I've never come across this, but in FF3, you cannot have more than 93 weapons. This includes "0" as one as well.
Let me rephrase this, weapons past 93 can't have custom animations. FF6MDE and FF3usME won't allow you to give any animations to them.
Do you guys have any idea how to add animations to weapons past 93?
I wonder if theres a reason why you can't.... hmm.
Because weapon animations for things like Jump and Throw are hard-coded to item-number. Because FF6 coding is a mess.
The main reason would be that the weapon animation data is immediately followed by the enemy special animations, which are then followed by other data.
Do you happen to have a list of what comes directly after 92? (I said 93 because I counted 0 as one)
What if I edited an enemy special with weapon animations?
Would it be very troublesome to find room for more weapon animations and such?
I don't think there should be any problem with modifying enemy specials to have weapon attack animations, but I haven't tested doing so.
Relocating the weapon animation data shouldn't be too difficult. For a theoretical 256 weapons you'd only need to find 2048 free bytes.
You could also just relocate the enemy specials, which would provide enough space for 128 weapons.
The following is the code that would need to be changed:
Code:
C1/9DA8: BF E8 E6 EC LDA $ECE6E8,X (Enemy special graphics and sound)
C1/9DAC: 99 6B 62 STA $626B,Y
C1/9DAF: E8 INX
C1/9DB0: C8 INY
C1/9DB1: C0 08 00 CPY #$0008
C1/9DB4: D0 F2 BNE $9DA8
C1/9DB6: 80 0E BRA $9DC6
C1/9DB8: BF 00 E4 EC LDA $ECE400,X (Weapon graphics and sound)
C1/9DBC: 99 6B 62 STA $626B,Y
C1/9DBF: E8 INX
C1/9DC0: C8 INY
C1/9DC1: C0 08 00 CPY #$0008
C1/9DC4: D0 F2 BNE $9DB8
Here's the patch that I and Angelo created. It moves all enemy specials from 2CE8E8-2CE9F8 to the free area: 2FFDC8.
In essence, this not only allows for more weapon animations, but also allows more enemy special animations.
http://www.FF6Hacking.com/WonderPatch.ips
we need to make sure it doesn't conflict with anything
Cool patch. This shouldn't conflict with anything, it's just moving data to free space.
Unless of course someone is using that free space already for something.
yeah thats what I meant
there are a few patches out there that moves some things around, if other things are moved there we wouldnt want any conflicts u know :p
I guess the person who's applying this patch should check to see if they have data at 2FFDC8 before applying it then.
If so, he'll need to either move his data or completely re-do this patch. That's the only way to counter any sort of conflicting patch like this.
I simply moved the Enemy Specials to 2FFDC8 as I said, and changed the LDA assembly to forward to 2FFDC8 instead of 2CE8E8, thanks to Drakkhen for the assembly he pasted.
What's cool about this patch is that you can use FF6MDE to change the "Enemy Specials" section. By altering their bytes, you're actually adding, or modifying the new weapon. So this patch works perfectly for editors that can edit enemy specials.
