The FFV Central community congratulates the newest graduate from our Hacking Academy pilot.
Known for his spritework in the Canon Remaster Style Pack for the FFIV Ultima Plus online patcher, epigonone’s following hack idea was approved for entry into the Hacking Academy:
HP/MaxHP – ATB Bar
A hack that adds the max HP in battle, while still showing the current HP and ATB meter, like the one that’s available on some other hacks. FF4 Ultima for example.
Preview from Eventual Demo:
Here are just some of the bonus features added in the eventual submission of the hack for academy review:
Distinguish MP damage and MP heal via color
MP display in main battle menu
Color-coded HP, MP, and ATB variants
Character status color and label cycles
Pageable tooltips in battle
Thanks to xJ4cks for the playtesting and excellent coverage of some of the features on his blog here.
Disclaimer: FFV Central is not sponsored by Qortal. FFV Central freely promotes the work of our community members.
These patches are currently available via the new Web3 platform Qortal, for which Kimblee is also a developer. You can find the Github repo for Qortal here.
The purpose of having the patches hosted on Qortal is so that the published hack can be free from censorship.
Because of this, if players wish to upload copies of the patches to the traditional web or download the copies from the traditional web, that is also encouraged.
To ensure you have the latest version of a hack, cross-reference your available version with that of the Qortal publication.
For how to use Qortal, see the video here. For more details, you can find us on Discord.
Final Fantasy V: Super X-Magic (SFC)
December 25, 2025
As promised, for Christmas I have a new romhack that has been highly requested in the past. It allows characters using the X-Magic command to use ALL spells they have learned from other jobs automatically. 🎄🎁
It also causes Red Magic to be 1 level higher than before. Therefore, Red Mages can use White and Black Magic up to level 4 like in Bravely Default. This makes Red Mages useful for a lot longer, even without X-Magic.
My next project is my Super Passives patch. It makes all passive abilities equipped automatically as soon as they are learned. This includes the ability’s function, stat increases, and weapon/armor equips. It radically changes how you play the game.
It’s a BIG patch, so it will take awhile to convert it to assembly.
Final Fantasy Adventure Level Balancer (GB)
January 2, 2026
I had some free time today, so I decided to release another romhack.
I always hated that 1 of the 4 stats doesn’t increase on level up, so this fixes that.
Also, the offensive spells Ice, Lightning, and Nuke had their costs lowered to 1 so that focusing on magic attacks in combat is more viable in the late game.
This patch includes Adam’s Color patch because I say NO to black and white whenever I can. 😎
For those prone to getting lost, a World Map file is included.
So, what do you think? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.
“Capcom vs Square: Parallel Destinies” is a not-for-profit crossover fighting game being actively created in the I.K.E.M.E.N. Go engine.
A 1v1 4-button fighter with a blend of the high points of MARVEL vs CAPCOM and CAPCOM vs SNK, it attempts to recreate the classic 90s CAPCOM vibe, and pits both universes in a battle for survival within the Void!
With No Way Out Except Tediously Doing So for Each Individual Server
Disclaimer: the opinions contained in this post are personal opinions of clymax and do not necessarily reflect those of anyone else in or outside of the FFV Central community.
1. Case Study
Unidentified Final Fantasy Modding Discord of ~2,400 Members
September 10, 2025
[Server Admin A pings everyone asking everyone in advance to please refrain from discussing irl topic X.]
[User backlash ensues. More pings occur from other moderators.]
User A: pinging everyone was a mistake tbh, it’s going to have the exact opposite of the intended effect
I’m in over 100 servers all about totally different things and yet only one of them did ” HEY @ EVERYONE DONT TALK ABOUT THIS ONE THING!!! “
i dont care about being pinged I’m trying to tell you that your idea of pinging everyone is horribly backfiring which surely you’ve already realized by now
Server Admin B: i have a hot take………. why does everyone in ANY way care about being pinged
like…….. literally who cares
clymax: Imho it’s Discord that dropped the ball bigtime, allowing no way for a user to opt into or opt out of all notifications across all servers [including future servers].
This means that pinging a user can amount to forcing them to [immediately] reassess whether to block notifications on this Discord specifically.
Game-Modification Team Member: You can set your ping settings on a server as soon as you join it. I always recommend doing this so you don’t get hit by pings you don’t want.
clymax: Many of us have 100 or 200 Discords. No one wants to go through and manually block each one, esp. when that list changes continually.
[Editor’s note: Not flexing here, as what is there to flex? But because I’ve been in Discords large and small, I’ve observed how users have responded to being pinged in Discords both much larger than and much smaller than FFV Central.
Also, images added for context.]
2. Another Case Study
Unidentified Retro Gaming Server of ~600 Members
[Server Admin pings everyone continually on various updates to the server. Presumably, an exodus of members ensued, and the Server Admin found out why.]
August 20, 2024
Server Admin: Sorry everyone for all The notifications I was in the process of of building the server I will not @-everyone like that ag[a]in. Sorry for the inconvenience
You’re doing a great job btw. Seems Discord just really wants ppl to ping each other more 🤣
Server Admin: Yea it’s garbage but it is also my fault I just wanted to make sure everyone could see what they needed and could navigate the server I got carried away lol
I appreciate it and yes lol seems that way. I have this server more set up so I shouldn’t need to tag everyone there is a directory we have channels for everything but will have a couple more for another project ppl can see what they need to and or want to leveling system entertainment channels the works lol
clymax: Bro I get where you’re coming from. I have a project thread in RHDN forums for my FFV hack. Every time I update my post I have to resist the urge to bump my own thread 🤣 Otherwise it’s buried—rn it’s not even listed on page one anymore.
Server Admin: 😂exactly I just feel like it’s more important than it really is I guess because of the time I put into it it’s my baby lol but @ is a bad habit
clymax: Could even have a self-managed role to get news about latest Discord-server updates, but the updates will probably be less frequent as the server grows tbh
Server Admin: We have that to[o]
Yup the roll[role] selection there are a few to choose from or all of you want
clymax: Nice
Server Admin: Yea that way You can see what you want and hopefully not get notifications from what you don’t
3. From Around the Web
If I need to be the one showing you these memes, maybe you don’t use Discord as much as you think you did. Just maybe.
Memes aside, even a cursory web search can let you gauge how Discord users feel about this subject.
4. A Workaround for Server Admins
Did you just send, or allow some user to send, an everyone or here ping?
Congratulations, this is how I respond as a user, as Discord prevents users from opting out once across all and future servers. And I assure you it’s not just me.
Before and after screenshots below.
Yes, allowing pings to happen only ensures fewer and fewer will actually get the pings over time.
Solution for Discord owners? Disable pings for all roles, including everyone and here, with the lone exception of possibly the moderation role.
Create new self-managed roles of different types, with “alerts” clearly in the role name. Do not opt users in to any of these roles by default.
Enjoy not exacerbating a problem that Discord created.
So, what do you think? Agree or disagree? Comment below, or come check us out on our Discord (where role pings are disabled, I might add).
