Memoria

Final Fantasy IX Engine

Overview

Memoria Engine is a community rewrite of Final Fantasy IX's game engine that aims to add features, fix bugs and expand mod making capabilities (adding content, localizing...). Memoria includes built-in bugfix and optional improvements (camera, framerate, audio, controller, UI, options, cheats...) while supporting third-party mods. More info here

Features

• Main features:
  • New launcher with easy options (for not included options: Memoria.ini)
  • Mod Manager/downloader
  • Widescreen (for all resolutions)
  • Highter framerate (60fps+)
  • Camera stabilizer (configurable)
  • Font change (includes original PSX font)
  • Smooth camera movement & texture scrolling
  • Anti-aliasing & Improved layer rendering
  • Many, many bugfixes
• UI
  • Battle speed change & Swirl skip
  • Turn-based mode / Simultaneous mode
  • Controller support with full analog movement
  • Battle UI layouts (includes original PSX layout)
  • More items displayed at once
  • Volume control
• Support for:
  • Larger backgrounds definition (e.g. Moguri)
  • Unlocks FMV framerate change (e.g. Moguri)
  • Voice acting (e.g. WIP project ECHO-S)
  • Translations
  • Special effects modding (soon)
  • UI, shader, texture modding
  • Expanded features for mods
• Optional Cheats:
  • Stealing 100% success
  • Enable/Disable vanilla cheats
  • Easy minigames (rope, frogs, racing)
  • Excalibur II time limit removal
• Tetra Master (Card game):
  • (Option) replace TM with a custom Triple Triad (FF8) or TM/TT hybrid
  • Raise card limit
  • Auto discard cards
  • Randomness tweaking
• Include individual mod assets in folders
• Edit game data (look at the "StreamingAssets\Data" folder)
• Change ability mechanics (look at the "StreamingAssets\Scripts" folder)
• Make every character available (Alt+F2)
• Export/import text/audio resources (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to debug)

Install

• Download and run Memoria.Patcher.exe

  Automatically finds the game path from Windows registry or current directory, you can provide a custom path as argument: Memoria.Patcher.exe gameDirectory

• Note: if you want Moguri Mod, use Memoria patcher after.

Update

• Update the game to the latest version.
• Patch with the latest Memoria.Patcher.exe

Debug (for users)

• After first running the game, you should see "Memoria.ini" in the game directory.
• If something went wrong, there will be errors in "Memoria.log".
• If you can't see "Memoria.log", try running the game with administrator rights.
• "Sharing violation on path" error: close applications holding the file.
• "at Memoria.CsvReader.Read" error: delete files in (game)\StreamingAssets\Data and patch again.
• "at Memoria.ScriptsLoader.Initialize" error: delete files in (game)\StreamingAssets\Scripts and patch again.
• If an error persists, check "\FINAL FANTASY IX\x64(or x86)\FF9_Data\output_log.txt".

DEVELOPERS

INFO for developers

Knowledge base

Please visit our knowledge base before using this software.