Romhacks and Modding Tools of Final Fantasy VI (SNES)
solidification is a prolific creator of fan-made achievements across different game genres and especially in the world of Final Fantasy mods. You can follow solidification’s set-making journey here.
An asterisk symbol (*) denotes a modding tool rather than a romhack.
1. Pre-History
Initial tool development. Era of hardtype and spoof hacks.
For more info on the Whirlwind (Four-Job) Fiesta event, see here. For more on the Crosswinds mod for Final Fantasy III, see here.
NeoKakarot is a fanatic of JRPGs, anime, and DOTA with an especially soft spot for games by Nihon Falcom. You can follow Neo’s work via YouTube or Patreon.
Writes Neo shortly after his playthrough of Final Fantasy III on the Nintendo DS (playlist available here):
Today we are playing Final Fantasy III for the NES on this stream, but it’s not a normal version of the game.
For you see it has been modded by @cIymax and is called Final Fantasy III Crosswind!
And I will be “speed running” it if you catch my drift.
It should be a fun time!
So, mark your calendars for Wednesday at 8pm Eastern, boys!
Update
The Speedrun.com submission is posted here, or see the video embed below.
For the Whirlwind family of mods, click here. For clymax’s projects, click here.
This post compares randomizers that coders have made for the Final Fantasy series over the years.
Both respinners and repatchers are included in this comparison.
Respinners refer to internal randomizers, also called integrated or self-randomizers.
Repatchers refer to external randomizers such as web- and app-based randos.
Note that roguelikes are not included in this post. They may be the subject of a future post. For now, you can find the Ancient Cave hacks for FFV and FFVA here and here.
Randomizers for the Advance version are not otherwise included but can be included in a future post. For now, you can find one here; the other is not currently available via the surface web.
Comparison Chart
Randomizers that are not respinners are repatchers.
Note that “⏯” represents that the respinner can be toggled in-game mid-run, where toggling it off gives you a vanilla experience. Such a feature is not feasible with repatchers.
So, what do you think? Do you know of a randomizer that should be added to or removed from the list? Which listed randomizer is your favorite? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.
More specifically, Void Divergence incorporates the RPGe translation and community bugfixes. IC incorporates Inu’s QoL patches.
So, what do you think? Do you know of a mod that should be added to or removed from the list? Which listed mod is your favorite? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.
