Sources of info

1. ff6tools
   1. can change specific weapon and armor category equips
   2. making one change at time in
2. LunarIPS can make the patch from ff6tools changes
   1. change in code now can be measured in
3. IPSpeek
   1. app that shows which bytes are changed by an IPS file

Issues

Existing disassembly doesn’t have information on these bytes? Or, more likely: I’m not finding it somehow 😹

Here are the changes made by T92’s Better Job Equipment:

Five changes are made from this patch, and cross-referencing these w other data will yield what I’m after— pattern for Equips per Job.

Expected to see the Jobs’ data in the same order they appear in the Job Menu. This was confirmed.

However, extra data to represent the equip changes is written when ff6tools accomplishes the task; I don’t yet understand why, nor what these extra bytes signify.

Also mysterious is how T92’s work can effect these changes without the extra bytes seen when using ff6tools! I’ve much to learn.

Results

Change from Better Job Equipment

• Axes for Knight
  • 2D
    • 115708
• Swords for Dragoon
  • 15
    • 115714
• Bows for WhiteMage
  • 0E
    • 11572D
• Whips for Summoner
  • 21
    • 115739
• All gear for Mime
  • FFFF FFFF
    • 115758 → 11575B
    • elsewhere I’ve notes that suggest 2 bytes for weapons & 2 bytes for armor, so this makes good sense

Change When done in ff6tools (per Job)

• Axes for Knight
  • 2D
    • 115708
  • 9F3F 60C0
    • 00FFDC → 00FFDF
• Swords for Dragoon
  • 15
    • 115714
  • BB3F 44C0
    • 00FFDC → 00FFDF
• Bows for WhiteMage
  • 0E
    • 11572D
  • B73F 48C0
    • 00FFDC → 00FFDF
• Whips for Summoner
  • 21
    • 115739
  • 9F3F 60C0
    • 00FFDC → 00FFDF
• All gear for Mime
  • FFFF FFFF
    • 115758 → 11575B
  • DD3C 22C3
    • 00FFDC → 00FFDF