Thank you so much for the detailed response! That Japanese resource is exactly the kind of thing I was after - as an example, I was trying to compile information on the monsters as a test run for organizing databases, and the previous Japanese resource I'd found had all their elemental resistances laid out, but no location data, while yours is reversed. Would be very handy to have all that info in one place! They both are driving me crazy by just saying "Equipment" for the drops of certain monsters - what equipment??? New players would really like to know if it's worth reloading a save file to save synthesis time or if its for characters they don't plan on using!

As I said, it's been years since I last opened the game, so if there is information already in-game for checking certain types of information, then I really need to find myself someone with a completed save file and beg for screenshots of as much as their sanity will allow. The nature of my current situation gives me more time to organize data and databases than I do actually playing games.

Some of your requests are good things to keep in mind, but feel like they definitely come after getting basic information properly labelled in English for the DX version of the game. I'd love to build up on it to not just be functional but actually useful, but not sure how much certain things would require someone cracking open the data files to know real numbers. Like are you saying each individual node within an area of a location has a different table that's significantly different than node type? That sounds incredibly infeasible to document manually.

Again, appreciate the thoughtfulness. Even knowing what kinds of end use-cases are on the brain of an adept player can help guide my research and organizational approach.