Final Fantasy IV: Downwind

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.

• This release completes the FF hexalogy of the Whirlwind family of mods.

Patching Instructions

• Recommended for use with the fan translation by J2e.

• Base rom is FF4j, not FF2us. The first revision should be used.

• IMPORTANT! If you run into issues patching, try shortening the filename of the patch and/or of the patched rom.

• 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.

• You now start with the Enterprise and the Lunar Whale.

• An Emergency Exit has been added as a starting item, and it can be used anywhere. A wrong warp when using it when you gain control of Cecil has been fixed.

• Movement speed has been doubled in overworlds, towns, and dungeons.

• Random encounters have been disabled unless you walk around while holding the B button.

• You can now save in towns and dungeons.

• Experience is boosted to 16x.

• Gil is boosted to 16x.

• Support for seeding is being investigated, one issue being that there's no way to rename characters.

• Update: Cecil can now be renamed.

• Support for set (manual) seeding has been added. Auto (random) seeding not yet supported.

• Chest rando can now be toggled via a config setting.

• The opening cutscene is now shortened. The intro battles are now skipped.

• Event dialog is now skipped. Event pauses are also skipped.

• The Underworld is now accessible from the beginning.

• The cutscene of the crashing airship is now skipped. The Enterprise is also pre-upgraded to fly over lava.

• The Hovercraft and Hook upgrade are given at start.

• Mt. Ordeals can now be entered without Palom or Porom.

• The Tellah recruitment event is skipped to avoid softlock potential later in the game.

• A secret warp to Zeromus has been added.

• Dev builds available on Discord.

For a demonstration, see the video below. Authorized Hosts

RHP

Related Hacks

• FF: Headwind (NES) [link]

• FFII: Upwind (FC) [link]

• FFIII: Crosswinds (FC) [link]

• FFV: Whirlwind (SFC) [link]

• FFVI: Tailwind (SNES) [link]

• Whirlwind Game Presets (SFC) [link]

• FFV Challenge Pack (SFC) [link]

Tagsmodernization, open world, randomizer, QoL, self-randomizing romhack