These mods are companions to Artemis' Frue Lufia (https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4129/).
In 2009, after Frue Lufia received its first big update since release, I wanted to try and edit Lufia: The Legend Returns' font and inventory selection names. Flash forward to 2016, Rainponcho messages me out of the blue for how to improve Lufia & the Fortress of Doom Text Cleanup--now known as Lufia & the Fortress of Doom Restored--to its full potential. While we were at it, I put Artemis and Rainponcho in contact, and politely asked Rainponcho if he would help me with Lufia: The Legend Returns when they were done.
Thanks to the combined efforts of Lufia fans around the world, this beloved trilogy now has its definitive editions.
Lufia & the Fortress of Doom Restored (http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2744/) v2.4.1
Features
- Based of off D's Lufia: Decensored (http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/129/) to restore priest and bunny girl sprites, and alcoholic beverage references. (Any names in D's mod that didn't conform to official English Lufia lore--such as Arty, Erin, and Dios--have been reverted appropriately.)
- Uses JCE3000GT's Lufia & the Fortress of Doom Fast Walker (http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1949/) to speed up walking in dungeons and on the world map, as well as vehicle speed.
- Additional tweaks to Fast Walker so Sweet Water and Foul Water's expiration notices still appear when appropriate, and movement speed no longer decreases when disembarking a vehicle. (Credit to Rainponcho)
- Final boss' battle script has been reverted to its move set in Estpolis Denki. New move set: Melanchoy, Chaos, Destroy, Amnesia, Wail, Elegion, Glacier, Vulcan, Flood, Dread. (Credit to Rainponcho)
- Restored crosses to church walls. (Credit to Rainponcho)
- Item descriptions have been restored from Estpolis Denki; press the X Button while hovering over an item to read its description. ROM has been expanded to 1.50 MB as a result. (Credit to Rainponcho for restoring this function and creating the text insertion tool)
- The dialogue sound effect plays when message speed is set to "Fast." (Credit to Rainponcho)
- Lufia and Selan can now use Jerin and Artea's Zircon equipment.
- Sound defaults to Stereo rather than Mono at startup and when starting a New Game. (Credit to Rainponcho)
- Corrections and updates to the names of items, spells, equipment, enemies, and enemy attacks for continuity purposes across the series, using Frue Lufia as the standard.
- What few typos and translation errors that existed in the script have been fixed.
- Optionally, the menu font has been revised to Lufia II's, and the dialogue font sports minor alterations.
Screenshots
(http://i.imgur.com/sg0wK8T.png) (http://i.imgur.com/RVPzX8y.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/SpZoehd.png) (https://i.imgur.com/UEcMcob.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/S57koPg.png) (https://i.imgur.com/eE5ahqf.png)
Lufia: The Legend Returns Text Cleanup (http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/813/) v2.1
Features
- Just about every single typo, contextual error, translation mistake, and bizarrely-worded line of dialogue has been fixed.
- Many retranslated terms taken from Crysta Blade and pokeeiyuu's menu retranslation effort (http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/563014-lufia-the-legend-returns/35475139) on GameFAQs.
- Improved and updated inventory descriptions, including adding missing punctuation and pluralization where necessary. (Thanks to Rainponcho the text insertion tool)
- Continuity corrections to character names, monster names, equipment, items, and enemy attacks, using Frue Lufia as the standard.
- Optionally, dialogue and menu fonts are revised to Lufia II's.
- Alternate patch provided to reduce dialogue window size, the entire game using the menu font as a result. (Credit to Rainponcho)
Screenshots
(http://i.imgur.com/4H7qdtR.png) (http://i.imgur.com/Vjv5z8V.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/naKqADx.png) (https://i.imgur.com/tNEm7Un.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/X7LbnWj.png) (https://i.imgur.com/i8s81ZL.png)
Frue Lufia: Trilogy Addendum (http://www.bwass.org/bucket/FrueLufia-TrilogyAddendumv2-4.zip) v2.4
As of this writing, Frue Lufia uses several different inventory selection names compared to my above mods. If you would prefer consistency across all three games, please download and install Frue Lufia: Trilogy Addendum. A full list of changes compared to Frue Lufia v3.0 is included in the archive.
Apply to an unmodified, headered, NTSC-U Lufia II ROM. The NTSC-U ROM has the Natsume logo at startup, not the Nintendo logo.
Do not upload the Trilogy Addendum to RHDN. I will request it to be taken down if it is. Thank you for your understanding.
Screenshots
(https://i.imgur.com/W4cVJdo.png) (https://i.imgur.com/tcCkKSy.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/cvIAQuS.png) (https://i.imgur.com/6jnrHih.png)
Please enjoy! :)