Insane Difficulty: Gamma Sword - Insane Difficulty

Okay actually the incorrect teleport issue was much easier to fix than I thought once, just needed to set a flag in the level editor, so cool!

As for the Assassin, it does not appear to show it as having the use MP for critical hits and testing it here it's not doing it, so that's strange I'll look into it further. Perhaps he had a 2nd weapon equipped that allows for use MP for critical hits? I'm not sure what though at that point in the game. Looking at the weapons here I have a bunch, probably too many weapons that have this trait...

And I also see the Ninja Knife appearing in the inventory here,
actually one right before the Burning House, and a second one right before the Lava Demon battle. I am removing his equipment when he takes off before the burning house, because I added in some code to place the best equipment on Oboro before the Lava Demon fight and for whatever reason it spits out another Ninja Knife afterwords like he had it equipped. I'm not sure why I'd remove his equipment though before the burning house, that's kinda silly and seems to might be causing this error of the one appearing right before the Lava Demon. Anyways I'll report back when I can answer for certain.

EDIT:
Not sure exactly what was happening, but now it's more or less fixed by not removing his equipment before the Burning House. It will instead remove his equipment right before the Lava Demon and equip him with the optimum gear, just because the player has no chance to do this themselves before that battle, in case they had him with nothing or crappy gear. I didn't choose to remove his gear afterwords, because Oboro is a bastard like that and keeps the gear and leaves!

This post has been edited by Gi Nattak: 22 June 2015 - 12:54 PM

Any chance that some shit could happen when ally in slot #2 (Oboro) is replaced with FuSoYa? or Leo with Golbez? (assigning character properties and then remove equips)

Nah, no chance for that really, he is being removed correctly from the party and FuSoYa and Golbez are both being loaded correctly and all that. I'm sure the event code is good for that whole sequence, and since I still can't trigger this Gamma Sword glitch no matter what... I'm afraid I might have to throw in the towel on it, just waiting to hear if anyone else encounters it in the meantime while I work on some very last things, and since the bug reports keep coming in still I'll be patient and wait a bit longer before uploading the next version, and your playthrough to be finished I think. It just scares me how two people here encountered it, that means it is a real thing and not some freak occurrence that I might have just chalked up to some crazy emulator-related glitchiness. I would have thought for sure it was that Lava Demon/Zeromus animation, or Flame Eagle's, but it just doesn't seem like it from my testing. ANYWAYS.

Tested out the Assassin some more. Was obvious after one battle that there were no automatic criticals. After awhile, Arc landed a random critical and no MP depleted. Tried again with the Ninja Sight just in case some equip combination enables automatic criticals: no changes. Looks like it is working properly. Edit: Tracked down what happened; the 15 MP loss was from casting slow spells in the mine cart boss and not using Oboro since then.

I had guessed the free Ninja Knife was so that there would be something to equip on Oboro for the Jehrico arc.

Blitzes can be done without diagonals, excellent.

Eiko's natural magic appears to be gutted. ???

Today, Augest 15th, 2015 will forever be known to me as the day I fixed the Gamma Sword glitch

Turns out it was in the event code, still not sure why I wasn't able to trigger it 100% of the time or why it is even buggy how I coded it, to spit out the Gamma Sword but it has been solved. It happens right when you are choosing your 3 characters to go to the Floating Continent, I changed up something in there to allow Fusoya to stick but removes the other party members. It was this change here as noted in the 1.3 change log:

- Fixed a small issue of Arc not getting kicked from the party selection screen when taking off for the Floating Continent if he is in the current party - only Fusoya should be chosen for you.

Very relieved to have figured this out finally, now I can sleep at night without horrific nightmares of random Gamma Swords appearing out of nowhere.

Damn you Gamma Sword.

Damn you Zooza for making GN stay up endless night fixing this problem.

Glad you finally managed to fix this Now... All we need is the next version so i can play it happily <3

I can almost guarantee it will be good to go by next weekend. Found a couple more things while testing that I've been meaning to change, worked on the Auction House prizes (removed the Airship model for Omni Elixir that can be bought) And added Might and Magic tabs for the other shitty prizes. And added a new alternative way to dispose of the Dirt Dragon in the Opera House that is pretty funny at that. Also re-did a song (creepy Metroid one) to be more legit since that was one of the first ones I ever did and it coulda been much better, touching up on other songs still and testing testing testing. And my buddy is working on one more asm hack. That's about it should be ready soon Will be a pretty decent update indeed.

Oh, does this mean that...

Eiko's natural magic isn't working?!? I wasn't aware of this =X
I'll look into it now.

Gi Nattak, on 16 August 2015 - 03:20 PM, said:

Poor Gi Nattak... the road of updates is endless XD

Haha yeah.

Luckily I got this one fixed up now, but may have broke something else in the process, maybe. I'm not sure what would have caused this but her spell list got overwritten. Putting back the bytes from a previous working version fixed it right up. I'll have to try and figure out what did that, it's normally free space in bank EC and I know of nothing that would use that range, but all the bytes around there are changed from the working version so that scares me... Might just relocate her natural magic list to another location now. Anyways glad to have found out about this and happy it was an easy fix!

This is fantastic Gi~

I been considering doing a walkthru for the game, I have a VERY rough one on the ROTDS website and was gonna play again for a more thorough one, I'll wait until you release the next update

Hello Gi Nattak and community! I am playing Return of the Dark Sorcerer v1.7.1. While grinding a level of exp before the fight with the lava monster in the very beginning of the game, the Gamma Sword appeared in my inventory. It was after a fight with a single Prinny in the mines there, but no drops were given for the combat. Anyway, just wanted to report that. By the way, i love the mod, Gi Nattack!

Scottdj23, on 21 March 2017 - 12:24 AM, said:

we have enough material to make a creepy pasta on ROTDS about the Gamma Sword...

I heard there was a bug in one of Leet Sketcher's patches which made obtain from nowhere a dirk... was that the item who was replaced from the gamma sword?

NOOOOOOOOOO not this again!!!

Lol Tenkarider...I know, right?

Hello and welcome Scottdj23! Please excuse my nuclear meltdown there, but as I'm sure you see this issue was quite a cancer and it feels like that cancer just came back. As soon as I saw this topic highlighted my heart skipped a beat, then I began to tremble uncontrollably and peed myself a bit.

Anyways thanks for the report, I was not aware and it woulda slipped by my 'testing' I'm sure for this next 1.7.2 update soon. So this is actually perfect timing. And thank you so much for playing, I'm glad you are enjoying this mod!

So just to cross this bridge, which emulator are you using and have you applied any other patches or cheats? Patched over a clean FF3 1.0 ROM?

Ah yes, Tenka, the Gamma Sword took the Dirk's spot, so it sounds like this is what the issue is THIS time lol - I was not aware at all of a bug with one of leet's patches that does this, never saw anything about this on Slick. Which patch is it, might you know?

HI Gi what this bug is all about?

Well, there used to be a bug where it seemed at randomly a Gamma Sword would be in your inventory. It wound up being some bad event coding I did. But now, it has made a return it seems.

I just spoke with LeetSketcher and he told me about the patch that might have caused this, and, it is one I never used! Castle Party patch... nope never used it. So, this is not good... I'm not sure what to think atm but I'll get in there now and see what I can see.

and you fixed the bugs and this gamma sword is powerful? where do you obtain it the sword all checked up 1.7.2? this never happend to me on my 1.4 playtrough (first playtrough)

Yeah I fixed that bug, and yes the gamma sword is one of the most powerful. You're supposed to get it in the WoR. I'm not sure about anything regarding this bug at the moment, I'm going to try and reproduce it first.

So far I'm not having any 'luck' having a Gamma Sword pop up in my inventory there in the mines gaining levels. Scottdj, are you able to reproduce that glitch easily enough there you think? Like have another one pop into your inventory, to try and pinpoint how/when it happens if possible. I'm just not having any luck here as usual with reproducing it.

thanks for the reply im glad that everyone helps here thanks Gi you mean the JCE3000GT bug that i mentioned to you in your site and you fixed that ploblem with NG+ ? the new game plus you active talking to ifrit or finishing the game?