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Dragon Warrior

Platform : Nintendo Entertainment System

Publisher : Enix

Release date : 27 May 1986

Category : Role Playing

Game description

The first in the long running series of games, beginning with the Nintendo Entertainment System and spanning the SNES, the Gameboy, and even the Playstation, as well as having mini-spinoffs which are a lot like Pokémon.

This, the original Dragon Warrior, starts you off in the throne room of the King of Tantegel Castle. He names you the descendant of the legendary Erdrick, who once possessed the Ball of Light. It has been stolen, the Dragonlord's minions roam the lands, and the Princess is kidnapped. You, the descendant of the legendary hero, must confront evil and save the continent.

This game features a single-character interface with single-monster battles. Do not think this means it will be easy…you can easily go in over your head. You must make sure to buy equipment, as for some odd reason, trained descendants of heroes do not have any starting equipment.

This game was once released by Nintendo along with subscriptions of Nintendo Power magazine, so it is not extremely rare. However, it is a good place to start learning of the series, as it began everything. Also, the rest of them are considered hard to find. If you get one, consider yourself lucky!

17 Hacks

TitleDescriptionAuthorCategoryVersionDate
Dragon Warrior Photosensitivity PatchThis is a simple patch for Dragon Warrior that reduces some of the flashing effects found in the gam...ZenohParadoxImprovement2.005 January 2024
Dragon Quest: DelocalizedDragon Quest: Delocalized is a project aimed at giving English speakers the opportunity to play the ...Translation QuestImprovement1.1807 September 2023
Dragon Warrior - Updated Command MenuThis hack revises and streamlines the COMMAND Menu to make it function more like in later games. ...PteriasImprovement1.101 September 2023
Dragon Warrior - 10x Experience and 10x GoldThe hack is reducing the experience to level by 10 and the gold to purchase items by 10. DW1 Mass Da...Machine Gun BunnyImprovement1.023 September 2022
Dragon Warrior Sprites ImprovementThis graphics hack is an improvement over the original enemy sprites and palettes. Most of the ch...HasmalImprovement1.012 June 2022
Dragon Quest Titlescreen[list] [li]The Dragon Quest title screen graphics were copied from the original Dragon Quest (J),...HasmalImprovement1.128 May 2022
Dragon Warrior MMC5 PatchThis is a Mapper Conversion hack for Dragon Warrior ROM from MMC1 to MMC5. Features: [list] ...Dracula XImprovement1.1.212 July 2021
Dragon Warrior Square Enix SpellsThis replaces the Dragon Warrior spells with the new spell set from the Square Enix merger. While se...spookdyImprovement1.007 March 2021
Text Sound OffIn Dragon Warrior's main script, text is printed to the main dialogue window with neither sound effe...abwImprovement1.020 October 2019
Project RE-Quest - Mobile Script Port and RelocalizationThis is a hack that ports over Square-Enix's official script from their mobile remake nearly perfect...ChoppasmithImprovement1.3c19 December 2018
Dragon Warrior DXThis hack updates Dragon Warrior's visuals with sprites adapted from the GBC remake, along with a fe...LastduaLImprovement1.013 April 2018
Dragon Warrior - DoubledThis is a hack of Dragon Warrior for the NES which doubles the experience and gold earned from battl...PsyklaxImprovement1.021 January 2018
Dragon Warrior 1 - Updated spell namesThis is a very simple modification that improves the spell list in the following ways: 1. The spe...gbluesImprovement1.023 April 2017
Dragoon X Omega I Gold Edition - Amnethen Apocalypse[b]Welcome to the Amnethen Apocalypse![/b] This is an 'Easy Mode' patch for [url=https://retrohac...obscurumlux01Addendum2.029 September 2015
Dragon Warrior - Special Edition 1.3aAn improvement on a classic. This hack is a combination of a hack called Special Edition 1.3 and a f...MrRichard999Improvement1.3a29 June 2013
Dragoon X Omega - Gold EditionA nation just over a rebellion by their own psychic soldiers is attacked by an alien being in a gian...Sliver XComplete2.0f20 January 2003
Dragoon XI was working on this at the same time as Final Fantasy Epic, but this project was much more ambitio...Sliver XCompleteFinal26 December 1998

12 Translations

TitleLanguageDescriptionAuthorCategoryVersionDate
Dragon WarriorSpanishThis patch translates Dragon Warrior for NES from English to Spanish. In the process, it adds all th...Rod MeridaFully Playable1.0112 January 2022
Dragon WarriorIndonesianThis is an unofficial Indonesian translation of DRAGON WARRIOR, the first game in the RPG series DRA...HamikonFully Playable1.828 December 2021
Dragon WarriorTurkishDragon Warrior Turkish Language translate.hitsumoFully Playable0.229 October 2021
Dragon WarriorPortugueseThis is a fully playable, 100% translated version of Dragon Warrior in Brazilian Portuguese. There a...TeacherGusFully Playable1.025 January 2021
Dragon WarriorEnglishImportant : This is an addendum hack ! Please apply this patch ONLY AFTER applying the [url=https://...BregaladAddendum1.017 May 2020
Dragon WarriorEnglishThis is Polinym's basic translation of Dragon Quest for the Famicom. It is not considered a "WFC" pr...PolinymFully Playable1.319 March 2020
Dragon WarriorSpanishTranslation to Spanish for "Dragon Warrior" for the NES.WaveFully Playable1.008 December 2019
Dragon WarriorLatinDragon Warrior: now in Latin for all of you who felt that the official English translation just wasn...abwFully Playable1.0.119 August 2018
Dragon WarriorArabicThis is an Arabic translation of great Popular RPG game, this Game is completely translation and Sup...q8fftFully Playable1.0.313 July 2017
Dragon WarriorRussianA full Russian translation of Dragon Warrior. [url=http://chief-net.ru/index.php?option=com_content...Chief-NETFully Playable1.019 February 2006
Dragon WarriorSwedishThe three Swedish letters Å, Ä and Ö and å, ä and ö are not actually selectable for character ...General CoolNES TranslationsFully Playable0.9903 October 2001
Dragon WarriorPortugueseFull Brazilian Portuguese translation, with all edited texts and accented characters.HyllianFully Playable1.114 October 1999

11 Utilities

TitleDescriptionAuthorCategoryVersionLanguageDate
TowneditA level editor for Dragon Warrior I.DweditLevel Editors3.1English6 Feb 2019
Dragon Warrior Monster Stat EditorDragonWarriorMonsterStatEditor 1.0.0.10546 Coded by: Shawn M. Crawford [sleepy9090] March 17, 2018...sleepyData Extraction / Insertion1.0.0.1054English17 Mar 2018
Dragon Warrior Monster Zone EditorDragonWarriorMonsterZoneEditor 1.0.0.26604 Coded by: Shawn M. Crawford [sleepy9090] February 1...sleepyData Extraction / Insertion1.0.0.2660English18 Feb 2018
Dragon Warrior Treasure Chest EditorDragonWarriorTreasureChestEditor 1.0.0.23238 Coded by: Shawn M. Crawford [sleepy9090] February 9, ...sleepyData Extraction / Insertion1.0.0.2323English9 Feb 2018
Dragon Warrior Shop EditorDragonWarriorShopEditor 1.0.1.28437 Coded by: Shawn M. Crawford [sleepy9090] February 8, 2018 -...sleepyData Extraction / Insertion1.0.1.2843English8 Feb 2018
Dragon Warrior Equipment and Magic Data EditorDragonWarriorEquipmentAndMagicDataEditor 1.0.0.28694 Coded by: Shawn M. Crawford [sleepy9090] Febr...sleepyData Extraction / Insertion1.0.0.2869English8 Feb 2018
Dragon Warrior Text EditorDragonWarriorTextEditor 1.3.0.30250 Coded by: Shawn M. Crawford [sleepy9090] January 29, 2018 ...sleepyGame Specific1.3.0.3025English29 Jan 2018
Dragon Warrior Town and Dungeon EditorDragonWarriorTownAndDungeonEditor 1.0.0.28734 Coded by: Shawn M. Crawford [sleepy9090] January 8, ...sleepyGame Specific1.0.0.2873English7 Jan 2018
Dragon Warrior - Text EditorDragon Warrior - Text Editor allows the user to change Text data in Game. [b]Source Code:[/b] ...q8fftScript Extraction / Insertion1.0English26 Apr 2017
Dragon Warrior RandomizerA randomizer for Dragon Warrior! It is capable of randomizing the overworld locations, treasure ches...CatastropheGame Specific1.1English15 Nov 2015
DW1 Mass Data EditorA data editor for Dragon Warrior I. It can modify Player stats, item stats, Spell MP requirements, ...RotoGame Specific1.0English14 Dec 1998

2 Documents

TitleDescriptionAuthorCategoryVersionDate
Dragon Warrior BytesHere is a very complete listing of all the offsets to data in Dragon Warrior. There are notations a...Sliver XGame Specific1.08 Nov 2011
Dragon Warrior SRAM GuideA guide to the data stored in SRAM for Dragon Warrior (NES).John David RatliffGame Specific1.01 Jan 2007

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