Help with overworld sprite palettes!

Hello and welcome!
This thread here I believe has the answers you seek: https://www.ff6hacking.com/forums/thread...d+palettes

Yes it will require using a hex editor, for changing the overworld palettes. I'm on my way to sleep now or I'd offer to be of more help, but hopefully that thar thread has what you need to get going with it. The overworld palettes are done via the 'event code'. Having the 'event dump' will come in handy for changing event-related code: http://www.angelfire.com/al2/imzogelmo/s...Disasm.zip But the overworld palette document in this case would certainly help to speed along the process.

One quick thing I see though is you're using a version 1.1 ROM and it has a header. Firstly you should always use a version 1.0 ROM because that's what most patches are based on, if you were ever to use some patch for your hack, and it's just a kind of norm to use 1.0. A headered ROM will have 200 extra worthless bytes of at the start of your ROM that will make finding offsets/addresses require factoring in +200 bytes, so it can be a bit confusing for newcomers, I'd recommend finding a 1.0 ROM with no header, or remove it yourself using a utility like SNEStuff, to remove or add the header. Some of the utilities require the ROM to be headered...

So, basically you just need to fire up the hex editor, go to the address in the document and change the value for the character palette. Just highlight the byte/value to change and type it with your keyboard to the value you want. And to see it change in-game make sure to play before you recruit the character, just a heads up about that.

I think there's a hex tutorial of some kind around you could check out if it still feels alien, but once you use it a few times it is easy, not much of a learning curve. HxD is a great hex editor, others would recommend WindHex32 as well. Both are satisfactory.