FFT the Durai Records (Working title) VanillaMod

[Akashachi]

I don't actually remember the skills i used for this version. But, if my memory is still working, you can get a preview of all the learn-on-hit abilities during the opening battle at orbonne monastery.

I believe i wrote some hints on how to learn the abilities on their description text but i could be mistaken.

Yeah, two skills are at the Orbonne fight, one from Gaffgarion and another from Izlude. I also got one from Dycedarg but it seems I missed one in a previous boss fight. I tried to get hit by Wiegraf but he only used Lightning Stab and Meliadou just kept breaking my gear.

It is a great mod, the only bad thing is that I miss all the changes you made when playing different mods... Can't say how many times I ended losing a unit because I forgot to raise them 😅

[SBHubal]

I just wanted to say that Miluda in Lenalia Plateu is whopping my ass.
I find difficulty of this mod on point.
No crystal after death is great Idea.
So far Archers are too weak, need some balancing.
I would like to have control over all guests not only Delita.
I am really looking forward for your next hack.

[mikih]

I'm currently trying to download and play this mod, but seems like everytime i patch it using PPF-o-matic i'm unable to start the game as the emulator doesn't recognize the file. Any help would be appreciated, really looking forward to play the mod!

[Nyzer]

Are you trying to patch it to a PSP game?

[mikih]

No, i'm patching it to the original PSX iso game. I've tried patching The Lion War ppf to the original iso and it works properly, but it doesn't work for Durai Records mod for some reason.

[Akashachi]

It is because of how the author named the file. Just rename the file inside the zip to something like Durai.ppf and you will be able to patch it correctly

[SBHubal]

Are you still developing this mod?

[Dr Sausage]

I love this mod!

I just listened to the State of the Arc podcast covering FFT and felt compelled to pick it up for the first time in years. The subreddit steered me over here and I'm really glad it did; this is the first mod I've tried and I can't wait to check out others.

I really like the big swings you took with removing charging, stealing and permadeath while adding an mp cost to everything. The new classes and reworked items are lots of fun and I don't miss almost anything you took out. I also really like the new random encounters and the modifications to Ramza, Agrais, and Meliadoul's base classes, and especially the rework of  Rafa and Malak.

I'm deep into it now, and one issue I'm having is that I can't initiate the side quest that leads to getting Beowulf, Worker 8, etc. From chapter 3 on, every time I go to Goug the screen fades to black and gets hung up on the "now loading" screen. I've tried going and a bunch of different times throughout the game, but keep having the same issue. Is anyone else having this issue? Any idea what I can do differently?

In any case, I'm pretty stoked to have found this community. Thanks!

[Kataanira]

any idea what would make the synsthesis shop not show the items needed? i tried on both psxe and duckstation.

[Akashachi]

This version of the synth shop won't work in most emulators. If playing on PC you should use pSX (check the hacktics tool page for download)

[louied]

Edit: I figured it out, I'm unsure how these things work, but I cleared my PSX cdimage folder and put in a freshly patched tactics with a new cue file to go along with. That .cue file was also in the same folder when the vanilla iso got patched. I think the error was the .cue file belonging to/paired with the vanilla iso oringally because I didn't mess with the vanilla .cue file when after testing to make sure my iso works, I'm unsure. Also I've been saying .iso, but if for playstation files its .bin sorry. Looking forward to playing the mod now!

So I tried patching the game to a Vanilla PSX FFT ISO that works, however when I try to load the game it says, "CD not usable: Failed to read.cue file" But its not a cue file, its a bin file.

Here are the steps that I'm doing
1.Clean FFT PSX ISO file
2.Unzipping Durai patch
3.Renaming the patch to Durai.ppf
4.Patching using the clean iso file and patch with PPF-O-Matic that I downloaded from the FFT Hacktics Tool page
5.Upon opening up the newly patched .bin file, my PSX emulator prints out the error stated above?

Any tips?

pSX v1.13 if that helps

[louied]

Hello everyone! Love the mod, it's the only game I've been playing right now. Does anyone have a list of the jobs with their job requirements, to include job levels? Thanks

[bluemage]

Hello everyone. Would someone get me the file other than in the format it is in? I've used several apps and it doesn't open. Thanks in advance.

[bluemage]

Hello. This mod seems very interesting to me, but although I open it from the zip, it does not appear a ppf file, but one of type 3 and I can not open it. Could someone help me?

[Wolfy]

Heya don't know if you still gonna update this but here to report some bugs that i have encountered and some opinion.

Bugs
-First is really not a bug or idunno. I can't seem to find this "Lohengrin" for the Excalibur synthesis is this a rare drop from a war trophy?

-Dupe bug. When you buy an item like the Mana Spring, Ultima Magicite is it called gems? Anyway, when you press up it displays a -1 and that's the start of duping, you can repeatedly do -1 even though you don't have that item anymore in your stock.

Opinions
-Alucard is seriously underwhelming, i mean i think i get where you going in making his Sword Skills one for Big Range and one for Single Target but asides from this, his other skills were super underwhelming or maybe its magic based?

-Darkqueen? :3. Really just wanted my Agrias to be Holy Swordsman at the same time have Darklord skillset


Thats it really aside from buggy Alucard Event, everthing's good.
Oh and lastly can you pls give an advice on those Tiamats? 'cause they're really giving me a hard time. Like what job composition to use, recommended skills/spells and possible recommended equipment on a player just really starting to grind on late chp4.

Tia

[wesleykfg]

Hello I don't know if you still gonna update this topic, but I have to say how amazing is this mod, I'm loving playing!
I'm just having one problem on Goug Machine City...
Every time I go to Goug after the chapter 3 or 4 the screen fades to black and gets hung up on the "now loading" screen.
I don't know if I did something wrong... If you guys could help me solve this problem?
Sorry for my bad English, it's not my first language!

[Aiolon]

Hello. I have not posted here in a while.

first of all. i would like to thank everyone who played this project that i started 9 years ago and i would like to apologize for randomly dissapearing and abandoning it just like that. i was very young at the time, and once i got bored of something i just forgot about it and moved to other things. Today i come back to lurk around during an attack of nostalgia and looking at all these comments, questions, opinions, 2k downloads and bug reports i cannot help it but feel sad about it. grateful but sad, i wish i could have been here to answer your comments and thank you for giving my little project a chance.

The truth is, i no longer have the databases and the assets i used for this mod and i remember little to nothing about the changes i made. i could just play it again and feel like im playing a mod made by someone else. That being said, i can confirm that there are no updates or changes coming soon.

The reason i didn't ask Elric or Xifanie to move this to completed projects despite the fact its playable from beggining to end, its because i know there is unfinished business and several things in chapter 4 were left untouched/ not fixed. Again, i'm sorry for that.

Now that i am older, it really bothers me to know that i left this here like this. I orignally thought about asking for it to be moved to the forum archives but after coming back and seing that at least 1 person downloaded this every year, i could never.

Maybe, its my turn to give this patch a try.

[budgieflame99]

Actually i overexagerated with the move find item. truth is it was not nuked like i mentioned in fact it is necesary to collect the full equipment set of a new character and a few other items that make references to previous FF and yes these will come as both common and rare finds like materia blade did.
and i must say its not a bad idea that of adding equipment that requires shop progression because now that i think about it it would fit perfectly with many items.

I apreciate the ideas guys, you have saved move find item but DeepDungeon will keep me thinking for a while.

Updates: Updated the Op with the returning jobs for the Beta
             Added the new jobs
             

hi, the synthesize in the fur shop seems to be bugged as it's not showing the items i need to do it. i'm using duckstation could that be the problem. all in all great mod just this bug...