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Completely Unrelated / Castlevania - Symphony of the Night - HardType v2.1

« on: 2014-06-01 20:43:57 »

Castlevania - Symphony of the Night - HardType v2.1
http://www.mediafire.com/download/4g4m383gc6q4b49/SOTNHTv2.1.7z

This patch is a difficulty and re-balance modification of the PSX NTSC-U version of Symphony of the Night.

Enemy HP and Attack have been increased. Equipment has been re-balanced. The Crissaegrim, Vorpal Blade, and Mablung have been removed from the game. Special attack mp costs have been increased.

v2.1 Changes
vorpal blade removed
tweaked duplicator

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Misc. Gameplay Releases / [FF10 International NTSC-J] Punishment (v1.2)

« on: 2013-03-08 04:44:18 »

Final Fantasy X - International - Punishment v1.2
http://www.mediafire.com/download/mj0966bqph5bh59/FFXintPv1.2.7z

This patch is a difficulty modification for the PS2 International NTSC-J version of Final Fantasy X.

Strength, Magic, and Evasion nodes on the Expert Sphere Grid have been re-balanced. The Standard Sphere Grid has not been altered. Stat boosting sphere drops have been removed from arena monsters. Enemy HP, Strength, Magic, and Agility have been increased. Some enemies have higher Luck, Accuracy, and Evasion. Enemies have higher status resistances. Bosses have more status immunities. Damage needed for overkills has been increased.

v1.2
re-balanced magic nodes on the expert sphere grid

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Releases / [FF8PSX NTSC-U] Requiem (v1.2.1)

« on: 2012-11-07 07:51:51 »

Final Fantasy VIII - Requiem v1.2.1
A difficulty and re-balance patch for the PSX NTSC-U version of Final Fantasy VIII.

(download link not currently avaliable)

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Misc. Gameplay Releases / [Chrono Cross NTSC-U] Time's Anguish (v5.7)

« on: 2012-09-06 09:39:15 »

Chrono Cross - Time's Anguish v5.7
https://www.mediafire.com/file/dy8hoi8oe7b7z4k/CCTAv5.7.7z/file

This patch is a difficulty modification for the PSX NTSC-U version of Chrono Cross.

Enemy HP, Attack, and Magic have been increased. Enemy Action Points have been reduced. Enemies drop less gold. Altered some enemy drops and steals. Re-balanced armor. Tweaked some weapons and accessories. Altered the availability of some elements to re-balanced the innate element types. MagNegate and element traps can no longer be purchased from shops. Some high level elements can now be purchased from shops. Increased the cost of most elements. Removed the Black, White, Blue, Yellow, and Green Plates. Removed Saints, GrimReaper, BlueWhale, Genie, ThundaSnake, BlueField, and YellowField.

5.7 Changes
tweaked some armor
additional buffs to most enemies post fate
buffed most enemies post guillot

5.3 Changes
slightly nerfed the hi-ho tank
re-balanced element costs
re-balanced armor
tweaked evade on armor and accessories
added cureall to goldove shop
added sealall to termina shop

4.7 Changes
restored the red dragon's treasure list
altered pyrotor, aquator, and terrator's treasure list
altered waterdragon and greendragon's treasure list
alteration to marbule shop
re-balanced element costs

4.3 Changes
altered portalgiest's treasure list
added new drops/steals to the dragon fights
added physnegate back to guldove shop
added ninetynine to termina shop
altered the inventory of the marbule shop
re-balanced element costs

v3.7 Changes
massively buffed slash, flea, and ozzie
buffed the criosphinx and both time devourers

v3.5 Changes
altered portalgiest's treasure list
reduced enemy gold
increased element cost
added level 7 summons to shops
altered the mastermune and einlanzers
removed the elemental plates
removed the level 8 summons
removed magnegate and physnegate from shops
removed traps from shops

v2.1 Changes
fixed a minor glitch
tweaked all enemies

v1.4 Changes
fixed another hp based glitch

v1.3 Changes
fixed some glitches cause by hp values

v1.2 Changes
overall reduction in difficulty from v1.1

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FF9 Gameplay Releases / [PSX NTSC-U] Final Fantasy IX Unleashed (v2.0.3)

« on: 2012-06-09 12:57:34 »

Final Fantasy IX Unleashed v2.0.3
http://www.mediafire.com/download/sckq440syhc6mny/FFIXUv2.0.3.7z

This patch is a difficulty and re-balance for the PSX NTSC-U version of Final Fantasy IX.

Enemy Alterations
Regular enemies have had their speed, defense, magic defense, strength, and magic altered. Later in the game evasion, magic evasion, and status immunities have been altered. Some alterations have been made to class, level, elemental defenses, and abilities. In addition, almost all bosses have extra status immunities as well as native abilities such as Auto-Protect and Auto-Shell. Some steals have been altered.

Character Alterations
Character starting stats have been altered. Base Spirit has been increased.

Equipment Alterations
Some equipment teaches different abilities. Stat boosts have been removed. Weapon attack power has been reduced. Some weapons inflict different status effects. Elemental absorptions and nullifications have been changed to 50% damage reduction (except for the ultimate weapons). Defense, Evasion, Magic Defense, and Magic Evasion have been reduced.

Ability Alterations
Some abilities have been replaced. Spells generally cost more MP and have lower attack power. Abilities on physically based characters (Zidane, Amarant, Freya, and Steiner) often cost 0 MP. Gravity and Status attacks have higher base hitrates.

Added Rare Steals
Ash - Brave Suit
Behemoth - Circlet
Chimera - Bracer
Iron Man - Grand Armor
Ozma - Excalibur II
Stilva - Grand Helmet

Ultimate Weapons
Each ultimate weapon has been imbued with the power of a single element granting it an elemental attack, an elemental damage boost, and an elemental absorption of the opposite element.
Ultima Weapon - Holy, absorbs Shadow
Excalibur II - Holy, absorbs Shadow
Dragon’s Hair - Fire, absorbs Ice
Rune Claws - Shadow, absorbs Holy
Gastro Fork - Wind, absorbs Earth
Mace of Zeus - Shadow, absorbs Holy
Whale Whisker - Water, absorbs Lightning
Angel Flute - Holy, absorbs Shadow
Tiger Racket - Wind, absorbs Earth

v2.0.3 Changes
Kuja's spell Dark is not reflectable

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Scripting and Reverse Engineering / FFIX - A question about locating data for weapons and abilities

« on: 2011-12-17 21:27:57 »

I recently started working on FFIX.  I was able to locate and figure out how to alter enemy stats.  Second, I began working on the Directory, which I botched a bit at first.  However, thanks to some very informative posts by Tonberry, Cyberman, Zidane, and Zande, I was able to figure out what I was doing wrong.  I moved on to looking for statistical data for weapons and abilities (attack power, etc.).  This is where I ran into some major problems.  I assumed the data would be stored in the kernel.  I assumed the kernel would be store in Directory 00.  I've looked threw most of Directory 00 and have not found anything resembling a kernel.  If anyone has any information about where or how this data is stored, I would greatly appreciate assistance.