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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / "Gears" - The FF7 Documentaion Project

« on: 2004-09-21 14:09:51 »

And....
I can't get the Script Dump from
http://the-afterm.ath.cx/hack7_en.zip
http://the-afterm.ath.cx/script_dump.zip
I do not think it is my network problem
Did u delete them?
How can I get them now?

Here :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/lasyan3/mytools/hack7_en.zip
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/lasyan3/mytools/script_dump.zip

Here,I have some problem with these two tools.
Does hack7 only support PSX version?
And I can only open a few files with script_dump
when I try to open some file,it shows:
http://photoimg4.qq.com/cgi-bin/load_pic?verify=TsLSttO5p3m5M%2BQVFvlnrA%3D%3D
I can not read it....I do not think it is English....
Some times,it works a while and show:
http://photoimg4.qq.com/cgi-bin/load_pic?verify=NyAlcBivdMEeLZ8FThYV0w%3D%3D
I want to know is it my computer or file problem or your tools problem?

Here is text problem:
http://photoimg4.qq.com/cgi-bin/load_pic?verify=c04GwUWuJuukpQ4i8JC0cQ%3D%3D
but it is okay,I have wrote a program to edit text
http://photoimg4.qq.com/cgi-bin/load_pic?verify=XRk2JGvIZE2KEOWJo2wgrA%3D%3D
but there still something wrong with script I dumped:
http://photoimg4.qq.com/cgi-bin/load_pic?verify=11YOC4uQq1tM37uk7rrpCA%3D%3D

I know my questions is too much....
If I have bothered anyone here,I say sorry

Mad edit: pictures too big...

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / "Gears" - The FF7 Documentaion Project

« on: 2004-09-19 14:30:51 »

And....
I can't get the Script Dump from
http://the-afterm.ath.cx/hack7_en.zip
http://the-afterm.ath.cx/script_dump.zip
I do not think it is my network problem
Did u delete them?
How can I get them now?

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / About Dialog Script Problem..

« on: 2004-09-19 12:12:54 »

In the file 'mds7st32'
There are three dialogs in this file and
I found three dialog scripts in it :
 

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5001 0800 4B00 3201 2900 400100
5001 2700 4B00 EC00 3900 400101
5001 0800 4B00 3201 3900 400102

They look like normal codes about dialog,but it's wrong
These three dialogs don't display in any box,but display directly on the screen!
And I could not change the value of width and heigth(such as 'EC00 3900'),If I did,the game will crash.

I am translating FF7 to Chinese,so I have to make my program change the size of dialog box automatically to fit Chinese text...
When my program handle mds7st32,it will change that code,because my program think it should to be changed to fit Chinese text,but it's wrong!

I found that it is very hard to make program to know which code(about width and heigth) should to be changed automatically and which not.
That is what my problem is!

And I found some window code start with '2F' instead of '50'
I have checked script commands
but I don't understand what the 'WSIZW' mean.

Anyone have suggest about this problem,plz tell me.

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / "Gears" - The FF7 Documentaion Project

« on: 2004-09-19 10:34:42 »

Is there a complete version about script commands?
Now it only explain a few opcodes,such as RET...

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FF8 Tools / New FF8 Tools: Archiver and TEX Converter

« on: 2004-09-13 06:12:59 »

It does handle 16-bit files by now .

Really?I converted some images from FF7 tex file,but it looks bad...

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Re: FF8 - fonts' width

« on: 2004-09-12 16:32:01 »

If the code of 's' is $2E,$2E also indicate the width about 's'

Yes, on FF8 is the same. But I want change width for this hex value. For example, $2E has a 12 units of width (pixels?), and I want change this to 8 units of width; I change some original letters to diacritical polish letters in .tex file, and it's looking bad. Here is an example:

I think the work you said need some ability about ASM Hack.
We are translating FF7 to Chinese,and we hacked it,make every chinese character use the width of 'M'.
Are you translating FF8 to polish?
If u do,I think u should send PM to M4v3r
He is the man who are translating FF7 to polish...
I think he might have met this problem,good luck

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Re: FF8 - fonts' width

« on: 2004-09-12 14:27:05 »

Hi, I have a question:

When and how can I change fonts' width?
Example:
When I change in sysfld00.tex (or 01) ">" on something with smaller width (for example "s"), in game I have "s" with a some space after . How can I change this?

PS: Sorry, my english is bad

Our English all need to be improved...
And as my experience on FF7 fonts
there are some datas in game files that indicate the width about every charater in the game
For example,If the code of 's' is $2E,$2E also indicate the width about 's'...
All what I said is about FF7...

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FF8 Tools / New FF8 Tools: Archiver and TEX Converter

« on: 2004-09-12 10:03:18 »

Wow,when will the Omega handle 16-bit files,I am just looking for such a tool,I feel lucky now

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / M4v3R plz come here

« on: 2004-09-11 10:18:01 »

Hm.. I see... But, as you can see, all the windows you found correspond to the same dialog - 7th (because there is '40 00 06' there). In this location there are only two dialogs used - C'mon newcomer and Receiver "Potion". I don't really know why there are so many window definitions for "Potion", while there are only two used in game.

I would carefully check if the dialogs are different depending on who is in the party and if it's at a different time in the story. You don't have to talk to everyone at the same time in the story.  I might also point out FF7 was never completed to what they had originally envisioned.

Cyb

It is impossbile to depend on who is in the party and different time in the story,what we are talking about now is 'md1stin',it is the file about the very begining of the game,you have only Cloud in the party..

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General Discussion / Anyone know how to change the RED TRIANGLES on the battle?

« on: 2004-09-10 00:22:05 »

The arrows are stored as a bunch of constants in the executable.
I know where they are for the English version but not the Chinese version.

If you need details, just drop me a PM or an e-mail.

I have sent u a PM,and what I need to know is where they are for the English FF7 PC version,thanks alot!

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General Discussion / Anyone know how to change the RED TRIANGLES on the battle?

« on: 2004-09-09 11:58:40 »

No..we can not remove it...if we did,then we will be blamed by all FF7 fans in China...it's terrorble....

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General Discussion / Anyone know how to change the RED TRIANGLES on the battle?

« on: 2004-09-09 05:21:35 »

U can see that red triangles cover on chinese words after our translation,we have no idea about where these red triangles' postion data is....is there anyone have any clues?

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / M4v3R plz come here

« on: 2004-09-09 05:14:12 »

There are still problems..
U said that the dialog size data looks like

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50 AA xx xx yy yy ww ww hh hh 40 AA dd id

but when I made my program to change that size automatically,I found many diffrent situations
such as

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2F AA xx xx yy yy ww ww hh hh 40 AA dd id

Code: [Select]

50 AA xx xx yy yy ww ww hh hh 48 AA dd id

Code: [Select]

50 AA xx xx yy yy ww ww hh hh 40 BB dd id

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50 AA xx xx yy yy ww ww hh hh ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? 40 AA dd id
and some dialogs seems to use the same size definition,they looks like

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50 AA xx xx yy yy ww ww hh hh 40 AA dd id1 ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? 40 AA dd id2

these are just what I have found,and I do not think that is all...
It's very diffcult to make a program to find all dialog size data,is there anyone have suggestion for me,many thx

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / M4v3R plz come here

« on: 2004-08-29 22:09:58 »

You told me that there's only one regular dialog and two 'notifications' used in 'md1stin'
and the offset is '0x4BD 0x73F 0x762'
But I found 7 offsets using your method,they are
'0x4BD 0x73F 0x762 0x7E3 0x806 0x882 0x8A6'
How it comes?
 
how do you know there are only three dialogs used in md1stin,not 7 dialogs?

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Re: blackeyed_cn - your program

« on: 2004-08-27 13:56:25 »

You said you were making a translation of the ff7 scene.bin program? What's the original program called and where did you find it at?

THanks,
~Sky

Are you the one who is already on my MSN?

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Need Help in FF7 files!!!

« on: 2004-08-16 17:07:55 »

Looks like they are doing well too. Lots of work ahead but still they are probably having too much fun.

I assume this is all for the PC and not the playstation version?

Cyb

Yes,it's all for the PC,because it's easy to hack EXE(PC) than to hack PSX...
We have to use 3000 Chinese words....

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Need Help in FF7 files!!!

« on: 2004-08-16 15:19:10 »

many many many many many thx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / "Gears" - The FF7 Documentaion Project

« on: 2004-08-16 12:06:14 »

I exported a .doc version of Gears and it's with my pdf

Can somone download it and send it to blackeyed_cn for me.

It's at the www button too.

Now,I can download and see your avatar  
U look pretty COOL~
Many Thx!

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / "Gears" - The FF7 Documentaion Project

« on: 2004-08-16 04:47:37 »

OMG,The Gears is so wonderful...are you finish it by yourself??
But why it is a pdf instead of a doc?
U know,My english is very poor,I read english material with the help of the translation software,but it does not work at pdf

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Need Help in FF7 files!!!

« on: 2004-08-16 04:34:48 »

Well Laysan3 has a nice extractor for the script. Script encoding is a different matter. If I were you, I would worry less about the dialog boxs first and conern oneself with the actual dialog. Sometime in the furture there should be a script editor and compilor. If you desperately want to edit them, go for it. Is this for the PC FF7 or the PSX FF7? My guess is the PC version.

Hi,I can't understand you very well....did you suggest me to work hard in translation instead of editing the dialog boxes?
We have a group to do this project,I take charge of write program,somebody do hack EXE,other people do translation and manual work.
all translation had finished,and had been import into the game.
The work left is that two points of my question and test the chinese FF7
Can u help me with the 2nd question? thx

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / "Gears" - The FF7 Documentaion Project

« on: 2004-08-15 21:14:36 »

I run linux, and don't have much in the way of MSN. Can someone else?

M4v3r have sended it to me,thx again

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Enemy AI and HP data?

« on: 2004-08-15 19:50:53 »

Why didn't you tell this to anybody ?
Can you tell me, how you're expanding in-battle dialogs ? For example, I want to change text "Attack while it's tail's up" to "Don't attack while it's tail's up", but I don't know how to do this. Basically, I don't know where are pointers pointing to these dialogs.

I am new here today...u see..I am here seeking some help in FF7 files..
I can not remember it clearly cause I wrote it month ago...but I can give you the delphi code,I download your soft,it shows that u write program by delphi7.0 too..
Can u talk to me on the MSN,I know you added my MSN,but why do not say 'hi' to me?

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / "Gears" - The FF7 Documentaion Project

« on: 2004-08-15 19:46:43 »

They probably have a blanket ban on the .cx domain. Can you see my avatar? If you can't then it's the filter on your side.

It might also be that I get my internet through Yahoo, which carries American news too.

Can someone post a copy of gears for blackeyed_cn so he can get it around his rather unpleasent system admin issue?

Our government do not allow us to know much about American news...
I can't see your avatar...
Any one help me?
Add my MSN: [email protected]
send it to me plz

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / "Gears" - The FF7 Documentaion Project

« on: 2004-08-15 19:22:03 »

did you click on my www button? it's there when I clicked on it.

I clicked,but can not open that page,I donot know why,Am I the only person which can not open it?
I hate Chinese network service

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Archive / New FF7 Tool: Scene Reader

« on: 2004-08-15 19:10:56 »