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
- All jobs are granted on New Game start.
- Quick start skips Altar Cave and puts you directly at the Wind Crystal to face Land Turtle.
- All dialogue is skipped.
- Designed based on the open-world mode of the cousin hack, FFV: Whirlwind.
Patching Instructions
Use only with AWJ’s FFIII English fan translation.
Preview of Dev Build
- Changing jobs no longer requires change points or levels.
- Fly the Nautilus airship anytime using the Select button. Works from the beginning of the game.
- Surface World can be accessed early. Flooded World can no longer be accessed.
- The Underwater map can be accessed early.
- Movement speed doubled in overworld, towns, and dungeons.
- Eureka accessible even without Eureka Key.
- Crystal Tower accessible even without Crystal Key.
- Xande’s first room in Crystal Tower is skipped due to softlock potential during its cutscene. The risk is due to the new sequence breaks.
- Spells Exit and Warp can be cast anywhere.
- Saving available even in towns and dungeons.
- The weakened form of Cloud of Darkness can be fought without first finding the Dark Warriors.
- Random encounters will no longer occur unless you have the B button held down while walking.
- Fly the Invincible airship at any time by having the B button held when pressing Select. Works from the beginning of the game.
- The Land Turtle battle has been skipped.
- The Statues of the Quest and hence the four Elemental Fangs can now be skipped in accessing the Ancients’ Maze.
- Dev builds available on Discord.
For a demonstration, see the video below.
Authorized Hosts
RHP
Related Hacks
Tags
modernization, open world
Hashes:
Filename: Final Fantasy III (EngT v1.1 by AWJ) (1999).nes
CRC-32: 74f03bbf
SHA-1: e183203762d2621b719cfbd5c6f65ba0051e04aa
CRC-32: 74f03bbf
SHA-1: e183203762d2621b719cfbd5c6f65ba0051e04aa
Relevant link: https://ff5central.com/romhacks/ffiii-crosswinds/
YouTube Video:
File download:
Help about patching:
Most of the files you're about to download need to be applied to your game. Here is a list of utilities that allow you to do this:
- Online Patcher: Marc Roblero's online patcher. Works with many different file types.
- Floating IPS: NWell-known patcher for applying IPS and BPS files.
- Delta Patcher: Used to apply xDelta files.
- More Patchers
On most files, you can also press “Patch It”, to apply the patch without downloading the file.