I’m learning how to hack different aspects of the Super Nintendo games Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy IV (FF II, originally in the US).

My working project notes are partially collected here.

Banner image is a screenshot from ff6tools webapp, which can edit many aspects of both games.

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🌘 Romhacks

FFV Clean Editions

Definitive (真説) FF5r-IC

FFV Whirlwind Clean

Readme for FF4 Ultima Iconic

FFV ReJobbed

Gameplay Guides

FF5R Guide (WIP)

🌪 FFV Whirlwind Speedrun

Patches

FFV RPGe Clean Patch

FF4 Alt Sprites

FFV Script Updates

Clean NPCs

https://github.com/jacksmedia/patchtools

🔄 Partner Projects

Final Fantasy V Whirlwind Wiki

FFV Pixel Freemaster

Hacker Guides

Export/Import Tiles w STK

Creating a Patch

Bulk IPS Creator in Python

Applying a Patch by Tzepish, Expanded Notes

Cut + Paste tiles between ROMs w TM

Excellent Mesen Palette Editing Tutorial by Cubear

FFV Battle Sprites, Importing

Edits to FF4 Crow!’s Equip Menu

Adding a New Font in FFV

FF4 Edits & ff6tools Notes

FF4U Icon & Palette Notes

FF4 Sprites & Palettes Notes

ff6tools + LunarIPS = sprite patches

ff6tools: Edit Game Events & NPCs

ff6tools: Edit Events & Maps

Cut + Paste color palettes

Guide to Adding Portraits in FFIV

4bpp map palettes for FF4

Guides for Cyberpunk Dystopia

Moving from Gmail to Proton

Why Bitcoin

qortal

📝 Notes

FFV Palette Research

GBA Script Translation v1.16 TBL table file

FFV RPGe offsets

ff6tools Research

FF5 Assorted Notes

Adding Extra Icons to the FFV Equip menu

FFV Menu Hacking

NPC change notes for Tule Club

Failed first attempt to move Job/Ability tutorial elsewhere

FFV Menu Hacking Example

Poem of Light glitches and fixing them

FFV: Draining HP vs MP notes

FF4U Items & Spells (Ultima Iconic)

FF4U Battle Messages (Ultima Iconic)

ASC 2.0 Test log

Game Design Notes

FF5 Omega Working Notes

Krile Unchibi, Notes

FF5 Green Mage v1 Concept

FFV Clean Script v2

Next Goals

1. Current tasks
   1. verify all 14 Fonts options
      1. have 🌪️ icon, & it’s shaped correctly
      2. have 🌒 icon correct color in Magic menu & elsewhere (1 patch to fix this can be applied to the other 13 roms)
      3. replace patches in
         1. webapp, legacy patcher, archive
   2. FFIV Mobile style battle sprites
      1. combine existing to make full cast patch
      2. add to archive & Ulti
   3. upgrade Ceres Style with improved PC PR
2. Upcoming tasks
3. Midi decoder app

BREAK from romhacking for unknown span of time

1. Upgrade FF5r Clean to DressCode2 (🍫)

FFV Clean ~v2

• Further ideas for optional FFV Clean patches (kind of lead into a new project, tbh):
• even further revision ideas…

FF5 decomp project

👆 these are just so I can keep track of WTH to do 😹