Chocobo Dragon Warrior v0.4 (7/30/00) by Elric of EarthDrake Software (C) 1999, 2000 EDS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Files in the Archive: ReadMe.Txt -> A mysterious file... ChocDw04.Ips -> The patch to turn Dragon Warrior into Chocobo Dragon Warrior ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Elo, and welcome to my first hack. There's really not much to say, as the lists of What's Done, Things To Do, Things I Might Do, and Things I Need To Learn To Do pretty much sum everything up. Please mail all comments, suggestions, gripes, etc. to Elric at sirelric@netzero.net, or post them on my message board. The latest version of this hack can always be found at http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/sirelric/index.htm, and at http://www.zophar.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks go out to: * Enix, for making the Dragon Warrior/Quest Series * Nintendo, for their glory days of the NES and SNES. * SliverX, for his informative website (currently under redesign), and his very helpful Advanced ROM Hacking Document. * Necrosaro, for creating Thingy. * SnowBro, for creating TLayer and HexPosure. * DWEdit, for creating Dragon Warrior TownEdit. * BloodLust software, for creating NESticle. * The entire ZSNES crew, for creating ZSNES (Obviously). * Zophar's Domain. * The friendly folks of Zophar's ROM Hacking Message Board. * Dax, for making the IPS Patch maker program. * The Magician/The MCA, for making SNESTool. * Roto for his Dragon Warrior 1 Data Editor. * Whoever created the .IPS system. * All the people who have ever dumped a ROM. * All the people who ever made a hack. * All the people who have ever hosted a website for ROM/IPS downloading. * Everyone who's ever made an emulator. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ok, here's a list of each version, and what I did to it. v0.4 7/30/00 * Replaced the Floor tile I made with the Floor tile from Dragon Warrior 3. * Replaced Drakee with V. Bat. * Replaced MagiDrakee with Wiz V. Bat. * Replaced Drakeema with Dead Bat. * Replaced the Tree sprite with the Tree sprite from Dragon Warrior 3. * Replaced Old Man sprite with an Old Man sprite from Final Fantasy Adventure. * Replaced Tablet with Chocobo's Book. * Replaced the Stairs Up & Down sprites with the Stairs Up & Down sprites from Dragon Warrior 3. * Replaced the Hill sprite with the Hill sprite from Dragon Warrior 3. * Replaced wandering Soldiers tile with Black Slime tile from Dragon Warrior 3. * Replaced the Roof sprite with a sprite I found in Crystalis. * Removed Princess Gwaelin from the game. * Renamed Gwaelin's Love to Chocobo's Book. * Shortened the ? sprite. * Changed Command on the Menu to Action?. * Changed Action Menu actions to upper and lower case letters. * Changed Spell Names to upper and lower case letters. * Changed GOLD to Gold. * Changed the palette for the Merchant/Black Mage. * Changed the palette for the regular Flame monster. * Changed the King Kupan & Hero palettes. They're now outlined in black instead of brown and blue, respectively. The King Kupan palette hack also affects the wandering soldiers/heroes, and the Hero palette hack also affects the male & female villagers and the Chaos Lord. * Changed the location of Tantegel Castle, Chocobo's Cave, and Garinham. * Changed the contents of the treasure boxes in Tantegel Castle. * Added a bridge to the entrance of Brecconary. * Added an icon for the Dragon's Scale Helm. * Added an icon for the Shields. * Added an icon for the Armors. * Added an icon for the Magic Key. * Added an icon for the Fairy Water. * Added an icon for the Fighter's Ring. * Edited Tantegel Castle a little more. * Edited The Town of Brecconary even more. * Edited The Town of Garinham a little more. * Edited the Chaos Lord's Lair even more. * Due to my not following the instructions of the Dragon Warrior Town Editor, I ended up screwing up the overworld. It was so bad that I had to go back to v0.02 and re-do everything I did in v0.3, as well as not re-do a lot of the overworld editing. If you notice any major changes to the overworld, or towns/dungeons since v0.3, this is why. * All of the stat changes, and most of the cost changes I made are gone, thanks to the above. I may or may not re-do the rest, depending on how I feel. v0.3 8/24/99 * Replaced the old Floor tile I made with a new homemade floor tile. * Replaced the Dragon Head Shadow on title screen with Chocobo Shadow. * Replaced Castle Wall tile with Town Wall tile from Final Fantasy. * Replaced lower half of Bridge tile with lower half of bridge tile from DW2. * Replaced Inn sign with Inn sign from Dragon Warrior 3. * Replaced Castle tile with Fort tile from Super Mario Bros. 3. * Replaced Dungeon/Cave entrance with Tower tile from Super Mario Bros. 3. * Replaced the Armor sign with the Armor sign from Dragon Warrior 3. * Renamed Dragonlord to Chaos Lord. * Changed Weapon Attack Powers by +6 each. * Changed Armor Defense Powers by +6 each. * Changed Shield Defense Powers by +6 each. * Changed Swamp damage to 1 HP per step. * Change Barrier damage to 10 HP per step. * Changed starting HP to 20. * Changed the prices of the Hand Axe, Herb, Torch, Dragon's Scale, Magic Key, Fairy Water, Cursed Belt, and Fighter's Ring. * Changed XP & GP for Slime, Red Slime, Drakee, Ghost, and Magician. * Change Metal Slime to be a little easier to kill. * Added blue shading to the text. * Hacked the title screen to read Chocobo Dragon Warrior VER 0.x. * Removed door by stairs to throne room in Tantegel Castle. * Edited The Town of Brecconary even more. * Edited The Village of Kol. * Edited The City of Rimuldar. * Edited The Ruins of Hauksness. * Edited Cantlin Castle Town. * Edited Charlock Castle. * Edited The Chaos Lord's Lair. * Edited The Shrine of Sunlight. * Edited The Shrine of Rain. * Edited The Shrine of Rainbow. * Edited The Passage to Rimuldar. v0.02 8/15/99 * Replaced Sales Counter tile with Sales Counter tile from Dragon Warrior 2. * Replaced Castle Wall tile with a tile I found in Super Mario Bros. 2. * Replaced the Brick Floor tile with a tile I found in Super Mario Bros. 2. * Replaced the Water tile with the Water tile from Super Mario Bros. 2. * Replaced the Town tile with a modified Village tile from Dragon Quest 1&2r. * Replaced Merchant sprite with Black Mage from Final Fantasy Adventure. * Replaced Male Villager sprite with Dwarf from Final Fantasy Adventure. * Redesigned the Barrier tile. * Redesigned the Grass tile. * Redesigned Stairs Up & Stairs Down tiles. * Renamed Bamboo Pole to Bamboo Beak. * Renamed Club to Claw. * Renamed Swords to Talons. * Renamed Leather Armor to Chocobo Armor. * Renamed Clothes to Fethers. (Speling eror? Wut speling eror? ;D) * Changed the border around text boxes. * Changed a small portion of the Overworld map. * Made a few minor changes to Kol & Rimuldar maps. * Replaced text on Title Screen. v0.01 - 7/16/99 * Replaced Hero sprite with Chocobo sprite from Final Fantasy Adventure. * Replaced King sprite with Moogle sprite Final Fantasy Adventure. * Replaced Treasure Box sprite with Treasure Box sprite from Final Fantasy 4. * Replaced Door sprite with Door sprite from Solomon's Key. * Replaced Girl sprite with Mouse sprite from Final Fantasy Adventure. * Replaced Select sprite with Finger sprite from Final Fantasy 4. * Replaced More Prompt with Finger sprite from Final Fantasy 4. * Replaced Guard sprite with Robot? sprite from Final Fantasy Adventure. * Replaced Slime and Red Slime with Flame and Red Flame. * Replaced font with Final Fantasy Adventure font. * Renamed King Lorik to King Kupan. * Renamed Erdrick to Chocobo. * Redesigned Tantegel Castle layout. * Redesigned Erdrick's Cave layout. * Edited Brecconary. * Edited Garinham. * Changed the text shown when you Save and Quit. * Whatever it is I'm forgetting... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And here's the list of what's left to do: * Rename the items, weapons, and armor. * Whatever it is I'm forgetting... Along with the list of things I /might/ do: * Hack the Chaos Lord * Change the remaining monster sprites. * Change the remaining miscellaneous sprites. * Change damage from spells. * Rewrite the story. (Or at least edit it some...) * Improve/Replace various background sprites. * Increase or decrease the power of weapons, armor, & shields. * Increase or decrease the damage from swamps & barriers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I ran this through a spell checker. There were so many spelling mistakes I nearly cried. :~( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Finally, I am in no way responsible for any problems this file may cause your system, so if your computer blows up, gets a virus, laughs at you, calls you names, etc., don't blame me. Thank you, and have a nice life. =D