Final Fantasy Tactics Advance - Advanced Battle ROM

Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced Battle is a hack that brings monster taming to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, and makes the whole experience centered around this mechanic. The player can use a new item (the Capture Orb) to capture monsters which (unlike in the vanilla game) join the party and fight on your side. Additionally, all ways to get new humanoid party members have been disabled, the player needs to make do with only monsters and the two starting humanoid party members.

A new system to learn abilities is implemented, similarly to the original Final Fantasy Tactics the units will earn JP which they can spend directly on purchasing abilities. This is the only way the player has to teach new abilities to the monsters. These are the main changes, and they alone already make for a completely new experience, but be sure to check the features below for a more detailed list.

Features

Main changes

• All starting clan members have been removed, except Marche and Montblanc
• The Monster Bank has been removed
• Jail has been removed
• The job requisites for dispatch missions are ignored, any monster can go on any dispatch mission
• Cureall has been renamed to Capture Orb, which works like the Capture ability, but has a fixed range of 4
• Capture Orb is available from the start, all shops have it
• You start with 6 Capture Orbs, but start with no Antidotes or Bandages
• Capture now sends monsters to the party instead of to the Monster Bank (although it also unlocks them in the Monster Bank)
• Capture now works with all monster species (obviously not totemas and such)
• Capture rate calculation changed from [(max hp – curr hp)]%/4 to [max hp – curr hp]%
• Humanoid recruits (should be) removed
• You CAN spam the “X Wanted” missions for 20 AP I guess, but you won’t get new units and it’s a waste of 300 gold, I think
• All Soul weapons sell value has been set to 0

Other engine hacks

• JP learning is included, which is the only way to teach monsters new abilities
• Judges are gone, laws do nothing
• Quick Start is in so the tutorial is skipped
• Shoes are stealable with Steal: Accessory
• Manual Sorting is in

Changelog

V1.3