How do we revive General Leo?

[Null]

Does the dinosaur forest farming and zone-eater method still work?

[Melodia]

Airship back in time shenanigans, of course.

[Narrowmind]

That poor bastard. Think about him often. Didn't know you could get him back, though. Lol

[Yagoo]

Gameshark

[Bernadetta]

you have to play the game 50 times and kill kefka irl

[Cagey Bee]

You had to play the Returners scenarios in a certain order. Sabin > Locke > Bannon

You save before you go into the Figaro Cave, when you are Locke.

Then you had to get to the floating continent without saving or dying.

Then you had to do some ship shenanigans to trigger a battle when you land on the floating continent.

Then you lose that fight. When you reload, you will be outside of Figaro Cave but the airship will be next to you.

Then you fly to Thamasa and the event plays out.

Now, since you re-loaded the save from BEFORE Bannon's scenario happened, you finish Locke's scenario and go to start Bannon's.

Leo will glitch in Bannon's place.


Edit: There were so many ways to get Leo back, but I can't really remember all of them.

2nd edit: had to correct those steps, they were way wrong.

[Cagey Bee]

There was also something to do with the Phoenix magicite. I remember something about getting Locke first in the WoR and then getting Terra and doing some other backflip thing, then bringing Phoenix to Leo and being able to revive him.

[Melodia]

Originally posted by Cagey Bee:

Leo will glitch in Bannon's place.

Glitch isn't /quite/ the word. See, the characters in FFVI (and most games, really) are assigned a value, and the game will say "use character of this value here" or whatever.
To save space, they used the same value for Bannon and Leo, just setting a flag to change to the next character for that value -- the same thing is done with all the Moogles near the beginning. You can see this in action if you watch an any% Sketch speedrun -- rather than Celes, Kutan (a Moogle) will be in the party. because the flag to change Kutan to Celes was never changed, as she is never recruited in that run.

So effectively since the "use Leo for this slot" flag has been set by pushing the story past where it 'should' be (because of the sequence brake with the airship glitch), you have Leo in your party instead of Bannon.

[Cernel Joson]

Originally posted by Melodia:

Originally posted by Cagey Bee:

Leo will glitch in Bannon's place.

Glitch isn't /quite/ the word. See, the characters in FFVI (and most games, really) are assigned a value, and the game will say "use character of this value here" or whatever.
To save space, they used the same value for Bannon and Leo, just setting a flag to change to the next character for that value -- the same thing is done with all the Moogles near the beginning. You can see this in action if you watch an any% Sketch speedrun -- rather than Celes, Kutan (a Moogle) will be in the party. because the flag to change Kutan to Celes was never changed, as she is never recruited in that run.

So effectively since the "use Leo for this slot" flag has been set by pushing the story past where it 'should' be (because of the sequence brake with the airship glitch), you have Leo in your party instead of Bannon.

This is the correct explanation. This is also why it's impossible to add Leo or any other NPC to your party with a simple game genie code. At a certain point in the game their data is overwritten with some other NPC's data.

If you want to add Leo to your party, download a FF6 editor and replace one of the normal members' data and sprites with Leo's.

[SC_Nikki]

Originally posted by Londo Moliari II:

Gameshark

[Vambran]

The best you can "legit" do is have Gau Learn General Leo's "Shock" Attack from a Retainer mob.

He can now do the exact same attack that General leo uses , well if he doesnt decide to auto attack or something.

[Null]

I'm pretty sure you can get him by winning 4,000 fights in the dinosaur forest.

[Elgroscriss]

You CANNOT legitly get Leo. Even the original devs told so.
The only way to get him back was to glitch the game.

[Dadalama]

ahhhh brings back memories. Didn't the same thing happen with Aeris? (I mean, there MIGHT be someone living under a rock in the Gobi desert somewhere that might be a legitimate spoiler to them.)

[leqesai]

The best way is to play this version:
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5997/

Honestly, this romhack is incredibly fun. I'd recommend it to everyone who ever wanted a bit more meat to the story. It fixes some of the really weird design choices Square made and it also adds two new characters. (leo is one of them and he is included in a pretty significant way, to the main story).

[Laughing With Salad]

The ACTUAL WAY to unlock General Leo, as handed down from the Video Game Music Sister Sites of the late 90s:

1.) Start the game, watch the intro, but DO NOT advance the text with the buttons. Let the text auto-read until they leave the ridge.

2.) THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, look to this video for reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDMWp1oLoA0
@ 4:03-4:04, the Magitek in the middle of the group and furthest to the right will walk through a dark patch on the ground. When it is in the absolute middle of the patch, hold L+R+A. If you do it right, you will hear a chocobo sound (WAH HEE HOO!) and you will know you did it right.

3.) Play through the game as normal, until you get to the Opera Event. FAIL ONCE (any way you want) then do it as normal. (in-game, this gives Ramuh and the other espers in Zozo more time with Terra, helping her get even more in touch with her feelings, which even if you're not going for Leo, will improve her stats when she's back in the party again, but you must do this step for Leo.)

4.) Keep playin' until you reach Floating Continent. Do not wait for Shadow, as sacrificing him is what opens up the spot for General Leo in the data.

4.) DO NOT go to Leo's Grave in the WOR until you have Terra, AND until you get Locke back along with Phoenix. Also, by this point you must have: 99 of each: tonic/tincture/tent, as well as 10 Ogre Nix (WON ONLY FROM COLLOSEUM BATTLES,) and 8 Economizers (gotten from Brachosaurs.)

5.) Go to Leo's Grave with Terra as the party leader. have her stand in the space right in front of the Grave, FACING the grave, and interact with it ONCE, so it shows the text. Then keep her standing there for an hour. (Go do something else and let the game run.) If you did EVERYTHING right, after 60 or so minutes, a dialog will start automatically where Terra (after her long vigil) beseeches Phoenix to revive Leo, which he will. (This will not stop Phoenix from Reviving Rachel.)

BOOM, Leo is now in your party. He's kinda like T.G. Cid in FFT, where once you get him he's stupid broken and you never lose because of the brokenness.