ROM Hack FFIII Savegame Editing

[bspline]

Hi!
I'm using the savegame from the Japanese FFIII (no point in doing everything again...) with FFIII USA, and now my characters have crappy names like ]cO or a%5 since I was using the original japanese names.
Using an hex editor, I managed to find out the names and translate them, but as I suspected, now I have a CRC error. Anyone knows how to solve this? Thanks!

 

[safariman72]

Hi!
I'm using the savegame from the Japanese FFIII (no point in doing everything again...) with FFIII USA, and now my characters have crappy names like ]cO or a%5 since I was using the original japanese names.
Using an hex editor, I managed to find out the names and translate them, but as I suspected, now I have a CRC error. Anyone knows how to solve this? Thanks!

Put your japanese savegame back on and suffer the names (assuming you made a backup first), or play the US one from the beginning again.

The crc error is probably because your names are different lengths. So the save is looking for say 6 japanese characters and you changed it to 3 for example. So the file size is wrong. You could try lengthening your names in the game.

 

[WangJang]

If you know how to use Dipstar, i hacked these codes earlier, you can change the characters names easy with them:

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=8662&start=615

It works for all 4 Characters.

Example Rename to Defaults:

@ Mastercode
C0000000 023DF000
F202F060 E12FFF1E

@ (L +R) Disable Dipstar (Use Before Saving)
E4000130 100000FF
2202F060 E12FFF1E

Luneth:
120993D9 0000754C
120993DB 0000656E
120993DD 00006874
120993DF 00000000

Arc:
120996C5 00007241
120996C7 00000063

Refia:
120999B1 00006552
120999B3 00006966
120999B5 00000061

Ingus:
12099C9D 00006E49
12099C9F 00007567
12099CA1 00000073

 

[bspline]

Safariman: Yeah I made a backup

and length wasn't the problem, as I padded the missing HEX characters with SPACES, so everything still had the same length. Problem is CRC changed.

WangJang: Haven't tried Dipstar yet, will try as soon as I get home from work... Thanks a lot!

 

[FAST6191]

If you can not get dipstar to work (FF3 is wifi enabled which may cause headaches) the crc is most likely a CRC16 from the DS BIOS. Unfortunately this CRC16 is a custom one so you will have to define your own options, I use hex workshop so under custom CRC I define the following options and it works well (all the header crcs work so far):

What you have to CRC is up to you to work out (seeing what differences lie between a few slightly changed saves is probably the best way)

 

[Pikachu025]

I have the same problem, where would I be able to get that Custom CRC prog you have there?

Would also be useful for something else I'm trying for a while now (cracking Pokémon RuSa custom berries.

 

[bspline]

Wow, Dipstar is *really* above me. *Really*.

Anyway, the readme kinda says it's no use trying dipstar alongstar supercard (which is what I have).

Gonna try comparing CRCs of different files, *if* i can figure them out. As supercard dumps the entire 3 savegames in one file is gonna make my life a bit harder.

If anyone has other ideas, please say so!
Thanks!

 

[WunSick]

anybody know the location of gil, or levels? what offset by chance... ? FAST6191 got any info? can u check n see if u can make a crc app ?

 

[WangJang]

From a raw save (g6) but these are pretty useless without a way to correct the checksum

Item Slots Start: 0xC28
Gil: 0x1928
Play Time: 0x192C

Luneth:
Current Level: 0x7F
Current Experience: 0x80
Current HP: 0x88
Maximum HP: 0x8C

Arc:
Current Level: 0x7F + 0x2EC
Current Experience: 0x80 + 0x2EC
Current HP: 0x88 + 0x2EC
Maximum HP: 0x8C + 0x2EC

Refia:
Current Level: 0x7F + 0x2EC + 0x2EC
Current Experience: 0x80 + 0x2EC + 0x2EC
Current HP: 0x88 + 0x2EC + 0x2EC
Maximum HP: 0x8C + 0x2EC + 0x2EC

Ingus:
Current Level: 0x7F + 0x2EC + 0x2EC + 0x2EC
Current Experience: 0x80 + 0x2EC + 0x2EC + 0x2EC
Current HP: 0x88 + 0x2EC + 0x2EC + 0x2EC
Maximum HP: 0x8C + 0x2EC + 0x2EC + 0x2EC

 

[WunSick]

If you can not get dipstar to work (FF3 is wifi enabled which may cause headaches) the crc is most likely a CRC16 from the DS BIOS. Unfortunately this CRC16 is a custom one so you will have to define your own options, I use hex workshop so under custom CRC I define the following options and it works well (all the header crcs work so far):

What you have to CRC is up to you to work out (seeing what differences lie between a few slightly changed saves is probably the best way)

guess we can all play around...

 

[MrLucky]

Heh, I found a ff3 save-changer.
All my characters now hit 9999 =P

Yeah, anyone want it?
It's japanese/chinese, but I'm sure you'll understand what to do.
There's 2 of them, the second one seems easier to use:

http://rapidshare.com/files/4443789/save-c...av_ff3.rar.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/4443790/savech...-ff3ds.zip.html

 

[dakine]

i tried the savegame editor the second one but it crashes everytime i load the save file. Does it only work with M3 save files?? i'm using dsx sav file

 

[bspline]

The editor contains links to some japanese pages that did it for me!
I *haven't* used the editor to change anything on my savegame, just to follow the links. Somewhere over there (I'll find where later, at work now...) is a program that corrects the ff3 checksum. I used hexedit to change the names to what I wanted, then used the program to correct the checksum and it worked!

 

[Xeronage]

Anyone wanna translate it for me >_>? I can only read the Level/HP part

 

[ugly_rose]

The editor contains links to some japanese pages that did it for me!
I *haven't* used the editor to change anything on my savegame, just to follow the links. Somewhere over there (I'll find where later, at work now...) is a program that corrects the ff3 checksum. I used hexedit to change the names to what I wanted, then used the program to correct the checksum and it worked!

Ahh, issue solved then. Great.

Now, lets close this thread before a world of cheating is let loose.

 

[Pikachu025]

Great, that really seems to work! Now I finally have real names for my chars. Thanks!

 

[WunSick]

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[Xeronage]

Can someone translate the item files from japanese to english? The first link

 

[MrLucky]

Hmm...
Try using this:
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=86...r=asc&start=735

(scroll down)