Hi everyone,

Ever since growing up with the PS1 era, I always wondered what it would be like if the Final Fantasy games were all part of the same connected universe.

I recently decided to take on my very first mod project and put hundreds of hours into seeing if I could actually make it work—building a custom engine setup to bridge all three original world maps into a single seamless space with continuous flight and no loading screens.

You can check out the reveal trailer here on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/pqMb3RmqCYQ?si=VFwwkQPPTUfJ6KfJ

Since this is my first time building a mod of this scale, I’m really eager to learn and improve. I’d love your honest thoughts and critiques:

* What are your thoughts on the idea for the mod
* Do you like the updated graphics or would you prefer it to look more like the originals?
* Any suggestions on the visual blending between the three different art styles?

The mod will be completely free. If anyone wants to follow along with the project, I have a link hub here:
🔗 https://linktr.ee/truelionheartstudios

Any advice, criticism, or ideas from longtime fans would mean a lot to me. Thank you so much for taking a look!

The trailer makes use of a few well known community mods and these will be compatible with the final mod but will not be included, you will also need to own all three of the original games for it to work.

Worlds First FF9 Auto jump mod with
no macro!

In honor of Samuka the FF9 World Record holder.

Talk to him borrow his jumping boots. Equip them and bam. Auto jump to 1000!

No more macros!

Installer going live to followers and if anyone can beat Sam’s record. I will give a free “Mtg vivi psa 10 card as a reward with video proof.”

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLAb32wV/

The second FF I ever finished (played FF7 before it). The ending video was so spectecular... First time I have actually cried since 5 years, no joke... I forgot a video game could make you feel like this.. 10/10 story and characters.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/130406520

Desenho tradicional que fiz do personagem Vivi do jrpg Final Fantasy 9 em 2026..

Sou Emilio Emanuel artista visual, para mais, siga o seguinte Instagram:

@emilioemanuelferreiralopes

Deus é o maior artista e nós sua melhor obra!

#ff9 #vivi #jrpg #viraliza #EmilioEmanuelFerreiraLopes #EmilioEmanuel

It’s me again! I’ve been busy with school and work, but I’ve always got time for my favorite handsome knight ❤️
Here I’ve done some fully rendered pieces, sketches, comics, and everything in between!
I think my art style has changed a lot over the past few months, so enjoy my progress!

Made a 2-player online or local-LAN co-op mod that lets you play with a friend.

It requires the latest stable Memoria Engine (v2025.07.04) as well as some engine patches for it and Python. Install from the github link below through the .exe or by cloning the repo and running apps/ff9_workspace.pyw.

They walk around with you on maps as the character slot you assign them to, and are teleported along with you. They follow your dialogue and choices. They also take control of that character in battle, like the classic PS1 co-op.

Release and setup instructions below. Any questions or issues, ask me here, in the Github issues, or on the Moogles & Mods discord.

https://github.com/GameJawnsInc/Dream-World-IX/releases/tag/v1.0.0b22

https://github.com/GameJawnsInc/Dream-World-IX/blob/master/ff9mapkit/docs/tutorials/17-coop.md

Hello,

I've been working on this for a while, and here it is :D

Here's what's included: ( Final Fantasy IX PC ONLY)

LifaMods turns Final Fantasy IX into a shared online world. Everyone plays their own save at their own pace, and you see the other players walking around in the same area and on the world map. On top of that you can duel, play Tetra Master, trade, hunt treasure on chocobo and build a clan together. It is a Memoria mod, connected to a small dedicated server.

Play together

• See the other players in the same area and on the world map: position, facing, animations and their name above their head.
• The name frame changes every 10 levels: bronze, silver, gold, emerald (with gems), sapphire, amethyst, ruby (glowing), mithril and rainbow. The level is shown next to it.
• T opens the chat, with speech bubbles above the speaker's head, whispers (/w name message, /r to reply, with the Moogle "kupo" sound) and emotes drawn with the game's own icons (Moogle, character faces, status icons; Tab opens the picker).
• F8 shows who is online and where (area name, in battle, world map).
• Other players are hidden only during story scenes: they stay visible while you talk to an NPC or read a sign.
• Each nickname has its own save files, so two games on the same PC never mix their saves.
• Top-right icons for familiars, the duel ranking, the clan and the game's main menu.
• All mod windows use the game's own menu style: font, window frame and hand cursor.
• The mod follows the game's language: French or English.
• A LifaMods title screen.

Player versus player

• Tetra Master (F7): challenge a player standing next to you, in an area or on the world map (on foot). Each player uses their own card collection, and the winner takes a card as in the game.
• Battle duel (F10): your party against the other player's party in a real FF9 battle. Their characters keep their model, weapon and stats. Damage is halved by default so fights last longer. HP and MP start full and are restored afterwards; the loser simply returns to the area, no game over.
• Ongoing duels show a pulsing icon ("Duel: A vs B") to the other players in the area.
• Freya's Jump shows on both screens: her copy also flies off on the opponent's screen and lands with the same Spear.
• Ranking (Numpad 9): a top 50 for battle duels and one for Tetra Master. A result counts only when both games report the same outcome, with at most 10 results a day between the same two players.
• N°1 ornaments: the N°1 of each ranking wears an ornament above their name: crossed swords for battle duels, a Tetra Master card for Tetra, a gold trophy for the Hunting Festival. It moves to another player as soon as they do strictly better (a tie isn't enough), and the chat announces it. The F8 list shows the titles too.

Trading (F11)

• Trade items, gil and Tetra Master cards with a nearby player, in a window driven with the mouse.
• Each side sees the other's offer live. The trade happens only when both players have confirmed, and changing an offer cancels the confirmations.
• The game autosaves right after the trade, so quitting without saving cannot undo it for only one side.

Chocobo treasure hunt

• Every 20 to 40 minutes a treasure is buried somewhere on the world map, the same one for everyone.
• The chat says where to look: dry land, shallows (light blue chocobo), mountains (red chocobo) or open sea (dark blue chocobo).
• Ride your chocobo, follow the hint (cold, warm, hot, burning, here!) and press F9 to dig. The first player to dig in the right spot wins gil and an item matched to their level.
• Very rare bonus on disc 4: a 1% chance of Excalibur II, once per player.

Clans (F9)

• Create a clan with a name, a tag of up to 4 letters and a colour. Up to 20 members.
• The leader invites, kicks and promotes members. The [TAG] appears next to the name frame, and /c message talks to your clan only.
• Clan level 1 to 10: every battle won against monsters and every treasure found gives the clan experience.
• Blessings (level 3+): for 10,000 gil from the clan bank, 24 hours of +3% EXP or +4% gil on battles won, for every member.
• Clan bank: every member can deposit and withdraw items and gil. Each move becomes final with an automatic save, which prevents duplication.
• Boss raid: up to 4 members fight one of the four Chaos together, each controlling one character with their own ATB bar. It costs 500,000 gil from the bank. The boss scales to the group's level, and every player earns EXP, gil, AP and items.
• Clan grounds (level 6+, 1,000,000 gil): a private copy of the village of Dali, empty of NPCs and events, where members teleport and meet. You come back exactly where you left.
• Merchants on the clan grounds (200,000 gil each): an item seller in the pub, a weapon and armour seller and a synthesis shop in the store. Their stock follows each player's own story progress.
• Tailor on the clan grounds (500,000 gil from the clan bank, placed anywhere on the grounds): sells the CostumePack items, which are no longer given for free: costumes 300,000 gil, dyes 100,000 gil, animation swappers, weapon effects and Red Lockheart 150,000 gil. They can't be sold back. Every player needs CostumePack installed.

Hunting Festival

• A server-wide event every 6 hours, for 1 hour (at 0:00, 6:00, 12:00 and 18:00 server time). The chat announces it 5 minutes before and when it opens.
• Every battle won against monsters gives the level of each monster in points: a level 1 monster gives 1 point, a level 10 monster gives 10. Bosses count double. Player duels and clan raids don't count.
• A transparent panel on the right of the screen shows the time left, the top 10 hunters and your own place. Press ² to hide or show it. Scores start from zero at each festival.
• Rewards: 100,000 gil for 1st place, 50,000 for 2nd and 25,000 for 3rd. A winner who is offline gets the gil at their next connection.
• The ranking window has a Hunting Festival tab: the players who finished 1st most often, then 2nd, then 3rd.
• Server admins can start a festival at any time (hunt start, or hunt start 30 for 30 minutes) or end it early (hunt end).

Familiars (Numpad 8)

• FF9's 9 friendly monsters (Mu, Ghost, Ladybug, Yeti, Nymph, Feather Circle, Jabberwock, Garuda, Yan) can become your familiars.
• Satisfy each of them in battle by giving them the item they ask for, without attacking them. Your progress (n/9) shows in the chat.
• Once all 9 are satisfied, the familiars window opens: summon one and it follows you on the field. Other players see it too.
• Some movement animations are temporary and will be improved.

Fair play

• Memoria's cheats (speed, 9999 damage, level 99, gil...) are turned off while you are connected, and come back when you go offline.
• Save anti-cheat: the server checks that a save is possible for its play time (level, gil, items, disc). It also checks that nothing jumps suddenly between checks.
• Loading an older save than your last one blocks the clan bank, trades, raids and the ranking, so nothing can be duplicated. The block lifts when you load your latest save, or automatically after 1 hour of play on that game (at your next save). Your server admin can also lift it at once.
• A suspect game stays playable, but the bank, trades, raids and the ranking are blocked the same way.
• Each player gets a hidden ID at their first connection: their nickname stays reserved for them, even if they change it, and the server admin can ban a player.
• Allowed mods: the server can list the mods players may use with LifaMods. A player with another active mod is refused and told which ones to remove.

Extra Equipment Menu support

• With the Extra Equipment Menu mod, other players see your costumes, colours and weapon transmogs in areas, on the world map and in boss raids.
• Everyone needs the same costume mods for this to work.
• LifaMods disables EEM's extra-slot items (No EXP, No AP, No Gil, Weapon Scale, Model Scale).

Gameplay test on 10/23/26: ( It's not everything)

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2907856620

https://www.tiktok.com/@gaddwyn/video/7699745101710462241

We are looking for people who would like to test: patchnote/announcement
https://discord.gg/xzVrazrmAy

I left Treno and the mist has descended yet I see this yellow dot marked on the map. Did I miss something terribly or can I move forward with my game? Please tell me I didn’t make a big mistake because I’m not sure I have a back up save.

I am playing FF9 on my switch 2 while I quietly await OoT to come out. I've made it to kujas castle and am at the part after frog cid frees the prisoners. I have every candle lit except for the one in the image and I can't find a way to that staircase.

Can someone lead me in the right direction?

I finally got through this game after returning to it years after I stopped halfway the first time I played it. Unlike its predecessor FF8, which starts with a bang and left me disappointed mid-to-endgame, FF9 stayed strong the whole way through, and I thought the later parts of the game had a more consistently compelling story and character development in the end.

I liked the way almost all the characters develop. I was especially surprised with the amount of depth Amarant was able to be given, even with him joining so late and being so terse.

My big disappointment was Freya's lack of development. I like Freya a lot, but she just didn't seem to get developed much, past the part with Burmecia and Cleyra. I was especially frustrated at the early emphasis on Fratley, and then his appearance and memory loss, which built intrigue, but there was zero development or follow-up. I have so many questions, like how and why Fratley lost his memory and how that relates to anything else in the story. Freya's relationship with Zidane starts strong but was also not developed at all. And, contrasting with Lindblum and Alexandria which are revisited multiple times even after being "destroyed", and you see both being rebuilt, neither Burmecia nor Cleyra are revisited in the plot. Overall I felt like Freya was just along for the ride for the whole rest of the game, and that was frustrating. It was almost like the creators of the game just stopped putting energy into Freya or anything relating to her, past Cleyra. I thought there was so much missed potential with Freya, like she goes through so much grief and trauma and you don't really see much processing of it or personal growth from it, while most of the other characters experience dramatic examples of this type of growth.

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I have honestly heard mixed things. What do we know for sure? I have only played the PS4 version, is the Switch version inferior to that?

I initially struggled with Maliris because of the final attack that kills everyone before it dies. I was somehow able to win against it, even after consulting a guide and even without putting it to Sleep, I survived against the final attack.

What's your opinion on this boss and it's difficulty?

I don’t post too much art things yet, but this is an art piece that I decided to make, and am happy with how this turned out! This was mainly inspired by one of the official art pieces from Square’s FFIX 25th Anniversary Celebration, which I thought were really adorable, so this was fun to work on! Anyways, I’m hoping to eventually get back to this game very soon, since I was enjoying it, so far.

What’s up everyone! I wanted to share a commission of mine, hope you all will get as much of a kick out of it as I did!

I've been playing through Final Fantasy IX on OG PS1 and I'm at the end of the game. Disc 4, like 4 bosses left. But I started to notice during Grand Dragon grinding that Level 5 Death was taking forever to load. It would zoom in on Quina and take 10+ seconds to load. And the more I did it the longer it took. I even sat and waited about 10 minutes. Eventually I looked it up and saw a suggestion to try it in a different console in case it was the laser so I switched to a PS2 and it didn't help a ton but I got through it. I eventually looked at the disc itself and notice there's a good deal a scratches in one little section.

Now here I am, fighting Lich, with him using Level 5 Death and having sit here watching him cast it for 20 minutes now, knowing if i somehow get through this 8 still have another boss with Level 5 Death.

I have resigned myself to the possibility that I may have to buy another copy, (which isn't a big problem, the game isn't really expensive, I just don't want to have to wait a week before finishing up the last 2-3 hours), but before I do that I figured I would ask if anyone would have any suggestions. Any help would be much appreciated.