25th & 10th Anniversary Challenge

I've toned down the use of Tek Laser (it basically doesn't show up for enemies with more than 1000 HP, its last hurrah is the IAF assault), as well as rendered it reflectable to let players plan for it in parties that don't have the Runic option.  Still testing other changes.

There is something I need from you PowerPanda, and you said if I needed something for the project I should ask here.  I want to change Possess into a spell-trigger command (a la Shock or Health) calling spell EC (formerly Fire Wall).  I can't seem to get it to work, though.  I tried to tweak B-Run's Cover command for the slot, but that doesn't seem to do anything.  Copying Shock's structure with a different spell ID didn't seem to work either.

I know you successfully changed Possess into Morph for your hack's imp; do you have any pointers?

So I actually re-purposed Health, not Possess. It was in the early days of my hacking, and I couldn't get Possess to work. It would auto kill the target and the caster no matter what I did. Now that I know a bit more, here is what I would try:

Code:

Possess
C2/17E5: A9 EC        LDA #$EC (Load Fire Wall)
C2/17E7: 85 B6        STA $B6 (Set Spell/animation)
C2/17E9: A9 05        LDA #$05
C2/17EB: 80 ??        BRA $1765 (Jump backwards to $1765. Don't remember how to calculate bytes jumping backwards at the moment)
C2/17ED: EA EA EA    NOP
C2/17F0: EA EA        NOP
C2/17F2: EA EA        NOP
C2/17F4: EA EA        NOP

Divergent Paths has unfortunately stalled out again. I have started a second job as a "Game Breaker" (aka Balancer) for the Board Game Publisher AEG, and it is taking all of my former free time. I love FFVI, but I've gotta be putting the effort forward on the hobby that actually pays. There's a huge push right now to get our games to the manufacturer in China before (A) the new plastic tariffs kick in, and (B) Chinese New Year shuts down production for a month. Hopefully, once the summer rush dies down a bit, I can dedicate at least 1 day a week to working on this project instead of others.