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Lenophis

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Throwing an idea out there
« on: September 22, 2012, 12:56:01 PM »
This is for FF6, mind you. As most of us know, there's 3 bits that will give any item a spell to cast on low HP. Currently there's 3 bits, one for each of Shell, Safe, and Reflect. What I propose, is to utilize the bits a little more, and turn them into a look-up table.

Pros: This will give you 7 spells to choose from.
Cons: No item will ever cast more than 1 spell.

If I were to make this patch, I should be able to do it without taking any free space, since it seems like they wasted a lot here at C2/0A4A. So, is this worth exploring?
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Re: Throwing an idea out there
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2012, 01:00:14 PM »
Actually, there's no reason you couldn't use it to do multiple conditions at once; the problem would just be arranging the dispatch table to support it. (e.g. using a stop byte to indicate when to stop adding conditions.)
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Re: Throwing an idea out there
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2012, 01:02:23 PM »
That would reduce the number of spells you have available. I wouldn't be able to do any sign tweaking either, since there's 255 spells to choose from.
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Re: Throwing an idea out there
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2012, 01:05:13 PM »
One less spell is hardly going to break anything. Even if it were, wouldn't it be possible to have a separate set of effects which just reused spell animations and was entirely separate from the spell list otherwise?
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Re: Throwing an idea out there
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2012, 01:49:32 PM »
Ok, I see 2 possibilities:
1) You get 1 spell to cast, period.
2) You get up to 7 spells to cast, but it depends on which bits are set in the relic data. Say you have "Wall on low HP" set, you would get 4 spells cast, since it's the highest of the 3 bits. If you had the Safe and Shell checked, you would get 3 spells, etc.
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