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Though I figured FF6A got an 'effective' 510 potential items by doubling that byte space, even if they only used 270 (271 if we include the "Blank Spot"?) of those effective 510 items total. I do have links to maps of the FF6A Rom coding, so that helps.

I don't know how FF6A handle those extra 14 (it's one ultimate weapon per character if I remember right) but those items are chest exclusive and cannot be obtained in another way (event or steal / drop). I wouldn't be surprise if they have coded branches based on the chest ID to add the item to inventory. As for FF6A ROM coding, do you mean a ROM map or disassembly of the code? Any FF6A disassembly would interest me and other people.

Still, some parts of the "Canon" game were the result of laziness and idiocy.

I agree, the community project should definitely have a game improvement side or at least a bugfix side while retaining the original mechanisms. I strongly think we should include the most possible gameplay bugfixes as well as maybe improving some specific aspect of gameplay such as the stamina role like you mentioned.