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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Changing spell effects outside of battle
« on: August 16, 2013, 11:22:38 AM »
Some spells have effects outside of battle and some don't. However, it is not obvious from the spell data which spells have such effects and which don't, not to mention what they are. This can be annoying for hacking since if you decide to change a spell, say, Sight, into something completely different, it will still have the effect of Sight when used outside of battle, which is probably not what you want.
- How and where does the game store which spells do what outside of battle?
- Is it possible to change what spells correspond to what out-of-battle effects?
- Is it possible to disable certain effects altogether such that no spell has that effect?
- Is it possible to have the same out-of-battle effect correspond to multiple spells?
- Can we change what the effects themselves do, or (more realistically) their parameters?
Thanks, glad to hear it worked! Also depending on who you give it to and what period of the game they're in your party for, you may only have to put it on to a small subset of the monsters. Like for example, supposing the plot was otherwise left alone, say you gave it to Edward. Now you only have to change the monsters that Edward can possibly encounter. Now that I think about it that would actually be a neat ability for him. Rydia has the black magic to take advantage of the fire/ice/bolt weaknesses, and Cecil can take advantage of the Dark weakness. Once you pick up Rosa, she (or heck even Edward himself can put on a bow) can take advantage of air weakness... and the holy arrows for holy weakness. I think that covers all of them!
I'm still have this compulsion to fix things as they come up though...
Actually I have found another error. When you go to switch any of the Items in the Drop Charts, though the editor will show them as changed, even as you go through other menus and do other things, the changes are only superficial and don't carry over to the game and when you exit FF4kster and reopen it the data will be initialized.
Anyway the fixes are up now
No problem. Your info is much more comprehensive by the looks of it. Thanks!!