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I just ran through the steps I listed just to make sure I didn't mess something up and it still seems to work for me. Just to clarify, what do you mean when you say it didn't look different after you opened FF9? Do you mean that the launcher for FF9 looked the same as it always did, no extra options just purely vanilla? If that's the case that probably means that Moguri or Memoria hasn't been installed correctly.Moguri launcher looks the same, with no changes to add the install mods option.
Also this isn't related to your question and is more of a general announcement: for the last couple of month and a half I have been working on a pretty significant update, specifically going over all of the battles in the game to make them more challenging. The early game in particular isn't really in a state that I like in 1.16 and my hope is that it'll change pretty drastically. The mod isn't turning into a hard mode mod or anything like that, but I don't think I went far enough when I originally made most of the changes to battles.
I have no idea on when it will release, I'm hoping on some point within the next few months, I just need a solid block of time where I can sit down and really mess around with it.
A really quick thing to check is whether Zidane has a Mage Masher already equipped, that's an early way to know how things are going. Generally speaking starting a brand new save file is probably a good bet, otherwise your inventory might have some things in it that it really ought not to.
However since my last post there's actually been a number of big changes and it's actually pretty easy to set up the mod with Moguri now, if you want to give that a shot. Just have to do the following:
1. Install the latest version of Moguri, the download link is as follows: https://www.moddb.com/downloads/mirror/216757/127/bfacb6ef7e75fa89cd9b57b3d09a2a23
2. Download and run the latest version of the Memoria patcher from this page: https://github.com/Albeoris/Memoria/releases. Note that when you run the patcher, Windows may pop up a dialog saying the file is unsafe; this appears to be a false positive and is probably not unexpected given how the patcher works.
3. Launch FF9. You should now see a different looking screen from what you would normally get with Moguri, what you'll want to click is the "Install Mods" button in the upper right-hand corner. From there, click the Browse Catalog tab and you should see the mod listed. Not everything listed is current available for direct download through the manager, but from what I can tell that will change soon.
4. Install David Bowie Edition and go back to the Installed Mods tab. From here you may need to alter the load order; so long as David Bowie Edition is listed above the Moguri files it should work just fine.
Sounds serious; the Barrier is supposed to be gone after seeing the 'Sister Ray Fires' FMV. I can sort this out for your save game with a patch but I wonder what the underlying cause was. Were any of the scenes missing after you beat Diamond Weapon?Uh not that I'm aware. I killed him outside Midgar, then it played a scene with them shooting the barrier. There was a weird white pixel wall that moved across the screen when I won the fight. I watched a youtube video of someone beating it and they got the same white wall effect with no problems though.
If you have Odin, my recommendation is just to hook Tifa up with Odin and HP<->MP Swap and go to whatever section of Mideel you can reach - there's a small pennisula you can get to with the Tiny Bronco, or a much larger section with the airship. Just spam Odin, she's guaranteed to survive at least one hit per fight so you can almost always get him to go off. Easy grinding for cash/AP.That's a good idea. Do you know what the reward is for winning every Ft. Condor fight? I already missed one without realizing it so now I'm just curious.
Maxed Elemental for Absorb. Did you not get the Powersoul from Mount Nibel? You're unfortunately too far at this point to get the Curse Ring/Power Soul combo going, but you can kind of fake it with Death Sentence.I did actually get the Powersoul but I may be too inexperienced to see it's value. I have a hard time keeping Tifa low enough to really make good use of it since she just dies if I try.
If you hit Jenova with Level 5 Suicide, she has a pretty unique counter sequence. It's fun to watch, but it's pretty much a guaranteed wipe unless you're very lucky.
Jenova Decay is rough. My recommendation is, bring Vincent - Vincent's innate will heal him even while zombified. If you have sufficiently leveled elemental materia, hooking everyone up to absorb lightning or fire lets you use Beta/Trine as appropriate as strong team heals. Decay is mostly a gradual grinder though - her actual damage output is pretty bad. Also, don't use Level 5 Suicide. Maybe try it once, if you saved right beforehand, just to see what happens - it's pretty good.I ended up just powering through without any elemental healing and hoping that my whole crew wasn't zombified too fast. I got a bunch of lucky Yeahs with Tifa (entered with full limit, and got another one right before she died) that helped me scrape by.
And yeah for phys characters, Elemental+Holy or Elemental+Earth is good for damage, if you can spare it after making sure everyone absorbs an element for healing.
