In FF4 Ultima Iconic, there are a lot of icons used to communicate with the player. In my Ultima Iconic project, I added status icons to the battle messages, so that the negative status icons are seen more often and therefore offer a more intuitive connection to the menu system outside of battle.

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Here’s where those data points live in the rom. The above is what it looks like before the icons are added.

Changes begin at 07B1B7.

And afterwards…

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Notes on Icons

⚡ bolt = 90

🔥 flame = 91

❄️ snowflake = E7

🪶 wing = 28

🌘 dark = A8

☀️ holy = CE

🔃 absorb = 9A

⚫ black orb = 3F

⚪ white orb = 40

🧲 magnet = 93

🏹 ranged = 92

🚫 ‘no’ = 99

🧴 poison = E5

stun = 97

💤 sleep = 96

mute = AB

😎 blind = AA

🪨 petrify/stone = DE

💀 cursed = 95

♥️ charmed = 98

mini = AD

🐸 toad = AE

🐷 pig = AC

🪦 tomb = 95

axe/berserk = A9