If anybody is interested I have made a few, simple, little videos of a solo white mage in the lowest level possible fighting some of the bosses. I plan on doing all of the bosses eventually but for now I just have Garland, 9 pirates and 2 piscodemons finished.
Each video starts in the status screen and ends in the status screen.
http://www.uploadtemple.com/view.php/1114930762.rar
I used "1805 - Final Fantasy I & II - Dawn of Souls (U)(Independent)"
I recorded on various versions of VBA but all seem to work on the VBA9c (I think). Whatever version that was last modified on 4, 21, 2005. :P
I should also note (for anybody who cares) I have used cheats in the game but not when recording. I have only used no random encounters and a code I hacked to stop the ship timer. Just to save me time while i go from location to location. Nothing massive really and I deleted the codes before recording to at least show that none are being used.
All fights are legit, of course. I'm not doing anything impossible or cheating.
I wish I knew how to manipulate things better. The only technical manipulation I did was the short pause before I "attacked" the piscodemons. I had to do that for 2 reasons. One was to get 2 and the second was to not get killed by them the first turn.
The only things I want to know how to manipulate are critical hits (and hit numbers), making the enemy miss and status gains upon leveling. Anyone know how?