Getting Kefka in Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2024
- A breakdown of how to get Kefka as a playable party member in Final Fantasy VI Pixel remaster, and some of the amusing things you can do with him.
Video references:
Getting General Leo in Pixel Remaster: • Getting General Leo in...
Rain's Game Channel video on getting Kefka: • 【FF6】裏ワザで崩壊したFF6の世界を帝国... - Ігри
This was insane for insane's sake. Incredible work!
Fun fact: The Kefka character slot that fights the Red Ifrit has a Paladin Shield
Yup, and if you get the Paladin Shield, your party Kefka can equip that, too, making him slightly less killable (I decided not to subject myself to obtaining that for this video). The SNES instance of Kefka that fights Red Ifrit also has much better stats, but it looks like Pixel Remaster just has the single instance of him and simply swaps around his equipment. His Paladin Shield in the Red Ifrit fight renders him immune to all its attacks, anyway, so his stats don't really matter. I do find it interesting that he can't equip the Flail or Ribbon, which is what his instances in the Imperial Camp and Sealed Gate had in SNES. Either way, the Leo glitch showed that their equipment doesn't come with them when you kidnap them, so even if you could kidnap the Paladin Shield instance of Kefka, you won't be able to get an extra copy.
Kefka fighting Kefka is absolutely something Kefka would do
This is hysterical
Incredibly complicated setup! The payoff isn't as good as I thought, but it made an interesting video! I give you credit. I bought the pixel remaster on Switch, I'm extremely happy with it. Thank you for the video.
Heh, yeah, since Kefka's party instance only exists for the purposes of animating him in battle window cutscenes, he has no stats or abilities, so it's not like you can run around with him casting Trine or Forsaken or such. He's mostly just a trophy you can do silly things with. Leo is a better catch since he behaves mostly like a normal party member and has good stats, plus Shock is nice for a free AoE attack.
incredible. Useless but neat. Thanks for sharing.
j havent heard of a setup so detailed and questionably HOAX since the olden days in the late 90s with things like "play as LUIGI" in Super Mario 64.
and thats not an insult to OP, actually quite the opposite.
the level of detail and (from my POV) research and (what id imagine) was trial and error and data diving and source code digging is
is
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HOW and WHERE did you even begin research and finding all of these seemingly random "incidents"?
BRAVO & PROPS TO YOU
Haha, thanks. Credit where credit is due, most of the legwork of figuring this out was done by Rain in the video linked in the description: ua-cam.com/video/D_JPRRMJmtg/v-deo.html. Their original video was a much longer run where they wanted to beat the game with a party of Biggs, Wedge, Kefka, and Gestahl. I was only interested in getting Kefka, so I gleaned the necessary conditions for just that portion from their video and did my own run in English to confirm.
Isn't this just the plot summary of Chrono Cross? Because those are some Belthasar, Guru of Reason & Prophet of Time-level machinations.
Oh my gosh?
Love stuff like this, it's so cool to see how on a technical level Kefka is sometimes treated as a party member and that you can even glitch him into the party, even if he is useless as such. I wonder if you could use hacks to allow him to level up (or just assign him level 99 or something), so that he can then actually be a functional party member rather than just being the class clown.
Kefka doesn't appear to have a leveling table, so I'm not sure you could hack him to a higher level in Pixel Remaster. Leo has a leveling table simply because he's level-averaged to your party's level and needs the table to calculate that, even though he never fights a battle where he'd gain experience. Biggs, Wedge, and the Phantom Train ghost I believe are similar to Leo in that they have stat tables, and they're all also kidnap-able via the same methods as Kefka and Leo in PR. But Kefka and Gestahl's battle window sprites only exist for cutscene purposes and therefore have no stats associated with them.
In the SNES version, the battle scripts called party member slot IDs to execute sprite animations, which is why all sprites animated in the battle window had to be assigned a party member slot. You'll notice that every time Kefka appears as a sprite in the battle window, there's also an open party member slot for his sprite to fill (this is why Terra is temporarily removed from the party at the Sealed Gate, to make room for Kefka).
@@patches365 That makes a lot of sense actually. Instead of asking myself if Kefka could gain levels if simply hacked that way, I should have thought about why he isn't able to level up in the first place, that being the lack of a leveling table. Though I would imagine you probably could arbitrarily grant Kefka tons of stats anyway with the right cheats, I also imagine his stats would probably quickly revert back to the default values due to said lack of that leveling table.
Also it's always fun to learn when certain story elements happen simply because the game required it on a technical level. In a way it's an artistic way to get around technological limitations and I think that's really cool.
Thank you for the explanation!
@@YosherYoshi Getting Leo into the same save file as Kefka was actually quite a bit more involved than the little compilation shown in this video. Sure, doing just those steps will get you Leo in his base state, but if you watched my other video specifically about getting Leo, in Pixel Remaster you have to pick up his equipment separately and have it in your inventory in order for him to come equipped with it. Which necessarily meant I had to go pick up the Master's Scroll from the Ancient Castle. But there's a problem. The Kefka save warped directly from Thamasa to Darill's Tomb. So even though Edgar is still in the party because he was still available at the time Thamasa happened, Figaro Castle isn't accessible until you run the Edgar re-recruitment event. So I had to do that first.
But then there's ANOTHER problem. Because this save skipped the Floating Continent, the flag that tells the game you're now in the World of Ruin never got set. There are certain maps like Narshe, Zozo, and yes, Figaro Castle, that don't have separate instances for the World of Ruin, because they have no grass to recolor. So those maps use that World of Ruin flag to determine which overworld map to spit you back out on when you leave. So, I went back to run the Edgar recruitment event even though I already had him, went down to the Ancient Castle to get Leo's relic, came back out... and I was back in the World of Balance. With no airship because when I left the World of Balance it was still crashed at Maranda.
So, that meant I had to run the Darill's Tomb warp AGAIN to warp my party back to the World of Ruin with airship access. All to get Leo's stupid relic so that I could have a 30-second punchline at the end of this video about how much more utility Leo has if you glitch him into your party than Kefka does, lol.
@@patches365 I tip my hat to your devotion to deliver that punchline then, that does sound like a whole ordeal. I did watch the Leo video after this one so I knew at least part of what you had to do to get him in here proper. Though even without all of his equipment he's still loads better than Kefka simply because Kefka cannot level up which is funny in its own way!
Oh wow, that ending was totally worth it! Bravo!
Like, it's very on-brand that if you get Kefka in your party, he's a pathetic weakling who can't better himself at all, whereas if you get Leo, he's good at everything and is an absolute powerhouse. So really wanted to take the extra step to rub that in Kefka's face and force him to watch, lol.