Changing the status menu portraits
Tools Needed
As with most graphic editing, a Tile editor is required. In this tutorial, we are going to use TileMolester ( http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~kenth/tm/ ), which requires Java runtimes. To get TileMolester, simply hit up http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~kenth/tm/#DOWNLOADS and get the TileMolester [Bin]. If you don't have the Java runtimes required, go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp and download the JRE 5.0 Update 1, not the JDK program, as the JRE allows average users to run Java programs while JDK is actually a tool for creating them.
Now, after the Java runtimes are installed, go to the folder where TM is located and simply run tm.jar.
If you have WinRAR installed, or another program that uses .jar files for something other than Java, it gets a bit tricker. If you know how, reset the .jar file association to the Java runtimes. If not, you can simply run the program with a DOS command line. To do that,
1. Open MS-DOS
2. Enter the command ' cd (directory/folder where TileMolester is installed, like c:\tilemolester) '
3. Enter the command ' java -jar (your TM filename, such as tm.jar) '.
You can also create a batch file with step three's command in it in the TileMolester directory, or download one here (remember to put it in the TileMolester directory). Now that everything's installed, let us get down to business.
Finding Portraits
Portraits, like anything else in the Chrono Trigger ROM, are stored at a certain offset within the game. But first, load the Chrono Trigger ROM within TileMolester. A window should pop up with garbled graphics and pixels. Now, we need to navigate to the correct offsets to find the portraits. This varies if your ROM is headered or unheadered (if you've ever edited it with Temporal Flux, it is unheadered, whereas if you just downloaded it off the internet, it is headered). Use these addresses accordingly:
Unheadered: 3F1D80
Headered: 3F1F80
This process should appear as so:
Now click OK, and the garbled graphics will scroll to the new address in the ROM.
