Divergent Paths: The 3 Scenarios

USME (6.8.0, latest version) is actually usable in RLP 1.03. Meat later revised it to 1.04, relocating lots of data & making changes that makes USME unusable. 1.03 is the most stable version. I use USME all the time with 1.03 as my base patch. If you could retrofit yours with that, man, that would be fantastic. You're correct that Sealed Door is not the conflicting issue: I removed it from RLP and got the same corrupted World Maps with D.P. patched on top of it. I'd have to agree that RLP's expansion of the rom & relocation of map data (possibly; I'm not sure if Dr. Meat did that in version 1.03) is the problem. If you're going to retrofit, definitely RLP 1.03 is the version to work with. As far as whether CV Reynolds' Bug-Fix Comp will work with D.P., haven't tried it yet. That's the bug-fix comp everyone is using now; DarkMage's is outdated & unfinished.

Actually though, the bug-fix comps are not necessarily needed if one is using RLP, since it has it's own lengthy list of fixes. In fact, there were conflict issues with using CV's on top of RLP that prevented it's usage. I just figured out a workaround for that today (after 2 years of trying) by removing the "sealed door" & "banon riding" patches from CV's comp. Now it can be used on top of RLP 1.03, *with* the full usage of USME for editing and no patch conflicts noticed (thus far.) The upside of using CV's patch on top of RLP is that you get all of Leet Sketcher's amazing patches in one shot, as opposed to applying them one by one & having to be somewhat careful about the order they're applied. This is just extra info for anyone trying to combine all these large patches.

EDIT: One other note - Meat's RLP patch puts in his own internal ROM name which negates the usage of USME. You have to go in a hex editor & change it back to normal (FINAL FANTASY 3) before you can use USME with RLP.