Hey get back to ff8 :) The address I was watching was 0007B720. My first frame of battle input is 10899 and the value is 87. My battle is completely different than zanoab's. Taking actions or the enemy taking actions advances the value. As does waiting. You're right about the character switch button not advancing the value. I don't even know what that value signifies but more addresses would be helpful.
Having the ATB on wait makes sense for manipulating enemy commands. When I was testing this last year I tried stealing on every frame for 10 seconds and never got the correct item. It didn't seem to matter what the pointers address value was. I'm curious how anyone was able to steal the mage masher at all. I think about 100 people have done a test run of the first battle.
With a little bit of dedication (and a love for programming), I got most of the script done. http://pastebin.com/SCU8XgCR Lua is almost as strange as Unix but I got it working. If anybody knows how to convert the ints to hex/byte form, I'm ready to learn more. Feel free to add more to it. Also, I'm aware that I could remove the leading 0s in the addresses but I prefer full addresses so it is obviously an address. EDIT: This is my first time touching Lua and it is 2:39 AM so I think I did pretty good
I have to admit I'm kinda confuse with your desync problem. I don't know anything about emulators so I can't help with that but I've now tried for myself to play 2 differents movies on 3 differents computers over and over, and I always got the exact same lag frames and RNG, no desync at all. Do you use the latest version of psxjin ? Edit : I don't know anything about lua either but I hope that is going to help you solve your problem. Also I've made a little test run up to the sword fight : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Px_LUaivA and the sound is sometimes really annoying. Is there any way to correct that even if it's just for the encode and not while playing ?
Lil_Gecko, could you send me your movie file? I presume you're using the NTSC version (a CD-ROM version identifier would be nice)? I'd like to give this a try to see if I get the same result and if I can fix it. Also, I presume you're using PSXjin?
I must be really dumb. It took me 6400 frames (54 increases of the pointer) before a value fell into the 0-15 range. I did indeed steal the mage masher making me think I partially understand this. You guys seem to be doing it in 2 seconds max. I have RAM watch on address 0007B720. The value of that address (0007B720) at the start of my battle is 8007B857. I open RAM Search. I check the "Greater than or equal to" option button. (to get the full table of numbers... I think) Under "Specific address" I type 7B857. My results show: Address (0007B857). Value (11). . . My next (0-15) value isn't until Address (0007B88D). Value (0). Is this list static and created when I start a new game? Is my only option to find ways to increase the pointer faster? EDIT: After watching your input file and staring at all kinds of memory viewers I realize I have no clue what I'm doing.
Just delaying the moment you pressed new game by one frame is gonna give you a whole new list of numbers which may result on a faster steal. If not try delaying by 2 frames and so on.
I just wrote a lua program that let me know how to make critical hits and here's what I got. If Spirit is between........................................Random Number needed in the 4th byte 18-23.............................................................No critical hit possible 24-27.............................................................079 086 093 100 193 200 28-31.............................................................086 093 100 165 172 179 186 193 200 32-35.............................................................079 086 093 100 36-39.............................................................079 086 093 100 151 158 165 172 179 186 193 200 40-43.............................................................No critical hit possible 44-47.............................................................065 079 086 093 100 151 172 186 193 200 48-50.............................................................079 086 093 100 151 158 165 172 179 186 193 200 So my question is where would be the earliest place I can find something to boost the spirit of my characters ?
