Originally posted by kvg88:

Originally posted by Rhyagelle:

Amano drew amost everyone blond or changed their hairstyles most of the time. You can find images of Squall and Rinoa with bond hair. I don't mind too much, because it is Terra and she's life even with blond hair, but I do think it is cuter with green. Her father's hair is green-blue, and it adds character to her half-esper-human blood. <33



Your main.obb is not pure when you patched. Delete it entirely, redownload it and then apply the patch. If this file was even touched with the program before hand, it acts very funny and crashes.

I tried revalidating the file and it still crashed, but I just deleted the main.obb and am revalidating it again to see if it makes a difference. This time I will apply the patch before launching the game. I'll keep you posted! Thanks :)

Don't have FFVI open or the Tool when you are redownloading the new obb. When you are done, reopen FFVI_Explorer Tool and click "Open Archive" and reselect the new obb. And then manually apply the patch.

If you are using the .exe, same. Do not have the tool or FFVI open when you try to apply the patch to a brand new obb. :)

Amano drew amost everyone blond or changed their hairstyles most of the time. You can find images of Squall and Rinoa with bond hair. I don't mind too much, because it is Terra and she's life even with blond hair, but I do think it is cuter with green. Her father's hair is green-blue, and it adds character to her half-esper-human blood. <33

Originally posted by kvg88:

For some reason the mod is causing my FFVI to crash at launch :S

Your main.obb is not pure when you patched. Delete it entirely, redownload it and then apply the patch. If this file was even touched with the program before hand, it acts very funny and crashes.

Yay, alpha release! WHOO! Thanks for all the hard work cvg_esn23! :)

I made that thread by the way. If there is anything in there that's confusing still, just drop a comment or a message, and I can try and clear it up!

THIS POST WILL HAVE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO USE THE APPLICATION TO PATCH. NOT HOW TO MAKE THEM.

Let's say you downloaded a patch, .fep which is manual, meaning you need the tool or a slef-applying patch, which is an .exe. This one means you just run it and point it to your main.obb.

Method 1 will refer to manual, the .fep patch. Method 2 will refere to the automatic version, the exe patch.


First make sure your main.obb file is NEW. Untouched! Otherwise, it will crash! Delete it if you are not sure and then have Steam redownload it. A fresh obb will have a size of 721,835 kb. Now, right click and create a zip of it or copy and paste it elsewhere as a backup. So that we do not have to redownload it if something goes wrong.

Second PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT HAVE FFVI OPEN OR DUPLICATE EXPLORER TOOL OPEN.


With all of that done, download your .fep patch and place it inside of the FFVI_Explorer Tool folder or anywhere, I suppose.

Open your Explorer Tool and press OPEN ARCHIVE. Head over to the install directory of your FFVI folder, in Steam. Find your main.obb file at the root of the folder (right click and create archive for backup or copy and place it elsewhere) and then select it and press OPEN.

Now, in the Tool press PATCH and then OPEN PATCH. Locate where you saved your .fep patch. For the sake of the guide, let's call it FF6.fep. Click it and OPEN.

Now, in the Patch window, you will see a huge list of paths. To the left, you will see some in blue font and some in black. Those are the files being replaced in the obb. To the right, you will see the pathway to the patch content.

DO NOT TOUCH ANY OF THEM.

With that down, click the APPLY PATCH button above the list. It looks like this:

https://imgur.com/P0GWPvz

If it is greyed out, you forgot to select your main.obb in ARCHIVE tab. Please absolutely make sure you are selecting the obb in your install directory and that it is fresh! It will absolutely crash otherwise!

Now, click APPLY PATCH. A pop up will appear and ask if you want to patch and save to the main.obb. Click YES.

A new window like this will appear:

https://imgur.com/v2EUpAE

This is the progress bar. Wait for it to be done. It will look like this when it is finished patching and about to save (you will not get a "PATCH APPLIED" notification):

https://imgur.com/4yY8yog

Now close your Explorer Tool entirely and then go to Steam and launch from the library. You have patched your game! :)


This method is the easiest, and if the exe isn't broken or something, you literally just download it, open it and point it to the main.obb in your FFVI Steam install folder.

Make sure to run it as ADMIN just to be sure. And remember, NEVER patch an altered main.obb, or you will crash.

That's it! Enjoy your patched FFVI! :)

This is a thread to explain how to use the tool in full detail. Please give me a few minutes to set up reference images and paste the contents here. Withhold any questions until then, please! :)

Please keep in mind this is a guide on how to MAKE patches, not use them! I will post about that in a secondary post.


Before we start, you will need the latest version of the tool. You can find a quick link to the tool in the SECOND post below. The file is a .zip file, which means it will need to be extracted with 7zip or winrar.

Once you have extracted it, place it someplace easy to remember and access. I personally put mine in the FFVI Steam install directory, at the root, under a folder name "FFVI Tool". You can decide where, but I highly suggest Desktop or Documents at the very least!


With the contents of the tool extracted, our next step is to head over to the ROOT of the FFVI install directory. If you do not know what root means, it means the folder at the highest level of hierarchy belonging to FFVI's install. In "visible" examples, it means this:

C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Final Fantasy 6 (< root)
*where the main.obb and .dll files are located

Find the file called main.obb. Right click it and copy it. Next, go to the ROOT of the FFVI_Explorer Tool and paste the copy there. This is our fallback, so you don't have verify cache and download it should something go wrong.

Now, inside of the Tool folder, right click and launch the FFVI_Explorer as admin. You will see a clear, untouched window like this:

https://imgur.com/wTLrGCF

The first thing you want to do is press Open Archive.

https://imgur.com/uJLt0Lv

You will direct this toward the main.obb in the ROOT of your install location. Find it in this new window, click it and then confirm. When you have do so and done so properly, you see see a window like this:

https://imgur.com/Q6tI745



With the .obb file from your install open, it is time to start the patching. This is what you should be clicking:

https://imgur.com/8b1cT5J

Now you are in the PATCH window. Click NEW PATCH and then open a secondary browser window and locate your EDITED FILES (this means any sprites or graphics you changed).

What you need to do here is drag your edited files INTO the Patch window, which is this:

https://imgur.com/JFbejNp

NOW WAIT! Read this first before proceeding!

[CAUTION; please read this thoroughly!]

Something you need to know first before dragging any edited files in is that, as of as of v0.4b of the tool we're using, the files extracted from main.obb that turn out as filename.gz will absolutely NEED to be recompressed as .gz files before using in any patch. This means you can't extract .gz into bmps/tgas and throw those bmps and tgas into the patcher. They have to be recompressed as .gz files first!

However, .png files can be easily dragged into the window.

[/caution]

When you drag a file into the window, it will look very similar to this:

https://imgur.com/xv7TeOQ

For the sake of the guide, I used Terra's large Face Graphic, located in Graphic\Ui\Face_L inside of the main.obb. It is VERY important to remember the file locations of the files you are editing when found inside of the main.obb.

Why? Because, if you noticed to the LEFT of the above image, you see this:

https://imgur.com/go7SVWk

The location of the files within the main.obb is important because we need to fill that in where above the red line, where the picture says F_00000.png. You can easily do this by pressing the [....] to the right, which I boxed in blue for you.

If you press that [....] button, you get this window:

https://imgur.com/wePCA0v

In this window, you can scroll down and find the file you are editing and click it. Doing so will automatically fill in the "url" path of the file. Like so:

https://imgur.com/QqQKYNK


Once you do that, you will be presented at the left with a valid file path to the file inside of the .obb you are editing. It will look something like this:

https://imgur.com/C1mvQmH

Now, you can also just remember and type in the location, if you want. I find that easier than pressing that damn button and searching through that list you can't filter. lol what I did was have a third browser window open looking into an extracted COPY of the main.obb file someplace outside of the install location of FFVI. I used the path and just copied and pasted, replacing \ with / though, as the tool needs "/" instead.

That lefts us to the right of the window, with the button called "browse". Now, the file paths here only have to point to your EDITED files, not the files inside of the .obb. For example, in the above images, I had:

C:\Location to your files\Graphic\Ui\Face_L\F_00000.png

Obviously I can't help you with this part, as I have no idea where you might have stored your images.

However, when you have the location path url, what you want to do is make sure they are pointing (and there should be NO reason they aren't if you dragged them in unless you need to fix an oopsy or two manually) to your edited file.

Now you just need to repeat the last few steps for every file you dragged into the window until you have thrown in every edited file you have made.


When this is through, we just need to SAVE the patch.

You can do this by using these two buttons:

https://imgur.com/JZp1GqM

SAVE PATCH makes a manual patch, which means people who use it will need to have the FFVI_Explorer Tool to APPLY it with the APPLY PATCH button. It will create a file called .zeb.

Using SAVE SELF-APPLYING PATCH button though will create a .exe program that will automatically do it for people. Those who use this feature will just have to point the .exe to the main.obb in the FFVI install directory.

I HIGHLY advise saving patches in BOTH formats.

Now, if you are wishing to immediately test out your patch, all you have to do is click the "APPLY PATCH" button near the end of the button selections, just after CLOSE PATCH.

A process window will pop up and go through the motion. Once it is finished, it will say "Patch completed!". Press OK and go launch FFVI to test your mod!

That's it! You're done! YAY! :)

Photos;

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1295267020
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1295267041
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1295267062
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1295267093
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1295267125


If you got the end and your patch crashes on save, this means your main.obb file in the install directory got "broken" or was in the process of downloading fresh. NEVER start building a patch on an edited main.obb or when it is missing from the install directory. ALWAYS and I really do mean ALWAYS use a fresh main.obb file for patching!

If your patch saved and seemingly applied without error but launching your game crashes at any point, it means your FILE PATHS during the drag-and-correct process was messed up. It could be one, two, three or one hundred broken paths. Just go through your patch again by OPENING it via the PATCH menu again and make sure the paths all align.

That's it. If there are other errors, I haven't come across them yet. I'm willing to help beyond this point as best as I can thought! :)

That's it, go have fun you crazy kids you!

Originally posted by cvg_esn23:

hmmm i did all of that and it still crashed the game i wonder what is wrong perhaps i have an earlier version or something im using version 0.4a

Here is the version I am using;

https://ufile.io/18ilp

Just make sure you don't have an empty obb or the extracted contents of an obb in the FFVI install location.

Originally posted by cvg_esn23:

As far as the main obb and such im using a clean install.. After i make the patch i go to my gf computer with the game and try to patch her game..

She might have an edited or otherwise touched obb file. When I was testing, it would crash instantly or not work if the obb was touched whatsoever.

Oh! I just did it! Okay, give me a min and I will write up a tut!


GUIDE for PATCH Creation:

First, delete your .obb and the backup the Explorer made for you. For some reason, it will not work if you do not! With it deleted, have Steam redownload this file by verifying cache. It will download a nearly 600mb file. That's a fresh .obb file.

Now, go to your tool folder and delete everything inside and extract the tool fresh. This way it doesn't point to an incorrect place in the config, it will be as if you opened it for the very first time.

Now, reopen FFVI_Explorer and then click Open Archive. Navigate to Steam's root install directory for the game and select main.obb. Not a backup. It cannot be altered in ANY way or be smaller than fresh obb file size or it will crash or not work.

Once that's done, you will see a huge list of blue font. Next, click PATCH > NEW PATCH.

Now in a new seperate open file browser window, find your replacements. Wherever you stasahed your edited sources, be it Pictures or Desktop. Have this open so it is side-by-side of the FFVI_Explorer Tool.

For files as an example, I will use F_00000.png.

Drag the PNG over to the FFVI_Explorer window. Now, on the RIGHT box, click BROWSE (I marked it with BLUE) and locate EDITED PNG/FILES so that "URL" points to the edit filed correctly. I marked the correct URLs in the picture with a YELLOW highlight.*

It will look something like this:

https://imgur.com/Szu99Yb
*as you see by the highlighted yellow content, the location url to my edited face file was a folder I created inside the tool. Make sure yours points exactly to the locations of your edited sprites.


Now, on the LEFT box field, click "...." (I marked it with RED) and locate each file in the pop up list that comes up. This is to be sure the Explorer isn't messing anything up concerning the file name and location within the obb itself. It was the only way to get it to work in my experience.

Now, with the locations corrected, click SAVE PATCH or SAVE SELF-APPLYING PATCH. And then press APPLY PATCH. Wait for it to finish and test in game! :)

Double posts;

Originally posted by cvg_esn23:

im doing it correctly now right??? https://s26.postimg.org/7ljg9c9ll/example.png

I didn't see this, as I was writing the steps. Yea, it looks like you are doing what the README states. Huh.

EDIT

See below! I found the correct steps!

Originally posted by cvg_esn23:

hmmm im doing what was said in older walkthough how i have to rename everything on the left side so that inclubdes default directory and .dz at the end of the bmp... Do i also add .dz to the end of the portraits and such even though they are in png??

Okay, these are definitely the instructions:

Open the Explorer and make sure you aren't in modding mode. This means deleting .obb and restoring the original, which modding mode made as a backup in the root directory of FFVI's install directorycalled "main - Copy.obb".

Once you have the edited sprites readied and dragged into the box (as pngs, tgas but NOT .gz), press the little "...." to the right of the LEFT box field. Scroll through the list and find the file that you are replacing.

For example, replacing F_00000.png. So, after you found it in the list and selected it and pressed OK, go to the end of the file and add .gz at the end of the file.

So it reads like this:

Graphics/Ui/Face_L/F_00000.png.gz

Instead of:

Graphics/Ui/Face_L/F_00000.png

Next, I Save Patch and Save Self-Applying Patch.

Originally posted by kvg88:

Omg - the anticipation! :D

Yea, I'm just trying to figure out how to get the patcher to work to help cvg. I can get changes to work in modding mode, but obviously that isn't a patch. xD