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  • Ys III: Wanderlust Released for Super Nintendo

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

    The Ys III: Wanderlust mod on SNES has been released courtesy of clymax.

    This mod is unofficial and is unaffiliated with Nihon Falcom.

    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.

    A leaderboard is also available here.

    Development Build: Features

    Chest items are now randomized. Story-progression items not yet randomized.

    Currently, duplicates can still be rolled.

    Experience boosted to 16x.

    Gold boosted to 16x.

    Ring boosted to 16x.

    Locked doors have been unlocked to start.

    Player i-frames increased from 20f to 60f.

    Skips dialogue that blocks progression. Also skips dialogue that is only heard once.

    World-map locations unlocked to start.

    Ogre’s Ball of Fire no longer needed to light Galbalan’s Island.

    Ring efficiency improved to 6.4x. Specifically, ring is reduced every 64f instead of 10f.

    All progression blocks removed.

    Cutscenes that return you to town from dungeons are now whitelisted from cutscene skips.

    Reenabled cutscene skips in the room with the cutscene trigger, when heading toward the boss rather than returning from defeating the boss.

    You can now do a triple jump. But beware of jumping out of bounds, as it can softlock your game.

    Town health regen boosted to 4x. Does not affect Ring health regen.

    You now deal a minimum of one instead of zero damage against enemies, including bosses.

    The final boss is now vulnerable even when his heart isn’t visible. This is the case even when one or more of his hands are still visible.

    The dialogue for finding herb medicine in the volcano has been whitelisted from being skipped.

    You can now hold the L button to force a skipped dialogue to still occur.

    The pool of random items has been shrunk to include only items that drop from chests in vanilla.

    Duplicate rolls have been removed.

    So, what do you think? Which platform do you think has the best version of Ys III? Where do you think Ys III ranks in the series? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.

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  • Active ATB Menu Released

    For Final Fantasy V (SFC)

    RoSoDude’s recent FF work includes comprehensive ATB enhancement mods for FFIX, FFVI, and FFVII. When not modding FF, RoSoDude is a PC gamer obsessed with systems design, and he’s worked on extensive balance modifications for Deus Ex (GMDX), System Shock 2, Prey, and Pathologic, with future plans to create mods for Dying Light and other games. You can follow these and other projects via RoSoDude’s blog, Discord, or YouTube.

    Writes RoSoDude:

    While generally well-implemented, FF5’s ATB feels more “stop-and-start” compared to later entries. Most commands execute immediately after being entered, which blocks the next ready character’s menu from opening.

    This patch adjusts the timing to open the next menu just before the current animation starts. This allows the player to buffer inputs during animations, speeding up battles on Active mode.

    This patch should be compatible with any other hack that does not radically alter the battle code.

    You can now get the patch via Romhack Plaza here or via RHDN here.

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

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  • Crosswinds Speedrun by NeoKakarot

    Whirlwind Four-Job Fiesta, Division IV-A

    For more info on the Whirlwind (Four-Job) Fiesta event, see here.
    For more on the Crosswinds mod for Final Fantasy III, see here.

    NeoKakarot is a fanatic of JRPGs, anime, and DOTA with an especially soft spot for games by Nihon Falcom. You can follow Neo’s work via YouTube or Patreon.

    Writes Neo shortly after his playthrough of Final Fantasy III on the Nintendo DS (playlist available here):

    Today we are playing Final Fantasy III for the NES on this stream, but it’s not a normal version of the game.

    For you see it has been modded by ‪@cIymax‬ and is called Final Fantasy III Crosswind!

    And I will be “speed running” it if you catch my drift.

    It should be a fun time!

    So, mark your calendars for Wednesday at 8pm Eastern, boys!

    Update

    The Speedrun.com submission is posted here, or see the video embed below.

    For the event leaderboard, click here.

    You can check the current event standings here.

    Crosswinds Any% in 5:07:13

    Titles Awarded: Bonus Conqueror I, Crosswinds Record Holder

    Date: August 20, 2025

    Team: FFV Central

    Congrats to Neo on the titles!

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  • Ys III on the PC Engine CD

    Post-Stream Review by NeoKakarot

    NeoKakarot is a fanatic of JRPGs, anime, and DOTA with an especially soft spot for games by Nihon Falcom. You can follow Neo’s work via YouTube or Patreon.

    Video Review

    Writes Neo:

    Ys III: Wanderers From Ys is a strange game for the Ys series.

    It’s a sidescroller action game the only of it’s kind for Ys.

    I ignored this game for many years, but recently I played through it on my stream.

    In this video I go over why I didn’t play Ys III initially, why I played it, highlights of my stream for the game, what I think of Ys III and then also just some dumb comedy sprinkled in.

    The video is below, so check it out!

    Stream VOD

    Wrote Neo last week in a community post on his YouTube channel:

    As for Falcom stuff if something comes along which sparks me to make a video I will make it . . . and I’m going to start a PC Engine version playthrough of Ys III pretty soon here.

    Soon afterward, in another community post, Neo wrote:

    So in the previous post I said I was gonna play the PC Engine version of Ys III and indeed I did.

    The playthrough of the game was finished in under 6 hours and it was some very fun old school fashion side scroller action!

    I don’t know why it took me so long to play it but I’m glad I did!

    For players who wish to check out the stream VOD of the complete playthrough, see below.

    So, what do you think? Have you played Ys III? If so, which version of Ys III do you like the most?

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