Which modification to pick?

[ViRAL]

Hi!

I have never beaten FFT and I have never gotten particularly far.

Let me start by saying I've been down this road before. Exactly 3 times.

Twice, when I was younger, I played FFT on my PS1, then once, later, emulated.

When I was younger the battles were to complicated, and I gave up after 3-4 story-battles.

When I got older, I grew more confident and tried the game with one of the mods on this page (one that claimed re-balance and a little harder gameplay with monsters scaling better and such).

To my shame, I got overwhelmed quickly (even after a few good hours of grinding), and once again put the game back on the shelf.

So now, I wanna' try again. A final attempt to beat this masterful game.

Can you guys recommend a mod that will optimize the game as much as possible, without ranking up the difficulty? In short, I like a challenge, but I'd prefer actually being able to BEAT the game.

My experience with strategy-RPGs is rather thin, so it shouldn't stray to far from vanilla in terms of difficulty.

I greatly appreciate any advice!

[Eternal]

You're in luck! I've made a mod that specifically fixes FFT's flaws while not upping the difficulty too high. It -is- slightly harder, but only because things have been rebalanced. It's called FFT: Kind Of, and there's both a PSX and a PSP version.

The PSX version can be found here: http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=8658.0
The PSP version can be found here: http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?topic=8739.0

If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask, either on the forums or on chat.

That said, welcome to FFH, where all your dreams come true!

[ViRAL]

Oh, thank you Eternal! This seems just like the ting I was looking for!

I deeply appreciate your work. Maybe I can finally get through this game for once... Haha. Anyway, thanks again friend!

[Eternal]

No problem! Be sure to post feedback so I know what to change/improve later!

[ViRAL]

I will, most certainly!

If I may humbly ask a question about your wonderful-looking patch; does it use the updated PSP-script?

I've heard that there were questionable translation errors in the original PS1-release.

It's not big deal however.

Patching with your patch as we speak!

[Eternal]

Sadly, it does not come with the PSP script. If you're interested in the PSP script without the balance changes of KO, try FFT: Complete, which can be found here: http://ffhacktics.com/smf/index.php?board=26.0

Do NOT patch an ISO with several patches, and be sure to keep clean backups just in case.

[ViRAL]

Noted, thank you again Eternal!

Your patch looks awesome thus far!

Edit: I read in your patch-notes that monsters (I am guessing the random encounters) now scale with player-level. Won't this make grinding a little redundant? Just curious. Thanks again for a cool-looking mod!