Map graphics error and wrong location name

Hi guys,

I guess I'm gonna need your advice once again. Sorry for the long post, but I always try to explain my problems and what I did as detailed as possible, as this will perhaps help you in locating the source of the problem. I've been quite busy the last few days redoing most of my project from scratch, because... I looked at the offsets of the graphics expansion patch that came with FF3se-m and compared the values between version 1.0 and 1.1, only to find that they're off a few bytes, so the patch wouldn't work with v.1.1 (which I've been working on all the time), sadly.

So I had but one choice, if I wanted the Kaiser Dragon sprite, I'd have to use v.1.0, and started my hack all over again on that version. Luckily, I could copy/paste much of my changes from one rom to the other, like the enemy stats data or enemy formation data, thanks to the detailed rom map found here: http://www.angelfire.com/pq/jumparound/f...fsets.html

After applying all the important patches and completing all my remaining edits with FF3usMe, I applied the graphics expansion patch next and imported the Kaiser sprite, then did the map expansion with FF6LE-CE and made sure to use some of the last few banks, so as to not conflict with the graphics expansion. I've rewritten my custom events and rebuild my dragon's den mini-dungeon (it's only 2 screens so far, for event testing purposes), tried it... and saw that my battle captions were all messed up, displaying only gibberish. Then I looked into FF3usMe and found... that the map expansion had overwritten my big and small battle captions, because I used FF3usMe's expansion of those, which relocated them to the FC bank... I didn't pay much attention to that before, but now...

So after a lot of crying, cursing, and scolding myself, I took a fresh vanilla rom and started doing everything all over... AGAIN, lol... And this time I paid close attention to not have my various expansions overlap with each other. I used the following banks for my expansions:

F0 bank: dialogue expansion with FF3usMe
F1-F5 banks: graphics expansion patch (according to the readme)
F7-FC banks: map expansion with FF6LE-CE (F7 for Chests, NPCs, Exits, and F8-FC for tilemaps)
FD bank: big and small battle captions expansion with FF3usMe
FE bank: AI script expansion with FF3usMe

This would leave banks F6 and FF reserved for custom events, right?

Now everything seemed to work, I got my maps and events running correctly, my battle dialogue as well, and Czar Dragon's new sprite is finally there in all of its glory. However, I've encountered two minor issues (neither is critical, though).

1) The map I've used for my Dragon's Den entrance (map 019F, the first of the newly added ones) displays some strangely animated tiles at the top 3 rows, even though they aren't visible in the editor (I've checked all 3 layers). Here's a picture:



Strangely, these garbage tiles don't seem to be part of that map at all, as the top of the map starts below them, so I have no idea where they're coming from.

2) When entering the Cave in the Veld, I noticed that the message at the top now displayed 'Inn' instead of 'Cave on the Veldt'. I saw that 'Cave on the Veldt' is normally the last entry in the location names list (number 72). FF3usMe displays it correctly as 'Cave on the Veldt' in the location names tab, yet FF6LE-CE seems to have replaced location name 72 with multiple Inns (see picture 2). What could be the problem here?



I'm grateful for any advice you can give me.

Edit: Nevermind problem 2, I've just realised that the map expansion also expanded location names, and 'Inn' is probably the default value of 00 for that. Plus, the location names can be edited in FF6LE-CE, didn't see that before, lol. Still makes me wonder why 'Cave on the Veldt' got changed in the first place, I surely never edited it manually. But anyways, now only problem 1 remains, and I'm at a complete loss there.