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Phantasy Star Retranslation Rebalance project
Post Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 4:12 pm
Last edited by necropresto on Sun Aug 16, 2020 5:43 pm; edited 4 times in total
Hello, folks.

As I am truly excited with new Phantasy Star Retranslation, I began a rebalance project over retranslation patched ROM.

Premisses:

1) Try to don't change game difficult or at least compensate changes;
2) Don't mess with monsters data (I had to fix Dark Force defense);
3) Don't change spells learned from chars (maybe only their costs)

Roles:

1) Alisa - Hybrid athletic fighter: does a good damage, has a good defense and can cast support/damage spells but not as good as dedicated roles.

2) Myau - Support: does less damage than Alisa, but has stronger healer and support spells.

3) Tylon - Physical damage dealer: does more damage than Alisa and has more constitution (HP) but he is too slow, affecting his defense. Can use heavy weapons (like axes and guns). If equiped with same Alisa's weapons, his ATK must be higher.

4) Lutz - Magical damage dealer: weakest physical attack, but with enough MP to cast offensive spells at almost all battles.

Tylon weapons:

1) Guns: are tools. They can be util to fight against swarms.

2) Axes: It is where Tylon really shines. Must do more damage then their sword equivalent.

Lutz spells:

1) I can't only increase Lutz's MPs because it should affect his "healing potential" so, to minimize this effect, I lowered offensive spells cost too.

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Changelog:

v0.3:
- Dark Force defense buffed (it was smaller than La Shiec's) to compensate Tylon damage.
- Remember: Myau's spell Power Boost (or HELP) is useful.

v0.2:
- Iron Armor, Iron Sword and Bronze Shied buy and sell prices adjusted to fit scale MST/Power;
- New axe buy and sell prices increased.

v0.1:
- Tylon ATK and HP buffed to fill his role;
- Lutz MP buffed to fill his role;
- Offensive spells (Fire, Wind and Thunder) cost reduced;
- Iron Axe buffed (how could an Iron Axe do less damage than an Iron Sword?) and buy and sell prices adjusted;
- Useless Needle Gun removed to give place to a 3rd axe;
- I heard that there is a silver mine on Palma northern island and is possible to do strong weapons with it. ;-)

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Known bugs:
- None yet

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All suggestions and testers are welcome!

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Post Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:32 am
Since the character stats are not touched by the retranslation, it should be possible to apply the same patch to the Japanese version, and maybe even the original export version if the locations match. I think there will be a lot of disagreement on the details which I am happy to keep out of.

It might be possible to make it a runtime option like the other new options.
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Post Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:04 pm
Item data was relocated (from $bf9c to $27f8f). But i didn't need to touch it (yet).

And I renamed Needle Gun... so IPS works in retranslation only.

I can revert this new weapon, but this is a way to see Tylon using axes during the play time (and that incredible axe animation too).

If you want to include this changes in menu options, I can abandon item and shop changes and focus only in char stats and magic cost.
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Post Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 2:08 pm
Any data changes can be made optional, with varying amounts of work.
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Post Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2020 5:47 pm
I added the patches for the other ROM languages.
I didn't make a Japanese version available because I didn't know how to write the name of the new ax.
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