Everlong

@kalledemos

I just reuploaded the patch, double checking that the map with the fix for Cascade Caverns is in there. I also made sure all chests in that dungeon were fixed. Try downloading again and make sure to overwrite previous files is all I can suggest. Hopefully that works.

@matski

No idea how I missed the stair tile for Vanguard inner, it was the only incorrect assignment for that set.

Not sure about the outside tile that makes the castle passable. Made some changes, but would need to know the exact location and tile to test.

Confident I found the Fhorestain senator that could duplicate. He was coded differently than the others that exit for some reason.

If you recruited the jukebox NPC, you might have chosen to change the Battle Arena music. This will cause the current regular battle music to play instead of the normal arena music. You can switch it back in the jukebox.

Tyr-Anon Castle is supposed to have yellow helper arrows pointing you to the throne room until you finish the Return to Tyr-Anon quest. That's where Gerovitus awaits, and it can be difficult to navigate there. I checked and the arrows should turn off immediately after defeating him and completing the mission.

author=matski
Here are some more observations and some minor bugs I found:

- Is there a way you could increase item storage from 99 to 999? After completing the forbidden continent, I usually have 99 precious stones/opals/etc and unable to unload them unless I am overlooking something. If you can't increase item to 999, you could add another sidequest where you can recruit a character that can hold excess items.
- When your character is in "fury," I noticed that the character's accuracy decreases at least 50 - 100%. Is this intentional? (I think it's a flaw in RPG Maker 2003)
- In chocobo bomb, the 2nd or 3rd chocobo doesn't explode. It just disappears. (Chocobo bomb I find difficult and took me a while to beat)
- Chocobo waterfall, I went through some of the crystal pillars towards the end of the course. I probably wouldn't have been able to beat it if I wasn't able to go through them. (This is also rather difficult)
- Healing in battle max is 9999. When I heal outside of battle, it will heal over 9999.
- Is there a way you can use mp3 instead of midi for some of the game's soundtrack? (I was thinking of changing a couple of the game's tracks for personal preferences, however, I noticed when I play some tracks on a player, it plays 2x fast at normal playing speed)

There isn't a way to increase item storage that I'm aware of. Sell your maximum items to merchants. On the Forgotten Continent this includes vendors at Wolverton, and the mages at Antiquus Fanum.

Hit % for the Fury condition is currently at 75%. This is in addition to your weapon's hit rate, which is not listed in item descriptions due to lack of space. Most weapons have 90-100% hit rates.

Sometimes it appears chocobos aren't exploding, but that's because more than one battle animation cannot play at the same time. Every time a new bomb explodes, any current animation still running quits and is replaced by the new one. Hit box detection only at the moment of the explosion. A good strategy is to run toward bombs to group them in an area until they're about to explode, then retreat away to an empty corner.

Chocobo Waterfall, and a few other mini-games and puzzles, have bad hit box detection. The engine just doesn't do a good job tracking and comparing coordinates fast enough. I put in significant effort trying to proof the Phoenix Cave puzzles, but it's not worth the time attempting to address these engine limitations.

The engine hack that breaks the damage limit of 9,999 HP unfortunately does not apply to healing in battle. I do not know of any workaround for this.

I previously offered a high quality soundtrack with mp3s that were recorded using superior midi soundfonts to those the regular engine uses. Unfortunately this causes loading and looping issues with rm2k3, and the download was burdensome in size. Using midi the full package archive is a reasonable ~67MB. Some tracks play at 2x speed because this halved the file size (and sample quality) back when .wav was employed for more tracks. Here's a link to what used to be the full soundtrack, but a new track or two might be absent:
http://www.nealien.com/Everlong/Files/Everlong_Soundtrack.zip

Thanks for the picture of the Vanguard tileset bug, that makes the error perfectly clear.

If you dispel the positive conditions that Kurgalaxes inflicts upon himself with the Chrysalis skill, then the animation will replay on his next turn to signify the enchantments were restored. As long as Kurgalaxes is in Chrysalis mode, any damage is healed 2x, and Might, Focus, and Protect cannot be removed. After Kurgalaxes takes no action for four turns, Chrysalis ends and he attacks you again. You can then dispel the conditions successfully and deal damage once more.

The soundtrack archive link works for me. It's a regular .zip format, and I'm using the program 7zip to extract.

If you want to preserve some challenge and receive more benefits from combat, choose the automatic monster balance setting in Options after your heroes are reborn. This scales monsters to the average statistics and assumed damage output of your heroes.