Project to hack in custom “wounded” sprites for the FFV heroes when they are Knocked Out. Has two phases: control the palette change so that it doesn’t always revert to Freelancer colors; insert new sprites upon KO, versus always using the same sprite (which will be used for Freelancer).

Findings Thus Far

The routine that loads the Freelancer palette on battle start, for hero #1.

C1:266F  B7 74     LDA $74    ; unclear how the value $74 is pointing at the palette
C1:2671  9D F6 EC  STA $ECF6  ; offset where the palette is stored in WRAM

Manually pasting a different 32 bytes of another palette here…

Does lead to it showing up on KO, versus the Freelancer palette!

Questions to Answer

• Where are the other 3 load routines for the other 3 “wounded palette” assignments?
• How does $74 correspond to the hero 1 Freelancer palette offset?
  • It can be at one of 5 locations in rom
    • $14A660
    • $14A920
    • $14ABE0
    • $14AEA0
    • $14B160
• Value in WRAM that indicates current Job for hero 1: $2001
  • ($2081, $2101, $2181 for the other three heroes’ Jobs)
  • need to write a custom routine to read this value, and
    • then move to the matching Job palette versus always Freelancer ($74)

Wounded Wardrobe Sprites v0.1