• 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)
  • KO Sprites
    • no more immersion break, because the heroes’ costumes don’t magically change when they are Knocked Out! 105 custom sprites were hooked into the battle and menu routines
  • 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

Custom Map Sprites, per Job

FFV Clean features the incredible “Dress Code” project by Cubear: it represents a year’s worth of new graphics! Roughly 100 kb of custom sprites crafted by hand!

Krile in Profile: “unchibi Krile”

I overhauled Krile’s art so she looks more normal and less “chibi”. Here are the previews of that work, the “Unchibi project”: