r/finalfantasytactics

Lucavi (Final Fantasy Tactics) = Espers / Scions (Final Fantasy XII)

1. Cúchulainn, the Impure — Scorpio, the Scorpion♏
2. Belias, the Gigas — Aries, the Ram♈
3. Zalera, the Death Seraph — Gemini, the Twins♊
4. Adrammelech, the Wroth — Capricorn, the Goat♑
5. Hashmal, Bringer of Order — Leo, the Lion♌
6. Ultima, the High Seraph — Virgo, the Virgin♍
7. Serpentarius, the Keeper of Darkness = Zodiark, Keeper of Precepts — Ophiuchus, the Snake Bearer⛎

Took me forever, but its finally done. Never again lol

FFTA recomp: https://github.com/james2doyle/ffta-recomp

Widescreen (working but not fully complete), touch controls, save states, some graphical controls, all in there.

The game seems to be in a playable state from my manual testing on an old phone. Now that the major bugs are gone, I will get it tested on my Odin 3 with my current .sav from SkyEmu.

This recomp was AI assisted but had a TON of manual QA. I even had to patch the upstream gbarecomp project 8 times to get this ROM to work. That work will be opened as PRs to the gbarecomp project ASAP as there is at least one critical bug fix in the framework core.

Manual QA was mostly on PC (Linux) but there was a bunch on Android. It is ready now for other testers.

Although I used AI, a lot of the work referenced ancient forums and mods to identify symbols in the code. I also uncovered a lot more and focused on getting them labelled. I archived that work in the repository for posterity.

My dream would be that the game could be fully ported to Love2d or Raylib like the Gen1 Pokemon recomps. Then we could have some real fun.

I also added a bunch of automated tests as well as tried to encapsulate a lot of the learnings into skills. That way, future gbarecomps can take advantage of all the labour here.

Please try to give it a test. I did make sure that .sav and save states from mGBA work. So give that a shot. The docs still need work. And as of the moment, you cant just install a .apk from the releases and pick a ROM. You need to build an apk yourself.

I tried to make it easy to build the apk with a simple build_apk.py script.

The ROM picker experience is the next major milestone.

A friend of mine made a video examining something I've always found interesting about Final Fantasy Tactics.

How does a game that starts with class warfare, political corruption, and competing claims to the throne eventually arrive at the conclusion that the real problem was demons?

Which, to be fair, would simplify a lot of political science textbooks.

One interpretation he explores is that the Zodiac Brave Story is itself a historical narrative written by Oran, rather than an entirely objective record of events.

That raises an interesting question: how much of the supernatural stuff are we supposed to take literally, and how much might be history slowly turning into legend?

I'm not suggesting the Lucavi were invented. But there's something funny about a historian trying to explain a complicated civil war and eventually having to write, "Anyway, then the pope turned into a monster."

I'm curious whether people think this interpretation holds up, or whether we're giving the writers too much credit.

Here's his video if anyone's interested: Youtube Link

My first time facing Ultima... she already had turned Beowulf, Ramza in frogs and KO'd them, and she had just frogged Cid and confused him. All hope seemed lost.

Then this happened.

Gods, I love this game so much!

To celebrate the birthday of FFT:IC, Square is releasing a set of 17 magnets featuring the character's portraits. You can either buy blind boxes or the full set.

Quite basic, but positively surprised to see Mustadio, Elmdor and Teta featured in their products.

It's up for pre-order now.
Date of release: jan. 23th 2027
Measurements: W37×D4×H37mm
Full set price: 13,090 yen (or 9,810 yen through Amiami).
Squex e-store (JP): https://store.jp.square-enix.com/estore/g/gME10711-BOX/

I got the 4 human unit battle in Ouibliette, I killed the Black Mage, thief and chemist and the battle ended... Monk still alive. Only reason that comes to mind is if it was an ally? Has anyone ever seen this here?

>!These 2 have always been the most dumbest NPC whether in your party or the enemies. Hated them in WOTL and hate them in IC.!<

This is my 4th SCC run on Tactician, and it was almost as fun a the Black Mage run that I did, and a lot more successful! I did make it all the way through, and had a great time doing so. Here's the full playlist for how it was done - although I really don't think anybody would need a guide, except for a select few battles.

Only at two points in the game did I intentionally level. Once for Riovanes Castle, where I jumped from level 17 to 35 and it was a mistake. I expected to need some speed to manage the battle, but in reality I wanted the lower speed so my summoners would move after Belius came down to say hello. The second time was right before the final run, when I leveled from 41 to 70. I didn't want to get part way down, get stuck, then grind at the top and try it again, so I just preemptively ground some levels. I think I could have done this on a much, much, lower level and it would have been fine.

The Good

Summoners are fuuuun. Sylph is a giant AoE silence with 25 speed and a hit rate roughly equal to the target's faith (because you made sure you have faith casters on your team). Golem is amazing at keeping your team alive, and really satisfying. Big heals in Faerie, or fast heals with Moogle, are amazing. Huge AOEs with Bahamut, Odin, and Leviathan feel like cheating almost. Percent damage spells vs late game bosses are a godsend. TIC letting you skip random battles means you can use Errands starting in chapter 2 to get all the JP you need without having to grind out battles, so you can get big epic spells early on and just coast.

The Bad

You need to grind out "Halve MP" super early. Like, before Dorter. You are a little slow, but honestly you want to be slow. You want them to all move before you cast, so they'll all be in the same place to be hit. Let them come to you. The game is so fast and simple that you don't end up grinding, and so there's a huge shortage of JP and Gil coming in... but that's what Errands are for. Just make sure you're not taking any of the ones where you lose money.

Things to Know

• Lich deals 35% of the target's max HP, so you need 3 Lich spells to kill someone, unless they have more than 3000 hp.
• Shiva is a great opener because it obliterates goblins, and it does extra damage in snow storms (so Argath can feel more pain).
• Bahamut, Odin, and Leviathan have bigger AOEs than all the other spells. These are your friends.
• Odin is your go to spell. It does less damage than Bahamut, but it is faster which is often important. If speed doesn't matter, then sure, go with Bahamut. Or if the size of the AOE doesn't matter, go with Cyclops. But most of the time you're going to want to reach for Odin.
• If you equip Japa Mala, all of a sudden Leviathan is the best spell. It deals almost as much damage as Cyclops, it has a bigger AOE, costs less MP, and is also speed 17.

Difficult Battles... but not actually that difficult.

1.3 Dorter Slums was looking real rough. Then I got Halve MP and it was a breeze.

4.7 Fort Besselate Sluice was a little rough. High ground archers, low faith knights in your face, lots of enemies spread out over a wide area... mana management became real, and I had to be pretty careful with decision making.

4.8 Mount Germinas was rough. Stupid charms. Stupid high speed ninjas. Stupid bows. Pretty annoying.

4.12 Limberry Keep: Undercroft was a problem for a while. The answer was to trade out Angel Rings for Hermes Shoes and forget about survivability. Just get some lucky Liches off. The video makes it look easy, but it took a bit.

4. 14 Mullond Front Gate which is not normally noteable was sort of a slog and surprisingly difficult. Speed was starting to become a real issue here, so we ended up equipping speed gear which meant not a ton of MP, so there had to be some careful mana management.

4.20 Necrohol: Lost Halidom, as it often is, was a pain. A lot of attempts went into this, a lot of different gear loadouts to make things fit, and in the end we had to deal with all the monsters and just tank the incoming damage with lots of heals.

Surprisingly Easy Battles

1.7 Windflat Mill. Did you know this was actually the easiest battle in the game?! Wild.

4.1 Dugeura Pass can be a often be a difficult battle. Not this time. No notes.

4.11 Limberry Castle Keep. 100% hit rate on spells, so just stack MA buffs and bam. He's gone.

4.16 Mullond Sanctuary can be one of the hardest battles in the game... but it was like nothing. I couldn't believe how easy it was.

4.19 Necrohol Capitoline can be pretty hit or miss with difficulty. Consider this a miss.

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Completed SCCs: Monk, Chemist, Summoner

Impossible SCCs: Black Mage

Below are the resources I leaned on to succeed. Huge shout out to the magnificent people who built these guides.

Yatola's Original SCC Rules - The only adjustment / deviation from the original rules is around grinding levels. If, and only if, the class I'm playing as can easily win random battles, I can equip other class abilities to speed grinding along. Gaining JP to equip these other abilities must be done via errands so that no extra levels are gained in other classes. I feel this fits well within the spirit of the SCC rules. I try to abide by the level caps, but I'll go over them if I need to.

Aerostar's Battle Mechanics Guide

Fritz Fraundorf's Full Walkthrough

MetroidComposite's Ivalice Chronicles differences guide

Couldn't be bothered to grind, so I grinded out a save editor instead.

https://github.com/sam-derby/Ivalice-Companion/releases

I am 100% sure there are bugs, so please back up your saves, although the application will do that for you anyway.

At the moment, you can edit gil, inventory, character levels, job levels and JP, set abilities, add characters to your game. The app will let you add almost any character including enemies, so it'll be interesting to know how that plays out in an unmodded game.

Feel free to raise issues here or on github.
The work is based on others in the community, they've been credited, and some of the work was AI assisted to determine changes in save states.