Phantasy Star III General Improvement

Original game : Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom

Platform : GEN

Author : Fauntleroy

Release date : 06 March 2023

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.2

Modifications : G, L, T, P

Downloads : 3438

ROM Information

Database match: Phantasy Star III - Generations of Doom (USA, Europe, Korea)
Database: No-Intro: Genesis (v. 20210226-213851)
File/ROM SHA-1: 59D4914E652672FD1E453C76B8250D17E8CA154E
File/ROM CRC32: C6B42B0F

Hack description

The purpose of this hack is to mitigate many of the flaws of Phantasy Star III in order to create an overall play experience more similar to that of Phantasy Star II and Phantasy Star IV. This is done through minor adjustments to the presentation, using the naming conventions from the other games, increasing the number of lore references to the other games, and more. Please see the readme for complete details.

The script was also significantly expanded in order to fill some holes in the story, address gaps in logic that otherwise go unexplained, and add more flavor by way of new non-player characters.

We're currently on version 1.2, the third release of this hack. 1.2 corrects a few minor bugs and makes small changes to the presentation. The primary content is largely unchanged from 1.1.

Thank you to everyone who tries this hack! Despite how it may sound, this patch is very much intended as a love letter to a favorite game.

Contributions

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description
Fauntleroy	Original Work	Creator
lory1990	Hacking	ASM Support
Peaches	Graphics	Sprite & Palette Modification

Reviews

The Definitive Way to Play PSIII	Twist	2020-07-06	Version 1.1
Let's not mince words: PSIII is fairly bad game that's aged terribly. But, if you're a completionist like me who decided to play the entire PSIII tetralogy, you need this hack to make PSIII at least somewhat bearable. The revised texts give personality to what were originally very bland characters, and the new chest contents mean you're actually glad you didn't spend 15 minutes getting to a dead end in a dungeon to find a chest, because there won't be an antidote in it. BEWARE, however, there are still some bugs present in v1.1. Maybe it's my patching, but the game would reset if 1) A defending character was hit in battle (Luckily, you literally never need to defend in this game), 2) Going to the second floor in the east-most house in the town of Data Memory.

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