Well I can tell you that in the English version of ff7.exe, you can find the string array of the menu item names at 0x5192C0 ~ 0x51939B. (You can consistently find it by searching for "30 28 33" -- PHS). Each String is allocated 20 bytes of memory, and there's exactly enough room for the 11 strings, but they're part of a larger array of general strings used in the menu, so it might not be hard to extend the array by 1 element and cram some text into 0x51948C...
Adding a function would be quite difficult. I don't see it being a possibility within the confines of hex editing as increasing the filesize throws off all sorts of flow control. I think that perhaps somebody in the QGears project might have a better idea than me, but if you can find out where those strings I mentioned earlier are referenced in the exe, that might be a start...
I anticipated that. 20 chars is more than any of them need. I was going to reduce the size of the array to, perhaps, 16 characters per entry. That'd leave me 44 characters at the "end". Again, this is all theory.
It's not even a new function. It would be easy to just have it point to the already existing function (which I also have to find). I'm just tired of something not being accessible when I think it should be. I'll leave it to your imagination for the moment.
Does the USO code exist on the PC ? i remember when i was making a hack to unlock all menu's (materia+phs+save) i found the text but i couldnt find the actual menu (this doesnt mean it doesnt exist it just means i couldnt find it), The only hidden menu i remember seeing was a blank screen where the "Order" menu should be (its just blank, no text since the order is done from the main menu)
That's the one! Yes, there's some sort of unused menu. I don't know what it's supposed to do, though.
I hope it's not what I'm intending to do.... I doubt it though.
Speaking of which, I've always wanted to be able to switch cloud out of the party, and to be able to choose how many characters to have in your party. It'd be fun to solo it up every now and again, or come up with combinations other than Cloud plus 2.
you can use black chocobo to unlock cloud from the party (check him off in the "allowed in phs" box found under the others tab), but i don't think ne thing i do to the save file will allow for partys of <3 when ever you want.
Though about that too.
Thanks for this. It helped a lot! I got very close to getting it right on my first try.
I experimented with this for a while using a german save editor a while back. See here for more details. It also allows you to have just one character, but isn't really the best solution because some models don't have paths in certain places. I.e. "I want to control Vincent instead of Cloud" - he'll only show up on screens that his model was programmed to appear on. It still works in certain places though, every character is just treated like they're Cloud.
I am glad it helped, I wasn't sure if that was what you was looking for or not.Thanks for this. It helped a lot! I got very close to getting it right on my first try.