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With regard to periodic seasonal movements, or migration, our birds can be classified as belonging to one of four groups:
{{Bob
| bobscreen= Final_Fantasy_VI.png
| aka= Final Fantasy III (US SNES)
| developer= Square
| publishers= {{publisher|Square}} (JP), {{publisher|Squaresoft}} (US)
| system= SNES
| japan= {{date|1994|April|2}}
| usa= {{date|1994|October|11}}
|tcrf=Final Fantasy VI
}}
{{SNES
|title = Final Fantasy VI
|image = [[File:Final_Fantasy_VI.png|center]]
|name = FINAL FANTASY 6
|company = Square
|header = None
|bank = HiROM
|interleaved = No
|sram = 8 KiB
|type = Normal + Batt
|rom = 3 MiB
|country = USA
|video = NTSC
|romspeed = 120ns (FastROM)
|revision = 1.0 or 1.1
|checksum = Good 0x5F32 (version 1.0)<br>Good 0x8A60 (version 1.1)
|crc32 = A27F1C7A (version 1.0)<br>C0FA0464 (version 1.1)
|game = Final Fantasy VI
}}


      Whooping Crane #DAR 28-05: "Poe" in Wisconsin
==Sub-pages==
      © photo by Greg Scott, made in Wisconsin
{{namespaces}}


      In our backyards, most of us won't see anything like the migrating Whooping Crane shown above, but there's a tiny possibility we might in certain neighborhood wildlife refuges and parks. Notice that the above crane is wearing radio transmitters with wire antennae hanging from them. These transmitters enable us to know exactly which of the very few Whooping Cranes the above bird is. She is  "Poe," officially known as DAR 28-05, and she was hatched in 2005. Poe has her own Web Page where you can read all about her migratory journeys and see her when she was just a chick. And if you live between the Whooping Cranes' summer home and their winter home, someday you may see her at your place! You may want to check out the Operation Migration Web Page describing an effort to bring back the almost-extinct Whooping Crane by teaching young cranes to migrate between Wisconsin and Florida.
==Disambiguation==
    * Permanent residents, or just "residents," are non-migrating birds such as House Sparrows who remain in their home area all year round.
Final Fantasy 6 was released as Final Fantasy 3 in the United States. The name conflicts with another game for the NES system.


    * Summer residents are migratory birds such as Purple Martins who arrive in our Northern backyards in the spring, nest during the summer, and return south to wintering grounds in the fall.
This page refers to the SNES version of the game. It doesn't include the versions for Playstation One and Game Boy Advance.


    * Winter residents are migratory birds who have "come south" for the winter to our backyards. White-throated Sparrows, who are summer residents in much of Canada, are winter residents in much of the U.S.
==Miscellaneous==
* [[Final Fantasy VI: Digits|Data Values]]
* [[Final Fantasy VI: Steal Command Algorithm|Steal Command Algorithm]]
* [[Final Fantasy VI:Monster Item Format|Monster Item Format]]
* [[Final Fantasy VI:Monster Data Format|Monster Data Format]]
* [[Final Fantasy VI:Monster Script Format|Monster Script Format]]
* [[Final Fantasy VI:Graphics List|Graphics List]]


    * Transients are migratory species who nest farther north than our neighborhoods, but who winter farther south; thus we see them only during migration, when they are "just passing through."
==Known Good Dumps==
* Final Fantasy VI - Japan
GoodSNES name: Final Fantasy VI (J)
---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
        File: Final Fantasy VI (Japan).sfc
        Name: FINAL FANTASY 6          Company: Square
      Header: None                        Bank: HiROM
Interleaved: None                        SRAM: 64 Kb
        Type: Normal + Batt                ROM: 24 Mb
    Country: Japan                      Video: NTSC
  ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM)        Revision: 1.0
    Checksum: Good 0xA172            Game Code:
---------------------------Hashes---------------------------
      CRC32: 45EF5AC8
      SHA-1: 1C6A6DD90D3463F4532202199885A2C0E9A485F6


Sometimes a bird species that's present in our neighborhood the whole year can also be migratory. The American Robin migrates, though in most of the U.S. it can be seen year round. If you live in Missouri, for instance, the robins you've seen all summer may, during fall migration, head south to Texas, while the robins you see during the winter may have nested in Canada.
* Final Fantasy III - USA
GoodSNES name: Final Fantasy III (U) (V1.0) [!]
---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
        File: Final Fantasy III (USA).sfc
        Name: FINAL FANTASY 3          Company: Square
      Header: None                        Bank: HiROM
Interleaved: None                        SRAM: 64 Kb
        Type: Normal + Batt                ROM: 24 Mb
    Country: USA                        Video: NTSC
  ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM)        Revision: 1.0
    Checksum: Good 0x5F32            Game Code: F6 
---------------------------Hashes---------------------------
      CRC32: A27F1C7A
      SHA-1: 4F37E4274AC3B2EA1BEDB08AA149D8FC5BB676E7


In general, in the Northern Hemisphere, the farther north you go and the more severe the winters become, the greater is the percentage of birds migrating south to warmer climes during the northern winter. It's been estimated that of the 215 or so species of bird nesting in Michigan, about 90 percent migrate to some extent. More than 100 species who spend summer in the U.S. completely leave the country to winter in the West Indies and/or Latin America.
* Final Fantasy III - USA Revision A
WHY MIGRATE?
GoodSNES name: Final Fantasy III (U) (V1.1) [!]
---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
        File: Final Fantasy III (USA) (Rev A).sfc
        Name: FINAL FANTASY 3          Company: Square
      Header: None                        Bank: HiROM
Interleaved: None                        SRAM: 64 Kb
        Type: Normal + Batt                ROM: 24 Mb
    Country: USA                        Video: NTSC
  ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM)        Revision: 1.1
    Checksum: Good 0x8A60            Game Code: F6 
---------------------------Hashes---------------------------
      CRC32: C0FA0464
      SHA-1: 057ADA1C641E3E0B3CA34E6E4F4EB1B05A87143A
--------------------------Database--------------------------
        Name: Final Fantasy III
    Country: USA                    Revision: 1.1
      Port 1: Gamepad                  Port 2: Gamepad
    Genre 1: RPG                      Genre 2: Turn Based


The main advantage of migration is easy enough to guess. During northern winters there's little food, and cold temperatures make life hard. Farther south, there's more food and less cold.
==External links==


Birds do not migrate because they figure out that they need to. It's been shown that, at least in some birds, changes in day length cause glands in the birds' bodies to produce hormones that produce profound changes inside the birds, changes that prepare them for the flight south. In the fall, as days grow shorter, fat accumulates under the skin. This fat contains energy needed for those coming days when the birds will be spending more energy flying than they'll be eating during their occasional rests. Weather changes sometimes trigger a migration's start, but by then the birds are already prepared. If The urge to migrate must be very powerful. Starlings caged as their migration time approaches become extremely fidgety and point their bodies in the direction they want to fly toward.
* General
** [http://www.rpglegion.com/ff6/index.htm Final Fantasy VI Encyclopedia]
** [http://mnrogar.slickproductions.org/ Mnrogar's Den]
** [http://www.tales-cless.org/?page=documents Phantasian Productions 2.0 (Documents)]
** [http://slickproductions.org/ Slick Productions]
** [http://www.ff6hacking.com/forums/portal.php Final Fantasy VI Hacking]
**      [http://tenchinohoukai.cavesofnarshe.com/ Djibriel's Collapse of Heaven and Earth]
**      [http://www.rpglegion.com/ff6/index.htm Terii Senshi's Final Fantasy VI Encyclopedia]


Watching bird migration take place is one of the most exciting and interesting things a birder can do, and it's something you can see in your own backyard. Especially in the spring when birds are in their bright courtship plumage and males are lustily singing, it's a pure joy to walk around taking note of which species have arrived. In the fall, as Northern-Hemisphere migrants head back south, they're much quieter and their plumage is more drab. They're harder to identify, too. Nonetheless, their passage is still a majestic event to behold.
* Utilities
MIGRATORY FLYWAYS
** [http://www.angelfire.com/pq/jumparound/ Lord J's web site]
** [http://drakkhen.jalchavware.com/ Drakkhen's Patch Pages]
** [http://www.rpglegion.com/ff6/index.htm Terii Senshi's Final Fantasy VI Encyclopedia]


Major flyways of North American migrating birds
* Forum
** [http://mnrogar.slickproductions.org/phpBB3/index.php Mnrogar's Den (Forum)]
** [http://slickproductions.org/forum/index.php Forum Slickness]
** [http://www.ff6hacking.com/forums/index.php FF6 Hacking Forum]


When migrants start moving, they form broad, diffuse waves that merge into great "rivers" of birds, and the four main North American "rivers," or "flyways," are shown above. The bird species in these great bird-rivers in the sky pass specific spots on the map at more or less predictable times. For instance, when spring's first Yellow Warblers, which winter from southern Mexico south to Peru and Brazil, return northward each year they reach southern California and southern Florida around April 1. By May 1, their "northern front" lies along a line running between Washington State and New York State. By June 1, they've reached the Arctic region of northern Canada.
* Patches
BIRD BANDING
** [http://masterzed.cavesofnarshe.com/ff3.html Master ZED's Unoriginal White Sheet]
** [http://www14.brinkster.com/assassin17/ assassin's Barren Webpage] and [http://home.comcast.net/~assassin17/ (mirror)]
** [http://www.angelfire.com/al2/imzogelmo/patches.html Imzogelmo's NEPROMR]
** [http://zephyr129.brinkster.net/ mblock129's Zephyr]
**      [http://www.rpglegion.com/ff6/hack/patches.htm Terii Senshi's Final Fantasy VI Encyclopedia]
** [http://novaliaspirit.99k.org/ Novalia Spirit's Fridgia Nova]
**      [http://www.jce3000gt.com/ BlitzKrieg Innovations]
**      [http://www.tales-cless.org/?page=romhack Phantasian Productions' ROM hack page]


Banding a duck, photo by Rex Gary Schmidt, courtesy of US Fish & Wildlife ServiceMany ornithologists, or biologists who study birds, capture birds in filmy, almost invisible "mist nets," take notes on them, place small, number-bearing, aluminum-alloy bands on the birds' legs, and then release the birds. A small percentage of these banded birds is caught a second time, sometimes far from the first capture point. Birders send information the bird-banding information they gather to the Bird Banding Laboratory at Laurel, Maryland. Anyone supplying information on a banded bird caught or found receives information describing where and when the bird was banded. The picture at the right shows a duck being banded.
* Graphics
** [http://www.snesmaps.com/ Super Nintendo Game Maps]
** [http://vgmaps.com/Atlas/SuperNES/index.htm#FinalFantasyVI The Video Game Atlas]


Through bird banding, it's been discovered that many individual birds migrate back and forth to the very same wintering and nesting spots, often thousands of miles apart.
*      Rom information
MORE INFORMATION
**      [http://www.ff6hacking.com/wiki/doku.php FF3us and FF6A hacking wiki (ff6hacking.com)]
**      [http://www.rpglegion.com/ff6/hack/ff3info.txt Yousei ROM infos - First stage] Public release.
**      [http://www.angelfire.com/pq/jumparound/ff3romOffsets.html Lord J FF3us / FF6j offsets compendium]
**      [http://www.rpglegion.com/ff6/hack/code2.txt Terii Senshi ASM dump of bank 2]
**      [http://www.tales-cless.org/docs/ff6hack.htm Cless ROM hacking guide] You can also view this [http://www.romhacking.net/docs/ff6hack.htm here].
**      [http://www.romhacking.net/?Category=&Console=0&Game=302&Author=520&Recm=0&Level=&docsearch=++Go++&title=&dsearch=&page=docs&action=doclist|FF List VI] A document pertaining to offsets in the Final Fantasy VI rom.
**      [[Final Fantasy VI:Compression Format|Compression Format]]
**      [[Final Fantasy VI:Combat Menu Format|Combat Menu Format]]
**      [http://web.archive.org/web/20070902180003/http://members.aol.com/cklein0001/ CKlein's (aka ValiantKnife's) website, including ROM map (archived)]


On the web there's much more information on bird banding at the Patuxent's Bird Banding Laboratory
{{Final Fantasy series}}
 
One of the most beautiful and inspirational bird-oriented films ever made is the documentary Winged Migration. For that film they raised ducks, geese and other birds from the egg and trained them to allow themselves to be filmed from very close, as the birds were flying in a variety of beautiful locations.At the right you review and buy the film, and farther to the right, the book.

Latest revision as of 22:48, 19 May 2024

Title Screen

Final Fantasy VI

Also known as: Final Fantasy III (US SNES)
Developer: Square
Publishers: Square (JP), Squaresoft (US)
Platform: SNES
Released in JP: April 2, 1994
Released in US: October 11, 1994


ROMIcon.png ROM map
RAMIcon.png RAM map
TextIcon.png Text table
Cactisprite.png TCRF
Final Fantasy VI
Name FINAL FANTASY 6
Company Square
Header None
Bank HiROM
Interleaved No
SRAM 8 KiB
Type Normal + Batt
ROM 3 MiB
Country USA
Video NTSC
ROM Speed 120ns (FastROM)
Revision 1.0 or 1.1
Checksum Good 0x5F32 (version 1.0)
Good 0x8A60 (version 1.1)
CRC32 A27F1C7A (version 1.0)
C0FA0464 (version 1.1)

Sub-pages

Read about development information and materials for this game.
ROM map
Read about prototype versions of this game that have been released or dumped.
RAM map
Read about prerelease information and/or media for this game.
Text table

Disambiguation

Final Fantasy 6 was released as Final Fantasy 3 in the United States. The name conflicts with another game for the NES system.

This page refers to the SNES version of the game. It doesn't include the versions for Playstation One and Game Boy Advance.

Miscellaneous

Known Good Dumps

  • Final Fantasy VI - Japan

GoodSNES name: Final Fantasy VI (J)

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
       File: Final Fantasy VI (Japan).sfc
       Name: FINAL FANTASY 6          Company: Square
     Header: None                        Bank: HiROM
Interleaved: None                        SRAM: 64 Kb
       Type: Normal + Batt                ROM: 24 Mb
    Country: Japan                      Video: NTSC
  ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM)         Revision: 1.0
   Checksum: Good 0xA172            Game Code: 
---------------------------Hashes---------------------------
      CRC32: 45EF5AC8
      SHA-1: 1C6A6DD90D3463F4532202199885A2C0E9A485F6
  • Final Fantasy III - USA

GoodSNES name: Final Fantasy III (U) (V1.0) [!]

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
       File: Final Fantasy III (USA).sfc
       Name: FINAL FANTASY 3          Company: Square
     Header: None                        Bank: HiROM
Interleaved: None                        SRAM: 64 Kb
       Type: Normal + Batt                ROM: 24 Mb
    Country: USA                        Video: NTSC
  ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM)         Revision: 1.0
   Checksum: Good 0x5F32            Game Code: F6  
---------------------------Hashes---------------------------
      CRC32: A27F1C7A
      SHA-1: 4F37E4274AC3B2EA1BEDB08AA149D8FC5BB676E7
  • Final Fantasy III - USA Revision A

GoodSNES name: Final Fantasy III (U) (V1.1) [!]

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
       File: Final Fantasy III (USA) (Rev A).sfc
       Name: FINAL FANTASY 3          Company: Square
     Header: None                        Bank: HiROM
Interleaved: None                        SRAM: 64 Kb
       Type: Normal + Batt                ROM: 24 Mb
    Country: USA                        Video: NTSC
  ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM)         Revision: 1.1
   Checksum: Good 0x8A60            Game Code: F6  
---------------------------Hashes---------------------------
      CRC32: C0FA0464
      SHA-1: 057ADA1C641E3E0B3CA34E6E4F4EB1B05A87143A
--------------------------Database--------------------------
       Name: Final Fantasy III
    Country: USA                     Revision: 1.1
     Port 1: Gamepad                   Port 2: Gamepad
    Genre 1: RPG                      Genre 2: Turn Based

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