Ah! I'm new to reversing unity games so I just assumed all textures resided in *.assets files, stupid assumption it would seem XD

Thanks for the help, I'll see what I can come up with!

Yeah, the only textures I managed to find was the new ones needed for the ports (buttons, zone texts and maps etc), so it seems like the actual in-game textures (terrain, monsters, npcs) are packed somewhere else outside the scope of unity. Might be wrong about that though, how are you getting the rest?

I've been fooling around a bit with FFIX for pc to try and extract/inject textures.
So far I've found that the launcher uses d3d9 and the game itself runs in OpenGL.

I tried using glIntercept to try and dump the textures, but it's giving me nothing.
Has anyone had any success and/or can give me some pointers so I can successfully start working on a proper mod?

It is indeed a speedup for battles, I haven't found a way to keep the animation speed and still bump the fps up I'm afraid.
A little workaround is to lower the battle speed when using the patch so the battles aren't too fast, it doesn't help with the animations though :/

There might be a way to have the animations at their normal speed, but it will require some more investigating.