Casting Spells Taught by Espers - RESOLVED!

Thanks for the support. I have learned a lot. I might not be able to make grand coding changes, but I can at least understand most of the threads involving battle modification around here now. I understand WHAT people are talking about and why the solutions provided work or don't work.  I don't know enough to help, but I can at least follow along (and now I understand the significance of B-Run's patch...which I'll definitely have to incorporate to another project).

Just to be clear, I'm working on having the spells an Esper teaches usable while that Esper is equipped, but not usable otherwise until fully learned. Unlike other modifications, I want to retain the ability to learn magic. Yeah, you might get the immediate gratification of casting Ultima upon eqiuipping Ragnarok instead of fighting 10 Cactrots (or once I'm done, casting Life 2 when you equip Phoenix outside of battle), but you can still use the "honor system" and just wait until everything is fully learned if you want. This is just one little tweak I've always wanted since childhood.

That being said your ideas would make a unique approach, although something like that may be beyond my current skill level. All I'm doing is hacking the menus to make the game believe the spells should available and not blot them out. Given it's taken a considerable amount of time to get to this point, I'm not sure if I'll be alive to do what you ask if I started today. Someone else will beat me to it.

If I were a skilled enough coder, I could see this feature being used in conjunction with existing mods out there. It still gives the incentive to grind (full mastery) without necessitating the work. If a player wants to max out everyone learning every spell, that player still has to fight a good deal of battles, but if a player wants to prioritze having a certain skillset vs taking the time to learn it in full, I believe allowing the choice.

Before I get carried away, I have to put in work of my own to break the code, and I think I figured out my plan of action. To find the time to do it is another matter.