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Bosola
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You might not be aware of this, but in the vanilla FFVII, all enemy attacks are treated as short range. This includes attacks that use the 'magical' upper formula and attacks that lack the 'short range' flag. If it's an enemy attack (command type 0x20) and it uses the X1 formula, it's always treated as range-sensitive, with halved damage if either actor or target is in the back.
This might not be desirable. If you're creating a 'rebalance' mod that relies on a few enemy attacks being able to counter the use of the back row, it won't work as you expect. This was the problem I faced for my own PSX rebalance, Rebirth.
As such, and following the discussion here, I've written a little ASM hack to fix this behaviour. As I imagine most users will be modders themselves, I've chosen to distribute this as both a binary patch for the BATTLE.X file, and the assembler itself (for use with ARMIPS). You can download the BATTLE patch here.
Source
The assembler itself is as follows:
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You will need to use ARMIPS to compile this with a decompressed BATTLE.X, then you'll need to repack with gizp compression and re-add the header bytes to create an X file. The procedure is detailed elsewhere (I'm about to post a thread on it, in fact).
This file was made with the NTSC version, but as I believe the European PAL version uses the same BATTLE.X, it should work fine. I will need to investigate.
I have tested this patch myself, but it's always possible I missed something. If you have any issues, let me know in the thread below.
This might not be desirable. If you're creating a 'rebalance' mod that relies on a few enemy attacks being able to counter the use of the back row, it won't work as you expect. This was the problem I faced for my own PSX rebalance, Rebirth.
As such, and following the discussion here, I've written a little ASM hack to fix this behaviour. As I imagine most users will be modders themselves, I've chosen to distribute this as both a binary patch for the BATTLE.X file, and the assembler itself (for use with ARMIPS). You can download the BATTLE patch here.
Source
The assembler itself is as follows:
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.open "BATTLE",0x800A0000.psx.org 0x800ADA28.area $9C//check_long_range_attack lw v1, $0050(a1) nop andi v1, v1, $0020 bgtz v1, check_self_backrow ; if short range attack, check self/target backrow nop j 0x800ADAC8 ; else skip to next subcheck_self_backrow: lw v0, $0000(a1) nop sll v1, v0, 1 addu v1, v1, v0 sll v1, v1, 2 addu v1, v1, v0 sll v1, v1, 3 lui at, $8010 addu at, at, v1 lw v0, $83E4(at) lw v1, $0208(a1) ; start loading word for check_target_backrow (save space) andi v0, v0, $0040 ;v0 now contains self.isBackRow//check_target_backrow sll at, v1, 1 addu at, at, v1 sll at, at, 2 addu at, at, v1 sll at, at, 3 lui v1, $8010 addu v1, v1, at ;v1 contains address for lookup lw at, $83E4(v1) nop andi v1, at, $0040 ;v1 now contains target.isBackRow//do_comparison or at, v0, v1 bgtz at, reduceDmg ; if target.isBackRow || self.isBackRow, go to reduceDmg branch nop j 0x000ADAC8 ;skip to next sub nopreduceDmg: j 0x000ADABC ; sends to damage reduction subfunction nop.endarea.closeThis file was made with the NTSC version, but as I believe the European PAL version uses the same BATTLE.X, it should work fine. I will need to investigate.
I have tested this patch myself, but it's always possible I missed something. If you have any issues, let me know in the thread below.
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