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  • FF5r-IC Definitive

    Game Notes, Chapter Two

    For the Game Notes index, click here. For clymax’s projects, click here.

    ■■ Item Specifications ■■

     Among the effects of weapons, armor, accessories, general tools, etc.,
     Anything that is confusing or some of the original items in this patch will be listed in this text.

     Some of the specifications are the same as those of the original FF5.

     ◆ Weapons ◆

      Spear Alternate Activation: Jump

      Shaman Dagger Additional Activation “Gravity” (Disc 1 only)

      Electric Whip Additional Activation “Thunder” (Disc 1 only)

      Coral Sword Lightning Weapon

      Trident Lightning Weapon

      Ancient Sword Additional Activation “Old”

      Poison Axe Additional Activation “Bio” (Disc 2 only)

      Air Knife: Wind-element weapon. Wind-element magic is 1.5 times more powerful.

      Gale Bow and Arrow Alternative Activation: “Wild Shot”

      Hammer of the Earth – Earth magic is 1.5 times more powerful
               Alternative Quake activation (fails with Goutatsu)

      Defender: When used, it becomes a “wall”

      Ancient Bow Additional Activation “Weak”

      Fire Byte: Additional activation of “Firaga”

      Strike Rod: “Break” when used

      Staff of Light: “Holy” when used (Staff breaks)

      Sage’s Staff: “Raise” when used

      Staff of Power: Additional activation: Berserk

      Staff of Judgement: Dispel when used

      Black Wand: When used, it causes paralysis and darkness on the enemy.

      Variant Knife: Max HP – Current HP Defense Ignoring Damage

      Fairy Tail: When used, everyone gets “Shell”
      
      Nirvana: “Arise”

      When David’s Harp is used, everyone gets a “Shell”
      
      Requiem Harp Additional activation “Requiem”

      Crescent Blade Fixed Damage Weapon

      Aspirizer: Can perform MP absorption attacks (no HP damage)
               When used, it becomes “Aspill”

      Bone Club: Death when used

      Deathbringer – When used, it means “Death”

      Lance Bucain Alternative activation “Hishou” (short-time jump)

      Masamune “Pioneer” – Can act first at the start of battle
               When used, it will activate “Haste”.

      Lionheart “Pioneer” – Can act first at the start of battle

      Additional activation: An effect that activates additionally after an attack.
      Alternative Activation: An effect that activates instead of an attack with a certain probability when attacking.

      Chicken Knife Brave Blade does not exist.

     ◆ Armor ◆

      Genji’s Shield: Dwarf and Paralysis Resistant

      Genji Helmet Dwarf/Confusion Resistant

      Genji Armor Frog/Confusion Resistance

      Flame Shield Fire Absorption

      Ice Shield Ice Absorption

      Holy Shield Holy Null

      Aegis Shield: Evade attack magic.

      Bloodstained Shield – Holy Attribute Null

      Black Shield: Avoids attack magic. Reduces darkness by half.

      Black Armor Darkness halved

      Black Helm Darkness halved

      Grand Helmet Prevents dwarfs and confusion

      Demon’s Shield: Blocks attack magic with a certain probability. Prevents confusion. Immune to darkness.

      Demon’s Armor Darkness Null

      Demon’s Helmet Darkness immunity

      Spirit Clothing Prevents paralysis. Reduces fire damage by half.

      Angel’s White Robe: Immunity to darkness. Darkness, poison, frogs, petrification, death, silence,
                Berserk – Prevents aging

      Goddess’ White Robe: Darkness nullification, Holy half reduction
                Prevents darkness, poison, frogs, petrification, death, silence, berserk, and aging.

      Lamia’s Tiara Prevents confusion. “Dance” makes it easier to perform Sword Dance.

      Gold Tiara – Prevents confusion, sleep, and berserk

      Miracle Veil: Halves all attributes. Prevents silence, confusion, paralysis, and petrification.

      Gendarme: Evade attack magic, nullify fire, water, wind, earth

     ◆ Accessories ◆

      Silver-rimmed glasses: Resists darkness, paralysis, and slow

      Silver Bracelet: Resistance to poison, frogs, and stop

      Elf Cloak – Evade physical attacks

      Pirate’s Gauntlets: Increases the chance of stealing. Resists silence, confusion, paralysis, and petrification.

      Genji’s Gauntlets: Resistance to Frog Paralysis

      Red Shoes “Item” becomes “Red Magic”.
                Resists silence, confusion, paralysis, and petrification.
                ”Dance” increases the probability of sword dance activation

      Saint’s Earrings The second command becomes White Magic (Lv6). (※)
                However, the command change effect does not apply to bare-faced characters.

      Time Crystal The first command becomes Space-Time (Lv6)
                However, if you have not acquired the ability Space-Time (Lv6)
                It has no effect. Also, it is ineffective when worn without makeup or by a Holy Master.
                Prevents slow, stop, paralysis, and sleep.

      Hermes Shoes Auto Heist

      Corsage – Protects against darkness, poison, frogs, petrification, death, silence, berserk, and aging.

      Ribbon Darkness, Zombie, Poison, Dwarf, Frog, Petrification, Death,
                Silence, Berserk, Confusion, Paralysis, Sleep, Aging,
                Prevents slow stops.

      Triple Ribbon: Master the Hunter and equip it without makeup to “Fight”
                ”Wild Attack” Darkness, Zombies, Poison, Dwarves, Frogs,
                Petrification, Death, Silence, Berserk, Confusion, Paralysis, Sleep, Aging,
                Prevents slow stops.

      Tetra elements: Fire, Ice, Lightning, Earth attribute absorption

      Fire Ring: Absorbs fire, nullifies ice, and makes weak to water

      Coral Ring: Absorbs water, nullifies fire, and is weak to lightning

      Angel Ring Prevents zombies, aging, paralysis, slowing, and stopping

      Equipment has a description in the movement menu or is not listed here.
      Some have hidden resistances.
      Find them and use them to your advantage in battle.

      Even if you are wearing equipment with abnormal status resistance, it will penetrate the resistance and cause abnormal status.
      There are attacks too, so don’t get overconfident.

      If you become a dwarf by equipping dwarf-resistant armor or accessories,
      Even if you use the magic mallet, you cannot remove the dwarf state.

    ※ When you equip the Saint’s Earrings, you will be able to use white magic,
    Even after removing it, you can still use white magic in the movement menu.
    It would take too much effort to create a system that would disable the use of white magic when the spell is removed.
    Since you can’t use white magic during battle, it’s not a big advantage.
    This is the reason why it is specified.

     ◆ Items ◆

      Chocobo Feather – Cure for poison and darkness. Effective for all enemies when used during battle.

      Panacea: Removes darkness, zombies, poison, dwarves, frogs, silence, etc. from all allies.
              Cures Berserk, Confusion, Paralysis, Sleep, Aging, Slow, and Stop
              (Petrification cannot be cured)

      Curtain of Light Alchemy material. When used during battle, it has the effect of reflecting.

      Gold Needle Petrification cure. Can be used on allies.
              It won’t be effective unless you use it alone.

     ◆ Armor that can enhance fighting ◆

      When a job with a monk or “fighting” ability is unarmed,
      An example of armor with a function that increases attack power (the same function as the Kaiser Knuckles from the original work).

      Diamond Breastplate

      Black Costume

      Mirage Vest

      Behemoth Suit

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  • Making “FFV: Whirlwind” Eligible for Archipelago Integration

    In this devlog, clymax documents the changes to the Final Fantasy V: Whirlwind mod to make it Archipelago-eligible under current policies. You can follow clymax’s projects via FFVC or YouTube.

    Fan-Translation Removal

    Before: character dialogue

    After:

    Before: store dialogue

    After:

    Before: in-store dialogue

    After:

    Before: battle dialogue

    After:

    Before: ending poem

    After:

    Elements Left Intact

    Map Names

    Shop Names

    Item Names

    Menu Elements

    Character Names

    Character Attributes

    Abilities

    Actions

    Enemy Names

    Enemy Actions

    Battle Messages

    Ability Descriptions

    Item Descriptions

    Stats from Mr. Clio

    Remaining Work

    A set of character and NPC interactions at minimum still need to be checked and debugged to make sure they still function properly following the script removals.

    Examples include recruiting characters such as Lenna and Faris, engaging summons such as Shiva, Ifrit, Carbuncle, and Leviathan, and engaging bosses, the thirteen demons of the Rift, and the three superbosses (Omega, Shinryu, and Gogo).

    However, with the changes noted in this post, the fan-translated script of the game should no longer be embedded in any patch of the Archipelago-oriented build of the mod.

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  • English Full Translation of FFV: Heroine Trilogy

    FF5r-IC Definitive

    For the related menu translation, see here. For the game notes, see here.

    To see the translation projects diagrammed, see here.

    An English full translation has been completed for waterga’s definitive mod of ff5aki’s Remix mod of Final Fantasy V courtesy of a translation team of clymax, xJ4cks, and BladePotato.

    The translation hack is currently available only as a private mod for our player community, namely, those with the Crystal Warrior role in Discord. An online patcher for the private mod is available to our player community courtesy of xJ4cks.

    This mod is known as FF5r-IC Definitive. The mod, which is in Japanese, is available here.

    Our localized nickname for this mod is FFV: Heroine Trilogy.

    Our localized nickname for Remix (FF5R) is FFV: Autumn Challenge.

    Unlike the menu translation, which is built directly on IC, this full translation is achieved by extending Serity’s 5r compatibility bridge to the RPGe translation.

    Says xJ4cks:

    Please visit FFV Central if you’re interested in

    the Beta release of The Definitive FF5r-IC,

    the turbo-charged upgrade to FF5r!

    • new Jobs, with new Abilities (& entirely new Magic in Disc3)
    • lots of new armor and items, especially in Disc3
    • crazy optional boss challenges throughout the game, plus special leveling areas in Disc3
    • yes, this romhack spans 3 “discs” and you swap roms twice along the way
    • green haired lady MC versus Bartz (just because)

    A special webapp can patch all 3 roms, so come on over to playtest and discuss this (arguably excessive) version of FFV!

    • this project is ongoing, and is a joint venture between clymax, me, and BladePotato all contributing our special talents.

    Western Credits

    • English Fan Translation Addendum by Team DiscChangers (clymax, xJ4cks, BladePotato) of FFV Central
      • Ft. DressCode by Cubear
      • DressCode Addendum by xJ4cks
      • “Clean” Improvements by xJ4cks
      • Web Patcher by xJ4cks
      • Translation Tools by xJ4cks
      • Quality Assurance by BladePotato
      • Title Screen by clymax
      • Compatibility Bridge by clymax
      • Achievement and Leaderboard Integration by clymax
    • Base Translation Addendum by Serity, Kain Stryder, Odym82
    • Base Translation by RPGe (Myria, SoM2Freak, harmony7)

    Japanese Credits

    • Heroine Trilogy by waterga
    • Autumn Challenge by ff5aki
    • Base bugfixes, engine improvements, and QoL enhancements by Inu (see Boco’s FFV here for clymax’s publication of Inu’s work)
    • Base game by Square

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  • Spotlight: Jonko the ROM Hacker

    Project Highlights in Fan Translation and More

    Jonko is a ROM hacker and YouTuber whose primary work is with the Haroohie Translation Club, where he serves as project lead and main ROM hacker. He also dabbles with homebrew and emulator development.

    You can follow Jonko via YouTube or website blog explaining how ROM hacking works.

    Jonko sits down with FFV Central to give an exclusive overview of project highlights.

    Subheadings, screenshots, and trailers added during the editorial process.

    0. Intro

    FFV Central: How did you get into romhacking and translating?

    Jonko: Kinda random. I picked up fansubbing (as a script editor) as a hobby at the beginning of covid lockdown. one of our shows was onegai my melody, and i found out there was a DS game for it. I’m a programmer by trade, so I thought I’d give trying to translate it a go. Cracked it open and found out that I just absolutely loved the work involved in figuring out how a game works and building little tools to edit them. I ended up doing a full translation of Sailor Moon: La Luna Splende with a graphics guy and one of my Italian friends, and then eventually founded this project because of a random gbatemp thread

    It just sorta spiraled into a massive effort with a bunch of people involved. Learned a lot as a result of working on it and I’ve developed all sorts of stuff since then. Honestly, pretty life-changing

    You might have seen on the site already, but Will and I developed a full editing suite for Choku based on my reverse-engineering work, which is something I’m very proud of haha

    FFV Central: Can you share some highlights of your projects?

    Jonko: yeah, my credentials are basically:

    1. Sailor Moon: La Luna Splende (DS) Translation

    Released: 2011 (game); 2021 (fan translation from Italian)

    RHDN translation entry here

    2. Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokuretsu (DS) Translation

    Released: 2009 (game); 2026 (fan translation completed)

    Japanese: 涼宮ハルヒの直列

    Original announcement post here

    In flight: other Haruhi games, next up is Heiretsu and Gekidou (wii games)

    3. “Serial Loops” – Chokuretsu Editing Suite

    Available for Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) and Linux

    Project webpage here

    For a video explainer on how this editing suite was made, click here.

    In flight: Loopy Suite (hacking tools for the other Haruhi games)

    4. Into the Dream Spring (DS)

    Unannounced commercial DS homebrew game Jonko is developing with a friend (William278 of Breaking Bad DS fame) and a team of talented artists

    FFV Central: Awesome! Thank you for this overview and for the scoop on the unannounced homebrew game. We wish you all the best on these and future projects.

    So, what do you think? Have you played Jonko’s translations, and if so, which is your favorite? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.

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