blitz, swordtech, and other battle animations

I was thinking about changing the intro animation for "black" magic spells, but this brings up a major problem: in the encounter between Kefka and Emperor Gestahl on the floating continent, Gestahl uses a similar animation, but it is not affected by changing the black magic intro animation in FF3usME, nor does information pertaining to this encounter seem available on that utility. Does anyone know where in the ROM this information is, and how one would change Gestahl's casting animation?

You might want to check the All about battle events thread which provides the information you are looking for.

The Black Magic Spell animation is done via a battle event; the event code for such a special animation is

Code:

0D XX 00 01

I am a little bit rusty, but I believe the battle event for Kefka vs. Gestahl in the floating continent is located here:

Code:

D0/983C: 38 C8       (D0/C838)   Kefka vs. Gestahl, Floating Continent

Also, regarding Magic intros, there are of course two: one for white magic, and one for black. How does one go about changing which spells use which intro? Also, is it possible to create a third magic intro? In my hack, I separate magic into three classes with eighteen spells each: Black, Time and White. Most of the major problems in this endeavor (proper menu display, using spells outside of battle, and the functionality of Imp, Condemned, Banon's Health, Roulette, etc.) are solved and, happily, no longer an issue.

BUT, currently, the first 24 spells utilize the "black" magic animation, meaning the first six "Time" magic spells do as well. Ideally, each of the three classes would have separate animations, but I'm leaning towards either changing the pointers to refer only to the first eighteen spells, or (my last option) simply changing the white magic animation, to be identical to the black magic animation.

I have been wanting to tackle this for some time now, but I believe some code needs to be changed in C2 to change the number of black, white and gray spells. Wish I could help more XD