Hack Name:  Final Fantasy II: Upwind
Hack of: 
Genre: 
Released by: 
Language: ,
Status:  In-Progress
Patch Version:  0.01a
Last updated:  March 16, 2025
Type of Hack:  Cheats, Gameplay, Save/Load, Unlocker
Downloads:  50

Community Links

  • FFV Central website
  • FFV Central Discord—A community of players and creators of FFV mods and more
  • r/FinalFantasyMods subreddit

Features of Stable Build

  • Chest loot is fully randomized.
  • Part of the Whirlwind family of mods.
  • v0.1a includes a chest bugfix.  Thanks to rpgman1 for the report.

Patching Instructions

  • Recommended for use with Chaos Rush’s improvement of Demiforce’s fan translation.
  • IMPORTANT!  If you run into issues patching, try shortening the filename of the patch and/or of the patched rom.  Thanks to Trinton for the initial report.  Update: the patch has had its filename shortened and reuploaded.
  • The Japanese version should also be compatible with this mod.  Report any issues, and we’ll support the Japanese version albeit at a lower priority than the English version.

Preview of Dev Build

  • Designed based on the open-world mode of the cousin hack, FFV: Whirlwind.
  • Random encounters will no longer occur unless you have the B button held down while walking.
  • Movement speed doubled in overworld, towns, and dungeons.
  • Saving available even in towns and dungeons.
  • Call your airship anywhere using the A button.  Works from the beginning of the game.
  • Party members can now have the same name.  This is for future seeding purposes.
  • The Jade Passage can now be accessed early.  Ten other sequence breaks have been enabled in the overworld.
  • Gil is now boosted to 10x.
  • Airship always moves at double speed regardless of item collection and regardless of toggling the B button.
  • The rates of leveling and stat ups are now boosted to 10x.
  • It is 4x easier to run away from battle.
  • Set (manual) seeding is now supported.
  • Chest rando can now be toggled via pressing the Select button while in the main menu or row menu.
  • The boulder event in the Snow Cave has been disabled for now.
  • You are now granted the ship at game start.
  • The door in Kashuan Keep has been opened.
  • The doppelganger in Mysidian Cave has been despawned.
  • Ricard in Leviathan has been despawned.  This is so Crystal Rod won’t be needed to pass through Leviathan.  But he’s now believed to be unrecruitable.
  • The Cyclone can be accessed early.
  • Auto (random) seeding is now supported.  Enter “auto ” as Firion’s name to get a different seed each time.
  • Gil chests now contain randomized items when rando chests is set to on.  Gil chests containing the same amount of gil will contain the same randomized item.
  • Dev builds available on Discord.

For a demonstration, see the video below.

Authorized Hosts

RHP

Related Hacks

  • FF: Headwind (NES) [link]
  • FFIII: Crosswinds (FC) [link]
  • FFIV: Downwind (SFC) [link]
  • FFV: Whirlwind (SFC) [link]
  • FFVI: Tailwind (SFC) [link]
  • Whirlwind Game Presets (SFC) [link]
  • FFV Challenge Pack (SFC) [link]

Tags

modernization, open world, randomizer, QoL

Hashes: 
Filename: Final Fantasy II (English v2.2b by Chaos Rush over v1.03 by Demiforce).nes
CRC-32: 35b5157f
SHA-1: 55282926cc5de37bbe053974304a8f845ed760b7
File download: 
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