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Miscellaneous Forums => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: BaleFire on 2007-02-13 02:02:15
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I'm really not good with programing or computers in general (I had to get help just to get on this thingy), but would it be possible for anyone with either a lot of boredom or free time to make a strange program for me. It involves the FF7 battle system. I don't particularly mind the ATB system, but I really despise the materia system. It makes the game WAY too easy. I have been thinking, and I think that I have come up with a much more useful and strategic way to implement materia and magic in general. Instead of having the materia learn the skill and then it is allowed to travel between whoever wants it, the person that has the materia equipped learns it, similar to the old system of learning magic and abilities from items and whatnot, but with materia. The stat changes that the materia gives would be acquired too, to help prevent overkill. I personally think that that would be much more interesting and challenging than the way it is now. Of course the Support Materia would have to be worked out. Possibly by manually selecting which spells/abilities to modify with which Support skill. Also, instead of having everyones stat max be 255, change the max around to fit the way they should be. Barret with high strength and vitality, but low magic and speed; Yuffie with high speed and luck, but low vitality; etc...
I think this will help limit the interchangeability of every single character. As it is now, battle-wise the only difference between characters is their weapons and Limit Breaks, the stats can easily be modified through sources, and everyone can do everything since there is no type of limit on materia. I like the story of FF7 and how individual the characters are, and I would like that to carry over to the battle as well.
Like I said, I know nothing of programming or anything of the like, so I don't know how difficult this would be or if it would even be possible, so let me know. Thanks in advance for whatever happens.
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Well, first of all, I must say your mod suggestion on the materia system seems interesting, but it would need to rework the gameplay core, I don't think this can be done only with a little program running in the background, or if it can actually be done :P
And in respect to the maxstat limit... well, it's all up to you. If you want, say, Barret, with high power but little magic, just max out power stat (255) and let magic be 128, for example. No one is forcing you to give him 255 ;)
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So it can't be done? Thats a bummer. Oh well... :cry:
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its possible, doesn't sound so hard but it would be incredibly time consuming
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yeah, that could definatly be done. but as steve said...find someone with lots and lots of free time.
I'll look into it when I get back home next week. but I can't promise anything :-P
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Thanks. I appreciate it. Anything is good.
Also, i have a quick question; I installed a number of the patches that are on this site (from the Neat Compilation of Patches for FF7 thread) and it has made the game... twitchy. Sometimes it will run normally, but others it will take an unnecessairly long time to go to the next area, or enter a battle. Particularly in the world map. I think that it is the patch that slows down the mini-games and battle swirl to normal speed for the faster computers. But I don't really know enough to be sure. Could anyone help. I could use it. :? Thanks again.
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Write down exactly which patches have you installed and in what order, it could help.
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ff7 v1.02 official patch
The SaiNt's High Res FF7PC Patch v1.00 (with integrated Jedwin's chocobo patch)
YAMP - Yet Another Multi-Patcher
1. MiniGamesPatch (with integrated BattleSwirlFix)
2. 9999LimitBreakingPatch
Higher Quality Cloud mod
NPC Reconstruction Project for FF7PC 0.6 mod
That should be it.
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Well, seems fine then.
Talking about patchs, I'm right at the start of CD2 now. When the snowboard ride is about to begin, it throws me to desktop (memory access violation). I'll try again without the YAMP later to see if it has any issue with non-english version (or maybe it is my mix of US exe and Spanish game). Are you using, by any chance, like me, the US exe over a non-US game in order to use the high-res patch?
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Not that I'm aware of. US version.
Edit: Well, it has been a very long time, so I shall assume no one really wants to do this. Ta Ta...