Final Requests for Help

I could be wrong, but I don't think byte 10 determines whether to use damage numerals or the slice through animation.

Yeah, with a proper disassembly, it looks like you may be right. It's definitely in the LDX #$018C. I wonder where that is reading from? I thought that it might be in these 5-byte blocks:

Code:

D2/7780
6E 58 02 5B 72 Ramuh
06 59 82 5D 22 Ifrit
E3 37 01 D3 58 Shiva
96 5A 02 5F 73 Siren
EA 5A 82 61 23 Terrato

D2/7799
E2 5B 02 63 74 Shoat
4A 5C 02 65 75 Maduin
D6 DC 82 67 24 Bismark
51 5D 02 68 76 Stray
91 5D 82 6A 25 Palidor

D2/77B2
71 5E 82 6C 26 Tritoch
A5 5F 82 6E 27 Odin
A1 60 82 70 28 Raiden
A1 61 82 72 29 Bahamut
49 63 82 74 2A Alexander

D2/77CB
89 65 82 76 2B Crusader
00 00 00 00 00 Ragnarok
11 66 02 78 77 Kirin
D5 66 02 7A 78 Zoneseek
4D 67 02 7C 79 Carbuncle

D2/77E4
9D E7 02 7E 7A Phantom
EB 67 02 7F 7B Sraphim
73 68 02 81 7C Golem
F7 68 02 83 7D Unicorn
9F 69 82 85 2C Fenrir

D2/77FD
27 6A 82 87 2D Starlet
F7 6A 82 89 2E Phoenix
EB 6B 02 8B 7E ??
0B 6C 82 8D 2F ??
0B 6C 82 8F 2F ??

1F EE 00 5A 7F ??
00 00 00 00 00 ??

Those appear to be just graphics though. When I straight-up replace Raiden with Tritoch's 5-byte block, I get a corrupted version of Tritoch's sprite, and it still slices through the enemies.