Covering respinners, as opposed to repatchers, for the Reddit community.
Respinners are internal, as opposed to external, randomizers for video games.
This is in a world where the vast majority of randomizers are repatchers and not respinners, which can make it very difficult to find respinners to play.
Coverage to include showcases direct from the respinner scene.
The Winter 2026 edition of the FFR Rando Marathon has been announced by FFR admin DarkmoonEX.
Says DarkmoonEX:
Hello Everyone!
December 3rd to 6th, the Final Fantasy Randomizer (FFR) community will be hosting the fifth annual Winter FFR Rando Marathon to raise money for the South Carolina Firefighters’ Burned Children’s Fund Foundation, a charity dedicated to easing the recovery process for pediatric burn patients and their families in South Carolina. 100% of all proceeds will go to the charity.
The marathon will run from December 3rd @ 10 AM EST to December 6th @ 11:59 EST.
Regarding the marathon format, DarkmoonEX continues:
All randomizers are welcome to submit runs. Every marathon has been a wonderful mix of amazing communities/randomizers that always show up to support the marathon and new ones that join us for their first time, and we can’t wait to see who will be helping us raise money for the BCF in December!
Over the last 5 years we have been so grateful to raise over $60,000 for charity, and hope that you can be a part of such an amazing event.
Submissions are open now through October 31st, 2026 @ 11:59 PM EDT.
For more info, see the resources below. If you have any questions, you can find an FFR rep on the FFVC Discord or on the FFR Discord. You can also reach out to clymax.
Resources
Volunteer form for submitting runs for the event [link]
For clymax’s projects, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube or Twitter.
The Fated mod of Romancing SaGa on SFC has been unveiled courtesy of clymax. The mod is for use with the DDSTranslation English fan translation v2.0 (which is based on the Trans-Dimension fan translation).
The mod is unofficial and unaffiliated with Square Enix.
Like all of clymax’s rando mods, it’s a respinner as opposed to a repatcher, so just simply reset the game to play a new randomization.
For patching instructions, project status, or other assistance, please check us out on Discord. A teaser trailer is below.
A release build is being considered, but no plans have been set yet.
Development Build: Features
The dev build is on the rotation of mods that can be obtained through our Whirlwind Fiesta annual summer event. For players who do not wish to join the event, do not wish to use Discord, or wish to support the hack author, early access is also available via Game Jolt.
Item chests now give you randomized items. Seeding not yet supported.
Gold chests and jewel chests are unaffacted.
Save ram expanded to 16KB to make room for new features.
Added support for saving hack state.
Added support for loading hack state. Multi-session game timers are thus now supported.
Virtually all maps and locations unlocked to start.
No more enemy encounters unless you hold down the R button.
Walk through enemies even if they block your path.
The portal from Isthmus Cavern to Quietus is now open from the start.
You can now keep looting random items from the same chest, up to a limit.
Stat gains are now boosted to 30x. Only affects the eight base stats.
Your number of battles that is used as one of the ways to level up weapon proficienices is now boosted to 100x.
Gold gains from battle boosted to 50x.
Walking speed increased.
You can now hold down the B button to run.
A side effect of this feature is that NPC interactions now may require holding down the B button to occur.
Locations of recruitable characters are scrambled once at game start.
A demo clip of relooting the same chest is below.
The Destiny DLC is also available and adds the following features.
Support added for manual seeding. Your protagonist’s name is your seed for the run.
The seed determines your chest drops and the scrambled locations of recruitable characters.
Switch between seeded and seedless rando anytime.
Seedless rando is also known as luck-based or skill-based rando.
So, what do you think? How do you think Romancing SaGa on SFC holds up today? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.
