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A hack of final fantasy 2 nes, that I'm trying to make.
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Hello, this be ScarTheScarab. For a while now, I've been trying to make a hack of final fantasy 2 for the nes for a while now. Constantly experiencing painful errors in certain progress intervals but overall, it is helping me better my knowledge. There is a very neat program made for editing ff2 called jade, it has been quite useful for a lot of changes that can be made. Though some of its features are bugged and have caused the rom to corrupt repeatedly, figuring out what causes it has happened and I've figured out hex editing enough to edit things that normally break the rom via the editor.

(What I'm trying to do): the purpose of hacking ff2 is to revamp the system to make the game more challenging and interesting. I have plans to remake the stats of the enemies so that they can prove to be a challenge even for maxed stats characters late game. Normally in ff2, it is easy to best the system and practically make all battles even the final battle, effortless. But the changes I will make will prove to present an actual challenge.

In addition to revamping the overall difficulty. I have a new story setup. Although the changes to the main story are very limited, text edits will make quite a difference. Along with a new story, comes a new cast of characters as well. I've already finished battle sprites and menu portraits, but some main and practically all npcs lack graphical changes to field sprites.

Graphics edits wise, I also want to change every design of monsters in ff2. Its been done successfully for a majority of late game bosses and enemies, but a lot of monsters do not have graphical changes yet and some that do need enhancements to their designs. I also plan to edit a majority of tiles on the maps to change the overall look of the game. Though I want to do the same to the map layouts themselves. I lack the capability to edit map layouts. Due to using a different color than red for the first palette for pc's in battle, I am trying to edit the field palette to match, but somehow it just cannot be found within the code.


(The new story?): I cannot exactly spoil too much of the changes that I could make, this is pretty much expanding on what limits of editing the prologue.

In a distant world, there has been an ongoing peace, but all of that has come to an end. The emperor of the Ensydollus empire (Spelled Ensydollis in game due to space limits, ll and is are single hex values.) has opened a dimensional gateway and unleashed monsters so that he may conquer the world. The other kingdoms tried to fight back, but one after the other, they fall. As three youth escape phin (to be renamed later) they are aided by a mysterious young girl with ties to the empire in escaping to altea (to be renamed later as well.). But they are soon surrounded by imperial forces.

As one can see, not much has exactly changed. The setup of the emperor summoning monsters is still around and 4 youth fleeing phin is still intact. The differences are the name of the empire. Opening a dimensional gateway to summon monsters (rather than summoning them from the underworld), and the new main character being related to the empire rather than phin. Brief explanations of characters are below.

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(Characters)



Name: Aerynn
Replaces: Firion

Info: A young 18 year old girl. She is daughter of the emperor and being so. The princess of the empire. She completely opposes her fathers actions and prior to the beginning of the game. She escaped the palace and came to phin hoping to warn the kingdom of an impending invasion, but instead tried to help 3 others escape the invasion. She starts with a sword and overall balanced stats.


Name: Victor
Replaces: Maria

Info: A 17 year old boy from Phin. He and his brother Xavier tried to become royal guards to phin, but he instead became a soldier rather than royal guard like his brother. He follows the code of honor for knights very well and will be implied to have a crush on Aerynn somewhere within the planned text edits. He starts with a knife and slightly more speed and magic than the others.


Name: Odin
Replaces: Guy

Info: Sadly, I've not been able to come up with any difference between him and Guy other than slight graphical changes. Like guy, he starts with an axe and slightly more strength and vitality than the others, but in this case. He has slightly less speed, intelligence, spirit and magic.


Name: Xavier
Replaces: Leon

Info: The 18 year old brother of victor. Unlike Victor, he was able to become a royal guard of phin. During the escape from phin, after the party is defeated. He is captured and due to his weakness and potential. The emperor controls his mind and makes him the imperial dread knight. Upon returning to the party. He comes with much improved stats compared to Leon. He has a small amount of magic, specializes in most weapon types, specifically spears (reference to psp port of ff2), with swords and axes following behind.


Name: Elyna (Elia in game due to name space limits I did not expect X_X)
Replaces: Minh (Minwu if you've played gba and up ports of ff2)

Info: A young 12 year old girl from mysidia (possibly change town name?). She is a talented magic caster who rescued Aerynn, Victor and Odin from the empire during the escape. Not much is known about her origins. She comes equipped with a rod(cane or staff) and specializes in staffs and knifes as well as both arts of magic, knowing the 4 elemental spells, cure, esuna, basuna, life. As well as a few defensive spells and low level holy.


Name: Jerad
Replaces: Josef

Info: Sadly, the changes between Jerad and Josef are even smaller than Odin and Guy. Though he joins with better stats overall, notably level 5 in unarmed.


Name: Tina
Replaces: Gordon

Info: She is the princess of kashuon(will change name later on). During the invasion of fynn. She fled after being nearly overwhelmed and lost kashouns treasured dagger the MpFang, as well as leaving her brother Jacob at the mercy of the imperial forces as well. She spends time in altea behind the rebel base building, feeling cowardly and dishonorable to the kingdom. She starts equipped with a Evader(New name for gouche or main gauche if you've played gba ff2), as well as good skills with knifes, swords and even fists. She also has much better stats than gordon and comes with some low level magics including lvl 3 holy and nuke(flare).


Name: Peter
Replaces: Leila

Info: Not too much differences from leila besides gender. He starts with an axe but also specializes in spears, swords, bows, and fists. He also comes with a higher level thunder spell and a few others.


Name: Darren
Replaces: Richard (Ricard in gba, psp, ios, etc)

Info: A Honorable royal guard and dragoon of Dist(Deist, also planned to be renamed). He left on a journey prior to the invasion of his homeland with the intent to acquire the legendary spell ultima(just like ricard). He comes highly specializing in spears and swords as well as knifes and fists. He also comes with basic black and white magic spells. Much less likely to die climbing the tower compared to ricard.


Name: Emperor Ensydollus
Replaces: Emperor Mateus

Info: The current ruler of the Empire. Once kind hearted, now a dark hearted individual ever since he miraculously recovered from a grave illness sometime after his wife died of the same illness. He uses magic to open a dimensional gateway to a realm where a ancient threat was sealed. Aerynn knows her father would never do such things he does, and suspects it is not her father wearing the fancy armor. He is a much greater threat in combat compared to the emperor of paramekia. His ai will actually be made to be almost the same as the dark emperor, with some changes that still make him slightly harder than the original incarnation of the final boss.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've been trying really hard to make this hack, as much as I try, there are many things I am finding difficult to do and I am hoping for support in the project. Specifically-

-Graphics for enemies
-Graphics for tiles in the overworld and towns and dungeons
-Layout changes to the maps(I've gotten a little aid from Lenophis, the maker of jade. via documents.)
-changes to the leveling mechanics(for me, this seems the least likely to occur.)

I'd appreciate any help in the making of this hack. PM me if you would like to aid.

So far, staff member ZircronSwift "indirectly" contributed to a enemy graphic design . So thanks to him for that.

As time passes, I'll try to post screenshots of the progress of this hack.


Hello, this be ScarTheScarab. For a while now, I've been trying to make a hack of final fantasy 2 for the nes for a while now. Constantly experiencing painful errors in certain progress intervals but overall, it is helping me better my knowledge. There is a very neat program made for editing ff2 called jade, it has been quite useful for a lot of changes that can be made. Though some of its features are bugged and have caused the rom to corrupt repeatedly, figuring out what causes it has happened and I've figured out hex editing enough to edit things that normally break the rom via the editor.

(What I'm trying to do): the purpose of hacking ff2 is to revamp the system to make the game more challenging and interesting. I have plans to remake the stats of the enemies so that they can prove to be a challenge even for maxed stats characters late game. Normally in ff2, it is easy to best the system and practically make all battles even the final battle, effortless. But the changes I will make will prove to present an actual challenge.

In addition to revamping the overall difficulty. I have a new story setup. Although the changes to the main story are very limited, text edits will make quite a difference. Along with a new story, comes a new cast of characters as well. I've already finished battle sprites and menu portraits, but some main and practically all npcs lack graphical changes to field sprites.

Graphics edits wise, I also want to change every design of monsters in ff2. Its been done successfully for a majority of late game bosses and enemies, but a lot of monsters do not have graphical changes yet and some that do need enhancements to their designs. I also plan to edit a majority of tiles on the maps to change the overall look of the game. Though I want to do the same to the map layouts themselves. I lack the capability to edit map layouts. Due to using a different color than red for the first palette for pc's in battle, I am trying to edit the field palette to match, but somehow it just cannot be found within the code.


(The new story?): I cannot exactly spoil too much of the changes that I could make, this is pretty much expanding on what limits of editing the prologue.

In a distant world, there has been an ongoing peace, but all of that has come to an end. The emperor of the Ensydollus empire (Spelled Ensydollis in game due to space limits, ll and is are single hex values.) has opened a dimensional gateway and unleashed monsters so that he may conquer the world. The other kingdoms tried to fight back, but one after the other, they fall. As three youth escape phin (to be renamed later) they are aided by a mysterious young girl with ties to the empire in escaping to altea (to be renamed later as well.). But they are soon surrounded by imperial forces.

As one can see, not much has exactly changed. The setup of the emperor summoning monsters is still around and 4 youth fleeing phin is still intact. The differences are the name of the empire. Opening a dimensional gateway to summon monsters (rather than summoning them from the underworld), and the new main character being related to the empire rather than phin. Brief explanations of characters are below.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(Characters)



Name: Aerynn
Replaces: Firion

Info: A young 18 year old girl. She is daughter of the emperor and being so. The princess of the empire. She completely opposes her fathers actions and prior to the beginning of the game. She escaped the palace and came to phin hoping to warn the kingdom of an impending invasion, but instead tried to help 3 others escape the invasion. She starts with a sword and overall balanced stats.


Name: Victor
Replaces: Maria

Info: A 17 year old boy from Phin. He and his brother Xavier tried to become royal guards to phin, but he instead became a soldier rather than royal guard like his brother. He follows the code of honor for knights very well and will be implied to have a crush on Aerynn somewhere within the planned text edits. He starts with a knife and slightly more speed and magic than the others.


Name: Odin
Replaces: Guy

Info: Sadly, I've not been able to come up with any difference between him and Guy other than slight graphical changes. Like guy, he starts with an axe and slightly more strength and vitality than the others, but in this case. He has slightly less speed, intelligence, spirit and magic.


Name: Xavier
Replaces: Leon

Info: The 18 year old brother of victor. Unlike Victor, he was able to become a royal guard of phin. During the escape from phin, after the party is defeated. He is captured and due to his weakness and potential. The emperor controls his mind and makes him the imperial dread knight. Upon returning to the party. He comes with much improved stats compared to Leon. He has a small amount of magic, specializes in most weapon types, specifically spears (reference to psp port of ff2), with swords and axes following behind.


Name: Elyna (Elia in game due to name space limits I did not expect X_X)
Replaces: Minh (Minwu if you've played gba and up ports of ff2)

Info: A young 12 year old girl from mysidia (possibly change town name?). She is a talented magic caster who rescued Aerynn, Victor and Odin from the empire during the escape. Not much is known about her origins. She comes equipped with a rod(cane or staff) and specializes in staffs and knifes as well as both arts of magic, knowing the 4 elemental spells, cure, esuna, basuna, life. As well as a few defensive spells and low level holy.


Name: Jerad
Replaces: Josef

Info: Sadly, the changes between Jerad and Josef are even smaller than Odin and Guy. Though he joins with better stats overall, notably level 5 in unarmed.


Name: Tina
Replaces: Gordon

Info: She is the princess of kashuon(will change name later on). During the invasion of fynn. She fled after being nearly overwhelmed and lost kashouns treasured dagger the MpFang, as well as leaving her brother Jacob at the mercy of the imperial forces as well. She spends time in altea behind the rebel base building, feeling cowardly and dishonorable to the kingdom. She starts equipped with a Evader(New name for gouche or main gauche if you've played gba ff2), as well as good skills with knifes, swords and even fists. She also has much better stats than gordon and comes with some low level magics including lvl 3 holy and nuke(flare).


Name: Peter
Replaces: Leila

Info: Not too much differences from leila besides gender. He starts with an axe but also specializes in spears, swords, bows, and fists. He also comes with a higher level thunder spell and a few others.


Name: Darren
Replaces: Richard (Ricard in gba, psp, ios, etc)

Info: A Honorable royal guard and dragoon of Dist(Deist, also planned to be renamed). He left on a journey prior to the invasion of his homeland with the intent to acquire the legendary spell ultima(just like ricard). He comes highly specializing in spears and swords as well as knifes and fists. He also comes with basic black and white magic spells. Much less likely to die climbing the tower compared to ricard.


Name: Emperor Ensydollus
Replaces: Emperor Mateus

Info: The current ruler of the Empire. Once kind hearted, now a dark hearted individual ever since he miraculously recovered from a grave illness sometime after his wife died of the same illness. He uses magic to open a dimensional gateway to a realm where a ancient threat was sealed. Aerynn knows her father would never do such things he does, and suspects it is not her father wearing the fancy armor. He is a much greater threat in combat compared to the emperor of paramekia. His ai will actually be made to be almost the same as the dark emperor, with some changes that still make him slightly harder than the original incarnation of the final boss.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I've been trying really hard to make this hack, as much as I try, there are many things I am finding difficult to do and I am hoping for support in the project. Specifically-

-Graphics for enemies
-Graphics for tiles in the overworld and towns and dungeons
-Layout changes to the maps(I've gotten a little aid from Lenophis, the maker of jade. via documents.)
-changes to the leveling mechanics(for me, this seems the least likely to occur.)

I'd appreciate any help in the making of this hack. PM me if you would like to aid.

So far, staff member ZircronSwift "indirectly" contributed to a enemy graphic design . So thanks to him for that.

As time passes, I'll try to post screenshots of the progress of this hack.


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(edited by ScarTheScarab on 12-04-16 07:22 PM)     Post Rating: 1   Liked By: Mynamescox44,

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Have you heard of the FF7 NES English remake? It is available here and I highly recommend you look over it if the FF2 your hacking is NES based as it may give you some help on how to make it look as good as that one.
Have you heard of the FF7 NES English remake? It is available here and I highly recommend you look over it if the FF2 your hacking is NES based as it may give you some help on how to make it look as good as that one.
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I've known the ff7 pirated nes demake for all too long, also. I have been practicing on graphics edits, I may have trouble with some but overall, I'm still doing good.

and thanks to your reply, I can make a update post regarding progress.

After a while of hex editing, I've managed to change of number of various dialogue to match the new character cast. Though a majority of text is still unchanged.

When testing, after seeing Elyna/Elia's graphics in battle, I decided to make a slight size increase. So the first post will be updated to the new appearance.

Also, I made a nifty touch up to the intro unwinnable battle. Here is what it looks like in its current stage.

I've known the ff7 pirated nes demake for all too long, also. I have been practicing on graphics edits, I may have trouble with some but overall, I'm still doing good.

and thanks to your reply, I can make a update post regarding progress.

After a while of hex editing, I've managed to change of number of various dialogue to match the new character cast. Though a majority of text is still unchanged.

When testing, after seeing Elyna/Elia's graphics in battle, I decided to make a slight size increase. So the first post will be updated to the new appearance.

Also, I made a nifty touch up to the intro unwinnable battle. Here is what it looks like in its current stage.

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