Final Fantasy Adventure: FFA Gender Swap is a modified version of the original Game Boy game that alters character roles by switching gender representations. The game features script enhancements, increased text speed, and bug fixes to improve gameplay. The variant allows players to select from several patches for gender options, while minor edits address grammar and typos, maintaining the essence of the original story.
At the very beginning of Final Fantasy Adventure, two very similar characters see their paths diverge. One answers the call to adventure, while the other is left behind. FFA Gender Swap switches which of them plays each role in this epic story.
It also has a few other improvements meant to make playing more fun, including to the script, a text speed increase, and it fixes some gameplay bugs that have been present since the game was originally released over 30 years ago!
New this version, in the spirit of "show, don't tell", on the character naming screens you can now see exactly who you are naming!
Choose one of the included patches to apply based on your preference of the your character’s gender, and whether your NPC companion is a girl or a Moogle:
* pc-female.ips
* pc-neutral.ips
* pc-female companion-moogle.ips
* pc-neutral companion-moogle.ips
Changes since the last release:
* Show the characters on the naming screen.
* Minor script and graphics changes.
* Verified compatible with the English version of Mystic Quest in addition to Final Fantasy Adventure.
FFA Gender Swap swaps the unnamed hero's graphics with Amanda's. The NPC formerly known as Amanda is now known as "Duke" (the hero's name from related Japanese media). Pronouns for each character have been replaced (or eliminated). The amount of stress the game's script put on the hero being young did not read well after these changes (but really did it ever?) so the only character who refers to you as "girl" (in the female patches) is a villain.
In addition to gender changes some minor edits have been made to the script for typos and misspellings, but for the most part it sticks to the familiar English translation.
Some bug fixes for gameplay issues have been included. The assembly changes for these have been kept as small and targeted as possible, and are fairly well tested, but please report any issues you notice.
There are four patch variants. Choose one to apply to a clean copy of Final Fantasy Adventure.
Last but not least, thank you to Tomato for the Final Fantasy Adventure and Seiken Densetsu ROM hacking notes: https://www.romhacking.net/documents/804/
New changes in 2022-01-05 (1.2) release:
* Show the character on the naming screen.
* Fix: When starting a new game, on the first screen the player is shown on-screen, then teleported off screen and then walks in.
* Allow text speedup in the second text box ("Hero was a fighter of Empire Glaive.").
* A few minor script edits for grammar.
* Grammar: "You and I are the(sic) members of the Mana Family."
* Grammar: "Vandole abused the power of Mana long time(sic) ago."
* Grammar: "Julius is taking the(sic) charge of this airship."
* Minor graphic: Remove black pixels from the rug pattern.
* Minor graphic: Stop the bars in Fuji's airship cell from flipping horizontaly.
* Fix Hasim conversation overrunning window introduced in 2021-12-23 (1.1) release.
* Tested on Mystic Quest (English) in addition to Final Fantasy Adventure.
* Known (new) bug: entering the first screen not from New Game shows an extra transition effect.
New changes in 2021-12-23 (1.1) release:
* Optional: Replace "Girl" character with a gender neutral moogle, including naming prompt, script, and graphics.
* Remove references to the gender in the conversation with Hasim.
* Typo fixes: Change "their" to "there" in the conversation about Watts, and "everyday" to "every day" in the first scene.
* Bug fix: Using Heal, Unicorn, and the Moogle item no longer corrupts you DP.
* Bug fix: You can now use the Moogle item, Unicorn, or Heal to remove Moog status effect.
* Bug fix: When using Nectar and Stamina you no longer need to press START or SELECT for them to take effect. (They still won't wear off until a window is shown at least 20 seconds later, so they are still exploitable.)
* New trash can icon for no real reason.
New changes in 2021-07-16 (1.0)release:
* Optional: Completely gender neutral option for main character.
* Optional: NPC can be named "Duke" instead of "Sumo".
* Graphics changes to both characters (including the three frames of animation that were previously Xed out).
* Text speed has been increased.
New changes in 2021-07-11 (0.9) release:
* Changes the prompt for naming the main character from "Boy" to "Hero".
* Renames the item named "Amanda" to "Tears" both in inventory, and in dialog.
* Replaces Amanda's six 16x16 frames of animation with frames adapted from the PCs graphics.
* Renames the NPC formerly known as "Amanda" to "Sumo".
* Change the Sumo NPC to use male pronouns.
* Changes all eight lines of the script that mention the main character's gender. Three are now gender neutral. Minor re-wording was necessary to fit some of the lines.
* Replace main character's graphics with frames from Amanda, plus custom work.
* Corrects one typo that bothered me: "Madusa" -> "Medusa".
* Stamp the release date into the title screen.
More still to come? To do lists only ever seem to grow, never shrink.
Database match: Final Fantasy Adventure (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Game Boy/Color (v. 20210227-015730)
File/ROM SHA-1: 8B93C55EE2660C60CF86DD70058F96ACE98782C8
File/ROM CRC32: 18C78B3A
Database match: Mystic Quest (Europe)
Database: No-Intro: Game Boy/Color (v. 20210227-015730)
File/ROM SHA-1: 3513310426C6AE88F9BEB588F71C666E003273BE
File/ROM CRC32: 57D95C92
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