Japanese Romhack of Romancing SaGa 3 (SFC)
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For context, the Bokuno mod is a relatively new Japanese romhack that can be found on RHDN here or on its original site here. The RHDN entry states:
“Bokuno” is a Romancing SaGa 3 ROM Hack that adds content from other SaGa games such as characters, events, bosses, item, etc.
- Spark Magic: You spark magic the same way as techs.
- Magic Level Save: If you decide to use another magic, your level is saved and you can go back to using it anytime.
- New Game+: After you beat the game and see the credits roll, reset your game with emulator (MUST be reset, not turn off). If you start new game from there, it will count as game already beaten. Some items will change the bosses you can fight.
- Combo System: In battle, you can see that attacks have some letters on them (A, D, T, S). To initiate the combo attack, you must attack in order A→D→T→A… and so on. Attacks with S can’t be comboed. Also your attacks can’t be interrupted by enemy.
Writes Epic_G regarding a fan translation of the Bokuno mod and in replies to a post on the SaGa subreddit here:
Currently working on it.
the translation is pretty much done (i used the remaster as a base but tried to make it closer to the original japanese version).
i’m also fixing bugs from the original hack and experimenting with some extra features like showing the spark chance in colored text during battle and toggling skill descriptions on/off.
the text data in the rom is a real mess though. even when extracting and translating everything seems to have gone well there are all kinds of weird things going on under the hood like dialogue lines being pieced together from completely different offsets or two different npcs sharing parts of the same dialogue.
with so many characters and branching paths that can change dialogue depending on the situation it’s pretty much impossible for me to playtest every single case on my own so i can’t confidently say how polished the final result is yet.
i’ll probably release a test version first and work on fixing and improving things based on feedback.
test version should be available very soon.
A project channel with relevant info can be found in our Discord.
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