1402: Final Fantasy NES \\ Pt 1 NoFlash Randomizer Improved Playthrough - Rescue me, Princess!
0Playing Final Fantasy for NES, dumped from cartridge and played in Mesen, using this combination of ROMhacks:
Pitch Correction
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6189/
Final Fantasy Flash Reduction
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6691/
Final Fantasy Randomizer
https://finalfantasyrandomizer.com
Improved Vanilla
My Final Fantasy playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzPMrvpniIlEpWlGI9IS5f-n
0:00 - vain search for title screen & stumbling with party creation
8:28 - blah blah about carts & hacks & stuff
25:21 - world map (B + Select)
28:08 - Coneria castle
31:54 - hitting the shops
39:38 - 1st journey NW
41:35 - Jiji bites it
44:37 - looking up spells & items in the game manual
49:02 - off NW again!
41:07 - reviving Jiji again 'cause I forgot to heal him ]_]
53:21 - 3rd try NW!
54:13 - the NW castle
1:02:42 - Borp buys it
1:08:18 - 4th try NW!
1:09:14 - NW castle central chamber
1:10:48 - tough creeps!
1:12:35 - back at Coneria castle, I mistake the princess for her mom
1:19:01 - wrap!
I last (and I think probably first!) played through this game in 2004, on PS1. I've never tried playing a Black Belt! I tried seeing if they could tough it out at the start with no armor and no weapon but uh no that didn't work. ^ _^
Game's tougher than I remember! Well, I probably don't remember much about difficulty, only that I enjoyed grinding giants or something for a long time, and my notes from the time say my playthrough was 40 hours. ; ) Anyway getting my BB killed on the way to the first castle, and then my Fighter killed one step away from backing out of the castle to pitch tent, those were kind of eye-openers! ^_ ^
And the first boss wasn't bad at all, but then two random(?) monsters after him were just crushing me! ; D
The princess' dress changes from purple to red (palette thing probably) and I thought she was her mom. : P (I skipped the "he kidnapped me" part of her text I guess. : P)
Hah I said Yamauchi at the end instead of Sakaguchi, sheesh. : P
Two women disappear after I talk to them in Coneria, the starting town, and it seems to be due to the FF1 Randomizer ( @FinalFantasyRandomizer )--the "Improved Vanilla" preset, anyway; I tried patching the standard FF1 ROM with just that, and they still disappeared.
It's amazing how clear and jewel-like everything looks in this game. It just shines.
OH. The title screen doesn't come up until later. Ohhhh. But I want it now! ^ _^
5/17/23
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