You mean you need a table?

There are pretty much identical, except you can't access the "hidden side" of font in the us version, just because it's wasn't used anymore and thus removed for improving compression rate.

Let me get this straight: You're cloning FFVII's engine? Not meaning you're "remaking" the game? Or am I just confused?

This is really an interesting project idea and it looks like it's come a long ways already. However, I have a question that I ask really out of curiosity because I don't fully understand, so don't take as anything else but.

What exactly is the purpose or ultimate goal of the project from your perspective? I understand you are recreating the FFVII game engine to run with all the original data files. What is your overlying goal though? Is this to preserve being able to play FFVII on modern PC's? Is it to enhance the game?

I know what the project is doing, now I'd like to know from your perspective WHY you are doing it?

There are numerous issues with attempting to run FF7. Although possible to do on several platforms through emulation, the windows port, was really bad and had numerous execution issues, this article might be helpful with that discussion.  We needed something to be portable, that is the target is numerous other platforms. The big issues is the engine needed to be highly fault tolerant, a very important issue with modern PC's it would seem and the old version of the FF7 engine for windows.  Some odd issues with running FF7 include, 16bpp verses 32bpp, viewing movies (a big problem on the PC version), the duck video encoder (has numerous ... issues ). Lots of things that you have to do to get the PC version to work.  Then comes other platforms such as Linux, the Palm, GP2X etc.  However the biggest reason of all is ... we wanted to do it already.

Final Fantasy 7 is the first in a series of games for the engine(s).  This is/was primarily for developing skills and tools using our favorite game and one that has been picked apart by us already, others are planned and are being worked on as well.  It's progression has been quite fast, but it's more rolling down hill since the guts of FF7 had been hashed out on for 3-8 years prior to this.  SCUMMVM as you know runs several different versions of a similiar code and engine from broken sword to Maniac Mansion.  Q-Gears will be something like that, since Square did not throw out the engine completely but recycled the ideas and concepts as they developed new games.  It appears the scripts are similiar or close enough in function that the structure of the engine will be recyclable (a good thing really).  In fact it is suspected that FFXII still uses bits and pieces of there code ideas from FF7.

Interesting trivia, FF7 was coded in C++.
Another interesting bit of trivia, FF7's original complete PS1 source code and data, is LOST (IE Square ... managed to loose it after it went gold). Square now is much more rigorous in there method of handling there most valuable assets.

Cyb

Well one of the people went crazy (hence why it is so far along) currently we are pondering (as opposed to bickering LOL) what the deal is with the battle system.

More trivia, the script for the field is OOP based.  It uses entities of which each are limited to 32 total scripts, the first of which is the instantiation (creator) script/timer script.  Square appears to have had trouble using the gateway system they initially created so they added more scripting to take care of the limit of only 12 entrance/exits per field local.

The script codes for the battles has completely different encoding and opcodes.  All battle scripting is in \\BATTLE but... oddly not the battle scenes. (STAGEXXX has these).

Well I suppose you could make new games for the engine.  Square used the original engine they had to it's furthest possible extent.

Our primary concern is to make an engine to run this game (and games) before anything that can goes extinct.

Additions such as script debugging, compilation, and dissasembly are to be pondered after the engine is complete.

IE add ons/tools we already have one or two, there may be more after a while.

As for entity/script dumping we are discusing proper syntax for it.  Using the opcode names seems a bit unpolished so we are looking at cleaning up things to look more presentable.  Creating something to take labels and lexical elements is not beyond my reach, however first the rest of the engine namely the battle module, needs finished. The latter is the really big and challenging part.

Cyb