New update time! I didn’t have a changelog for the last update, but a lot of what was added in that update had to be removed in this one.
so here is a full list of all the changes made to this update along with the changes from the last update that have stuck:

• Overhauled battle system! (sort of like Chrono Trigger).

• Fog added in some areas.

• Various Graphical enhancements with menus.

• Upgraded a few MIDIs to OGGs.

• Redone sprites and faces.

• Swapped out the RTP tileset for Mack’s tileset.

• Fancy camera unfortunately removed. :(

• Various improvements to the dialogue.

• Some maps have been slightly altered.

• Changes to some songs.

• Smoother gauges.

• Treasure chests were added.

• Random encounters are replaced with enemies being at certain points on the map. However, they do not re-spawn (yet).

• Crosseyed Crusaders now use magic.

• Different windowskin has been added. Coincidentally named “effectus”.

• You no longer need to backtrack through the Earth Cavern.

• Anaconda Boss fight has been moved.

• Ice Demon Boss fight added.

• Bosses now require actual effort rather than just mindlessly mashing the Z button.

• Skeletons now wield a sword.

• Game over now has a song.

• Autosave removed.

• Improvements made to many events.

• Angeal canonically renamed to Mack since that name’s already been taken by FF7 Crisis Core.

• World Map theme has been changed to Mack’s theme.

• You can now move diagonally.

• Battle with Envus removed.

• Suno canonically renamed to Amuro.

• Glitch where mode7 and the tileset would fail to activate immediately on the world map fixed.

• Nyla canonically renamed to Lecko.

• Method needed to get the “Super Secret Password” is now even lamer. Don’t worry though, it’ll become much more interesting next update!

• Victory dance removed for all characters except Nos, Mos, and Intereo.

That’s it!
If you happen to find an area where I accidentally didn’t remove random encounters, let me know. The game will imediately crash when you get a random encounter.