A lot of ideas

[ahhhreptar]

I don't know what you can edit in the save file but I had some ideas.

• Shuffling/Adding/Removing Locks
• Starting with various things accomplished
  • 200 lightning bolts dodged, subzero Chocobo Training, Monster Arena partially/fully completed, etc.
• Shuffling the aeon stats/abilities
• Randomize starting equipment/Start with Capture Equipment
• Randomize sphere start position
• Randomize Blitzball stats
• Randomize Overdrive modes unlocked
• Make avoidable cutscenes already seen
  • scenes that come after bosses or give rewards is probably not realistic

I'm pretty sure there's more stuff handled by the savefile but the cool stuff (enemy locations/chest contents) probably aren't.

[BitPatty]

Shuffling the aeon stats/abilities

I'm not 100% sure whether the save file allows to edit the stats before you get the aeon but I can look into it

Randomize sphere start position

What do you mean with that exactly?

Make avoidable cutscenes already seen

• scenes that come after bosses or give rewards is probably not realistic

This probably depends on the story progression flag which could have a lot of side effects

Everything else shouldn't be a problem.

[ahhhreptar]

Randomize sphere start position

What do you mean with that exactly?

Like, perhaps Tidus starts in the bottom right or Lulu in the top left or something like that.

[BitPatty]

Oh I see. Yeah that sounds interesting.

[Yunalover]

Randomize the abilities obtained by weapon or armor equipments you loot.

That's a cool one.

[mrhoffmann]

This might be a necro-post, but I'm very much hoping this repo is not dead. I have little to no knowledge of the capabilities of the save-files, but heres a few suggestions to make the game harder, would love to see:

• Hard mode, by limiting stats lowest and highest range
• Turning off certain abilities to make it harder, even turning off certain overdrives
• NSG-mode?

[BitPatty]

What would you expect for NSG mode?

Not sure if it's possible to disable overdrives since they're experience based. Maybe the initial ones could be disabled.

[mrhoffmann]

I'm not sure how much can be altered merely by the save-file, but the NSG-mode, if possible could simply render all nodes +0, giving it no reason to use them, thus not contributing. I suppose this is otherwise controlled by experience-gain and the availability of spheres.