 262)
Resizes/Repositions the window #2 (X=40, Y=120, width=145, height=41)
Displays the dialog "“Say{, }you're a cutie, heh{, }heh{, }heh.”" in the window #2
Reset the window #2
Jump to byte 262
Activate the movability of the playable character
Enables access to the main menu
Return

It looks fine to me but if I try it, it always returns as having no money despite having 18000 gil
any idea why?

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General Discussion / Square announces a massive Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary box set

« on: 2012-08-31 20:44:33 »

And it's a total waste of money. olol.

With the much beloved RPG series Final Fantasy reaching it’s historic 25th Anniversary later this year, Square Enix has unveiled a special collector’s box set to mark the occasion, during the Final Fantasy Gallery opening ceremony held earlier today in Japan.

The Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Ultimate Box will contain a vast 22 disc collection made up of the core 13 games in the franchise’s main series in their PS1, PSP, PS2, and PS3 formats, not to mention it will also come with some very nice collectors swag as well.

Here’s the full list of games:

    Final Fantasy (PS1, 1 disc)
    Final Fantasy II (PS1, 1 disc)
    Final Fantasy III (PSP, 1 disc)
    Final Fantasy IV (PS1, 1 disc)
    Final Fantasy V (PS1, 1 disc)
    Final Fantasy VI (PS1, 1 disc)
    Final Fantasy VII International (PS1, 4 discs)
    Final Fantasy VIII (PS1, 4 discs)
    Final Fantasy IX (PS1, 4 discs)
    Final Fantasy X (PS2, 1 disc)
    Final Fantasy XI Vana'diel Collection 2 (PS2, 1 disc)
    Final Fantasy XII (PS2, 1 disc)
    Final Fantasy XIII (PS3, 1 disc) 22 discs

Bonus collectors swag:

    Special anniversary video disc
    Crystal ArtWorks -- an anniversary visual art collection
    A two disc anniversary music selection CD
    Final Fantasy XIV Mogu Mogu Earring item code
    Mini replica of Amano FF 25th Anniversary visual and stand

Considering this massive collection has so much stuff packed into it, you’d figure that it’d cost a pretty penny and you would be right, as this Ultimate Box rings in at the gorgeous price of ¥35,000, which is the equivalent of $446.99 USD. But it should be said Square hasn’t revealed any plans to release this set outside of Japan.

So, if you happen to have an extra $500 dollars laying around and have an understanding of Japanese, you can head on over to Square’s e-Shop on December 18 and have it imported to your collection.


original article: http://www.screwattack.com/news/square-announces-massive-final-fantasy-25th-anniversary-box-set