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Final Fantasy I NES assistance needed
« on: February 21, 2014, 05:05:24 PM »
I'd like to start getting some of the ideas for a couple mods for FF1 NES coded but I'm not sure if it has been and or documented before.  Anyone help me out or should I see if Disch is still around and or answering emails?  I couldn't find anything that could of helped me with ffbytes.txt.  Unless I missed it?

-I'd like to alter the character creation screen to only allow 1 or 2 characters for the party and not four.
-Is it possible to expand the item/weapon/armor names to 8+1 digits?  8 digits for name 1 digit for icon.
-Expand the levels for the characters to 99 instead of 50?  Is the EXP/level data hard coded or are there pointers?

On another note, is the 5 character name thing fully functional?  I remember it was being worked on over 10 years ago but never followed up with it.  I was too busy with FF4 / FF6. lol
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Re: Final Fantasy I NES assistance needed
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2014, 05:49:16 PM »
I got 5-letter names working for Final Fantasy Negative One. It was quite some time ago though so I have no idea where to send you. I seem to recall just following step-by-step instructions which got most of it, but I remember having to manually fix the spacing in the "who to heal" menu on my own.
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Re: Final Fantasy I NES assistance needed
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2014, 06:42:20 PM »
Ah, I bet I could locate a patch for that one then thanks!  The other three inquiries though... 
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Re: Final Fantasy I NES assistance needed
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2014, 12:47:33 PM »
Quote from: JCE3000GT on February 21, 2014, 05:05:24 PM
-I'd like to alter the character creation screen to only allow 1 or 2 characters for the party and not four.
Without having looked at the code, this should be doable.

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-Is it possible to expand the item/weapon/armor names to 8+1 digits?  8 digits for name 1 digit for icon.
I believe this will be the easiest thing to do that you want. It's a matter of expanding the text (effortless, FFHackster has no limits on names for the equipment), tweaking a couple things in the equipment menus, and then just redoing all the text. By that I mean possible doing DTE for all the text with this patch. I guess the description for that is wrong, it generally enables DTE in battles, not just for monster names.

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-Expand the levels for the characters to 99 instead of 50?  Is the EXP/level data hard coded or are there pointers?
You would need to add 49 more levels worth of experience, class level, and HP/MP growth tables. It would effectively double the size of that chunk of data. Definitely possible, but it would take a chunk of work, and you have the problem of it breaking FFHackster.
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Re: Final Fantasy I NES assistance needed
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2014, 02:50:23 PM »
What about scrapping the whole leveling system and replace it with formulas that handle stat growth based on current level and job instead of relying on tables?
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Re: Final Fantasy I NES assistance needed
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2014, 11:38:34 PM »
What you just described would rely on tables. You need a level to compare against or index, as well as a job.
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Re: Final Fantasy I NES assistance needed
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2014, 05:43:10 PM »
The job modifiers still have to be held in a small table, but the level value doesn't.
You could make exp needed per level to be a fixed value or in incrementing value like this: exp req.= current level * 1000.
Then stats can be calculated from base values, current level, job modifier from a table, and a small additional modifier calculated from something like the character's name at the beginning of a new game.
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Re: Final Fantasy I NES assistance needed
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2014, 06:13:19 PM »
Thanks for the help guys, but, I think the increasing the level idea is just going to be too much work for what level of hacks I'm in development for.  Plus it may just be overkill as well for what I'm planning.  LOL

For now I need to work on getting the first bullet point done (only allow 1 or 2 characters for the party creation screen and not four).  I don't see any of the data in ffbyes so does anyone have an idea where I can locate this data?
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