SHINING FORCE ALTERNATE Released (1.1g) 05/24/19

[Runesamurai]

No worries. I'm gonna have so much fun with this.

[ShiningForceHero]

I am very excited for this! Is this week looking feasible, or will the wait be a bit longer?

[Runesamurai]

What's the current progress report?

[xenometal]

After much sanding and painting, Erikin and I (but mostly Erikin ) have been hard at work applying the last coat of polish.

The plan is to release either on the 31th or January 1. Happy New Year in advance, everyone!

[ShiningForceHero]

After much sanding and painting, Erikin and I (but mostly Erikin ) have been hard at work applying the last coat of polish.

The plan is to release either on the 31th or January 1. Happy New Year in advance, everyone!

Excellent news! Happy New Year!

[Erikin84]

After much sanding and painting, Erikin and I (but mostly Erikin ) have been hard at work applying the last coat of polish.

The plan is to release either on the 31th or January 1. Happy New Year in advance, everyone!

Excellent news! Happy New Year!

Happy New Year indeed!

SFA is finally out!

[Runesamurai]

If I'd known you were allowing other people to playtest it I would've volunteered. No matter.

[Erikin84]

If I'd known you were allowing other people to playtest it I would've volunteered. No matter.

I only had a select amount of people playtesting, didn't want too many hands on it.

[PlayerLin]

Wow, I like the idea about genderswapping but...well, not expect it happens on Max. But why not. :P

Is it normal use in-game saving and restart the game caused game freeze/just not working(no game saved) at all?
I'm using Fusion 3.64, just not sure if my patched ROM does working or not.

At least save-state still working...country setting is USA for sure(since the game only boots when set to USA).

[Erikin84]

Wow, I like the idea about genderswapping but...well, not expect it happens on Max. But why not. :P

Is it normal use in-game saving and restart the game caused game freeze/just not working(no game saved) at all?
I'm using Fusion 3.64, just not sure if my patched ROM does working or not.

At least save-state still working...country setting is USA for sure(since the game only boots when set to USA).

It may be a symptom of it being expanded to 6mb. I personally use the GENS emulator and I recommend keeping a savestate for your progress.

[PlayerLin]

It may be a symptom of it being expanded to 6mb. I personally use the GENS emulator and I recommend keeping a savestate for your progress.

Understand, using savestates on my playthrough, right now I finished battle 4...that fight just hard for me...

I found a little typo when talk to the Alterone king after battle 4...see the attachment.

[Bela B.]

I've been waiting for months for the released, and now I can't get it to run

After applying the patch, I always get Checksum Error on KEGA Fusion and also on Gens it doesn't start. I have used an unmodified ROM of course.

Edit: Just figured it out.
It seems to be important to get the ROM with the .bin and not the .smd ending

[ShiningForceHero]

Enjoying the mod so far! Only thing I wanted to mention was in Luke's dialogue. When he says his name, it isn't capitalized. Very small thing, but something I thought worth mentioning.

Thank you for all the work you put into this

Edit: Also, while I read thru it quickly, I believe you have the Spirit at Manarina say "Waral, and Island kingdom," it should be "Waral, an Island kingdom."

[Runesamurai]

I'mma do a second playthrough of this.

[Erikin84]

Enjoying the mod so far! Only thing I wanted to mention was in Luke's dialogue. When he says his name, it isn't capitalized. Very small thing, but something I thought worth mentioning.

Thank you for all the work you put into this

Edit: Also, while I read thru it quickly, I believe you have the Spirit at Manarina say "Waral, and Island kingdom," it should be "Waral, an Island kingdom."

Thanks, I will correct that for the next update.

[Runesamurai]

I can't wait to see how far this comes. If you don't mind a little criticism I have to say that I feel like setting the level cap to 15 and forcing us to wait till after the Waral fight to promote makes the game harder than it really should be. Was your goal to encourage strategy and tactical gameplay perhaps? I felt forced to use the Turtle Dust on certain bosses.

[Erikin84]

I can't wait to see how far this comes. If you don't mind a little criticism I have to say that I feel like setting the level cap to 15 and forcing us to wait till after the Waral fight to promote makes the game harder than it really should be. Was your goal to encourage strategy and tactical gameplay perhaps? I felt forced to use the Turtle Dust on certain bosses.

It’s meant to be played without grinding, I’ve been able to get through each battle without grinding levels and that’s where I landed after each playthrough. As for the turtle dust, he’s, some bosses will require debuffing first.

[Runesamurai]

That kind of takes away an important fundamental of RPGs. It was something I always hated about the older Fire Emblems.

Most RPGs let you grind. Fire Emblem doesn't. I was glad they fixed that in the later games.
It's always been in my nature to grind and get all the best stuff whenever I play an RPG. Whether it's using broken skills or just getting op. And that likely makes me lose out on the enjoyment the series is meant to offer. I still enjoy the games, but find it frustrating if I'm self-crippling myself to create a difficulty.

And it's not like we have to grind. I'm just saying I think the mod would be better if you gave people like me the option to grind if we want to. Shining Force has always been a game that encourages grinding after all too.

[gippuria]

I am stuck at Chapter 6. After getting sword of darkness the game failed to update the event on Rindo. I could not meet Krin since the town is still at the same state as before fighting Mishaela. I also got this kind of problem right after getting sword of light. The game failed to update the state in Draconia but suddenly fixed after I randomly used sword of light on the map.

[Runesamurai]

Edited my earlier post. I do hope you will consider what I have said.