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Gaming Discussion / Re: Random Dual Orb 2 Notes...

« on: April 11, 2008, 04:38:31 PM »

Stuff like "updated first post with new info" is completely unnecessary.

On an unrelated note, a forum is a bad place to hold information.

I believe this to be true. I hope, for your sake and everybody else's that you are making copies of this info locally or somewhere else. If this board goes down, you may never see the info again.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: For the Dynasty/Samurai/whatever Warriors fans here.

« on: April 11, 2008, 04:36:17 PM »

Any idea what it's about? Or is it just an Xtreme Legends type expansion?

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Random Dual Orb 2 Notes...

« on: April 11, 2008, 02:05:51 PM »

There is absolutely no reason to have 6 consecutive posts like that, Deathlike. Next time, do edits.

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Game Modification Station / Re: FF6 misc ramblings

« on: April 09, 2008, 11:14:27 PM »

Try changing your check to FC 12 00 00 (if monster self is dead), then use the reviving with full HP so they are revived instantly. I'm pretty sure they won't blink then.....maybe.

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Game Modification Station / Re: FF6 misc ramblings

« on: April 09, 2008, 07:02:10 PM »

If possible, what would you put in the xxx spot? Or would you do the script in a different way? Other solutions?

FC 06 36 ??: If self has less or equal than ????? HP
XX XX XX XX: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
F8 00 81:    Add 1 to variable 00
FC 0D 00 ??: If variable 00 is more than or equal to ??
F5 0C 01 FF: Kill all monsters (boss death animation)
FE:          End

F5 00 03 xx - Restores monster's HP to full. XX are the monster numbers in bits, same as F5 0C 01 FF (you only care about the $3F though, since there's only 6 monsters). If xx is 0, self will probably be used, though I'm not sure.

Additionally, F5 00 00 xx - Monster's if dead or hidden, revive with full HP instantly. XX is the same as the previous examples. If this isn't what you are looking for, do some testing with command F5 to see what fits best.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Movies of playthrus

« on: April 08, 2008, 01:16:48 AM »

Ok, 4 movies will be posted sometime within the week. Two of Dynasty Warriors 6, two of Warriors Orochi. Both have a single player and multiplayer movie. All four combined are 1.6 gigs (all are 640x480 in reso, and have really good quality. not H.264 but at this rate who could tell?) The two DW6 movies will be about 750 megs in size (the smallest movie of all four is our DW6 multiplayer run).

Fair warning now, but they'll be up as soon as they are uploaded.

--Edit--
Both of us did our own encodings of the movies. He has access to the H.264, and we'll be doing quality comparisons, and whichever wins will be the ones you guys get.

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Pandora's Box / Re: Do you plan on releasing the hack in UPS format?

« on: April 02, 2008, 04:00:49 PM »

I don't know for certain. Although if things continue in the direction they do (people telling others how they should keep their roms), then I'm personally leaning towards "no." However, nothing is decided yet, and we'll see when the time comes.

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General Discussion / Re: The official "Happy Birthday" thread!

« on: April 01, 2008, 10:15:58 PM »

And now it's HHIPDragonFox day! Have a good one!

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Pandora's Box / Re: Videos

« on: April 01, 2008, 12:43:23 AM »

We roll in the new month with a new movie:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKptW7WKgfU[/youtube]

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Game Modification Station / Re: FF5: Adding the world map to player's inventory (event script?)

« on: March 31, 2008, 12:51:13 PM »

I was thinking this would be perfect at SRAM initialization. Finding it is another matter.

What programs are you guys using the trace down stuff like this?

Although it's not nearly as good as FCEUXDSP, I use Evil Peer's Snes9x tracer. It has a couple major flaws to it (including rom corruption), severe limitations in ram freezing, and the emulation core being out of date (I think FCEUXDSP suffers from that, too). One day, I hope for an actual debugger for the SNES...

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Convince Me To Play Your Hack

« on: March 29, 2008, 03:32:50 PM »

Demonic Pandemonium. Simply put, FF2 is playable with this patch.

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General Discussion / Re: Wrote the expression parser last night.

« on: March 27, 2008, 09:21:50 PM »

I'm more wondering what that post was about in the first place. Give explanation! Or I may send the after you...

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Game Modification Station / Re: Anchors Aweigh patch (simple) question

« on: March 27, 2008, 07:29:27 PM »

Seeing as though Deathlike2 didn't read the readme () I'll fill you in.

When a target under the influence of Air Anchor experiences a regen, seizure,
or poison "tick" (healing or taking damage) it counts as movement. Sure enough,
the target dies immediately after the damage.

Beware Banon, he's out to get you.

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Game Modification Station / Re: FF6 misc ramblings

« on: March 24, 2008, 11:57:36 PM »

There's a whole bunch of descriptions starting at ED/6400. Items, spells, lores, and blitzes are here. The pointers for them are after the descriptions themselves. The SwdTech and Blitz descriptions are at CF/FC00, with the pointers starting at CF/FF9E. You'll need a table file (ZD has them, so does Lord J's site), and a competent hex editor. I suggest WindHex32. One of a few flaws it has is lack of smart DTE typing. That's ok though, the descriptions can't use DTE so that won't be a worry. One thing that is a worry though, is that I think all of these pointers are relative (though whoever coded bank C3 made it easy enough to change to absolute, but that's another subject).

Now, for these addresses I gave. I'm almost certain this will confuse you, since it's "teh assembly." It's really a lot more simple than some (including myself many moons ago) make it out to be. To get to a file address, you need to figure out what the CPU address (ED/6400, etc) is using. There are two "types," both dubbed by the community, but in reality I don't think they have names. They are LoROM, and HiROM. LoROM is basically like an extended NES in terms of mapping and addressing, with some optimizations. This is a gross generalization, and I know there are better descriptions. FF6, however, uses HiROM, which for all intents and purposes is much simpler. To calculate file address, take the CPU address and subtract 0xC00000 from it. Example: ED/6400 - C0/0000 = 0x2D6400. There's one other factor though, and that's the header. If your rom has a header (it'll likely be 0x200 bytes of many zeros), then you need to add 0x200 to that result to get to your file address.

Another alternative you can consider is this. The next official version of FF3usME will have support for editing these descriptions. If you wish, you can wait until that's out, whenever that may be. However, if you wish to explore this option, we'll be here to give some help and advise. If you need some clarification on anything, feel free to ask.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: "Heal/Medicine" Command

« on: March 24, 2008, 01:56:51 PM »

I gotta say, nice job on that patch.