Insane Difficulty: Started a Legend of Mana mod. - Insane Difficulty

Koda, on 30 August 2014 - 01:35 AM, said:

I can't tell if you're joking, but adding online play to a game that was released on hardware that didn't have any networking capabilities is very much outside the realm of possible, let alone through a low level assembly hack.

Maybe there's a general netplay plugin for ePSXe that would let someone else pick up player 2's inputs if that's something you really wanted to do.

top kek.

The mod is very nice and I appreciate the work put into it

I was wondering if I'm just a noob, or if the Bud and Lisa fight at the beginning of the game is near impossible to beat? I've tried this fight a dozen times and they just explode magic in my face (no puns int.) and I can't seem to beat them, or even get close. Is this something that I have to come back way later in the game to beat? I'd hope not, because I don't consider them serious bosses. I think they are suppose to be more like tutorial bosses (considering they are in the area that tutorials everything else), yet they are much more difficult than any other boss I've faced.

Also you kind of need to take Bud all over the place to meet the 7 wisdoms.

Help please

Auphilia, on 14 September 2014 - 07:22 PM, said:

Hi Auphilia. Could you post a save state or save game or something so I could look at it?

Here is the save state:
http://www.mediafire...Elegnaim.state4

Just head north and you will get into the area with Budd and Lisa. I have Niccolo as a companion and we still both get wiped lol.

Thanks for looking into it!

Errrrrrr wait which emulator is this for :S

Sorry, it is for Retroarch which I was playing via Android. The core used was PCSX-reARMed [Neon].

I thought save states would work for any emulator.

You can get the windows version or android version from here: http://www.libretro.....php/downloads/

It looks like the Windows version of Retroarch only supports the Mednafen PSX core, which doesn't support save states. It's not letting me use the PCSX-Rearmed core, in any case.

Can you generate like a memory card file that would work with the Mednafen core? idk if there's any interoperability between PCSX and Mednafen, with regards to the memory cards, but I guess it's worth a shot.

A few points though.

1. https://dl.dropboxus...rsion%201.0.zip Is the most recent version. The standard patch has enemies doing less damage -- I think they were balanced so that about eight normal attacks kill you, whereas it's around five in the More Damage version. There's also an 'Arrange' patch which is the More Damage version with ALL hitstun taken out.

2. Experience level is less important -- your stats only have a subtle effect in the base game, and enemy damage is scaled to the player's level in the patch. Equipment matters more. So make sure you have the best stuff available at that moment.

3. Movement speed for plunges and movements skills should NOT have been affected by the patch. When Bud and Lisa start broadcasting their spells, jump or somersault or use thrust attacks to get out of there -- I think the dagger's thrust attack moves you the farthest.

4. Plunges don't really do damage on their own but you can still use the knockback from them to maybe keep Bud and Lisa on the same side of the screen so you don't have to worry about spells coming from multiple directions.

Elegnaim, on 14 September 2014 - 07:08 AM, said:

Yes basically netplay since the game is already designed to load multiple players from one save to another. There is also already a pvp system built into Geo 'the arena'. Would be fun to play this game with some new content is all, even better if multiplayer, one of the things the Seiken Densetsu games always had that other RPGs didn't.

I'd like to see a version of the standard patch where damage scales based on the enemy's level and enemies have slightly more HP.

LandonRay, on 16 October 2014 - 12:36 PM, said:

That was actually the original intent but neither I nor anyone else looking at this was able to figure out /where/ the enemy's level was stored.

I'd consider making this change if someone COULD find this.

hey guys, i'm currently enjoying the changes to this hack but i also have afew problems like surviving... what do you guys do to kill bosses? etc? i've been spamming counterstrike to kill bosses so far but i find it disappointing.

Shouldn't abilities consume a bit of the ST bar? After all, those are what you use to keep yourself alive now that you're too slow to simply walk away.

Well, first and the most i wanted to express my gratitude toward the author of this mod, he did a really great and pleasant job!
Played around 25 events and row of boss fights, i want to leave some feedback and ask for advice. First part of the game i was fully relying on companions (Elazul in caves, Daena and Nicollo at road) in order to distract and beat enemyes and bosses, then it was Bud or Lisa for most times.
Survive and going throu is pretty much pain in the ass without those ones (i didn't raise eggs or make good golems), but what bothers me is, being the same level as main character (currently 25), it seems for me that Bud and Lisa almost invinsible for any monsters and most bosses i beat until now.
I can't help it but makin some combos at any boss fight, until i take a few hits and cornering for crouch (hp restore), while seeing how my parther literally annihilates the boss (well, and all enemyes too), i feel so helpless and useless :-) Im pretty much sure that for the most fights companions can solo everithing just fine, and i don't like it.
Or maybe it wasn't a good idea to equip that ring, which divides XP points between all party members and train Bud and Lisa along with the main charather?
My point is:
1) Is there any way to make companions vulnerable like main char, make them go down in 5-7 hits (change damage formula?), well, as fast, as the main char.
2) Or if it's impossible for some reason - make it game over screen if your companion fall in battle (going for more risks for takin companion with you).
3) Or, well, make them weaker somehow (stretch xp bar or nerf stats and attack levels), a LOT weaker :-)
If impossible, any advices to make the game harder for me (assuming i start a new game)?

And some tottaly different question - it seems for me that raising HP level won't make much difference in survival. I did make some checks in Mediv caverns at those bats, which has 2 types of attacks (i call it wave and hit). Checks were maked with unequiped armor, so all defences zero.
"LV" "HP" "wave(%)" "hit(%)"
"5" "74" "24" "28"
"23" "231" "14" "20"

Maybe it is inaccurate for some reason, but it seems to me, that leveling up kinda doesn't make a lot of difference, as more you level up, the more damage same enemyes deal to you, heh :-)
Well then. i'm done, sorry for long post ^^

Right, i started over a new game, banning for myself companion leveling (bud and lisa), so they would be at lv.7 pernament, that's pretty fine for me.
Also, i did some checks about difficulty of a standart mod patch, the results:
"LV" "HP" "wave(%)" "hit(%)"
"5" "74" "11" "13"
"23" "231" "7" "10"

It seems i can safely switch between hard and standart if thing goes too hard, cause damage taken in standart patch absolutely bearable :-)

Dunno if someone even reads this, but never mind :-)
Beat the game few weeks ago, this was great experience and i liked this mod a lot.
I didn't abuse tempering sistem (exept for armor) or use Bud and Lisa at all (they OP in normal difficulty, i'm afraid), and the next thing i want to try "no future difficulty" with normal version of this mod, i think with adequate weapon, max armor tempering and NPCs it is actually playable.
I confirm that later, i'm a little tired from LoM for now ;-)