Ugh this is so stupid to discuss, the facts don't agree with your guy in dog suit. You can walk through the evil forest and ice caverns without a single encounter, that's what I did when I first tried this game. So yeah you're wrong, but it's going to get fixed now by this great mod. We'll have to increase the battle encounter rate by probably 150%.

My only concern is that this might happen to the world map too, oddly enough the world map's encounter rate is at it was on the original, but if that's an issue I'll inform Albeoris about it.

I thnk this is a silly thing to be arguing about, you might not mind it but I think most people who don't tend to visit this forum would mind it if they were to play through FF9 for the first time and be able to walk through Cleyra the rat tree, Kuja's palace, Oilevert and a lot of other DUNGEONS with 3-4 encounters sometimes even less.

Compare that to how many battles you have to go through in the crater in FF7 or in areas in FF10. For instance there's that underworld passage under the sea in FF9, I remember that area being very frustrating on the ps1. That is why it has two shops in it, one at the start and one at the end so you can resupply on potions. In the steam version you can walk through this area with I don't know I guess 5-7 encounters, despite the fact that you're solving a puzzle down there and pulling levers.

It's not what the game is supposed to be like, and I wouldn't want my buddy who I gifted the game to to have to experience the game this way. It's easy enough to begin with to remove all the random battles are going to make it easier still. But thanks to Albeoris we're finally fixing these issues which are game breaking, after he releases the new version of his program I'm going to put together a "Vanilla mod" and upload instructions and an ini file for new people of this game who want to experience it as it's meant to be experiended. Not so much a mod as an unofficial patch to get rid of all the shit that came with the android.

I wouldn't be opposed to "fixing" some other issues the game suffered from even on the ps1, making the bosses a bit more difficult for example wouldn't take away from the experience at all. Letting the player squirm a bit more while fighting the bosses, I wouldn't know how to do this but it can't be that hard to raise their hp a bit. The font would also have to be replaced, the final improvement would be resized menus but unlike the other issues this isn't game breaking just slightly annoying.

When this patch is put together I'll inform my acquintance and he might stream it which would be entertaining for me and him. Then I'll bid you guys farewell and wish you good luck with your...uhhh mods which intorduces new abilities and new music to the game.

Yes but you're Fraggoso not the average gamer, most people prefer somrthing less cluttered.

It was unplayable up until this point so, main reason I'm requesting the fixes is because I gifted this to someone on steam. Now finally we can remove all the crap from the android port, the menus will still be too large in battle but it's not a deal breaker. Is there some documentation on how to change the stats on enemies, adding 15% more hp on every boss would make it a bit more challenging. They do say it's one of the easier Final Fantasy games.

Wow it seems like you're adding these features in mere minutes, amazing work!

Yeah it seems like you didn't, I wouldn't know how to compile the program, not a programmer. But before you compile it, could you maybe implent another feature if it's not too much trouble. An option to turn off the chat icons when you approach NPCs. Then finally all the clutter from the android would be gone and real modding could be done on top of the vanilla game. You're awesome Albeoris, if you need any assistance, maybe with writing documentation or something I would be willing to help. :)

I downloaded the "release from players" memoria program and installed it, I found no option in the new memoria file to change the encounter rate, I pasted what you wrote above into the ini file and changed the 960 value to see if it had any effect on the encounter rate. I could still run through the entire first dungeon in the game, the ice cavern without a single encounter. Am I missing something. o_O

Maybe you didn't compile it?

Oh yeah I pm'd you about it Albeoris, and you added it to your mod in a second, I'm amazed. I'm going to have to try this, maybe we can truly restore this port to the ps1's glory. So you added this new feature to your latest realease of memoria, downloadable at this point?

Guy no offense but if you don't know what you're talking about don't talk it. ;) The chat icons weren't in the original game except when you encountered chests and the encounter rate isn't fine unless you want to run through entire areas with 2 encounters, areas which in the original game tested the person's patience and sanity and were difficult depending on how prepared you were. So take your bad grammar somewhere else.

I tried using memoria to fix some of the port issues, a great program with some nice features. But there are some issues which I don't think can be fixed by just modifying the ini file. The encounter rate is the most glaring issue, I noticed while testing the game that the character runs much faster if you compare the speed at which he runs on the ps1.

Is it possible that the encounter rate not only is determined by the amount of steps the character takes but also by the fps the game is running at? I wouldn't mind running a bit slower if it meant playing the game as it's meant to be played.

Also another issue I've got is how to remove the card and chat icons, anyone knows how to do this? An UI fix would be nice too but that is too complicated for me and it's possible to live with the huge UI.