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Breath of Fire 2 GBA Palette Hack

Original game : Breath of Fire II

Platform : GBA

Author : ioev

Release date : 05 March 2012

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.0

Modifications : G

Downloads : 9457

ROM Information

Breath of Fire 2 (U)(Mode7).gba
CRC32: 23279C91
MD5: 64B080F50BAF634EEC9BCA41420D0F97
SHA-1: 3A769B7C93688B9C38C3D8EEDA6EBF1E7B9F82BE
SHA-256: 6277C5DD46B9ED1D514D40F27F84A0BF8E5A10C0AE0115F717683D226531D35D

Hack description

A few years back a guy named Lord Asaki released a Super Mario World palette hack, which made me realize that there were lots of other GBA games that had awful awful colours. Breath of Fire 1/2 were some of the worst offenders, as were any of the Blizzard ports.

Fast forward to today, ludmeister's Breath of Fresh Fire 2 patch gets posted, and I realize that others might be interested in the work I did.

So here is a small patch that restores the full SNES palette to Breath of Fire 2 on the GBA. There are a few GBA unique screens that I didn't bother to change as they didn't look that bad, and I also tweaked the battle/text boxes to look more consistent with the style of the game (no more ugly gradients). The game is still horribly flawed by how easy it was changed to be for the GBA, but I hope that this patch will at least make it a little easier on the eyes.

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Reviews

Good Job!Ocean2016-06-07Version 1.0

This hack is a must, the screen looks even better now. Thanks.