I’m patching and hacking together bugfixes and improvements to enhance Final Fantasy V on the Super Nintendo, and create a launchpad for romhacks based on this game. These changes are meant to improve and not distract from the vanilla FFV experience, however I’ve rearranged some things that might be noticed by veteran players.

This spilled over into a twin project, with most of the interface changes and bugfixes I’ve worked into FFV getting woven into a Clean version of FF5R.

FF5r Clean

Project listing on romhack.ing

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Important! If you have the version of FFV Clean (v1.952) or FF5R Clean (v1.9) that’s on archive.org, there is a graphics bug!

Please update to the latest version here!

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Main Clean Patches (v2.07)

ffv-clean.zip

FFV Clean Changelog

Optional Patches

Gives spells long form names like “Blizzaga, Aeroga, Cura, Fira”.

“FFV More Weapons” patch

FFV Clean ONLY = aga Spells v1.1.ips

FF5 Steal Buff (by Gens).ips

Reported Bugs in FFV Clean

Major Changes in FFV Clean

• Graphics
  • map sprites
    • all 104 Jobs that weren’t visible on the map are now visible on the map (Cubear’s work) 🤯
      • Freelancer Bartz has pants (after the Wind Crystal)
      • Freelancer Galuf’s coat is visible (after Wind Crystal)
  • menu font
    • overhauled based on an open source True Type font
    • improved by removing grey drop shadow
  • dialogue font
    • completely redone; thinner, more uniform letters
  • battle sprites
    • Krile looks like the other heroes, no more “huge head” art style
    • Bartz fixed in a few poses, given sleeves as a Red Mage
    • Lenna given sleeves as a Mime and Freelancer
• Icons
  • Blue magic spells have the 🔷 icon, helping them stand out
    • all weapons that had this now have more appropriate icons
    • Boomerang icon imported from FF4 for 2 weapons
  • all Espers have black, white or time magic designations
  • black icon is much darker
  • drop shadows on weapons & armor icons placed on the right and bottom
  • new Bow icon created
  • improved icons for Float & Blind added
  • MIX
    • a custom item icon (💰 ← w/o the $) was added to call out the monster items used as ingredients for the !Mix command (v1.83)
      • TurtleShell
      • DarkMatter
      • DragonFang
    • the bottle icon that was used only by Drinks in the original game is now used by the 9 healing potions and items that work w !Mix
      • Potion
      • HiPotion
      • PhnxDown
      • Ether
      • Elixir
      • EyeDrop
      • Antidote
      • HolyWater
      • MaidenKiss
• Interface
  • L & R
    • quick scroll in many lists, like Blue Magic
    • switch between characters when Equipping or checking Status menu
  • Dashing for 2x movement speed in all towns, caves, dungeons with all Jobs; Thief Dash Ability works at 4x speed now
  • X button passes the turn in battle with no loss of readiness
    • improves !Mime very much
• Battle Mechanics
  • Kiss of Blessings no longer cheeses the game
  • Berserk status will do more actions than !Attack, can also:
    • !Mug
    • !Dance
    • !Jump
    • and more…
  • !SwdSlap works as intended, hit target w/o lifting Sleep, Control, Confuse and also may cause Stun
  • !Analyze also shows the elemental weakness, as originally intended
  • Giant Drink works on enemies