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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 | FFVI_ROTDS.zip |
Other Files | Readme / Credits, Changelog |
Rom data
Dump Name | Final Fantasy III (U) (V1.0) [!].smc |
Filesize | 24 Mbits |
Header | Patch for headerless and headerer ROM included |
CRC32 | A27F1C7A |
MD5 | E986575B98300F721CE27C180264D890 |
SHA-1 | 4F37E4274AC3B2EA1BEDB08AA149D8FC5BB676E7 |
SHA-256 | 0F51B4FCA41B7FD509E4B8F9D543151F68EFA5E97B08493E4B2A0C06F5D8D5E2 |
Contributors
Assembly Coders
They are wizards of the code, adding new features, tweaking game mechanics, menu layouts or expanding existing features.
Name | Contribution |
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madsiur | Most of ASM work, tweaks and features. |
synchysi | Half damage spell back row flag, always sprint tweak, gain level command, Health to Miracle, equip screen dual weapon wielder fix, Pep Up alteration, Restricted Espers. |
Angelo | Restored ability names, Grant character spell command, Flashback color in battle. |
GrayShadows | Normal magic learner Golbez, weapon spell learn rate, Monster spell cast Runic. |
b-run | WoR characters palette change check, spell command unlearning. |
HatZen08 | WoR Veldt song help, Item command removal in battle codes. |
abw | Intro credit hacking, compression. |
Lufia | Step Mine / MP cost hack. |
dn | Rage and Dance descriptions hack. |
Event Coders
They modify cut-scenes and make new ones, bring life in the hack, add new story elements or modify existing events.
Name | Contribution |
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Gi Nattak | All events not listed below. |
Angelo | A decent amount of big events. |
madsiur | Shadow in Albrook/Vector. |
Song Hacker
They play with emotion, give pace to battles and bring epic musical moments in the game.
Name | Contribution |
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Gi Nattak | A vast majority of the 252 songs of the OST. |
Jackimus | Created about 20 songs, some being original compositions. |
tsushiy | Gave permission to use his songs, right now there are 4 in RotDS. |
JCE3000GT | Gave a few SPC imports (4) from other Squaresoft RPGs. |
William Kage | “Determination” song composition. |
MetroidQuest | Boss Theme (FF4) and Battle 2 (Chrono Trigger). |
Spriters
They give life to characters, matching the original Squaresoft style for new characters and portraits.
Name | Contribution |
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James White | Portraits, NPCs, special poses, monsters and espers, WoB map tiles, location map objects, wallpaper graphics, intro screen. |
Poco Loco | Main characters, NPCs, weapons, spell animations. |
Sutebenu | Opera dress Tifa, chained Tifa, Aurora (ending pose), Aurora (flying esper) |
Kugawattan | Generic NPCs, Classic Golbez (partial) |
Zozma | Barberella (Aurora), Zigfreid, Vargas, Clyde |
FEOK | Fusoya, Pirate (partial) |
XolarDark | Spell animations |
Royaken | Record Keeper Cloud |
Astaroth | Tifa |
Eddie Lee | Heartless |
Sathka | Hector |
Joshdammit | Devil-bat girl |
Dr. Blank | Elite Knight |
Badass | Generic Girl |
DjinnandTonic | Prinny |
Dialogue Writers
They keep the story pace with appropriate words, bring emotions to events and make us laugh.
Name | Contribution |
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Gi Nattak | Most of the script and 1st draft. |
Poco Loco | Many dialogues and many script ideas. |
Lina Darkstar | Use of her fan translation. |
Sutebenu | Dialogue finalization and grammar check. |
Magical Trevor | Heavy grammar help. |
AI scripters
They bring challenge to battles and make us struggle to win fight or find monster weaknesses.
Name | Contribution |
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Gi Nattak | The vast majority of AI scripts in the hack. |
Lord Envoy | Original bosses, FFVI Advance Dragon scripts. |
Map Designers
Their cool and logic designs make the hack feel like a original game.
Name | Contribution |
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Gi Nattak | All the map creation and map edits except world maps. |
Lockirby | WoB and WoR maps. |
Miscellaneous
Name | Contribution |
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Pandora's Box Team | Various font and item icons. |
madsiur | Wallpaper graphics. |
BTB | S.Cross Palette change. |
Patch Creators
Their general work made great additions to this hack.
Name | Contribution |
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Darkmage | FFVI Improvement Project. |
13375K31C43R | A lot of bugfixes. |
GrayShadow | Natural ability extension, Stat increase items!. |
seibaby | Smart cover, Disable near fatal reapplied if dead, Independent stop, Muddle cancel. |
Think0028 | Non-reapplying status, Rage reset, nATB basic patch. |
Lenophis | New RNG, Natural stat growth. |
Imzogelmo | FF6 SNES button settings, Selective re-equip. |
Drakkhen | Physical damage overflow fix. |
Leviathan Mist | Battle speed up, 255 hours hack. |
Master Zed | New game plus. |
Novalia Spirit | FF6j Relic indicators. |
assassin | Randomosity monster encounter fix . |
Bregalad | Dialogue choice hand cursor. |
madsiur | Free moving Terra. |
Ronnen | Fanaticism. |
bydoless | Tritoch animation fix. |
Items
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)