Originally posted by Bludvarg:

Alright, I deleted and reinstalled the game. It runs fine, as expected. Now, using the links in the original post, I'm going to reinstall the mods via the manual installs. Just so we're clear, the versions listed above have already been altered, correct?

I'm going to have to redownload FFVI Explore as well, now that I think about it.

Edit: I've now installed the mods just as I had them. I'll test more thoroughly later, but everything appears fine for now. As stated above, I've only used what's listed in the original post, from the manual installers. I see the dates of the last edits for the music files are 8/31, so I'm guessing they are the altered versions, as I thought. At least, until I get an answer, that's what I'm going to assume.

The alternate Blitz patch is still acting the same, though. I just tried to install it and it disappeared again. Just like before, it didn't even get to the textbox prompting the selection of main.obb. Not sure what's going on there.

Hey all of the downloads are the latest versions with hotfixes already applied. Glad to hear the music is finally working for you again. I'll take a look into the blitz ui problem, not sure why the installer is crashing; but ill try to recreate it on my end. Just curious, what patch did you install just before the alternative blitz ui patch? Are you able to install any more patches on top of the game since the crash?

Originally posted by Bludvarg:

Uh...well. I thought maybe I was just getting a string of songs not working, but after I tested a few, ALL of the music is now gone. The first one listed that didn't work was Awakening, followed by The Mines of Narshe. Apparently everything after that point too, but given that I then went back to the beginning and tried to play Prelude, hell, even exiting out altogether to walk around the cave, and nothing is playing whatsoever, I'm thinking there's a corruption somewhere in my code. Yes, I double checked the audio levels up at the top, and both sets are set to 'high'. The sound effects play just fine.

Keep in mind, this is the NOS pack right now. It comes to mind that I should probably try to replicate this with the AWR pack again and see what doesn't play there. I'm willing to bet it's going to be the same tracks. So I suppose I'm going to try that first, take notes, THEN do a fresh install of the game and mods.

Hey, thanks for the update! The manual install package has two individual patches for the music packs (NOS/AWR) maybe before doing the hard reset, try using each of those packs to see if it mitigates your problem. This is most definitely a first; even the bugged tracks from before would play every time, they just wouldn't loop because their loop points came in too late. There's gotta be some kind of corruption going on, if it were that many tracks there's no way we wouldn't have found that out in testing. The music packs have been ready since April... if the solo installers dont fix your problem, theres gotta be something more going on. Although this is also good news to an extent because we are getting closer to fixing the problem. Keep me posted!

Originally posted by Bludvarg:

Originally posted by solfizz:

Hmm, I have Avira antivirus and before it would quarantine pretty much every .exe patch for FFVI until I asked Avira to stop. Could it be that whatever antivirus program you're using is auto-quarantining specifically that one patch?

Apparently not, as neither seemed to pick up anything or have anything in their records.

Oh man, this is all kinds of strange... What are your specs again? 64-bit or 32-bit installation of Windows? Have you checked your drivers? I'm just wondering because I'm a bit stumped at the moment as to what could be causing all of these issues for you and I really want you to be able to enjoy the mod to its fullest potential. Like as far as I know from all the feedback loops for the mod I'm currently plugged into, this is the only case of this and I really want to find out what it is that is making this so different for you just in case others are experiencing these problems. Do you have access to another computer you can try the mod package on just to see if it hooks? All you'd need to check is a potato. I'm at a point where I'm wondering if your PC may be experiencing some kind of previously undiagnosed difficulties, but I remain dedicated to trying to solve this problem!

Originally posted by Bludvarg:

I did all of the above up to the Audacity part...it plays the entire track, right down to the Pokemon Center jingle at the end...while I didn't hear THAT part in the game, I do have a theory. Is it possible that, instead of starting the track fresh at the start of every battle, it's picking up at one of the loop points? If so, it could be I'm just running out the length of the song and the game never starts it back up after a certain point, or after the loop point gets hit so many times, it just stops. Again, not sure, just speculation, but it seems like a programming quirk. Whether it's mod-related or Square Enix code related, I'm not sure (though given my propensity to break Final Fantasy games, I'd assume the latter...). I could still upload my copies of the music files, though, if that'd help.

I'm learning all sorts of new skills while trying to play this 24 year old game...

Edit, much later: Here's the Google Drive link to the music files, as a .7z file

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XK3bLqnS_7-litT_D5GUMDtP0wKIpJ0-/view?usp=sharing

If there's anything wrong with them, I can't find it. Then again, I don't really know what I'm looking for, either. I will say, though, that if one file is bad, it's likely others are too. I only noticed the problem with the battle music, but this problem could very well be bigger than that.

Hey I checked out the file and even patched it into my own installation and theres been no issues with it. The loop points are properly set. Before you installed the mod, was your main.obb fresh or were you previously using an extracted copy with the alpha release of the Sprite mod? At this point I'd try uninstalling the game, deleting its local folder and then reinstall the game and the mod to see if the issue disappears. If it doesn't I'll have to go back to the drawing board, because looking at the files both the track and the patch I can see no reason as to why this is happening...

One way you may be able to test if your installation is corrupt is to use a tent. If Terra in esper form appears on a raft instead of the character using the tent, you'll know for sure although this most likely doesn't happen every time, but did for me the only time during the creation of this mod when my installation was corrupted.

Either way, the only way it would seem that this can be potentially fixed is by uninstalling the game and deleting the final fantasy 6 folder and starting over fresh. Let me know how it goes!

Originally posted by Jamers:

Firstly THANK YOU so much for all the hard work on this! This is one of my most beloved games and it's great to get a new take on it.

I've only played the mod briefly, but I noticed that I wasn't able to perform most of Sabin's Blitzes. I can do Pummel (Raging Fist) without issue, but any of the "slidiing" D-pad input ones like Aurabolt and Flame Dance fail every time.

There was a trick to simplify these on SNES/emulators (and I don't recall whether it worked on the Steam version, as it's been a while), but you could punch in individual directions instead of a rolling input, like Down, Down, Left for Aurabolt instead of that rolling from down to left. That doesn't seem to be working either.

Has this mod modified anything that would affect the behavior of performing Blitzes? Changed the battle speed in such a way that the input might be thrown off or anything like that?

Thanks again!

Hey the mod removes the visual indicators for Sabins blitz UI and it would seem that this has been affecting peoples accuracy. There is an alternative blitz UI patch in the manual patches that should help you improve your accuracy, as well as in the extras folder of the hybrid mix. If you don't have it, you can download the single patch here:
https://mega.nz/#!sx5UFCiB!TSy_ZbctDdlmqU-PUG8IkWC5mGXi274kJ3VoBVniJAo

EDIT: you're very welcome btw! Thanks for playing! :)

Originally posted by Bludvarg:

I had the battle music problem again, and out of curiosity, I tried to play the song through the config menu to see if I could force it to work manually. As it turns out, the track is muted there, too. Everything else seems to play just fine, just not the battle music, and seemingly randomly at that.

That's really weird... Do you have FFVI_Explore? If so, I'd like you to point it to the main.obb file in your FF6 install folder and to extract everything from the main.obb file using the tool's extract all feature. Open the folder with the extracted content and open the sounds folder and go to track s036.akb - open it in Audacity (or any other music editing software) and see if it plays.

I'm trying to figure out if this is a corrupted track in your package or if it's something else. If it plays, I'd like you to try revalidating your files, download the latest package you were using and try installing the mod again. If it doesn't play I'd like you to upload the track so I can further examine it.

Originally posted by Bludvarg:

Has there been a fix for the 16:9 switch for the reshader? I haven't got this to work and I've tried three different versions of it. I've been stuck with the original resolutions this whole time.

I still haven't found how to fix the toggle on keyboards that have been unresponsive to the toggle key, but a quick fix to swap the aspect ratio is to open the ReShade folder and open the file "BasicFX.cfg" scroll down to Magnify and the first line under its header will be set to 1 (16:9) or 0 (4:3) depending on your ReShade (NOS defaults to 16:9, AWR defaults to 4:3), change the number to match the aspect ratio you would like to play in and save the file. That manually enables/disables the aspect ratio. You can alt tab out of the game at any time, change the value, save the file and alt tab back into the game to switch. It's not a sophisticated fix, but it will take care of you for now until we can address this issue!

AWR - NOS solo installer package now up to date with all hotfixes applied.

Originally posted by Sdub:

Originally posted by kvg88:

100%. All this little patch will do is give you some indicators for Sabins blitzes. It wont change any other parts of the mod.

Awesome! Thank you so much. Ill report back. I've never struggles with doing Aura Blast so I'm super confused.

I'm using a Logitech F710 and I find the d-pad doesn't work that great for blitzes on this. I'm going to rig up my 8bitdo controller tonight and see if it's a d-pad issue or a game issue.

Manual Installations package has been updated to include recent hotfixes to the music packs and NOS NPC pack. As always, hotfixes are still live for those who already have the packages downloaded.

The remaining package (NOS solo installer) will be updated this evening to reflect all current changes, but if anyone is in a rush they can download the Manual package and follow this install flow:

Drag and drop ReShade and Font - Defilter - Install sprites A, B and C - Install Battlebacks - Install UI Removal - Install Music pack.

Thank you for your time! :)