Author Topic: Are there any PC Gameshark's (or similiar programs..) (Read 4100 times)

protoss1210 · « **on:** 2005-12-18 00:49:56 »

Hello, I am trying to locate some sort of gameshark to edit FF8 PC so i can view the debug mode. I did it quite easily with PSX FF8 via Gameshark, but sadly i cant seem to find any type of program to use for the PC. Another thing i want to try out is Enemy Control. (Having enemies in your party) http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/psx/file/final_fantasy_viii_enemy_control.txt
Any information would be great, thanks for your time.

L. Spiro · « **Reply #1 on:** 2005-12-18 01:22:01 »

http://www.memoryhacking.com/

However you are going to find that the addresses in your GameShark do not work on computers.

L. Spiro

protoss1210 · « **Reply #2 on:** 2005-12-18 02:20:52 »

Wow, thats a great program, very powerful, yet also confusing

But its stiill great. I was able to find the Item's area so you can edit your items in the Hex Editor, but sadly thats the only place i know of. I got the value [01CFE885] from http://www.gscentral.com
I have no idea how i could find values other than being given them. Any ideas?

L. Spiro · « **Reply #3 on:** 2005-12-18 03:28:22 »

You do searches.

0-255 = byte.
0-65,535 = unsigned short.
0-4,294,967,295 = unsigned long.

The first search will find all values matching your criteria.
Then go to the game, change the value, and use a sub search.

So if my HP is 1,025, I search for a short with an exact value of 1,025.
Then I give myself a Potion and do a sub search for values of exact value 1,075.

L. Spiro

Caddberry · « **Reply #4 on:** 2005-12-22 00:46:43 »

If you use a PS emulator to run the PSX version of FF8 you can use a program called PEC (I think) and that allows you to input GSC without trouble.. It's a program that adds into the plugins of your emulator.. I used it with Epsxe..

protoss1210 · « **Reply #5 on:** 2005-12-23 20:24:17 »

I heard about PEC, and i downloaded it, but i dont have FF8 Roms, only the PC version, so i know without roms an emulator would do nothing.

Caddberry · « **Reply #6 on:** 2005-12-24 03:05:36 »

Quote from: protoss1210

I heard about PEC, and i downloaded it, but i dont have FF8 Roms, only the PC version, so i know without roms an emulator would do nothing.

Yeah.. You are very right.. It won't do anything at all.. But that's the only way I know of to make the GSC's work on a PC playing FF8 .. Granted it's not the PC version though.. LoL

Honestly, your only other option is to go the route that Sprio was sending you in.. You'd have to do value searches, and hope that you came up with something..

Putting enemies into your party with this method however, I think would be a long shot.. I wouldn't have a clue as to what values you'd even search for to control the party members, nor do I believe anyone else would either, but I could be wrong.

The only thing I used to play with the PC version of FF8 were Qhimm's programs.. Maybe a few others I messed with, but Qhimm's programs were the best, and that's why I'm still here to this day.

If you do find something, let us know.. I'm also sure that if anyone knows of any way to do this, they'd tell you here.

Good luck!

protoss1210 · « **Reply #7 on:** 2005-12-28 18:48:00 »

heh, thx. But the only way I can think of is first finding the values of characters in your party. Testing for a value when you switch characters in your party, but that may only work for real characters. And the value to use.....well, thats another story. I could think of the enable character value, which could be tested be checking if a character is available or not, but that probably wouldnt help much to put enemies into those values in memory. Hmm...