Cyan's Uneventful Dream

This is a patch I have been promising for a long time. Just like my "Everybody Gets a Chocobo" patch, this patch is NECESSARY for anyone who wants to add permanent characters into slots $0E and $0F. I am completing it and posting it as a stepping stone to completing the Full Roster hack.

Here's the description of what "Cyan's Uneventful Dream" is from the readme file:

Anybody who has tried to hack Final Fantasy VI knows that the main issue you run into is SPACE. The rom is packed full, and without re-arranging data or expanding your rom, there's not a lot you can add. This is especially true for event editing, where the rom gives you 18 whole bytes of space to work with... not even enough to have your party members split apart and fan out!

Perhaps no part of the game presents as much of a challenge as Cyan's Dream Sequence in the World of Ruin though. At the beginning of the sequence, your party is split up and you have to rescue your 2 teammates from the Dream Stooges before you can move on. The event to do this eats up 1.5 kilobytes of event space, 32 event bits, and 26 NPC slots. Worse, the map that the NPCs are placed on is maxed out. It cannot hold a single NPC beyond what it has. Expansion is impossible.

Enter this patch. It accomplishes a lot through very simple means. It simply REMOVES the party splitting sequence. When you enter Cyan's Dream, you have all 3 party members from the start. Instead of rescuing them, you rescue pieces of Cyan's psyche. By removing that sequence, you gain 1599 bytes of space for event data and space for 23 additional NPCs (with unique Event Bits to control them)... all without expanding your rom. (Technically, you also gain space for one more event trigger, but that's hardly a selling point.)