Insane Difficulty: Gamma Sword - Insane Difficulty

Is Gamma Sword supposed to hit extremely hard? i mean. Mine is hitting for 6-7k Front Row / 2-3.5k Backrow. And the MP is not a problem since the character equipped with Gamma Sword is Cloud with Vambrace and Omni Gear / Tiger Mask (Wich gives alot of might) and i can just Force Steal back the MP so i can keep critting. The power is also at 255. The last sword he had before i randomly found Gamma Sword in my bags was Icebrand and he was hitting 1.5k Front Row. Thanks to it i managed to rush Hell Gigas with Vanish before he could cast Flash Fire or any of his random spell.

Wow that is some pretty brutal damage... I'm curious how you obtained a Gamma Sword that early, it is supposed to be found in the WoR. Might you remember where when or how you acquired it?

I had this same sword appear in my inventory on the floating continent just the other day I thought maybe it dropped off of Ultima myself, as I wasn't sure how I had such a powerful sword, it seems like this games version of light bringer? I equipped Golbez with it and watched the numbers roll, but I don't think I can use this thing it's a bit game breaking for right now.

The Light Saber/Bringer is actually found at another spot after the whole Jericho (Thamasa) events, by visiting an NPC somewhere by Twlight Vista (Jidoor), without spoiling the location. But yeah the Gamma Sword is one of the top swords in the game and would easily wreck on the F.C. Zooza, do you recall having it before the Floating Continent? There was a report once of the special attack animation that the Lava Demon uses (also used by a boss much farther into the game which was where the bug was reported) in the burning house event, that is normally unused, but anyways under some rare circumstance produced a Gamma Sword in the inventory. But I cannot seem to trigger that bug no matter what, so I was hoping it was some fluke. It wasn't happening for that battle either, the reported issue. But it's the only thing I can think of that would cause it to appear in the inventory at that stage...

I will test a few things but it would greatly help to narrow this down if anyone could be sure exactly when or obviously how it appeared in their inventory, by checking previous saves or reproducing it - I suspect it pretty much must have happened in that Lava Demon battle though due to the previous report of the unused possibly bugged special attack, the one where a bright light and loud sound appear and the menu goes away for a second. Called Incinerate. It might have to do with having the item screen open and possibly tied to Oboro and/or his dog block animation, but this is not for sure because I can't reproduce it on my side at all under any circumstances. And if you zozmaasmodeus are pretty sure that it happened on the Floating Continent, then it might be something else.

To be safe I should probably just replace the special animation with a normal one, but I'd like to be sure first because it is a pretty cool unused animation and I'm not sure how it could cause this bug. And I'd like to see it for myself in action to be sure.

Are both of you by any chance using snes9x? I always use and test with zsnes so if so than maybe that has something to do why I can't seem to trigger it, although I doubt it.

I am using snes9x yes. I got the light Saber from the old hermit guy, I was thinking of Illumina. I noticed the sword in my inventory for the first time when I checked Golbez equipment options. I know it was not in my inventory for very long as I got the demon slayer sword from the master tonberry before heading to the floating continent, and it was by large the best weapon for cloud at that point. The only other thing I did after the tonberry before heading to the floating continent was check out the skull cave, which I wasn't sure I fully figured out I looted some items from a room with a save point but felt like I may have missed something? Hope this helps.

Zozmaasmodeus, on 15 June 2015 - 03:38 PM, said:

Interesting, so you're pretty sure then it didn't appear in your inventory right after the burning house event?

Pretty sure yea, because it wasn't in my list when I equipped the demon slayer on cloud.

I can confirm that on a save state just before floating continent I have no gamma sword in my inventory I just checked some old states.

Thanks man that definitely helps to narrow it down some. I'll get to testing some things and report back if I find a culprit. I'm not sure what it could be still though, I was kind of hoping it was the special attack the Lava Demon does but it doesn't sound like it now. Maybe some other unused special attack animation a monster on the F.C. uses, I did use more of them on various monsters - I'll check around! Unless it is something emulator related with snes9x, but I don't see how...could be though I suppose since it's been reported from snes9x users and I can't seem to trigger it with zsnes.

If you do find out anything more or can narrow it down even further, should you try to find out where or how this is happening or it happens again please tell me! I do see Storm Flame Eagle uses an unused special attack animation of a wrench with an air sound...hmm.

Absolutely I'll let you know if I can. Loving the hack BTW!

Thanks man! I really appreciate it and glad to hear you are enjoying it. =)
Sadly there are some nasty bugs that escaped me when testing this version, but a v1.4 is on the way soon so please be on the lookout.

Here is a list of the bug fixes that will be included, so you can see that they will be fixed when/if you encounter them...:

- fixed some overworld tiles that allowed chocobo riding to move past but character could not, resulting in becoming stuck forever if jumped off.
- fixed some veldt overworld tiles as well that were not the correct ones.
- fixed a couple issues in the returners hideout.
- fixed a mistake with an NPC event in WoB Jericho.
- fixed a possible issue of recieving two Midgar Zolom magicites.
- fixed a bad entrance event to the 'secret shop' map in the wor esper town.
- fixed an event trigger freeze for the Shenron castle balcony.
- fixed an issue with the flame that burns away the root coming back.
- fixed an exploit of getting to the Sealed Gate without Aurora.
- fixed some possibilities of lightning strikes happening outside of Psycho City.
- fixed an issue with the Lightsaber being broken as hell.
- fixed a freeze in Cloud's scenario when talking to a soldier.
(- Gamma Sword fix one soon to come, hopefully...)

The major ones here being the freezes in the wor maps, which there are two of, and the Lightsaber's brokenness. And this Gamma Sword one of course. The other bugs are pretty bad too, but nothing like an event freeze to ruin your fun =X There's also some more changes but I won't list them quite yet.

Will be out in a week - two weeks at most.

Sounds great! I'll keep am eye put.

Fired up 1.3 at long last. Managed to freeze the game. In Seascape where Cloud is trying to escape, I was goofing around and decided to try talking to one of the brown mech soldiers while in the merchant disguise to see what would happen (something I've never tried before in vanilla or another mod). Game locked up, no dialogue box appeared, music kept running. I could access ZSNES menus so it's not a case of my keyboard failing to respond. I had just saved before trying this so no progress lost.

I'm running ZSNES 1.51 and the soldier in question is the one closest to the front door of the rich man's house.

Liking the changes compared to 1.1. The split scenario sections used to be danger spots for getting permastuck from lack of resources (such as doing Astral, Aurora, Banon with no Recharges). There are now accessible merchants. Opted to blow nearly all my starting cash on a Thief Knife at the beginning. Had some hesitation at first but decided I liked borrowing from monsters enough. With a stash of 74 Pizzas at Calamity, it has proven bountiful.

Somehow have two Quicksilvers after between entering the Imperial camp and leaving it even though I thought I only found one. Could it be a case of receiving a different item than the one displayed? Never did figure out how my two Red Apples went to one without ever using or selling one though that's potentially forgetfulness.

LoveColorMagic, on 15 June 2015 - 07:57 PM, said:

Oh wow, very good catch. I'll get on fixing that one up here asap and add it to the list of fixes!
Thank you!

LoveColorMagic, on 15 June 2015 - 07:57 PM, said:

As soon as Oboro joins in the empire camp in the desert, you also receive a Quicksilver, i'm quite sure about that, because it was suddenly in my inventory during the fight against NPC Kefka(before that event it wasn't in my inventory).

Uh-oh! Something else for me to check out! This is good though, good to catch all these mistakes.

Edit:
Yes I can confirm this one, pops into inventory right before the small battle with Kefka. Will see what's up tomorrow and fix 'er up.

No man. I remember back then in 1.0 that Hell Gigas gave me such a problem that i was sorting people gear and such so i could Vanish everyone before i got brutally effed. While doing so i magicly saw Gamma Sword as the best Optm option (Don't laugh, i wanted to see the best Def gear i had for Serin!) and well... yeah.

Can't remember if i stole it with Mug from a boss or something. I was not there for the Lava Demon fight. Deff.

And yes. I'm using SNES9x. on 1.0 - 1.1 i was using ZSNES but since i got a new PC for some reason everytime i try to map/edit the controls so i can play with a pad it freezes the Emulator so i had to suffice with Snes9x.

I was deeply sadden with the music glitches found on SNES9x as the music in the hack is the best of the hack itself.

Edit:
Yes I can confirm this one, pops into inventory right before the small battle with Kefka. Will see what's up tomorrow and fix 'er up.
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Sweet. Still i managed to use it JUST for that Fight. Also. Lightsaber is pretty broken at that part too as it hits for 9999 on everything XD so i rushed Ultima with it and saw i pretty much destroyed him in like... 3min? i un-equipped both swords and re-started the fight.

Gi Nattak, on 15 June 2015 - 11:33 PM, said:

Huh? I didn't report it when i posted that segment, because for some reason i thought it was intentional
I mean... Oboro is a ninja/assassin and provided a Quicksilver... it sounded like one like him could own that item XD