Big Shoes is a standalone Final Fantasy 7 stepgraph viewer written in Python.

You can now run this as a standalone application. Download the latest release, and run big_shoes.exe. Note that big_shoes.exe must be in this folder to work properly (it has to find some files), but you can make a shortcut to it.

To build as a standalone application, you will need Nuitka. Run the installer script __build_bigshoes.bat to build it big_shoes.exe.

To connect to an emulator, go to Connect > Connect to Emulator.

Select the emulator process and process ID from the first two boxes. Click "Show This Window" to make sure the correct process is being referred to. Make sure to select the correct version on the rightmost box.

To connect to the PC version, go to Connect > Connect to PC. If FF7 PC is running, it will connect.

To disconnect from FF7, go to Connect > Disconnect

View watches with Window > Watches

View the stepgraph with Window > Stepgraph

Use the mouse wheel to move left or right. Shift + scroll to scroll faster. Ctrl + scroll to change the y-axis danger scale. Alt + scroll to show more or less of the graph at a time.

Window > Formation Extrapolator.

This window displays the next 10 battle formations on this field.

Window > List Formation Types.

This window lists the possible formations on this field.

Big Shoes is compatible with:

• FF7 PC Steam Version
• DuckStation (requires manual address search)
• BizHawk 2.3.2 to 2.7 and 2.9.1
• Retroarch
• PSXFin v1.13