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Yo, i recently downloaded the pc version of ff7 (see topic:that japanese video...) and, as it has been one of my greatest dreams to play as sephiroth, i downloaded a sephiroth patch by" teknoman", followed the instructions and installed it. but when i got into the game the patch only worked for the model you run around with, in battle i was still cloud, so i tried reinstalling it many more times with no joy. Does anyone know why that is? i have the latest version of ff7 and my version meets all the requirements specified by the patch. if you think you know how to fix this please post!! and also, if anyone knows of another patch OTHER than the teknoman one please post that. cheers.
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This post has been edited by EX-SOLDIER on 25th October 2006 17:00

I would really suggest trying to contact the guy who wrote the patch in the first place. However, I seem to recall that this was the actual designed functionality of the patch - I could be wrong, though.

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Quote (Rangers51 @ 25th October 2006 17:16)

I seem to recall that this was the actual designed functionality of the patch

If you mean that the patch is only meant to give you the field sephiroth (the one to walk around with, out of battle) then no, in the readme that comes with the file it says you get sephiroth to use in battle....but i dont.....

infact, here is that part of the readme:

What's Done?
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- Play As Sephiroth (In battle)
- Play As Sephiroth (In Towns, Buildings, etc... Note: His hair isn't quite right yet.)
- Play As Sephiroth with sword (In Towns, Buildings, etc... Note: His hair isn't quite right yet.)
- Original Sephiroth in battle replaced with Cloud
- Original Sephiroth in towns, buildings, etc... replaced with Cloud
- Original Sephiroth with sword in towns, buildings, etc... replaced with Cloud with sword
- Cloud In Wheelchair replaced with Sephiroth in Wheelchair (Note: His hair isn't quite right yet.)
- Character name is now Sephiroth by default instead of Cloud
- Music Swapped: LB1 (Bizzaro Sephiroth Fight) with BAT (Battle Music) and LB2 (One-Winged Angel) with CHU (Boss Music)
- Young Sephiroth replaces young Cloud in first Tifa & Cloud flashback (and all the other flashbacks)
- Young Sephiroth replaces young Cloud in Temple of the Ancients sequence
- Young Sephiroth replaces young Cloud in Cloud's Sub-Concious
- Small and large Sephiroth and Cloud images swapped on Menu
- Menu Text changed


This post has been edited by EX-SOLDIER on 25th October 2006 17:31

Quote (EX-SOLDIER @ 25th October 2006 17:27)

infact, here is that part of the readme:

The readme is correct. The functionaly of the patch is supposed to change Cloud's battle model into Sephiroth's, however, Michael MADE NO GUARANTEES that it would work. In fact he states that said patch is a WIP. As such there's going to be a few bugs and times where it doesn't work.
I've read other users have had the battle model work just fine though, including on mine, I wonder what's wrong with yours?
This is also rather unfortunate, since this is the only Sephiroth patch we know of, and he long since abandoned the project due to the sheer impossibility of some of the things he wanted to do. That, lack of interest, girlfriend troubles, the Shinra patch we worked on, and changing anything in the flevel file made it impossibly huge. (We still haven't figured anything around that. )
I'll bug him about it later. See if he has an answer.
I personally don't remember a thing about making patches anymore, it's been a long time, but you sure you're patching ff7.ips to ff7.exe properly? Because those are the files that should have the model code switched.

Not that you'd really want Sephiroth to be in place of Cloud, the animations for some actions are seriously messed up, especially the limitbreaks. I'd just bear Cloud in battle if I were you.

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