Final Fantasy Hacktics

Turns out certain units must not be benched to advance the Cloud side quest.  Found this out after much confusion.
Turns out the prerequisites for unlocking the Bard/Dancer job classes has changed.  Guess I'll keep leveling up each class at a time as they will be very necessary later on
Looking forward to the New Game + features.  Leveling characters down, even using the 0% boost option for 1CP, will help save plenty time.
Spending CP to learning unique abilities will be fun too.  Simply getting Celia/Lede on my team would also have been welcome.  Their natural move/jump is amazing

Excellent mod, I liked it even better than one I played for the PSP version.

But I'm having a very tough time having a save file I downloaded read.  I am using RetroBat station to run the (Duckstation) emulator and am wondering if either this method or the fact that it's the modded version of the game is preventing this.  The file format is .gme so I've tried two different ways converting it to .mcd file type with no success.  Does anyone have experience with this; knows how I can get this to work short of using the original FFT ISO?  I'd rather not play it from scratch and have to level up/down my characters