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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.999991)

« on: 2025-08-23 15:11:31 »

Does this mod effect any UI textures? I'm using Aavock UI and its icons, but when I use New Threat Combat Only, it removes the icons from the game.  I made sure NT loads under Aavock, but it didnt resolve the issue.  The icons return if I load NT after EUI, but I get warnings about the load order not being correct.  I should dont I am allowing 7th Heaven to auto arrange the load order and then fine tuning to get a specific result.  The mod does seem to work despite its load order.

NT has button icons that it adds, so it does change one of the UI files.

I'm stuck and hoping that there's a way out of this, because I just fought two really hard fights back to back before being able to save and I'd love to not have to do it again. Any thoughts? I'm assuming I'm going to have to reload my latest save, because I can't get out of the wall.
https://imgur.com/a/SLUm193

What happened exactly? Did you load in that position or did you get yourself wedged in there while moving around? Only thing I can think of is to perhaps download and run a trainer to see if it has a way of moving your current position, I think mav's ultima might be able to do it.
https://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=28379.0

If it can't hack your position, then what it can probably do is help you skip past the battles you fought easier by adjusting the enemy HP down to 1 or something.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99999)

« on: 2025-08-05 13:25:46 »

From 2016, Relic Ring gives Auto-Wall (like a Protect Ring), +20 to Strength & Magic, as well as defending against Dual-Drain and Manipulate (used by some bosses). It will also absorb Hidden...but also Restorative; so if you use it, make sure to have some alternate means of healing (absorb Fire, for instance, using an Elemental Materia).

I realized this was for v1.4. What did you change relic ring's effects? It looks like you changed it to max vit and spr out instead of auto wall. No +20 str/mag... I assumed it was too much? It looks like absorb death and being undead. Am not sure about ? yet.

I would like to give feedback if you plans to update NT mod. I am not sure if you would like to boost monsters' hp more like x1.5 or x2? I read the past posts and you explained that boosting hp would mess up on some systems. I hope 1.5 or 2 are ok to boost monsters' hp. I feel it was so easy to take it down. Monsters' stats for str and mag are still pretty good enough to beat my team up.

Is it possible for you to add a npc or something to let me know that I have more sidequests to look up after airship's npc with sidequests explanation?

I feel you gave SO much +dex on weapons. More elements or boost hp/mp?

If I don't want SP upgrade, but I would like to have small stats natural growth... Is there a chance for you to have this similar idea to your mind? It is probably good idea to ask in the new game screen before start a game, for instance, pick to depend on SP upgrade or small stats natural growth that you can't change after picking. NO source items if no sp upgrade. 

Relic Ring currently in 2.0 has these effects:
+255 Vitality & Spirit
Blocks KO, Sleep, Poison, Confu, Silence, Frog, Mini, Gradual-Petrify, Petrify, Regen, Dual-Drain, Death Sentence, and Blind
Absorbs Poison, Gravity, ? (Hidden), and Restorative elements

I think I took the Str/Mag off it so I could max the character's defences as accessories only allow for 2 stats to be raised (Curse Ring has a built-in effect to raise other stats when applying the death sentence at the start of battle).

Regarding the feedback:
1) I'm wary about raising enemy HP as a pitfall I fell into with earlier versions was that I'd test bosses with a fairly optimised party that was using elemental weaknesses & equipment that bolstered their offence stats. Even with the tweaks to things like critical-hit damage & elemental weakness damage multipliers, the time it takes to complete an encounter can vary wildly depending on what the player has equipped. I'll be aiming to make a proper hard mode for a future patch though where I can probably tune enemies to be a little bulkier.

2) I can maybe try and set that NPC's dialogue to mark off completed sidequests or something.

3) I'm currently rebalancing everything for an upcoming patch; the way I've budgeted stats on weapons, armour, and accessories there should be less Dexterity generally on weapons. Armours as well have far less stat boosts on them in the WIP patch than the current build.

4) Characters do have natural stat growth in 2.0; like the base game, the highest these can go is 100 and they increase by a varying amount at each level up. Each stat has a minimum and maximum possible value (usually about 10 or so difference). The max values they can get through stat growth alone is below:

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99999)

« on: 2025-07-28 16:56:46 »

Before I ask questions, I really want to thank you for making this mod. I raised with this game when I was young lol. I played many times with different challenges and it got me boring hardcore until this mod and i realized I have FF7 on steam. Worth it.

I am on second playthrough after understanding this system.

fire's effect, reduce def by %1 - Does it stacks? If so, maximum? I need to know since I could not find the answer for that.

Fire 1's effect applies to all Fire 2 and 3 since I did not see the description in Fire 2 and 3?

Feedback - Exp 1.25 boost? come on. it makes this game much easier with hard mode. I kind of wish reduce it to x0.75 or something. Don't get me wrong. Bosses are still tricky to me. I started to feel meh after learning system and made it much easier. I mean I have memory brain from original ff7.

Materia - Some reasons I feel less options to make combo even it has good stats and effects. I am not sure yet until I finish the second playthrough so.

Again, thanks for this mod. I give it 9.5/10

Glad you enjoyed the mod.

For Fire, the effect does stack additively and goes to -100% at which point defence & magic defence will be at 0. Other attacks which do this also stack to it, like Braver. Fire2 and Fire3 also have this effect but to save text space I decided to not mention it on them and hope it's implied from Fire1.

The % is applied after all other calculations, so if an enemy is raising its defence stats with effects or over time:

100 Defence with -50% applied = 50 Defence
Enemy raises its base defence by 50 with an ability
150 Defence with -50% applied = 75 Defence (so effectively its defence only went up by 25 rather than 50)

I'll renovate the hard mode conditions at some point, and I want to do a general rebalance at some stage; the Materia & Materia-Slots will be revised so that pairings can be made earlier and more of them.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99999)

« on: 2025-07-27 13:39:34 »

I am looking for some help with a very strange issue. I can't seem to find anything about it.

When I finish certain scenes I end up on a normal chocobo in the middle of the ocean. This has happened in two separate locations: It happens after I defeat the midgar zolom and it happens after the scene where Yuffie steals the party materia.

Mods are
60/30 FPS Animations for New Threat 2.0,
30/60 FPS Gameplay,
Postscriptthree's Tweaks,
New Threat 2.0
and Gameplay Tweaks - Qhimm catalog.

I'm guessing I've accidentally created some kind of strange interaction with these mods but I have been unable to figure out what it is.

Any help would be gladly appreciated.

EDIT: I finally got some time to troubleshoot this and it happens even if the only mod I have on is New Threat 2.0.  Is there anything I can do?

I'm not sure, the spot you're being warped to is 0,0 on the map and it's where models are stored (set to invisible) when they're usually not being used. I've seen this happen in the past when I added an option to change party leader on Disc 3, but this sounds like the game isn't properly dropping you off at the correct coordinates following a battle (zolom) and from the field where Yuffie steals your Materia. I haven't made alterations to these, so I'm unsure what could be causing it; I don't think other players have ran into it either, but I'll test it out today.

As a workaround, you may need to use a save editor to place yourself back on the world. The Black Chocobo tool can do it, but if you're unsure I can do it if you send your save file to me (either something like mediafire, MEGA, etc. or through Discord; Qhimm has a discord server that can be accessed from this forum, there's a topic with the invite).

I'm stuck here, with frozen dialouge box it doesn't allow me to do anything else apart from accessing the Menu and walk around the room (can't exit the room as it was block by NPC)

Any advise? This is right after Jumping up the electric power on a dolphin.

Do you have any other mods active besides the graphical ones? That scene usually just plays out as normal, it looks like either the window for text has been broken somehow or the script was escaped into a loop maybe by an interaction with the NPC at a bad time. That scene still runs by vanilla scripting (just dialogue changes) so I'm unsure what could have happened. Does it happen consistently? If so, try running through it with just NT enabled and then re-enabling your other mods once you're through and reach a save point.

Hi, the docs says that Tornado is in "Sister Ray Cannon: Base". Is this in Junon right after Cloud leaves the party? Like, at the same place Tifa has a slap fight with Scarlet? (I mean, the Sister Ray Cannon is located there..)

Does this mean that Tornado is missable after you acquire Highwind?

No, it's the chest on the screen after you fight Proud Clod during the Midgar Raid; I'll update the documentation to specify that it's the Midgar Raid and not in Junon.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99999)

« on: 2025-06-28 14:35:46 »

Stuck at bizzaro sephir, whats the tactic? He keeps healing himself, I tried to swap a bit between teams and still

On a 2 or 3 party fight, the Core has to be destroyed for the other parties.

2-Party
*) Fight starts, on Party A, destroy the head and swap
*) On Party B, destroy the head, arms, then Core. When Core is destroyed, swap
*) Back on Party A, destroy the head, arms, and then the Core; this prevents the heal from happening so the torso can be destroyed for the win

3-Party
*) Fight starts, on Party A, destroy the head and swap
*) On Party B, destroy the head, arms, then Core. Swap.
*) On Party C, destroy the head, arms, then Core. Swap.
*) Back on Party A, destroy the head, arms, then Core; torso is left without a heal so you can destroy it from there.

It's a big hassle though, so in the current version of the mod (2.0+) you can select whether to have a 1, 2, or 3 party fight. Using something powerful on Party B or C like Ultima, Pearl, Bahamut-ZERO, or KOTR would also speed it up; there's a checkpoint for Safer too so those Materia can be recovered for that battle if need be.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99999)

« on: 2025-05-30 13:23:36 »

Hmm, I'll try taking off all my mods except new threat and see what happens but for the time being here are the mods I am using. the photo attachment formatting didn't seem to work for me  so heres the link https://ibb.co/zHPwgbT8


EDIT: So I disabled all mods except postscriptthree's gameplay tweaks and tried it and still had the issue, but I disabled that and it is now working. Ramuh still doesn't inflict paralysis however, it doesn't say it on the materia and putting it with added effect doesn't give me anything. I have further narrowed down the cause in the gameplay tweaks to be the "Show effectiveness" feature I had it on require sensing but somehow it was causing the Keeper to become immune to the status effects it needed. 

I see, my guess is that it adapts or in some way interferes with the 'status defence ignore' flag.

As for Ramuh, the reason Paralysis doesn't apply for the Materia is because the right-most byte that handles statuses isn't there for Materia equip effects so only the actual summon attack itself carries the status. I should have probably just picked a different status instead as it's misleading.

Hi,

I want to replay FF7 with all the "MUST INSTALLED" list below:
https://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=21345.0

This mods seems pretty nice and keep an OG vibe i want for this run.
Although, there are no improvement in difficulty and i want a more challenging game without being hardcore.

So i think of adding NT to my playthrough. Some questions though :
Does NT 2.0 Combat Only also adds the "class" thing ? Or it's just battle number and pattern ?
Does NT 1.5 exists in Combat Only (didn't see it)

Thanfs for your reply,

Combat Only just alters enemies and what the player can use (character stats, equipment, spells, etc.) Things like the source system to custom spec the characters aren't in there as it relies on field scripting. As for a NT 1.5 Combat Only I don't think I made one.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99999)

« on: 2025-05-22 14:00:22 »

Hi, I am playing through 1.5, I played this mod back in 2017 and really liked it so 1.5 is the closest to how it was back then. However, I am at powersoul keeper and I was really looking forward to this fight cause I remember it being challenging and needing strategy for it BUT it seems like the boss is actually broken right now. It uses powersoul charge and it heals and gets haste and barriers I believe. That seems normal. But when it uses oversoul charge, and it is supposed to go berserk, nothing happens. And it just spams these charges and out heals all my damage. I casted berserk on it, and nothing happened. I don't know why it is not working. I am playing through 7th heaven. Of course I could always come back and one shot it or maybe use a cheat to do so, but if this is broken I am worried other things might be as well, and it is really making me not want to keep playing. So any help or a fix would be greatly appreciated.

It must have somehow gotten immune to berserk, I'll need to check it and then update with a fix. I had this same issue occur recently with a boss in 2.0 so I'm not sure what's going on, maybe a tool thing when saving.

I don't seem to have anything from 2017 for 1.5, but I do have this 1.4 IRO from October 2016: https://mega.nz/file/TwlwxLrD#ddzlfEFVyasIpLE_eUn5r7fw8zsfHHg9zPc8usq_kTA

Edit: I tested the 1.5 boss out but it seems to be applying berserk to itself with oversoul charge as intended, I'll change the AI trigger regardless so that it can't be used again as it currently relies on him being below 20% HP + not being in berserk, rather than using a hard flag. Do you have any other mods on? I'm trying to think what could have caused berserk to not apply; he is immune to the status, but the oversoul attack has a Status Ignore flag on it. It's maybe something interfering with that.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99999)

« on: 2025-05-01 01:06:29 »

I've been playing New Threat 1.5 and can I say, it's way too hard.  It's ridiculous, in fact. 

I've been trying to defeat the Thousand Gunner boss(es!) and this thing is just absurd.  I can hardly get a hit in before I'm attacked, I can barely damage  this boss and I'm getting fed up.

This mod is a chore, not fun and for the first time ever is making me want to quit an FF7 playthrough.

Ah, sorry you had a bad time with it; the 1.5 build has a lot of difficulty spikes in it which is something I kept in mind when refactoring the mod into the 2.0 build.

Considering it's literally the most widely used and most popular gameplay mods and I've never once heard it be called "way too hard", sounds like a skill issue to me. Don't blame the mod, especially after the winning strategy was spoon fed to you. And if you don't want the help, then why the hell did you bother registering an account and posting in the first place?

I have heard it be called way too hard many times, tbf, but the fights in 1.5 are all doable with a bit of know how.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99999)

« on: 2025-04-11 03:42:38 »

Ahh so the Chocobo clues are meant for a new run through then I guess

As of the latest update, there's no longer any chocobo clues and the boss fight is unlocked by completing the four materia caves so it can be done on the same playthrough.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99999)

« on: 2025-04-05 13:27:44 »

Did the Twin Viper ever get added to the Shinra Mansion as is described in the documentation? I looked all over the place in the current patch (v2.099998), and I couldn't seem to find it anywhere, either.

It should be upstairs in the room with the bookcase stairwell; the triggers for it seem to be correct but is this chest missing/already opened?



***
Mod updated to 2.099999; I fixed the triggers for the secret battle on Disc 3.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99998)

« on: 2025-02-16 01:57:38 »

Hello your chiefiness
So long time returner I wanted to ask you if you would still have the files or know where to find of 1.4___   I wanted to reexperience  actually maybe finish (I left like 3 super bosses left when my laptop brokedown) you made some changes in 1.5 specifically on the  Innates and I remember beating some bosses only bcuz I worked around those innates, like Cloud who had his HP and MP recovered at some point (so I could go all out twice) and barret now is also different, etc.

Is there anyway to access these 1.4 files?
I also wanted my brother to play it just the same way (Ive talked about the mod to him for years)

I only have this build for 1.4, from 3rd April 2016. I've no idea what condition this particular build is in, issues it may have, etc. but if you run into a serious issue that obstructs progress I can have a go at fixing it. This is a stand-alone installer though, so it'll hard-patch your FF7 install (steam or 1998). If it needs to be spun into an IRO I can probably do that, assuming I can get it to install.

https://mega.nz/file/KsMUDSaZ#Y8bhYQob-nC_QSTGjh_zU4ozI1V0YT_8PeWt-v3NtS0

Thanks so much for this quick fix! I just tested it and it worked like you said

No worries

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99995)

« on: 2025-02-15 12:46:11 »

He did try to use a skill but couldn't since he didn't have enough mp(even though he didn't do anything yet besides use scan once) and he's dead after maybe 3 turns, since the party does so much more damage than usual thanks to the revised stats and the Scorpion only having 800HP.

Ah it seems Shock costs 4MP but Guard Scorpion has 0MP; I'll fix that next time I update CO and I'll give it more appropriate HP/Stats.

Hi Sega Chief, thanks for all your work on this excellent mod!

Unfortunately I've run into a problem that is stopping me from progressing in the game. I'm playing 2.0 Type B, and still in Midgar near the beginning of the game. I returned to Sector 7 through the sewers/train graveyard, and I have to talk to Marlene. She says to follow her and runs off to the side, but then nothing happens. Her running animation continues indefinitely (though she isn't moving), Cloud is locked and can't move, and the game is essentially frozen.

I've tried this three times and the problem happened each time. The first time was in normal play, the second time I turned off all mods except New Threat and for the third time I uninstalled New Threat and reinstalled it.

Any ideas what I can do to get past this part?

I'll take a look at it and add a countermeasure or something.

Edit: Have updated the mod, I removed Marlene's movement in that part so she won't get stuck anymore.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99995)

« on: 2025-02-13 15:56:15 »

Hi,
quick question regarding New Threat 2.0 Combat Only compatibility with Shinra Archeology Cut Vanilla (retranslation only).
The stats of normal enemies seem to be in order but I noticed the Scorpion still being his vanilla self.
Is this a common problem?

In combat only, there are no field edits so the scorpion isn't able to reappear later so he's been put back to be more in line with his vanilla self. He should have a few extra attacks like W-Rifle and Shock but these aren't guaranteed to be used.

Thanks Sega, you are great. How can you know all this? Is there any program or any way to know what to play to be able to edit so many things?

With all this I'm ready for another run of FF VII, but I have one last question.

FF VII on Steam has the important bug of deleting your saves, which happened to me the first time I played on Steam and looking online you see that it is common. When I played it with NT I left backups after each session, but I never had to use them. Have you managed to solve the bug or should I continue with backup copies, just in case?

On Steam version, it seems to be something to do with cloud saves where they can sometimes disappear if the save files aren't stored locally. I'm unsure what causes that but it may be related to the below.

The other possible cause is that there's a checksum that Steam saves have where the launcher will check save files when it is opened and delete any that have an incorrect checksum (for instance, if someone sent you their save file and you put it into the steam save folder and then launched the game, the launcher would delete the foreign save file). This used to happen when editing save files as well but I think the save editor can bypass it now. The workaround is to move a save file into the folder when the launcher is running, then save the game to get it a correct checksum.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2025-02-11 14:53:46 »

Brilliant. I think that feature was missing the last time I played it (it was version 1.5). Or I don't remember. I like this feature so that the luck factor counts a little less. FF IV's 20% is exaggerated and makes the crit unnoticeable, I think the ideal balance is 50%.

I love FF VII but I like to give it a few years of rest between runs.

And can you do the same with elemental weaknesses?

#Elemental Damage Modifier: +50% Damage instead of 100%
5DB5E4 = E9 76 87 33 00 90 90
913D5F = 6B D2 03 D1 FA A1 0C CE 99 00 E9 7D 78 CC FF
#1DA9E4 = E9 76 87 33 00 90 90
#51275F = 6B D2 03 D1 FA A1 0C CE 99 00 E9 7D 78 CC FF

The lines starting with # are dormant addresses (game not running, for hard-patching an .exe) included just for reference. 7th would use the first two lines.

I'm curious about the 'additional modding'. How were you able to do it? Is there a public spec/FAQ on the components/modules containing materia info and dependencies?

Update: I've got Scarlet to work and (in combination with MateriaKeeper) some dedicated changes can be made. Nevertheless, it would still be nice to know how more tiers of stat bonuses could be added.

Update #2: Ok, now that I was able to get WallMarket running, I see that the materia tab has more than 16 possible 'Equip Effects' (going up to the offset FF), the ones after position 16 being empty. Since I couldn't get hold of the source code for WallMarket, I will have to speculate and hope, that the memory offset after pos 16 is not being used by other parts of the kernel and I can simply add some more materia modifier tiers (?)

I just meant like moving it somewhere else so that there's room to make additional equip effects. I think going past the 15h you're likely to run into data that's being used, but I can't remember I'm afraid. If it isn't being used then you could edit it to make additional equip effects.

Hi, these are quotes from page 465:


I'm having the same problem.  Just trying to play w/ "New Threat 2.0 Combat Only" and 60fps mod, but 7th Heaven won't allow the game to launch.  Just like the other person, it says "New Threat 2.0" is needed.  My goal is to play w/ Combat Only while using the new Shinra Archaeology translation. 

While 60fps isn't necessary, it would be wonderful to play the game w/ it along w/ Combat Only and new trans.  Anything you can do to help?  Thanks!

I'll DL the IRO and make a variant that checks for the CO ID instead as a temporary measure. I'll update this post in a bit with the link.

Edit: https://mega.nz/file/DtkQiQCb#8zSRk6Z5jgMVSIAk4XZbFf_qDYSzYegOKjWCT5umdQA
That's the 60fps NT compat IRO but I changed the ID needed to the NT 2.0 Combat Only IRO instead.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2025-01-26 16:03:24 »

Thank you so much. It works perfectly. Several times I had seen some things editable with HxH and since it came from number 007xxxxx I thought it was referring to 7thHeaven and that I couldn't. Now I know how to do it. Thanks again to you and postscriptthree.

PS: While we're at it, would you know how to make the critical and weakness deal 150% damage instead of 200%? It's a good way to make enemies more tanky without increasing health.

NT actually does this and has crit damage set at +50% instead of +100%; as Mav says, it needed some rewriting so I jump the function to an unused section and rewrite it there:

#Critical Hit Modifier: +50% Damage instead of +100%
5DE697 = E9 96 56 33 00
913D32 = 8B 55 F4 6B D2 03 D1 FA 89 55 F4 8B 45 F4 E9 57 A9 CC FF

These are the addresses when the game isn't running (for hard-patching rather than hext):
#1DDA97
#512732

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2025-01-24 18:06:27 »

1.) I was able to manually patch the ff7_en.exe with the MateriaKeeper v1.2 code cloned from your github. The patched FFNx runs just fine outside of 7th (via Steam). Now all the level 1 green materia add +10 instead +1 magic.

2.) My actual goal was to understand how I can patch the .exe so that I have, e.g. fire with +5 str, lightning +10 dex, ice +15 magic, shiva + 50 magic, ifrit +50 str etc.

thanks in advance

Ah I see; Materia doesn't have individual equip effects, they instead use a preset. In the tool, you'll see a list of 'tiers' on the right; these are the possible equip effects that are available (in vanilla game). To change the tier used by each Materia, you need a tool like Wall Market (I think the new Scarlet tool can also do it). But there are only about 15 tiers or so, which means you can't assign an individual equip effect to each materia without additional modding.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2025-01-22 12:59:04 »

hi there,

 similar to how it's been done in this mod, I would like to change some of the materia properties. I know that there is MateriaKeeper/GuardScorpion for changing whole groups of materia types, but I would want to modify each separately. Is there some FAQ/tutorial on how I could do that, either via hexEdit or code snippets with specific info/address (like the raw byte arrays in MateriaKeeper)?

thank you

This should be able to do it: https://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=18571.0

I think you'll need to output your changes as a hext file; hard-patching the .exe is no longer an option under 7th as it checks for a default .exe. You'll then need to unpack the NT IRO using 7th so that you can copy-paste the hext file's contents and overwrite my materia equip changes with yours. The section in my hext file is labelled:

Hi Sega, I would love to play your mod with an edition: limiting inventory. I would like to set the maximum number of each item to not be 99. I still don't know if it is 10, 30 or 50, to give importance to object and MP management (by having fewer potions). Would you know what to change in HxH?

I wouldn't know how to do that, I'm afraid, but it sounds like it should be possible. I'll pitch the idea to PostScriptThree; he's really good with this stuff.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-12-10 22:26:55 »

I've added some spreadsheets made by a user called Lumii which documents the equipment, materia, and secrets in a lot more detail; these can be found in the 2.0 Documentation download (the documentation folder contained within the installers doesn't contain these files yet).

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-10-28 17:11:45 »

random question, why cant i send a personal message to Sega Chief? Im new to this forum and everytime i click the link for sending a message i just get an error.

Hi Sega Chief, ive been playing your NT 2.0 mod for months and enjoy diving into all the intricacies the mod has done for the gameplay and i wanted to share some things with you if thats ok.

Let me know. Thank you

Ah hello, the forum is a bit old so it has some security stuff to protect it against bots. I think new members can't send DMs until they've made X amount of posts in the threads or something. When you unlock DMs by posting, feel free to send one.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-10-28 17:09:40 »

(Sorry for late replies)

Found a possible bug related to the mod.

In the temple of the ancients, when you go to the pink pool and see the flashback with Tseng and Elena. Dialog does not come up at all. You can advance the scene but no dialog shows up.

Ah yeah, that's to do with I think a graphical mod.

Hello! First of all I would like to say I really love this mod! I'm playing FFVII for the first time and thoroughly enjoying it. Thank you for the hard work!

Now my problem is: I can't find the Break materia. It says in the Items & Materia Placements document that I can either find it in Midgar Raid Train Tunnel or in Bone Village in disc 3. I've apparently missed it in Midgar, and am now in disc 3 looking all over for it. But I can't find it in Bone Village. I've dug everywhere where there is supposed to be treasure according to guides. I've tried digging randomly as well, but I got nothing.

I have a small suspicion it's a bug, because I found an extra copy of Bahamut Zero by digging, despite already having it. Maybe I was supposed to get the Break materia, but the game gave me the wrong materia?

Anyone have any idea if I'm missing something here?

I checked, it does seem to be there along with Bahamut ZERO and Phoenix; it seems to share the same dig location as the Dragoon Lance.

Hello, im new here running again ff7, im checking about "new threat 2.0 vanilla combat" from 7th heaven, got interested due to the changes mentioned in script and the posible change in the temple scene.
i got a couple of questions about it, where i can find a guide for it and if with the version im using ill get access to the mentioned before, since im not really interested in the rebalance part, just the changes and scenes added. i saw some comments about A and B option, but never saw such option, and also whats the difference between them.

Im a bit lost atm, thanks in advance.

I think vanilla combat doesn't have the Type A/Type B routes because of all the different encounters on Type B, so it just uses Type A I believe.

The Aeris thing at the end of Disc 1 is available on vanilla combat, but was modified to deal with the vanilla encounter; some dialogue appears after the battle to make the decision instead of it being done within the battle itself.

Hi all! I am new here, and just installed the mod yesterday from 7th Heaven launcher. Is the RNG for Yuffie still the same here? I have been trying to get her, and at Mt. Nibel now and she hasn't spawned yet. Thank you!

Yuffie joins in a mandatory cutscene in Kalm, if shes not there then something has gone very awry, or perhaps the mod was installed after this point.

Hey, I've got three questions:
1: which file you have to modify to change a character's innate? E.g. if I wanted to remove "deathblow" from Cloud's innate, or have Tifa "reanimate" with 100HP instead of 1HP.

2: is it possible to change weapon models? Let's say I wanted Cloud to use the Masamune model (Sephiroth's sword) for his Yoshiyuki weapon.

3: how do you change the placement of collectible Materia on the field? New Threat changes around some of the Materia, and Type B even adds completely new placements (like Counter Attack in the first reactor mission).

thank you for the amazing mod, btw. It's really nice to have a fresh experience for the game

Innates are unfortunately handled through Character AI in the Kernel.bin, the tool for which does not have a ready copy-paste function (unlike the scene.bin editor for enemies, which uses the same AI editor but with extra features like that). Changing them will be a case of copying all the values into notepad, deleting them, then manually readding the desired innate one value at a time.

Weapon models can be changed more easily but requires tools like Luksy's ULGP or similar; unpacking the battle.lgp and then renaming some files should do the trick. In this case, you want to make a copy of the file called SACK (this is Sephiroth's Masamune) and rename it to RTCK (cloud's buster sword). The files that go from RTCK to RTCZ are all of Cloud's weapons and can also be replaced in this way, just bear in mind that RTCZ, the Ultima Weapon, applies some hard-coded shading effects to represent its HP property; changing the damage formula in the Kernel.bin will not disable this shading filter.

For materia placements, you use the Makou Reactor tool; there are some steps. The first is to set a group for the materia, this is to store scripts and set a model + anim to. The 2nd is to set the scripts so that the materia model is placed on coordinates on the map, and handles the interact event of picking it up and acquiring it. You can generally copy a Materia's 'group' and paste it onto another field provided there are less than 16 model groups on it already, then update the values like Group Id, add a model, placement coordinates etc. as needed.

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Releases / Re: [FF8PC - Steam] New Threat Mod (v0.3)

« on: 2024-09-28 22:57:25 »

YOOO I look forward to it! I hope it goes easily and swiftly for you!

The new tools that have been made recently by people like hobbit are helping a lot.

if need any testers before release can let know

Yep, will do.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-09-28 19:54:38 »

just wanted to ask but has anyone gotten the game locked up when finishing up yuffie boss fight with her father for the conformer. cant for the life of me think of whats causing it.
p.s: im on 2.0 and with no other additional mods

I think people found a softlock there in the past but I wasn't able to replicate it; my guess is that it's to do with the dialogue boxes and the speed they're closed at. I tried it slow and fast but wasn't able to recreate it at the time.

I am playing FF7 NT 2.0 A for the first time, the latest version on 7th Heaven. What a treat!

However, I think something may be bugged with either the mod or my save.

I noticed twice now, during the Gi cave boss fight and after on another battle, when RED got KO'd, enemies could target him and attack him while dead. He takes damage wakes up for a second then dies again.

I am not sure if this is related either, but I feel suddenly my game got super easy, had to switch to hard mode for the first time and it was still very easy. I was around level 31 at Neibelheim mansion, and everything was dying super-fast. Red was hitting over 1K per Bolts 2. Cloud was hitting 500+ each hit with Mug and Extra Cut (whatever that materia is called). Barret was hitting everything for 500+ using his spread shot. Granted I had fire elemental on cloud and holy elemental on Barret. The safe boss got killed in a few turns. I had 2k HP so things were barely hitting me and barret has been tanking most of the stuff anyways.

The materia keeper barely got a chance to breath.

I just feel something is off. The mod was a bit challenging at first but recently it has been a super cake walk, and I am by all means a super casual player. I have not been grinding or anything, just fighting everything without running away.

Also, I was wondering if there could be an option to have a hard mode without 0 gil penalty? I feel that having to grind for gil does not make the game hard, but tedious. I havent had to grind for money yet, since I just switched to hard because the game got very easy. But I could see that happening in the future.

The Red XIII thing sounds odd; are there any other mods enabled?

Might be tied to the balancing issues as well if something has been changed or altered by something; one way to check is to use Sense on an enemy to check its HP and weaknesses. Try scanning a Grand Horn around the Gongaga area on the world map (non-forest area), it should have these attributes;
LV: 24
HP: 760
Weak to Pierce

If this info is different in any way, then something's affected the files.

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Edit: Thanks to C. D for the donation, much appreciated

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-09-20 13:10:20 »

Ok I found it, thanks!

Another thing, are there any plans to add Morph as Well from postscriptthree's tweaks somewhere in the game? (preferably in a revisitable place)

Not at the moment

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FF8 Tools / Re: [FF8Tools] Pandemona - m00x.bin file editor

« on: 2024-09-17 13:09:28 »

I wrote up some instructions on how to use this tool based on my understanding of it so far, hopefully this is of use to other potential users:

1) Replace the default files within InputFiles with your modded versions of those files (m000.bin, m000.msg, etc.) and then run the Pandemona.exe. You can get the m000.bin, etc. by using an archive tool such as Deling from the game's files.

You will only see an empty CMD window pop up briefly, there is no immediate visual feedback on the processes being undertaken; there is no GUI or editor interface, this step just produces the files that we will modify ourselves in a text editor.

2) The PandemonaFiles folder will now contain files with .pandemona; open these in Notepad++ or similar and edit them.

The Resources folder contains all IDs and item names for reference; refer to these when making changes within the pandemona files.

You can edit the text, values, and other information within these files but try to keep it the same structure so that the tool can read it, and keep the length of your edited text within reasonable limits.

Bear in mind that the game uses some special text characters to save space (for instance, 'into' will appear as '\ninto', try to preserve
these specially formatted characters if you can but I don't think it's critical to do so).

3) Once the edits are complete, run Pandemona.exe again. This will convert the .pandemona files into usable game files within the
Output folder. The .bin files are data, the .msg files are the text. Insert them back into the game using Deling or a similar archive manager.

The tool's general workflow is: Read InputFiles, produce 'Pandemona' files (to be edited in a text editor), create OutputFiles from the pandemona files.

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Releases / Re: [FF7PC-98/Steam] New Threat Mod (v2.0.99994)

« on: 2024-09-17 12:58:36 »

Hi, I can't find the Slash-All materia. The Item & Materia placements txt says "Slash-All - Great Glacier" and the only mention I see in the patch notes is in this line, from 2.0992

(I am running 2.09998 but there is no mention of further changes in Slash-All location after 2.0992)

But I can't find Slash-All in the hot spring, where is the hot water you touch so you can get Alexander materia (which is area 11 here). Slash-All is not in the place where a materia used to be either (the mountain trail that is northwest of area 10 in that link; it's Added Cut in OG FF7, but that screen no longer has any materia)

Anyone know where is Slash-All located?

I think it has to be a specific path, where the route has this shape: \ instead of: /
Image of the path here: https://i.imgur.com/SoJmX7x.png

This is accessed by a specific exit point on the mountain field, which I've marked in red; it's easy to miss as people will instead take the upper of the two paths shown on the left-side of the screen: https://i.imgur.com/yVgoMe0.png

I am trying out the New Threat 2.0 - Combat only with Echo-S to replay FF7 and really loving it.
But I have question, is the AP requirements 2.0 document not updated? Because most of the AP requirements seem different than in the game, and changing to NT 2.0 pure doesn't change them. For example in the document sense costs 5,000, but in-game it costs 80,000 to master. I just wanted you to know.

I have been cheking the documents a lot to change to NT 2.0 pure when there are different materia or items to pick up in the map, that is why I noticed them. I have also turned most of the readmes into spreadsheets to make it faster, and colored the enemies one to make it more readable, specially the statuses, to not waste them.

Also isn't Dex too generous? I got Yuffie to 255 Dex upon getting her, though it is very fun still.

Thank you a lot for the mod, specially the Materia stats and character differences, every character feeling the same was one of the worst things about the original for me, and I love the innates too.

It may be that Combat Only's AP requirements are different as I think I updated the AP in a patch to 2.0 after CO was made. I weighed Dex a bit less than the other stats so it's easier to get more of it; perhaps didn't weigh it heavily enough but if it's fun then that's all that matters.