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  • FFV: Autumn Challenge

    Game Changes from Vanilla

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    Credit for the contents of this post goes to ff5aki [blog].

    Credit for the machine translation and reformatting goes to clymax.

    Autumn Challenge is our localized name for Final Fantasy V Remix (FF5r). The word autumn is taken from the Japanese word aki, taken as autumn.

    A. Job Changes

    1. Hunter: The command becomes “Aim – Animal – (blank) – Item.”
    2. Berserker: Strength and speed are enhanced.
    3. Red Mage: Can equip bows and arrows. Overall stats are improved.
    4. Dragoon: Parameter change.
    5. Impersonator: Name, appearance, and equipment are changed. Command: “Item – (blank) x 3”.

    B. Ability Changes

    1. Toushi: Changed from Mineuchi. Defense-ignoring effect. The original is from the kobō term “Tetsushi.”
    2. Wild Shot: Removes defense ignore.
    3. Zeninage: Attack power is now lower than that of shuriken, and gil consumption has also been reduced.
    4. Musical equipment: Changed from vertical equipment. Bells can also be equipped. Magic power increase is on par with that of a geomancer.

    C. Item Changes

    1. Tinkerbell: Rare again this time.
    2. Twin Lancer: Exclusive to Dragoons.
    3. Blood Sword: Attack power is reduced, hit rate is 100%.
    4. Lilith’s Rod: Increases the activation rate of “Irome”.
    5. Chicken Knife: Weakened.
    6. Sage’s Staff: Removes undead scourge.
    7. Cursed Ring: Defense power is reduced and all attributes are halved. Death sentence remains unchanged.

    There are many additional items, but I’ll list them at the bottom to avoid spoilers.

    D. Magic & Enemy Skills

    1. Blue Magic “???” has been renamed to Revenge Blast.
    2. Strengthens Summon Phoenix.

    E. Towns & Dungeons

    1. The magician’s character becomes a white or black mage.
    2. The messages vary, and some may be the key to solving the game.

    F. New Items

    1. Sagojo Spear: Attack power is lower than in ver.1.10. Water attribute.
    2. Break Blade: Additional break activation
    3. Knife: For throwing only.
    4. Wight Slayer: Critical hit against undead.
    5. Sparkling Sword: Ornament.
    6. Triton Hammer: May activate “Kamaitachi.”
    7. Stardust Rod: Item specification “Comet”.
    8. Variant Knife: Damage equal to HP loss.
    9. Lance of Cain: Always jumps when “attacking.” Short waiting time.
    10. Zantetsuken: May activate “Iai Nuki”.
    11. Save the Queen: A high-performance sword.
    12. Ultima Weapon: Damage proportional to current HP.
    13. Bone Club: Second most powerful attack after Ragnarok.
    14. Thorn Whip: High attack power, but no notable effect.
    15. Wing Edge: A higher-level weapon than the Crescent Moon Ring and Rising Sun.
    16. Medusa’s Bow: Has a high chance of petrifying.
    17. Bloodstained Shield: Holy attribute null. Low evasion ability.
    18. Armor Gappa: Protects against water-element attacks and frog state.
    19. Hero’s Shield: High-performance shield
    20. Adaman Armor: High-performance light armor.
    21. Angel Wings: Always Levitated.
    22. Protect Ring: Always protect.
    23. Star Pendant: Protects against poison attacks and poison status.
    24. Gold Ring: Item that can be exchanged for cash.
    25. Royal Crown: High-performance head armor.
    26. Double Mirage: Creates two clones.
    27. Glass Mask: Head armor specialized for physical defense.
    28. Rainbow Water Crown: Fire, cold, and lightning damage are halved.
    29. Wind God’s Shield: Absorbs wind attribute.
    30. Behemo Suit: Comes with enhanced fighting capabilities.
    31. Fragment of Nothingness: A probative item obtained when defeating a certain additional powerful boss.

    G. Dragons

    1. Skull Dragon
    2. Terrible Dragon
    3. Earth Dragon
    4. Leviathan
    5. Holy Dragon
    6. Storm Dragon
    7. Freeze Dragon
    8. Lady Dragon

    Even if you defeat them all, there is no Jihad.

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  • Modders Who Host Their Mods on Discord

    Versus Players Who Want Those Mods Without Joining Discord

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    The following exhange occurred in an older thread on the r/romhacking subreddit.

    Let’s have a look at one of the replies first, which also summarizes the OP:

    There is some real irony to you linking this out to a wordpress blog instead of just posting the discussion on reddit.

    That said, I read it, and reading the words “r&t@rds,” “discuck” and “r&tardati0n” make it immediately clear you aren’t upset about anything real or relevant – like discords not being archived or easily backed up and not being a good replacement for forums or other types of more centralized repos but just your very weird distaste for discord. You then phrase it in a heavy iamthemaincharacter way when you state “It’s amazing how these mf do everything in their power to piss me off!” and honestly I think that’s enough of a summary of your bad take. You don’t even address it as a community problem – which it absolutely could be – but only as a personal slight to you. No one makes romhacks for you. No one who makes romhacks cares about you. And if anything, you being this obnoxious is only likely to make someone want to piss you off.

    You are a vulgar twit with a worthless perspective and I’m glad these people piss you off, as you deserve to be pissed off.

    Now for some excerpts from OP’s linked blog post (the highlighting is from the blog post):

    LET’S TALK ABOUT THE R&T@RDS IN THE MODDING COMMUNITY THAT ONLY USE DISCORD AS THEIR ONLY SOURCE OF THEIR WORK

    …

    In the BHDN forum, there was a user by the name of “hikikomori” that was working on a romhack of pokemon red called “Plaguemon”.

    I actually really enjoyed watching his progress, the dude has talent, not only he redesigned all the pokemons to make they look like some lovercraft creatures, he also implemented a lot of new features in the rthe game. But for some reason, hikikomori never posted back in bhdn, he didnt even posted his romhack in there. Actually, he didnt posted his romhack in any romhack site for what I know. So where did he uploaded his romhack then?

    IN HIS FUCKING DISCORD SERVER OF COURSE!!!!!

    It’s amazing how these mf do everything in their power to piss me off! Why can’t you guys just upload your hacks on some romhack site or make your own site like a normal person? I don’t want to join your discord server. I dont want to make part of your community. I dont want to read your retards takes. I dont want obey your stupids rules. I just want to play your mod until I get bored and move on to my day.

    …

    I shouldn’t be surprised at this point. This is the future of the romhacking/modding community.

    “Join in your centralized honeypot server for the mediafire/mega/dropbox link of our mods.”

    Well, I don’t know about you, but I gonna show those mf how to do a good work! I went in their discord server and grabbed all the mods shared in there and uploaded on archive.org.

    The blogger apparently thinks grabbing Discord-hosted mods and reposting them on the web without mod-author permission is showing the modders how things should be done.

    For some reason, the blogger didn’t even: try to actually show the modders how things should be done, by making his own mods and sharing them on the web and not on his Discord server.

    Maybe it’s because in this day and age, by the time the blogger actually finished a mod, he wouldn’t want to put it on the web anymore. He’d also want his mod put on Discord instead.

    It’s a case of the blogger seeing things from the player perspective but refusing to acknowledge that the perspective of the modder should matter. At all.

    So, what’s the bigger problem for the hacking scene, if any? Modders who want players to join Discord? Players who want the mods without joining? Or preservation of the mod knowhow for the scene in general?

    Bonus: Related Video – Fire Emblem 8 Machinima

    What do you think? What’s your take on mods being hosted on Discord? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord, where many (but not all) or our mods are hosted.

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  • Slick Productions Forum Archive

    Now Available on FFV Central

    Courtesy of Archival Efforts by rustythepokemontrainer (avaquizzer on slickprod)

    On behalf of the FFV Central community and other FF communities of hackers and players, we thank rustythepokemontrainer for his service to our communities through the preservation and release efforts related to this invaluable record of early FF modding history.

    To enter the forum archive, use the link below.

    https://ff5central.com/slickproductions.org/forum

    For any issues, please report them to the Slick Productions megathread in our Discord.

    Note that the archive does not include other web content.

    Restoring the other web content could be something that is looked into in the future.

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  • Mega Man & Bass (SFC)

    Vaporized Romhack Released

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    For the Vaporized family of mods for the Mega Man universe, click here.

    The Vaporized mod of the translation addendum of Rockman & Forte on SFC has released courtesy of clymax.

    This mod is unofficial and is unaffiliated with Capcom.

    This mod was made using binary editing in a debugging emulator. No game-specific editing tool was used.

    Release Build: Features

    The release build is available exclusively on our affiliate Romhack Plaza here.

    Every Robot Master you defeat, your Buster levels up for more damage.

    Patching Info

    1. Rockman & Forte (Japan).sfc [CRC32 5047E0D4]
    2. Aeon Genesis v1.01: MMB-E.sfc [CRC32 9EFAF9B7]
    3. Blade133bo Addendum v1.1: MMB-Usa.sfc [CRC32 BB319F69]
    4. Vaporized
    1. A copier header is needed temporarily: before applying this patching step, and only then. ↩︎

    Development Build: Features

    The dev build may become available in the clymax’s magical arcade Discord.

    Do you want to see more features added? Hop in our Discord to show your support for this project being developed further.

    Bosses no longer have invulnerability frames when taking damage.

    Challenge Dr. Wily directly, or farm the Robot Masters to power up your Buster!

    A gameplay demo of the dev build is below.

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

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