Final Fantasy III: Anchors Aweigh! is a patch for the Super Nintendo game, designed to rectify the Air Anchor mechanic. The patch prevents targets afflicted by the Air Anchor status from dying due to regeneration, poison effects, or seizure damage, which previously triggered immediate death. Developed by Imzogelmo and Lenophis, this patch enhances gameplay balance and functionality.
When Edgar hits some poor monster with the Air Anchor, any action it takes will then proceed to kill it. However, it also means standing there regenerating, taking poison damage, or seizure damage will kill. This patch fixes that behavior.
Title: Anchors Aweigh!
Author: Imzogelmo, Lenophis
Version: v1.1b
Applies to: FF6us v1.0, v1.1, FF6j
Tested on: FF6us v1.0
Contents: US Air Anchor - header.ips
US Air Anchor - no header.ips
US Anti Air Anchor - header.ips
US Anti Air Anchor - no header.ips
Japan Air Anchor - header.ips
Japan Air Anchor - no header.ips
Japan Anti Air Anchor - header.ips
Japan Anti Air Anchor - no header.ips
C2 code.txt
readme.txt
ROM addresses (US version):
C2/3228 - C2/322A
C2/653A - C2/6544
ROM addresses (Japanese version):
C2/3223 - C2/3225
C2/653A - C2/6544 (patch authors, little attempt was made to see if
this uses free space by other patches!)
And anyway, I would think that having a seizure or keeling over
momentarily from poison would count as movement.
When a target under the influence of Air Anchor experiences a regen, seizure,
or poison "tick" (healing or taking damage) it counts as movement. Sure enough,
the target dies immediately after the damage.
When this ailment (Air Anchor's effect) was brought back for FF9 (Heat anyone?),
regeneration and poison damage won't kill you. This seems like damning evidence
that this effect isn't meant to kill you when you sit there.
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What this patch does:
This makes Air Anchor behave correctly, preventing poison damage, regen healing,
or seizure damage to not kill the target when air anchor status is set.
That does not stop targets from dying by other means though. :P
Note: The anti patches will remove the patch.
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Version history:
v1.1b - January 19, 2010. Patch conflicted with Master ZED's Controllable Umaro
patch. Moved to new location, patch is otherwise unchanged.
v1.1 - February 02, 2008. Patch conflicted with For What Ails Ya, moved code to
new location, patch otherwise unchanged.
Terii Senshi & assassin - For writing the C2 bank disassembly.
PhantasiaKnights - For the ability to come up with a name at the very last
moment!
Final Fantasy III (USA).sfc - NOINTRO
CRC32: A27F1C7A
MD5: E986575B98300F721CE27C180264D890
SHA-1: 4F37E4274AC3B2EA1BEDB08AA149D8FC5BB676E7
SHA-256: 0F51B4FCA41B7FD509E4B8F9D543151F68EFA5E97B08493E4B2A0C06F5D8D5E2
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