So this modification is working as intended in game, but it doesn't let me do savestates, nor does my progress save after I turn the game off. any remedy for this?

"Experience gain on all enemies was increased to the maximum yeild. You won't notice this on the first battle with the Gizmos." That somehow breaks the early game. You have to start thinking who needs exp instead of how to fight. For me the Hero and Chester were far in front with the lvl because they are fast and hard hitting. You also can use the battle before Yeel to grind to 40/40. Some kind of "break" would have been nice. Or a lot of self-control not to repeat battles.

hi zephyr, i love really this mod, but actually is not possible to any any game :(

I recently discovered shining force sword of hajya is on the 3ds and wanted to tell everyone. Many might already know but for those who don't (like I did) here you go.

What did you use to edit the files?

They both sound fun and interesting especially the final conflict one. Can you change the story or make the heroes of one SF be the enemies of another? That would be swwweeet

@akz I've thought of a few things, like a Shining Force 1 enemies in SF2 art hack. Another was Shining Force:- Final Conflict characters in SF2, but I have to finish a personal, original game project before I can persue it.

Are there any plans for something else with SF2?

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gee thanks for making decisions for me valve

@Probably Gnomes you only need this one.

Do I need all 3 Tweakforces for all the fixes or are they all included in this one mod?

@Dex Lonewolf If you need something more challenging, try super with or without egress.

I have to ask, what's the best difficulty to play this on? I have completed this game dozens of times on all difficulties, but never a modded version.

Well I finished the game with Karna near twenty something? She did not receive any spells once promoted at 40/1. I'm not certain if it's a bug or something, however drop her if she is having the same issue.

I'm at Odd-Eye now, with a somewhat behind karna. I grabbed her at the second wave of Creed recruits that's whatever. She's currently 40/10 with only aura 1. I can't seem to get it to go higher. Is she glitched or something?

@zephyr thanks that's great to know.

@steelangelkithri if you want to grind the creeds group I recommend going to the random encounter after the town where chaz is. There's some lizards there but a lot of Magma oozes. Just bring one decent character (Like bowie) to kill the lizards and have your leveling crew take out the slimes. Sheela I would have to check my documentation, I'll update when I get access to it again.

so i thought i'd give this a whirl. but i noticed some IPS patch at the top. what's that do?

@Zephyr I been doing some grinding now that im up to the prism flower fight and i was wondering a few things. When does Sheela get boost rank 2? And what's the easiest way to catch the 3 you get from Creeds when you go back for them after the trigger?

I'm just throwing ideas but can u promotions to already promoted characters? Just make the game later on a later harder etc. Maybe even another campaign. I don't know if thats possible but battle royale seems to be a lot different since it's nothing but battles. I am asking too much huh?

@Zephyr
Thanks, I had played Obob's Challenge mode before and that recommends promoting asap. I for some reason thought that 40/40 party meant the full roster would be in every fight. Which would be a serious cluster.

@JacketFarm it's highly recommended you promote at level 40. The hack has some methods that makes this process easier.

I'm not usually a fan of hacks for a game but I feel like this mod works perfectly for one of my favorite games. That being said, I view any changes made to the core game more critically than most. I'm very glad you decided to change the capitization for the characters names; that was probably one of my biggest pet peeves. The stat balances and sprite changes for the characters seem very logical. It makes it worth investing some time for some earlier characters (The struggle with Kazin early game is real.) I look forward to the future challenges this mod has to offer, and I wanted to say you had done a splendid job with your project. Thank you for the time and effort put into this, I know it could not have been easy.

@UrDay2Die Yeah I guess you're right. Which leads me to ask: can anyone recommend similar games on steam?

@innova_xl Took a bit to think about your post. As I started progressing on this hack (Can never say develop personally, I'm not really a hacker.) I got a gauge of interest that a few people I know wanted a hack that was fresh, but didn''t change the core of what shining force was. The same classes and characters you'd normally expect, but with higher difficulty. The items and enemies in the game is mostly vanilla, save for some unscrubbable stuff with oddeye, but the new battle sprite he has is still neat. That being said, I feel I did as much as I could to it without making it an unplayable wreck.

I think there's a lot of people who have cool ideas for a potential hack, maybe one day if I feel this experience was educational enough for me, I'll strike up something bigger. But for now, I as with a few others have played through it for now, and while it might not shake up anything or do wild things, I'm happy with what I was able to produce this occasion.

Too avoid wall of text I'll post the item change ideas from other hacks I've seen briefly here.
Fairy Powder-> Mage's Cloak
Shining Ball-> Wind Ring
Blizzard-> Holy Ring
Chirrup Sandals-> Leather Armor
Stuff like that, there is a large list off of old rom hack sites that do things like change some of the weaker useless weapons and obscure stuff into better armors that add to character defense, same restrictions as rings. 1 equip per character. ext. If you where to look into some of them you might like it, it was fun to use the system. I do see balance upsetting problems with your custom difficulty setup however so might be a bit much to add. Just a suggestion, and question of curiosity for you really.

Hmm, well as I started looking into it, It looks like the old rom hack I played years ago might be on here. I'll say this. I have done everything in the original, multiple play throughs, etc, you name it. I played a rom hack called Shinging Force II Tactics Edition. They had some fun gameplay changes with the way item equips work. However I'm intrigued by your updates to the actual game play and battles, interested in the Oddeye changes. He was way too cool of a vilinous character to be so easy as in the original, always disappointing. The other rom was basically just a normal run through with more cool items. I think it might work good for your idea if you were personally creative about it. Either way I think I'd chose your rom over the alternative based on descriptions.

@Zephyr i wouldn't mind knowing what kind of spell list changes and what not have been done if you have an orginized list or something and i mean specifics. Like for example who learns what spell at what level. that type of stuff. It's fun btw Kazin so much better with freeze magic.

@innova_xl what items would you consider undesirable?

This seems like a very interesting hack patch, My favorite game of all time. I have played mods before where they updated less desireable items, and modified them in the game data into new weapons/armors, etc. Is there any chance you would consider interest in updating items into your hack at some point?

@akz Unfortunaly I doubt it. Shining Force III and CD were not huge hits, both being they were on expensive consoles and didint get much advertising.

i just started playing the mod and it's interesting. im finding it to be a more interesting challenge.

Cool, I haven't played it yet. Hopefully they release it and other SF games on steam.

Frabell, from Shining Force CD

Ok, no problem I didn't expect it to. Maybe for next time then. What is your avatar of btw?

@akz The name of the hack won't be changing based on subjective opinions.

Interesting hack but the name could sound more appealing.