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  • Wanderlust Family—Recap

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    Self-randomizing mods compatible with mainline releases in the Ys series on Nintendo consoles.

    These mods are unofficial and unaffiliated with Nihon Falcom.

    Click on each thumbnail to see the corresponding entry.

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  • Dragon Quest V: Molten Released

    For the Aflame family of mods, click here. For clymax’s projects, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube.

    The Dragon Quest V: Molten mod on SFC has been released courtesy of clymax. The mod is for use with DeJap’s English fan translation v2.01 final.

    The mod is unofficial and unaffiliated with Square Enix.

    Like all of clymax’s rando mods, it’s a self-randomizer, so just simply reset the game to play a new randomization.

    A release build for Romhack Plaza is being considered, or you can get early access to the dev build on Game Jolt.

    Development Build: Features

    Items randomized.

    Duplicates can be rolled. Seeding not yet supported.

    No random encounters in the overworld. Hold B to get random encounters.

    Return and Outside spells are given to start.

    Gained experience and gold each boosted to 64x.

    So, what do you think? How do you think DQ5 on SFC holds up today? Which DQ remains your favorite today? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.

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  • Dragon Quest VI: Aflame Released

    For the Aflame family of mods, click here. For clymax’s projects, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube.

    The Dragon Quest VI: Aflame mod on SFC has been released courtesy of clymax. The mod is for use with Noprgress’s English fan translation v0.9 Beta 2.

    The mod is unofficial and unaffiliated with Square Enix.

    Like all of clymax’s rando mods, it’s a self-randomizer, so just simply reset the game to play a new randomization.

    A release build for Romhack Plaza is being considered, or you can get early access to the dev build on Game Jolt.

    Development Build: Features

    Provides a fix for the softlock when canceling out of the Info-All screen in the menu.

    Items randomized. Duplicates can be rolled. Seeding not yet supported.

    Save RAM has been expanded to enable this feature.

    No random encounters in the overworld. Hold B to get random encounters.

    Return and Outside spells are given to start.

    All destinations of the Return spell are given to start.

    Gained experience and gold each boosted to 64x.

    So, what do you think? How do you think DQ6 on SFC holds up today? Which DQ remains your favorite today? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.

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  • Top Mods of Final Fantasy’s Second Trilogy

    With “Let’s Play” Series Playlists

    Casual Tom, an avid Mega Man player, is a streamer and content creator who focuses on blind playthroughs of romhacks while occasionally throwing some speedrunning into the mix. As a staff member of Final Fantasy IV – Ultima, Casual Tom often features Final Fantasy mods on his streams. You can follow Casual Tom via YouTube, Twitch, or Twitter/X.

    Speaking with FFV Central directly, Casual Tom ranks the top five mods in each of entry of the Final Fantasy trilogy of the sixteen-bit era (i.e., the fourth generation) of gaming consoles.

    Each entry links to a playlist for the corresponding LP series by Casual Tom. Without further ado, let’s begin!

    A. Final Fantasy IV (SNES)

    1. Ultima

    2. Unprecedented Crisis

    3. CII

    4. The Darkness Within

    5. Job System

    B. Final Fantasy V (SFC)

    1. Heroine Trilogy (FF5r-IC)

    2. Autumn Challenge (FF5 Remix)

    3. Whirlwind

    4. Nostalgia

    5. Void Divergence

    C. Final Fantasy VI (SNES)

    1. A Soldier’s Contingency

    2. Return of the Dark Sorceror

    3. Tsushiy Edition (T-Edition)

    4. Reimagined

    5. Hope Eternal and Love Everlasting

    So, what you you think? Any mod that should or shouldn’t have made the list? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.

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