Topic: Command Battle Messages

[fedorajoe]

Pretty much the only thing left to tidy up in my hack are the messages that pop up when a previously dummied-out command is used in battle.

The commands in question (your translation may vary):
- Pray
- Might
- Guard
- Tears
- Boast
- Regen

All come up with a nasty "D" message.  I need to rework the pointers, but this is something I do not understand how to do.

Frankly, I'd be open to just disabling the messages altogether.  Does anybody know how to do this?

[Deathlike2]

Are you planning to remove the messages altogether or alter them to become useful?

I don't know where exactly that stuff is located, but battle messages are lumped in a more contiguous area AFAIK. The command pointers to the message are another story... but might not be too hard to find if you look/compare to the FF4 (Japanese) ROM. At least in FF4, they are had some actual use/purpose.

[fedorajoe]

I wouldn't mind negating the messages altogether.  The messages for all commands other than Pray are pointless, and I was planning to make Pray 100% successful anyway.

However, I really don't understand how this works at all.  My hack has required no pointer modifications to this point.  I'm hoping somebody can walk me through one modification.  I'm sure I could figure out the rest from there.

[fedorajoe]

Not really holding my breath at this point that anybody will reply.  :)  But even so.

I was thinking that it would be cool to design some custom commands.  I'd especially like to do a Gil Toss command.  But, I haven't been able to find any documentation (here or elsewhere) that explains where in the code the elements of the various commands are.  Anybody know?

[Shadow Flare]

I don't think they can be disable, but then again I'm not an expect when it comes to these things. I found this stuff a week or so ago. Glad I documented it after doing some trial and error. The offsets are for a headered rom.

7B324 - Heal/Salve (0A)
7B322 - Bluff (11)
7B51C - Regen/Bless (19)
7B539 - Grid/Brace (0F)
7B53B - Power/Focus (0D)
7B324 - Fake Tears/Cry (12)

[fedorajoe]

Small correction to Shadow Flare's post.

Fake Tears/Cry is indeed at 07B324.

However, Heal/Salve is at 07B5A3.

Shadow Flare had both listed at 07B324.

Anyway, thanks to Shadow Flare for posting this, because it helped me a lot in figuring out how the dialogue pointers work.  Now if only I could figure out commands...!