The 7th Saga: Easier 7th Saga

7th Saga is a SNES jRPG notorious for its unforgiving difficulty in that monsters are brutally difficult and the heroes’ stats don’t rise particularly generously with their levels. It is not widely known, however, that 7th Saga is the localized version of Elnard, the Japanese incarnation of this game which is much, much easier by comparison. This IPS patch restores the monster stats of Elnard to the US 7th Saga and also modifies the mechanics of player leveling such that the player will now gain stats as he or she would in Elnard, making the game’s difficulty level much more reasonable. Additionally, confrontations with the rival apprentices in this game are now properly balanced, an oversight in the localized version.

Note: This patch requires a ROM that has no header.

Update (10/16/07):

Thanks to the keen eye of gamefaqs poster "usernamehere", it was noted that even in the original Elnard, magic users' power did not grow at the proper rate. I have released an alternate patch which, though not exactly true to Elnard, does make playing magic users possible again. Choosing a magic user as a partner should now also be a much more viable option.

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