FF6: Return of the Dark Sorcerer
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FF6: Return of the Dark Sorcerer

Return of the Dark Sorcerer is an incredibly large fan-made Final Fantasy 6 modification that’s been in development since around 2010. It has had quite a few different hands on to get it to where it is today.

Many aspects have been meticulously worked on by the same dedicated group of people since the last release almost two years ago, such as: sprites (character, monster/esper, and NPCs), character portraits, events, coding & gameplay changes, music, dialog, balancing, and bug fixes.

Return of the Dark Sorcerer version 2.

Features:

– New cast of characters with customized move sets.

– New and customized events.

– A whole new musical soundtrack.

– New WoB and WoR overworld maps.

– Difficulty selection.

– Music player.

– A font change in config menu.

– New dialog script.

– Major original bugs fixed, many of the lesser ones as well.

– WoB Colosseum added.

– Soul Shrine boss medly event.

– Longer Esper & Spell names.

– Natural stat growth.

– Stat raising items, ala Chrono Trigger & FFIV.

– Character class names.

– More Rare items, with uses.

– More Item icons.

– Increased game difficulty.

– Removed Level Averaging.

– Removed Magicite level-up bonuses.

– Different skills like Magic, Tools, Item etc. all take different time before initiating.

– New Game + event.

– New and customized maps.

– A hundred or so added treasures.

– Lowered monster encounter rate.

– Music plays uninterrupted (no battle music) in most non-overworld areas.

– The 7 dragons replaced with Lord Envoy’s FFVI Advance Monsters Den counterparts.

– Super bosses.

– Imported BRR’s (instrument samples) from other games.

– New monsters and bosses. (Sprites, battle scripts, stats)

– Unique NPC sprites, and some very interesting characters.

– Custom character portraits.

– New spells and custom spell animations, as well as weapon graphics.

– Hold “B” to sprint.

– High MP costing Spells, and a fixed MP digit in the menu to compensate.

– Near Fatal Status is changed to 1/4 HP from 1/8, to encourage more Desperation Attacks; – Desperation Attacks is not limited to just once per battle per character.

– New equipment and Relics.

– All items have descriptions.

Credits

Contributor Type of contribution Listed credit
Mike Ferrell Hacking Lead Hacker & Project Manager
DarkMage Original Hacking FFVI improvement patch
GrayShadows Original Hacking Natural Ability Extension Patch, Golbez acting as normal magic learner hack, Spell learn rate hack
HatZen08 Original Hacking Guest adder, Learnable rage, Step dance, Antimagic field, Resilient Morph, Even Gauge Patch
angelo26 Original Hacking Names clean-up patch, Restored ability names, spell granting event command, flashback color in battl
Leviathan Mist Original Hacking Battle speed up patch and fix, 255 hours patch
Drakkhen Original Hacking Physical damage overflow fix patch
Master ZED Original Hacking New game plus patch
Lenophis Original Hacking Natural stat growth, new RNG patch
assassin17 Original Hacking Random monster encounter fix patch
Madsiur Original Hacking Most of ROTDS specific assembly coding (functionalities, additions, tweaks)
Synchysi Original Hacking Half damage spell back row flag, always sprint hack, gain level command, Health to Miracle
Edrin Original Hacking Palette change check for characters in WoR hack
Lufia Original Hacking Step Mine / MP cost ASM hack
James White Graphics Custom portraits / monster / esper sprites, WoB overworld tree, Elite Knight, Dragon King
Poco Loco Graphics Most main characters and NPC sprites, a lot of monster re-colors
Zeemis Graphics FFIV Meteor spell graphic, Rifle (Auto-crossbow replacement), custom sword “Destiny”
Sutebenu Graphics A few sprites, Arc portrait, work on other portraits, Aerith, Opera Dress Tifa, Chained Tifa
Dr.Blank Graphics Elite Knight graphics (portrait and sprite)
Lijj Graphics Original Aurora portrait, and some help with the Onion Knight
XolarDark Graphics Some spell animations
Jackimus Music A good number of songs and compositions (see readme)
Tsushiy Music Gave me permission to use any of his songs. (there’s 4)
JCE3000GT Music A few song hacks from other games
Lockirby Hacking WoB & WoR map design and hack
Lord Envoy Script Editing/Revision Some original bosses and and the FFVI Advance Dragon battle scripts
Poco Loco Script Editing/Revision A lot of dialogues chages and dialogue change suggestions
Sutebenu Script Editing/Revision Polished some dialogues and made grammar fixes
Magical Trevor Script Editing/Revision For his amazing grammar and syntax help
Zozma Graphics Barberella (‘Purple Haired Girl’), Zigfreid, Vargas, Clyde
DjinnandTonic Graphics Prinny graphics
OBSailorStar Graphics Olbohn graphics
FEOK Graphics Fusoya and Pirate sprites
Sathka Graphics Hector (Old hooded man) sprite
Eddie Lee Graphics Heartless sprite
Koreki Graphics Bow Wow graphics
Joshdammit Graphics Devil-Bat Girl sprite
Christian Graphics Tifa sprite
Merciroth Graphics Raditz and Saibamen graphics

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