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A few issues w/ the mod:
*In the opening sequence they guy mentions Yellow Scarves, then Yellow Turbans about 2 sentences later.
*The colors are really funky for towns. Makes me feel really… groovy :hook: but they’re also kind of hard on the eyes.
*The people are… red! Maybe consider doing some touch ups on the colors in paint?
*gold…coins = at the end of every battle is annoying!
*Not sure which way to go first, there seem to be many routes to go, but it definitely takes a lot of grinding up front not to get clobbered by people. I walked east to a gate, got killed. Then walked south to a castle, got killed. Walked into a cave and the level of the guys kept me retreating all the way through it just to get out alive with 3 officers left.
*Now my armies are starving…
*Can’t seem to scratch the Hu/Qiang tribe before my party gets destroyed, I even have Li Su w/ 400 guys, but now I have 10 gold, 246 food which won’t last me back to the gate, and 2 officers I don’t have the money to resurrect. This mod is brutal..
*Getting gold/exp is really hard vs. these guys, I keep losing my officers
*Can’t afford resurrects at the rate my guys are dying…
*Powdr should be Powder
*Finally got all my guys revived, down to 79 gold, 0 food…. will have to try fighting inbetween starvation.
*Tried a final try to beat the Qiang with 300 food to get me there. I got them down to 1 officer and my army was wiped out. Now I have a whole army dead, no money, no food, and I can’t beat the first gate. I’m gonna break from this mod as there are some major issues that need to be addressed.My *FIX* suggestion: Up the amount of food, gold, and experienced gained in this area if you’re going to leave the first battles so hard. All of the officers here just spank you and it’s impossible to keep up with that amount of depletion. Until this mod gets some work, I probably won’t be playing it again anytime soon.
A Romhacking guide change was done because the current officer stat system using: LDR, POL, etc is broken. I added the original version of the item drop code for coding along with some notes on the version that MiDKnighT created for use with POL.
— Spoils of War – POL version (uses POL to determine drop rate)
Credit: ludmeister (with some minor additions by MiDKnighT)It requires at least a 512K ROM, and uses page 1E for its work.
0x3a547:
Code:"A900 8573 20D79A A202 1E0005 38 7E0005 CA 10F6" -> "a91e 2082c4 200d82 2095d4 ea a900 8573 20d79a"0x7a530:
Code:A200A9009D05629DAF60E8E006D0F560
00000000000000A90E2082C44C50A5EA
2082C400000000000000000000000000
2020A52050A6A2021E0005387E0005CA
10F6A92EC500F00FA5AD65604A65AF65
10297FC56E3005A90E4C40A565AE4A65
61651165AD290F856EAD3670AACA8A29
070A0A0A0A656E856EEAEAEAA5AE6552
651165626563297FC9153010A56EA8B9
D0A5856EA900856F4C37A5EAA56EA8B9
50A6856EA900856F4C37A5EA00000000
31313131313131313132303030282B2C
313131313131323232303030282B2C38
323232323232323330303028282B2C38
323232333333303028282B2B2C2C3838
32333333333330302828282B2C2C3838
33333333333334303028282B2C2C3838
34343434343434303028282B2C2C3838
343434343434302128282B2B2C2C3838
AD9060AABD2064C900D005A908856E60
4A4A4A4A856E600000000000000000000x7a560: This contains the algorithm guts. It decides whether something was found, and if so, whether it was a rare drop or not. Then, it picks a random item from 0 to 15, and gets that item from the correct chapter. Extra chapters are treated as the normal chapter of the same rank (Extended Wu would be treated as Wu).
0x7a5e0 – 0x7a65f: These are the random common drops. 8 regions, 16 items per region. This item table just has ordinary items (Elixirs, Gullwings, Steeds, Power Pills, Revives, and Smoke Pots), except for one Red Hare in Wei's region.
EDIT: Alternately, this table weaves in some gold and ration drops:
Code:01010731313131313132303030282B2C
010208313131323232303030282B2C38
020309093232323233303028282B2C38
03040A3232333333303028282B2C2C38
04040A33333333303028282B2C2C3838
04050A0B3333333334303028282B2C38
05060B0C34343434343028282B2C2C38
060C0C34343434213028282B2C2C38380x7a660 – 0x7a6df: These are the random rare drops. 8 regions, 16 items per region. You will probably want to make these more helpful drops, such as equipment, as they can be offered rarely and thus can be made to not totally break the game. The format for this table is exactly the same as the common drop table.
Party leader's POL attribute affects how often items are dropped. If your party leader has higher POL you will get more item drops.
You can change the ratio of rare to common drops. The value to change is in this instruction:
Code:1E:A59C:C9 15 CMP #$15This is the chance, out of 128, that this current drop is rare, as when execution reaches this instruction, we know we are receiving a drop. Change 0x7a5ad, making the value smaller to make rare drops more rare, and larger to make them more common. If you change this value to greater than 0x40, you would be making "rare" drops more common than "common" drops– silly you :geek: . Default chance for this drop to be rare is 20/128, or 5 out of 32.
3. Obviously, you can change the items that drop. It does seem that you can make more gold coins or food rations drop. I don't recommend that you allow reception of items that you cannot sell or discard :wink:
— Spoils of War Original (does not use POL to determine drop)
Credit: ludmeisterFirst, here are the Hex changes to the ROM. It requires at least a 512K ROM, and uses page 1E for its work.
0x3a547:
Code:
“A900 8573 20D79A A202 1E0005 38 7E0005 CA 10F6” -> “a91e 2082c4 200d82 2095d4 ea a900 8573 20d79a”0x7a547:
Code:
a90e 2082c4 4c50a5 ea 2082c40x7a560: This contains the algorithm guts. It decides whether something was found, and if so, whether it was a rare drop or not. Then, it picks a random item from 0 to 15, and gets that item from the correct chapter. Extra chapters are treated as the normal chapter of the same rank (Extended Wu would be treated as Wu).
Code:
a202 1e0005 38 7e0005 ca 10f6 a5ad 6560
4a 65af 6510 297f c908 3005 a90e 4c40a5
65ae 4a 6561 6511 65ad 290f 856e ad3670
aa ca 8a 2907 0a 0a 0a 0a 656e 856e eaeaea
a5ae 6552 6511 6562 6563 297f c915 3010
a56e a8 b9d0a5 856e a900 856f 4c37a5 ea
a56e a8 b950a6 856e a900 856f 4c37a5 ea0x7a5e0 – 0x7a65f: These are the random common drops. 8 regions, 16 items per region. This item table just has ordinary items (Elixirs, Gullwings, Steeds, Power Pills, Revives, and Smoke Pots), except for one Red Hare in Wei’s region.
Code:
31313131313131313132303030282B2C
313131313131323232303030282B2C38
323232323232323330303028282B2C38
323232333333303028282B2B2C2C3838
32333333333330302828282B2C2C3838
33333333333334303028282B2C2C3838
34343434343434303028282B2C2C3838
343434343434302128282B2B2C2C3838EDIT: Alternately, this table weaves in some gold and ration drops:
Code:
01010731313131313132303030282B2C
010208313131323232303030282B2C38
020309093232323233303028282B2C38
03040A3232333333303028282B2C2C38
04040A33333333303028282B2C2C3838
04050A0B3333333334303028282B2C38
05060B0C34343434343028282B2C2C38
060C0C34343434213028282B2C2C38380x7a660 – 0x7a6df: These are the random rare drops. 8 regions, 16 items per region. You will probably want to make these more helpful drops, such as equipment, as they can be offered rarely and thus can be made to not totally break the game. The format for this table is exactly the same as the common drop table.
Helpful tips to make Battle Spoils work for you
1. You can make all drops more or less common. The value to change is in this instruction:
Code:
1E:A567:C9 08 CMP #$08This determines the chance, out of 128, to gain an item. Change 0x7a578, making it larger to make drops more common, and of course make it smaller to make drops more rare. Default drop chance is 8/128, or 1 in 16.
2. You can change the ratio of rare to common drops. The value to change is in this instruction:
Code:
1E:A59C:C9 15 CMP #$15This is the chance, out of 128, that this current drop is rare, as when execution reaches this instruction, we know we are receiving a drop. Change 0x7a5ad, making the value smaller to make rare drops more rare, and larger to make them more common. If you change this value to greater than 0×40, you would be making “rare” drops more common than “common” drops– silly you :geek: . Default chance for this drop to be rare is 20/128, or 5 out of 32.
3. Obviously, you can change the items that drop. It does seem that you can make more gold coins or food rations drop. I don’t recommend that you allow reception of items that you cannot sell or discard :wink:
I have tested this algorithm, and it will not bork the game if you don’t have any space to put the item; it will just scream at you with the default message saying that you don’t have any more room.
Here is a list of item ID’s you can use:
00 ~*006038 coins [glitch]
01 ~96 coins
02 ~237 coins
03 ~592 coins
04 ~1013 coins
05 ~1533 coins
06 ~4028 coins
07 ~29 food
08 ~125 food
09 ~821 food
0A ~2011 food
0B ~5902 food
0C ~10151 food
0D ~2098390 food
0E ~2148799 food
0F ~*86607 food [glitch]
10 [blank] ->
16 [blank]
17 Silver Key ->
18 Silver Key
19 Gemsword
1A Ma Letter [???]
1B Gun Powder
1C Intro Letr
1D Iron Ore
1E Dead Wood
1F Saltpeter
20 [glitch]
21 Chi Tu Ma [Red Hare]
22 Zhou Letr [Zhang Ltr]
23 Gold Key
24 Gullwing ->
28 Gullwing
29 [blank] ->
2A [blank]
2B Smoke Pot
2C Steed
2D Resurrect -> (glitched, use 30)
30 Resurrect
31 Elixir A
32 Elixir B
33 Elixir C
34 Elixir D
35 Power Pill ->
38 Power Pill
39 Dagger ->
40 Dagger
41 Flail [Club]
42 Ax [Ax]
43 Club [Mace]
44 Spear [Flail]
45 Sabre [Spear]
46 Trident
47 Bow
48 Sword
49 Battleax [Great Ax]
4A Scimitar
4B Crossbow
4C Lance [Dadao]
4D Wan Sheng [Wansheng]
4E Bo Ye [Boye]
4F Qing Guang [Qingguang]
50 Nu Long [Nulong]
51 Qing Long [Qinglong]
52 Halberd
53 Robe ->
59 Robe
5A Leather ->
5B Leather
5C Padded ->
5D Padded
5E Ring M ->
5F Ring M
60 Chain M ->
61 Chain M
62 Splint M ->
63 Splint M
64 Plate M ->
65 Plate M
66 Bandana ->
68 Bandana
69 Cap
6A Hood
6B Wood H
6C Copper H
6D Bronze H
6E Iron H
6F Steel H
6F [glitch] ->
7F [glitch]
80 “I found a small keyhole.” ->
FF “I found a small keyhole.”You’re still working on this? You need to post some screenshots and give your mod a name. “untitled rotk2 remake” makes it sound like you haven’t even started modding it.
How about something like “Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2 – Awakening” Mod
Current IPS patch 1.2 doesn’t is having issues 1/11/2014 applied it to a clean rom after expanding in DOAEditor and it has issues working again with DOAEditor
First of all, I like how the forum is actually running decently nowadays. I think everyone went on hiatus when the website wasn’t loading. At any rate, I noticed an issue with posting link/images, etc. When you paste the link the box that appears with the image for example, it automatically pastes your link at the bottom of the page. Any way to have this paste wherever the cursor is currently at on the page?
It’s just really annoying when editing pages on the Romhacking guide because you lose your spot in the pages of text if you paste an image using the code.
:huohu: Flames of Wu Mod updated! New features inclhuohude: :huohu:
*New dual colored menu/status screens
*New “Spoils of War” addition which allows for a *RARE* case where extra gold, food, or items will drop
*New portraits
*Items now sell for 50% of their original value instead of 75%
*Portrait modifications to a few characters whose portraits didn’t fit the style of the others.Also, Penguin…how do I set an Inn up at like Hulao Gate? Is it an event code to put after the person’s text? I see Xu Yuan listed it but says it’s too expensive lol.
Sorry for the delayed response on this one, but you need to have the INN text there otherwise it prices it beyond reason.
[VALUE][INN-CST][INN-CST-2] + gold coins?
You also need the event ID at the end for it to rest you:
[EVENT-5991]
So your text would essentially look like this:
Want to rest for
[VALUE][INN-CST][INN-CST-2] gold coins?
[EVENT-5991]Added to the guide:
— Dual Colored Font
Credit: ludmeisterI have successfully hacked the font loading routines, and set the stage for a 2-bit font-set. Here’s a litany of what I’ve changed. Keep in mind, this requires an expanded font-set in 0×8010-0x880f (0×800 bytes).
0x7c39b: This will make font load 2-bytes-per-character at a time
Code:
“20B9C3 20CEC3” -> “4C7DC3 EAEAEA”0x7defb: This pointer originally pointed to Page 09, BA00. Pointing to Page 2, Starting at 8000.
Code:
“00BA” -> “0080”0x7deed: Page switch to 02, rather than 09.
Code:
“A909 2082C4” -> “A902 2082C4”0x7c687: Palette swap for status/army/battle screen. Not sure how much more. Other palettes will likely need tweaking.
Code:
“01200F200F200F200F170F170F372621” -> “012021110F2011210F220F320F372621”0x7c3a7: Font data changed slightly when going into status/army/battle screens. This guards against that.
Code:
“38” -> “60”For 0×8010-0x880f, go into FCEUX’s PPU with DoaE running, while your party is in the overworld, and copy 0×1000-0x17ff. Paste those bytes directly into the DoaE ROM.
EDIT: Here’s a screenshot of just enough done of the new font to take care of the numbers:
— Dual Colored Font AND Status Screen
Credit: ludmeister
NOTE: Using this requires the above section on Dual Colored font to be implemented prior to adding this codeThis palette swap is essential so that you can read the title screen. :smirk:
Code:
0x7c69c: “0F200F0F0F200F0F” -> “0F2021110F202111”Here is the hex code for the font, to be placed in 0×8010 to 0x880f (0×800 bytes):
Code:
7C0000D6E60000007CC6CE0000C67C00
30000030300000003070300000307800
7C00000C180000007CC606000030FE00
7C00001C060000007CC6060000C67C00
1C00008CFE0000001C2C4C00000C0C00
FE0000FC06000000FEC0C00000C67C00
7C0000FCC60000007CC6C00000C67C00
FE00001830000000FE060C0000303000
7C00007CC60000007CC6C60000C67C00
7C00007E060000007CC6C60000C67C00
00000000000000000000000000000000
38383C3F1F0F4000505456582F304F00
0000FFFFFF00000000FF00FF00000000
000000FFFFFF000000000000FF00FF00
00104410104410000010542828541000
1000BA38382800821010C64400544482
3800006CFE00000038386C0000C6C600
FC0000FCC6000000FCC6C60000C6FC00
7C0000C0C00000007CC6C00000C67C00
FC0000C6C6000000FCC6C60000C6FC00
FE0000FCC0000000FEC0C00000C0FE00
FE0000FCC0000000FEC0C00000C0C000
7C0000C0CE0000007CC6C00000C67C00
C60000FEC6000000C6C6C60000C6C600
30000030300000003030300000303000
06000006C60000000606060000C67C00
CC0000F0F8000000CCD8F00000DCCE00
C00000C0C0000000C0C0C00000C0FE00
C60000D6D6000000C6EEEE0000C6C600
C60000DECE000000C6E6F60000C6C600
7C0000C6C60000007CC6C60000C67C00
FC0000C6FC000000FCC6C60000C0C000
7C0000C6D60000007CC6C600007C0E00
FC0000FCD8000000FCC6C60000CCC600
7C00007C060000007CC6C00000C67C00
FC00003030000000FC30300000303000
C60000C6C6000000C6C6C60000C67C00
C60000C66C000000C6C6C60000381000
C60000D6FE000000C6D6D600006C6C00
C600001038000000C66C3800006CC600
CC00007830000000CCCCCC0000303000
FE00003870000000FE0E1C0000E0FE00
3C0000A1A100003C3C4299000099423C
3C0000A5B900003C3C42B90000A5423C
000000CCCC00000E0000780000CC7C0E
000000706000000000006C0000606000
000000E07800000000007C00001CF800
30000030300000003030FC0000301800
0000000C7C0000000000780000CC7600
C00000CCCC000000C0C0F80000CCF800
000000CCC00000000000780000CC7800
0C0000CCCC0000000C0C7C0000CC7C00
000000CCFC0000000000780000C07C00
18000030FC0000001834300000303000
000000CCCC0000780000780000788C78
C00000D8EC000000C0C0C00000CCCC00
00000000300000000000300000301800
00000000180000300000180000185830
600000787000000060606C0000786C00
30000030300000003030300000301800
000000B6B60000000000EC0000B6B600
000000CCCC0000000000F80000CCCC00
000000CCCC0000000000780000CC7800
000000CCCC0000C00000F80000F8C0C0
004040402C1816060000203010000002
C0A0512B160C1A30004020110A060D13
0060703E121E1E00E0908A442C1A2503
004020301D0F060D4000402024110106
107050F81C0E0703C0D03068140A0502
2070B09884C2613C605028647A251201
883030089C0E07022040C878340A0503
3866422123224682002A00420240A240
001CB89CCE67230000322C743A050200
00403A322A003800C08F182060464440
00082418540C01021040008E1B331F0E
00427E7E7E00242442A58100245A3C3C
44AA54287C2844006CFEFE7C007CEE44
42993C1818187E189924427E002424DB
01285A8D8D0C10100952A55200050800
0000387C3C381C007C06448222440200
3C182452A1A1817E000000105E5E7E00
01021F3F3F7F6100021C28404080D060
000082C468300000008244AA44281000
180C106D566C7C102412290180820028
1E267E5A7E5A7C002064001000080200
000002FFAD27020000000402548A0400
804020100804020140A05028140A0502
00003C70E0C00000000042A000400000
FE828282EE6C38008200383854280000
0028542814240C0420586C542A3A0800
10202A8050983A001830BAFA6EE44638
0008000440000000000C183C7C6E261C
0408387E0C1020400A14204204081020
BA80582008100008C680642014100808
3030F0FE1E1818002828EE00EE282800
287CFE7CFE3800004492008282001000
66000000000000006666880000000000
18000000000000001818200000000000
00000000000000200000000000181820
00000000000000000000000000181800
000000CCCC0000000000CC0000DC6C00
000000C66C0000000000C600006C3800
000000D6D60000000000D60000EE4400
00000078300000000000CC000078CC00
000000663E00003C000066000006463C
00000018300000000000FC000060FC00
60F0D048080402000060480004000402
385CBEBE9A4438003864C2C2E67C3800
384C968A82443800384C9E8A82443800
00400F1F3F3C3838004F302F58565450
0002F0F8FC3C1C1C00F20CF41A6A2A0A
1C1C3CFCF8F002000A2A6A1AF40CF200
5028349A3428500030188CC68C183000
0010826CBA54281000381082C66C3810
38F0EEEE1E3810002850200814283000
FEFEAAFEFE1800008200000082284000
386CC682C66C3800002854104C280000
3C66D8ACD66C38000024400844280000
7C7C5438383838004400004400380000
00000040400000000078400000000000
00000000180000000000000000000000
000000007E0000000000000000000000
1800001818000018183C3C0000001818
3C00001C180000183C66060000001818
00000008100000000002040000204000
38383838383838385050505050505050
1C1C1C1C1C1C1C1C0A0A0A0A0A0A0A0A
386CF6BADE6C38000028542854280000That was a bit of work, but was well worth it. Looks great! Perhaps this might inspire others to play with the palettes some more…
What address is the ppu editable for the blue/white mixture?
If you bring up the PPU Viewer in FCEUX, you’ll see the palettes at the bottom of the window. Those correspond to PPU Memory addresses 0x3f00-3f1f.
You can find the Status/Army/Battle screen palettes in the DoaE ROM at 0x7c687-0x7c696.
I think there is an issue w/ the Cao Cao Mod by James. I even tried an old version of DOAEditor then applying an old IPS patch 1.2… no luck, still get the above error. I think the coding was a LOT different when it was created.
BUT there is a problem with the current IPS 1.2 patch. I expanded a clean rom via DOAEditor, then applied the current IPS patch 1.2 1 then 2 and got an error in DOAEditor when trying to mod it.
So either I’m patching it wrong, or there is an IPS issue.
Okay, having some issues w/ the most recent IPS patch while trying to patch the “Cao Cao” mod by James.
1. Expanded rom via DOAEditor
2. Applied IPS patch 1.2 patch 1 then patch 2
3. Got this error when trying to open up the rom in DOAEditorEdit:
4. Just tried applying on old patch from early 2013, still having the same issue… let me check and see if it’s a DOAEditor issue…Heh, “if” is the key here as I’m still a little hung up on how its going to be made. If i just carbon copied the “Cao Cao Mod” and just inserted new graphics and applied IPS patch 1.2 and called it a day that would be one option. The other would be trying to make a new game with new maps, battles, focal points of the game, and such. You know
(Deleted Zhao Yun pic – his eyes were all wrong >_o)
In the meantime, how about giving your input for the 2014 Huo Hu Awards?
This would be a zoom in of the picture on the pixel level, aka each dot on the picture.
It allows you to produce more aesthetically appealing portraits in my opinion
Yeah, photoshop, but I could just as easily use paint. What makes the portraits turn out better and not so “blocky” is by lining up the pixels corner to corner rather than side by side/top to bottom. With The FCE blur effects, they come out really good using that method.
Well it did cross my mind actually. I just didn’t know how people would feel as I like to do total conversion mods which would also affect the storyline, order in which kingdoms are fought, etc. One thing I always wondered how he changed is making the officer who delivers the message about Yuan Shu into a recruit event because when I tried that it glitched so it had to have been more than just inserting [EVENT-E91C].
I was actually thinking of starting this mod ‘post’ Yellow Turbans since from what I understand Liu Bei’s armies took care of Cheng Yuanzhi and that crew, not Cao Cao, this way I can insert the battle with Lu Bu’s armies and such. What are you guys’ ideas? I’m still just tossing around ideas and have only been playing around with starting points and game progression a bit.
A much ‘crisper’ version of Zhang Liao has been made as well.
New:
Original:
(2) To avoid being influenced, I don’t play other mods. I wouldn’t want to accidentally borrow things from other mods.
That’s a bunch of Huo Hu Powder if I ever saw it! Actually, I’ve got a ton of ideas I ripped off of other people’s mods that “worked”. Why reinvent the wheel, the axle, and the armadillo? If it works, by all means use it! In retrospect, my earliest mods were major suckage… It was only after I played other mods like Ludmeister’s Remix, Yuan Shao’s Revenge, the Yuan Shu Mod, and even the crappy Lu Bu Mod which totally overstatted people (but made me realize how I needed to balance my own mods) all helped me make changes to dialogue, maps, tactics, and more! :LiuBei:
