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My Shining Force II x Revolutionary Girl Utena mod is completed. The game is exactly the same as before, but with the following changes:
Bowie the Swordsman/Hero is switched for Utena Tenjou and Princess Elis is switched for Anthy Himemiya. The pronouns are switched up in the dialogue to reflect this. Utena has a custom promotion portrait and battler sprites. This includes any during cutscenes. The ending scene is changed for Anthy x Utena.
The only item I changed was the Power Ring, where I changed it to look like the Rose Seal.
I only applied the "Search in Battle" fix because it doesn't make sense not to include it, as it was a bug in the base game that made two treasure chests unreachable. --- Installation instructions: To prevent piracy, I only provide the patch. You will need:- You will need to own a clean US copy of Shining Force II (US) in the bin format. SF2FemaleMCRGU.IPS (This is my mod, you can find it in the link above) Then you can go to this website https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/ and patch it yourself. Alternatively, if you're oldschool you can use something like Lunar IPS to patch it on your computer. After that it should run in things like Retroarch, Kegafusion or Gens just fine.
--- Things I considered adding / doing (Not off the table in the future.) I wanted to keep this version as vanilla as possible, so I tried to change very little without impacting the core game. Consider this the finished version until further notice. In the future I would like to:- Do a more RGU focused mod that replaces more characters, for example - swapping King Galam of Akio Ohtori, as since King Galam is the one that kidnaps the Princess, I feel like he is really fitting for the role. Replace Cameela with Shiori. She does work I promise. Make Granseal Tower visually look more like the staircase/duelling platform from RGU. More party members from RGU, like Juri, Nanami, Miki, Touga, Saionji. It IS possible to have branching promotions in Shining Force 2. I was considering repurposing the Silver Tank item to have the cars from AOU but I wasn't sure how people would feel about that. Anyway have fun!
Someone alerted me that for some reason the IPS patch was broken all this time. I'm not sure what happened, but it should be fixed now! (Downloaded and tested to be sure.) I'm certain the cause was due to a small update I made, but I'm not sure how the patcher broke the way it did. Anyway thank you for being patient, I've been doing studies and work at the same time so sorry for being so silent.
