[FF7PC-98/Steam] gjoerulv's "Hardcore" mod (v1.0.7.2)

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Hi there. First of all I want to congratulate Gjoerulv for this FANTASTIC mod. I think it's the best mod there is, and I'm enjoying it very much! However, I'm right at this part of the game in Midgar where I'm supposed to fight Locke, Theo and Venus, but they just don't appear! O.o What could I be missing??? I really want this fight. :(
 
In the shinra HQ? DId you patch the flevel?
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It's before the Hojo fight, in the stairs. Well if I'm using this Hardcore Mod since the beginning of the game so I suppose those guys should've appeared. I've also heard I can encounter them on other parts of the game but I don't think I ever did, and I don't remember what other parts of the game they should appear. Only thing I know for sure is that they didn't appeared here. :/
Could it be because somehow I never have fought them before?
 
How did you apply this mod? Did you use the patch I made (downloaded from this thread)?
Do you have the new or old release?
It sounds like flevel.lgp isn't patched, or you have applied another mod on top of mine.

Try to run the patch again, and only patch flevel.lgp.
 
I did it with Bootleg. And from what I've seen from EQ2Alyza's Youtube videos everything is just like her game. These 3 guys are the only exception. xD
Anyway, since I'm already at this part of the game I want to try and finish the game first as it is. It's not like these guys will make a difference now. :/
 
Have you met any of the other bosses? There is a new boss on most summon materias.
 
Yes I did. The White Chocobo (correct me if I'm wrong) and a few others... but I can't remember them. x)
Talking about it I haven't seen any new enemies or bosses in a while...
Is there some kind of list about the new enemies & bosses? That way I can have 100% if I'm missing something.
 
Confirmed. I'm not finding any new bosses. Because I never fought the one on Hades materia. -.-
I don't like to follow walkthroughs because I prefer to play games on my own no matter how difficult they are, so that's why I've only noticed now. I've checked EQ2Alyza's videos on youtube a few times however, but only when I was really stuck, so I haven't seen any new bosses I might have missed. But I do know for sure that my game is just as hard as her's. I even have the equipment tweaks and materia tweaks like only being able to summon 1 summon per battle, etc.
I dunno how I could've gotten this difficulty and not the new bosses. O.o Anyway, to fix this I just need to re-install this mod again, simple as that, right? Dammit...
 
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Confirmed. I'm not finding any new bosses. Because I never fought the one on Hades materia. -.-
I don't like to follow walkthroughs because I prefer to play games on my own no matter how difficult they are, so that's why I've only noticed now. I've checked EQ2Alyza's videos on youtube a few times however, but only when I was really stuck, so I haven't seen any new bosses I might have missed. But I do know for sure that my game is just as hard as her's. I even have the equipment tweaks and materia tweaks like only being able to summon 1 summon per battle, etc.
I dunno how I could've gotten this difficulty and not the new bosses. O.o Anyway, to fix this I just need to re-install this mod again, simple as that, right? Dammit...
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materia, equipment etc is kernel based
enemy stuff is scene.bin based
new enemies need models in the battle.lgp

> only being able to summon 1 summon per battle
I don't remember THIS being part of the hardcore mod at all. How would he even code that?

the new bosses are based on just the flevel, so if you're not finding them, your flevel isn't patched.
 
materia, equipment etc is kernel based
enemy stuff is scene.bin based
new enemies need models in the battle.lgp

> only being able to summon 1 summon per battle
I don't remember THIS being part of the hardcore mod at all. How would he even code that?

the new bosses are based on just the flevel, so if you're not finding them, your flevel isn't patched.
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Yeah I've just re-installed and I have the new bosses now. I also thought I already had them not only because I've fought the White Chocobo but also because there's a monster near Rocket Town that gets bigger in size right after the battle starts, and another monster does the same in the grass area near Mideel. So I thought those 2 were part of the hardcore mode and thus I thought all bosses & monsters were already added since everything else I had was part of the hardcore mode.
And yeah, 1 summon per battle, you can see all the materias only have 2 stars.
 
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Note that by saying 1 summon per battle I don't mean 1 summon use for the entire battle, I mean 1 use for each summon materia equipped.
 
worldmap encounters are handled by a different file than the flevel ( which handles field encounters ) and new bosses are specific new battles that were previously debug or unused scenes.
I'm honestly too lazy to explain why exactly you can meet new monsters ( like size growing ones ) but not new bosses if you install the mod but dont patch the flevel
 
Squall, I'm curious. Did you see this pop-up during your Bootleg install? If so, did you select the options exactly as the image?

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Hi. Yes I did see that pop-up during installation, and yes I'm pretty sure I selected everything just like it's showing in your pic there.
I've tried to look just now for any .txt that could show the procedures it took during installation but I'm not finding it, or maybe I just deleted it.
Although I've already fixed the problem by re-installing the mod I'll be glad to help on finding out what could've gone wrong during install.
 
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Hum. Now that I think about it I still have the originals .lgp files on a separate place in case I needed them. I could have used the original flevel.lgp for some reason to install some other mod or something. Well, this is a "what if" anyway. I don't suppose I did this, not after I started using Bootleg. It was many months ago.
 
Yeah, there's no way of knowing at this point. In any case, good to see you solved it.
 
If you're only adding the hc mod you should be fine. Like myself, I don't care about that
Use bootleg if you want multiple mods. If you're in for difficulty, there are other mods that may sooth your needs.
 
To ease my curiosity, did you try with different partysetup?
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Nope, not for the boss on the Hades materia at least. I personally don't think that anything on character models could mess up with the bosses appearing or not, if that's what you're thinking. Btw, ff7.exe is also patched, right? What if it was something missing there, or not patched right? Or maybe some other mod that needed to do something on the ff7.exe too during the installation and somehow messed up a code on ff7.exe that enabled those new boss battles? xD Lol dunno, just saying. x)
 
I wan thinking about the last soldier fight before Hojo. I accounted for a party with or without CaitS as it is his event that triggers the fight.
The extra bosses are in flevel.lgp. The exe is only patched for the limit breaks.
 
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