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Psycho Cyan Bug Fix Patch (V. 1.1)

If you don't know what the Psycho Cyan glitch is, here's how it works. Have Cyan use Retort. Kill off Cyan, and then revive him. Turn Cyan into an Imp (You can turn Cyan into an Imp before you kill him too). Now the next time anyone attacks (including Cyan), Cyan will keep attacking all the enemies until they're dead.

This bug is actually two bugs in one. The first bug is that after Cyan has died in battle and then been revived, he will use Retort against any attacks, not just attacks that hit him. He'll even counter with Retort if he himself attacks.

The second bug is that if Cyan uses Retort and then turns into an Imp and someone hits him, he'll counter with a standard attack instead of Retort. Since he didn't use Retort, his Retort "status" will stay, and every time he's hit with an attack he'll counter by attacking.

Combine these two bugs and you have Cyan constantly countering his own attack.

This patch only fixes the first bug, and not the second, but that's good enough to stop the Psycho Cyan Glitch.

New in version 1.1:
Version 1.0 of the patch created a bug that caused X-Zone to prevent final attacks rather than just delaying them. Version 1.1 doesn't have that bug.

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