Getting Kefka in Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 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】ケフカを仲間にする衝撃的な方法（ピ...
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.
This was such an amazing video, love all the explanation, you deserve way more love for it
Kefka fighting Kefka is absolutely something Kefka would do
I appreciate this exploit and/or bug. It's the sort of thing that playground rumors were made of.
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?
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.
I am sad that I cannot do this on my PS4 but I salute you Fast Moon! This is the kind of glitching that has been rumored since the dawn of this game(a way to bring Leo back!). I dare say you have achieved the equivalent of bringing back Aerithon PS1 and now with Kefka and Geshtal added to the roster, Legendary.
The orchestral version of kefkas theme is quite fitting for the chaotic nature of this hack
This is hysterical
This was insane for insane's sake. Incredible work!
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.
Warping from the World of Balance to the world of ruin, back to the world of balance and then back to the world of ruin during specific scenes.
What a wild glitch, lol.
Kefka, leo and gestahl in party has been there since snes days. Missed opportunity from devs to actually make them fully functional characters, even if the way to get them is unconventional.
incredible. Useless but neat. Thanks for sharing.
How does someone accidentally discover all of this?
Lots of trial and error. A lot of FF6 glitches both in PR and SNES were discovered by Japanese streamer Eddy, who spends hours just stress testing the games on streams. This is the stream where he eventually found the title screen glitch (at 31:50), and in later streams he experiments with all the bizarre things he can do with it: ruclips.net/video/I11dtfCklHU/видео.html
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: ruclips.net/video/D_JPRRMJmtg/видео.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.
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!
Who's got these save files and wants to share???
Banan playable? His free AOE heals was always badass
I haven't tried to get him, but it should be fairly straightforward since you don't have to do anything special to get him access to a save point or an empty treasure chest to warp him elsewhere. I've seen Biggs, Wedge, and the Phantom Train ghost recruited this way, too. Maduin might be tricky since he's in an area with no save points or exits, so he'd likely have to be warped out via the 3-party teleport like Kefka.
@@patches365 well i only have the ps4 version so i wouldn't be able to anyways lol would just be cool seeing a playthrough with him
And I thought FFVI had too many characters before! 😅
thank You
As a kid I’ve always wanted to win the Imp Robot at the auction and play it as a character. Can Imp Robot be playable?
This whole video I was wondering if you can get Leo and Kefka. then you showed it. Then I went, "Ok, but can you make a party of Biggs, Wedge Leo and Kefka? Can you even get those two at all? would they even be able to do anything?"
Yes, you can get Biggs and Wedge, too! The (Japanese) video by Rain in the description that I used as reference has them taking Biggs, Wedge, Kefka, and Gestahl to the final boss. ruclips.net/video/D_JPRRMJmtg/видео.html They didn't get Leo in their video, but getting Leo is just repeating the steps for Kefka, just using the three-party swap before he fights Kefka instead of after.
I decided not to get Biggs and Wedge because it takes a LOT of shenanigans to get them to the end of the game. Kidnapping them from the intro is simple (just do the resize bug during the opening narration and the Terra/Biggs/Wedge party will get placed at the Narshe entrance, where after a reset to the auto-save, they can then leave). But getting them to the end of the game while making sure all the necessary flags get set and bypassing all the forced party changes is harder. Rain also ends up kidnapping the ghost from the Phantom Train to facilitate this since the ghost can insta-kill any boss with Possess, and in the PR version the ghost can be revived with a tent or an inn to do it again. They take Biggs and Wedge straight from Narshe to the final dungeon via Darill's Tomb and need the ghost to kill Ultima Buster to set up the three-party state needed to get Kefka. They also send Biggs and Wedge to Sabin's scenario due to that scenario containing event code to remove the party from Magitek armor, since they wanted Biggs and Wedge to have the Fight command instead of being limited to Magitek.
But they repeatedly run into game freezes when the game tries to run a cutscene with a character they haven't recruited, so they keep needing to use the title screen glitch to pull the individual character recruitment events into their main save with Biggs and Wedge to get those characters initialized. Their video has even crazier stuff than mine, with flying the airship around inside a town, Celes floating in the sky, and Kefka confronting himself at the Imperial camp.
But Biggs and Wedge have the same utility as Leo in that they can level up, learn magic, and equip anything. This is because Biggs, Wedge, and Leo's data exist as actual playable party members, whereas Kefka (and Gestahl's) data only exists for the purpose of battle window cutscenes, so they don't have any stats.
thats cool af
New trophy unlocked
PS great use of Attack on Titan music
That's going to get awkward halfway through the game
Did you seriously call celes sell less? Lol