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Decapod presents a comprehensive guide to stealable items across all three rom chapters of waterga’s IC mod of Final Fantasy V Remix.
Includes info on extra stealable slots in the mod.
To access the guide, check out the IC channel in our Discord.
For info on our English translation of the IC mod, see here.
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Spoiler warning. Major dungeons only.
Layout by clymax. Data by BladePotato.
| Vanilla | Remix | IC Rom1 | IC Rom2 | IC Rom3 |
| WORLD 1 | ||||
| Wind Shrine | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Ship Graveyard | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| North Mountain | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Walse Tower | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Fire-Powered Ship | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Library of the Ancients | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Ronka Ruins | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| WORLD 2 | ||||
| Big Bridge | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Underground Waterway | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Drakenvale | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Barrier Tower | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Gil Cave | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Great Forest of Moore | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| WORLD 3 | ||||
| Pyramid of Moore | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Jachol Cave | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Island Shrine | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Fork Tower | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Sunken Walse Tower | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Great Sea Trench | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Easterly Falls | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Phoenix Tower | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| North Mountain Revisited | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Interdimensional Rift | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| BONUS | ||||
| Mr. Clio’s Cave | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| North Mountain Rerevisited | ✓ | |||
| Gohn revisited in Merged World | ✓ | |||
| Wind Shrine revisited | ✓ | |||
| Steamship revisited below Fork Tower | ✓ | |||
| Drakenvale revisited | ✓ |
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It can be daunting to know where to start as a newcomer to the series in this day and age.
Enter ports, re-releases, and mods into the fray, only complicating matters further.
This post covers the series up to Final Fantasy X. Entries beyond Final Fantasy X can be the subject of a future post.
Banner credit: Genki_JPN on Twitter.
With the following recommendations in hand, a new player can jump in with the very first entry in the series, Final Fantasy, before taking on the rest of the series in release order.
If open-world chest rando is not desired as a mod theme, a new player can instead start with Final Fantasy III on the PSP before taking on subsequent entries in release order. This skips both Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy II.
| Entry | Version | Mod | Mod Theme |
| I | NES | Headwind+ | Open-World Chest Rando* |
| II | FC | Upwind+ | Open-World Chest Rando* |
| III | PSP (3D Remake) | — | — |
| IV | SNES | Ultima Plus | Expansion |
| V | SFC | Whirlwind+ | New Modes Galore |
| VI | SFC | T-Edition | Expansion |
| VII | PSX | Comprehensive ATB Enhancement | ATB |
| VIII | Remastered | — | — |
| IX | PSX | Comprehensive ATB Enhancement | ATB |
| X | HD Remaster | — | — |
+ The post author is also the hack author, so take the recommendation with a grain of salt. Also, these are private mods only available via an event or via Game Jolt.
* Only if a heavily modernized and more chaotic version is desired. A loose patch may be available to turn off chest rando: place a help request in our Discord for assistance.
So, what do you think? Which entry and version would you recommend newcomers start with? Would you recommend a mod? Comment below, or check us out on Discord.
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I got a few messages on how to get this stupid thing to work, so I’m going to put full instructions for RetroArch using blueMSX core. I cannot speak on any other emulator/core at all. See the bottom of this section for a pre-formatted User Disk (Disk 2) that you need for saving.
1) Go here and get the blueMSXv282full.zip: http://bluemsx.msxblue.com/download.html
2) In that zip, put Machines and Databases into RetroArch’s systems folder (you can figure out where your directories are in RetroArch by opening it and going to Settings -> Directory)
3) Within RetroArch, download the blueMSX core
4) Get the FF1 rom from wherever. You need 2 disks: Game Disk (disk 1) and User Disk (disk 2). Disk 1 is the rom itself. Disk 2 is the user disk for saving. I have submitted a blank User Disk for RAPatches because some people struggle just to create and format the stupid thing, so it will hopefully be available when you download the translation patch.
4*) OPTIONAL: If you want to translate it, get the translation from RHDN. It comes with a .bps file. Get FLIPS (also at RHDN) and use FLIPS to patch the *game* disk with the .bps file to output a new, translated game disk. You only need to translate the game disk, not the user disk. As above, I have submitted a user disk pre-formatted and ready to use pending approval (I’ll delete this if approved).
5) Put these two in the same folder/directory somewhere you put your RetroArch games in and then, in that same folder/directory, create a text file. Copy and paste the titles of the two Disk files into it with Game Disk first and User Disk second. Rename your text file to something and change its extension from .txt to .m3u.
Example: I renamed my game disk to Final Fantasy (Disk 1).dsk and my user disk to Final Fantasy (Disk 2).dsk. Then my text file literally says:
Final Fantasy (Disk 1).dsk
Final Fantasy (Disk 2).dsk
and nothing else. I then renamed my textfile to Final Fantasy.m3u
6) Open RetroArch and choose the blueMSX core then open the Final Fantasy.m3u (or whatever you named it) file (not the game/user .dsk files)
7) Hold Left CTRL while booting. If you don’t, you’ll have to do a hard reset. You’ll know it was fine when it says “Say DOS… Okay!” and the game itself actually boots with the prolog story
8) If you have the User Disk I submitted, you’re good to go. If not, good luck trying to get this stupid emulator to read in your input. See the posts above on how to format a user disk.
1) Go to an Inn. Choose to sleep, and it’ll yell at you to Insert User Disk.
2) Open the Quick Menu (F1) and go to Disc Control and choose to Eject Disk
3) Back in Disc Control, choose Current Disc Index and select 2
4) Back in Disc Control, choose Insert Disc
5) Go back into game (F1). It’ll save. It’ll ask you to Insert Game Disk.
6) Repeat Steps 2-4, but select 1 for Disc Index. Go back into game and resume playing.
Yes, you have to do this every single time you want to save. Enjoy!
Questions or comments? Reply below, or come check us out on Discord.
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