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OK, got a question for you guys. I'm trying to learn how to edit events (character moves up, left, talks, ect..) in ff3 just for fun and maybe to actually make a hack eventually, but I'm having some problems. I'm using a combination of a hex editor and an event dumping program I got on LordJ's website to do so. I'm having some success, but I keep running into one particular problem. I'm trying to edit the first event of the game, you know the thing with Terra, Vicks and Wedge you have to go through at the beginning of the game, because I figure if you can't change the beginning you can't do anything really. Anyway, I've found where the first map loads and I can move Terra, Vicks or Wedge around, change dialog, even change the map, but I can't change party members and I can't keep it from going to the thing where the three character are marching toward Narshe while the credits role. All this data must be somewhere else but I can't find where. The command to make it go to that is AA and I found a couple places where that command is and changed them, but to no avail it's hiding. If anyone could throw me any ideas on what to do, that'd be great.

Ahhh... finally, a thread that ISN'T some rehash of the whole "lol wuts ur favrit (insert thing here)" fad, a fanboyish rant about some game, or a scam trying to get me to whore myself to businessmen in russia (which I did NOT fall for, no matter what anyone tells you!!)

The opening event you're editing is actually a sub-event called by a "main" intro event.

0x0A608F This is the pointer to the start of the introduction event.
0x0A6092 The snowfield event's this one.
0x0A6096 The event after the snowfield.

Just redirect the snowfield event to your own followup scene or whatever it is you want there, and you're set.

Edit: Though I haven't checked (and it's been a while; Endless Saga has been my main concern over ROM hacking lately) I could be off by a byte or two with the address. These are old notes with approximate addresses where I copied discoveries down real quick mid-hack. Just try to find the address which points to the start of the opening scene, and the snowfield one's right after it.

Well, back into lurking I go.

This post has been edited by Silverlance on 8th December 2005 04:33

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Awesome man, that seemed to have solved the problem. Let the real fun begin.