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7th Heaven / Feature suggestion: Option to have "emergency save" save to slot 10

« on: 2020-08-14 14:58:59 »

Love 7th Heaven, amazing to see how far the mods have come since the last time I used it!  I've been playing through New Threat and having a blast.

The memory crashes are dissappointing, but made bearable by saving a lot and keeping the "save anywhere" option on.  After f***ing up a save by accident, I almost lost a ton of progress.  Left we no other option, I renamed an old "crash.ff7" save to "save09.ff7" so it'd just load it up into Slot 10.  And boom I restored 90% of my progress!  Now I keep a bat file in the save folder that deletes the old "save09.ff7" and renames the "crash.ff7" so that when the game crashes I can just run that quick (I often play via SteamLink, so having a quick option was helpful).

I've yet to have the Emergency Save cause any issues, it's saved my butt more than a few times now.  It seems to me like 7th Heaven should have an option to automatically save that "crash.ff7" file as "save09.ff7" instead, so it'd be even easier to get back into the game.  Or maybe that's the purview of the game driver, in which case 7thHeaven could look for "crash.ff7" and rename it to "save09.ff7" if it exists.

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7th Heaven / Re: 7th Heaven w/ Steam Overlay/Streaming/Controller

« on: 2016-05-23 13:09:29 »

I mentioned changing the Controller Configuration in the FF7 shortcut in the Steam Big Picture UI, but I think that's Steam Controller specific.

I don't know how the Shield handles inputs, so I'm just taking a guess in the dark here.  It's possible that your Shield is only sending X-Input (ie Xbox controller) signals and only supports games that directly allow this type of input.  X-Input is newer than FF7, so obviously FF7 doesn't support it.  In that case, you'll need something like xpadder to recognize and remap the X-Input signals your Shield sends to the keyboard signals you set up in the game.

I've used joy2key in the past and had good luck with it.  The name "xpadder" sounds like it's meant to handle remapping X-Input though, so you may have better luck there.

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7th Heaven / Re: 7th Heaven w/ Steam Overlay/Streaming/Controller

« on: 2016-05-20 13:24:54 »

Don't be scared to try running the patcher again. I was afraid it'd be like starting from square one, but your setup in 7th Heaven will be maintained.

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7th Heaven / Re: 7th Heaven w/ Steam Overlay/Streaming/Controller

« on: 2016-05-20 00:59:06 »

I assume it'd work.  I've had a couple issues where 7th Heaven won't launch the game (you hear the beep and get a black screen for half a second, but then it quits).  I think this happens if I switch from playing on my gaming laptop to running on the netbook. Rerunning the patcher seems to fix it though.

Also I'm not sure how the keybindings work for the Shield, but I had some issues binding my steam controller keys to regular keyboard keys.  It works great until you have to name someone.  For Steam Controller, I just quickly mapped the default keypad directions and select key all to the right touchpad to quickly get around it.  It'd be better to go back and just directly bind to the defaults though.

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7th Heaven / Re: Is this possible to use with Gamestreaming/Moonlight

« on: 2016-05-14 02:54:16 »

FYI I just posted a seperate topic on how to do this.

http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=16950.0

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7th Heaven / 7th Heaven w/ Steam Overlay/Streaming/Controller

« on: 2016-05-14 02:41:45 »

I like to play RPGs while I work out via Steam Streaming to a little netbook.

It took a bit of effort but I got 7th Heaven and modded FF7 running through Steam WITH the Overlay, Streaming, and Steam Controller support.  So I thought I'd share my success and method for anyone else trying to do the same.  (Note: I'm pretty certain that this DOES NOT enable achievements or anything else through Steam, but I didn't specifically check either.)

Obviously you should get 7th Heaven/Mods running locally without Steam first.

For Overlay/Streaming
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Then add BOTH the 7th Heaven exe and the correct FF7 exe for the mods you're running as Non-Steam Shortcuts.  Once you've done this, launch the 7th Heaven shortcut and click "Launch Game" and it should work like normal.  Steam will recognize that another exe launched and "switch over" to FF7 more or less seamlessly.  It's a little out of scope to talk about how to stream here, but it'll work the same as streaming anything else, just make sure you launch from the 7th Heaven shortcut.

For Steam Controller Support
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Once you have the above working, set up your controller mappings in the FF7 exe shortcut.  I found it easiest to start with the WASD/Mouse template to start. You can pretty much set it to any keys you want, just avoid using any X-Input bindings.  I made the grip button "Select" and "Cancel" and also setup "Ctrl + S" and Screenshots onto a touch menu for the left pad.  (If anyone's interested I can post the text from the config file)  The 7th Heaven shortcut should automatically use the default Desktop bindings, so you shouldn't need to touch it. 

Once you're in the game, bring up the Menu (using the default controls), go to Config -> Controls and remap all the hokey numpad controls to your controller.

Obviously for convenience it's best to set up the Steam Controller to keys that you could actually use with the Keyboard to play too, or you could map the numpad controls to the Steam Controller directly and avoid having to remap them in the game.