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2.0.0

  • Revamped the flagset system:
    • Many more options are now standard, significantly reducing the length of typical flag strings.
    • Removed some customization for categories of items to shuffle together: full shuffle is now standard, with "easy mode" flags Et to keep vanilla mimic locations and Eu to not shuffle consumables in with unique items.
    • Support for flag modifiers (e.g. !).
    • Merged the F and G groups together. By default, all glitches are fixed (when possible). The Gx flags reenable the glitch but also add them to the logic. The G!x flags enable them outside of logic.
    • Grouped a handful of options to make the game more like vanilla into a new V group.
    • Support for optional flags that don't affect the checksum (e.g. As to turn off the background music). Note that some A flags are only optional without the ! modifier.
    • Add "mystery flags" (? modifier) that are randomly either on or off, but the player does not know which.
  • Adds a new "GBC Cave" inspired by the cave on the east edge of Wind Valley in the GBC version. This cave has two checks and and two additional exits, one of which is blocked by a (by default) rock wall.
    • This introduces a 13th mimic into the game.
    • Setting Vm or V!m will disable adding this map, in favor of either adding no additional routes out of Leaf, or restoring the older version of just a direct passage to Lime Tree Valley.
  • Various logic changes:
    • Entering Evil Spirit Island requires you to be riding the dolphin (flight will trigger a message and reject entry, unless trigger skip is used).
    • Added a new guard NPC in the Portoa throne room. When Portoa Queen leaves the throne room permanently (to go to Asina's back room), the guard will have her item, instead of Asina.
    • Statue of Gold is now added to the shuffle as a potential item that can be found from any check. Combining Glowing Lamp and Broken Statue now provides a random item.
    • Deo now always requires Telepathy (in addition to Change).
  • Fixes to dolphin logic.
    • In particular, the Rd flag selects between vanilla dolphin interactions (where healing the dolphin and having the Shell Flute is required to spawn the boat owner, and talking to Kensu in the beach house is required to make the Shell Flute work) or "standard" dolphin interactions (where only the Shell Flute is required to ride the dolphin, but trading in the Fog Lamp is required to spawn Kensu in the beach house, who holds an item.
    • Riding the dolphin is now required to get into Evil Spirit Island. If you're flying, you'll get a message that you can't get into the cave.
    • Riding the dolphin is also required to find the underwater item in the channel behind Portoa.
  • Tinking no longer damages enemies at all.
    • Ns enables "tink mode", but will also potentially add tinking to logic.
  • New randomization options:
    • Wh shuffles house entrances in towns.
    • Wa shuffles connections between the various areas in the game. This also adds two chests to Mezame Shrine, in order to guarantee there are sufficient "sphere zero" checks. In this mode, Zebu's student again no longer gives any item (though he's still required to talk to to spawn sleeping in the cave), and the initial $100 cash is in the inventory from the start.
    • Wg shuffles the order of the floors in Goa fortress.
  • New glitch options:
    • Gr allows skipping Rage via a damage boost to go directly to the answering machine. Whether the skip is disabled can be determined by the shape of the land (there's no space to damage-boost into when it's off).
    • Gg allows flight to be used to sneak past shooting statues.
  • Adds Rb "no bow mode", which provides a direct portal from Mezame to Draygon 2, who no longer needs the Bow of Truth to fight.
    • Note that this is independent from Rs (story mode), which would still require swords and bosses for Draygon to spawn.
  • Improved map randomization some (but it's still incomplete).
    • Added a handful of "missing" screens for several tilesets (swamp and river cave).
  • Tracker no longer available (use EmoTracker instead).
  • Add presets for the 2022 tournament rounds.
  • Revamp the HUD:
    • These changes can be optionally disabled with Vh, or force-disabled with V!h.
    • Some text is compressed into smaller icons.
    • EXP no longer shows a target. Instead, experience counts down and the next level happens when you reach zero.
    • Two levels can be gained at the same time now, if scaling is high enough.
    • Enemy HP and name are displayed at the bottom of the HUD.
  • Simple sprite swapping to allow playing as Mesia or other custom sprites.
  • Stat tracking.
    • Results are displayed at end of the credits.
    • Pressing Start during the credits will skip the movie and jump straight to the stats.
    • Various known issues: the checks count is inaccurate, and stats can be corrupted when restarting or using save/load (rather than checkpoint).
  • Sword is now colored based on the element, making it easy to follow on stream.
  • Wall elements can now optionally provide audible cues (optional Qw flag).
  • Flyers now spawn in a different random off-screen location every time.
  • Warp points are activated immediately upon loading an area, rather than stepping on a specific trigger tile.
  • Increase pity MP to 2 (to ensure flight is always possible).
  • Add some unidentified and misspelled names.
    • Many of these "community jokes" can be disabled with the Ec flag.
  • Mt Sabre North blocking triggers now indicate what they want.
  • Minor bug fixes:
    • Fixed some graphical glitches.
    • Fixed glitchy vampire dialog caused by Kensu beach house changes.
    • Fixed an issue with Angry Sea Wild Warp logic.
    • Fixed issues from entrance order being switched (mixing up wild warp, among other things).
    • Fixed some issues around using the tower escalators to skip floors.
    • Fixed bug allowing player to get free sword charge glitch from quick swap.
    • Fixed an issue where seeds that rerolled in the middle could have some communication from earlier attempts, making (for example) Akahana require being Changed into a woman, rather than Aryllis.
    • Fixed monster placement to not be inside walls.
    • Improve handling of overdumped input roms.
    • White robots will no longer spawn directly underneath the player.
    • Tomatoes and other non-flyers now respect the terrain.
    • Fixed internal flag allocation bug to not reuse flags on multiple maps.
    • Don't place enemies on the same screen as a seamless exit.
    • Fixed the waterfall cave hint to traverse chests in correct order.
    • Fixed Crystalis sword power to not decrease after opening the menu.
    • Fixed vanilla bug where a second round of blizzard shots despawn if fired too soon after an earlier round.
    • Fixed vanilla bug where you need an extra MP to use sword magic.
    • Fixed Sabera 2 to not delay before starting the fight.
    • Shooting statue skip (via flight) can no longer require going south through statues, since that direction is not RTA viable.
  • Internal cleanups:
    • Rearrange passes into a strict order of (1) read bytes from ROM into an internal data structure, (2) shuffle the internal data structure, (3) write bytes from the internal representation back to the ROM image.
    • Implemented a relocating/patching macro assembler/linker to better utilize free space in the ROM.
    • Significantly more changes are now done programmatically, rather than through assembly.
    • Remove a handful of redundant flags and triggers.
    • Improve test infrastructure.
    • Factored out metalocation, metascreen, metatileset (etc) types for dealing with map edits more easily.
    • Moved a number of screens' data into the expanded PRG ROM.

1.2.4

  • Prevents randomized wild-warp into Mesia Shrine and Rage to avoid possible softlock from the Queen going away without any way to reach her.
  • Fix Sword of Thunder level 1 shot normalization to do the same damage as all other level 1 shots.

1.2.3

  • Fixes Gw (assume wild warp) to not assume that wild warping to the front of swamp will get you into Oak without a gas mask.
  • Adds an experimental voice-activated tracker, which may or may not actually work.

1.2.2

  • Adds a warp point for Zombie Town.
  • Adds a "beta" Wm flag for limited map shuffle.
  • Tc flag disables controller shortcuts.
  • Changes when Tb is enabled:
    • Tornado magic moves slower
    • Speed Boots no longer protect from spikes/marsh
    • Gas Mask is now Hazmat Suit and does protect from spikes/marsh
  • Platforms are now randomly swapped with Crypt Platforms, which crumble when you step off them.
  • Nerf mado slightly by having him stop a little more frequently.
  • Fix loopholes where stabbing while flying was effective (i.e. a few bosses): now nothing can be hit while you're flying, even if they can hit you.
    • Also entirely removed Warrior Ring for Hc flag (charge shots only).
  • Leaf elder in Mt. Sabre prison heals you when you talk to him.
  • Buff Iron Necklace and Shield Ring to work without any equipped armor (the bonus is now 2*level, on top of the normal cap).
  • Kensu slime no longer locks the screen before talking to him.
  • NPCs should no longer carry Opel Statues.
  • Kelbesque 2 skip should no longer work.
  • Bosses drop EXP again.
  • Kensu now asks for what he wants in Swan.
  • Clean up presets:
    • Clearer names.
    • Add presets for the elimination phase flagsets.
  • Rearranged order of hints for fog lamp/kirisa plant cave:
    • Bows get top priority, then swords/magic, and finally other unique items
    • If multiple items have the same priority, it will prefer disclosing a deeper item over a shallower one: back of fog lamp first, then kirisa back to front, then the rest of fog lamp back to front.
    • If no unique item is found, it will simply say "treasure".
  • Fixed some minor bugs:
    • Fixed mosquito and flail graphics.
    • Azteca cut-scene should no longer happen during Mado fight.
    • Improvements to dialog pagination.
    • Race seeds should again have the correct version number baked in.

1.2.1

  • Quick sword switch controls improved to feel more natural.
  • Patch out warp boots reuse glitch (only when shop glitch is disabled, since otherwise you can just steal them anyway).
    • Also reduced warp boots price by 20% to compensate for not being able to reuse them.

1.2.0

(NOTE: this version is published as 1.1.4 on NPM since I accidentally unpublished 1.2.0)

  • Wt randomizes the trade-in items NPCs want.
  • Wu randomizes the names of certain items.
  • Ww randomizes wall elements.
  • Tp randomizes color palettes.
  • Tw randomizes wild warp locations.
  • Hh enables "hardcore mode", removing all checkpoints and saves.
  • Dt enables a "trainer mode" that provides nearly all required items up-front, provides shortcuts for changing level and scaling, and redefines the wild warp spots for convenient access to bosses and the tower.
  • Paralysis check now requires killing Kelbesque 1.
  • Flails now do projectile/shield damage.
  • Changes to item shuffle:
    • Removed Sb flag: all unique items are now shuffled together under Sk.
    • Improved consumable boss drop handling by allowing arbitrary consumables to fill leftover slots once all key items are placed.
  • Removed controller 2 bindings in favor of new single-controller shortcuts:
    • Start+B+A triggers "wild warp". Pressing A+B in the opposite order warps "backwards" in the list. This shortcut is considered to be fully allowed in races.
    • Select+B quickly switches the equipped sword.
  • Shuffled boss elements *from Me) are now accounted for in logic.
  • It's now possible to walk out of the tower by touching the crystal.
  • Fixed almost all known graphical issues (still outstanding are garbled bosses before the fight and the mosquito on some maps).
  • Made Hd (buffed Dyna fight) a little harder.
  • Removed Rl flag (it's now always on).
  • Warp boots or teleport is now guaranteed for all checks around Shyron after warping there via the Sword of Thunder.
  • Fixed a major random number generator glitch.
  • Fixed some broken triggers and dialogs:
    • Leaf villagers can no longer get stranded on Mt. Sabre.
    • Prevent Draygon 2 from respawning in story mode.
    • Walking out of the initial cave is no longer required to ensure all caves are open.
  • Degraded some tracker features (it can no longer show off-logic checks), but added some rudimentary handling for random elements and trade-ins.
  • Added permalink capability.
  • Misc improvements:
    • New underlying logic engine.

1.1.3

  • Me flag shuffles monster weaknesses (but not accounted in logic).
  • Mt shuffles tower monsters into the rest of the game.
  • Hz turns on "blackout mode" in caves.
  • Hd makes Dyna into a real boss fight, with killable side pods.
  • Tm randomizes music.
  • Sword charge damage is normalized: Wind and Water charges do 3/6/8 damage, Fire and Thunder do 3/5/7 damage (on top of the normal base damage from the sword's power level).
  • Orbs and bracelets are fully progressive: the orb will always be found before the bracelet.
    • Tornel on Mt. Sabre requires finding both the Orb and Bracelet.
  • Defeating the insect is no longer sufficient for the insect flute check (rescuing the child is now required).
  • Mimics are always inital spawns, rather than timer spawns.
  • Fixed some graphical glitches, but introduced some new ones (in particular, garbled chests are no longer guaranteed to be mimics).
  • Misc improvements:
    • Introduced better data structure abstractions.
    • Changed a few dialog messages.
    • Moved from JavaScript to TypeScript.
    • More robust testing.

1.1.2

  • Fixed Hg swamp run to require sword to be in-logic.
  • Fixed Rd flag logic to not make unwinnable seeds.

1.1.1

  • Fixed Em and Hm flags.
  • Added some analytics to the homepage.

1.1.0

  • Rl flag ("no free lunch") now closes the back entrance to Mt Sabre North, requiring the Prison Key to open it (from either side), as well as the back entrance to the sealed cave (which can only be opened by starting the windmill).
  • Made Alarm Flute a key item, given by the student. Alarm Flute and Flute of Lime are now reusable. The Flute of Lime chest has been replaced with a Mirrored Shield. Leaf's tool shop sells a Fruit of Power instead of Alarm Flute, and Joel's tool shop sells a Lysis Plant, and Goa's tool shop sells a Fruit of Power instead of its Lysis Plant.
  • Shop prices are now always normalized by scaling level.
    • Flag Ps will shuffle contents between shops.
  • Disable some glitches:
    • Fs flag disables the shop glitch
    • Ft flag disables glitching through statues
    • Fr and Fp disable rabbit and teleport skips, respectively.
    • Gs changed to Gc for sword charge glitch
    • Tw changed to Fw for consistency with other "fixes"
  • Buffed Fruit of Power to 48 in non-hard mode (Hm) and 64 in easy mode (Em), providing slightly better balance.
  • Flag Tb consolidates various bonus item tweaks:
    • Speed boots (formerly Ts)
    • Deo's pendant buff (formerly Td)
    • NEW: Rabbit boots charge to level 2 while walking.
  • New Easy Mode flags:
    • Flag Es guarantees a starting sword from Leaf elder
    • Flag Ed decreases enemy attack power, particularly in early game
    • Flag Ex increases experience drops (and Hx decreases them)
  • New "Story mode" flag Rs requires killing all bosses (not counting vampire or insect) and having all four swords before Draygon 2 will spawn.
  • New flag Rr requires telepathy to get item from Deo.
  • New flag Ro makes orbs and bracelets optional for destroying walls and forming bridges.
  • Stabbing while flying no longer damages ground enemies.
    • Also added new hard mode flag Hc that disables stabs entirely.
  • Restore armors back to original defense values, but rearrange a bit:
    • Sacred Shield now prevents curse instead of paralysis.
    • Ceramic Shield now prevents paralysis.
    • Psycho Armor and Psycho Shield now only provide 20 DEF instead of 32.
    • Battle Armor provides 24 DEF instead of 20.
    • Ceramic Armor and Battle Shield provide 32 DEF instead of (respectively) 20 and 24.
    • Armor and shield base prices are adjusted so that they scale proportionally.
    • Increased Platinum and Mirrored Shield defenses by 2 each.
    • Armor defense capped at 3 * Level
  • Opel Statue now clears status effects (and fixes a base-game bug where it would soft-lock while riding the dolphin).
  • Fix various soft-locks
    • Don't require humanly-impossible swamp run in hard-mode logic.
    • Saving or checkpointing in really awkward situations now ensure loaded games have a minimum of 5 HP and 1 MP (20 MP if swordless).
    • Patched queen dialog to always disappear after talking to her.
  • Minor tweaks:
    • Fix some issues with Vampire 2 (specifically, too-easy scaling and including invulnerability to fire in logic).
    • Cause Statue of Onyx location to spawn on both versions of the map.
    • Defragmented several data tables for better access.

1.0.1

  • Item shuffle is now done using "assumed fill".
  • Rf (early flight) option has been removed since we can now bias the assumed fill algorithm to give flight at a random time.
  • Gp (assume teleport skip) option has been added to allow the logic to require using flight to skip the teleport trigger at the entrance to Mt Sabre North. This is included in the "advanced" preset.
  • Opel statue no longer needs to be equipped to work. Equipping it no longer blocks using quest items or stops storm attacks, though there's never a reason to do so.
  • Linked to glitch explanation videos in help page.
  • Fixed a few bugs:
    • Warp Boots disappearing or ending up in wrong row due to garbage data written into the ItemGetData table.
    • Portoa Queen's item (vanilla Flute of Lime) was being eaten but the previous bug masked it.
    • Ghetto flight logic forgot to guarantee Rabbit Boots.
    • Dolphin spawn requires talking to Asina but previously the graph expected it after getting Ball of Water.

1.0.0

  • Initial release