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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: Event Offsets

« on: June 30, 2008, 12:16:12 AM »

The formatting breaks down post 0x3E in Notepad (not that it's reliable for any text in general. It's not a big deal, but meh, I'm not worried about it.

I added some stuff in an edit...

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: ff2/4 "reference book" website - now with an address!

« on: June 29, 2008, 11:28:53 PM »

When I get the time, I'll check this out...

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / FF2US/FF4ET - One Less Shop

« on: June 29, 2008, 11:28:23 PM »

I guess this is trivial, but is worth mentioning anyways as a reminder.

FF2US (and FF4ET by extension I think) has one less shop available than the original. The missing shop is at the Land of Summoned Monsters.. there used to be two item shops there, but since there is no need with all the status specific items removed, the shop was removed. That shop sold status specific stuff you could not buy anywhere else including the Cross, EchoHerb, and I think a few other items...

This is something you may want to tinker to readd back in if needed.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: Event Offsets

« on: June 29, 2008, 11:20:03 PM »

Getting a Grimoire?... Hmm. I've never seen that...

For a thought, it helps a lot if you "speak" to virtually everything in the game to connect the dots...

The text file is apparently in some friendly Mac format.. at least according to Metapad...

Edit:

0x44 - Tellah leaving party + Damacyan soldier removal.
0x91 - Calbrena/Calcobrena spying and entering Giott's Dark Crystal Chamber
0xF1 - The Smith's Shop

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General Discussion / Re: Hooray failing hardware!

« on: June 28, 2008, 05:47:20 PM »

Well... Windows wasn't really designed to handle 2 sound cards.... well. So, one of them tends to have the priority.

However, I did have a 2 sound card setup one time. I had a modem-sound card combo in an ISA slot and a PCI sound card. I put the older sound card only to get proper MIDI output for FF7 (the fucking drivers were junk.. stupid Ensoniq-Creative crap PCI cards before the SB Live).

I also read your thread at RHDN. It is possible that your PSU could be failing... at supplying power. If your mobo has voltage readings in the BIOS or a utility it could use to measure it (though supposedly unreliable with those types of utils) such as SpeedFan or the older Motherboard Monitor.. see if the 5v readings are at 5v. IIRC, that's what those slots use for power, but my memory is fuzzy there.

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Gaming Discussion / An Alternative Rydia Plot For Hack Discussion

« on: June 28, 2008, 12:07:28 AM »

It would've been nice if the Rydia's mom-summoner/summoned monster life chain was expanded upon more. Not that the game did a decent job of explaining it away... but it would've been interesting if Rydia went down for a while for that reason alone...

Plus, you would have to fill in the gaps on how Rydia learned all the other summons instead of the lame attempt by FF4A to make them Beastiary entries...

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF2/4 The Buggy Avenger Sword

« on: June 26, 2008, 06:08:12 AM »

I had something very similar to that happen to me a day ago, I was doing some testing for my hack and after Cecil used the Crystal Kain proceeded to use it as well.

No clue how I triggered it, wish I had made a savestate because my attempts to reproduce it today failed.

Edit: Got it to happen again, seems to happen anytime anyone is casting magic when the crystal is used.



Almost makes me wonder if the Avenger was supposed to make Cecil auto-use the crystal in this battle...probably just a glitch caused by berserk being removed and reapplied constantly though.

Perhaps, but the latter explaination (which is the same one I came to) seems to be the issue. The auto-use thing is usually done for an entire battle (auto-battle)... so it's not possible.. and I don't think anyone checked the Avenger Sword for the buggy behavior (I've only tested one version, but I'm sure it lingers in other versions.. and there was a specific fix for it in FF4A as an obvious hint to its overpoweredness). The best you can do is like the Golbez-Rydia summoning situation and "summon" Rydia out of hiding...

I do think the auto-Berserk effect while retaining the previous weapon's attack power is arguably the best abusive thing you could do for this game (free Cecil Berserk ignoring Crystal Armor's Berserk resistance late game == insane damage dealing).

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Gaming Discussion / Re: This is odd...

« on: June 24, 2008, 10:30:51 PM »

IIRC, the ones supplied by the OS doesn't include the OpenGL ICD (the client driver) IIRC. I recommend using the ones on NVidia's site. You should never use video (and sound, I think) drivers supplied via Windows Update.

For your hardware, the 20.xx series of drivers are the best.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: This is odd...

« on: June 24, 2008, 10:05:07 PM »

I usually suggest disabling+enabling on the same run (no reboot required.. optionally done though).

Specs so I can gauge proper disappointment? 

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Gaming Discussion / Re: This is odd...

« on: June 24, 2008, 09:36:38 PM »

Run Dxdiag.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: Abel's Lance

« on: June 24, 2008, 07:46:36 PM »

I guess that may have been a "fix" added to the engine... I don't think the original checks for an HP counter or a current HP check (Tornado vs a Behemoth), but probably checks for a magic counter instead (counter vs any magic used)... IIRC.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: Abel's Lance

« on: June 24, 2008, 07:37:14 PM »

The weapon's spell is a customized version of Tornado.

There's a level check involved, like the original spell, but success of the spell casting is 100% when the check succeeds (as far as I can tell). I have yet to figure out what attribute induces the death, other than the range of life values include 0....

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Gaming Discussion / Re: This is odd...

« on: June 24, 2008, 06:36:25 PM »

Try disabling/renabling DDraw acceleration and see if that helps.

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General Discussion / Re: $@!*&% downloading

« on: June 23, 2008, 08:10:36 PM »

AFAIK, NVidia drivers have been compressed in 7z format and makes this easier to swallow (it's a lot of duplication in language help and infs). I'm trying to remember of Guru3d does this now.. (they probably do).

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General Discussion / Re: Hooray failing hardware!

« on: June 22, 2008, 09:39:02 PM »

I think it's a "platform independent document".. which is what it is for the most part.

Open PDF files in a browser is a disasterous proposition... I'd swear it's the code for it, but I stopped caring for Adobe's software since it shouldn't require that much space and time (on older machines) to install the damn software.