Final Fantasy III: Lens Cap is a modification for the Super Nintendo version of Final Fantasy III, also known as Final Fantasy VI in Japan. This patch addresses the Lens Cap glitch encountered in the Fanatics' Tower when facing the White Dragon. It prevents the camera from erroneously shifting to the player's position, eliminating the need to exit and re-enter the room to reset the camera. The patch is compatible with both headered and non-headered ROM files.
Odds are, you'll eventually encounter the White Dragon in the Fanatics' Tower. When this happens, the camera will move to your position before the fight starts. The only way to make it move back to where it was is to leave the room and then re-enter. This patch ensures the camera will not move in the first place.
Final Fantasy 3 (US/SNES), Final Fantasy 6 (JP/SFC)
Lens Cap Glitch Fix patch
CONTENTS:
FF3-LensCap-H.ips: The fix patch for a headered ROM file. Apply to fix the Lens Cap Glitch.
FF3-LensCap-HR.ips: The reverse patch for a headered ROM file. Apply to reverse all changes made by the previous patch.
FF3-LensCap-N.ips: The fix patch for a non-headered ROM file. Apply to fix the Lens Cap Glitch.
FF3-LensCap-NR.ips: The reverse patch for a non-headered ROM file. Apply to reverse all changes made by the previous patch.
readme.txt: This file.
Lens Cap.asm: An assembly format index of the code changes.
Lens Cap.rtf: A text format index of the code changes.
ALL PATCHES WORK ON VERSION 1.0 OR 1.1.
URGENCY:
Low.
PURPOSE:
There's this one room in the Fanatics' Tower that is the home of the White Drgn, one of the Eight Dragons you have to beat to gain Crusader. However, there's an error that can occur when you encounter him: when you walk next to him, the camera will center on your position before the fight, but won't move back unless you leave and re-enter the room. This patch stops the camera from moving in the first place.
The way this fix works is, in situations where the camera should move to a party's position when they are encountering an enemy, a check is added for the size of the boundaries of the current map. If those boundaries are so small that the camera is normally fixed in either the X- or Y-direction, then the camera will not move in that direction on such a map.
VERSION HISTORY:
v1.0 (February 27, 2017): Initial release.
Final Fantasy III (USA)
CRC32: E969BD77
MD5: A684517EBD29308C2E3B55D371E15245
SHA-1: 23422176191B371F01AE3A7CFE7455A2022F8EE8
SHA-256: 6F6911ED4A0E9844770035A3C39157F8C3929C321D5AFACBAFDA39C835B44374
Includes patches for headered and non-headered ROMs
Includes patches for SNES and SFC ROMs
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