Final Fantasy Hacktics

Great stuff as always Barren!  Every time I come back things have changed so much. 

At the end of battle when you get to select from chests for various rewards, is there any detailed info on that?  Or is it meant to be something the player just has to feel out through trial and error?  Is there a spreadsheet or list of all the possible items that can be rewards, and what the color of chests corresponds with?

Edit: I see, red are for weapons, purple consumables, etc... They seem to be mostly common items, but occasionally rare?

I'm unable to get past the first loading screen.  When Gospel and his comrades are gathered in a house, and prepare to fight, the music loops and it says loading forever.

I'm on Linux, Nobara, using Retro Arch for my emulator.  I tried the Beetle PSX and Beetle PSX HW cores, neither worked.  I'm using the scph5501.bin bios.  I'll try some other cores, or another emulator.  I saw a post with another person unable to get the game to work where a certain emulator was recommended.

Edit: Okay, I used the Swan Station core and it got past the loading screen.  Everything seems to be working fine now.

Edit: Edit: Game is great so far!

Edit: I'll post in the bug reporting thread.

Edit: Edit: Okay that thread's locked, so I made a new thread.

That goodness, it works!!!  You're a life saver, Jumza.   

Hi guys, been a veeeery long time since I've been here.  I was just curious in checking out some of the mods, like Celdia's, but am facing difficulties.  I'm on Linux, and can't get ePSXe to work.  I use Retro Arch, which runs .cue files.  I got the Rumble Chaos Crashdown randomizer working, but I can't get any of the mods here to work.  When I use PPF Omatic to patch a bin file, it only outputs another bin file.  If I try to patch a cue file it doesn't work.  If I try to convert the patched bin to a cue it doesn't work.

Any ideas?

I'd rather keep Mimes and just nerf them if they're too OP.  Maybe go back to reducing their equipment options like they used to be.

What's the arena discord?

There doesn't seem to be much activity... Where is everyone?

Is this still a thing?

Hi everyone. I see you have a tournament going, and lots of new changes to the game. Cool stuff.

I'm kind of dissapointed I missed it, but good luck everyone.

Okay, I added Shiva, Ramuh, and Ifrit to my Summoner for Gastrafitis Cannon.  I could use another test for both of my teams to see if the changes balance them out.

I'm pretty sure no where in the U.S is it illegal to offer prize money for competitions.  Major league gaming has been a thing since the 90's.

The thing I never used to be able to get working is move-hp up/mp up.  I'll have to get set up with the new version though so I can record stuff too.  The more the better.  It's good to see new people too.  I know you were around before, but I'm glad to see you're uploading matches.  Oh and by the way, Magic Attack Up does affect healing spells.    I don't know if you noticed that Moogle was healing for a ton.

At this point I'm just talking about doing the tournaments here online the same way we do the free ones, but with pools and seating.  The payout would just be through paypal.

Doing tournaments live in person would be cool, but we're probably too spread out for that.  I live in Toronto, Canada.

Andrew, of course it's legal.  Mods have tournaments too, they just don't get sponsored at major events because they aren't endorsed by the company that made the original game.  I've been to Project M tournaments, which is a mod of Smash Bros. Brawl, and Counter Strike started out as a mod of Half-Life.

Thanks for the match.  Yeah, I think the most immediate change needed is probably to give the summoner a damage dealing summon.



It's kind of funny, Corsair, how you pronounce so many things wrong.  :p  Like Esuna, you say Ezuna.  And I could be wrong but I believe Gastrafitis is pronounced Gas trah figh tiss (first i long, second i short). 

Should Protect and Shell have a buff?  Increased percentage, or maybe 0ct, and increase the cost a bit, maybe to 100?  Because I think as is they are never used.

Hey guys, so this is actually something I have been thinking about for a very long time.  I know I haven't been around for almost two years, except for the tournament last summer.  But FFHacktics has still been in my mind this whole time.  Free tournaments are fun, but other than people like us who just love the game, they do not really promote or support growth in the scene very much.  For one thing there is no career potential or chance that this could take off and be an event at major gaming conventions without the growth that prize money would bring.

I have been playing Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube competitively for a year and nine months now and in that time I've seen it grow.  I just got back from a tournament that had 90+ entrants and a first place prize of over $7,500.  It was larger that any other tournament at the convention including Smash 4, Street Fighter 5, Dota 2, CS:GO, CoD, and more.  The seating area for the top 8 finals was overcrowded to the point where people where standing blocking booths, and the food area, and taking almost all of the chairs from other games' spectating areas.  And that's a game from 2001 that is dominating over current gen games.

All that is just to say that an old game can be successful at current gaming events.  Although being a mod means it will probably never get official support to be endoursed at major gaming events, we can still nourish and grow this community and this game competitively.

That being said, I seriously want to support the growth of this by offering $100 for the prize pool of the next tournament we run here.  Hopefully that will attract more players.  But we also need to be a bit more serious about how the bracket is set up because random seating simply will not do.

People should be given a seating number based on past results and the quality of their team.  Players expected to do well should not meet each other too early in the bracket.  So lower seatings are given to novice players and flawed teams while higher seating is given to veterans and solid teams.  Pools are a very good way of giving more than 2 matches to players likely to be double eliminated.  They are also excellent for determining seating based on results.  And that way any number of entrants turns into a rounded bracket with no buys.

Any thoughts?  Any interest?  Let's get this scene growing and the competition serious!