The fact that there is a FFX encoder and decoder based on the language of the game is mind-boggling.
Thanks for the fun puzzle!

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Thank you, and congrats on solving it!

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That was a tough one... :) Thanks for the fun.

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Thank you. :)

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Sheesh, needed that hint that it was a "game" else I wouldn't have thought Final Fantasy X in my life. I knew FANTASY and 10 were hints but I went the double columnar route and ceasar shift with 10.

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If you google FFX it should be (onf of the) first hits but that might differ per country or based on (my) preferences, and well i also said Squall approved (hinting more toward FF) and that the subject was using a capital FFX on purpose.

Oh how many of this sort of puzzles and even much much harder ones people made years ago, it also made my head hurt where i often just gave up. :p It's a shame they left, and i am also not smart to make very complicated onces, but i thought this was just another "gimmick" one that i also used several years ago (but i was much clearer on where to look then) ;).

Anyway grats on finding it.

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Never played FFX so I thought Squall was some steamgifts puzzle person lol so that hint fell on deaf ears but once you said game and you put X in the title, guessing FFX + "decoder" or "cipher" got a hit really easily yeah.

Only puzzle person that's got me stumped is TomasMacMordain after the dozen or so times I go back to his puzzle and smash my head into my screen in hopes that I might get concussed to getting the solution.

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Just waiting until my points get recharged to enter. Pheeeww!! Also didn't played FFX.

Outstanding puzzle! I appreciate the opportunity! =D

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Thanks, and grats. :)

And you should play FFX one day, beautiful game.

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I concur and I appreciate your suggestion.

The last main FF I played was FFVII on PS1, a marvellous classic. Then played FF Tactics for GBA. It's awesome!

I also like languages, semantic... I was really impressed by the singular phonetics translated to "our world", since the Al Bhed's graphic an phonetic representations inside the game's universe would be a tad complex than they seem to be to us.

And Turok series was a must play for me on N64, among many classics like Mario Kart 64, Super Mario 64, Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros.,Pokémon Stadium 1 and 2, Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark, StarFox 64, The Legend of Zelda Occarina of Time and Majora's Mask, Banjo-Kazooie, 1080º Snowboarding, Diddy Kong Racing, WWF No Mercy, F-Zero X, Star Wars Rogue Squadron, Wave Race 64... OK, OK, I'm done. XD

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wow man, this one was hard, i got stuck think was caesar or affine cipher
god bless dcode and all their decode tools
and thank you for the puzzle and the GA :)

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Thanks, and grats. :)

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I already own the game, but I still wanted to solve the puzzle. You have no idea about all the jumps through hoops I had to make in order to get here. Even found this in the process.

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Grats. :)

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I've never played it, so that clue helped a lot.

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Grats. :)

And play it some time, beautiful game.

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https://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/dsOinDg

The music was pointing to the Fast and the Furious 10 movie, since it didn't had any official music, i wish there was.
Nor would it have been my taste.

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yeah the FFX clue had me going back 10 years looking for edits, lol

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Oh, it REALLY was a Turok 2 giveaway!
I would never do it without your tips xD

Thanks!

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I never lie about what i gift. ;) Perhaps it would have been fun though if i also translated that in Al Bhed, but i wanted to give people enough incentive to try (not for some crappy game).

Thank you and grats.

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Skyrim giveaways disguised as Bad Rats giveaways back in the day have made me suspicious to this day xD

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So, after making a bit of order through the clues, I got it :D

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Grats. :D

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Thanks!

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Thanks!

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After an hour of torturing chatgpt it gave me the correct answer :)
Provided hints also helped. Thanks!

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Weird way to solve it, but whatever helps. :)

Grats, and thanks!

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I just asked him what kind of cipher is used based on the given hints:
Knydc -> Grats
Pisb -> Bump
And then I asked to try to decipher longer sentences from the thread to something readable.
Firstly, I also tried to decypher it with a Caesar code, I thought that the shift may be dynamic, but couldn't find the pattern :)

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Dryhg oui, drec fyc vih. Uhmo naymewat frah ymm draca Ym Prat uh dra unekehym bucd.

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Dryhg oui, kmyt oui megat ed yht knydc uh cumjehk ed.

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Thanks man!

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Thank you.

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I was overthinking it... by a lot
I found the reference to Final Fantasy, and even saw Al Bhed, but with the custom alphabet, so I thought it's the red herring and then found FPE-FFX cipher, but there are very few online tools for it. Finally noticed I was wrong when I saw your Good luck and thank you comments using simple substitution cipher

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Grats, sometimes the simplest things in life are just simple.

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I kept translating from english to al bhed and couldn't figure why the code wasn't working :^)
Thanks for FFX themed puzzle!

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Then you wouldn't have needed to translate.:^)

Thank you.

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Thanks for the puzzle and the key!

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Thanks, enjoy!

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