ReCast FF3: War of the Magitek

BananaMan discovered a bug with the Leap command, wherein it was preventing battle from ending if there were no more valid leap targets.  This is because I had optimized Leap to share code with Command; it was unintentionally granting a turn of Quick when utilized and the action failure was thus waiting for Gau to issue another command.

Players may have seen this situation before with Banon and the Command ability; the readme explains that the game is waiting for a Quick turn and that taking any action like Defend will end the battle.  If you are stuck in the Leap situation, you may likewise tell Gau to defend to end the battle.

The hack has been updated to version 3.18 to address this bug; the new build can be found in the first post and also contains the Bomb battle script fix suggested by Gens.  It is compatible with all other Version 3 saves.


EDIT 12/26/24: Version 3.19 has two additional quick-fixes.  "Find the Floating Continent" is moved to the second dialogue option on the airship wheel, so players running on fast-foward can simply fly after Thamasa without having to constantly trigger the 'jump aboard' sequence.  Additionally, there was an engineer erroneously piloting some Magitek armor in pre-factory Tzen... as you probably know, such action can warp the universe!  Or rather... call down the wrath of a dragon when he faces left or right, as he has no riding sprite.  This engineer swapped places with the trooper up the stairs to remove such a visible glitch.

The readme has additionally been updated to address a few typos, add more information on Lore acquisition, and give credit to BananaMan as a bug-tester for finding these issues and bringing them to my attention.

The zip's a little bigger because it now contains a BPS patch, for FLIPS users who want to make absolutely sure they have the right ROM to patch.


EDIT 12/28/24: Huge oversight on my part, there was no way to learn Aero 2 from an Esper. Version 3.20 adds this spell to Golem's list, at a learn rate of x10.