Insane Difficulty: Hardtype Hacks - Wishlist - Insane Difficulty

Haha, "staff". Good one.

I have some suggestions for Hardtype hacks, but before that, are games that already include Hard or harder modes in their original release disqualified from hacking?

As long as there are available methods for people to utilize the hacks, are games from any system a possibility?

Cloudroth, on 21 May 2015 - 04:20 AM, said:

Why would any game be "disqualified from hacking"?

Of course they're a possibility. Of course someone would need to have the motivation, skills, and desire to pull it off well for it to be worth playing.

Cloudroth, on 21 May 2015 - 04:20 AM, said:

To note is that this thread is not a request thread. Posting the game you'd like to see modded will have no effect whatsoever - in other words, no one will read it up and say "Okay, let's mod this game." Only you can do that, which is how projects start - with the modder wanting to see a finished mod of said game.

This thread is just a way to share wishes, not suggestions. But by all means, share with us what you'd love to play if it existed. Hard / Hard-er modes doesn't have to disqualify anything, especially when said difficulty modes are only an increase in stats that only increase tedium, instead of changing the core of the gameplay.

Not sure if this is the right place to really talk about this, but I was wondering if anyone knows how to pull scripts from mods? I've been wanting to merge the Breath of Fire 2 Retranslation with Breath of Fresh Fire 2 for a long time, and I have a lot of free time available soon. Does anyone know what a good program would be to try and poke around the files?

Velsper, on 21 May 2015 - 07:19 AM, said:

Yes, please. I need this in my life.

Ludovician, on 21 May 2015 - 04:47 AM, said:

I meant are any of the more recent titles risky to post mods to here for any particular legal reasons.


@Hart-Hunt
By suggestions, I meant wishes. Several of the hacks available here are of games I really enjoy already.
I don't particularly have an interest in hacking myself, just wanted to post some titles that I think would have some interesting opportunities, possibly both for the hackers and the players.


Some particular titles I would be happy to see that haven't appeared here or elsewhere are...
- More Mega Man X games (thanks Hart for doing X1)
- Shadow Hearts Series - Shadow Hearts, Shadow Hearts: Covenant (or the superior Shadow Hearts II: Director's Cut - the script will also need to be translated from Japanese since no English version exists), Shadow Hearts: From the New World (LandonRay's PS2 hacking made me think of these)
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII

Its always nice to see people going out of their way to increase the shelf life of games they enjoy.

I can really only think of two games, and one was mentioned already.
First, Legend of Legaia for the PS1.
Second, Bahamuts Lagoon for the SNES.

Cloudroth, on 22 May 2015 - 08:50 AM, said:

Not unless you are uploading a rom itself.

Mana khemia 2 Fall Of alchemy..

Really easy game.. need a "Hard mode"

I know I'm putting the cart before the horse here, but if that rumored FFXII HD remaster does turn out to be true, and it somehow ends up on PC, would that put a IZJS hack closer to possible?

Asking mostly because I wasn't aware IZJS had a following here. I'm used to being met with THE GAME PLAYS ITSELF LOL

Vandal Hearts 1 for PS1. Great game, but very easy.

OH my gosh yes a FFXII IZJS hardtype would be very interesting in fact I think that any FF that allows you to choose or/and change Jobs would be very interesting to re-balance and high up the difficulty.

Also I would like to see a Valkyrie Profile : Lenneth difficulty/re-balance hack that would be cool.

Nesouk, on 25 June 2016 - 11:28 PM, said:

A Valkyrie Profile rebalance hack that doesn't make mashing rewarding, and actually forces you to think before you act each turn!

Well to be fair in Valkyrie Profile by timing your attacks and adding some skills you can already do some cool combo (which is kind of great when you want to get many crystals to increase EXP) I'm agree that the game should encourage the player to do that, the game honnestly has solid base but could be improved on my mind I think of things like :

-The 2 skills Guts and Auto-Item should in my opinion be removed completly those skills are so broken that with it even a complete noob at this game can beat any bosses without even thinking (and also it is annoying that 90% of the video you can see on youtube rely so much on those 2 skills).

-Great Magic should be rebalance in damage some Great Magic such as Celestial Star or Meteor Swarm are extremely OP while some other such as the Ice's Great Magics or Ifrit Caress are crap.

-Mages should be rebalance or at least altered the way they works basically aside of their base MAG and base Spells every Mages is the same since you can learn any spells you want to them, an interesting thing would be to basically make that every Mages cannot learn every spells (especially in regard of the offensive spells)

-Rebalancing the physical characters suprisingly most of the early-game characters (such as Lawfer or Belenus) are very strong while most mid and late character are decent at best.

-Make the ennemies, especially the bosses tougher honestly most bosses are already very strong and can nearly wipe you out if you don't have a proper resistance (especially elemental resistance for bosses that use Great Magics), but their HP are way too low with Sap Guard, Might Reinforce and Spell Reinforce there is only 1 boss (Iseria Queen) that cannot be killed in a Full Assault (by that I mean all attacks of the 4 characters connect + 4 Purify Weird Soul/Great Magics).

-Equipment and Items should also be rebalance but this would need a lot of works as there is many thing that could be done here.

But this most likely will not happen any time soon as from what I've heard Valkyrie Profile Data are extremely hard to work with.

A rebalance/difficulty hack for Bravely Default/Second would be awesome.

Sorry for double post, my browser glitched.