| Released By | Lightning Hunter |
|---|---|
| Category | Complete |
| Platform | SNES |
| License | N/A |
| Patching Information | Header (SNES) |
| Genre | Role Playing |
| Mods | G,S,L,T,GP,Other |
| Patch Version | 1.02 |
| Hack Release Date | 31 January 2023 |
| Readme | Readme File |
| Downloads | 5623 |
| Last Modified | 01 February 2023 |
Description:
A Soldier’s Contingency is a comprehensive Gameplay and expansion hack for FFVI. It has been in the works for 5-years and is based on the wonderful hack by Fauntleroy/Fedorajoe titled the “General Leo Edition”. In addition to being able to recruit Leo, the whole game has a fresh new experience from start to finish while remaining faithful to the original. All the original content is still there, but with a significant overhaul and expansion. Battles should feel exciting rather than tedious. Gameplay is more challenging, but never in an unfair manner. Grinding will NOT be necessary with some good strategy.
The following is a list of features:
- Approximately 200 new monster sprites on top of the original monsters for a total of 350 monsters
- Optional end-game Beast hunting and some new bosses
- Lots of new equipment, including dozens of new ultimate endgame gear
- 50+ new battle themes
- New alternate characters that remain faithful to the originals while adding a degree of freshness
- The ability to recruit Leo as in the General Leo edition
- New surprise twist for Gogo and his own set of equipment
- Dozens of new spells and abilities and improved animations for existing spells
- Complete Gameplay overhaul and rebalancing
- New equipment menu that combines relics and gear
- A surprise twist to the final Kefka fight with your party above a certain level
- All new AI scripts for more intelligent monsters
- 50+ user-made hacks, patches, improvements, and more included
- Some new cutscenes
- Pugs instead of Imps that change color based on the character
- Some new dialog and plot twists
- All major bugs fixed, such as vanish/doom trick, psycho cyan, the infamous Gau sketch bug, and the useless evade stat along with countless others
- Ability to learn rages anywhere and to see which rages you are missing in Gau’s skill menu
- Colosseum completely re-written, and the ability to control your characters
- Re-written auction house to include more items and to be less annoying
- Functional Umaro, complete with his own set of equipment and a brand new skill
- New Dash function
- Leo’s Shock overhaul, which is now limited to once per battle and will randomly choose between 3 types of shock attacks
- New “Miracle” ability for Leo
- Rebalancing of physical attacking vs. magic
- Espers limited to mages
- No more status boosts for espers to compensate for the mage-only esper system
- Major rebalancing of characters; all of them should have a purpose for being in your group at one point or another!
- Game-breaking attacks fixed, such as fixed dice with offering
- Rages completely redone
- No more missable rages; a complete list is doable
- Many skill improvements, such as faster Bushido, A smart chainsaw that knows when to go for an instant kill, and Dance that never fails
- New desperate attacks, including brand new desperate attacks for Umaro, Gau, and Leo.
- More frequent desperate attacks
- Countless other features. Far too many to list here, in fact!
Be sure to grab the full PDF guide here!
ROM / ISO Information:
- Final Fantasy III (USA) - NOINTRO
- Platform: Super NES
- CRC32: 39A8F5B4
- SHA-1: E2E1ED5B66FB66AE0C9BAE9AD64E55E34196BFDD
- Checksum valid: Yes
- Patches for Headered and Unheadered included
- Patches for both FF3 USA version 1.0 and 1.1 included
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Screenshots:
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Credits:
| Contributor | Type of contribution | Listed credit |
|---|---|---|
| Fauntleroy | Hacking | The base of the hack, the "General Leo Edition" |
| Mike Ferrell | Music | Music, coding, tutorials, and more |
| C-Dude | Hacking | Various patches, help with coding |
| Madsiur | Hacking | Various patches, help with coding |
When the 12th time is just as good as the first.
Reviewed By: Kost on 11 Mar 2023This is hands down the best hack of FFVI I’ve ever played. The sprites, the music, the QoL, story changes, pretty much everything about it makes it a new and refreshing experience. Rather than a hack, this feels more like FFVI reimagined.
One of ASC’s best points to me is the difficulty. It’s harder, but not overly so. Unlike most hard type hacks, at no point will this game ever grief you. As much as it can occasionally punish poor decision making, it rewards good decision making and out of the box thinking without ever feeling unfair or hard to the point of frustration. The difficulty of the AI and enemies scales with level so even if you over level, the enemies never get to the point of being face roll easy and even if at some point they do, they don’t stay that way for long.
All characters have been tweaked to be viable and most abilities scale all the way to 99. Even if you set aside a character early on, when you come back to them later at a higher level you’ll often be surprised at just how good they are now. The gearing options combined with the diversity of viable party options makes every decision feel impactful. Risk taking is often rewarded.
ASC also boasts a variety of extra bosses that can be challenged and re-challenged at different levels and with different comps which gives the game a longevity I’ve never seen in FFVI before. You might be surprised to somehow find yourself putting in 100 hours to get everything you can get and do everything that there is to do, the experience is that well put together.
Gameplay aside, what makes this hack truly shine for me is the music, the monsters and the attention to detail when it comes to setting the tone of the experience. It’s hard to describe the feeling of recapturing the magic of the very first time but for me at least, this hack did just that.
Version 1.02 Recommended - Yes
| Headline | Author | Date | Version | Recommend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| When the 12th time is just as good as the first. | Kost | 11 Mar 2023 | 1.02 | Yes |
| A perfect amalgamation of vanilla and hacks! | Ace_Aileron | 08 Mar 2023 | 1.02 | Yes |
| Great Ideas, But Needs Better Implementation | Phaxuji | 06 Mar 2023 | 1.02 | No |
| Starts 10/10, ends 9/10 | loinator | 23 Feb 2023 | 1.02 | Yes |
| A Very Solid FF6 Hack, Something for Everyone | Lilyily | 21 Feb 2023 | 1.02 | Yes |
| Better than retail, but not as good as others. | FrigginNeato | 01 Feb 2023 | 1.02 | No |
| Review of A Soldier's Contingency | Chanewt | 30 Jan 2023 | 1.01 | Yes |
| One of the best Final Fantasy hacks. | T92 | 25 Jan 2023 | 1.0 | Yes |