Mario & Luigi SuperStar Saga Difficulty Hacks

Utilizing the Yoshi Magic editor, I have created several difficulty hacks for Mario & Luigi SSS. For more info, read the included FAQ;

FAQ Download: http://www.mediafire...rm20pi7sax35dg6

Mario & Luigi SSS Classic Mode(Same as original but removed OCD crap): http://www.mediafire...31h5qqp9c5qv7ph
Mario & Luigi SSS Classic Critical Mode: http://www.mediafire...e9d9feictgdh9bd
Mario & Luigi SSS Hardcore Mode: http://www.mediafire...rj5cg73r1it62c6
Mario & Luigi SSS Hardcore Critical Mode: http://www.mediafire...5sw79oed80fe3nv

Each ROM has its own save states and save files, thankfully.

Here's a link to my completed Hardcore playthrough on Youtube: http://www.youtube.c...eature=view_all

The playthrough demonstrates the changes to bosses & enemies, minor dialogue changes, as well as other misc. stuff. I couldn't record the final boss unfortunately, but I decided to give it a nerf to make it more equal to Bowletta. Hope you understand, Critical Mode removes regular stat gains for every stat but HP and BP(Which receive reduced gains), meaning the only way the player can gain stats is via bonus wheel and/or starbean blends. Since you'll need quite a few blends, I've changed a couple of enemy item drops so that Hoo, Hee, and Chuckle beans can be obtained from enemies scattered around Beanbean Field. Here's a list;

Troopea/ParaTroopa = Chuckle Bean
Lakipea/Tanoomba = Hee Bean
Sharpea/Sworm = Hoo Bean
Beanie/ParaBeanie = Woo Bean

I appreciate any and all feedback.

EDIT: Patches are up, courtesy of Bent. Thanks!

EDIT: I decided to pick my favorite video from the playthrough and post it here for all;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ga_4hXjKI&feature=BFa&list=PL8E72CAF1F52A99AB

 

Huh, I would think that it would be allowed on a forum such as this.

Well, how do I distribute the roms then? PM?

It's called Yoshi Magic. Good luck making your own edits, though, since it took me the whole of this month just to balance MLSSS Hardcore, and I'm not 100% that it's perfect even.

 

Well no, the changes are saved to the ROM itself, hence why there's one ROM per "mode".

And I've lurked on this forum before, and could have sworn there were ROM links posted at some point. I guess I was mistaken.

 

Eh... I've never had much luck with the cmd function. I'll give it a try, I suppose. Still don't see why, on a forum about hacking, posting roms isn't allowed.

Just as I figured, this is just not working for me. Could someone else more proficient with xDelta make the patches for me? If they take up less space than the ROMs, that would be great and I'll upload them to MediaFire ASAP.

 

Well I like the name GBATemp, for what it's worth.

Anyways, Bent is working on the patches, though it looks like a small group of people have already downloaded the ROMS... thanks! lol

 

Actually, when I registered I was shown a picture and was asked "What colors aren't present?".

I don't even recall a question regarding ROMs, otherwise this topic probaly would have been handled differently.

 

Good thing Bent managed to get the patches made. People can just download those, hopefully. They also take up much less space.

 

The link to the ROMs originally in the first post were replaced by bent's patches.

 

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