Help World Map?

[strifehart]

Anyone know how to access the world map in this game? I mean the in-game mini-map deal. I already have the airship, and I'm getting a bit turned around without a map to reference. Thanks for the help!

 

[Lebreau]

[Moved to Legacy help booth]

 

[strifehart]

Sorry Lebreau, my fault. Incidentally, you wouldn't happen to know the answer to my query, would you?

Mod edit: Not a problem, and you didn't need to post telling me sorry. xD It's perfectly alright.

I have not a clue. It's been too long since I played FFIV =[

 

[Ilyena]

I don't think there's a mini-map function on FFIV. At least I could never find one. I was always lost in this game, tbh.

 

[Sora_lion_heart]

Yeah I don't think there is a world map either. It shouldn't be too hard to start remembering where places are though. With the three worlds to go to they should all be small enough to remember. The Moon being easiest and then the underworld. With the main world though it always helped me to fly over areas in the order I traveled in the beginning. After a while of traveling you should be able to know where your at.

 

[Sum1sgruj]

I was always lost in this game, tbh.

I always get lost in FFVI, WoR. The map lets you see little dots on the topography, but damn I could never memorize where everything was.

As for IV, the games so damn old, I don't think they made a map. Maybe, and I'm not 100% sure, but on the GBA version I think there is a hidden way of pressing select and pressing a button or something. Can't remember. Anyways, you should google it.

 

[Ilyena]

 

[Sora_lion_heart]

http://www.fantasyanime.com/finalfantasy/ff4/ff4maps.htm

Here is a pretty good list you may be able to copy and print some of the needed maps. That is if you are still having trouble finding stuff.

 

[Dionysos]

I may be wrong, but I think that the maps of FFIV do not loop like they do in later FFs. They don't try to make it a (sort of) globe which you can continuously fly around, with travelling north eventually taking you down to south, and west eventually taking you east and placing you at the other places on the map. With FFIV I believe it is a closed map, and there is no looping. It should make it easier therefore, as you'll always know when you are north / south / east / west if you hit the edges of the map, and can try and work out where you are from there.

I could be completely wrong with that though, but I do think I remember FFIV as being one of the games before they tried making the maps different (something first achieved with FFVI I believe, though I think that FFV also allowed you to travel west and end up on the east side of the map).

If what I told you there is not true with FFIV on the main map, then it should at least work and be useful on the other two world maps of FFIV.

 

[Ilyena]

Actually the overworld map and the moon map do loop. The underworld one doesn't though.

 

[Dionysos]

Actually the overworld map and the moon map do loop. The underworld one doesn't though.

Oh right. That'll be what I was thinking of.

I just remember playing FFIV and the world map not looping, so it must have been while on the underworld map.

Ignore everything that I said then (apart from when you are on the underworld map). Instead I guess you'll have to either have a copy of the map with you (either printed off, or up on the computer screen) and refer to it. The map isn't very big so I guess if you just follow the shape of the land and learn what the areas surrounding the major towns look like then you'll not have much of a problem.

 

[strifehart]

right. gotcha. thanks guys. I guess I was just confused as to why there was no minimap, since I just got done playing FFOrigins and in both FF1 and FF2, you can access a minimap in the game. But I suppose they probably put those in for the port, and they're not there in the originals. I guess for some reason they didn't put it into this particular port. I suppose that's not too far fetched since FFChronicles came out way before FFOrigins.

 

[Sora_lion_heart]

The original final fantasy 1 had a mini map although it wasn't that great. There was a witch in the beginning of the game that told you how to use it. I think it was pressing select and A at the same time. Its odd that FF4 had no mini map but since there is so many different places they probably didn't want to go through the trouble. I'm not sure...