• Added collect_chestN objectives, which are completed upon opening N chests.
  • The opened chest count includes MIABs and the Feymarch and Ribbon Room chests.
• Added collect_gpN objectives, which are completed upon giving GP to Tory in Agart.
  • Based on Galeswift's Omode:goldhunter.
  • Allows multiple thresholds to be set.
• Added Sorcerer Robe as an objective reward.

• Added Kstart:* flags.
  • Specify any key item, or zonk.
  • Identical to Galeswift's fork.
• Added Tunrestrict:* flags, allowing chests in the Overworld, Underworld, Moon, and/or Toroia Treasury to ignore the Tmaxtier: flag.
  • Identical to Galeswift's fork.
• Added Smaxitemtier:* and Smaxequiptier:* flags.
  • By default, these affect all shops, including Kokkol's.
• Added Sunrestrict:* flags, allowing ungated, gated, and/or Kokkol's Smithy shop to bypass the max tier flags.
• Added Bnogp flag, which removes the GP reward from boss fights.
• Added Enogp flag, which removes the GP reward from random encounters and MIABs.
• Added exit kit, which gives 5-10 Exits.
  • Identical to the kit from jayp12323's fork.

• On Bwhichbez, Golbez's set of 3 spells can no longer include duplicates.
• On -wacky:3point, SomaDrops now give 1 MP, and are longer removed from starting kits.

• Added a new Tracker menu that shows flags, seed, version, and checksum.
• The Objective Tracker menu now shows progress for all objectives.
• Improved seed generation time by 5-10%.

• Fixed a bug when using Xmaxbonus: with Xsplit.
• Added a potential fix for the bug where the mute setting is sometimes ignored after casting Warp or Exit.
• Fixed a bug with the default Gauntlet's WaterHag speed being calculated wrong.
• Fixed a bug where GP can potentially overflow in -wacky:timeismoney.
• Enabled -spoil:sparse flags to affect Fu spells, starter kits, Hobs/Dwarf Castle spells, and Bwhichburn/Bwhichbez.
• Fixed a bug on some flash carts where dialog boxes sometimes omit the fourth line.

• Added objective quest_kaipoinn.
• quest_burnmist is no longer in the tough quest list.
• Added objective rewards: somadrop, random, item, and various specific item tier ranges.
  • random gives a 80% chance of a random tier 6-8 item, a 10% chance of a character, and a 10% chance of the superweapon.
    • These weights and tiers will likely be adjusted in a future update.
  • item gives a non-key item using tier weights based on the T flag setting. Currently equivalent to a “zonk” from a Gated Quest.
  • All random item rewards respect Tplayable and -noadamants.
• Added Kunweighted, which causes all key item checks to be weighted equally.
  • This is equivalent to the fork flag by ScytheMarshall.
• Added Cpartner:* flags, which can specify:
  • Any individual character
  • any, which, like Cstart:any, gives any of the 12 characters regardless of Cno: or Conly:.
  • relaxed, which allows restricted characters, but does not force a character reward on Kchar.
  • char, which forces the partner reward to be a character even if Kchar is enabled.
  • kicheck, which replaces the partner with a key item check, even if Kchar is not enabled.
• Added Bmaybe, which allows up to two of each boss.
• Added Bno:* to exclude specific bosses.
  • Up to 34 bosses can be excluded.
  • Excluded bosses will be replaced with duplicates of allowed bosses.
  • On Bstandard and Bmaybe, the number of duplicates of any given boss will be minimized. i.e., there will not be three instances of a boss unless there are at least two instances of every other boss in the seed.
• Added Bwhichbez and Bwhybez.
  • These are based on the fork flags by sgrunt, though the spell lists differ slightly.
• Added Xkicheckbonus:* and Xzonkbonus:*flags, which give an experience bonus for each key item check and each zonk (a key item check that doesn't give a key item or character reward).
  • The starting item and starting partner checks do not count towards these bonuses.
  • Based on the fork flags by Galeswift and ScytheMarshall.
• Added Xmaxmulti:* flags, which can add a cap for the experience multiplier.
  • The cap can be set at or below 100%, which means experience will be reduced and bonuses will have no effect.
• Added Xbonuses:mul. By default in 5.0.0-a.2, bonuses of different types are added together. This flag will set them to be multiplied instead.
  • The low-level boost (slingshot) still always gives twice the experience the other characters get.
• Added Xobjbonus:33.

• Changed Xobjbonus behavior to be more intuitive.
  • Previously it summed up all of the distinct “normal” objectives, and omitted “do X objectives from group Y” tasks. Objectives that were used in multiple groups were only counted once.
  • Now it sums the total number of completed tasks in each group, including “do X from group Y”.

• The experience multiplier is now shown when experience is received from battle.
• Added a visual indicator for critical hits that does not require Flash Effects to be enabled.
  • Uses a yellow color for the damage text, with some slight color cycling.
• Ethers and Elixirs now sell for the normal amount, rather than 1 GP.
• The Zeromus sprite details can be viewed after completing the game by talking to an NPC in Toroia Hospital.
  • Note that currently most Zeromus sprites do not have any metadata beyond a name.
• Zeromus can be fought after completing the game by talking to an NPC in Toroia Hospital.

• Added a flagset preset: “Sample Standard”, which is an example of a possible “standard” tournament/ladder flagset in 5.0.
• Updated some of the existing 5.0 sample flagsets to use new flags.

• Updated the Zeromus sprite and harp song pools (610 sprites, 598 songs).
• Updated the Key Item Tracker menu to show the do_X: threshold for key items obtained from objectives.
• Fixed most of the rounding errors in experience bonus calculations.
• Greatly improved performance of experience bonus calculations. (Thanks ScytheMarshall for helping with the math!)
• Added more Bwhichburn options, which were accidentally omitted from 5.0.0-a.1.
• Fixed a bug with Paladin Cecil and Adult Rydia getting starting weapons on -wacky:fistfight.
• Fixed a bug where the music stopped after receiving an objective reward from a MIAB.
• Fixed several bugs where the music stopped after receiving an objective reward from various cutscenes.
• Fixed a bug where the Mist cutscene battle sometimes showed Rydia instead of a treasure chest when the reward was an item.
• Fixed a bug where the Mist character's fashion palette was not correct in the cutscene battle.
• Fixed the in-game item description for UniHorn.
• Fixed a bug where invincible monsters can be killed by their own reflected spells.
• Various auto-tracking fixes and improvements.

NOTE: This changelog is still a work in progress.

• Overhauled the objective system, allowing for up to 5 objective groups.
  • Each group can have up to 8 specified objectives, in addition to random ones.
  • Each group can require the completion of a number of objectives of a previous group. This counts as an additional objective.
  • Each group can have multiple rewards.
    • Rewards can now include high-tier items, characters (random or specified), FF4 Advance superweapons (random or specified), DkMatter, or the Spoon
    • A seed can include both the Crystal and “win the game” as objective rewards.
    • There is a maximum of 32 total rewards across all objective groups.
• Added objectives:
  • collect_kiN: Completed upon finding N key items.
  • collect_bossN: Completed upon defeating N bosses.
  • collect_dkmatterN: Completed upon turning in N DkMatter to Kory in Agart.
  • These are based on the fork flags by sgrunt and Galeswift.
• The Classic Forge mode has been removed.
  • It can be partly reproduced with -smith:none. There's currently no way to add the Excalibur into the key item pool.
• The Classic Giant% mode has been removed.
  • It can be reproduced with Cnogiant.
• The Fiends% mode has been removed.
• Added new mode: Omode_dkmatter:quests.
  • Complete quests to earn DkMatter.
  • Harder quests give more DkMatter. The quests that give DkMatter are specified on the pregame screen and are currently static:
    • 3 DkMatter each: Baron Castle, Cave Magnes, Zot, Super Cannon, Burn Mist
    • 5 DkMatter each: Dwarf Castle, Sealed Cave, Baron Basement, Lower Bab-il (Lugae spot)
    • 7 DkMatter each: Launch Falcon, Feymarch King, Feymarch Queen, Masamune altar
    • 10 DkMatter: Giant

• Added Kchar, which adds characters to the key item pool, and character slots to the key item location pool.
  • Does not include free characters and their respective slots.
  • If Cnoearned is enabled, the characters are removed, but their locations are still added to the key item pool.
• Added Kmiab:* flags to specify which MIABs zones are in the key item pool.
  • Options are above, below, lst, and all.
    • These are identical to the fork flags by ScytheMarshall.
  • The Kmiab flag, without any zones specified, still works the same as in 4.6.
• Added Kforge, which turns the Forge reward into a key item check.
  • Unlike the old Classic Forge mode, this does not place an Excalibur in the reward pool.
• Added Klatedark, which forces the Darkness Crystal to be gated by underground access.
  • This is equivalent to the fork flag by sgrunt.
• Added Kforce:moon, which forces underground access to be gated by the moon.
• Renamed Kunsafe to Krisky.

• Added Cnogiant, which removes the character reward from the end of the Giant of Bab-il.
• Added Crisky, which removes safety logic for underground access when using Kchar.
• Added Cwishes, which moves all character rewards to the Tower of Wishes in Mysidia.
  • Any check that would have rewarded a character instead rewards nothing.

• Added Tplayable, which ensures that items from treasure chests and quest rewards are usable by characters that are available in the seed.
  • Vanilla or shuffled treasures are unaffected by this flag.
  • Dartable weapons and summon orbs are considered “playable” by Edge and Rydia, respectively.
  • If an unusable item would be placed during randomization, it is replaced with a usable item of the same tier.
  • About 60% of unusable items will be forced to be consumables. About half of those will be forced to be potions, Tents, or Cabins.
• Added Tmiabs:* flags, which override the T flag for item reward from MIABs.
  • Options are vanilla, shuffle, standard, pro, wildish, and wild.

• Added Splayable, which ensures that items in shops are usable by characters that are available in the seed.
• Renamed Sunsafe to Srisky.

• Added Bchaos, which allows duplicate bosses.
  • All objective bosses are guaranteed to appear.
• Added Bchaosburn, which allows each instance of Wyvern to have its own randomized opening attack.
• Renamed Bunsafe to Brisky.

• Added Q flags:
  • Qfastrom enables FastROM support, reducing lag in many places.
  • Qmsgspeedfix fixes a vanilla bug where in-battle dialog causes all subsequent battle messages to use the slowest message speed.

• Moved existing -exp:* flags to X category (Xsplit, Xnokeybonus, Xnoboost)
• Added Xobjbonus:*, which gives an EXP bonus based on the number of objectives completed.

• Added -smith:none, which removes the item
• Added -smith:playable, which guarantees the supersmith reward is usable by a character available in the seed.
  • This also applies to superweapon as an objective reward, if no individual superweapon is specified.
  • This applies to -smith:alt as well.

• The Pass now counts as a key item.
  • If the Pass is available in a shop, it can only be purchased once.
• Kainazzo is now considered a dangerous boss for the purpose of underground safety checks.
• ThorRages are no longer guaranteed to be in an overworld shop when underground safety checks are enabled.
• -smith:* flags can now override the Chero forge reward.
• Added some more possibilities to Bwhichburn.
• Hints from Rosa's Mom now properly handle MIABs.
• Altered item picker dialog to feel less laggy.
• Removed Air element from Abel's Lance, to match its GBA stats.
• Added Drain element to Requiem Harp, to match its GBA stats.
• Updated Green Name kit.

• Etoggle is now enabled by default.
• When receiving more than one of an item (such as arrows), the quantity is now shown.
• The postgame spoiler vignettes now include the Pass.
• Improved auto-tracking support.
  • Added indicators for game start and game completion.
  • Added character locations and palettes.
  • Added boss locations.
  • Added visited shops.
• Added character palette and starting gear data to spoiler log.
• Added TrapDoors and Behemoths to spoiler log.
  • For each individual encounter, displays whether it's enabled, disabled, or toggle-able.
• Added some preset flagsets to the website.

• Fixed Valvalis having no physical defense in tornado form in her vanilla location.
  • Bosses in their vanilla locations no longer have their stats adjusted at all.
  • The mechanism for this change does not change how scripted stat changes are calculated (unlike on the Galeswift fork).
• 'Fixed' Wyvern's spell power changes for Nuke and the counter-MegaNuke not actually changing in-game (even though the changes were calculated and listed on the stats sheet).
  • Now Nuke and the counter-MegaNuke also scale with the location, instead of always being the same power as in Wyvern's vanilla location.
  • Debatably a bug.
• Fixed a bug where Edanger did not calculate formation levels the same way vanilla did.
• Fixed a bug where Edanger calculated the party level wrong if the party was not full.
• Fixed vanilla “filibuster” bug where Stop / HrGlass against an enemy that starts a chain could lock up the battle until the Stop timer ends.
• Fixed inaccurate spoiler log location names for two chests.
• Fixed a bug where -smith:alt did not respect Tno:j.