This is a considerable leap over the NES could handle and gives me the ability to really make the sprites pop. Instead of four colors, each sprite has a palette of 8 colors + transparent, and obviously as many of the colors as I want can be on screen. To start, I'm using 51 of the original 52 colors of the NES palette, 4 new colors, 2 yellow and 2 brown, and a modified shade of blue. Not only was a sprite limited to 4 colors, the scene itself could only use so many. The original NES could handle a very, very limited palette. What do you mean color depth? What kind of art changes? But, if you liked that, I hope you will also enjoy this. Still, it's my project and I'm going to make the version I want to play, and people have always encouraged me to do so! The NES version is still there, and my version doesn't seek to replace it. In both cases I my goal is to retain the original experience, to avoid changing things just for the sake of being able to. I've also added new locations, dungeons, items, spells and boss fights. On the other hand, the game is also exceptionally simple and obtuse. These changes won't affect how the game plays. On the one hand, I'll be adding frames of animation, cleaning up artwork visually and adding color depth. Many changes will boil down to bug fixes, things that are demonstrably wrong and fixed in later versions, but many impact how the game plays. The goal started out as recreating the game faithfully both in mechanics and presentation, and I will still endeavor to do so as closely as possible. Some parts of the game have aged better than others, and I have ideas about what is important to keep, and what I believe can be changed.
#FF MOD OF BALANCE SPELLS PC#
Originally I looked towards ROM hacking since most of the bugs have been fixed but then I thought, why limit myself? Building the engine means I can both make it compatible with modern PC hardware and I can fix, change or add whatever I'd like.
#FF MOD OF BALANCE SPELLS FREE#
It is my favorite, and I've always dreamed of being able to play a bug free version. What FF "was" is a product of compromise and limitation, and so stands out as a unique entry to this day.
The ports of the game do make changes to "fix" these things, but each release also pushes away from it's original experience and made it a fairly generic entry in the franchise. Elemental resistance and weaknesses don't work. Many spells do nothing, others do the opposite of what's intended. Not only is Final Fantasy one of the very first video games I ever played, but, as I've learned more and more of it over the years, I've come to appreciate it as a "flawed masterpiece." It was made on a time and budget constraint, and a lot of the content either wasn't tested thoroughly or perhaps was broken but never fixed. If you check out YouTube channel you'll find a lot of videos about faithfully recreating old games using GameMaker, and watching these inspired me to try it myself.
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