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This menu really is the best thing an RPG could have. Like another reviewer stated, all of the old-school RPGs should have a menu like this. If you are like me, you have a retropie or similar device, and you have about a million games on it. You could play them every day for the rest of your life, and you would be in a pine box six feet underneath the ground before you could play them all.

With that said, many of us are casual gamers who have day jobs that we slave away at just to survive. We might get to play some games an hour or two a day and binge on the weekends if we are lucky. Games should be fun and relaxing and enjoyable for casual gamers. We want to explore and experience the story and depth of a good RPG, but spending months grinding away, and getting attacked every 5 seconds by random encounters, starts to get super annoying really fast, and you end up not finishing them. Beyond the Beyond on the PSX is a great example. I got so sick and tired of being blasted with combat so frequently, I just couldn't stomach it and quit.

Let's also be honest. Casual gamers love to cheat. Every now and then, we want to jack the system and obliterate the enemy and just enjoy the story while combat takes a back seat. Using cheats to max out your stats and then using a menu to eliminate most of the random encounters is a god-send for a game like FF 3/6.

While geniuses using hex editors can find and jack the encounter rates as they see fit in games, the rest of us are pretty much stuck with the run-of-the mill cheat engines built into our emulators, and they are not exactly geared to find and freeze encounter rates, so having a menu where you can control how often you get attacked is absolutely one of the best features I have ever seen in a rom hack.

Now, only if this hack were compatible with Ted Woolsey Uncensored Edition, that would be the cherry on top. :) I definitely recommend this hack to anyone who loves FF 3/6 and wants to just enjoy the journey and the story without being fighting battles constantly throughout the adventure.

I really like RPGs, but as I grew older, I became less and less tolerant of the usual genre idiosyncrasies. The largest of which, perhaps, being random encounters.

I understand the purpose behind them - make exploration more exciting and unpredictable by having the player stay on their toes - as well as the much needed leveling/money accumulation routine, but it really gets on my nerves when I can't move more than a handful of steps before having to fight, again, and again.

One of the worst cases I've seen, Black Sigil on the NDS, was recently fixed by a patch that addresses this, but this hack here takes things even beyond that, by giving the player full in-game control of encounter rates.

All I can say is congratulations to the author, and beseech other hacking wizards to do players a similar service by offering this much needed amount of control over other wonderful, but sometimes tiresome, RPGs.