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

Note: This is not affiliated with the Memoria Project, a 2023 Proof-of-concept tribute render in Unreal Engine

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
  • (Windows): 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"')
  • (Steam Deck / Linux) run this in the Konsole/terminal:
  • bash -c "$(curl -sL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dotaxis/1ad1c64baa7ad9c1dabcb255ea6257ae/raw/memoria.sh)"
  • (Mac): The launcher has been shown to be currently only compatible with Crossover in Windows 7 32bit mode (Whiskey and 64bit give an error "mono-io-layer-error")
• UPDATE
  • Run the latest patcher exe or use "check for updates" in the launcher
  • The Mod Manager will show a yellow dot if some of your mods are not up-to-date
• 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)

Documentation

• Info for developers
• Knowledge base
• Memoria.ini