Congratulations to MarthSR for improving his world record via his latest speedrun submission to the Aflame leaderboard.
With this improvement, MarthSR also earns the title of Category Leader for Vanilla Chaos based on his former world record.
The Category Leader title for Vanilla Order was formerly held by clymax via his mod showcase run here, which has a time of 2:22:52 in the category of Vanilla Any% Order.
MarthSR’s speedrun submission is here, or see the video embed below.
Aflame Vanilla Any% Order in 1:06:44
Date: August 13, 2026
Team: FF4 Ultima
It is rumored that a fanfare skip has recently been under development. Does this mean that a sub-hour run is no longer TAS-only?
Mod and Event Info
The romhack is the Aflame respinner for Dragon Quest VI on the Super Famicom here.
The run was submitted as part of the Whirlwind Four-Job Fiesta event here.
So, what do you think? Is DQVI: Aflame a mod you’d consider picking up for speedrunning? If so, what are you waiting for?
Sora is a new streamer aiming to bring more awareness to the awesome romhacks out there like FFVI: T-Edition, Chrono Trigger+, FFIV: Ultima Plus, Secret of Mana+, etc. You can follow Sora via YouTube or Twitch.
Update: the hack has been published on Romhack Plaza here courtesy of clymax.
Says hack author HatZen08 on this respinner in a forum post on FF6Hacking here:
It is a built-in randomizer. After the name setup, all characters will be randomized. Each different name should create a different setup. You can’t change their jobs or abilities.
The ‘row’ and ‘def’ commands were changed to ‘fray’ and ‘heal’. ‘fray’ will attack a random enemy with a fight command and ‘heal’ will recover[] half of the caster hp. It is designed to be a basic attack/healing if nothing better is available.
The first command will be a random menu-alike ability, like white, black, throw, sing, drink, etc. The other three comands will be abilities without menu, like dance, gaia, flirt, guard, etc.
The weapons and gears that the characters can equip were randomized as well.
The jobs were updated and have old, new or updated traits. Those traits can change the behaviour of the ‘fray’ and ‘heal’ commands and add unique quirks to the characters.
Demo clip courtesy of clymax.
Romhack Update
Regarding a recent update, version 1.1, HatZen08 adds:
I updated the project. In summary, the changes were new/updated abilities and new counter traits. Instead of counter only with the ‘fight’ command, others commands can be used as counters instead of only ‘fight’.
For balance and to add the new counters i changed the traits by job.
The hack incorporates the GBA Script Port addendum to the RPGe translation.
Additional documentation is slated to be provided on the release of the hack.
Update: the documentation and even assembly source are now included, available on FF6Hacking here.
Blind Let’s Play Stream
Mod sampler livestream brought to you by Sora. Full playthrough may be coming soon—check his streaming roadmap here.
Version History
v1.0: initial release
v1.1: new/updated abilities and new counter traits.
v1.2: Fixed Minion command. The run uses this version.
v1.3: Halve Atomos’s HP. Krile now inherits Galuf’s rolls.
v1.4: Fixed Summon command. Fixed Control command.
v1.5: Knives can now be equipped by all vanilla classes that can equip them.
v1.6: Item command now available. Press B in battle menu to access it.
v1.7 TBA: Icons updated to better reflected rolled equip types.
xJ4cks is the producer of the Clean series of mods and is a core member of the translation team for FFV: Heroine Trilogy. You can follow the work of xJ4cks here or check out his bio here.
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Final Fantasy IV: Ultima Plus (SNES)
Final Fantasy V: Heroine Trilogy (SFC) – visit Discord for patcher link
Final Fantasy VI: A Soldier’s Contingency (SNES)
SaGa 2: A Haniwa’s Contingency (GB)
Derivative Patchers
Final Fantasy VI: Brave New World (SNES) by Gens and Khaos
Sister Patchers
Final Fantasy VI: Return of the Dark Sorcerer (SNES) by madsiur
For a discussion on the r/NewTubers subreddit, click here.
Video coverage of the changes, courtesy of VidIQ and John Scott, respectively:
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