Hello everyone!


In the anticipation of the upcoming release of the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series, there are several things that we would like to share with everyone in this community.

First, we would like to formally announce and invite everyone to join our discord group: VG Research and Modding: https://discord.gg/bSnpVBV.

This discord group has been the hub of updates and new mod releases for the past couple of years now with many not having been released in this group. We found it was much easier to collaborate directly on discord rather than using these forums, but we invite you to use both!


Starting things off with a serious note, Krisan Thyme the founder of this group, the original owner of the VG Research and Modding discord server, and a reverse engineer of many of your favorite games, including Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, and more, could really use your help right now!

If anyone has the time, please read what he's going through and if you can pitch in, please do so: https://www.gofundme(.)com/f/help-chris-combat-years-of-abuse--health-problems. (remove () from the URL).

I pitched in as well after reading his battle through life and am sure many of you will want to as well.


Now, with the announcement of the Final fantasy Pixel Remaster series comes the sad news that FINAL FANTASY V (Old Ver) and FINAL FANTASY VI (Old Ver) are both going to be delisted and will no longer be available for purchase on Steam. It is a bit of a sad situation, but fret not, as the modding community still has something to offer everyone that have these games in their libraries.

Be sure to pick these games up before they are gone forever!

FINAL FANTASY V has the following new mods (and more to come)
Credits to: KAMO, HawkX, Payotcraft, Enfyve, Oscar92player, MtfujiInMyPants

Many of the mods you see above will be available soon in the Omega Weapon mod installer. We hope to release this prior to the Pixel Remaster version. Stay tuned!


FINAL FANTASY VI has received so much from the community. As a long overdue formal announcement in this group, Project Atma Weapon is the definitive mod installer/manager for FFVI which was originally released a couple of years ago. Project Atma Weapon features 3 main presets for mods in the game:, Remaster, A World Reborn, and Classic that you can install; as well as letting you fully customize the installation with more than 75 mods. You can manually select in-game portraits, fonts, orchestral soundtracks, world map textures, monster textures, summon sprites, and an overhauled game UI which conveys a classic look of the game, and more.

Here is the trailer we released for the last version (credits to KVG198x): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMvv0Yimc_M

Here is a list of mods that have been released, since the latest version of Project Atma Weapon from 2020 (that have not yet been included in the installer):
Credits to: Drag4you, Xerxes, Pixel, Matty, Daldec, kvg198X, Frostlocke, MtfujiInMyPants, Maki, Enfyve, Taser9001, FuZzle, faospark, Spyros, Madsiur, granvillimus

With the help of the newly updated FLB tool (forked by Enfyve) make sure to check out the latest versions of the UI graphical overhaul and SaneUI as both mods now feature better/optimized placements of UI elements.

There are also plans to update Atma Weapon again before the Pixel Remaster version is released which will include most of the mods featured in the table above. Stay tuned here as well!


As sad as it to see the Final Fantasy Anthology Duo be delisted and be relegated with the (OLD Ver) moniker … one might notice that they still have received plenty of mods from the community and continue to do so. When the world said they were horrible/bad, there were still people that gave love and respect to both games regardless of these criticisms. There is just a couple of weeks to go before Chaos wins in the world in regards to the original Steam versions of Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI. We hope you give them some attention with the mods listed above.

The clock ticks down for the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster series and be assured that if there is a possibility to mod the games, we will conquer these new games as well! We invite you to participate in the discord server while we explore these new games!


And at last, but not least, the Chrono Trigger version for Steam has also received a good amount of mods. We are sure you'll love these additions, since they give you a much better gaming experience while playing the game. Some of them were made for the first version of the game, previous to the official updates that came later which fixed many aspects of the game. However, most were updated to work with the current/latest version. While others are still in need of some testing. We would appreciate any participation to debug them and make them completely available and compatible.

This is the current list of mods for Chrono Trigger:
*These may not work on the newest version of the game.


VG Research & Modding: https://discord.gg/bSnpVBV.

We would really appreciate your collaboration, and we openly invite you to our Discord server so you can share with us the love for these classical jRPGs (and more), your experience in the modding community, and of course, your desire to work with us to expand them as much as possible.

Also for those wanting to mod the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, please join Krisan Thyme's server "Fabula Nova Chystallis" which is dedicated to those games: https://discord.gg/pc9PdpKsRc

Thank you and happy modding!

For those that may be interested in modding the XIII series (either using them, or making them) I am officially releasing a new program that I think might help simplify a lot of things for everyone involved.

The program is called Nova Chrysalia, and it is meant to be a modding suite with tools to handle the converting\unpacking\decrypting of various file formats. It also comes equipped with a built-in mod manager. (Think something roughly along the lines of what TES games have.) You can even pack your mods up into a single file and share them with others, where they can then add it to the mod manager's list with a click of a button! They can then install\uninstall as desired, or delete the mod entirely. (All without permanently altering the game files.)

Additional functionality includes being able to unpack all game files with a single click of a button and have all three games read from the extracted files instead of from the packed IMG containers. This makes modding and testing way easier, allowing a modder to hot-swap files in realtime and allowing for a relatively clean and simple install process for the enduser.

There is more as well, including things like debug mode options and some engine-level fixes for the first two games. (Experimental, and will likely be expanded on in future updates!)

Overall it's meant to be something that replaces the launcher for all three games, handles mods, modding, and offers a little extra on the side. It's been a long time in coming but hopefully you guys find it useful, or at least kinda interesting.

Image Gallery[imgur.com]
Discord Server[discord.gg]

The program can be found on the Discord server linked above, under the announcements section. Hopefully if you're interested in modding the series, you'll stick around and help the community there get started. If not, that's cool too. The download will likely be made more publicly accessible at a later date for those uninterested in joining. For now, hope to see you there.

(Given that this is a first release, documentation is lacking. I'll be around on the server to answer any questions anyone might have. Feel free to inquire about anything you don't know about or might be curious about and me or someone else there will do their best!)

Just two hours after release, a mod is already out that allows you to play the game in any text language, but with the japanese audio. It even supports FMVs!

Check it out here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/359870/discussions/0/364041517007201631/

Also, for those wanting DSR and Supersampling support. I'm happy to say that downscaling from 4K is a dream on this game. The only thing you have to do is enable the "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" setting on the EXE's compatibility tab.

FFX.exe -> Right Click -> Compatibility tab -> Disable display scaling on high DPI settings

The same goes for FFX-2.exe and the FFX&X-2_Will.exe.

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Be sure to thank Topher for his FFX/X-2 Japanese Voice mod!

Nyxo has just released a new version of his FFVI Explore tool making it possible to replace the in-game music! In total, it is now possible to replace the character/npc sprites, monsters, battle backgrounds, and music! Be sure to read the included readme.txt for more details!

As usual the modding tool can be found on our FFVI Modding Index!

I can't wait to see what you guys create! Also be sure to thank Nyxo for his amazing work!

1. Creating mods for Final Fantasy V using Krisan Thyme's tools
   
2. Creating mods for FInal Fantasy VI using Nyxo's tools
   
3. Creating mods for another Final Fantasy
   
4. Waiting for mods to be released.
   
5. Playing a Final Fantasy game
   
6. Waiting for Final Fantasy IX
   
7. Playing other games

I am currently working on the Final Fantasy VI Original Sprites project since that had the most amount of votes in the last poll, and playing Final Fantasy III with the cool mods from the FFIII Mod index.

After I finish the Original Sprites project, I'll start working on the FFVI Spriting tutorial, unless one of you beat me to to the punch!

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If you're working on any projects, be sure to post your progress on the Modding Forums.

Feel like playing a Final Fantasy before Final Fantasy IX is released? Check out the Current Mod Releases before you start!