Description Expansion Megapack

author: SilentEnigma
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This is a collection of patches for expanding various ability and item descriptions.

Moved & Expanded

• Blitz: 64 bytes per entry
  
• Item: 96 bytes per entry
  
• Lore: 64 bytes per entry
  
• Magic: 80 bytes per entry
  

Newly Supported

• Dance: 80 bytes per entry
  
• Espers: 64 bytes per entry
  
• Rage: 80 bytes per entry
  

Not Supported

• SwdTech
  
• Rare Items
  

The supported descriptions are now located in the F2 & F3 banks (expanded ROM).
A patch is included for expanding the ROM from 24 Mbits to 32 Mbits, if necessary.

The descriptions themselves are not changed, but the entries for each type are distributed evenly for convenient editing with a hex editor.
No pointer reassignment is necessary unless you happen to overrun the normal length allocated per entry.

A table file is included for the variable width font.

See the readme file for more details and instructions.

Thanks @dn for publishing the original implementation for Dance & Rage descriptions.

Thanks Silent Enigma. Just tried using it and inserted the Dance Descriptions to test out first. It may require a bit of tweaking since the menu only allows for one line in that specific box.

The patch pack has been updated to v1.1.
Esper ability descriptions are now supported. Yay!

I attempted to use the Alphabetized variant of the Rage Descriptions, and Dance Descriptions, for my Reimagined project, I kept the addresses the same but relocated everything from F3 bank to F8. Dances worked just fine, but Rages, I've encountered a problem, that being that descriptions for them appear off and on. The very first enemy, "1st Class", has nothing, and copying and pasting a description across multiple pointers, it seems erratic when they show up. If I had to guess, your patch doesn't work properly with renamed enemies and thus a different alphabetical order from the Alphabetized Rages patch? I'm not sure though. I could share an IPS of my project if you wanted to have a look.

In spite of the previous post's problems, I went ahead and made all my descriptions. While they work fine with a full Rage list, it glitches when it comes to missing entries, causing some descriptions for other Rages to not appear.