Originally posted by Disch

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The main menu boxes are stored at $3BAB2. 4 bytes per box in order X, Y, width, Height. if the width or height are too small, the game hangs (iirc).

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If you want to seek out other box coords... the game uses a common subroutine for drawing boxes. Before calling that routine it writes X,Y,W,H data to $38,$39,$3C, and $3D respectively. If you set a breakpoint on writes to those RAM locations prior to drawing the screen, it should reveal the desired data.

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Typically, the text moves with the window. I think the routine that draws the box also adjusts $3A and $3B ram locations, which is used as the X,Y coords for the text outputting routine. Moving text is usually harder than moving the boxes... since the text is often stored in clumps which can be hard to seperate.

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I had the same idea .

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I already got the MP system working out of battle... but I haven't touched in battle MP usage yet, so I can't help you there.

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I was able to make a list of all the locations in the ROM which addressed player MP.. but I've since lost that list . All I can say is setup breakpoints on writes to $6320 *I think*. $6320-$6327 is where character spell charges are stored... $6328-$632F is their charge max (add $40 for the 2nd character, $80 for the 3rd char, $C0 for the 4th char). Note I'm getting these addresses from memory, so they could be wrong.

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There's an unused byte at the end of each spell's data. Erm.. that is spell data is spaced 8 bytes apart.. but only 7 of them are used. Spell data starts at $301F0.

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Originally posted by Disch

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Glad I could be of help. I'm still working on and off on my hack... got a few other cool ideas in the works .

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Originally posted by Kasumi-Astra

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http://plum.sakura.ne.jp/~alice/

Sky Lounge Garden

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Originally posted by ShadowKnight

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I picked Final Fantasy V. I like the Ability System and it was the game I just beat recently.

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Originally posted by Kitten Yiffer

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C++, I have actually been planning to learn that langauge someday. Unfortunatly I have to learn Java first becuse of this School project i'm going to do.

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Originally posted by Colleen

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Quite a varied little bio there. Interesting.

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Originally posted by Disch

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The routine which draws the text in the main menu character boxes is at $3B992. A is set to 00,40,80, or C0 when that routine is called (which character's stats to draw)

The first thing it does is it checks the player's max charges (with a LDA command and 7 following ORA commands). If the player has no MP, it skips ahead... otherwise it draw player MP. I haven't fully deciphered the MP drawing section because I didn't have a need to (I ended up rewriting it to conform to drawing the new style MP).

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After that... it draws the player's current and max HP values (the numerical values). It writes a string to $0300 in RAM, then jumps to a routine (at $3B954) which formats and draws that string.

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After it draws HP... it draws a big chunk of text which has the player's name, his level, and the text "HP". Here's a snippit from my file:


; this builds the next portion of the string
LDA #$00
STA $0301 ; 00 = signal to draw the player's name
LDA #$01
STA $0302 ; 01 = double line break
LDA #$C6
STA $0303 ; C6 = 'L' (not the normal 'L', but the 'L' used for character's level)
LDA $0300 ; load character ID
STA $0304 ; move it here
LDA #$03
STA $0305 ; 03 = signal to draw the player's level
LDA #$01
STA $0306 ; 01 = double line break
LDA $0300 ; load character ID again
STA $0307 ; move it here
LDA #$02
STA $0308 ; 02 = signal to load premade string...
LDA #$00
STA $0309 ; 00 = "HP" premade string
LDA #$00 ; Strangely, this string does not seem to be null terminated =\. Either I'm missing something
; or the code somehow prevents null termination being necessary in this case... however
; I followed up the code as best I could and didn't see any special case here,
; My best guess is that the game stops the string when it loads a premade string "HP" in this case
; However, it doesn't look like the code actually does that =\. I'm stumped.
STA $3E ; reset start of string to $0300
JMP l3E_DE36 ; draw the formatted string and exit


"LDA $0300 ; load character ID" < -- the "character ID" was previously stored at $0300. It is $1x where x is 0,1,2, or 3 depending on which char's stats are to be retreived.

The way it works is... each character is pulled and drawn from that string unless it's a special character. $1x signals to retreive and draw a character stat... and the following byte determines which stat. So "10 00" would draw the player 1's name... "12 05" would draw player 3's current HP, etc.

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Originally posted by tinzeee

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A piano player I play the piano too, what is your level?

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Originally posted by HighSorceressDelial

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Hi! Welcome home

...wow...that was a great post We have a lot of things in common, heh, except I definately can't sing bass.

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*gives newbie a plushie*

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*captures newbie* 588

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Originally posted by Banedon

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The 588 is continuing from The Old Acmlm's Board...not nearly that namy noobs were captured on The New Acmlm's Board.

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As for C++, I've learned the letters, but not the mathematical symbols. (That is, I know C.)

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Originally posted by Kefka

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Nighthawk... that's an FFTA move... coincidence that your name be the same?

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Anyway, *gulps and prepares to be shot* IS YOUR WIFE HOT??? *shot*

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Cool to have yet ANOTHER programmar aboard. Also good to have another musician aboard.

Welcome to the show that never ends!

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Originally posted by Kefka

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Why does it NEED to fit with the others? It was a kickass game... however, one thing it was missing was a class/job system.

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But it has the best plot and characters in the whole series. Oh. And music. Best music. And definitely the best graphics of the pre-VII ones.

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And erm... there are better RPGs than the FF ones... but that's not what we're comparing now.

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