Make Morph work like Quick?

Hmm... two things.

First off, I fixed the animation issue with Morph in my beta Morphenomenal patch. The code is as follows:

Code:

;Code Change at D0/69DC (Revert Animation):
DB 03        ;branch to $69E1 if character already stepped forward to attack
BF 19 70        ;call subroutine $7019

I was running into issues because Magitek treats some of its functions as attacks, and others as spell casts.  I ended up finding an animation that looks really cool, though: my Trance spell replaces Confuser and uses the Drain spell graphic, with pallets 178, 182, and 155, and with the Trance sound effect (#64).  As an auto-confirm self-target, it makes orbs of shining energy crash into and envelop the caster (Terra), followed by toggling on the Morph status.  It's actually really cool.

Second, I considered handling Morph the same way that you did, but there's one major, game-breaking problem with it. Morph doubles Terra's Magic Defense. Someone could choose to not take an action with her and boost her M.Def indefinitely. I don't think this could work unless she auto-reverted every time her command gauge filled up, which is even clunkier than the original mechanic.

I don't think that's a big problem, though.  Yeah, you can boost her MDef basically indefinitely, but that's at the cost of a team slot.  She'll be taking less damage, but she won't be contributing to the fight.  If the MorphBar deduction occurs within the same command that handles loss-of-control, (I'm guessing) you couldn't even get around it by berserking her, because she'd attack once and then que revert.
Doesn't seem all that different than having Gogo sit at full ATB while waiting for a good action to mimic.

Haven't had a chance to read any assembly guides yet, though, so I might be overlooking something obvious.