Insane Difficulty: Development Discussion - Insane Difficulty

I'm glad to be on board and contributing in my own small way.

As I said before, the one thing that really springs to mind as far as things I'd really like to see tweaked go are the formations. There's very little difference between many of them, and most just suck.

Also, I'd like to see the ability to remove Ryu from the active party, though you'd have to check to see if that would break anything, I imagine you'd probably have to wait until adulthood to "activate" that feature.

BTB, on 29 September 2013 - 05:13 PM, said:

I would think that'd be within the game files and something that's not easily found, so I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.

Formations, however, I'm pretty sure are just above the enemies in the area. I still have yet to nail down the specific offsets, though.

Alucard's coming back on to offer some assistance, at least until I hear back from second_advent. Either way I'm grateful for his help; I'm pretty inexperienced with hex editing.

I found the fucking skill IDs!

I'd forgotten one very important fact: Gameshark and Action Replay codes do the same thing I'm doing, only they edit the lines of code being executed instead of the game itself. Therefore, I can use them to help me find stuff!

So fucking happy right now.

Item IDs as well (barring Key Items, but those aren't needed) have been added to the documentation.

Well don't that just beat all...

BTB, on 30 September 2013 - 05:14 PM, said:

Very good translation on this game.

Wo-heee!

I've found the initial equipment bytes!

Shit, you're a beast. I may consider actually playing the game to play the mod. This mod sounds like it's gonna be awesome.

But BNW comes first in my list. Don't hit me BTB.

hart-hunt, your gif is fabulous

Advent you are a God for doing this!

This is my favourite RPG ever!

Vejeta, on 01 October 2013 - 02:00 PM, said:

Awesome, I've found the ability data! Huge thanks to Anima Zero; the save he got me right before you get Nina, while it didn't help with base stats (apparently hers are generated before that point) I was able to check her three abilities and parse her hex for those three values in a row, which helped a lot.

Continue to impress me, Advent.

Angel, on 02 October 2013 - 08:45 AM, said:

Aye aye, Cap'n.

You know, I really hate to say this, but I don't think I'm gonna find the Dragon Gene data, guys.

However, there's ways to kind of work around that. What we can probably do is keep Accession in mind when balancing abilities, and which abilities are available to which transformation. I'm gonna try to keep them competitive, with Emitai's (and everyone's) help of course.

"Can't find Dragon Gene data" means you can't find where abilities <-> transformations relationship is established and therefore cannot edit abilities and stats of transformations?

maxi, on 04 October 2013 - 01:21 AM, said:

abilities he can only change the base power, and yes he cant do nothing about the power of dragon tranformation besides tweak the skill that are no related to draogn genes. And about skills, see on documentation the formula and how the base is calculated, only the base of spells can be changed, he dont know where the formulas are stored so we cant change the formula.

maxi, on 04 October 2013 - 01:21 AM, said:

Yes. I think it's because of how the Dragon Gene system is in itself. You have 118 possible combinations of different transformations (abilities, attributes, elemental properties, transformation cost, and cost per turn) before Triple gene transformations.

As Emitai stated, I can edit abilities, but I can't edit the attributes, which is where the problem lies. It's their attributes that are the main problem from a balancing standpoint.

The Infinity Gene -- Berserk Kaiser -- by itself gives you a 300% HP boost, 250% boost to Pwr and Def, and a 150% boost to Agl and Int. Infinity, Radiance, and Trance genes -- Complete Kaiser -- probably have the same boosts, only now you can control him and use whatever abilities Ryu has in his arsenal.

That is absolutely huge, and I guarantee you that unless I can find this stuff, it will be a problem moving forward.

Edit:

Emitai, on 04 October 2013 - 01:31 AM, said:

It's not that I don't know where they're stored (I don't, but I haven't tried to look either), it's that everything is stored in hex. There's nothing you'll find that looks like a mathematical equation anywhere in the code of the game.

It's guess and check.

This post has been edited by Advent: 04 October 2013 - 08:09 AM