FF6 - Brave New World

I'm not familiar with how FF6 checks event flags, so sorry if this is dumb - When you skip over recruiting Celes, is there some byte that isn't being properly set that allows the game to recognize her? Like, Celes shows up as normal in the line-up at Narshe, but once you switch to her or when you enter the party forming screens she's back to a moogle; this stays the case until the Opera House, where her sprite becomes normal Celes for every situation from then on out (But still retains the Kutan traits where you can't alter relics/equips/skills and has no runic command).

Also, is Kutan for certain the stand-in for Celes' spot (ie is Character 6 until Celes' data overwrites it during her recruitment), or is she instead a dummy value that the game pulls when trying to load an unrecruited character?

Nah, this isn't dumb at all.

First, Kutan is not a dummy value; Kutan *overwrites* the dummy data in slot six when the Moogle Battle starts. There's an infamous Let's Break on Something Awful that goes into this a little bit more in-depth, but suffice it to say that the real dummy data is something much different.

Second, what's happening at the Opera House is that the game changes the character sprite of character number six (again, which is ordinarily Celes) to Celes's "Maria" sprite. After the Opera, it changes the sprite back to just regular Celes. Even though the sprite has been altered by the game, the character data has not. Thus, what you have is a character that *looks* like Celes, but the character data says it's still Kutan.

Third, while there is an event flag that gets set when you meet Celes, it has nothing to do with the game recognizing her as such. What seems to be the case is that the battle script code works a little bit differently than I expected. Even if it *doesn't* recognize Kutan as Celes, the script should still end up granting temporary immunity to a random character in the party. Since that's not happening, I presume that Kutan is weirdly interacting with/breaking the script somehow (again, I'm totally lost here).

Don't know if I missed it or if it just hadn't been mentioned yet in both the thread and the readme. On that note then, you might want to edit the text of the Sraphim seller after buying from him, as he mentions selling other rocks in Jidoor (Which I'd always assumed were Golem/Zoneseek, hence why I treat them as late-WoB espers; I'm actually not sure how early you are able to get them now, I've always just gone in after the Magitek Factory)

If you talk to the NPCs in Jidoor (both before and after Zozo), I do my best to beat it into the player's head that they should stop by the auction house before leaving. We've also adjusted the auction house code so that the magicite shows up much more frequently than before.

Also, the guy in Tzen says that, "he had another one, but sold it to some guy in Jidoor".

(Something I didn't mention is that I love what you've done with the Rages; I tend to sit in the menu for a couple seconds and think "What would work best here", and for the most part the rages all feel useful).

Rock on.

Also, stamina Gau can be quite useful if you want to spam his defensive rages, since Harvester and Sun Bath both use Stamina to determine healing. The next version will also attempt to fix the offensive stamina-based rages to do better damage, as well.

IAF... Yeah, I don't know. He went down with so little of a fight that I was surprised when I beat him. Once the missiles were gone I focused on getting buffs up on everyone, but by the time I was done Locke had nearly solo'd the thing on his own. I don't know if I'd recommend a damage increase or a health increase or what, but IAF felt like it was too easy after the fairly-difficult-but-not-overbearing fight that Ultros/Chupon put out.

IAF is a boss fight at the ass end of a rather brutal gauntlet, so I would rather not make it too hard. And again, it used to be much more powerful (for the record, it can still one-shot your party members with Giga Volt, inflict mass seizure, and do good damage with Diffuser), so there's a lot of bad memories.

Yeah, he's not going to tank everything forever like Stamina Sabin looks to be able to do, but a Stamina Cyan has been tanking well for me so far - My 'main' party (Though I've been trying to use everyone) has been Locke/Cyan/Strago/Whoever and Cyan handles both tanking and healing well enough, with powerful Dragons to throw whenever he gets a chance.

When you get Tempest (level 7), let us know how that damage stacks up to Dragon. We're seeing a lot of people just stick with Dragon so they can back-row Cyan, which is kind of not our intent.

I don't know why I keep thinking he is casting a full-party Regen; nothing in the printme or the hack itself says he's doing that, but I keep thinking it's Regen on the whole party.

Fenrir is the esper that does a full-party Regen

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Just signed up to say "Good job!" I also discovered this hack through The Betus Beat and I'm glad I did, because you guys made FF6 fun for me again.

Glad to oblige.

...and the F-bombs Kefka and Relm threw out were jarring, almost out of place to me).

I've pretty much said my piece on the matter several times (particularly with regard to the fact that both characters *did* swear in the Japanese version), but yeah, due to the fact that this is the most common piece of feedback we get, we're going to look into ways to cut back on it in the next update.

I also wanted to ask about the Unlockme folder. I figured a password would be given out in the game's final screen or something but I didn't see anything like that. I've been really curious about it since finding out there was more info to be found in it while lurking here, like the Colosseum wager list and so on.

I wanted to put it in the end credits or something, but I guess that wasn't doable (plus, if I *did* figure out how to edit the ending, I'd probably just change it to say "CONGRATURATION! YOU ARE WIN!")

I'll PM you the password.