This is a basic patch that will increase the amount of Experience Points and Zenny (the currency of the game) gained by defeating monsters.
It works with both the original game, and with Ryusui's Retranslation, but if you're interested on using it with it, you need first to have an SRAM file with the initial check made correctly. Simple as running the game after applying the retranslation so it creates a save file after performing the check, and then patching the ROM with this.
This initial, simple patch became the basis for a much bigger project by the same author, that attempts to streamline and improve the game in a number of areas to make it shine as he thought it deserves, also uploaded here:
-- Original 2015 Readme --
This is a very simple patch that will multiply the experience and Zeny by 2, removing
a lot of the grind factor of the game that seems to bother so many people.
You'll need an unheadered rom, which will have file size of 3,145,728 bytes.
If you have a ROM with a header, you should remove it by using a program like Snestools,
or NRST.
I find NRST easier to use, if you're not experienced with older programs.
If you're going to use this patch with the amazing retranslation made by Ryusui & co,
you'll need to let the game check itself before applying this patch.
I'll explain:
When you install the retranslation, the first time you run the game, it will check the
ROM to see if everything is OK. After that the game will work normally.
Thing is, if you apply this patch before that check, it will give you an error.
To get around this you just need to let the rentranslation do it's thing, and when it
has finished, you can proceed and install this patch. After that you'll be ready to go.
If you want to be really sure, start a file and save after the intro,
then apply the patch.
In short, you need an SRAM save file with the check already done.
--- PS from 2022 --
I've been getting requests to upload this old patch for years.
Truth be told, I already tried to upload it back in 2015 but it got rejected because
it was seen as a "Cheat patch" which is supposedly not accepted at RomHacking.Net...
...Even when you can find a number of hacks literally giving you Max Stats for a variety
of games being accepted. To this day it still eludes me what was going on there.
But I'm not mad. For one it'd be really sad to be angry at something that, at the time
of writing this, happened close to 7 years ago. But there's another big reason:
Rejecting this is what made me go the extra mile and make a better, more complete and
greater hack, and I ended up doing it and releasing it close to 5 years ago, with the
super original and fantastic name of "Breath of Fire II Maeson".
The reception seemed to be pretty great, and I am more than happy with it myself, so...
Yeah, being rejected is probably the best thing it could happen to me on this regard.
Yet I still got people asking for the Double Exp and Zenny patch, so I'll be happy to
share it once and for all.
Have a nice day.
Database match: Breath of Fire II (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Super Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210222-050638)
File/ROM SHA-1: 1F7707E606B7E9FA8FB3908BBDDFCB5DEA93D776
File/ROM CRC32: 67CDACC5
