The Memoria engine is an open-source community rewrite of Final Fantasy IX's engine that aims to add features, fix bugs and expand modding possibilities. It includes built-in improvements (QoL, camera, framerate, audio, controller, UI, options, cheats, shaders...), bugfixes, a mod manager/downloader and a model viewer. More info here

Features

• Main features:
  • Easy to use, everything optional, main settings in the launcher, the rest in Memoria.ini
  • Mod Manager/downloader, using individual mod folders
  • Widescreen (for all resolutions)
  • Higher framerate (60fps+)
  • Smooth and stabilized camera movement
  • Improved rendering: Anti-aliasing, texture filtering, layer edges, shaders
  • Triple Triad / Tetra Triad option
  • Better sound engine, volume control
  • Many, many bugfixes
• UI
  • Font change (includes the original PSX font)
  • 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
  • PSX disc change screens
  • Model Viewer
• Modding support for:
  • UI, backgrounds, shaders, texture, FMV modding/upscale (e.g. Moguri)
  • Voice acting (e.g. WIP project ECHO-S)
  • Translations
  • Expanded features for mods
  • Moddable game data (StreamingAssets\Data) and abilities (StreamingAssets\Scripts)
  • More character playable mods (e.g. Playable character pack, Tantalus...)
  • Import/export text/audio/textures
• Optional Cheats:
  • Stealing 100% success
  • Enable/Disable vanilla cheats
  • Easy minigames (rope, frogs, racing...)
  • Excalibur II time limit removal
  • Cards: lower randomness, card limit raised, auto discard cards
  • Manual Trance

Use

• INSTALL: Download and run Memoria.Patcher.exe
  • Automatically finds the game path from Windows registry (if you've launched the game once and haven't moved the install folder)
  • If not, launch the patcher from the game folder, or provide a custom path in command line: 'Memoria.Patcher.exe "gameDirectory"'
  • Mac users: The launcher has been shown to be currently only compatible with Crossover in Windows 10 32bit mode (Whiskey and 64bit give an error "mono-io-layer-error")
• UPDATE: with the latest patcher exe or use "check for updates" in the launcher
• CONFIGURE: Most crucial options and cheats are embedded in the game launcher
  • More in-depth configuration is available in the file Memoria.ini (in the game folder)

DEVELOPERS

• INFO for developers
• Knowledge base