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Return of the Dark Sorcerer
RotDS has started as FF6 Last Hope All-Stars more than 7 years ago and a lot of progress has been made since this era. This romhack is one of the most complete ever done, in the same tier as FF6: Brave New World or FFVI: T-Edition but having its own characteristics. This hack come with a lot of add-on patches to suit your preferences.
From the readme: “This hack promises to showcase some of the challenging aspects of FFVI hacking, as well as plenty of fun and exciting new content - from an all new cast of playable characters with customized movesets, a radically changed story with many new and edited events, new overworld maps, a new soundtrack, increase in difficulty, lots of new battle scripts for monsters & bosses, and tons of spritework.
It is a highly personalized modification of the original game and therefore naturally won't appeal to everyone. It's not a sequel or a prequel or a remake to FFVI, it is just a massive mod and customization of FFVI and at times somewhat nonsensical. If you go into it thinking like this I am sure you will have a much more enjoyable experience than expecting some high quality re-take on the game and coming out feeling disappointed. That being said, a lot of time and love has gone into this project and I couldn't be happier with how it has turned out thus far.”
Official Trailer
Patch Info
Version | 1.8.3 |
Author | Gi Nattak |
Download url | FFVI_ROTDS.zip |
Other Files | Readme / Credits, Changelog |
Rom data
ROM Name | Final Fantasy III (USA) 1.0 |
ROM SHA-1 | 4F37E4274AC3B2EA1BEDB08AA149D8FC5BB676E7 |
Header | Includes patches for both header and no header |
Contributors
Many have contributed to this project by releasing patches and are not listed here. For those who made more custom contributions, their name is in the following list. In alpahbetic order:
Name | Contribution |
---|---|
abw | ASM coding |
Angelo | Event coding, ASM coding |
dn | ASM coding |
Dr. Blank | Portrait |
Edrin | ASM coding |
giangurgolo | Battle numerals font |
GrayShadows | ASM coding |
HatZen08 | ASM coding |
Jackimus | Original song compositions |
James White | Sprite work, Artwork |
JCE3000GT | Music |
Lijj | Sprite work |
Lockirby | World Maps work |
Lord Envoy | AI Scripting |
Lufia | ASM coding |
madsiur | ASM coding, Event coding |
Magical Trevor | Dialogues / Grammar |
Poco Loco | Dialogues, Battle Graphics, Sprite work |
Sutebenu | Dialogues / Grammar, Sprite work |
Synchysi | ASM coding |
tsushiy | Music |
XolarDark | Spell animations |
Gallery
Game Sprites
The monster sprites are now available in the RotDS Monster Gallery.
Game Booklet
World Maps
Original Soundtrack (252 songs)
- SPC Archive (605 KB)
- RSN Archive (823 KB)
- V5 MP3 Archive (450 MB)
- V3 MP3 Archive (604 MB)
- 192 Kbps MP3 Archive (725 MB)
Reviews
- Chuck's review (2014)
- Klaviaturist's review (1.2)
- Tenkarider's review (1.3)
- Kugawattan's review (2016)