Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced Battle

Original game : Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Platform : GBA

Author : LeonarthCG

Release date : 16 August 2020

Category : Complete

Patch version : 1.3.1

Modifications : G, T, P

Downloads : 13571

ROM Information

No-Intro Name: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (USA, Australia)
(No-Intro version 20130720-015858)
ROM/File SHA-1: 4AC05441F4DE70A4EC3DD932116346C61B8783D9
ROM CRC32: 5645E56C

Hack description

Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced Battle is a hack that brings monster taming to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, and makes the whole experience centered around this mechanic.

The player can use a new item (the Capture Orb) to capture monsters which (unlike in the vanilla game) join the party and fight on your side.
Additionally, all ways to get new humanoid party members have been disabled, the player needs to make do with only monsters and the two starting humanoid party members.

A new system to learn abilities is implemented, similarly to the original Final Fantasy Tactics the units will earn JP which they can spend directly on purchasing abilities. This is the only way the player has to teach new abilities to the monsters.

These are the main changes, and they alone already make for a completely new experience, but be sure to check the readme for a more detailed list.

Thanks to the feedback the hack can now (as of 1.1) be 100% completed.

The 1.2 update eases the starting difficulty by adding two monsters to the starting party roster, as well as fixing some issues. Check the readme for details.

With the 1.3 update, now it's possible to give your monsters nicknames!
It also fixes an issue with the titlescreen and more. Check the readme for details.
To set a nickname, go into the unit's stat menu, in the party menu, and press START.

Contributions

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description
LeonarthCG	Hacking

Reviews

Fun and enjoyable, but lacking a bit.	Arceus I	2022-09-29	Version 1.3.1
This Romhack is a rare case of changing the strategic capabilities of your team. Considering it revolutionizes how we play this game, as AP is removed in favor of JP being used to unlock abilities. Genius! We won't need certain weapons to get skills anymore, and that's a HUGE plus! So you can upgrade your Clan the way YOU want to without restrictions (You still get the Abilities that Equippables give you) and at your own leisure. Interestingly, the difficulty is quite high, considering you only get 2 Humanoid Races as opposed to 5 (Seems like a missed opportunity, as the other 3 Races contain Skills exclusive to them) so this does hamper your tactical possibilities significantly. That might need to be patched in 1.4 once it's released. That would fix the difficulty spike and gain access to 100% of the Abilities with relative ease. Another interesting note: The Gil barrier at the beginning does restrict purchases to a point...Just a note. Overall: Very good, but very difficult for beginners, you need to be pretty experienced with tactical games just to get somewhere in this doozey of a hack. A few tweaks here and there (Including a randomized Monster rather than 2 preset monsters when 5 Humanoid races are together in the Clan) would make this a beginner-friendly hack for all to enjoy without too many problems. It's interesting to say the least. Recommended for Experienced players ONLY, Beginners won't enjoy this hack well...

What pokemon conquest should have been	EggRick	2021-03-06	Version 1.3.1
amazing, a good mix btween pokemon and ffta,its a new way to enjoy this rpg, just 1 thing, monster have weird attack animations, they are kind of funny, but overall nice hack

A simple but fresh experience.	Pluggy	2019-04-13	Version 1.1
This hack adds something I was missing from the Tactics game from PS1: the ability to control monsters but with a little twist in which you control your first two and only units and an army of monsters. Ones more useful than others and a few with abilities too broken you now know why they are not listed in the Blue Mage's abilities. Of course, no monster is invincible in its own, that's why you must take advantage of their innate abilities and your most competent humanoid character100o achieve victory in every encounter. This hack adds something new to play this game until the end. EDIT: Thanks to the author for addressing the problem in the last patch, now it is possible to finish all 300 missions.

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