Hey there, FFV fans. Next week is the official start of the Final Fantasy Randomizer New Player Program, the Duck Bootcamp 2026: Duck to the Future. The FFR Team has been hard at working cooking up a solid program for you. The kick off will be on Sunday, January 4, at 9:00 PM with the 101 Class reveal stream. From there we’ll have six weeks of training for you to go through and learn everything about FFR.
The weekly schedule will be:
Sundays: 100 Level Class Debut at 9:00 PM EDT on RPGLB Twitch
Monday Mornings: 100 Level Async Race Opens at 10:00 AM EDT on FFR Discord
Monday Evenings: 100 Level Class Race (Different Seed, Open to All) at 9:00 PM EDT on RPGLB Twitch
Wednesdays: 200 Level Class Debut 8:00 PM EDT on FFR Twitch
Thursday Mornings: 200 Level Async Race Opens at 10:00 AM EDT on FFR Discord
Thursday Evenings: 200 Level Class Race (Different Seed, Open to All) at 8:00 PM EDT on FFR Twitch
Fridays: Vod Reviews on FFR Twitch
Full details are available on the FFR wiki. And once you’ve gone through your training, the Bootcamp will be followed by the Duck Derby, our new player tournament, in late February.
News of the latest major release of the Star Beasts hack is brought to us courtesy of our contributor YeOldeLoremonger (RHP), who designed the town layouts and gave feedback on the overworld and world map in the release.
It is believed that Asteroid version will no longer be supported moving forward. Meteor version previously already had its support dropped.
Project lead Soul Valor (RHDN) gives the following update via PokeCommunity forums. You can find the Github repo here.
Worked on over the course of more than half a decade, Star Beasts is a Gen 1 total conversion and homage to the first generation of Pokémon games.
Started as a passion project to make a playable version of Vast Fame’s Shi Kong Xing Shou for English speaking audiences, Star Beasts became its own project with entirely new fakemon designs and a new region.
Star Beasts 3.0.: Comet Version features an entirely new Dex of Fakemon and a mostly new region (Relas) with a focus on exploration.
Some of the new features are as follows:
A completely overhauled soundtrack! Almost none of the music from the original games remains!
An overhauled Pokedex, complete with backsprites, that fixes balance issues and replaces uglier designs and makes older evolutionary families more consistent.
Even more overhauled movesets, with even more new moves!
The Fairy, Steel and Dark types!
A new region, Relas!
New types of trainers with different rosters and improved AI!
More dialogue and areas than the original games!
Rebalancing of the game to make it more accessible to newcomers, including plenty of NPCs that give you hints on where to find rare Star Beasts! And, as if that weren’t enough, there’s documentation on every Beast! (Although the game is best experienced blind, use your discretion!)
Various quality of life improvements, such as an experience bar!
So, what do you think? Comment below, or check us out on Discord.
Featuring Inu Megapack Integrated with RPGe Translation
For the first time, the widely hailed work of Japanese romhacker Inu (dog) has been amassed for testing and integration with the monumental RPGe translation before being released as a standalone, no-frills megapack.
Why the name “Boco’s FFV”? Well, dog is man’s best friend, and Boco is Bartz’s best friend, so to speak, so there you go.
Although certain hacks have used some of Inu’s work in the past, it is unclear how big of a fraction of Inu’s comprehensive body of work was included.
Some of these works did not provide any integration with an English translation.
Furthermore, those certain hacks added additional features, sometimes well beyond those that Inu intended to offer in his body of work.
Project Status
Additional documentation may be available later here or via Discord.
Phase 2: Inu’s improvement patches for FFV – 7/8 integrated (1 in conflict, 3 excluded) – see below Examples: GBA dash, improved item sort
Phase 3: Inu’s QoL loose patches for FFV – 16/18 integrated (2 in conflict, 6 excluded) – beta currently available only as a private mod for our player community, namely, those with the Crystal Warrior role in Discord Examples: pass turn in battle, L/R character scrolling in menus
Prior Hacks that Use Inu’s Work
Be sure to check them out and support each modder’s work.
