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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF4 Algo - Input Requested

« on: December 08, 2008, 05:05:30 PM »

Noone has any comments? Argh. With my Ogre Battle guide being updated, I will get started on filling in what I said I would add to it...

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Ogre Battle FAQ

« on: December 08, 2008, 05:04:28 PM »

I've posted a major update on this guide... it'll receive an update or two, but those are for minor things.

Here's a copy of a small revision...

Assuming someone wants to proofread or ask questions... you'll get credit. I had forgotten how big this guide was when I first posted it (which is in a zip file for this very reason).

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General Discussion / Re: Gamefaqs + eternal stupidity

« on: December 07, 2008, 12:11:41 PM »

Have you ever had those days where you try to explain stuff to other people and they don't grasp the basics? Arggghhhhhh 

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF4 Algo - Input Requested

« on: December 01, 2008, 05:35:09 PM »

It has now been posted - http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/snes/file/588330/54945

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Gaming Discussion / Re: FF4... Heh

« on: December 01, 2008, 01:38:26 PM »

Are you somehow reviving Zeromus after having killed him? That's basing it off of the second picture.

Absolutely not.

In the first, it's strange that four of your party members are in the "Swooned" position, but have lots of HP still.

~DS

That has to do with the ATB bugs and updating (either that or emulator timing, but I definately suspect the former because FF4 is buggy in its own way).

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: Writing a FF2/4/4ET/A Document/FAQ

« on: November 30, 2008, 10:57:12 AM »

Blind affects Aim in FF4a

That isn't really a bug.. it's designed behavior. If Bows+Arrows didn't have the back row bit, you would see this behavior in the original game as well. Anyways, you aren't supposed to hit 100% if you're Blind anyways.

Count kills the game instead of the monster it's supposed to

Well, it's specific to what commands you use..

Elemental change from lightning to holy doesn't work

Actually, that does work.. it's just that the lightning weakness is not removed. That's why it's documented that Lightning works well vs Barbariccia in FF4, but not in FF4A.

Enemy Yang misses high defense characters?

Not really a bug, but an intended consequence of how Kick dealt damage. It doesn't really matter what side Yang's on, but Kick would do the same in FF4 (there's just no 254 defense enemy other than Zemus's Mind to expose this behavior... Flan monsters are immune to the attack to begin with by design).

FF4a 1.0 unused weapon properties

I'd call it borkage...

FF4a forces Quake to target enemies while confused

I think the correct term is "Forgets to Retarget".. not "Forces".

Gird can be reflected in FF4a

I don't think that's a bug because it's using the spell data, which allows reflects spells to do that.

Group counters don't always work

IIRC, it is specific to summons.

Heal command uses your last potion and fails

Wow, I missed reading that.

Recall isn't magical in the SNES versions?

I think it has more to do with counter scripts vs magic.

Reflect doesn't trigger counters

Same as above.

Oversights:

Twin oddities I wouldn't consider bugs, since they will never occur in an unmodified game

Well, I did finally figure out who's Wisdom stat gets used from out of it.

And hey, if you want to cover the DS version this time:

Equipment stat modification order screws you out of bonuses

I'm still waiting for Gamefaqs to post my FAQ in the first place. I don't see a reason to list DS bugs unless my Algo FAQ even remotely covers how FF4DS handles things.

I think the major "Avenger Sword bugs" were MIA here...

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF4A - Where'd all the extra room go? (Newbie Complaints/Question)

« on: November 29, 2008, 11:21:45 PM »

I'm not sure if you can make better progress there, but there are a few issues (I could be wrong).

There are some cheats for the game to manipulate the spell lists, which sounds nice, except that monster spells cannot be used.. (they must've been recoded with special checks or something).

If anything, you will probably have to do a lot of work to get a "special spell list" available and working.

Oh, and one other thing. I would suggest you work on the Euro version of the game instead of the US... if only to avoid all the evil bugs that exists.

Here's my link to the source: http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/file/929937/41243

-Rydia is the only one that can use summons.  Enemy abilities don't work at
 all unlike the SNES version.  White and Black magic can be swapped, meaning
 Black can be in a White magic menu and vice versa.  Same thing goes with
 Twin and Ninja Magic (Now the casting time for "Twin" magic doesn't have to be
 so attrocious, just hack it into their menu and the casting time will be a lot
 shorter).

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: Writing a FF2/4/4ET/A Document/FAQ

« on: November 29, 2008, 09:03:15 AM »

If you want, start compiling all the stuff (you can do that with links if that's easier) that's been mentioned/posted here so I can start on it at some point. Right now, I'm currently interested in rewriting my first guide (Ogre Battle FAQ) that sorely needs an update since I've learned a lot of new stuff since I last checked.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF4A - Where'd all the extra room go? (Newbie Complaints/Question)

« on: November 28, 2008, 09:25:46 PM »

If you remembered any of the prior discussion revolving around this, the battle menu is not exclusively connected to the out-of-battle spell menus.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF4A - Gorgon Blade Info

« on: November 28, 2008, 05:41:27 PM »

Since inflicting a status is based on hit rate, it shouldn't actually be a surprise that this weapon is not that good at it.

Tthe other weapons that would not produce a 99% hit rate are the Poison Axe, the "original" Assassin Dagger, and most of Rydia's Whips. The Fairy Claw isn't really considered here because you will have another high hit rate claw to improve the overall hit rate.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: Writing a FF2/4/4ET/A Document/FAQ

« on: November 28, 2008, 05:08:01 PM »

Small 

My guide's still in the queue, but I was wondering what should be done next..

The item guide (should that even be part of the Algo FAQ?) or the bugs guide (should that even be part of the Algo FAQ?)

The item guide should pretty much be straight forward and simple, but the bugs guide might be a bit more flimsy than what the two bug threads may indicate, since there are many many many (not enough manys to my liking) bugs that have been properly catalogued.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF4A - Where'd all the extra room go? (Newbie Complaints/Question)

« on: November 27, 2008, 06:44:18 PM »

That shouldn't be surprising... 

I'd say the whole point of expanding the damn tables is for hacking.. if not for future FF4 ports or "expansion mods" or whatever...

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF4A - Where'd all the extra room go? (Newbie Complaints/Question)

« on: November 27, 2008, 05:25:12 PM »

Here's another way of analyzing what you found.

Those changes you mention are probably part of how the GBA port addresses "learning duplicate spells".. if you were to change a character's level (with a cheat device), you could "relearn" those spells... in the SNES version, this would turn up as duplicate spell entries in the spell list, whereas in FF4A, that doesn't occur.

I'm sure someone could've written that better though.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: FF4... Heh

« on: November 27, 2008, 08:43:23 AM »

The hint is in the action, relative to the timing of it.

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General Discussion / Re: Thanksgiving

« on: November 27, 2008, 08:42:37 AM »

They must have been too busy swooning over Terra's MMMMMMMMMMAGIC?!

You know, it'll be a sad day when that ZSNES issue that causes their heads to fall off during that scene is fixed...

</completely unrelated>

That's been fixed... though that hasn't been released yet.

You've seen it before:


OMG, no HAX!