Adding things...

[Cless]

Hmmm, maybe the AI is designed to make use of their stats to determine their actions.

The AI data is definitely separate, I think. At one point I remember hacking a bugbear to do nothing but charge attacks at you somehow.

Maybe it's related to the Agility stat (that's always seemed useless to me......).

Anyway, I'm convinced the 5th tier difficulty is impossible, but we'll see what happens in the hand of a truly hardcore Tales player, I guess. I'm actually not that good at these games, if you can believe that.

I was wrong on the stat multplier, btw. Only HP is multiplied by the difficulty tier number. Attack and TP only increment by 25% of the base each tier, so "DOOM" only actually doubles the attack and TP amounts from normal. All other stats don't change.

[Kajitani-Eizan]

wait, so does DOOM give enemies 2x stats, or normal stats, or mania stats, or what?

[Thundercles]

From what Cless is saying, each difficulty level adds +100%xbase more hp and +25%xbase more AT/TP. So basically;
DOOM gives the enemies 5X health and 2x AT/TP
Mania grants 3X health and 1.5x AT/TP.

[Kajitani-Eizan]

oops, yeah, i missed a line. i thought he was saying HP became 5x and all the other stats didn't change.

[Victor Delacroix]

Adding things? new sprites? 

[Datschge]

How about adding additional story bits which is widely considered ToP canon but is actually only mentioned in drama CDs and the likes? Like giving the Dhaos background story bits in some hidden books in random bookshelfs somewhere in the game?

[Tsukimoon]

How about adding additional story bits which is widely considered ToP canon but is actually only mentioned in drama CDs and the likes? Like giving the Dhaos background story bits in some hidden books in random bookshelfs somewhere in the game?

I would second that! I haven't seen much extra with the story on ToP, also, is the multiplayer only 2player? I would suggest changing it to having multitap support. 4player could be extremely fun. I have lotsa friends who like the Tales series.

[Datschge]

is the multiplayer only 2player?

No up to 4 is possible already. Still needs the channel ring so maybe Cless can get that requirement away (I thought he already mentioned it before, but that was only for manual instead semi-auto).

[Cless]

The English Monster List is now alphabetized! Begins with 10000R and ends with Zombie. Works perfectly! It even correctly identifies that the enemies displayed are the ones you fought, at least if you've encountered them with this hack in place.

I cannot guarantee that it properly reports the enemies encountered based on a Japanese version save. I haven't verified it though.

It took a lot of time putting this hack together, so I hope you guys will like it.

No screens because I'm using ugly placeholders for the elemental orbs at the moment (yes, I need to go back to that topic).

(Haven't fixed the stat glitch in the Monster List with Unknown and DOOM difficulty modes yet. That's next...)

[Cless]

okay, I lied (about fixing the stat glitches). But, I'm working on something cool anyway:

For some reason or another, the devs decided not to stick any forms of Dhaos into the monster list. I have no idea why not. Later Tales games stick the final boss into it, so... wouldn't it be neat if he appeared in it? There's really no reason why he shouldn't be there anymore.

Fortunately, the game has bunch of unused data that makes it possible to actually create entries for every encounter with him! There's only one more hurdle left to clear, hopefully it works out.

[Cheetah]

I know that a lot of these ideas are a little beyond the scope of this project, and I think what I am about to say is one of them. But is it possible to increase the number of enemies in random encounters, maybe even giving bosses extra minions, as part of the higher difficulty settings? I'm sure this might cause slow down on the PSX if it is even possible, but what if you were running it on a psp?

Regardless this project is getting more and more exciting.

[Cless]

Looks like the Dhaos Monster List hack can be completed!



(stat data not filled in yet)

[LenaAndreia]

 Good stuff, Cless! Before I read that the stats weren't done, I was like "-2 HP?!" LOL

[Cless]

And the "Add Dhaos to the Monster List" hack is complete!



The Future one is the only one without any elemental stuff, so it's the only one I can show right now.

[leon.dx]

Very, very nice Cless.

[Cless]

Prepared for your inevitable death? All glitches associated with Unknown and DOOM modes in the Monster List are resolved!



Now, all that remains are those elemental orbs I've been slacking over...