ROM Hacks: New Final Fantasy VI Hack Includes Harder Gameplay & Comprehensive Changes

BALANCE ALERT: I've been getting feedback from a player that physical damage is underpowered in the WoB. I haven't played through the WoB since many versions ago but from checking my save states this seems to be true for many of the areas. I of course have no time and so may just do a quick fix by changing WoB monster armor if I'm sure this is a problem.

Edit: Okay, I'm taking a harder look at this. Magic in the WoB is essentially a special move, is much rarer, more expensive, etc. I of course considered this before but I'm not convinced that magic is making physical damage uncompetitive. Much deliberation to ensue...

The issue with physical damage is related to your standard Fight command.

Character techs are both free AND powerful. Your Fight command simply doesn't keep up. It's most obvious with Edgar and Sabin during the WOB where I almost never use their Fight command.

There's also Shadow with his Throw skill where you can buy Shuriken at bargain prices and deal all the damage you could ever want.

And, on a less obvious note, physical damage depends on your level the most. In the damage calculation, your level is SQUARED. It means your base physical damage isn't really impressive until your get higher levels.

Appreciate the feedback. I was actually looking at my planning calculations today and did some testing. Regular fight does fine around level 20, but in certain areas/levels (The Mtek Factory) there are monsters with higher physical defense in general. Once you get level 3 magic, regular fight is less powerful but items and physical damage skills counteract that. So far I haven't found a big need for change but I'm taking a long hard look at things, and have little time per week to do it.

Hey all,

I see that people keep downloading it and I've had 2 or 3 people give me positive feedback about their playthroughs, so here's a release of some changes I've made:

Note--There is no panzy mode for this newer version (Why? Because 4 extra hours of tedious stat changing isn't worth it right now.)



Heroes
+HP Curve changed to add more hp from levels 80-99. Base maximum HP from ~4800 to ~6400
+Gogo mPwr 103-->90 due to X-magic available as a command. This will not affect saves, which must be edited with a save editor.
+Cyan's natural defense/mdef switched with Celes. This will not affect saves, which must be edited with a save editor.
+Firedance changed to Chi Strike, 4x 255BP physical attack, learned at lvl 60.
   +Animation changed for Chi Strike to a quadruple tiger strike
+Aurabolt now pearl and fire elemental
+Spiraler now based on HP and learned at level 19
+Whisper rage from special/plague to special/poison
+Bug rage casts battle instead of stone
+Outsider rage from Takedown/Pearl to Special/Special
+Mover rage from quake/meton to special/merton
+Steroidite rage from freeze/blizzard to blizz/blizz
+Skybase rage to Shock/Shock (Megahit/Megahit)
+Innoc rage from Wavecannon/AtomicRay to AtomicRay/AtomicRay

Monsters
+Kefka last battle fixed so that the fight isn't won once a person is exiled and the rest die
+Siegfried toned down, Rage changed from Battle/Quick --> Special/Quick (Special now +200%)
+Intangir made possible to kill, AI improved mediumly, gives 10,000 gold
+Last bosses changed, including ignore ignore defense
+Number 024 wind slash --> gale cut, quake --> land slide, magnitude 8 --> slide
+Opera Ultros #301 some attacks changed to tentacle
+Master Pug AI tweaked (END IFs thrown in, one redundant part out)
+Many WoB monsters are now resistant to zombie/petrify
+Chupon hp halved
+Simple AI script given to Siegfried for Veldt

Kefka's Tower - some monsters Mdef reduced
+GtBehemoth
Medef 210-->180
Def   155   155

+IronHitman
MDef 175-->128
Def  128-->180

+Madam
Mdef 155-->100
Def  100   100

+Outsider
Mdef 180?->150
Def  128-->180

+Dueller
Mdef 214-->201
Def  191   191

+Scullion
Mdef 245-->243
Def  240-->245

+Didalos AI fixed
+Gold Drgn stats changed and AI improved
+Innoc mDef changed to 128, AI changed to counter attacks with X-Potion, must drain his MP
+Veteran control command Roulette! changed to RevengeAll
+LandWorm control command ???? changed to Special

Graphics
+Starlet esper graphic removed due to glitching

Items
+Drill price down to 3000
+Drill description notes "ignores row"

Technical Hero Changes

+255 stat fix manually implemented. Over 128 vigor does nothing except make you proud.

From:
C2/61A2: 1A           INC
C2/61A3: B0 01        BCS $61A6    (If carry set, just give +1)
C2/61A5: 1A           INC
C2/61A6: C9 81        CMP #$81     (is stat >= 129?)
C2/61A8: 90 02        BCC $61AC
C2/61AA: A9 80        LDA #$80     (if so, make it 128)
C2/61AC: 9D 1A 16     STA $161A,X  (save updated stat)
C2/61AF: 60           RTS

To:
C2/61A2: 1A           INC
C2/61A3: D0 01        BNE $61A6
C2/61A5: 3A         DEC          (if stat overflowed to 0 after boost, make it 255)

C2/61A6: B0 04        BCS $61AC    (If carry set, just give +1)

C2/61A8: 1A           INC
C2/61A9: D0 01        BNE $61AC
C2/61AB: 3A         DEC          (if stat overflowed to 0 after boost, make it 255)

Items
+4x attack can proc spells now (00022A18 9C 89 3A     STZ $3A89   (Turn off random spellcast) --> EA EA EA)
+Angelic now does redemption on low hp
+PhoenixBlood casts Life 3 now
+Warlord increases physical damage now, +10 evade/mblock, Meteor
+Riftblade Stops, Pierces armor
+Excalibur casts Ultima

Items
+4x attack can proc spells now (00022A18 9C 89 3A     STZ $3A89   (Turn off random spellcast) --> EA EA EA)

Have fun with the animation bugs (very, very bad, by the way). If you don't know what I'm talking about, test some, you may notice, you may not.