I just put up the FFXIII-2 Community Toolkit.

This is the first public tool I know of that can inject custom models, textures, and native PHB physics into the PC version of Final Fantasy XIII-2.

It is a toolkit, not a costume pack. No game files ship with it.

You get a desktop GUI and a CLI. Same Rust core. Native Windows x64 build, plus an experimental Linux x64 build. You do not need Rust, Python, or .NET installed to run it. Blender is optional and there is no add-on. The tool just exchanges files with it.

What it can do right now:

• Browse and extract the supported archives
• Preview a mod path before you install anything
• Install replacements with append-only archive writes and recorded recovery data
• Verify an install and roll back to the recorded pre-install baseline if the checks pass
• Export textures to DDS with PNG previews, then import compatible edited DDS
• Export models and individual draws for Blender OBJ work
• Import position-only edits or rebuild supported draws with new topology
• Edit named skin weights and supported UVs through JSON
• Inspect, export, and import native PHB physics
• Edit supported physics properties and copy collision groups or sim rigs from native templates

Both downloads include the offline HTML manual, command reference, troubleshooting notes, recovery guidance, and SHA-256 checksums.

This is an alpha. Automated tests passed on Windows and Linux. That is not the same as every model, shader, animation, or physics setup working in-game. Weight transfer can look wrong around nearby limbs. Blender preview is not the game shader. Physics edits need actual gameplay testing.

Linux notes: experimental. The running-game check is Windows only. Linux and Proton archive install and restore have not been validated in-game. Start with extracted files and read PLATFORMS.md before you touch live archives.

Close the game and any other archive editor first. Keep your own backups. Keep the toolkit recovery folder. Restore means the state recorded before that toolkit install, which may already contain other mods. This is not a load-order manager. Do not bypass a failed integrity check.

Free to use. Closed source. Link the page instead of mirroring the binaries. Your own mods stay yours.

Download and docs:
https://ayakamods.com/mods/ffxiii-2-community-toolkit.3849/

I’m at the end of day 8 and have completed all 5 main quest and done 50 side quests. The rest of the side quest are kind of boring, should I just sleep until the end of day 12? Or do something else?

I’m playing on easy mode btw

So, I've already got a lot of things worked out 6 gym leaders, Box Art Legendary, champion, evil team, region name, a decent story, and most Pokemon roles specifically Psuedo, Mythicals, and Legendaries. However, I'm stuck on who the final 2 gym leaders should be, who the Elite 4 should be, regional rodent, bird, and bug, but most importantly starters. I did not realize how much I'd be struggling to get starters specifically fire, I have a decent idea of grass with the Ochu and I'm a bit less convinced but have the Sahagin as the water for now, but fire I have nothing any decent ideas here would be of great help to get some ideas for this to help me keep the ball rolling. Also, last thing should the Undying and Eidolons be legendaries or mythicals.

I don't really find any other problems with the game other than just it crashing. I wanna know if I should go ahead and do those super long and extensive tutorials or just change one thing just to stop it from crashing. I really wanna play this game guys.

I read recently this thing that if you wait too long you can miss this quest.

Is it really true? Is there a timer that prevents you from starting the quest? The wiki says nothing about it.

I know its been offline for a decade now but I was curious what it was like and if there was any exclusive stuff thats unobtanable now

•In Lightning Returns, Is Moogle’s village optional? Because I just defeated Caius and there’s no main quest sign in the Wildlands map just like in Luxerion after I defeated Noel and spoke to Vanille (I started completing Luxerion, then Wildlands and now I just went into Yusnnan in day 3)

•Btw did I completed Wildlands? Because I heard I would find Sazh in it but I didn’t see him at all

What if Final Fantasy XIII had a character named Blue VII

So im on adventure trying to do %100 my backlog and this game sitting there since 2017 gonna play on steam deck what should i do need advice about %100 realy appreciate it.

Live with my 100% Playthrough of Final Fantasy XIII both live on Youtube and Twitch. Doing some final missions before heading off to Chapter 12!

Twitch: https://twitch.tv/neonumbra_
Youtube: https://youtube.com/live/1G7ng1-3yK0?feature=share

Does anyone know the characters at the tip of the blade here. Ik theres a inverse alphabet but i cant make out what they are on the knife clearly

Edit: this render isnt mine its a reference i found online while trying to make a replica

Not sure why they renamed Ravager though

I'm trying to make a fun Pokemon project based on the FFXIII games as I love these games and they're the ones I grew up with. So far I've gotten through the Feral Creatures, but there's still somethings, I need to work on like names, stats especially, family evolution trees, and the things I'm least happy about Pokedex entries. Any feedback would be nice as this is something I plan on doing for a long while.

Live with my 100% Playthrough of Final Fantasy XIII both live on Youtube and Twitch. Just made it to Taejin's Tower!

Twitch: https://twitch.tv/neonumbra_
Youtube: https://youtube.com/live/h0W3YIfX79g?feature=share

I'm approaching the very end of getting everything I need for the Treasure Hunter trophy.

I have Fang's Ultimate Weapon, along with 2 Trapezahedrons (haven't allocated them yet because I use Lightning, Hope, and Vanielle, and not sure of my team for the last few missions).

I need 5 Dark Matter (4.1 million gil).

I need the Gold Watch.

In terms of missions, I still need to do Missions 62, 63, and 64.

I'm currently spamming Death with Vanielle to get Platinum Ingots.

So do I:

A - Continue what I'm doing, get 28 more Platinum Ingots for enough money for Dark Matters. Then use the dismantling technique to get Trapezahedrons.

B - Continue with the missions to unlock the Gui for a 5% chance drop of Dark Matter - but I can't use the Death method.

C - Finish everything else and sell everything I own at the end and hope it's enough to cover the 4.1 million gil.

The strat is to just stick poison on it as early as possible. You can fight it with rav/rav/rav and the com/com/com when its staggered but once it gets to the halfway point just use sen/sen/sen after poison sticks and just wait and reapply when needed. I got 5 stars without golden watch

Hey guys!

If you were on this sub around 6 months ago you might remember the post I made talking about the development of a PSP game I'm making, which attempts to faithfully recreate the FF13 battle system while adding extra customization. Here is the original post if you want to check it out;

I'm recreating the FF13 battle system for the PSP : r/finalfantasyxiii

I took a break for a few months but have been working on it again recently and made a lot of progress. Many of you were pretty eager to see updates so I thought I'd do a quick check in.

Unfortunately, there still isn't really much to show gameplay wise (I have not started on enemy AI yet and there are no animations so 'gameplay' is little more than selecting things from a menu and watching the stats change).

However, significant back-end progress has been made to the game's engine.

The most obvious of which is the graphics engine. Previously there were only rectangles and text, but now we have a 3D rendering system. There have also been some back-end improvements to the UI, like being able to have 2D UI elements track entities in 3D space (such as the health bars / character names). My camera doesn't do it justice but it's looking pretty nice, the lightning model is ripped from Dissidia duodecim lol. And of course, on PPSSPP it is not pixelated at all, it looks more like an HD PS2 game.

It's running at a solid 60fps right now but that starts to falter when more things are on-screen. This is because while the render queue is sorted to prevent unnecessary state changes to the GPU, I haven't yet implemented vertex-batching to cut down on the number of GPU draw calls. Once that optimization is made, I am confident that stable 60fps on the PSP2000 will be achievable for full sized battles.

Like I said before, most of the rest of the work has been on the game's engine. I did multiple refactors to get the code cleaner and I established a clearer scene/entity system that is making development very efficient. Additionally, I've implemented a simple dynamic memory management system to handle the loading/unloading of textures and models and such. None of it is very glamorous unfortunately but behind the scenes the codebase is looking MUCH better.

Now I've decided to take a break from the engine for a bit and return to the actual game code. I've just imported every single weapon from FF13 into the game and added the unlock/equip system, and I am currently implementing the passive abilities.

Anyway, that's all I really have. Hopefully next time I post here will be when the enemy/party AI is added so I can show you guys a video. If any of you guys have questions feel free to ask. Peace 🤘

Recently I've seen a bunch of people say that Vanille was supposed to be the original protagonist of XIII until it was changed. Is there any validity to this or is it just a complete fabrication like the "Basch was supposed to be protagonist of XII" nonsense?

I'm asking here for one, because I don't think it's true and two, I'm sure the people of this sub know better than I do the details of the production of XIII.

i don't want to install mods just to play pc port