SPHERE'S PROFILE

author=JosephSeraph
oh wow, using kazuko shibuya's art was definitely an interesting decision

It really does harken back to what they were originally designed as for the SNES/GBA versions, while simultaneously being far more detailed (higher-res) and just looking cool. That and I wanted to do something different for the look of the game. =)

author=Zadok83
Having a blast so far. I have noticed some minor bugs and misspellings such as passability issues (or lack thereof) in the cave leading to Damcyan and using the word "here" instead of "her" when referring to Rosa. No problem at all with those.

However, I just discovered a game-breaking bug:

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After the events of Damcyan, you wind up outside with the Hovercraft rising from the desert. I went back in and examined Edward's harp and then entered the Crystal Room. I noticed that some of the bases of columns were not present. It was just black space. Anyway, I walk around the room for a minute and then tried to leave. The music changed from the Crystal music to the Damcyan music, but I was still in the same room. So I'm guessing a teleporter issue?

Luckily, I have a save outside of the castle, so no harm no foul. I hate it for the poor sap that decides to save in that particular room though...

Anyway, thanks for creating something that has sparked my interest. So far I find the changes, intriguing. Looking forward to see how everything goes.

Sounds like a teleporter issue, yeah. I'll put up a new Data patch with the fix shortly. Nice catch Zadok! Oh and I'll fix that misspelling too. I'm glad you're finding the game interesting. Let me know as you progress how it goes. =)

author=Noel_Kreiss
For now the the only ability missing a description is Omni Force's Shadow Strike. I'll provide you with more info as I work on the Wiki.
Also, regarding single and party-target spells you could also add tier 4 spells; that way you could make tier 1 and tier 3 spells single target (including healing spells) and tier 2 and tier 4 spells AoE (including healing spells), if you didn't want to mess with scripting and you're not good with it.

Oh, and this game is much better than the original Final Fantasy IV in my opinion: it has a much greater substance in regards to characters and some story points that in the original version I wasn't really fond of. But damn, this game is so depressing (death everywhere OTL ).

You're working on a wiki? AWESOME! That is awesome! And thanks for letting me know I'll fill it in for Shadow Strike. You think this game is better than the original? Holy... that's a huuuuge compliment thank you Noel! And yeah definitely prepare for death. lawl

author=Noel_Kreiss
There's some transfer issue in Baron Castle: I'm trying to exit the East Tower and I'm teleported to the room with the treasury but on the rooftops and I can inly move on them and ultimately can't move forward with the story.

Also, there's a bit of messy and unclear descriptions for abilities. Some even miss them! You should standardize the descriptions to a degree; like it wouldn't hurt to specify that spells deal "<element> magic damage," or for status-inflicting spells to say, e.g. "Inflict Poison on one enemy, gradually decreasing its HP." so they're more descriptive.
And lack of single-target spells is really weird. I could understand -ra and -ga spells being AoE (IIRC the original Final Fantasy does that), but there's no excuse for tier 1 spells to also be AoE.

The reason for Tier 1 spells being AoE is because in FF IV you could make a single target spell be an AoE for many of the Elemental spells, and with the way the battle system works (even with script tweaks) I wasn't able to implement that on-the-go choice in battle, so I settled for making Tier 1 and Tier 2 spells AoE since I couldn't give the player the choice of single or multi-target.

And the spell descriptions (for the most part) come straight from the GBA spell descriptions which I just copied over and adapted. Same with the Items and so on. If there are spell descriptions that are blank that the player can access do let me know which, and I'll fill'em in. And in the next few moments I'll be updating the Data Patch with the fix to your issue hopefully. Thanks for the feedback! =)

author=sjmorgan
Was really hoping Edward would die and Anna would be fine in this alternate universe. :(

Unable to find file FF2 Paralaxes Ship. Crashed.

You need to download the latest patch in the Downloads section. It's a very minor bug, I had forgotten to uncheck a parallax from a map.