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If you've been following the Marcon Thread in Artwork, you know that I'm making costumes for Nit, Tev, White Haven and myself for the next Marcon; we're going as White, Black, Red and Blue Mages from FFV. Since I've never played any of the FF series, I thought maybe I should dig up a ROM of FFV, since that's the version I'm basing the costumes on. The only FFV ROM I've found so far is one that's in Japanese... not that I'm complaining, but I figure I might need to know what's going on as I play

Any suggestions?

Dix

FFV was never released in the U.S., so you won't find an English ROM. You can, however, find a translation patch for the ROM you've got.

FFV was released in (horrendously translated by Ted Woolsey) English on the Playstation.

You should be able to find it cheap.

Here's a translation patch. Note: I'm linking to the patch only, not to any ROMs.

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:FFV was never released in the U.S., so you won't find an English ROM. You can, however, find a translation patch for the ROM you've got.

Isn't it being ported to the GBA?

LadyJules doesn't own a playstation... otherwise she could use my copy.

Dalton wrote:Isn't it being ported to the GBA?

Yes. So is FFVI.

FFV Jobs Knight-White Mage

FFV Jobs Black Mage-Mime

Would it not make more sense to base these costumes off of FF3 or T? 5 is kickin' and all, but the costumes are by no means archetypical, and FFT has actuall full drawn images of each class. In fact, I have a pic of each on my computer, and can easy zip them off if necessary.

There were niether red nor blue mages in FFT, and the ones in Tactics Advance weren't exactly archetypical either. Furthermore, there isn't really a clear and consistent blue mage archetype like there is for the other three classes. The blue mage didn't even exist until FFV and they have been vastly different in every game since.

Gau, Strago, Quistis and Quina can be argued to be blue mages, but they don't exactly dress the part. The BLUs in Tactics Advance look oddly 16th Century (ironically, the female-only viera red mages don't) while the most recent game to incorporate them (FFXI) has them looking Near Eastern.

Point. I forgot about the blues not being in 3. I knew they weren't in Tactics, but the artwork for some of the other classes could be used as a decent baseline. Mostly I was worried about the archetypal look of the other classes being overwhelmed by the specific characters in 5. But, is no big deal.