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Basic FFVA hacking Question
« on: June 25, 2013, 02:41:28 AM »
Hello!

I've been looking through a bunch of the documentation on both FFV and FFVA trying to figure out how to do a (simple?) hack; change the names of the main characters besides Bartz in FFVA. There are PAR codes for FFV to change the names of all the main characters, and (what I think are called) RAW codes to change Bartz name in FFVA. I searched for a series of hex values that would point to Lenna's name (0B 1E 27 27 1A) with VBA-M(SVN1097)'s RAW "cheat > find..." menu. And her name is stored immediately after Bartz, but adding codes which change those values doesn't actually change her name in game (text, menu or battle).

Is there something really obvious I am missing/doing wrong? I am not an expert at hacking, I'm just trying to fumble my way through what I thought would be simple. Are the names for the other characters stored elsewhere, and the values I'm changing with these RAW codes not working because (and forgive me if this sounds dumb) the way the game stores them makes it not possible to intercept and change with RAW?

Please forgive me if this is something painfully obvious, I combed through everything I could trying to figure out if someone else has documented how to do  this or why it's impossible. If it's not possible to do with RAW editing, is there someway to do it through hexediting the .gba, .sav, or .sgm files that VBA-M generates?
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Re: Basic FFVA hacking Question
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2013, 11:42:02 AM »
Hmm. There are several possible reasons. One possibility is that the game reloads the character names from ROM every time you enter a battle or the menu. Any changes made to RAM would be overwritten at that point. However, the address you are trying could simply be wrong.

I'm afraid I can't be of much help, because I am not skilled in GBA hacking. I will send a PM to samurai goroh and ask him to have a look.
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Re: Basic FFVA hacking Question
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2013, 11:51:48 AM »
It's been quite some time since I looked into this (both the game & changing names in RAM).

Looking at my document, I suppose I got to the same conclusion that even though you can change Bartz name (Addresses 0200E124 - 0200E129), you cannot do it for the others (since even if they are next to Bartz, I didn't listed them).

I'll take another look & check if the names are also stored somewhere else (in a different format) or a way to change the names on the fly without hacking the ROM.
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