Category: Final Fantasy

  • New Game Plus Modding Community Launches Site Redesign

    But Longstanding Forums Have Apparently Been Taken Down, Citing User Migration to Discord [Update: Read-Only Forum Archive Apparently Reinstated]

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    Preview of the site redesign

    Says Kaffe, web designer of New Game Plus (NGPlus), in an announcement post here (emphasis added):

    A lot has changed since the old forum era. Most discussion now happens in chat rooms, and for us that mainly means Discord. Because of that, this site has been rebuilt with a very deliberate focus. We did not try to replace every old feature just for the sake of replacing it. We started with the essentials and built around hosting the content cleanly.

    That means:

    • the site is back in a rebuilt form
    • mods have cleaner dedicated pages
    • releases and downloads are easier to browse
    • maintainers now have a cleaner GitLab-based workflow behind the scenes

    The new setup also gives us a much steadier foundation. Instead of leaning on a pile of moving parts that need ongoing care, this site is now a static homepage hosted through GitLab [i.e., no forums]. That means less infrastructure to maintain, fewer things to break, and a setup that can be moved or rebuilt without much drama. There was more upfront work to get here, but the goal is simple: an infrastructure-light, near-maintenance-free site that works from day one and keeps working.

    ….

    Just to be clear, the community itself did not disappear while the old homepage aged out. NGPlus stayed alive through the people in it, the mods, and the conversations that kept happening elsewhere [i.e., in Discord]. What is returning here is the public-facing window: a cleaner, steadier place to host the work and point people toward it.

    Although completion of the site redesign seems to be a positive for the New Game Plus community, one caveat appears to be that the longstanding forums appear to have been taken offline.

    Example recent forum link no longer functional: https://ngplus.net/index.php?/forums/topic/992-ffvi-t-edition-lua-translation-v307-297-costume-stats-system-still-available-42926/

    Update on July 10

    A read-only forum archive has apparently been reinstated courtesy of Kaffe.

    So, what do you think? Were you a user of the New Game Plus forums? Do you agree that Discord is an adequate replacement?

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  • What if Final Fantasy V Had a PvP Mode?

    Whirlwind Mod’s Stormbringer Expansion

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  • Fiesta Randomizer by solidification, clymax, and xJ4cks

    Four-Job Fiesta Runs of Final Fantasy V

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  • Glossary of Terms

    Four-Job Fiesta of Final Fantasy V

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    Run Type

    These are explanations for how the runs are determined and is required for all attempts.

    • Regular: Job 1 comes from Wind, Job 2 comes from Water, Job 3 comes from Fire, Job 4 comes from Earth
    • Typhoon: Job 1 comes from Wind, Job 2 comes from Wind/Water, Job 3 comes from Wind/Water/Fire, Job 4 comes from any
    • Geyser: Job 1 comes from Wind/Water, Job 2 comes from Wind/Water/Earth, Job 3 comes from Water/Fire/Earth, Job 4 comes from Water/Earth
    • Sirocco: Job 1 comes from Wind/Fire, Job 2 comes from Wind/Water/Fire, Job 3 comes from Wind/Fire/Earth, Job 4 comes from Fire/Earth
    • Onsen: Job 1 comes from Wind/Water, Job 2 comes from Water/Fire, Job 3 comes from Water/Fire/Earth, Job 4 comes from Water/Fire/Earth
    • Haboob: Job 1 comes from Wind/Earth, Job 2 comes from Wind/Water/Earth, Job 3 comes from Wind/Fire/Earth, Job 4 comes from Fire/Earth
    • Volcano: Job 1 comes from any, Job 2 comes from Water/Fire/Earth, Job 3 comes from Fire/Earth, Job 4 comes from Earth
    • Meteor: All Jobs come from any Crystal
      Classic: Only Jobs include Knight, Thief, Monk, Red Mage, White Mage, or Black Mage
    • Onion: Job 1 is Black Mage, Knight, or Thief; Job 2 is Monk, Red Mage, or White Mage; Job 3 is Bard, Geomancer, or Summoner; Job 4 is Dragoon, Ninja, or Ranger
    • Crystal: Jobs are relevant to the Crystal they are attached to, either by stat or some interpretation of the Job. Job 1 (Wind/Strength) is Knight, Beastmaster, Ranger, Bard, or Dragoon; Job 2 (Water/Magic) is Black Mage, White Mage, Blue Mage, Red Mage, or Summoner; Job 3 (Fire/Speed) is Thief, Time Mage, Mime, Ninja, Dancer, or Samurai; Job 4 (Earth/Stamina) is Monk, Berserker, Mystic Knight, Geomancer, or Chemist

    Rod Breaking

    These determine whether or not Jobs are limited based on their ability to break rods.

    • Team 750: Can break rods (White Mage, Black Mage, BLue Mage, Time Mage, Summoner, Red Mage, Geomancer, Bard, Chemist, Dancer
    • Team No 750: Cannot break rods (Thief, Monk, Knight, Mystic Knight, Berserker, Ninja, Beastmaster, Ranger, Samurai, Dragoon)
    • Team 375: Will have 2 Jobs from Team 750 and 2 Jobs from Team No 750

    Options

    These are explanations for the different modifiers.

    • Exclude Berserker: Berserker is included by default with the Water Crystal, and this option will remove it (incompatible with the Berserker Risk slider)
    • Allow Freelancer: Freelancer is excluded by default, and this option will allow its inclusion with any Crystal
    • Exclude Mime: Mime is included by default, and this option will exclude it from the Water Crystal
    • Include Advance Jobs: For the Game Boy Advance version, these Jobs (Gladiator, Cannoneer, Oracle, and Necromancer) are excluded by default, and this option will include them with any Crystal. Be careful of Necromancer’s end-game status. May cause issues with Upgrade Jobs Option
    • Fifth Job: When Krile replaces Galuf, will provide her or the party (depending on other Options) with an additional Job(s)
      Natural Jobs Only: This will modify the output such that instead of Wind Crystal Job, it will display Bartz’s Job, and so on for the other characters, and these Jobs should be used exclusively by those characters
    • Allow Duplicates: This randomizer forces the initial results to have exclusive Jobs, but this will allow for any same Job to be repeated
    • Upgrade Jobs: Provides 3 (or 4, if Fifth Job is selected) points in the game where the player must move from Job 1 to Job 2, then to Job 3, and so on
    • Forbidden Job: Provides either 1 Job or 4 Jobs (if Unique Rolls Per Character is selected) that must be removed upon entering the Void. If Natural Jobs Only is chosen, will instead provide a character that must become Freelancer upon entering the Void
    • Allow Neo-Exdeath Rules: Requires that the final battle must be done with all characters entering as the first Job and containing any ability from the second Job listed, per character
    • Auto-Assign All Jobs: incompatible with Allow Neo-Exdeath Restrictions and Unique Rolls Per Character and Natural Jobs Only as these are redundant. This option demands that the player must be only the Jobs provided and follows the same output as Natural Jobs Only’s output
    • Unique Rolls Per Character: Instead of 4 Jobs total, this option assigns 4 Jobs per character, and the output is modified accordingly, showing which character receives which Jobs
    • Berserker Risk: influences the multiplier of Berserker being added to the randomization, from 0x (default) to 12x (maximum) in integer increments. Incompatible with Exclude Berserker

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