Final Fantasy VII Code Question

[Insight]

hi everyone,

i just tried to hack the code for the potion mod,how much it shall heal you,the one from king edgar.
no luck.can someone explain me how he did this?

also i just wanted to know if its possible to make a code that breaks the hp and mp limit oO

[scarface200729]

Maybe make individual x,y coordinate codes. So, you start the search, then you move left a few spaces and do a different than search. then move up one, and do a equal to last search, then move right once and do a different to search. then left, then right, etc. Till you get your possibilities down.

Then do something similiar for the y coordinates.

[Insight]

not a position mod ^^ the potion mod:

Amount that potion heals you
801D219C ????

[ugetab]

Not "position" mod, "potion" mod. I misread it that way a few times too, but, whatever.

I believe that one would could more easily hack any of these in an emulator than a console. My guess would be that he tracked the writes backward through code, or ran the code until it was out of the function and then watched it go from the start of it. It had to have a basis for heal amount, and if he had enough data, he could potentially have just looked for the occurance of the highest known heal that a potion can do, or that number plus or minus 1.

edit:
woo, and I just noticed that the 'Ether' modifier has the wrong address, unless it's attached to the same number that potions restore.

[Lazy Bastard]

Doesn't potion hurt the undead? It's possible he performed simple RAM searches between when a character was and wasn't undead, if that's the case. For that matter, any other circumstance in which the effect/amount of healing/damage a potion causes is changed might have helped.

That aside, it would probably be more useful if he responded directly, heh.

[KingEdgar0]

Nothing that fancy. If I recall correctly I just searched for the amount that potions heal you and then went through all the results until I found it. Probably used some result narrowing like only checking addresses that had few or no other instances of the value near them.

I had a lot more patience back then

[Insight]

yes,thats exactly what i am doing too.i checked with my emulator...its all fine and it works....but i try to get this code working with codes on the pc version and it doesnt seem to work *sigh*
thats why i am asking.i read the guide for modifying items too,but still.nargh,doesnt seem to be that easy.

[Lazy Bastard]

Ah. So did I, yes...many indirect, inefficient hacks were made back then, heh. But sometimes, the only way to find something is the inefficient way.

[scarface200729]

A amount HP healed code would be easy. Exact amount search everytime the potion is used. Probably be easy to find even on a PSX gameshark pro.