As for Dia, I actually made a formula for that Long ago, haha. It was a replacement of Count's formula though.
$03/DBB5 AD 40 27 LDA $2740 [$7E:2740] A:0003 X:0038 Y:0000 P:envMxdizc - Load Target's Creature Type into A.
$03/DBB8 29 80 AND #$80 A:0080 X:0038 Y:0000 P:eNvMxdizc - Is it Zombie?
$03/DBBA D0 01 BNE $01 [$DBBD] A:0080 X:0038 Y:0000 P:eNvMxdizc -If not, branch to 03DBBD.
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$03/DBBC 60 RTS A:0000 X:0038 Y:FFFF P:envMxdiZc - Return.
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$03/DBBD 20 AF C9 JSR $C9AF [$03:C9AF] A:0080 X:0038 Y:0000 P:eNvMxdizc - Jump to Damage Determination.
$03/DBBE 60 RTS A:0080 X:0038 Y:FFFF P:envMxdiZc - Return.
Ok so if I apply this as specified above, the "add Count" routine will instead become "Undead Damage", allowing me to make Harm/Dia spells but breaking any existing Count spells/techniques?
But this was done in very slight space. If I were to remake this I would make it so it would not be considered an elemental attack and the Eight Elemental designations would be the Race the formula has to match to deal damage. Adversely it could be no statuses allowed and use the Status designations as the Race matching, which sounds like it would work better as it would allow Elementals to work with it.
Personally I'd prefer to keep the statuses; usually races and weaknesses match up pretty well (undeads = fire/holy, reptiles = ice, robots = bolt, etc), and even where they don't it just seems more interesting to have f.ex. Undead Damage + Blind, or Undead Damage + Mute, than to have, say, Fire Undead Damage or Ice Undead Damage...
Also, another idea:
Damage based on target's current HP / Damage based on caster's Max HPThe game already has the reverse of these, a routine for damage based on
caster's current HP and one for damage based on
target's Max HP. But it would be nice to be able to do the opposite sometimes. For example, in my hack, Demi is currently dealing damage equal to target's Max HP / 4. Ideally, it should be dealing target's
current HP / 2.
Fixed DamageDamage that always hits and somehow ignores the normal damage dealing routine that modifies damage based on weaknesses and resistances and such, and instead deals a constant amount of damage no matter what. For example, 1000 Needles from the subsequent FF games. Perhaps the amount can be specified by the Power byte x the Hit byte? So to get 1000 you could have 100 Power and 10 Hit or vice versa. To get Globe199 you could have 100 Power and 100 Hit (presumably the game would apply the usual damage cap to prevent things from going wonkee). You could even have smaller versions for earlier in the game, like "100 Needles" or something. I dunno, might be interesting.
Also, back on the topic of custom event instructions, I thought of something that might be useful in certain contexts:
"
Remove spell xx from spell set yy"
In fact, it may not even need to be its own instruction; maybe it could just be a modification of the existing "Add spell" instruction to make it into a sort of "Toggle spell"; so I guess it would first check if the spell is in the set, and if it is, remove it, otherwise add it.
This might be usable to, for example, have an event something like Rydia's Trial from FF4 Advance. She forgets a bunch of summons when you enter and you have to add them back one by one. Or perhaps some kind of event where Tellah forgets a bunch of spells again and has to get them back somehow or something. Just a thought ^_^
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