Exdeath

Exdeath is a program for patching Final Fantasy V Advance. Its source may be found on the Treehouse Gitea. You will need a ROM image of the US version of the game, which you can find through your favourite search engine.

Main

The real meat of the program: the patches.

• Base:
  • None – the base game.
  • Waddle rebalance – A remixed version of the game which aims to pump up underwhelming Jobs without altering overall balance too much.
  • Balance – A remixed version by wormsofcan which adds the Hero Job and changes a bunch of other things.
  • Custom Classes – A heavily remixed version by ludmeister.
• Unlocked Jobs: Unlocks all jobs directly out of the gate. Half of wormsofcan’s Fiesta patch.
• FFT-style Portraits: As the name implies, this option replaces the portraits with edited Final Fantasy Tactics portraits. (missing attribution, sorry.)
• Sound Restoration: The Sound Restoration hack modifies the soundfont and corrects some slow-down issues. It can cause artifacting, however. Older versions of VisualBoyAdvance will require the GBA BIOS file in order to run normally with this option.
• Save Config: Saves your current configuration, including the ROM location. This configuration will be automatically loaded on next run.

Randomization

Randomizable components.

• Seed: A number used to set the random number generator to a known state. The range accepted is 0 through 2**31-1, inclusive. Default value is the current time in seconds since 1 January 1970 00:00 UTC, divided by 3600.
• Neo ExDeath: Pick graphics for the final boss.
• Abilities: Shuffles abilities such that all Jobs learn five abilities and have a randomized command.

Innate abilities

Each checkbox applies the listed innate ability to all Jobs.

Multipliers

Multiply experience, ability point, or gil awards from battle. Experience and gil are hard-capped at 65,535 and ability points are hard-capped at 255, regardless of multiplier.

Notes

The ‘Unlocked Jobs’ mode includes a patch that allows !Combine ammo to drop prior to unlocking the sealed weapons. This alters the drop tables for the following enemies:

• Buckshot:
  • Black Flame
  • Birostris
  • Elm Gigas
• Blastshot:
  • Blood Slime
  • Executor
• Blitzshot:
  • Mummy