Playable Character Pack

[Tirlititi]

This mod adds Kuja, Fratley and Lani as full-fledged playable characters.
They can learn abilities, equip different items, use trance and they don't replace any existing character.

In order to have them as party members, you need to press Alt+F2 in-game to open the party menu.

Installation

This mod relies on the latest version of the Memoria Engine mod.
Download it from Github:
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§ Memoria Patcher[github.com] §
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After downloading and running Memoria.Patcher.exe, run the game and click on "Install Mods" to open the mod manager.

https://i.imgur.com/adG0qAs.png

You can install and activate many mods from there, including this one.

Playable Characters

Lani
- Lani's weapon is her Battle Axe that can be synthesized from a Mage Staff and an Iron Sword. She can then upgrade it through the game with different jewels.
- She can use Green Magic. The green spells are elemental spells. On top of basic Black Magics, there are Aero, Aera, Aeraga, Earthquake, Waterga and Rainbow Wind, a powerful multi-elemental spell.
- She can also use a command Hunt to focus a single enemy: after choosing the target to hunt, her next physical attack will inflict Trouble. Her subsequent physical attacks to the same target will be increasingly powerful.
- In trance, her Hunt ability also makes her cast a Green Magic that she knows after each attack.

Kuja
- Kuja can use Black Mage staves. He also has access to the ominous Staff of the Magi, that can only be crafter by Hades himself, made with a Hamelin and a Jade Armlet.
- He can summon various offensive eidolons that he longed to steal from Garnet and Eiko.
- He can use Sorcery, a selection of 8 powerful spells, amongst which are Comet, Flare and Flare Star.
- In trance, his Sorcery spells further improve, becoming even stronger versions of themselves: Comet becomes Meteor, Flare becomes Flare Star, and Flare Star becomes...

Fratley
- Fratley can use Spears just like Freya. He can also manipulate his long Iron Spear, that can be crafted in good synthesis shops in disc 2 and afterwards, from an Oak Staff and an Iron Helm. It gives him access to a very special supporting ability...
- Just like Freya, he has access to the Dragon-knight abilities.
- From his journey, he learned not only how to slain dragons but also how to fight like one. Use his Rampage command to let him turn into one of the dragons that live on Hera and Terra. The more powerful his spear is, the more fearsome the dragon will be.
- In trance, his transformation grants him bonus HP, MP and stats depending on his level and the dragon he turns into, allowing him to have much more vitality than anyone. His transformation also never negates until the end of the battle, should he fall with that form.

Optionally, you can:
1) Enable Zidane's Pluto outfit, to have Zidane's battle model wear the Pluto armor,
2) Enable Garnet's White Mage robe, to have Garnet's battle model wear the White Mage robe,
3) Change the mod's INI option by opening the file "PlayableCharacterPack/Memoria.ini" and use "AllCharactersAvailable = 2" instead: when this option is enabled, the party formation will never be replaced by scenaristical events, but the game may bug on some battles if characters that were supposed to participate are left out of the party.

Synthesis Advice

The new weapons can be obtained solely through synthesis shops. For that, you'll need to keep a couple of equipments on top of those you may be accustomed to keep in your playthroughs.

For crafting the new weapons, you'll need:

Battle Axe (x2): Iron Sword (x2) + Rod (x2)
Iron Spear: Oak Staff + Iron Helm
Staff of the Magi: Hamelin + Jade Armlet

Plus a bunch of gems for upgrading the axes (ores, peridots, rubies, topazes) and the southern set for one of them, but those should not be a problem.

Presentation video

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886252636

The portrait of Fratley is a slightly modified version of a picture apparently drawn by Roer:
https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/21673641930450216/
(The portrait of Kuja is his official concept art from Dissidia and the portrait of Lani was made by me from her 3D model.)

[Tirlititi]

With the Alternate Fantasy mod, Beatrix must learn her abilities, much like the other characters. She starts with a couple of them still.

[OlO]

Finally got this mod to work. Thank you very much for this.
All unplayable characters stay in the party except Beatrix who always leaves after cutscenes. Any idea how to fix it? I have alternate fantasy mod installed.

[Tirlititi]

I don't see why Beatrix would be handled differently than the other party members in this situation. I don't have this issue myself.

[OlO]

Originally posted by Tirlititi:

I don't see why Beatrix would be handled differently than the other party members in this situation. I don't have this issue myself.

Yes. Like in Beatrix first fight, there are 4 party members (Zidance, Freya, Vivi, Quina) . I have swapped Beatrix with one of them. After the cutscene, Beatrix is replaced by one of those original members in battle.
It doesn't happen with other unplayable characters.

[Tirlititi]

Update to v1.0!
No new character this time, but Lani, Fratley and Kuja got fleshed out: they have their own abilities, their own weapons, their own usefulness.

Update Memoria, then update the mod to have the new version.

Lani
- Lani's weapon is her Battle Axe that can be synthesized from a Mage Staff and an Iron Sword. She can then upgrade it through the game with different jewels.
- She can use Green Magic. The green spells are elemental spells. On top of basic Black Magics, there are Aero, Aera, Aeraga, Earthquake, Waterga and Rainbow Wind, a powerful multi-elemental spell.
- She can also use a command Hunt to focus a single enemy: after choosing the target to hunt, her next physical attack will inflict Trouble. Her subsequent physical attacks to the same target will be increasingly powerful.
- In trance, her Hunt ability also makes her cast a Green Magic that she knows after each attack.

Kuja
- Kuja can use Black Mage staves. He also has access to the ominous Staff of the Magi, that can only be crafter by Hades himself, made with a Hamelin and a Jade Armlet.
- He can summon various offensive eidolons that he longed to steal from Garnet and Eiko.
- He can use Sorcery, a selection of 8 powerful spells, amongst which are Comet, Flare and Flare Star.
- In trance, his Sorcery spells further improve, becoming even stronger versions of themselves: Comet becomes Meteor, Flare becomes Flare Star, and Flare Star becomes...

Fratley
- Fratley can use Spears just like Freya. He can also manipulate his long Iron Spear, that can be crafted in good synthesis shops in disc 2 and afterwards, from an Oak Staff and an Iron Helm. It gives him access to a very special supporting ability...
- Just like Freya, he has access to the Dragon-knight abilities.
- From his journey, he learned not only how to slain dragons but also how to fight like one. Use his Rampage command to let him turn into one of the dragons that live on Hera and Terra. The more powerful his spear is, the more fearsome the dragon will be.
- In trance, his transformation grants him bonus HP, MP and stats depending on his level and the dragon he turns into, allowing him to have much more vitality than anyone. His transformation also never negates until the end of the battle, should he fall with that form.

[pulsedrivedaylen]

Originally posted by Tirlititi:

Update to v1.0!
No new character this time, but Lani, Fratley and Kuja got fleshed out: they have their own abilities, their own weapons, their own usefulness.

Update Memoria, then update the mod to have the new version.

Lani
- Lani's weapon is her Battle Axe that can be synthesized from a Mage Staff and an Iron Sword. She can then upgrade it through the game with different jewels.
- She can use Green Magic. The green spells are elemental spells. On top of basic Black Magics, there are Aero, Aera, Aeraga, Earthquake, Waterga and Rainbow Wind, a powerful multi-elemental spell.
- She can also use a command Hunt to focus a single enemy: after choosing the target to hunt, her next physical attack will inflict Trouble. Her subsequent physical attacks to the same target will be increasingly powerful.
- In trance, her Hunt ability also makes her cast a Green Magic that she knows after each attack.

Kuja
- Kuja can use Black Mage staves. He also has access to the ominous Staff of the Magi, that can only be crafter by Hades himself, made with a Hamelin and a Jade Armlet.
- He can summon various offensive eidolons that he longed to steal from Garnet and Eiko.
- He can use Sorcery, a selection of 8 powerful spells, amongst which are Comet, Flare and Flare Star.
- In trance, his Sorcery spells further improve, becoming even stronger versions of themselves: Comet becomes Meteor, Flare becomes Flare Star, and Flare Star becomes...

Fratley
- Fratley can use Spears just like Freya. He can also manipulate his long Iron Spear, that can be crafted in good synthesis shops in disc 2 and afterwards, from an Oak Staff and an Iron Helm. It gives him access to a very special supporting ability...
- Just like Freya, he has access to the Dragon-knight abilities.
- From his journey, he learned not only how to slain dragons but also how to fight like one. Use his Rampage command to let him turn into one of the dragons that live on Hera and Terra. The more powerful his spear is, the more fearsome the dragon will be.
- In trance, his transformation grants him bonus HP, MP and stats depending on his level and the dragon he turns into, allowing him to have much more vitality than anyone. His transformation also never negates until the end of the battle, should he fall with that form.

this makes me so so happy! Lani using jewels makes so much sense since she was out hunting for them. i also love Wind and Earth magic which is such a rarity that thankfully Quina had access too. (i could swear i play a ps1 mod with Garnet being able to use Aero).

loving these specialized skills! thank you as always for your hard work and creativity

[fibonacci.618]

how did you make this game run @ 60fps?

[Tirlititi]

Modding work and interpolation, I guess?

[Zerania]

Hello everyone, first of all thanks to Tirlititi for your mods, they are awesome =^_^=
I have a little problem, i can't find a second bardiche for Lanì, am i missing something? ^^

[Tirlititi]

Hi. They can be synthesized at Lindblum's synthesis shop, Black Mage Village, Desert Palace, Daguerreo and Hades's shop. There are not so many of them indeed, so I'm afraid that her progression curve is not very balanced.

[Zerania]

Originally posted by Tirlititi:

Hi. They can be synthesized at Lindblum's synthesis shop, Black Mage Village, Desert Palace, Daguerreo and Hades's shop. There are not so many of them indeed, so I'm afraid that her progression curve is not very balanced.

Thanks for the answer, i've installed the mod at "disk 4" so maybe i've lost them along the way but, luckily, Hades has everything ^^
One last thing, is the mod working with Memoria Save Editor?

[Tirlititi]

Hades has almost everything, yes (only the Iron Spear must be synth'ed in Lindblum).
The Memoria Save Editor doesn't work very well with the latest version of the Memoria Engine mod, because the save editor only accepts the 9 default characters.

[daniel2000blair]

Hey! All the other mods work fine except this one and the Mog add-on's :(
Any advice on how to fix it? Playable characters causes insta crash and Mog add-ons just don't work.

[Tirlititi]

I think the problem is that you need to update Memoria. I don't see why Mog Add-ons wouldn't work (at least partly) though, so maybe that's something else...
Try using the most up-to-date version of Memoria (the one that provides a Triple Triad mode and a nice battle interface). If that still doesn't work, check the file "Memoria.log" in your game's folder and copy-paste its content here so hopefully I can try to figure out what's the problem.

[SNAIDER™]

Hello, Tirlititi!! first I want to congratulate you for the amazing mod, it's perfect!!! Lani is practically my fixed character in the game. heheh: p I just have a small problem, Kuja when she goes into "Trance" mode her body is all messed up, I would like to know if there is a way to solve it?