Shining Difficulty, Shining Force, in my Mario forum?

[Kevin Rudd]

RELEASE TWO IS OUT!!
An example of the Kane battle... sped up 8 times.

Indeed, Flygon takes another stab at hacking, but rather than making a game that will crash in any emulator except Kega Fusion, I make a hack that attempts to deal with absolutely moronic AI that does no justice in making the game harder, but thats been partially fixed.

Thats right, I am hacking Shining Force.

Release two has covered Chapters 1 to 7, right up to the end of the path to the Ancient Tower. I'll list some changes below.

Promotions are only at level 20, mainly for end-game reasons.
The promotion level cap is level 20.
Shops have been changed around, and made more expensive.
Some characters have been nerfed/buffed.
Some of the AI has been edited (Mainly in Mishaelias castle), and the monsters and their starting positions, overall, have been made MUCH tougher.

And one last thing, please NEVER use Egress for training purposes, I designed the hack specifically for Egressing out of complete and utter danger or Max simply getting raped by monsters.

The first few battles indeed have some utterly hopeless AI, but this will be cured sure as hell in the next release!

Here is a link to the hack before I forget

The patch is in an IPS format, please use LunarIPS to apply the patch to your Shining Force ROM, the Shining Force ROM MUST be in the BIN format in order for the patch to be successful.

Even though releasing this in a ROM form would cause no profit loss, I don't wanna get banned so don't complain to me, complain to the people that invented copyright.

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT INTENDED TO CAUSE ANY LOSS OF PROFIT TO SEGA, CLIMAX, CAMELOT OR ANY RELATED COMPANIES. ANY CONCEPTS IN THIS ROM HACK INVENTED BY THE ABOVE COMPANIES ARE 100% OWNED BY THEM.

Credits (Pretty much all of them are from Shining Force Central however):
rubixcuber: Making the hacking tools needed.
BigNailCow: Teaching me to trace and find certain values, which helped MASSIVELY in finding the promotion level cap, and any other cap listed.
Balbaroy: Beta testing and support.
Lord_Oddeye: Beta testing and support.
Rusty: General support.
Flygon: This wouldn't happen without me.

This post has been edited by Flygon on Aug 10 2009, 04:18 AM

[Kevin Rudd]

Bumping for the sake of attention.

Oh, and release two is out.

Yes, I got permission to bump.

This post has been edited by Flygon on Aug 1 2009, 04:08 AM

[Marigi]

I hope more people give this a look over. I personally don't play Shining Force, but if I did I would think this would be rather awesome.

[Kevin Rudd]

IMPORTANT UPDATE!

Balbazak drops his Doom Blade up until now! This patch removes the ability for anything to drop Doom Blades and it complete up until the 'Path to Ancient Tower' battle.

Click here to download.

I've been finding the palettes by the way.