Quest 64, also known as Holy Magic Century, is an RPG for the Nintendo 64 set in the fantasy world of Celestial. Players control Brian, a young wizard, as he embarks on a quest to rescue his kidnapped father and recover the fragmented Holy Magic. The game features turn-based combat, magic spells, and a unique leveling system focused on elemental attributes. This enhanced version, Quest 64 French Vanilla, introduces various quality-of-life improvements, including reduced encounter rates and rebalanced spells.
Quest 64 "French Vanilla" is a quality-of-life overhaul for Quest 64, that came out of game improvements as part of the Quest 64 Randomizer project "MERROW".
Players requested a QoL ruleset separate (but compatible with) the randomizer ruleset. This patch contains only those QoL options.
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NEW CHANGES IN V48:
- Encounter rate reduced.
- Menu now displays combat EXP remaining rather than a percentage.
PREVIOUS:
- Spell damage substantially rebalanced (to make all elements viable).
- Enemy drop limit disabled (enemies will drop items even if you have one).
- Boss spell passive invalidity disabled (in vanilla, some boss spells passively removed buffs, making them functionally useless).
- All spells' accuracy normalized to 100 (the base game has a flat accuracy check and an Agility vs. Agility check. This functionally removes that first check, but spells can still miss enemies).
- Wings enabled indoors and in dungeons.
- Starting stats slightly improved (50HP/15MP/5Def/5Agi).
- Staff hit MP regain doubled (making Staff-only strats more viable).
- Fast Shamwood (leaving Shamwood will place you back at the Baragoon Ruins exit).
- Dew Drop made useful (now restores 20HP as well as 10MP).
- Hidden spirits moved to clearer locations (three spirits were not visible, now they are).
- Message speed set to maximum by default.
- HUD remains onscreen at all times instead of sliding in and out.
- Minor text improvements added for unclear UI (like 'Continue Save').
If you'd like to customize these options individually, or try further difficulty customization or randomization options, MERROW is available at https://hangedman.itch.io/merrow. It can directly patch/repair Z64 files, and also contains a generic CRC repair tool (and some other simple romhacking tools.)
MERROW v48 building patch...
Seed: 246994054
Shortcode: 48.T.D9184329-108000E.L.0000000100005000000.S.000100200A00F032005005
PSA: You can use the same Controller Pak save file across multiple different rando patches.
Only inventory, stats, defeated bosses, and collected chests/spirits will be retained.
Save states override all settings and cannot be used for testing randomization across different patches.
Please report any bugs or quirks (or funny stuff): @JonahD on Twitter, or hangedman#5757 on Discord.
PATCH MODIFIERS:
Spells rebalanced.
Enemy drop limit disabled.
Boss spell passive invalidity disabled.
All spells' accuracy normalized to 100.
Wings enabled indoors.
Starting stats modified: 50/15/5/5
Staff hit MP regain set to 2x.
Fast Shamwood enabled.
Dew Drop made useful.
Hidden spirits moved to clearer locations.
Encounter rate: Reduced
Message speed set to maximum.
HUD onscreen lock enabled.
Text improvements added.
Z64 file patched. Checksum repaired.
NOTE: After building, this file was manually converted into a .rup using JS Patcher, for romhacking.net.
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