I downloaded this, but don't see any batch files for the hard mode stuff- hp/atb/etc.

Looks pretty interesting man.

Interesting, I'll test tomorrow as well.
But according to wiki, Cold Blood works just like Ao1 in that each hit is calculated separately.
I'll need to look into this myself too.
There's a few skills I came across that I wanna test too

Vespid Soldier - Cyclone

Ushmigal Interceptor thingydude
has some lazers and other stuff

Kalavinka Striker - Hellstorm bolt

bartandelus 1 - baptism in ruin , Destrudo

Cid - Seraphic Ray

Will letcha know

EDIT:

Tested all of these, and while they show up, they aren't selectable.

Also
Gave snow Ao1 and ColdBlood,
since they rely on each "hit"
Snow's sovereign fist only ends up hitting 1 time

EDIT 2:
I think I found what was meant to be the player version of Ultima:
ms900_00
It has no name in the ability list, is Commando Only, is selectable, and when used in battle:

Snow throws what seems to be a ruin into the ground, big dome appears dealing somewhat small damage, then it explodes in a massive explosion. The dome looked just like Shaolong Gui Ultima, but the explosion seemed to be on a lesser scale, so possibly Ruinja and not Ultima, but its still very powerful and cool


With 500 mag, this ended up dealing over 6k damage though its damage is random. one time it hit for 300, another 1500, but usually got 6000+ on at least 1 of them.
this way outdamaged my ruinga.
AI will not select it though.

this was against pulsework knights in the 5th ark.

EDIT 3:
Found 2 more "Dummied" skills
ms600_00
ms700_00
These have no names, but show in ability list.
However only 1 entry shows in the list, but both skills are selectable in battle.
ms600 throws black smoke on enemy, and has a chance to inflict DeBrave
ms700 does the same, but inflicts DeFaith.
These are locked to the Commando Role, and seem to be removed from the sabateur/jammer roles.
They also deal very small damage.

yeah, i have a list, i didn't finish all the eidolon skills yet, but it seems all the "attack" skills are broken

1). they show up
2). selectable,
but when executing, the character (sazh in my case) just runs up, and nothing happens.

These are like:
s101_at010_00
s101_at020_00
s101_at030_00
s101_at040_00
I've tested odin's and brynhildr.
I was really hoping brynhildr would work because bryn has the 2 levels of gun skills in elements
and I thought It'd be cool to give Sazh them

The
s101_mb100_00 format skills do work, but they get janky sometimes.
Odin's thundaga especially. Since it doesn't have a "launched enemy" version, it actually acts as if the launched enemy is on the ground, meaning the enemies below don't get hit like a normal thudnaga would do.


also none of the
sx01_dr skills work

I was also hoping [Arise] would be available, but the game treats it as an "auto" ability on the Eidolons


I just really want to get Ultima working lol.
But its cool that you can give someone like Lightning the
Last Resort and Death skills
She just does a guard animation and yells a phrase and they happen.

I gave her Sovreign Fist, but she does the Army of One animation but only deals damage 2 times, which is useless.

This makes me think that if I give Aof1 or cold blood to fang or snow, they're going to use their normal animations but hit something like 11(Army) or 17(CB)
that would be mega-OP.

ah, ok. I think I understand now.

I did find a few more skills that work:
s601_mw000_00 - Bahamut's Curaga
s501_mb520_00 - Hecaton's Quake
s401_ac100_00 - Brynhildr's Lofty Challenge
s601_mb500_00 - Bahamut's Ignis

Also, I'm seeing alot of 65535s in the BL column of bt_ability, whereas the modding resource shows something else.

I think I found out why MLRS Volley and most enemy skills(haven't tested all yet) don't work.
This is because the "Role" assigned to it doesn't match any of the 6 roles available to the player.

Ok, I'll use that to get the wdb files, but how would I then go about updating after i modify the wdb file i want?

The modding resource is the one I'm using.

But I'm also still a noob at using the FF13tool

If you have any in-depth instructions, that'd be amazing.

I did find that mod, but it crashes excel everytime I go to load any wdb file bigger than the crystarium files