Final Fantasy V (everything8215's disassembly)

A combatant's ATB timer is set to 120 + equipment weight ÷ 8 − agility, at least 1, adjusted for haste or slow, and UpdateTimer counts it down by one each tick and flags it when it reaches 0, when the turn comes due. The battle speed setting sets a wait of 0, 15, 30, 60, 120, or 240 when a character's turn arrives. ff5/atb-timer

About: Final Fantasy V Active Time Battle

{
 "base": 120,
 "weightDivisor": 8,
 "min": 1,
 "turnWait": [
  0,
  15,
  30,
  60,
  120,
  240
 ]
}

Cited by: Final Fantasy V, Turn order

A physical attack first rolls 0–99 against its hit % (100 where the attack type calls SetHit100andTargetEvade, as fists and katanas do) and misses on a roll at or above it; a target that can dodge then rolls 0–99 against its evade %, and a roll under it is a miss, or a shield block when the target carries a shield. ff5/hit-check

About: Final Fantasy V Hit chance

Cited by: Final Fantasy V, Hit chance

Three attack types call CheckCrit: fists (type 30), katanas (type 37), and type 36, which the source comments as bows with an element and which uses the knife damage formula, after moving its crit % from its second parameter to the first. CheckCrit makes a critical when a roll of 0–99 is under that crit %, and a critical doubles Attack and sets Defense to 0. ff5/critical

About: Final Fantasy V Critical hit

These are the only three jsr CheckCrit lines in battle-main.asm at the pinned commit.

Cited by: Critical hit, Final Fantasy V

Physical damage is (Attack − Defense) × M, at most 9,999, and 0 when Defense is at least Attack. For swords, Attack is the weapon's attack power plus a random 0 to an eighth of it, and M is Level × Strength ÷ 128 + 2. ff5/damage

About: Final Fantasy V Damage formula

{
 "cap": 9999,
 "swordSpread": 0.125,
 "swordMPlus": 2
}

Cited by: Damage formula, Final Fantasy V

While FleeSuccess is nonzero, CheckFlee counts a flee ticker up each pass; on the 20th it rolls 0–99 and escapes when the roll is under the encounter's flee chance, and otherwise the ticker restarts. A flee chance with the high bit set shows the can't-run message instead, and a FleeSuccess of $80 (the Exit spell) escapes at once. The source doesn't show what sets FleeSuccess for ordinary running; its RAM notes only guess that holding L and R does. ff5/run

About: Final Fantasy V Fleeing

{
 "ticks": 20
}

Cited by: Final Fantasy V, Fleeing

Each step on a normal map adds the map's rate to a random-battle counter ($E0 at the normal rate; $40, $180, or $200 at the others), and a battle starts when a byte from the random table, plus an offset that grows by $11 each time its pointer wraps, is under the counter's high byte. ff5/encounter-rate

About: Final Fantasy V Random encounter

{
 "normal": 224,
 "low": 64,
 "high": 384,
 "veryHigh": 512
}

Cited by: Final Fantasy V, Random encounter

Final Fantasy IV and V both give each combatant a timer that counts down to its turn. Final Fantasy IV sets its length from a ratio, 50 times a reference party member's agility over 10 times the combatant's; Final Fantasy V sets it to 120 plus equipment weight ÷ 8 minus agility. ff5/atb-changes-ff4

About: Final Fantasy V Active Time Battle

Cited by: Active Time Battle, Final Fantasy V

Final Fantasy IV counts a weapon attack's hits from a loop of percentage rolls, one per point of the attack multiplier, less the target's evade rolls; Final Fantasy V's physical check makes one hit roll and one evade roll, and the attack either lands or misses. ff5/hit-changes-ff4

About: Final Fantasy V Hit chance

Cited by: Final Fantasy V, Hit chance, Multi-hit attack