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The Fated mod of Romancing SaGa on SFC has been unveiled courtesy of clymax. The mod is for use with the DDSTranslation English fan translation v2.0 (which is based on the Trans-Dimension fan translation).
The mod is unofficial and unaffiliated with Square Enix.
Like all of clymax’s rando mods, it’s a respinner as opposed to a repatcher, so just simply reset the game to play a new randomization.
For patching instructions, project status, or other assistance, please check us out on Discord. A teaser trailer is below.
A release build is being considered, but no plans have been set yet.
Development Build: Features
The dev build is on the rotation of mods that can be obtained through our Whirlwind Fiesta annual summer event. For players who do not wish to join the event, do not wish to use Discord, or wish to support the hack author, early access is also available via Game Jolt.
Item chests now give you randomized items. Seeding not yet supported.
Gold chests and jewel chests are unaffacted.
Save ram expanded to 16KB to make room for new features.
Added support for saving hack state.
Added support for loading hack state. Multi-session game timers are thus now supported.
Virtually all maps and locations unlocked to start.
No more enemy encounters unless you hold down the R button.
Walk through enemies even if they block your path.
The portal from Isthmus Cavern to Quietus is now open from the start.
You can now keep looting random items from the same chest, up to a limit.
Stat gains are now boosted to 30x. Only affects the eight base stats.
Your number of battles that is used as one of the ways to level up weapon proficienices is now boosted to 100x.
Gold gains from battle boosted to 50x.
Walking speed increased.
You can now hold down the B button to run.
A side effect of this feature is that NPC interactions now may require holding down the B button to occur.
Locations of recruitable characters are scrambled once at game start.
A demo clip of relooting the same chest is below.
The Destiny DLC is also available and adds the following features.
Support added for manual seeding. Your protagonist’s name is your seed for the run.
The seed determines your chest drops and the scrambled locations of recruitable characters.
Switch between seeded and seedless rando anytime.
Seedless rando is also known as luck-based or skill-based rando.
So, what do you think? How do you think Romancing SaGa on SFC holds up today? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.
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Credits
YeOldeLoremonger – vocals, writing, recording, performing, mixing, mastering, booking, and video editing
Levi Anthony – beat
Says the rap artist:
Lead single from Fantasy Rap’s first national touring artist, Ye Olde Loremonger.
This contains footage from the Hardcore Horrorcore tour with MMMFD and Danny Diablo, from the House of Blues Houston on tour with Insane Clown Posse and Ganxsta NIP, from the Gathering of the Juggalos with Ouija Macc’s out Scrollkeepers, from a tour stop of the Kottonmouth Kings, from Gorefest 19 by Lyrikal Snuff Productions at the Roxy Theater, from Carl’s Tavern, Tom Wood’s Float, and more!!!
So, what do you think? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.
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The Japanese name of the game is ドラゴンクエストIV 導かれし者たち (lit. The Guided Ones). Other ports of this title have had the latter part of their name officially localized as Chapters of the Chosen.
Says hack author RadMageIRL on his project website:
A ground-up English translation for the 2001 PlayStation (PS1/PSX) remake of Dragon Quest IV: Michibikareshi Mono Tachi, the version with the added prologue, content and Immigrant Town, which has never had an English release on any console.
It runs on the game’s own Japanese engine. Nothing is grafted in from another title and no other game’s executable is involved. The text is re-encoded in place, in the format the disc already uses, and every claim the tooling relies on is checked against a real disc before a build ships.
Every line is written from the Japanese. Existing localizations are consulted the way a translator consults prior art, never copied.
More details on this translation hack are set to be revealed on this page in the future.
Prior demo footage from the hack author:
Live Playtest – Now Streaming
In the meantime, catch some live gameplay of the closed beta with some of our streamers here. Below is the debut episode by our streamer Sora. Also streamed on Twitch here.
