I decided that Mario and Luigi would ideally finish the game at level 50, so that anyone that felt like maxing their level would have an easier time doing so. The first thing I did was decide the stat distributions at level-ups, so I’d be able to predict Mario and Luigi’s stats fairly accurately at any level, and base the enemy stats around them. Seeing as I was planning on dramatically scaling up the stats and re-working them from the ground up, I gave it a working tagline of “Bigger, Better, BALANCED.” (This got scrapped at literally the last second those words were supposed to appear on the last three chords in my release video, rather than “Thanks for watching!”.) To make this happen properly was going to be no small task however, I had a pretty good idea of how to handle it. So in May 2011, having familarized myself with working with the fairly basic Yoshi Magic editor, and having figured out or asked for the locations of a number of other things, I started work on “Superstar Saga+”. However, with some moves (*cough* Chopper Bros.) and equipment (*cough* Mush Badges) being what they are in the original, I can’t deny they needed a fixer-upper. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a massive fan of Superstar Saga and can hardly fault it for anything. After helping them figure out what various bits of data were for a while (Stache Discount Groups for items and the like), I realized there was enough knowledge out there to completely rebalance the stats in the game. It turned out that they had also located a bunch of enemy data, map data, level-up data, and so forth pretty extensive leads on stuff at the least. Check out The Mushroom Kingdom’s page here for more info.) various special items, various other Nintendo characters were supposed to make appearances.

Gadd showing up and giving the Mario Bros. (If you’re not familiar with these, basically, rather than E. I thought it might be interesting to recount some of the history and logic behind the hack.įor starters, I first found out the extent to which Superstar Saga could be hacked when sometime back in 2009, I saw that two guys from the “Yoshi’s Lighthouse” forums, Salanewt and Charleysdrpepper, had found the “ lost sprites” from the scrapped StarBeans Café cutscenes.

If you follow my YouTube channel, “ llproductions2006“, you might be familiar with my Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, “Superstar Saga+”.

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