Final Fantasy III (everything8215's disassembly)

A Fight action rolls 0–99 once per point of the attacker's attack multiplier and counts the rolls under its hit %; Blind halves the hit %, and when a back-row penalty applies (not for a harp or bow and arrow) an attacker in the back row halves it, and a target in the back row halves it again and adds one evaded hit. The target then rolls once per point of its evade multiplier against its evade %, with no evade rolls when it is a toad, mini, or jumping, and its successes are subtracted from the hits, at least 0. The net hits multiply one damage roll, and none is a miss. Each hand rolls separately. ff3/hits

About: Final Fantasy III Multi-hit attack

Cited by: Final Fantasy III, Hit chance

The damage roll is attack plus a random 0 to half of it, times the elemental multiplier (stored doubled and halved back), plus the crit bonus on a critical, less defense (at least 0; skipped when a character hits a character); that times the net hits, divided by the targets hit, is capped at 9,999. ff3/damage

About: Final Fantasy III Damage formula

{
 "spread": 0.5,
 "cap": 9999
}

Cited by: Damage formula, Final Fantasy III

A Fight action rolls once for a critical, 0–99 against the crit probability, and a critical adds the crit bonus to the damage before defense. Both numbers are the first two bytes of the character's job modifiers, so the job sets them. ff3/critical

About: Final Fantasy III Critical hit

Cited by: Critical hit, Final Fantasy III

A physical attack whose element is one of the target's weak elements gets multiplier code 4; one in the target's byte the disassembly calls absorbed elements gets 1, as does any attack when that byte is exactly 2; otherwise 2. The damage routine halves the code, so a weakness doubles the damage and the other byte halves it. ff3/elements

About: Final Fantasy III Elemental weakness

{
 "weak": 2,
 "resisted": 0.5
}

Cited by: Elemental weakness, Final Fantasy III

Run escapes when a roll of 0–100 is under the runner's run probability plus 25 less the average level of the monsters present (at least 0). The run probability is the third byte of the job modifiers. ff3/run

About: Final Fantasy III Fleeing

{
 "plus": 25
}

Cited by: Final Fantasy III, Fleeing

determine attack order gives each of the 12 battle slots a random key of 0–255 and passes the list to a routine the disassembly calls "sort attack order list ???"; it then gives each of the four characters a key of agility plus a random 0 to twice agility, sorts those the same way, and writes the characters in that order into the character entries of the first list. Chance places each character among the monsters, and agility orders the characters among themselves. ff3/turn-order

About: Final Fantasy III Turn order

Cited by: Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy IV, Turn order

On the world map, a step starts a battle when a random byte is under the rate loaded for the current world and vehicle; the listing's comments give those rates as 5 on foot, by canoe, or by ship, 7 underwater, and 18 for one chocobo case the disassembly marks with "???". ff3/encounter-rate

About: Final Fantasy III Random encounter

{
 "onFoot": 5,
 "underwater": 7,
 "of": 256
}

The rates are the values in the listing's comments on each load from bank $2E; the data bytes themselves aren't in the listing, and no Japanese ROM is on hand to read them.

Cited by: Final Fantasy III, Random encounter

Final Fantasy II rolls damage, attack plus 0 to attack less defense, and a critical for each hit that gets through and adds them up; Final Fantasy III rolls damage once, attack plus 0 to half of it, and multiplies it by the net hits, and its single critical roll uses the job's crit probability in place of Final Fantasy II's fixed roll under 5. ff3/damage-changes-ff2

About: Final Fantasy III Damage formula

Cited by: Critical hit, Damage formula, Final Fantasy III, Multi-hit attack