Please remind me, Steam mods are a no-go, why?

[Dark_Ansem]

Title. Could you please ELI5 why the steam game is off limits for gameplay mods?

[Mauron]

AFAIK there's no restriction against it here, but there hasn't been much research done toward it.  A lot of the data is similar to the SNES version, and identical to the DS version, so it should be possible to expand on it.

[Dark_Ansem]

Would Temporal Flux, together with plugins, even work there?

[Mauron]

Temporal Flux and its plugins only support the SNES version, but I'm looking into options to port between the SNES and PSX/DS/PC versions.

Overworld maps are identical in format, and I've imported a modified SNES map into the DS version successfully. Enemy AI is very similiar, while location events have a few more changes.

[Dark_Ansem]

Character png appear also quite similar, I have a magus mod installed.

Music and Sfx are, obviously, not similar and handled differently, In an easier way id argue.