The 7th Saga: 7th Saga Redux

7th Saga was a challenging and original RPG for SNES, but suffered from ridiculous difficulty and tedious level grinding. This hack attempts to address the difficulty so that the game is challenging without being frustrating, and to add a few fun elements to expand the strategy. Equipment and attack spells have been powered-up. More enemies have been given elemental weaknesses. New equipment and spells have been introduced. Additional changes are outlined in the readme.

This requires a headered ROM to patch.

7TH SAGA REDUX BY NATI README
7/18/2013

This readme is a description of the changes from the
original 7th Saga to 7th Saga Redux. For more information
about the original, consult my Game Mechanics Guide on
Gamefaqs.com. You will need a ROM with a header to use this
IPS (I think).


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SUMMARY OF CHANGES

1. Weapons and armor are more powerful.
2. Because Lux and Wilme don't benefit much from equipment,
they get +1 additional Power and Guard per level-up.
3. Spells are learned sooner at levels > 10.
4. Attack spells are more powerful; armor has higher magic
resistance to compensate.
5. MP cost has been lowered for some high-cost spells.
6. Two new spells have been introduced...
a. FLEE: escape from battle with 100% success (except
from bosses, apprentices, and Class 1 monsters)
b. HOLY: single-target attack spell of a new element
7. Three spells have been taken away from apprentices...
a. ELIXIR: absurdly game-breaking; replaced by HOLY
b. DEFNSE2: made Lejes a joke as an opponent; replaced
by FLEE (monsters can still cast DEFNSE2, though)
c. LASER 3: LASER 2 is now as powerful as LASER 3 was;
the animation for LASER 3 is now used for HOLY
8. More monsters have weaknesses to specific elements.
9. Monsters' Magic and Speed stats have been slightly
decreased near the end of the game.
10. Monsters near the end of the game give double gold and
experience.
11. New unique equipment, one for each apprentice, is
available as random drops from the D.Night in the last
dungeon; some equipment was eliminated to make these.
12. Seeds can be purchased in one of the last shops, and B
Protect can be purchased from the last shop (finally!).

Bottom Line: The game can be completed at a lower level
with less grinding, but still sufficient challenge.



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APPRENTICE STATS AND SPELL LISTS


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*KAMIL Human Warrior *
************************************************************

STATS
----- Initial Level-Up
MaxHP 16 5
MaxMP 4 3
Power 4 3
Guard 4 3
Magic 3 3
Speed 3 3

SPELLS LV SPELLS LV
------------ ------------
FIRE 1 3 VACUUM1 20
HEAL 1 6 REVIVE1 28
PURIFY 8 HEAL 3 31
F BIRD 10 F BALL 33
HEAL 2 11
ICE 1 15
PETRIFY 16
FIRE 2 18


************************************************************
*OLVAN Dwarf *
************************************************************

STATS
----- Initial Level-Up
MaxHP 18 6
MaxMP 3 2
Power 4 3
Guard 5 3
Magic 3 3
Speed 3 3

SPELLS LV SPELLS LV
------------ ------------
HEAL 1 3 HEAL 3 36
FIRE 1 5 REVIVE1 38
PETRIFY 8
DEFNSE1 11
FIRE 2 14
HEAL 2 16
PURIFY 19
MPCTCHR 32


************************************************************
*ESUNA Elf *
************************************************************

STATS
----- Initial Level-Up
MaxHP 14 5
MaxMP 16 5
Power 3 2
Guard 3 2
Magic 4 4
Speed 4 4

SPELLS LV SPELLS LV
------------ ------------
ICE 1 1 POWER 12
HPCTCHR 2 VACUUM1 14
MPCTCHR 3 DEFNSE1 16
HEAL 1 4 BLZRD 2 18
PURIFY 5 PROTECT 19
ICE 2 7 REVIVE1 22
BLZRD 1 9 HEAL 3 25
PETRIFY 10 VACUUM2 32


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*WILME Alien *
************************************************************

STATS
----- Initial Level-Up
MaxHP 20 8
MaxMP 2 2
Power 6 5
Guard 8 6
Magic 2 2
Speed 4 4

SPELLS LV
------------
FIRE 1 5
HPCTCHR 7
F BIRD 9
FIRE 2 11
MPCTCHER 15
F BALL 19
FLEE 23
VACUUM1 26


************************************************************
*LUX Tetujin *
************************************************************

STATS
----- Initial Level-Up
MaxHP 18 7
MaxMP 3 2
Power 6 5
Guard 7 6
Magic 3 3
Speed 3 3

SPELLS LV
------------
LASER 1 4
THNDER1 10
LASER 2 14
THNDER2 21


************************************************************
*VALSU Human Wizard *
************************************************************

STATS
----- Initial Level-Up
MaxHP 15 5
MaxMP 10 4
Power 4 2
Guard 4 3
Magic 4 4
Speed 4 4

SPELLS LV SPELLS LV
------------ ------------
HEAL 1 1 AGILITY 11
ICE 1 3 F SHID 13
DEFNSE1 4 MPCTCHR 15
PURIFY 5 HEAL 3 19
PETRIFY 6 EXIT 21
HEAL 2 8 PROTECT 25
REVIVE1 9 REVIVE2 31
POWER 10 HOLY 35


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*LEJES Demon *
************************************************************

STATS
----- Initial Level-Up
MaxHP 16 5
MaxMP 10 4
Power 4 3
Guard 4 3
Magic 3 3
Speed 4 4

SPELLS LV SPELLS LV
------------ ------------
FIRE 1 1 VACUUM1 11
HPCTCHR 2 MPCTCHR 13
ICE 1 3 F SHID 14
PETRIFY 4 F BALL 16
F BIRD 6 BLZRD 2 19
FIRE 2 8 PROTECT 21
BLZRD 1 9 FLEE 23
ICE 2 10 VACUUM2 24



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SPELL COST AND POWER


Spell MP Power Element
-----------------------------------
FIRE 1 3 40 FIRE
FIRE 2 12 95 FIRE
F BIRD 14 40 FIRE
F BALL 26 80 FIRE
ICE 1 3 46 ICE
ICE 2 12 105 ICE
BLZRD 1 14 44 ICE
BLZRD 2 26 90 ICE
LASER 1 4 52 LIT
LASER 2 20 140 LIT
THNDER1 15 50 LIT
THNDER2 30 110 LIT
HOLY* 20 120 HOLY
PETRIFY 10
DEFNSE2 5
HPCTCHR 6
MPCTCHR 8
VACUUM1 20
VACUUM2 40
HEAL 1 4 40
HEAL 2 12 90
HEAL 3 28 All
REVIVE1 25
REVIVE2 50
PURIFY 6
DEFNSE1 5
POWER 6
AGILITY 3
F SHID 10
PROTECT 8
EXIT 30
FLEE 40

*HOLY uses the animation of LASER 3



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MONSTER WEAKNESSES


FIRE ICE LIT HOLY
------- ------- ------- -------
Chimera Despair Android Demon
Chimere Defeat Brain** B.Demon
Undead Doom N.Brain R.Demon
Unded Reaper Manta S.Demon
Undeed Cocoon* Crab Chimera
Manrot R.Trick Doros Chimere
B.Demon Spidek Foma Undead
Cocoon P.Moon Unded
Mutant K.Moon Undeed
Wyrock R.Demon Trick
B.Night Flame R.Trick
K.Trick Griffin K.Trick
Serpant V.Night Despair
Ghoul Dergun Defeat
Spirit Dogun Doom
K.Night Serpint Reaper
Romus Crab Ghoul
Monmo F.Night Spirit
Serpent Doros
Goron Dragon
Griffan

*Cocoon uses ICE 1 instead of LASER 2
**Brain uses FIRE 2 instead of LASER 2



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EQUIPMENT


WEAPON AT ARMOR DF
------------- -------------
ZnteSW 2 XtriAR 4
TranqSW 6 PsyteAR 10
PsyteSW 12 AnimAR 17
AnimSW 15 RoylAR 26
KrynSW 24 CourAR 33
AngerSW 28 MystcAR 50
NatrSW 33 FortAR 60
BrillSW 41 ScaleML 74
SwordSW 40 ChainML 96
TidalSW 48 KrynML 112
MuraSW 52 LghtRB 3
CourSW 44 CttnRB 6
FearSW 58 SilkRB 10
FortSW 68 XtreRB 12
FireSW 65 SeasRB 16
InsaSW 77 HopeRB 20
AnscSW 95 AngerRB 26
DoomSW 122 VictRB 33
VictSW 132 DespRB 40
FireAX 7 MystcRB 52
PsyteAX 16 ImmoRB 58
AnimAX 34 Xtri 8
AngerAX 43 Coat 10
PowerAX 51 Brwn 20
DespAX 65 Blck 48
KrynAX 75 FireCL 30
FearAX 85 IceCL 30
MystAX 107 -------------
HopeAX 120 XtriSH 7
ImmoAX 160 KrynSH 17
LghtKN 11 CourSH 26
Saber 20 BrillSH 33
FireKN 44 JustSH 42
LightST 4 MystSH 50
PetrST 9 AngerSH 54
TideRD 17 IllusSH 64
ConfRD 26 MystcSH 62
BrillRD 32 FrtnSH 74
DespRD 38 ImmoSH 80
NatrRD 51 XtriHM 2
FearRD 75 Scarf 15
MystRD 100 MaskMK 30
ImmoRD 110 KrynMK 55
Claw 7 BrillCR 75
ZnteFT 10 Horn 0
KrynFT 30 Pod 2
Ring 30
Amulet 40


UNIQUE User Type Power Special
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ExcalSW Kamil Weapon 175
ThorAX Olvan Weapon 200
GownRB Esuna Armor 80 50 elemental resist
Fur Wilme Armor 16 50 elemental resist
GodHAND Lux Weapon 50
MiterHM Valsu Access. 100 95 effect resist
BloodSW Lejes Weapon 160

7th Saga, The (USA) - NOINTRO
CRC32: B3ABDDE6
MD5: A42772A0BEAF71F9256A8E1998BFE6E3
SHA-1: 8D2B8AEA636A2239805C99744BF48C0B4DF8D96E
SHA-256: 4DD631433C867BA920997FD3ADD2C838B62E70E06E0EF55C53884B8B68B0DD27