This small utility does one thing: generating the WOB and WOR mini-maps like FF3Edit does. However, FF3EDit does not take into account a color switch for the Sealed Gate that has different colors in order to mask it with the water color after the continent lifted up.
It also does not take into account location masking for the Sealed Gate entrance, resulting in a white dot in the water. I altered slightly the palette (color 9) and the original color assignation and made a reassignation for a rectangle on the map which represent the Sealed Gate continent. This rectangle can be made custom with the utility. Default coordinate are vanilla Sealed Gate continent.
I had to sacrifice a color for the Sealed Gate continent, so 2 color are reassignated to color 8. This does not make a significant difference. I had to do this to have a matching location color I would mask, it was a tough choice between the two but figured on a custom map the choice I've made could have been the obvious one to do.
Default usage example: ff6mmgen.exe -r romname.smc
Cusomt usage example: ff6mmgen.exe -r romname.smc -x1 40 -x2 48 -y1 50 -y2 62
The custom example will mask a rectangle on the WOB mini-map when contientrise up, defined by (x1,y1), (x1,y2), (x2,y1), (x2,y2).
- x1 and y1 must be between 0 and 63
- x2 and y2 must be between 1 and 64
- x1 must be smaller than x2
- y1 must be smaller than y2
$EFE49B-$EFE8B2 World of Balance Minimap Graphics
$EFE8B3-$EFED25 World of Ruin Minimap Graphics
$EFED26-$EFFAC7 Daryl's Airship Graphics (relocated right after WOR mini-map)
$EFFAC8-$EFFBC7 Palettes for Ending Airship Scene (relocated right after Airship GFX)
$EFFBC8-$EFFEEF Unused Space (beginning could be used due to data shifting)
$EE9B0E: NOP
$EE9B0F: JSR $B1F7
$EE9B12: PLP
$EE9B13: RTS
$EEB1F7: STA $7EE1B0
$EEB1FB: STA $7EE1B2
$EEB1FF: RTS
- M = used on modified mini-maps
- S = used for Sealed Gate contient
ID Offset Description Hex value RGB value
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1- $D2EEA2: sea (M) $1084 (4,4,4)
2- $D2EEA4: land, dark (M) $294A (10,10,10)
3- $D2EEA6: land, medium (M) $35AD (13,13,13)
4- $D2EEA8: mountain edge (M) $4E73 (19,19,19)
5- $D2EEAA: location (M) $7FFF (31,31,31)
6- $D2EEAC: land, dark (S) $294A (10,10,10)
7- $D2EEAE: land, medium (S) $35AD (13,13,13)
8- $D2EEB0: mountain edge (S) $4E73 (19,19,19)
9- $D2EEB0: location (S) $7FFF (31,31,31)
10- $D2EEB4: mountain edge, light (M) $5AD6 (22,22,22)
color 2 -> color 6
color 3 -> color 7
color 4 -> color 8
color 5 -> color 9
color 10 -> color 8
color 1 -> color 6
color 1 -> color 7
color 1 -> color 8
color 1 -> color 9
- LeetSketcher for Mini-Map palette findings
- Yousei for FF3Edit source code (compression and minimap generation)
- giangurgolo for Zone Doctor source code (Rom and Bits classes)
1.1 - 03/10/2017 - Palette tweak, utility exception handling improvements
1.0 - 02/28/2017 - Initial release
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