Final Fantasy III: Shadow Gone

Final Fantasy III: Shadow Gone is a patch for the Super Nintendo game that addresses a game-breaking bug involving the character Shadow. After a specific in-game event, players can recruit Shadow; however, if he's the only party member when attempting to enter Narshe, he exits, leaving the player with an empty party. This patch adds a mechanic to allow players to select a new party if this situation occurs.

After the Battle for the Frozen Esper, you are allowed to choose your own party members. If you choose Gau as the only member, you can then find Shadow in Kohlingen's café and hire him into the party. If you then go to the Veldt and have Gau Leap, Shadow will be the only member. However, if you then return to Narshe, Shadow is programmed to leave as soon as you try to enter, thus leaving you with an empty party. If this happens, you will be forced to reset.

If this patch is applied, however, you will instead be taken to the party selection screen, where you can select a new party from scratch and start over in Arvis's house.

Final Fantasy 3 (US/SNES), Final Fantasy 6 (JP/SFC), Final Fantasy 6 (US,JP,EU/PS1), Final Fantasy 6 Advance (US,JP,EU/GBA)
Shadow Gone Bug Fix patch

CONTENTS:
FF3-ShadowGone-H.ips: The fix patch for a headered SNES ROM file. Apply to fix the Shadow Gone Bug.
FF3-ShadowGone-HR.ips: The reverse patch for a headered SNES ROM file. Apply to reverse all changes made by the previous patch.
FF3-ShadowGone-N.ips: The fix patch for a non-headered SNES ROM file. Apply to fix the Shadow Gone Bug.
FF3-ShadowGone-NR.ips: The reverse patch for a non-headered SNES ROM file. Apply to reverse all changes made by the previous patch.
FF6-ShadowGone-H.ips: The fix patch for a headered SFC ROM file. Apply to fix the Shadow Gone Bug.
FF6-ShadowGone-HR.ips: The reverse patch for a headered SFC ROM file. Apply to reverse all changes made by the previous patch.
FF6-ShadowGone-N.ips: The fix patch for a non-headered SFC ROM file. Apply to fix the Shadow Gone Bug.
FF6-ShadowGone-NR.ips: The reverse patch for a non-headered SFC ROM file. Apply to reverse all changes made by the previous patch.
FF6A-ShadowGone-A.ips: The fix patch for a GBA ROM file. Apply to fix the Shadow Gone Bug.
FF6A-ShadowGone-AR.ips: The reverse patch for a GBA ROM file. Apply to reverse all changes made by the previous patch.
FF6PS-ShadowGone-U.ppf: The fix patch for a US PS1 BIN file. Apply to fix the Shadow Gone Bug.
FF6PS-ShadowGone-J.ppf: The fix patch for a Japanese PS1 BIN file. Apply to fix the Shadow Gone Bug.
FF6PS-ShadowGone-E.ppf: The fix patch for a European PS1 BIN file. Apply to fix the Shadow Gone Bug.
readme.txt: This file.
Shadow Gone-Fixed.rtf: An index of the new SNES code.
Shadow Gone-Original.rtf: An index of the old SNES code.
Shadow Gone-Fixed-J.rtf: An index of the new SFC code.
Shadow Gone-Original-J.rtf: An index of the old SFC code.

AFFECTED AREAS:
SNES: C4/0434-C4/043E, CC/D332-CC/D3C4
SFC: C4/0434-C4/043E, CC/D328-CC/D3BA
PS1 US: 1CCBA0-1CCC32, 20A9AC-20A9B6
PS1 JP: 1CC270-1CC302, 20A07C-20A086
PS1 EU: 1CDE00-1CDE92, 20BC0C-20BC16
GBA: 085F6324-085F632E, 087CD328-087CD3BA

PATCH INFORMATION:
All PS1 patches include undo data.
SNES patches work on ROM v1.0 or v1.1.

URGENCY:
High.

PURPOSE:
Between the Battle for the Frozen Esper and the Opera House event, Shadow can be found in Kohlingen. If you don't have a full party, you can recruit Shadow to your party for 3000 GP. However, Shadow will automatically leave your party if you try to enter Narshe. So if the only members of your party now are Gau and Shadow, you can go to the Veldt, have Gau Leap, then take Shadow to Narshe. If you do this, Shadow will leave you with an empty party, unable to move, unable to continue the game.

Imzogelmo has already made a patch that fixes this issue by preventing Shadow from leaving the party if he's the only member, while still preserving his inability to enter Narshe. My patch is different; it still allows Shadow to leave the party, but if the party empties as a result, it opens the party selection screen and you have the ability to select a new party that starts in Arvis's house. You might prefer his fix over mine, and that's OK. Be warned that his patch also alters some properties of the spells Sun Bath and El Nino, and adds Sun Bath to HadesGigas's list of Control commands.

VERSION HISTORY:
v1.3 (July 13, 2017): Added the PS1 patches. Also slightly reduced the sizes of all other patches.

v1.2 (September 18, 2016): Added the GBA patches.

v1.1 (April 20, 2016): This patch was previously broken due to a subroutine call that ended up causing a logical error. The subroutine was supposed to put the lead party member on the map, but that party member was nonexistent because the party was empty. This subroutine call has now been moved to where it will no longer cause an issue.

v1.0 (April 19, 2016): Initial release. Thanks to Imzogelmo for his patch, on which mine is based.

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

SNES Cores

Release Date

Jul 13, 2017

7 years ago

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