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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: [Introduction] + FF4 MGE - ver0.40 + [Hack Help] Imp Caller Orb crashes game?

« on: January 15, 2018, 08:24:06 AM »

1000 times more helpful than I could have been, chillyfeez.

Yo, Mike... that is one nice staff you left lying around in Baron town.  Cecil and Kain are fighting over who gets to use it.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: [Introduction] + FF4 MGE - ver0.40 + [Hack Help] Imp Caller Orb crashes game?

« on: January 14, 2018, 03:47:10 PM »

What exactly did you do to the Imp spell?  And did you alter Rydia in any way?

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: Chillyfeez's Shadow Party Hack V 2.0

« on: January 12, 2018, 12:54:56 PM »

I feel this will be a masterpiece when completed, chillyfeez.  A must for nearly every hack.  This has always been my #1 wish for this game, even way back when it was first released.  #2 wish would be some sort of new game plus where you could choose any character(s) from the very beginning, story be damned (sort of like Lufia II Gift Mode, but for the whole game.  Which, by the way, is really fun to do with Lufia II.  Start a new Gift Mode game, use a code for "airship anywhere", fly to the starting town and begin the story.  You can always warp back to Gruberik to change your party at any point in the game.)

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: Chillyfeez's Shadow Party Hack V 2.0

« on: January 11, 2018, 06:43:00 AM »

Just curious, but what will you do about FuSoYa and the Zemus/Zeromus autobattles?  It would be cool if you could use even FuSoYa at the end of the game without breaking the story or the autobattles.  I'm not requesting or anything, just wondering.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: Chillyfeez's Shadow Party Hack V 2.0

« on: December 15, 2017, 01:47:54 PM »

To quote Alucard from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, "I'm interested in this."

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: Filly Fantasy IV

« on: August 25, 2017, 01:09:37 AM »

..................................  Yep, I think it's time to set my laptop on fire now.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

« on: March 01, 2017, 12:17:43 PM »

Nice to hear from you, Kea.  Your FF4A hack is still my second favorite FF4 hack ever.  I look forward to possibly playing a completed form one day in the future.  =)

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF4 Roguelikeifyer (basic map randomization working)

« on: November 09, 2016, 03:15:55 PM »

I think PinkPuff has the right decision on this. Lufia II allowed you to get armor of varying quality early on in the dungeons where as FFIV has a greater emphasis on equipment (save weapons, of course).

That's a good point.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF4 Roguelikeifyer (basic map randomization working)

« on: November 08, 2016, 10:51:20 PM »

That can be done, yes. I'm just worried about checks and balances on what equipment they come with and if they will even be able naturally re-equip the item.

My vote would be to start everyone completely unequipped, as in Lufia II's Ancient Cave.  Or if they must have something, give them a stick and basic clothes (Wooden Staff and Cloth Robe?).  lol.  Of course make it so everyone can use those.  As far as equipability, couldn't this be randomized as well?  Using the new hypothetical Randomized option, of course.  Just tossing around a couple more pennies.   

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF4 Roguelikeifyer (basic map randomization working)

« on: November 07, 2016, 09:19:47 PM »

Twincast, in an ideal world, I'd like to pretty much be comet except use the new "Level-based damage" routine or else maybe use caster's max HP (100% of it)? It should only work with Palom and Porom and should be disabled if the other twin isn't present. If possible, it should always use only Palom's stats no matter where he is in the setup.

Is it not possible to base Twincast on level only?  It would solve Porom's low Int. issue.  Then it wouldn't matter who's stats were used.  Unless one of the twins is a few levels short of the other.

Yes, that seems a bit tricky. I could never figure out the "Inferior Twin" issue myself. I think there's an old patch out there somewhere which disables Twin if Palom/Porom are not present. There are various Twincast hacks around, I made a couple myself that depending on the Superior Twin, a different spell is used, and the way it is designed easily allows for four spell possibilities with one of them revolving around a special conditional beyond chance.

Ok, this idea is way better than mine.  I love it.  One more thing regarding the twins:  I like what was done to Porom's "Cry"/"Fake Tears" in the PSP version.

I'm not at all sure if this is possible or not, but I think it would be awesome if there was an option to start all characters with only Fight and Item (maybe even just Fight, or... a random command even), and have commands in treasure chests (or maybe random NPCs that teach a random command to one character... or a random character).  I like this even more than a "mime" class.  But... spells will probably have to be randomized and scattered as well.  Hmm....

By the way, none of these are actual requests, I'm just tossing ideas out there.  I'm enjoying this discussion.  I love this programming-clusterf**k of a game.  lol

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF4 Roguelikeifyer (basic map randomization working)

« on: November 05, 2016, 05:25:43 PM »

Pinkpuff, what you did to Edward in UC was genius.  I'm all for Edward learning bard songs by level.  But as for all the item stuff, it seems like it would be more interesting to have Cid be the "chemist".  He's so... plain in vanilla.  Even in UC he was a bit plain.  It doesn't seem easy to fix Cid.  Though I think Cid should be able to use whatever weapon will have "avenger sword" status, due to him being the closest character to a "berserker".  Cid:  the berserker chemist machinist?  lol.  Just some thoughts.

Oh, and one more thing.  How viable would it be to make a "mime"?  Maybe replacing FuSoYa?

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF II: A Threat from Within - Expanded ROM = New Features!

« on: September 20, 2016, 11:17:10 PM »

Hehe, I was downloading MOD, ST3, IT, XM, ... files. They were much shorter then mp3 with much worst quality. :D

BTW what was your first PC you used Swordmaster?

I remember those!  I found a lot of them on rpgamer.com, back in its early days.  It used to be called "The Unofficial Squaresoft Homepage".  And, they sounded much better than just plain old midi files.

My first PC was a 486 SX, 300MB hard drive, 24MB of RAM (a lot at the time), an impossibly heavy full tower case, and only MSDOS.  I later borrowed a Windows 3.11 disk to install, but the knowledge I gained from playing around with DOS (mostly trying to get games to work) was invaluable.  What about you?

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: FF II: A Threat from Within - Expanded ROM = New Features!

« on: September 20, 2016, 08:06:15 AM »

That pic reminds me of a DOS program I played around with way back in the day.  I think it was called Cubic Player.  It made midi files sound really awesome.  That was way before mp3s.  Although I remember downloading mp2s around that time.  ...I feel old now.

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: How to get D-handed people to use shields?

« on: September 19, 2016, 07:45:00 PM »

I'm pretty sure Yang's offense is unique.  If you give to Edge Yang's stats and both at level 99 and equip him with claws (or leave his hands unequipped), I am fairly certain Yang will far out-damage Edge.  ...I think.  Am I wrong about that?

Pinkpuff:  Can't you just make two Yang-only weapons, using ring icons, that give you what you want?  Or is there no way to give a weapon shield-like stats?  (I only have a few XP using your wizardly invention, FF4kster)

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Final Fantasy IV Research & Development / Re: How to get D-handed people to use shields?

« on: September 19, 2016, 09:35:21 AM »

And does anyone know off hand whether that would break martial arts?

"off hand"?  lol, was that on purpose?

chillyfeez, I think Pinkpuff just wants Yang to be able to equip two rings (shields) without offensive penalty.