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Karna and Slade in Shining Soul II (ROM hack)
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A simple cosmetic hack that changes the original priestess and ninja character into Karna and Slade from Shining Force II. Gameplay remains unchanged. Hope you enjoy! |
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List of Changes:
- The characters' sprites, obviously. You can see their spritesheets here: Karna Slade;
- Characters' default names. For fun, the list of cheat names in this game was also altered, so Karna's default name lets you start with the Power Glove item, while Slade's default name gives you +5 dexterity;
- The priestess class' name and description were changed to Master Monk;
- All flail weapons were renamed and redesigned to be fist/knuckle weapons for Karna. You can see the spritesheet here, and the name list in this very page. As of now this does make the Dragonute sprites nonsensical as he uses flails, I plan to address that in the future;
- A few other items had their sprites changed as well, you can see them here;
- A few typoes were fixed throughout the game's text.
How to patch a ROM:
- Download Lunar IPS here;
- Run Lunar IPS and select "Apply IPS Patch";
- Select the "Karna and Slade in Shining Soul II.ips" patch;
- Select an USA ROM of Shining Soul 2;
And you're done, your ROM now has the patch applied. Since this modifies the rom itself, I heavily recommend you keep a backup of the original, that's the first law of ROM hacking, backup everything.
I'm aware other IPS patching tools exist as well, but I'm not familiar with them, so use at your own risk, if you know one you're probably familiar enough with ROM hacks to not need this section anyway :P
Known issues:
- As mentioned above, the Dragonute still wields flails even though those were changed to knuckle weapons, I plan to address that in the future;
- Karna's hair moves less when moving to the sides than in other angles. This was necessary to fit her in the original priestess' animation, since I only know how to replace sprites. Would love to change this in the future;
- Karna's praying animation doesn't show when she's charging spells even though I've inserted them in the ROM. This is an issue in the original game as well, the priestess has unused sprites for that. Would love to fix that one day as well.
- Karna's special knuckles attack looks different facing left and right in some angles. Again, this is a weird issue from the original game, though I feel the punching animation made it more apparent.
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Renamed Items:
| Original Name | New Name |
| Short Flail | Hand Wrap |
| Whip | Wood Knuck |
| Light Flail | Monk Fist |
| Flail | Knuck |
| Thorn Whip | Thorn Fist |
| Hitter | Power Fist |
| Chain Whip | Tough Fist |
| Stone Flail | Stone Fist |
| Chain Flail | Brass Fist |
| Piaj | Furious Fist |
| Power Flail | Vigor Fist |
| Spiked Flail | Spiked Fist |
| Heavy Flail | Heavy Fist |
| Vinor | Wise Fist |
| Battle Flail | Battle Fist |
| Long Flail | Iron Fist |
| Great Flail | Great Fist |
| Guten Dark | War Fist |
| Morning Star | Dragon Fist |
| Scorpion Flail | Ascended Fist |
| Holy Flail¹ | Sun Knuckle |
| Giant's Ironball | Giant Knuckle |
| Unholy Flail | Unholy Knuckle |
| Death Flail | Death Knuckle |
| Evil Flail | Evil Knuckle |
| Lashing Flail | Swift Knuckle |
| Holy Flail¹ | Holy Knuckle |
| Crushing Flail | Hero's Fist |
| Alabaster Flail | Spirit Knuckle |
| Soul Flail | Soul Knuckle |
| Ark Flail | Storm Knuckle |
| Chaos Flail 1/2/3 | Chaos Knuckle 1/2/3 |
| Fire Flail 1/2/3 | Fire Knuckle 1/2/3 |
| Ice Flail 1/2/3 | Ice Knuckle 1/2/3 |
| Bolt Flail 1/2/3 | Bolt Knuckle 1/2/3 |
| Shining Flail 1/2/3 | Shining Knuckle 1/2/3 |
| Darkness Flail 1/2/3 | Darkness Knuckle 1/2/3 |
| Venom Flail 1/2/3 | Venom Knuckle 1/2/3 |
- ¹Not a mistake, the original game has two different items both named Holy Flail. The first one, renamed to Sun Knuckle, is a special rare drop, while the second, renamed to Holy Knuckle, is a special forge weapon.
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