Hey everyone:
I'm not sure if anyone else is a fan of the underrated Secret of Mana, but I noticed vivify's proper-caser hack today and I just wanted to
point it out to anyone that may not be aware.
It's a fun game with some glaring problems, most notably the translation. FuSoYa's variable width font hack is a great help, and I'm sure vivify's proper caser will give the menu the treatment it deserves.
Vivify mentioned that a future direction would be having lower case letters in the naming screen. I think it would be pretty fun to add lower-case letters to the names (and maybe extend it beyond 6 letters if we dare to dream). I really don't know anything about the layout of the RAM and ROM to actually do it, but assuming there is space for it, it would be a good thing.
Also, I know there are some bugs in the game that render it fairly broken at times. Again, I don't know enough about the game under the hood (as I've spent a great deal of time on FFVI, I know it is not trivial to learn such things), but perhaps someone here can answer some things for me.
1. Has anyone undertaken a study of the game to find bugs?
2. Are there any commented disassemblies for it?
3. Has anyone done a non-textual hack of it (i.e. changing code)?
I know some things have been done with its event engine; I even figured some of the event commands out myself one time from reverse-engineering some game genie codes. So SOMEONE out there has played with it a bit. I also know that there was a guy working on an editor for it at one point, but I don't know if anything ever came of it.
....Sorry for the rambling. Long story short, if you're a fan, try out these two hacks for it, and if anyone else has some info they'd like to share, or they'd like to start looking for stuff, I'm all ears. :)
We have EVEN MORE themes now, but some old ones are gone...