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[FFIVGUY]

I am currently hacking Final Fantasy the 4 Heroes of Light and trying to find out where the addresses for where the number of monsters in the encounter and which monsters are being fought. I got into a random encounter and did a byte unknown value search since I was scanning in decimal and I knew that goblins are probably 0 in memory and either falcons or blood bats are 1 in memory. during the second random encounter I did a changed value search since there were different monsters and kept doing that for a while, but it was taking forever so I abandoned the scan in search of an easier way to narrow down the results. I don't know how encounters handled in final fantasy games. I'm not sure if there are two separate addresses for the amount of monsters and the ids of which monsters are present in that battle of both of those values are stored in a single 4 byte value. It's not just Final Fantasy the 4 Heroes of Light I want to find the address for, but for Final Fantasy I, II, III and so on. Hopefully this is enough information to help me find the values.

[Dark Byte]

Try finding enemy health. Related values are usually stored nearby

[FFIVGUY]

[FFIVGUY]

I found enemy (in-battle) health, but every time I reload the game/save the address changes. This is also the case for player in-battle health

[Dark Byte]

Maybe you're lucky and the game only uses a 1 level pointer for that.


e.g find health and do an unknown initial value scan
reload the game and find health again

scan for a value that increased/decreased by the amount that the health address changed
repeat a few times until you got a handful of addresses that could potentially be used for what you need.

Now just find a way to use that address you found and the health difference to get to the current health

[MarieDaves]

Thanks for the advice, I will keep it in my mind.

[MarieDaves]

It is very helpful advice.