Edge is a script for the BizHawk emulator to speed run Final Fantasy IV. It currently can run the following routes:
- Any% No64 (Edge+Excalbur)
- Any% No64 (Rosa)
- Any% NoCW
- Paladin%
It may occasionally get stuck in Any% NoCW runs during the glitch portion.
- BizHawk (currently tested with v2.9.1)
- Final Fantasy IV US 1.0 (originally released as Final Fantasy II)
After extracting Edge to a directory, preferably within BizHawk's lua directory, copy the config.lua.default file to config.lua and open it. There are a few configuration variables:
By default, this is set to nil, which will cause the script to choose a random route for its runs. You can also set this to any valid route to do only runs of that particular route. Currently supported routes are no64-excalbur, no64-rosa, and paladin. The route name should be surrounded by double quotation marks.
By default, this is set to nil, which will cause the script to choose an encounter seed randomly. If you instead specify this value, it will only do runs on that particular encounter seed.
By default, this is set to nil, which will cause the script to do random runs. If you set this to an integer, it will instead do that specific run. Runs are generally only repeatable with the same version of Edge.
This controls whether the bot executes a single run or continuously does automatic runs. By default, it is set to false, which will result in a single run. If SEED is nil, the bot will continuously do runs for random seeds. If SEED is set to a particular seed, the bot will do runs incrementally starting from the given seed. (For example, if SEED is set to 5, the bot will do runs with seeds 5, 6, 7, etc.)
Enables or disables LiveSplit integration. By default this is disabled. Enabling this requires a correctly configured LiveSplit.
When enabled, save states will automatically be created at the start of every battle for which a battle function exists. (This is generally boss battles and the grind fight.) This option is disabled by default, as it's primarily useful for debugging.
This option only has meaning when AUTOMATIC is enabled. When enabled, the bot will allow the ending to play out before rebooting to the next seed. This is useful if streaming the runs. If the bot dies, it will wait five minutes before rebooting.
This option will tell the bot to automatically reset if it falls behind its PB for the current route by too much. It is disabled by default.
This option displays an informational overlay to provide some basic information about the run. It is disabled by default.
On the LiveSplit end, you must add the LiveSplit server to your layout, ensure that it is configured to use port 16834, and then start the server with LiveSplit's right click menu.
- Configure BizHawk to use BSNES as its SNES core. (Config->Preferred Cores->SNES)
- Ensure the SRAM file is cleared. (The easiest way to do this is to load the Final Fantasy II ROM image, right click on the display, and choose "Close and Clear SRAM".)
- Open the Final Fantasy II ROM image.
- Ensure the emulator is not paused.
- Open the BizHawk Lua Console, and load main.lua.
- From BizHawk's "Emulation" menu, choose "Reboot Core". The script should begin a run from the beginning.