Romhacks Final Fantasy 9 — Comprehensive ATB Enhancement (PlayStation) Romhack

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Final Fantasy 9 — Comprehensive ATB Enhancement v1.00 by RoSoDude https://rosodudemods.wordpress.com/ Final Fantasy 9’s ATB system has some notable flaws compared to other entries in the series. ATB is always running in the background regardless of battle animations, so commands can quickly pile up on the queue. This functionally caps the effectiveness of the Agility stat, lets buffs wear off too quickly, and makes auto-regen overpowered. Furthermore, it enables “Wait tricking” abuse with the Wait mode config setting, where the player enters a command submenu to pause ATB during player animations, but lets ATB resume during enemy animations to gain […]

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Yep, should have no problem with those mods (or any other besides the redundant ATB SpeedUp).

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Really cool to see another hack like this come into fruition after how good the last one for Final Fantasy 6 was. Hope this gets a lot of people who were driven off by the battle pacing for this game to try it out now! Gotta get through a few more RPGs first, but I can't wait to make my first FF9 experience with this later in the year.
 
Does it work/compatible with all these 4 hacks? It will be perfect for a replay/revisit FF IX if it is compatible.

1. Final Fantasy IX: Alternate Fantasy [v3.2] by Tirlititi
2. Excalibur II Patch [v1.0] by Hyadex
3. God Save the Queen [v1.0] by Almagest
4. Steiner’s Thunder Slash Fix [Final] by Chronosplit

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2530/
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7332/
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1984/
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3182/

If it is compatible, do the order of patching matters?
 
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Yes, it is compatible with all of those, as well as with the Unleashed difficulty hack. Most of them can be patched in any order. However, Alternate Fantasy has some special considerations:

Patch installation order (1.0 ROMs):
1. Alternate Fantasy v3.2
2. Comprehensive ATB Enhancement (or CTB Wait Addon)
3. Alternate Fantasy Compat Patch

This is needed because my patches overwrite some monster AI scripts to delete instant ATB fill gimmicks that would make the fights impossible, and Alternate Fantasy has tons of changes to AI scripts already. I should also note that I'm pretty sure Alternate Fantasy replaces/fixes Thunder Slash already.

By the way, it was recently brought to my attention that the AI scripts for all 3 fights against Beatrix have this issue if one of the conditions to end the fight (10 turns have elapsed or her HP drops below 10,000) while Freya is in the air, so that will be addressed in a soon to be released v1.01 of my hack.
 
Perfect then, thank you for your hardwork to create this hack (FF IX really need this). And also thank you for answering my questions. I might as well waiting for the v1.01 to be released, I'm not in hurry or anything :)

Just wanted to revisit FF IX in the best way I could :)

So, I can safely patch with this order right? If I wanted to use those 2 hack (Excalibur II Patch & God Save the Queen)

Patch installation order (1.0 ROMs):
1. Alternate Fantasy [v3.2]
2. Comprehensive ATB Enhancement (or CTB Wait Addon)
3. Excalibur II Patch [v1.0] by Hyadex
4. God Save the Queen [v1.0] by Almagest
5. Alternate Fantasy Compat Patch

Or I can add those 2 hack after Alternate Fantasy [v3.2], Comprehensive ATB Enhancement (or CTB Wait Addon), Alternate Fantasy Compat Patch ?

Sorry if I bother you too much, since you mentions Alternate Fantasy has some special considerations. So I just wanted to make sure I patched it with the right order.
 
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