Shouldn't "The Hall of Giants" be in this section as well?

Yeah, In Final Fantasy IX I got killed at like level five because somehow I stumbled upon a plateau filled with Grand Dragons. Go fig. With such an open ended game, stuff happens.

>>Jeff
That's a mirror of Brian's old site.

And, I have personally concluded that the extra-strong monster peninsula is NOT a mistake. There's no other reason to have it there, except maybe to look geographically pleasing (what with the Lefein peninsula reaching down towards it). But, if that were the case, then surely they would have shortened it by two tiles if they didn't want it there. So, it's nigh on impossible that it's a glitch.

.....hate that stupid minigame. I wish you could win more than 100G from it, too. Then I might actually consider playing it.

Well, in the Starcraft Map Editor, the only way to create a section where events happen, such as sudden spawning monsters (like a random encounter), is to drag a mouse to create a squarish plot of area, much like when you drag the mouse around the desktop and see the different square dotted line shapes (which I've done for hours at my boring job).

Now, I can't seriously accuse Square of using the Starcraft Map Editor for their design. In fact, very reliable sources online and in print and in memory can very nearly PROVE that Starcraft didn't even exist when Final Fantasy was created, BUT if a similar system was used to plot out random encounter types on land, then a slip up could have easily caused this error, thus making it truly an ERROR.

It may also be noted that if my guess is true, then there are different plotters or different levels or something for the sea and for the land because A. No sea battle ever changes, so it may be on a completely different map type level, below or above the land coordinates, and more importantly, B. Finding a random encounter between the two penninsulas incurs a regular sea battle.

If my guess about the sea Random Encounter Zone is false, then the only way for the bug to be at the penninsula is a very silly overlooked error (since the other one seems to be harder to catch, rather than if somebody created an entirely new zone in a different place/the wrong place).

Everybody knows about this bug, and it actually helps speed up the game in the early, slow levelling periods when we're afraid of Wizzards and longing for Silver Swords. I reckon it exists in later games because old school players all know about it, and they probably didn't want to risk losing anything from the opriginal game.

However, that doesn't explain why weapon special effects work in later editions of the game. It would be much more old school if they didn't, since everybody knows that that's how it was in the old game.

He sure won't become a black wizard

Speaking of "Hall of Giants", it says there is a secret passage somewhere. I fought Giants and Iguanas through every square of that hall, and there is NO secret passage! Must have been left out of the software design.