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Archive / Re: Item Editing

« on: 2008-01-23 17:02:23 »

I had the same question only just recently.  I received my answer here in this thread.  I'll admit it is an annoying endeavor, as you have to unpack files before you can edit them, but the end results I think are worth it.  I ended up making the Enhance Blade have triple growth, but a really weak attack (like only 2 or something), so I thought it was a nice tradeoff.  Follow this link and in that thread you'll find the links to modify weapons.  If you have any other questions, let me know and I'll see what I can do for you.

http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=7229.0

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Archive / Re: Item Stat Editing

« on: 2007-12-20 04:42:55 »

You know, it's always the simplest things that we overlook.  That was the problem.  When I was moving files around in the folder, I didn't notice that the kernel.bin was still there once the file was decrypted, so that was indeed why it was crashing.  But I had my first successful weapon mod that I was able to encrypt back into the kernel.bin.  Thanks for your help, I do appreciate it.

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Archive / Re: Item Stat Editing

« on: 2007-12-20 04:13:01 »

Yeah, I got back-ups of the files.  I'll try it and see what I come up with.  I don't know if there will be a difference.  If you change the values in the kernel do you need to edit something else to bring a check-sum value back to normal?  I was wondering if maybe that was my problem.  Do these files even have check-sums?

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Archive / Re: Noob Friendly FFVII Modding Tutorials

« on: 2007-12-19 01:55:01 »

both files are broken links.  They both say file not found.

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Archive / Re: Item Stat Editing

« on: 2007-12-17 04:32:30 »

I got the decompression to work and edited Kernel bins 5 and 6 (weapons and armor).  But I had some issues with trying to compress the files once again.  The first time I tried, I found that it would crash the command prompt because the Kernel.bin was in the folder in a Read-Only state.  So I tried removing the file (Kernel.bin) from the folder and when I ran the ff7dec e kernel.bin, it created a file that was only 1 kb long.  So I tried the same thing, but with having the Kernel.bin in the folder and not set as read-only, only to have the same thing happen.  Do you know what I'm doing wrong that is causing the program to not actually compress the files?  I haven't renamed any of them, so it should have any problem knowing which files to compress.  I'm at a loss.

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Archive / Re: Item Stat Editing

« on: 2007-12-13 02:25:45 »

Do you know how I decompress the kernel?  If I simply open it in a hex editor, none of the values match the wiki information.  I'm at a loss otherwise.

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FF7 Tools / Re: Yet Another Multi-Patcher

« on: 2007-12-12 22:13:56 »

That did it.  Thanks for your help.  I really hate Vista.

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FF7 Tools / Re: Yet Another Multi-Patcher

« on: 2007-12-12 02:52:02 »

What files exactly do your patches modify?  Rather than trying to screw with Vista and figure out how to hack into all the stuff I know will only destroy my computer, I was going to simply copy the files onto a flash drive and try to apply the patches on my laptop (which runs XP).  Is it possible to just modify one or two files or should I completely copy the Final Fantasy VII folder, apply patches, then return the files to my main computer?  Is this even a feasible option?

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FF7 Tools / Re: Yet Another Multi-Patcher

« on: 2007-12-11 22:27:17 »

I'm running Vista, which requires me to give authorization/access for just about everything.  Is that why I can get it to work?

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FF7 Tools / Re: Yet Another Multi-Patcher

« on: 2007-12-11 20:51:49 »

I'm having issues trying to get several of these patches to work.  I have the patches I want in the "Patches" folder and I have the install.bat and the skerb.ex_ in the final fantasy vii folder.  When I try to run the installer, it comes up saying:

Final Fantasy VII Skerb's Patch Installer...

Access is denied.
Access is denied.
Access is denied.
Access is denied.
Applying Patch: CSith
Access is denied.
Access is denied.
Access is denied.
Access is denied.
Could Not Find C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\temp.bat
Could Not Find C:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\patches\CSith.bat
Access is denied.
Access is denied.
Something's gone wrong... dunno what...
Sorry, no patching today.
Press any key to continue . . .

So I have no idea what I need to do to get this to work.  I'm not sure why I'm missing the temp.bat or the other .bat files.  I did a full install and it didn't work, so I tried it again and I yield the same results.  If anyone could help, I'd really appreciate it.  Thanks.

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Archive / Item Stat Editing

« on: 2007-12-11 20:22:54 »

I'm in the process of making a simple mod, nothing fancy; no graphical upgrades or new monsters.  All I've done so far increase the amount of AP monsters give you so you don't have to spend hours leveling up materia.  I was curious if anyone knew how to edit Weapon/Item stats (i.e. Materia growth, Attack, Hit Percentage, etc.) and if anyone knew how to change the number of slots available on any particular weapon.  I've done some searching, but to no avail, for an editor or for some information on weapons and items.  If anyone has any research or infomation on this, please let me know.  Thanks.

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Releases / Re: NPC Reconstruction Project

« on: 2006-05-18 06:10:35 »

Alright, I got it working.  The problem was I didn't have FF7 in the Program Files\Squaresoft, Inc\etc, I had it in a different file, so the world_us.lgp wasn't getting modified.  I had to reinstall it into the proper folder (rather than changing all the shortcuts and what not).  It works and looks fantastic!  Excellent job, I look forward to future updates!

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Releases / Re: NPC Reconstruction Project

« on: 2006-05-16 05:25:13 »

I need some help 

I've tried using the v.5 patch and I can get it to work, but when I run the game, only the overworld map sprite changes.  When I'm in a town or the airship, the sprites are still the old ones.  I followed the directions as best I could.  What am I doing wroing?