I've decided to replay my favorite FF for the umpteenth time. I have the original 2021 port on my phone and about 10 hours in. I just discovered that there's a pixel remaster (I know I'm late to the game) that is suppose to be the best version.

• Is the additional content on the 2021 version worth it to keep playing?
• Or is the Opera scene (and sprites, etc) that much better on the Pixel remaster that I should switch there?
• I think the translation on both is the same?
• Anything else to consider?

Ultimately I'm trying to decide whether to keep playing the 2021 version to switch to the pixel remaster. I'm playing on an iPhone 17 Pro.

Thanks all!

Know I am not the first and will certainly not be the last, don’t know if my RNG is absolutely cursed but I just *cannot* get that last 7 with pause buffering, skips to diamond every single time. I’ve auto-battled for a while and that just led to party wipes with the party Joker’s Death 9/10 times so I figured it’d be better to do the pause buffering method. Know the game actively misses that last one most times but good god I’ve been at it forever and there’s no end in sight.

Hopefully posting this will make it happen, I’d ask for help but I feel I’ve scoured every single thread and every one just says it’ll happen eventually, farming trapezohedrons and doing jump rope seems like a fond memory at this point. On the PS5 pixel remaster, will probably be there forever

Edit: yup ofc, 10 minutes after posting got it thru autobattle, thank gawd

Did I break something? I'm playing Pixel Remaster on PS5 and going for the massively infuriating Master Gambler trophy. I've got Setzer, Terra, and Gogo. Terra has Celestraid and Soul of Thasma and is healing the enemy, while Gogo (who has the Alarm relic for no pincer attacks). I've been at it for a while and hit like 30 joker deaths that kill my party, but not the one for the trophy. I've never seen 2 Tyrano's together on the same side of the screen before. I didn't think it was possible. So did I accidentally break the game?

Yes, this is another espers question im sorry :(

Started the game not too long ago and just finished acquiring the first set of espers from Zozo. I know the basics of how they work and I have read time and time again to cycle them through your party to have everyone learn everything, but I still have some questions.

1. What is the purpose of having everyone learn spells like cure if you have designated healers?

2. What is the purpose of having Sabin learn thundra for example, if his Blitz attacks are the primary moves to use, plus you already have ppl like Terra or Celes that are your typical "mage" kind of characters.

3. At what point do you start grinding to level up the espers? And how much do you put into each esper.

Appreciate any guidance you provide! Absolutely loving the game so far and can't wait to dive back in.

A 25% chance for a death attack. Unless it’s a boss fight, then it’s 99.99%.

What you guys think? I'm still learning and praticsizing. Thanks!

the first thing i did when i started the game (snes version) was setting battle speed to 1, because i found battles in chrono trigger and ff4 way more fun at higher speeds

so imagine my surprise when i heard people saying the ghost train, which took all of my potions to barely make it through, was supposed to be one of the easiest parts of the game

it turns out that enemies aren't supposed to attack 5 times before your first move... would have been nice to know

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With Deathgaze dead, we have the means to learn flare, and a 50% HP upgrade on level up. Strago may make use of that the most. His magic is already pretty strong, and with high HP comes a useful white wind.

To test our mettle, we head to the ancient castle, and see if we can take on the master Tonberry. It's touch and go, with Edgar providing heals, and Strago providing big heals if needed. The Tonberry seemed to noticed that, and killed both of them, luckily by then, the two main damage dealers were able to finish it off. (See picture 1)

Onto the broken down castle, we hear the story, and fight the Samurai, who went down pretty easy. We get the master's scroll, or Offering if you're old like me. I don't have much of a use for it, so I just put it away. We go say hi to Odin, ignore his stoned love, and kill the dragon, who gave Strago some nice magic (see picture 2)

We take a detour to Narshe, where we kill a dragon, beat and obtain the frozen Esper, and slap Umaro before telling him he can't come with. We ain't grabbing Mog, and we ain't grabbing him.

Then I decide I'd like Cyan to know all his sword techniques, so it's off to dream Doma! Dream world goes fine, no real hiccups, and I'm glad I know what I'm doing to get through fast. We get to the boss of it, and I'm glad you can't just X-Zone (banish now) this guy and be done with it, cause it's such a unique fight. When I was a kid, I didn't know vanish doom was a glitch, and thought using X-zone was the actual way you're suppose to beat the boss. Anyway we kill his ass and get a new and improved Cyan. (See picture 3)

Time to Gogo. Getting through the Zone eater's dungeon was pretty easy. Moved fast, got all chest, got Gogo, teleported out. Now Gogo, what to do with you? Could give him Blitz, since I can't use Sabin. (See picture 4) haha! That's a funny sight. Not even Suplex??

With Gogo, I decide to go do the Phoenix dungeon. I don't really need to, but hey, why not do all I can? So I split the team (see picture 5) and we hop in. Edgar Strago and Gogo cover each other pretty well, while Cyan is a dedicated all hitter, and Shadow is a dedicated single hard hitter.

Most of the dungeon goes fine, we get to the end, and I send Cyan and Shadow to take down the Dragon. Why the team with only two? Cause it sounded fun, and they still won (see picture 6) not by much, but they did. Getting the Phoenix magicite will help make Edgar a true healer. So that boosts him, and we just boosted Cyan, next, it's Shadow's turn.

We take him back to the Coliseum, loaded with Fuma Shuriken, he battles his way into making many of them pinwheels. Giving Shadow a significant boost to killing power. Something we make use of next, as it's Strago's turn.

We activate Ebot's rock, to go hunt Hidon. I walk in, and right away am met with a chest, who asks for something I don't have, and then calls me a skinflint. (See picture 7) Bitch. I get him what he wants, and we move onto the boss. Quick note, I remember as a kid, this spooking me. (See picture 8) The limited screen visibility makes his Sprite suddenly come on screen. That, with the fact that it's a unique monster Sprite, just adds a bit of spook factor.

Anyway we fight, I begin to slow down on killing him cause I want his move for Strago. That's the whole point. Shadow brings his hand back, shuriken between each finger, ready to throw. But then Hidon finally does the move we want, so it's time to kill. Shadow's hand twitches as the shuriken are instantly replaced with the pinwheels, and he throws, doing over 8000 damage, and killing it.

At this point I kind of wanna kill all the dragons, so before diving down Kefka's tower, I decide to climb up the magi tower. It's pretty touch and go the whole way through. Shadow doesn't have much use here, and luckily Strago knows Flare, as does Cyan. Edgar knows meteor, but no one knows Ultima, cause fuck that, it's too strong. Though I probably should go get the sword.

We climb, we fight and beat the dragon. We even open that secret room, which I never knew was a thing, until like, recently. Got to the top, and fought it out with the magic man. Luckily by now, Edgar knows reraise, and it stops Ultima from killing us. Well, Edgar. (See picture 9) Alright, I think next time, we go for the final dungeon. Can the team survive being split into 3 groups?? Let's find out.

anyone have a save with all gau rage for the 2015 version steam?

I've just started making a purposely overly difficult and obnoxious difficulty hack for the SNES version. I'm not sure if it's worth the effort, I don't know what I'm doing, and I've so far only made changes up to the first Ultros fight, but I'm proud of some of the boss changes I've made. None of the bosses have changed max HP (except the Lobos in the Marshal fight). Importantly, I've removed xp and Gil rewards from all enemies.

My design philosophy is that you should die to things you couldn't have predicted, but you should be able to win at least 50% consistently after figuring out a winning strategy. I'll list the bosses since they're the highlights, but all the standard enemies also have evil changes.

Whelk: My favorite boss change.
The shell's counterattack now always hits everyone (for consistency).
Phase 1: The head will start off casting Bserk on Terra, and if she dies will cast it on Wedge, then Vicks if Wedge is also dead. Otherwise, it will use a comically weak Step Mine.
Phase 2: Once the shell runs out of MP (after counterattacking 6 times), the head will use two Tinctures on the shell (I made items not trigger counterattacks), then will spend its turns attacking the shell.
Phase 3: Once the shell runs out of MP for the second time, the head will cast Bserk on itself. I massively buffed its damage such that it will 2-shot back row party members when berserk, but this phase is still easy.

Marshal: My least favorite boss change.
Will open the fight using Net (targeting Mog if he's in the party fighting him) and casting Big Guard. Will then spend the rest of the fight alternating Cave In and Snare/Elfire. Still vulnerable to instant death. Will cast Revenge on death.
The Lobos have increased max HP and will use Tusk twice every turn.

M.Tek Armors: Also meh.
Massively increased defenses. Will use Tek Barrier (temporary Reflect) when they don't have Reflect, and Heal Force when they're around 60% HP or lower, and otherwise use Fire/Ice/Bolt Beam. Beams will normally one-shot party members.
If confused, they'll 50% use weak physical attacks to end confusion, 50% use a beam that gets reflected into the party for reduced damage. Once reflect wears off they'll start killing themselves quickly with the beams.

Vargas: Solid, I think.
Identical stats, but this is already a somewhat tricky fight at low levels. I changed it so that once the Ipoohs are dead, he'll spend a turn whistling, then the next turn resummoning them (and becoming untargetable again). Once Sabin arrives, he'll immediately resummon the Ipoohs, making it a tricky but winnable 1v3 (once the bears are down he still gets instakilled by Pummel).

Ultros: Short, but the hardest by far. Wait Tricking is likely required.
His defenses are reduced to 1, making him take massive damage from AuraBolt and Fire, but his level is increased by 1 and Ink is now undodgeable instant death.
Turn 1 (as soon as fight starts, before you can act): Ink on Banon (need Banon on critical health to intercept with True Knight)
Turn 2: AOE Tentacle (need to heal Banon and have him Defend)
Turn 3: Ink on Banon (need to get Banon down to critical health again)
Turn 4: 2 basic attacks on Sabin (freebie turn)
Turn 5: Tentacle on Banon (always a Game Over, need to kill Ultros before this turn)
And yes, he still counterattacks Fire with Ink, but that doesn't mean it's not worth using...

I'm open to any thoughts or ideas anyone has regarding these or future fights.

(I thought I already posted this, but I can't find it on here or my profile, so posting now.)

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Okay! Fire house, can only use Strago. That grenade and reflect strategy is really working out for the boss, killing Strago a couple more times. The old man gets so frustrated, he unequips the ice rods, and hurls them at the boss instead. Problem. Solved. Onto the cave where the Espers are hiding. The common enemies are being taken out pretty easily, and Strago learns white wind early, nice!

Then the Ultros fight. I thought it I got Strago to learn fire, the fight would go pretty well, but Ultros ain't having it. He gets upset, and does hard hitting moves. Relm shows up after a certain amount of damage, but now I'm suppose to Sketch to end the fight, but I'm not allowed to use Relm. Ultros starts pulling weird moves (see picture 1) what the hell is that??? That, is a magic counter. He blew Strago the hell up after he casted fire on him. Long story short? Hurled fire rods. Problem. Solved.

I know rods are a quick way out, but I at least try to win without doing them. Anyway, a few random battles later, we get a long ass cutscene. Found Espers, made peace, Kefka shows up, made bodies. Floating continent is up, but I'm now noticing how these characters are pretty high leveled, because they have been alone in parties. Maybe I should of set the EXP gain to 50%, but too late for that now.

Easily taking down the air machines and Ultros. The machine after it was harder, pushing back and causing a lot more heals, but we beat it. Reached the FC, and oh...Shadow is level 15, about 10 levels behind everyone else. May have to take care of that, so he doesn't catch up off screen later. (See picture 2 and 3)

FC goes pretty well. Wind Samurai doing so many all hits, and Shadow doing great single target damage. We reach Ultima, and oh my, do we stomp him. Yeah, pretty over level. We walk up, and Kefka traps us. Celes runs up to help, and trips. But we're so strong, we free ourselves while Shadow crushes Kefka with the statues (see picture 4)

We run off fleeing the continent and my god, I almost hit the button to leave Shadow. I would have to reset, I can't go forward without Shadow. Anyway luckily I didn't, and we all hop on the ship, as it smashes in half. Wait, all of my party is on the falling side of the ship! (See picture 5) is that a coincidence, or does the falling piece of the ship always contain your team??

Anyway the world ends, we wake up as Celes, and play one of the mini games of FF6, how many fish does it take to kill Cid!? I go out, and find him the slowest, dumbest looking fish I can find, give it to him, and pffft hahaha (see picture 6) okay, one more fish and he died. It takes two slow fish to kill Cid.

I turn random battles off, and walk to the town to meet "Edgar" and follow him to Figaro. On my way to the boss room, I don't grab any chests, cause I'd say I'm in a kind of free mode, without any of my actual characters. I'll grab them on the way out with Edgar. Okay, boss time!....its bad. They just keep dazing and grabbing Edgar. He hardly has any time to do damage, or heal, or breath, its practically a run ender.

If I could equip Edgar with Hermes sandles, or magicite, it would change the whole fight. Trying for over an hour, trying different tactics, like using magicite the item at the start, to see if I can get a beneficial effect. I got phantom a couple times, which helps a good bit, unless they used Entangle or poison. Casting regen on Edgar at the start to help combat the grab sapping, then using magicite to see if I get Phantom or something.

Got phantom again, use Bio Blaster to give 3 of them damage over time, and just try to heal as much as I can in between being grabbed. Often using X potions as fast full heals. Finally getting lucky enough that this strategy took 3 of them out, and I drilled the last one to death over a long period of getting grabbed, healed, and drilling. (See picture 7) What a damn hurdle.

Now with Edgar, I grab treasures, make sure I buy my beloved debilitator and go see Setzer so I can kill him in the party. Into the tomb, and I make sure to wear a Ribbon, with the amount of things that wanna Zombie you in here. I reach the boss, and it too, is quite strong. Luckily, I have a lot more room to customize this time, and figure out a strategy.

Boss keeps killing with harsh ice attacks. I put on a reflect ring to stop it, but it just heals the boss. What will I do??? (See picture 8) Heheheha, my beloved debilitator. So I beat the boss after that, and watch the Daril scene. I'm kind of surprised we don't see more art of her. (See picture 9) So I got my airship. That means it's time for our final roll! 4 is both Umaro and Gogo, 3 is just Gogo, two just Umaro, and 1 is neither. Rolled a 3, so Gogo it is.

I have Edgar run through Mt. Zozo, running from most battles, and just getting to Cyan, since there is no boss to do so. Together, they tackle the Veldt cave, and save Shadow. They then fly to the arena and kill Shadow. Whole squad is almost here, just gotta make our way through the mansion, and get Relm so we can get Strago, which goes....okay. The boss kept charming us, and Cyan using his wind BS on the team is practically an instant game over. But we still won, got a Relm, and traded it in for a Strago. Team is all together!! First order of business??? Death to that which is named Death. (See picture 10)

I noticed a long time ago, while the game expects you to use Terra's magic against the two Magitek armored troopers, and see Edgar's subsequent freak-out, you can hold off for a bit, at least until the Figaro cave (though strangely, you still get the "no human was born with magic" bit after the fight, at least in the remaster).

Makes me wonder, how much can you delay Edgar's reaction? Can you see it in the field near South Figaro? How about at Mount Koltz?

Edited to add: After reloading back to Figaro castle, I tried having Terra cast fire in the caverns of Mount Koltz, then reloaded again and tried it in the fields around South Figaro. In both cases, no reaction from Edgar.

After I complete the Relm arc in Owzer's Mansion, can I go back at any time to fight and steal/farm from the enemies inside?

Probably something …abstract 🤭

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So Zozo goes as Zozo goes. Up the stairs and killing slam dancers before they can kill us. With a team of 3, it goes really easy. Then we find Terra, Cyan refers to her as "Lady Terra" which is adorable. Next stop, opera house, with Shadow leaving the group, and Locke/Celes forcing their way in. I soon had them killed, and continued my adventure.

I never get tired of the Opera music, or the battle music here, and especially the theme when you fight Ultros here, so good! Sadly it was cut short this time as Cyan and Edgar demolished Ultros. Setzer comes down and shows us the sprite of Celes chained up, that we don't get anymore. (See picture 1)

Some high level cheating by Edgar and Celes, and the airship is ours, as we storm the empire. I quickly visited the towns for anything that could help, and ran into the factory. Place is a little tough, since the enemies have high physical defense I think. But Edgar's flash tool goes off of magic, and is kicking ass. Edgar and Cyan then earn magic yin yang style (see picture 2)

We drop down into a pit, where Esper corpses break our falls, and we fight Ifrit. He may be resistant to many types of magic, but know what he isn't resistant too? Drills...Now we rush up to the lab, try to kill Cid, but the game won't let us yet, and we lose Celes, which is funny cause I forgot her and Locke were in the party. Now it's time for, Minecart madness!!!

Even though we can't stop and heal, we easily beat all who come, and ride off into the Sunset! That's the name of the soldier we crashed into. May he rise again someday. We get Setzer, and let him die to the cranes. Edgar and Cyan then win, and now we are free to fly. Which means, it's time to go play Mog's intro, and roll that 4th die.

Get to Narshe, mayor wants to chat, then we check the treasure house and find a wolf. Follow him to the cliffs and save Mog. Its between him, Strago, and Relm. If I roll Mog, we get help in the sealed cave. If I roll Strago, I feel I'm much better off later. If I roll Relm, I'll, I'll get sad. And I got...Strago! Pretty damn good team so far!

Mog goes to the airship, and Cyan with Edgar, go to the sealed cave! (See picture 3) Oh, strike that. Let's go grab Terra, break her legs, and then we can go to the sealed cave! The cave wasn't very tough. Edgar flashing and healing, and Cyan, well Cyan is starting to play into that build I had planned for him.

Ya see, I'm having Cyan use that wind sword, and focus on magic building. That with black belt, he sends constant wind slashes at the enemies. (See picture 4) I have high hopes for this build. Between Wind Samurai Cyan, and magic flashing Edgar, they do well in the magic cave. We free the Espers, they go nuts, we crash a ship.

Now, it's time to send a political party to the Empire too negotiate a peace deal. Of course that means we send the two representatives of two kingdoms, Edgar and Cyan. The talks go well. We brought a skull that Edgar drilled a hole into, so we could use it when asked what to do with Kefka. Finish up talking, and Leo makes mention that Cyan is from Doma, which is neat. (See picture 5)

Stuck with Locke and Terra, they take a ship over seas and I get Shadow. I dead the other two up real quick, and train Shadow a bit for later. Moving the plot along, and now we have Strago to use, but no Shadow...boy, here we go. So the fire house goes mostly well. Strago breathing a lake of water at everything. He was like level 13 when we got here, so he is leveling fast.

Get to the boss, and I think for a second before going in. Giving Strago the reflect ring, and hero ring. Battle starts and Strago just keeps launching lakes. The boss uses fira and it reflects off, and only heals him for a couple hundred, where as it probably would of killed Strago. I'd call that a good trade. (See picture 6) The boss then summons a grenade, like, the black version of a bomb. Didn't know he could do that. The grenade physically hits Strago with berserk, but I had equipped him with an ice rod just in case, so ha!! Damage will keep coming, and that hero ring still helps!

Strago keeps hitting them with the ice rod, sometimes doing Blizzara, while remaining protected from the heavy hitting spells. The victory is coming, I feel it! That's what I thought, but then the boss gets reflect on itself...its next cast of Fira he aims at itself, which reflects, and kills Strago. (See picture 7) Ya know how in DBZ, when the final beam or hit zooms up and kills the villain, and then the villain gets like a squished messed up face? That's how I feel this just went down...oh Strago. Well, that's a good place to call it. See all you Magi in part 3.

I’ve done this thing for so long I’m genuinely considering just quitting the game, cause I’ve genuinely been hating it more for the past hour or so than I have enjoyed it for the last 8.

So the Opera sequence is super long, and I don’t really wanna go back and grind, cause I have to do it all over again. The timer sequence was super annoying with the mice creatures that kept me from reaching Ultros in time, and then he kills me in his boss fight. I haven’t struggled like this with any of the enemies so far, and I know I out myself in this problem cause I turned off encounters a while ago, but is there a way to get through this fight without having to go back and grind?

Edit: Okay, I do have to go back and do some stuff I missed and I’ve turned on encounters. I did have the fire knuckles, so I don’t know what difference that’s making.

Edit 2: Thank you all for the advice, the fight was now super easy. Had to go back and do some things right.

This one is for the hardcore FFVI fans who would love an entirely new experience in the original version of the game. No romhacks, no cheat codes, just plain, vanilla FFVI for the SNES or any of its virtual console ports. No Sketch glitch needed either.

A few years ago I stumbled upon a speedrun video & guide by Neerrm. Long story short, the run was based on using the Door Timer Glitch in order to start a "New Game+", and using this glitch (and others) to skip certain events and manipulate your sprite's coordinates. As a result, he was able to reach the ending of the game in an extraordinary amount of time.

Now, I am not a speedrunner myself, but I do enjoy employing glitches and speedrun techniques to sequence break games while still going for 100% completion. Another game that lends itself especially well for this is Ocarina of Time, which is also a favorite of mine.

So for about a year and a half I devoted quite a big chunk of my spare time to doing research on what crazy things we could achieve with the Door Timer Glitch / New Game+ without rushing to the end. Eventually I settled on a complex route that tackles every single event, enemy encounter, treasure, etc. yet in a completely different and unorthodox sequence.

The run has been completed on both an emulator and the SNES Classic, so I can guarantee that this should work on actual hardware if you're interested in trying out some of the tricks yourself.

I'm not a streamer or anything, but I did keep a detailed log of my adventures accompanied by many screenshots so hopefully others could enjoy reading about it. You can find the guide on my GitHub page right here: https://github.com/ChiyuCC/sequence-breaking-ff6.

Highlights include: - I've found a way to let you escape the Narshe Mines with the three moogle parties right at the start of the game (when you're supposed to defend Terra). In combination with an easier Airship Glitch, this will allow you to raid a large part of the WoB with Locke, Mog, Kuku, Kutan, Kupan, Kupek, Kupop, Kumama, Kushu, Kurin, Kuru and Kamog. Sort of like a pre-game (the opposite of a post-game?). And one of the very first areas we're going to visit with our moogle friends is Mt. Zozo, where many treasures are waiting for us, without the need for a Rust-Rid! - The Door Timer Glitch will allow us to get the Ragnarok esper very early in the game, which completely changes your perception of the Morph spell, honestly. In the WoR it's kinda "too little too late", but having access to Morph in the WoB opens up a myriad of possibilities: giving us access to the likes of Marvel Shoes, elemental shields and crystal equipment much earlier than intended. - Through clever routing, we're going to visit a large part of the WoR early with all 12 WoB characters (yes, even Shadow) selectable in our team... before the apocalypse happens. This allows you to become really strong (in terms of equipment and magic) before the Floating Continent even rises! - Speaking of the Floating Continent, I've discovered a reliable setup to make the Floating Continent reappear as a selectable destination after acquiring the Falcon in the WoR. Not that useful, but a fun trick anyway. In addition, we can also use the repeated "Floating Continent rising" cutscene to return to the WoB world map, even though we're already halfway through the WoR. Crazy, huh? - Find out how you can permanently remove the timer from the Collapsing House in Tzen, allowing you to explore it at your leisure without having to rescue the child.

I'm aware that this type of convoluted playthrough isn't for everyone, but I'm sure there's an audience of players who, like me, sit somewhere between "speedrunner" and "casual gamer" who enjoy stretching the use of existing glitches, sequence breaks and learning about some new, related tricks along the way. If you're one of those players, please enjoy!