_________________________________ | HOW TO MOVE CITIES AND DUNGEONS | | ON THE WORLD-MAPS | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ v0.8 By ArmorVil Introduction: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ This is a document listing the offsets which serve as the coordinates of each town/dungeon in both world-maps. At first, I thought Yousei or Eizneckam included this function in FF3edit, but it doesn't appear to be working (for me, at least). So, I thought "What about a return to good old hand-on-hex editing ? :P" This list will help you reorganize the world-maps as you see fit. It's best used for a game hack, but you can also use it to rearrange the face of the world in the original game, triggering loveable freezes and such if you're not careful :) Just so you know, this document won't help you to edit the graphics of both maps - so the town's graphics will still be present at the old coordinates. For a serious hack, you'll thus need a tool to re-draw the maps. Good luck if you're stuck to using an hex editor for this matter, but there are no other perfect mean to do that, yet. There is FF3Edit, but the map editor is highly unstable - use it at your own risk. How to use this list: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Only two things appear in this list : ROM offsets and a description of each location. At each offset, you have two bytes to consider. The first one is the X coordinate, while the second byte is the Y coordinate. If the two bytes are 00 00, then the location will be at very top-left of the screen. So, of course, if the two bytes are FF FF, then the area will be at the bottom-right of the map. Use the map-editor in FF3Edit to have a better idea of the coordinates you should input (and of course, don't forget to convert decimals to hexadecimals). Now, here goes the list : WORLD OF BALANCE ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ +-------------+-------------------------------------------+ | ROM offset | Location description | +-------------+-------------------------------------------+ | 1FC102 | Chocobo Stable | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC108 | Chocobo Stable | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC10E | Chocobo Stable | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC114 | Chocobo Stable | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC11A | Narshe | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC120 | Cave to South Figaro (Figaro Castle area) | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC126 | South Figaro | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC12C | South Figaro | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC132 | South Figaro | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC138 | South Figaro | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC13E | Sabin's house | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC144 | Mt Kolts (South Figaro area) | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC14A | Mt Kolts (Returner Hideout area) | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC150 | Returners Hideout | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC156 | Crazy old man's house | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC15C | Barren Falls | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC162 | Nikeah | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC168 | Nikeah | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC16E | Doma Castle | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC174 | Doma Castle | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC17A | Phantom Forest (North) | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC180 | Phantom Forest (South) | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC186 | Phantom Forest (South) | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC18C | Crescent Mountain | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC192 | Kohlingen | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC198 | Kohlingen | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC19E | Mobliz | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1A4 | Colosseum creator's house | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1AA | Jidoor | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1B0 | Jidoor | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1B6 | Jidoor | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1BC | Maranda | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1C2 | Maranda | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1C8 | Tzen | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1CE | Tzen | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1D4 | Albrook | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1DA | Albrook | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1E0 | Zozo | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1E6 | Zozo | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1EC | Zozo | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1F2 | Opera House | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1F8 | Imperial Base | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC1FE | Imperial Camp | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC204 | Cave to the Sealed Gate | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC20A | Espers' gathering place | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC210 | End of boat trip enroute to Thamasa | +---------------------------------------------------------+ WORLD OF RUINS ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ +-------------+-------------------------------------------+ | ROM offset | Location description | +-------------+-------------------------------------------+ | 1FC216 | Chocobo Stable | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC21C | Chocobo Stable | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC222 | Solitary house | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC228 | Albrook | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC22E | Albrook | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC234 | Tzen | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC23A | Mobliz | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC240 | Daryl's Tomb | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC246 | Nikeah* | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC24C | Nikeah* | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC252 | Colosseum | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC258 | Cave to South Figaro | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC25E | South Figaro | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC264 | Kohlingen | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC26A | Kohlingen | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC270 | Cave in the Veldt | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC276 | Opera House | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC27C | Maranda | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC282 | Maranda | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC288 | Nikeah* | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC28E | Nikeah* | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC294 | Narshe | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC29A | Crazy old man's house | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC2A0 | Fanatics Tower | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC2A6 | Zozo | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC2AC | Zozo | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC2B2 | Zozo | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC2B8 | Jidoor | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC2BE | Jidoor | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC2C4 | Thamasa | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC2CA | Doma Castle | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC2D0 | Doma Castle | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC2D6 | Ebot's Rock | +---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1FC2DC | Duncan's house | +---------------------------------------------------------+ * Two offsets share WOR Nikeah's coordinates. My guess is that one of them is a mere copy of the other, and thus useless. What's lacking for a 1.0 version: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Where the heck are the coordinates of the Cave to South Figaro in South Figaro's area, and those of WOB Thamasa ? I looked but couldn't find them. Strange. The same can be said about Figaro Castle. There's no trace of it. Also, I'm glad I could list the imperial ship's destination when Terra and Locke ride it to Thamasa, but there are other times when your characters end up at a random location on the world map. On the World of Balance: - After the escape on the Lete River, you end up south-east of Narshe - When you jump in the Barren Falls, you end up at a specific spot of the Veldt - When you ride the BlackJack to the Empire, it lands north-west of Albrook - When the airship crashes after the Sealed Gate events, it hits the ground east of Maranda. On the World of Ruins: - When Celes takes the raft to the main continent, she ends up just east of Albrook. Oh, and Phoenix Cave as well as Kefka's Tower positions can't be edited that way as they must be events requiring the Falcon. And finally, the significance of the 4 bytes in-between those I list is lacking as of now. I could have run tests, but I'm getting lazy :P Closing document: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ --------- Thanks to --------- - Yousei for having created FF3Edit and hence for giving me the idea of moving cities around. - Mnrogar for hosting this document. --------- Copyright --------- This document may not be used and/or reproduced, in part or in it's entirety, on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without the author's advance explicit written permission. This document is for personal use only. Copyright 2005 ArmorVil (armorvil@hotmail.com) All rights reserved