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papercup posted...

This. Those old Final Fantasy games were made for the Famicom in the mid to late 80s. And they were big games for the time too. They had to make every byte count, so they made the decisions to only let the character level go up to 99 and to cap the health and damage at 999 and later 9999.

The memory use for 100 and 99 is the same.
110 0011 is 99.
110 0100 is 100. Same amount of memory.
Max memory limit to hold 9999 would also hold 16, 383

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