Final Fantasy V

Final Fantasy V is, as you may have guessed, the fifth game in the Final Fantasy series. For a long time, it was considered the "Lost Final Fantasy" as it was never released outside Japan on the SNES; its PlayStation and Game Boy Advance ports, however, were.

Story-wise, it's a fair bit weaker than the games that came before and after, but it makes up for that with the sheer level of customization courtesy of its excellent job system.

Big Boss
Big Boss uses the same graphics as the Nut Eater and has absolutely ridiculous stats: 250 attack, defense, and magic power, along with 99% evasion and magic evasion. It's immune to all elements and status effects, and is undead and heavy-flagged. The real big catch is that it only has a measly 3 HP.

While it seems complete stat-wise, its attack sequence only uses "Regeneration" (a do-nothing skill).

Chimera
While the game has plenty of chimera enemies, this basic one is never encountered. All of its stats are 0, with the exception of its HP and Speed. Its attack sequence is very basic, just choosing between a 2/3 chance of fighting and a 1/3 chance of using its special.

Mellusion
Everyone's favorite naked flying snake lady has another monster entry. It isn't found with her other forms, but instead in between the bosses fought in X-Death's castle.

While this Mellusion's stats are, for the most part, higher than those of the one fought in front of the Elder Tree, her HP is lower, at 15,000, and her attack sequence is much simpler. Several of her stats, including her item drops and steals, are identical to those of Carbunkle, who precedes her in the enemy data. She is always weak against fire, ice, and lightning, immune to earth, and never changes her weakness. She uses normal attacks, Fire3, Bolt3, Ice3, Tempta, and her special, which is not set up to have any effects. When defeated, the first line of Ramuh's dialogue with Ifrit is spoken and she escapes, implying that whatever she was originally going to say was overwritten after she was scrapped.

Neo Goblin
This guy's found with the bosses and other story enemies, and is about as interesting as you'd expect from an enemy with "Goblin" in its name. He doesn't even have a jaunty color scheme like the normal ones!

Unused Objects


Loaded into memory along with the Elder Branch, bracelet, and giant mirror graphics is what appears to be an unused full-size icon of the necklaces belonging to Lenna and Faris.



This small jewel or crystal is loaded into memory along with the Adamantite, but it's not clear what it's supposed to be or what it's used for.

Unused Items
There are three unused items present in all three versions of the game, and weren't used in any of them.


 * Mythril Staff - A simple staff with 19 attack power and no special features. This item may be extremely basic, but there is no legit way to get one; they can't be bought, there are none in chests, and no enemies carry them. It was probably not used because at the likely place it would have been bought, you can buy the flail.
 * Blood Shield - The strongest shield in the game, defense power-wise, at 15...but also has the game's lowest evade boost, at a lousy 1%. This would have fit in neatly with the Bone Mail, Thornlet, and Cursed Ring, as it shares the combination of high stats and a big drawback, and would certainly also share its annoyance of being auto-equipped all the time.
 * Saber - This is categorized as a dagger, but it has 0 attack power and cannot be equipped, even by the default job. It was probably intended to be much like the Spoon/Knife in Final Fantasy IV.

An interesting side note is that Final Fantasy V Advance more or less cements these items being wholly unused. If hacked into that version, attempting to auto-sort the inventory will result in them being shuffled to the very end of the list.

Unused Commands
There are two unused and unfinished commands that can be accessed via hacking.


 * !Dummy01 - Attempting to use this command will allow the user to target him/herself, then does absolutely nothing.
 * !Dummy02 - Has the same effect as enchanting your sword with the Fire spell via the "Magic Sword" command.