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  • Way of the Samurai’s English Fan Translation Enters Early Access

    Japanese Mod of Final Fantasy V (SFC)

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    An English fan translation of FFV: Way of the Samurai has entered early access courtesy of clymax. Way of the Samurai is our localized name for the mod.

    The Japanese name of the mod is FF5r The SAMURAI. The mod is by Time Mage (時魔道士). The original Japanese version of the mod can be found here.

    The mod is based on FFV: Autumn Challenge and spans two roms.

    Check back later for more info on the mod.

    The English translation is in the form of a new compatibility bridge to Serity’s compatibility bridge to the RPGe fan translation of FFV vanilla.

    Without the new compatibility bridge, the mod crashes during gameplay.

    The translation is a private mod of the FFV Central community. The private mod is on the rotation of mods that can be obtained through our Whirlwind Fiesta annual summer event. The private mod is also available via Game Jolt.

    For patching instructions, project status, or other assistance, please check us out on Discord. A teaser trailer is below.

    Changes from Autumn Challenge

    Time Mage’s notes on changes, machine translated courtesy of clymax along with annotations added by clymax in curly braces:

    The ABP required to level up your job is generally low, with a few exceptions.

    You can learn from any job.

    Like the Freelancer and Paladin, the Samurai
    inherits the best stats from the jobs they have mastered.
    The default abilities of a mastered job, such as hidden passages, magic barriers, and knowledge of potions, are available to all jobs.

    Samurai {replaces Knight}

    The second command is [Special Move].
    When your job level reaches 8,
    the second command changes from [Special Move] to [Fan].

    Job Trait:
      Both Hands
      White Bird

    !A piercing
      attack that ignores defense.

    !Special Move (Finishing Move)
      Area Slash Deals the same damage as a normal attack to all enemies, but reduces their HP by 1/8. Hit rate 100.
      Swallow Reversal Deals approximately twice the damage of a normal attack to one enemy, but reduces their HP by 1/8. Hit rate 100.

    Samurai equipment
      : Can be equipped with a sword, Japanese helmet, Japanese armor, and Japanese shield.

    !Secret Technique
      Vacuum Slash: Deals approximately twice the damage of a normal attack to all enemies, but reduces
      their HP by 1/8. Accuracy: 150 One-Hit Kill: Deals approximately four times the damage of a normal attack to a single enemy, but reduces their HP by 1/8. Accuracy: 150

    !Jinpuu (Windstorm):
      Deals damage equal to the user’s current HP to all enemies a random number of times.

    Ryujin (Dragon God): Grants the effects
      of Counter, White Feather Catch, Vigilance, Preemptive Attack
      , Haste, Protect, Shell, and Levitate
      (only effective when set as the third command).

    Knight {replaces Samurai}

    Job trait:
    Dual wield

    The second command is White Magic, and
    the fourth command is Shield.

    When your job level reaches 6,
    the first command changes from “Attack” to “Double Slash”.

    !Double Slash (Two-hit slash) Attacks twice

    !Holy Sword Technique: Different techniques are unleashed depending on the number of enemies.

    When your job level reaches 8,
    the first command changes from “Double Slash” to “Holy Sword Technique”.

    Monk
    ! Charge (second command) now has a shorter waiting time.

    Thief
    ! Throw it! It’s the third one.

    Dragoon
    ! Jump: Deals 4x damage when equipped with a spear.

    Berserker
    Axe-type weapons have a higher hit rate and less damage variation.
    First strike. Empty. Empty. Melee.

    White Mage
    Dispel and Reflect become Blue Magic
    , and mastering them levels up the Knight’s White Magic.

    Time Mage
    Job Trait : Can equip the Anti-Slow Rod, making them immune to Slow and Stop.

    Red Mage (Shirokuro-ma)
    Can learn spells up to level 1, meaning they can use both White and Black magic up to a maximum of level 4, but
    they cannot learn Consecutive Magic.

    Blue Mage

    The Moon Flute
    can be cast on either friend or foe, single target or all targets. It can also be used to remove the effects of Investigate, Analyze, and Learn.

    The Magic Swordsman’s
    magic sword can be cast on a single or all allies.
    The magic barrier activates when HP is at 1/4.

    Hunter
    ! Barrage of attacks (5 consecutive attacks)

    Paladin {replaces Mimic}
    ! Consecutive Magic

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  • English Fan Translation of Ys III Remaster Released

    Wanderers from Ys (PS2)

    You can follow Kaisaan’s projects via Twitter, the web, Ko-Fi, or Discord.

    Xynosaur is a fan of retrogaming who is also a creator in demo/chip music. You can follow Xyno’s work via YouTube, Bandcamp, or Soundcloud.

    Announces the project lead and prolific Ys modder Kaisaan:

    Here is a mod showcase stream courtesy of Xynosaur.

    For those who don’t know, Taito partenered with Falcom to “remake” Ys III, Mask of the sun and V on the PS2 (only released in Japan of course)

    We got the Ys V translation in the beginning of 2026 and Ys III’s fan translation just got released a couple of days ago…

    I really hope this one is better than the remake they did for Ys V lol (you can watch the stream I did on Ys V if you wanna see the trainwreck that it is lol)

    An additional announcement was made by Kaisaan:

    Wanderers Boss Rush Contest

    This is a big one. To celebrate the release of Wanderers PS2 English, we are having a contest!
    This version of Wanderers has a Boss Rush mode (unlocked after beating the game once on any difficulty) included that records your final time, so let’s see who can get the best time!
    Rules:

    • Record a full, unedited run and upload it to #wanderers [channel on The Dandelion Discord]
    • Don’t cheat, we reserve the right to disqualify any entries that we suspect to be cheated
    • You can submit as many runs before the deadline but only the best time will be counted
      There will be prizes for the Top 5 fastest times with 1st place getting 1 year of Discord Nitro Basic! 2nd-5th place will receive 1 Month of Discord Nitro Basic (Thank you so much to Etokapa for funding the prizes!)
      You will have until to submit runs!

    So, what do you think? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.

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  • Based Badges and Based Boards

    Auto Achievements and Leaderboards by FFV Central

    For clymax’s projects, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube or Twitter.

    June 25, 2026

    The FFV Central community is pleased to present Based Boards and automatic Based Badges courtesy of clymax. Manual Based Badges were previously announced here.

    The new features provide auto achievements and auto leaderboards for a select but growing number of titles on supported platforms. The platforms currently include NES and SNES.

    These new features are provided by FFV Central’s web emulator, which you can access here.

    The titles include many private romhacks and private translations of the FFV Central community. To see our supported titles, click here. For more on our distribution models, click here.

    Both scoring leaderboards and speedrun leaderboards are supported.

    A demo clip using the Whirlwind mod of Final Fantasy V is below. This one uses a speedrun leaderboard.

    For another example using the Four-Job Fiesta mod, which works with our web app here, see below.

    An example of a scoring leaderboard for Tetris on the NES.

    So, what do you think? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.

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  • Faxanadu 40th Anniversary Edition Released

    Romhack of Faxanadu (NES)

    You can follow songbirder’s projects via YouTube, Twitch, SRC, or Linktree.

    A premiere livestream will be held by HungryGoriya on Saturday, May 23, at 7:30pm US Eastern time.

    Says hack author songbirder:

    Faxanadu 40th Anniversary Edition is an update to this classic and unique Action RPG for the NES.

    This romhack keeps what makes Faxanadu an amazing game while filling in gaps in the game world, fixing bugs, adding quality-of-life improvements, and just a few touch ups to the story and world of the World Tree. It is based on the western release.

    2027 marks the 40th year since the game’s creation — we’re still in 2026, so there’s plenty of time for community feedback and adjustments. Eventually the source files from the tooling will be published so anyone wanting to fork the project into their own version can do so.

    You can check out the hack website here or the Discord here.

    The RHDN publication can be found here.

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