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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Ps2 to usb controller adapter?

« on: 2005-12-18 18:46:48 »

A buddy of mine took a spare plastic CD drive bay cover from his PC and made a hub for four XBOX controllers.  He bought a broken XBOX off of eBay for like $15 and gutted it.  He even wired LEDs into the bay cover over each controller port, so when you plugged a controller in, it would light up.  They have PC drivers created for the original XBOX controller, but I have forgotten the site.  If I find it I'll post it for anyone that is interested.

http://phaseone.sytes.net XBCD is available there

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Ps2 to usb controller adapter?

« on: 2005-12-15 13:09:04 »

I ordered a xbox>PC converter and a gamecube>PC converter on ebay for 11 USD

I made a PC controller from a Xbox controller witf broken cable. Works nice witf ePSXe

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General Discussion / Resubbing Advent Children is fun [possible spoilers]

« on: 2005-11-05 20:37:49 »

Can I have a link to those too? I wanna see that too

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Breaking the 9999 limit

« on: 2005-10-13 19:00:02 »

Cool, you've helped us a lot
If you save the game with the hacks on and then load it, will the game crash? I tried manually patching the FF7 save file and calculated the checksum, but the game crashed after loading the game. Or actually after I entered the menu, since in the field you won't see the character stats.

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Archive / Limit Breaking

« on: 2005-10-08 11:41:25 »

Directly patching FF7 save files will make the game crash. I tried to make clouds HP above 270F (9999) and the game didn't like it

So some EXE patching is needed too... Hope that dziugo will help us with it

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Mapping *.FF7 (Or, "Data is ruined!")

« on: 2005-09-15 19:26:56 »

You should also check this: http://forums.qhimm.com/viewtopic.php?t=4211

There's a program that calculates the checksums for the savegames

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Troubleshooting / Need a program to calculate FF7 PC Savegame checksums

« on: 2005-08-30 13:19:19 »

Thanks a lot!

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Releases / Battle model > Field model Conversion FINALLY!!

« on: 2005-07-20 17:38:51 »

when I used win rar to zip up the char.lgp file it compressed it to about 12 megs but I have no webspace to load it for anyone who are having problems with the patches.

You can use http://www.yousendit.com

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General Discussion / Final Fantasy: Advent Children *RELEASE DATE*

« on: 2005-07-18 09:25:38 »

Well, we can propably only hope for a european release.... :isee:

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Archive / FF7 - Reactor RELOADED Project

« on: 2005-07-13 12:53:35 »

Heh, I do phot manipulation for fun too, lol, 4-5hrs of fun.

Me too. It's real fun

I wish you guys best of luck.
Remember to make it long enough so there would be lots of fun with it

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Releases / Battle model > Field model Conversion FINALLY!!

« on: 2005-07-13 12:36:22 »

I had this problem, where it said failed to load on certain files.

This is what I did to get it working.

1. Extract all of the files in an unmodified char.lgp to
/data/field/char/
2. Run the installer
3. Create a new char.lgp from the files located in the char folder and place it in the field folder

That should work, at least it did for me.

That's exactly what I did, but it still whines "Failed to load (model)".
Blah.

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Releases / Battle model > Field model Conversion FINALLY!!

« on: 2005-07-12 12:49:35 »

Hmm, this patch doesn't work for me (and the original cloud patch neither)...

When I try to start a new game, or load a saved game, FF7 just crashes with a error message "Can't load model (model name.ext)". Model name.ext is of course the model, can't remember the name but I really don't feel like trying that again to get the need to reboot

The game worked just fine with the original Char.LGP. I'm using the High-Resolution patch (nice work saint ), but that shouldn't affect that way, shouldn't it?

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / Making an Open Source FF7 Engine

« on: 2005-07-03 17:25:19 »

anti-cheat stuff........

Wouldn't those anti-cheat measures be pretty CPU/Memory intensive, since all the "hard work" is done by the server?

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Archive / Long time No See! (DXTweaker, Truform, FF7/8, and You)

« on: 2005-06-19 18:33:48 »

Anyway, that's not what I meant. nVidia cards do not have any higher order surface support whatsoever. The hardware does, but it's all disabled in the drivers.

Yea but someone could hack the drivers and enable N-Patch for Nvidia and Truform for ATI  :wicked:

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Archive / Long time No See! (DXTweaker, Truform, FF7/8, and You)

« on: 2005-06-10 17:45:19 »

Well for me it is and for many other ppl.

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Archive / Long time No See! (DXTweaker, Truform, FF7/8, and You)

« on: 2005-06-09 11:02:40 »

Well actually, if we want Truform, it propably is easier to just write a new engine, than hacking the old crappy one just to get truform. The hacked one would be still as crash-prone as the old one.

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Releases / [BETA RELEASE] Higher Resolution FFVIIPC [v1.00]

« on: 2005-06-09 10:59:22 »

IIRC, the game has the backgrounds stored at 320x240, and probably does some generic pixel doubling or what-have-you when using the images in 640x480 mode.  So any background resizing, I'd guess, would be handled automatically by the engine -- and I think FF7 also automatically tries to use Bilinear Filtering on the images as well to counteract any pixelization....or was that FF8?

Propably NOT FF7, the backgrounds are really pixelated

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Archive / Long time No See! (DXTweaker, Truform, FF7/8, and You)

« on: 2005-06-08 18:30:16 »

Hmm... wha games use truform? And isn't it a ATI-only feature?
It propably is easier to just smooth the models. This is what a truformed tifa may look like (untextured):

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Archive / Long time No See! (DXTweaker, Truform, FF7/8, and You)

« on: 2005-06-08 17:33:23 »

Nope, FF7 is DX6. DX6 came with FF7. But let's hope that nonatainment makes a DX6 plugin for it

EDIT: FF7 is DX5 or 6... can't remember. One thread says it's DX5.

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FF7 Tools / FF7 models to 3ds Max

« on: 2005-06-08 12:34:18 »

OK, the ASE importer for 3DS max 6 works in 7, I loaded the Tifa model converted to ASE in Biturn, works fine. Thanks Mirex for the program

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Releases / [BETA RELEASE] Higher Resolution FFVIIPC [v1.00]

« on: 2005-06-08 11:11:22 »

Hope to get a download soon

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Archive / alright guys, i need your help

« on: 2005-06-08 08:58:44 »

No, usually reinstalling means wiping your Hd clean first.

No it doesn't. Windows has a repair feature, so when you reinstall windows, it only replaces damaged system files with working ones. Clean install means wiping the HD clean and then installing the Windows.

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General Discussion / FF7 PSP?

« on: 2005-06-08 07:14:01 »

Heh... I haven't played CC, but I'm prety sure that it's better than FFX&FFX-2... Square gathered all the evil on to these discs. Then all the evil that was left was propably gathered to the CC disc

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Archive / Long time No See! (DXTweaker, Truform, FF7/8, and You)

« on: 2005-06-08 07:11:57 »

Doesn't work for me... Propably it's not working because FF7 is DX6, and DXT doesn't have DX6 support. It has only DX7 and up  

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Troubleshooting / Jenova Bug

« on: 2005-06-07 20:03:19 »

That's a ugly bug in Jenova. Try selecting another save slot before you select the one you're gonna edit. Then it works.