Secret Of Mana: Secret of Mana Hard Mode

NOTE: This Patch works with all versions of Secret of Mana (Jap, US, and all PAL versions). A special patch is included for those that want to also use FuSoYa's Variable Width Font hack (for US version only).

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Secret of Mana - Hard Mode Hack by Masterflow - Version 1.0.2 vom 08.01.08
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Changes:

* The Game runs in NTSC-Mode. It's 20% faster than the
PAL-Version (only interesting for PAL-Users)
* Changed Status from enemies and bosses (Lv, HP/MP, Strength, Agility,
Defense, Magic Defense, Magic Lv, Treasure)
* Changed Status from charakters at higher levels (Status, needed EXP)
* Changed Defense from Equipment
* More treasure traps included
* Some weapons changed (e.g. cursed Spear)
* Increased costs for Weapon Upgrades
* Increased costs for Items
* Almost every spell has different MP costs
* Ruby Armet can to be found as regular item
* Some small changes
* added introscreen

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Release Info:

1.0.0 - First public version
1.0.1 - Mini-Bugfix
1.0.2 - Added patch for the japanese version and VWF edition combi-patch
changed readme's

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Patching the game:

A patching program, LunarIPS, is included in this archive.
You also need a copy of Secret of Mana (Don't bother asking for the rom!)

This archive contains 3 folders with 2 ips files in it.
One is for the headered the other one for the headerless ROM.

To find out which ROM you have look at the filesize:

2.097.664 bytes ROM with header
2.097.152 bytes ROM without header

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Content of the folders:

a) Hard Secret of Mana
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This patch is intended for every Version of Secret of Mana except
the japanese one.

b) Hard Secret of Mana (Japanese)
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This patch is for the japanese version of the game.
(Seiken Densetsu II)

c) Hard Secret of Mana + VWF Edition (US)
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This patch combines the VWF-Edition from FuSoYa Niche and the hard mode.
Usable only with the US version of the game.

The VWF edition improves the text.
The stretched font Square used was changed to a VWF and the story text
has been rewritten to take advantage of the extra space.

More information about the VWF edition at:
http://fusoya.eludevisibility.org/som/index.html

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Team:

Masterflow - Idea and code-conversion, translation
deeveedee - Consulting, Alpha- and Beta-tester, Webmaster (hard-som.de)
TheSorrow - Alpha- and Beta-tester
Thanatos-Zero - Beta-tester
Nazgul - Beta-tester
Haribomann - Beta-tester
Kinta - Beta-tester
Damien - Beratung
Vash - English translation of the website

http://www.hard-som.de

Thanks:

d4s
All user of the SDC

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ZIP-Content:

- Readme.txt
- Liesmich.txt
- Lunar IPS.exe
- Lunar IPS Readme.txt
- Hard Secret of Mana V1.0 (headered).ips
- Hard Secret of Mana V1.0 (headerless).ips
- Hard Secret of Mana + VWF Edition V1.0 (U) (headered).ips
- Hard Secret of Mana + VWF Edition V1.0 (U) (headerless).ips
- Kurushi Seiken Densetsu V1.0 (J) (headered).ips
- Kurushi Seiken Densetsu V1.0 (J) (headerless).ips

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Secret of Mana (USA).smc - NOINTRO
CRC32: D0176B24
MD5: 10A894199A9ADC50FF88815FD9853E19
SHA-1: 8133041A363E3CC68CEDEF40B49B6D20D03C505D
SHA-256: 4C15013131351E694E05F22E38BB1B3E4031DEDAC77EC75ABECEBE8520D82D5F