Originally posted by madsiur:

All this can easily be modified with a hex editor once you know what to modify and where. I'll stat putting up a hex modding document tomorrow with the rest of the tests mentionned above.

Yep, I tested enemy (and player) stats and AI as well a couple weeks back. So I already confirmed those two. Chest contents and monster-in-a-box triggers I also can confirm, as well as moving the chest around the map - I can't fully confirm that maps as a whole are constructed based on the ROM, but the fact I moved around a chest suggests that the actors themselves at the very least are pulled from the ROM.

I'd say it is pretty clear the ROM is used for virtually everything at this point. Only a few overhead things used by the new engine aren't relying on it.

Originally posted by Nyxo:

As a note, madsiur's friend invite arrived for me just fine.

Yeah, I highly suspect that the game is just using the rom.bin as a "super-database"-- that is, for all of the information used by the game, such as items, monsters, town layouts, AI scripts, and how they all relate; plus lots of other data that isn't actual executing code. Minus, of course, the graphics and audio, as those are external to the rom.bin, at least as used by the .exe.

I'd say it's not a suspicion so much as a fact at this point. While a few things still need to be checked out, everything I've tested so far seems to indicate that this is exactly the case. It's an interesting setup, to say the least.

Originally posted by madsiur:

Hello,

So I guess this is the main thread? :)

I've been following this since the end of November and I'm quite surprise of the progress made so far, especially with Nyxo's extractor. I'd like to soon jump on the train too but my forces are more data finding and coding. I've been modding FF6 on SNES and GBA since 2011. I have not a complete mod finished but I coded and editor for the GBA version and currently developping (well on and off) a editor for the SNES version that will allow various expansions.

If you want, send me a friend request sometime, I'll see what I can do to help get you started. You might be surprised how useful your current research will prove to be on this.

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Originally posted by chrcoluk:

Yeah the CT that SNSD refers to i far from simple, is full of "no description" blank boxes and a vaugue "enable 6" and "enable 0", it needs a guide of its own.

ticking enable 6 then unticking again causes the game to crash.

Clearly a patch for this would be vastly superior.

One of the plans I had from well before LR released, was to do a garb assortment mod where they all had unlocked skills, and maybe some others with switched around stats to allow for more variety in your appearance. I haven't started work on it yet though, there's so much I have to do as it is lately, and I don't like half-assing anything so.. yeah. But It's not a bad request is what I'm getting at.

Originally posted by SNSD:

That makes sense. I should stop being selfish and think before commenting.

You're too nice to be selfish.

Originally posted by Fausk:

I think the issue is more that this is a modding community, and utilizing cheat engine isn't particularly modding. So, basically, suggesting that people not request mods because there is a simple to use cheat table for the thing that they're asking for, feels against the spirit of the community, in my own personal opinion.

It's a grey-area, CE can allow for soft-modding, whereas in the community we mostly focus on hard-mods. That said, I mostly agree with this sentiment. While I am not going to fulfill every request as that's unreasonable to ask of me, I'll do what I can with the best ideas I see - and as such it's kind of unfair to undermine someones request by saying "use cheat engine", particularly so if you don't elaborate further into the how of it.

We're a modding community, we should be helping each other.

Originally posted by SNSD:

Hmm I personally think that making a mod that does something cheat engine can't is better (like the cheat table can't make your game uses Console Buttons Prompts). Changing garb locked ability is imo cheating so it falls into cheat engine category, while mods like CBP and XIII-2's monsters, console content patch, etc aren't cheating, but adding something extra to the game.

But of course, this is just my humble opinion haha. I respect your opinions too xD.

They're both viable, soft-mods with CE are cool at times, especially when you don't want to permanently change something in your game. The Thirteenth Ark for example, affects memory in realtime as opposed to being a hard mod. (As there's no available API for direct text input in LR, and on consoles it relied on the OS to input text there as well..)

It depends on the situation and what makes the most sense. But overall I don't think anyone here should just go "use cheat engine" if they don't like the request, it's kind of rude in my opinion. At the very least, it'd be nicer to explain to them that there's a cheat table or something that handles it already and direct them to google or something.

Originally posted by ProtomanZxAdvent:

Stone \ Stonera \ Stonega i might do but if i change ice to blizzard as well as bolt to thunder it takes my consept of what im trying to due and ruins my entire thing. i dont like copying off of other mods becuase it then its nothing original and its just another copy and paste contraversy which i dont need on my mind. i dont wanna change cometeo to meteor due to the fact in the game the black matira is already meteor comming to destroy the planet.

I understand what you're saying, don't get me wrong. I'm not suggesting you should copy someone else's work, and ultimately I am not trying to stifle your creative vision either, just sharing my opinion. Thunder, Blizzard, and Stone are the officially translated spell names and have been for many years now, that's mostly what Scarlet and I were getting at - she and i are kind of sticklers for consistency. Heh.

Also as for Cometeo.. Could do Meteorite, which is consistent with the lore, as a Meteorite is a much smaller Meteor - it's also classed as its own spell in other FF's as a bonus. Alternatively if you wanted to go completely unique.. I might suggest Bolide, which is another word for a Meteor.

Originally posted by Scarlet Crusade:

Removed Weapon Edits

What does that mean?

Ice, Icera, Icega
Bolt, Boltra, Boltga

Not Blizzard/Thunder? Also lol at Cometeo.

Also it should be Stone \ Stonera \ Stonega, not Quake \ Quakra \ Quakga.. As Quake is Ancient Magic, and Stone is the normal elemental tier line of earth magic.

If you decide to take a serious go at it and get the help you need, I'll gladly provide what support I can in aiding the endeavor.