If you are going to import a file into a psx iso, you can use cdmage, but if the file becomes too large, it will truncate it, though i don't see the kernel getting bigger by much if any (though the scene.bin easily can, but if you have some decent programming knowledge, and know how to edit enemy AI, you will quickly see how badly much of the AI was written with a lot of unnecessary repetition, and shaving down on that saves some room ^^). if the file somehow becomes smaller, that is fine, since it will just add FF for the missing stuff. i was working on the psx version (before learning ai editing), but m scene file got too big so i moved to the pc version (cousin was kind enough to give me his ^^), but before that i had no trouble adding files to the psx iso with cdmage.
for a psx iso, when you open it you must chose m2/2352 track from the popup menu (else it will not read it right if at all), move to the directory on the iso that has the older file (the INIT folder), right click on the kernel (or whichever file you want to replace, such as the scene.bin, which is in the battle folder), and click import file. from there it will take you to a browser, so find your new kernel and click on it (it will warn you if it is too big or too small, though only too big is bad, unless you removed important parts from the kernel somehow), then it will quickly replace the old with the new, and you can test from there.
though for the pc version it is easy as copy and paste, and if you can't do that then i can't help you
nfitc1, what all is needed to make an enemy, such as the MP, use, say the fire spell? from what i have seen, it is likely that it is a problem with their limited animations (only the tonfa attack and machine gun animations), that they lock up when trying to cast fire (camera moves like it is being casted, then sits there, requiring a ctrl+q exit), as when i set their attack animation (in the hex, setting both the attack and animation in the enemy data section correctly) to either of the two they are able to use, they can perform the attack, but it looks like their normal attack, no magic casted, but the damage is that of the fire spell, not very useful. now i was able to give a mono drive the vacuum ability (from bloatfloats) that shares the same animation index as fire, and it did show the vacuum attack right, and not the fire spell. i still need to test and see if the mono drive can use other spells (likely), and if it can then there must be something that has to be set in the animations of the enemy themselves.
So... how exactly can i change the enemy animations, since only ifalna can see their animations (errors when trying to edit), kimera will not even load the files, since they are "not a valid P file", and i know little about the hex for animations. hell, i'd settle for just a copy of their idle animation that i can call that has the ability to use magic, at least until i can learn more about adding animations. if you have any insight that would be wonderful.
also, some suggestions on your proud clod, it would be very nice if you would add the ability for the user to edit the enemy attack id's (what they can use ability wise) as well as the animations (that the moves use), so for example MP uses animation 03 for attack 0110 (machine gun attack), and 04 for 0111 (tonfa attack), since i have to manually extract the files and open them up in a hex editor to change something as small as that (i don't think any of the programs allow for this yet, so this could be a first, and shouldn't take much to do, since it is even less than what is already added, you'd just have to point to two different places per enemy). i'd also like to thank you for the ai editor, as it has been very useful, and the C format decoding of it helps out a lot (so i can see if i screwed up much easier
), and paired with hojo and WM, things are going nicely ^^
sorry about the long post, but i tend to ramble on... if you could implement my suggestion, i'd really appreciate it (and likely many others as well). battle formations would be nice too, but i know they aren's completely known yet, but i can do enough to do what i need via hex for now (it is a lot, so changes are actually worthwhile to manually hack, unlike changing two values
). and if you can help with my problem, i'd appreciate that as well.
Edit: gave mono drive ice, but the camera doesn't seem to follow through right... ice is finished before it fully pans over to cloud, but that could be due to the speed at which it casts spells (takes about half the time cloud does to get the spell off, which could explain it), and i even edited the spell's camera movement in WM to fire (which it uses correctly), but it was still off by a good bit... maybe it has something to do with me having a mono drive battle happen after the MP's are killed, or maybe something else?