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Xenesis
Posted on 02-24-07 03:29 PM Link | Quote | ID: 6444


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Yeah, I just finished it off tonight.

What this hack does:
•When Sonja uses her CO Power, Fog of War is caused for 1 turn.
•It turns off when her next turn starts, unless Fog of War was on at the start of the game.
•It works with multiple Sonjas in play. Only the last one to use the power should deactivate the fog.

I made a youtube video which shows how it works..pretty simple.




The most useful screenshot I could really take. XD

The IPS Patch
Cleaner - Converts the Mode7 Dump (1060) into a clean AW2 (U) ROM, which is what I've used for hacking.

Now hopefully this should have minimal bugs, my testing didn't find anything glaring. ;

Ailure
Posted on 02-27-07 07:29 PM Link | Quote | ID: 8417

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Cool. I thought about hacking Advance wars for awhile, but never got around it. I almost wonder why this power wasn't originally in the game, becuse I can see a few useful cases for it.

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Xenesis
Posted on 03-03-07 08:31 AM Link | Quote | ID: 9842


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Well, I'm glad someone liked it.

Advance Wars doesn't really get that much attention around these parts. ;

setz
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So uh, if fog of war is turned on at the beginning of the game doesn't that make her useless?

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Xenesis
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Nope, because she keeps all her other vision related skills as per standard AW2.

By default she has these abilities:

Day to Day:
Hidden HP
+1 Vision
1.5x Power Counterattacks
+10/-10 Luck Range

CO Power:
+2 Vision
Can now see into woods and reefs in fog

SCO Power:
1.0x Counterattacks
Counterattacks Strike First
+2 Vision
Can now see into woods and reefs.

What my hack does is add the ability to summon fog to the CO Power, so yeah. It's going to be a part of one of my bigger hacks (Namely, my AW2 Balance project), but I thought I'd release it anyhow as a standalone.

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Heh, that's good becuse I liked Sonja but found it sad how less useful she is outside of fog battles. I wonder if you will also nerf powerful CO's, or just make the less weak CO's more powerful.

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Xenesis
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My AW2 Balance Project has actually been going on for quite a while (Linky)

It was actually the reason I learned to hack in the first place. To rebalance all the COs. I will willingly admit that my 1.10 release of the Balance hack is a bit boring, hence why I'm attempting to make it more interesting with the various ASM hacks that'll be in the next release of it (2.0; Which is going to be called the 'I screwed with everything' version).

Essentially, the COs are going to be rebalanced with Hawke used a yardstick. So, a good portion of the COs will be weakened, and a nice bunch will be brought up a bit.

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I find this pretty cool, but as you said, it is kind of useless if a battle is started with Fog of War...which in my case is 100% of the time (I prefer the challenge of not knowing over the challenge of knowing). So, unless I'm mistaken, this wouldn't be too useful in campaign mode, thus my guess as to why they never had a CO with this ability...?

Edit: Does this CO Power only work when Fog of War is turned off? If so, then it makes sense...

NightKev
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I think it also turns fog of war off if it's already on (isn't that what he said?).

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I'm pretty sure that if fog is already on, the second part of the power is the only part applied ("Vision range is improved by 1 space as well as seeing into forests and reefs"), and only to that player.

The deactivating part was saying that in a Sonja vs. Sonja match, if it's used by one player and then the opponent before it wears off, it stays in effect until the second player's use would wear off, not the first.

Still pretty cool.

Xenesis
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Considering Sonja's skills are mostly vision based, she doesn't suffer if Fog of War is turned on at all.

The fog changing turns FoW on if it was originally off and then off next turn, but it doesn't do anything if FoW is on by default. Which was actually one of the hardest parts of doing the hack...

Which reminds me...I should probably somehow get it to save whether FoW was on at the start of the game or not when you use the save command....

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