Rom hacking

[fredthezombie]

Hi I have been trying to hack my Final fantasy 1-3 rom files for the nes using a hex editor on my mac, (2 and 3 are translated) I have beaten 1 before however I have been wanting to tackle the first 3 just for the story the grinding gets very unbearable in those 3. Does anyone know how I could hack the roms so that grinding wasn't so bad. Such as getting 4X the exp. from battles?

[fastbilly1]

You should just be able to use a cheat code, I believe FF2j and 3j have Game Genie codes. What emulator are you using?

[noiseredux]

I don't blame you. FF II seems like it would be an awesome game if you didn't have to actually play it.

[Hatta]

Grinding in FF2J is easy. You get exp based on how much damage you took, so fight easy enemies and attack your own party members.

[fredthezombie]

thanks for the tips guys, I want to try to stray from game genie codes as much as possible though. I want to still play the games, I just want to be able to gain levels faster, I gave FF3 a good shot but was so overwhelmed with how far back I was set after each dungeon, even if I could just max out all the stats and have a huge amount of hp and mp I would be happy, I have a hex editor I just don't really know how to use it, even with hex faqs made for the specific games.

[fastbilly1]

Well getting into hex editing is annoyingly difficult. I spent eight months last year on and off working on a title screen hack of Zelda 1.

[Anapan]

I remember setting up an emulator for my friend with a PS2 controller hooked into USB so he could make the grinding on FF2 bearable. I set the shoulder buttons to the emulator's settings for fast forward, rewind, save state, and load state with two of the right-hand buttons set to rapid fire. Using those keys I half-watched him actually beat the game in mostly fast-forward by beating his characters to an inch of their lives repeatedly.

[Dylan]

Grinding in FF2J is easy. You get exp based on how much damage you took, so fight easy enemies and attack your own party members.

This only increases your HP. If you want to improve any other stats you have to repeatedly select fight/magic commands or evade attacks, etc.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Final Fantasy II > Final Fantasy XIII

[noiseredux]

Final Fantasy II > Final Fantasy XIII

Troll.