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Surprised to see FFVI mentioned here in HN. That said, I HIGHLY recommend playing thru the recently released FFVI-T edition that's recently become available thanks to an incredible translation effort by Tomato. It corrects a number of mistranslations and adds a TON of content and scales up the difficulty. I thoroughly enjoyed the replay.

The original release: http://tomato.fobby.net/ff6-t-edition/

Which now directs interested folks to: http://ngplus.net/index.php?/forums/topic/1249-matos-transla...

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Hadn't heard of this, but given how well done his translation of Mother 3 was it's got to be great

Mato's brilliant. If you haven't seen his Legends of Localization website, where he discusses various issues related to translation, and even does simultaneous playthroughs of games with different translations (including machine translation!) and compares and contrasts them with the original...you're in for a treat.

https://legendsoflocalization.com/

That was him!?

The Mother 3 English translation is unbelievably good, it kinda makes Mother 2's localization look like a hack job by comparison. Now I've almost got a reason to go back and give FFVI another pass...

Wait a second, Mother 3 is available in English?

Yup, has been for a while:

http://mother3.fobby.net/

You'll need a copy of the rom to patch. Also I'm pretty sure you can play it on an actual GBA if you have a flash cart. If you play it on an emulator make sure frame skipping is off because the rhythm aspect of combat is almost impossible otherwise.

would you recommend this for someone new to the game? In addition to this, OP's version there also appear to be new remastered versions of the older games.

The FFVI T edition rom hack is the original game with a proper translation, higher difficulty and additional content like tavern quests, new weapons, etc. It also contains some quality of life improvements (sprint shoes no longer need to be equipped, for example) and corrects some calculations. For reference I made it about 60 hours and still have much to do. My only gripe was that battles were stuck on force wait, so you had to wait for things to execute before your ATB gauge would refill. That may or may not have changed as the patch has been updated a bit since I experienced it.

If you're up for the challenge I'd recommend it. As I understand it, the pixel remaster, although interesting looking, lacks some of the bonus content added to other versions of the game. This has that, and much more. It felt polished to me. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Hope this helps

probably not. if your into old school console rpgs ya(even remastered version). probably if your into anime as well to an extent.

Wow, thanks for the link. I might have to give this a shot the next time the FF6 itch comes up.

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