Great! Added to the FFVI Mod Index.

Originally posted by TiresomeTeddybear:

Sure, that's fine. I made the FEP and EXE separate b/c I thought someone would take issue with downloading both an FEP and EXE in the same package. And yes, you definitely helped! You're in the readme credits. :)

Yeah I was thinking the same thing, and maybe you are right that we should package the EXE and FEP seperate, but just for the sake of conformity for now it would be great to have one download. Glad that it helped, and thanks for the credit :D

Awesome work TiresomeTeddybear. Did the steps I send you help you with that patching issue you were having or was it something else?

If it isn't too big of an issue, could you package both the EXE and the FEP in a zip with maybe a readme of your own. That way I can add only one download to the guide rather than two. Thanks!

Originally posted by ValhallasAshes:

Why on earth would a mod show up in taskmanager.

I understand you are trying to help, but you obviously haven't modded the game yourself with the executables if you don't understand why the modding process can be hung up. Every mod has been tested, so there wasn't a point in asking which one, especially given the fact that he was talking about all mods not working.

The FFVI Explore Tool provides EXEs as auto patching utilities that patch the main.obb. So the EXEs are not part of the game itself, which is why it is an external process.

Please attempt to mod the game yourself and familiarize yourself with the tools and the mods beforehand, since you're more than likely only going to confuse someone trying to resolve their issue.

Otherwise, your advice is spot on about being specific though, but in this case, even his very vague description was enough because all of the EXEs that wouldn't work are all created using the same tool.

Originally posted by Azurfel:

On a related note, do the current tools allow for the replacement of backgrounds?

Yep thankfully. Running the older backgrounds in an upscaler like Waifu2x was an idea of mine as well, just to see what they would like and how they compare with the new backgrounds.

Ok, when creating the patch, do the following:

• Make sure your main.obb is untouched and not in modding mode (is greater than 0 kb).
  
• Open FFVI Explore and go to the Patch tab.
  
• Drag and drop the tga/png/bmp (not the gz) files that you would like to include in the patch.
  
• In the left column rename the path from "mon128.tga" to "battle/monster/mon128.tga.gz" as an example.
  
• Create the self-applying EXE.

I had a crashing issue as well, since I was trying to drag and drop the gz and not the image itself, so FFVI Explore would wrap my gz into another gz automatically.

Nyxo will workaround that potential problem with a future version, to allow either file to be copied (the image or the gz).

Originally posted by StatTrak™ F. New GabeN | Brick:

I really do think it might be a specific problem with certain Windows 10 users.

Hmm, strange. I'm not having that problem with WIndows 10 myself. Well, if you want, you can convert the EXE's to FEP's using FFVI Explore. Then you can just apply the FEP patch using FFVI Explore rather than using the EXE. That should at least get you modded.

Originally posted by pluckylump:

Although, perhaps the game could be coerces into loading alternate sprite sheets for status effects. Mog and Umaru both use alternative sprite sheets rather than palette color swapping.

That would be nice, since you wouldn't be forced to add borders anymore, except on the status effect sheets.

Originally posted by pluckylump:

If he gets all that straightened out, I'd like to give the UI a once over to make it look cleaner. Get rid of all those hideous beveled edges.

That sounds awesome.

Originally posted by pluckylump:

It's probably going to be stuck at 256 color for the characters. The game uses the indexed color palette to swap in other colors for various gameplay effects, most notably status effects.

So, what Nyxo is working on, is the ability to use more pixels, rather than more colors? That would make sense since it upscales all of the sprites anyways. So rather than being forced to upscale everything, you may as well use the upscaled resolution directly.

Originally posted by StatTrak™ F. New GabeN | Brick:

That was the first thing I tried, now I cant even minimize windows explorer, I have to restart explorer through task manager.

You don't minimize Windows Explorerer. Do you mean a window that you have opened? After restarting your computer, do you still have the problem?