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I did make it just with a hex-editor and all the data collected by relnqshd. relnqshd was a lufia hacker active years ago who collected a lot of useful data and made very nice patches like creating more space for monsters and fixing some bugs. Unfortunately he left the public years ago and no one could contact him any more, but when he retired, he did upload almost all of his data in form of a file called reliquary.

Reliquary download

That's awesome. When I was on the lookout for a game to mod, this was one of them that piqued my interest, but I couldn't find anything on it at all.

It should cover most of the stuff relnqshd had documented, but a few things are missing I think. This should cover the rest:

more stuff 1
more stuff 2

Some content may overlap though.

How exactly did the battle scripting work? That seems crazy to do by hexediting.

It's basically nothing more than writing in a programming language - and in fact it's only some very basic stuff. You have a (very) few (integer) variables and you can use if-, for- and (do-)while-loops.

Hey Artemis!

Thank you so much for your development on this, Lufia 2 is one of the best RPGs on SNES, or ever made. I will definitely check this one out at a later time (currently almost done FFT1.3 )

Thanks again and I'm hoping you continue to work on it



Ancient Cave is calling me...

Well, guess I had to fix some overflow issues. Doing that I also changed a very minor thing regarding fruely hardcore Gades.

This is the newest version: Click me!

Thank you for doing this. Possibly my favorite game ever. Im happy that regular monsters aren't touched. It would make the game way to arduous.

For anyone interested, I made a patch for Kureji Lufia v3.13 that buffs regular enemies. Apply it after the Kureji Lufia patch.
http://www.mediafire...r+Enemy+Buff.7z

Checked it and it works for the Fruely Hardcore version as well.

However, you forgot a few of the special magic attacks. Like Green/Blue/Red Dragon, Lucifer or Nosferatu and maybe some I overlooked as well.

Excellent, I'm glad it works on the Hardcore version as well

I believe those attacks also deal damage based on intelligence, which is why I didn't alter their attack power. I only altered the attack power of non-stat based abilities.

Yeah, they are based on intelligence. Though, in the case of the Lich enemy you actually altered it as well.

Oops. Eventually I'll probably give some late game enemies some extra buffs. I'll fix it then.

Wait, or did you do it because the power of this attack was quite low compared to the power of earlier enemies? That would make sense!

However, Lucifer (Archfiend) might need some buff as his special magic attack is ridiculously low regarding the point he appears in the Ancient Cave.

It would make sense but I'm pretty sure it was an accident.

Lucifer being an Ancient Cave only enemy should be buffed a bit. I'm running through the mod right now, so I'll probably wait until I get there to alter it. Likely it will be around double or triple the attack power.

I'll need to make a list of later game enemies that need buffed.

Okay, here are some unwritten rules I had in mind while creating:

1. The max HP a normal enemy has shall not exceed 5000.
2. The max HP of all normal enemies simultaneous on screen shall not exceed 10000.
3. The highest ATK (and DFP) of a normal enemy shall not exceed 2000. (Even the highest ranking gods won't top this.)
4. The highest power of an AoE special attack (both physical and magical) shall not exceed 800.

As I've only changed very few regular enemies the only ones these rules really apply are thze metal dragons. They are supposed to be the biggest baddest shit you could imagine for a non-boss enemy. I thought about changing a few other late AC enemies as well, but then when realizing that the dragons actually start appearing exactly at the beginning of the last 20 floors (the final segment and exactly where the badass music kicks in), I didn't do it.

I guess the only problematic one might be #4. So we'll see about it then.

I wonder how it will turn out in the end because aside from personal preferences (I like my fodder as actual fodder) I see a very big balancing problem due to the way the Ancient Cave is designed. The more I think over it, the more I fucking hate the vanilla AC. The optimal winning strategy basically is farm dozens of hours for the right stuff while enduring the sheer boredom of repeating the same monotonous stuff again and again. That's what you have to do in order to minimize how much RNG luck will affect you on your final run.

And let's face it: On the overworld you just are better prepared and more ressourceful than you can ever dream of being in the AC. Therefore the endgame overworld enemies just should be stronger than the end of AC enemies. Especially considering you can easily level up to 99 on the overworld. In Retry Mode you even hit 99 without grinding by just taking with every enemy you encounter. Unfortunately these strongest overworld enemies appear around floor 70 in the AC.

I guess it'll work if you make the enemies not that strong. That is, prioritizing how it'll work out in the AC instead of the overworld.

I'd say let's just multiply the HP by 2 instead of 3 for all overworld enemies and then look specifically on the AC only ones.

The other increases look fine most of the time. I guess it works for all overworld enemies aside maybe some very few specific minor changes. Then again the AC stuff will need some more specific changes.



Edit: Okay, I'm doing these changes right now. Might be ready for testing in a few days. Overworld endgame enemies won't get changes, but AC only enemies will get minimal changes.

Can someone educate me on Current Lufia 2 mods and whats all included in this one?

Been looking to replay this gem and spice things up a bit.

Does this mod include the various bugfix and correction patches? Has there ever been a retranslation of this game?

Whats recommended for a veteran player looking for a challenge but not something too crazy?

I'd recommend Spekkio Lufia for you.

It's exactly made for veteran players and provides some challenge, but nothing too crazy... aside from maybe the optional stuff. It includes all the bugfixes as well as a retranslation. However, most enemies are unchanged as I only rebalanced what I felt was really necessary. Aside from optional challenges, it's the final bosses and a new battle mid-way which however are decently challenging.

Aside from this, there's Frue Lufia which only is bugfix+retranslation as well as Kureji Lufia which is insane hard (+bugfix/retrans).

Here's an update about the buffed enemies:

My link

It's what Landon did, but with the monsters having less HP (*2 instead of *3). Fixed also a few little mistakes and also considered stuff like HP border query in case of monsters using different stuff when low on HP.

I went strictly for the formulas except for the AC only enemies who have some more personally changes.

It's the difficult version usable on a unmodifiied ROM. Now, it only has to be tested and to get a final check (mistakes are so easily made ) , then I'll add it as an alternative version.