- Entirely new web-based user interface
- Added tri-state flags for most options. This allows an option to randomly be on or off.
- Two flags are exceptions, which are "partial" flags
- "Summer Sale" will only discount about half of the items when set to "partial"
- "Treasure Guards" will set only about half of important items to be guarded.
- Two flags are exceptions, which are "partial" flags
- Added tracking of certain stats which will be displayed after the game ending. The following are tracked:
- Encounters, defeats, and deaths for each monster.
- The number of times you used each spell.
- Deaths - The number of times you died.
- Attacks - The number of times you used the "Attack" command.
- Crits - The number of times you had an "Excellent Move".
- Dodges - The number of times an enemy dodged
- Blocks - The number of times you were prevented from running.
- Ambushes - The number of times a monster attacked you first.
- Bonks - The number of times you ran into an obstacle.
- Play time - In game play time from when you selected message speed until the "Until the dragons return again" text displays.
- This includes time on the title screen if you have started the game and then reset.
- Added a flag for enabling random chest placement.
- Added stair shuffle to randomize where dungeon stairs go.
- Added alternate algorithm for determining run chances.
- With this flag on, chances of running will be determines by which map you are on rather than the monster difficulty.
- This is the same algorithm used when "Random Monster Stats" is on.
- Added "Summer Sale" flag which will discount all weapons and armor by 35-65%
- Added "Random Map Size" option to allow generation of smaller maps.
- Added "Treasure Guards" where a mid-level spike encounter will guard important items.
- Guarded items are Erdrick's Armor & Sword, Silver Harp, Erdrick's Token, and Stones of Sunlight.
- Added "Randomly Rotate/Mirror Dungeons" which will change the orientation of dungeon maps
- Maps can be rotated 90, 180, or 270 degrees in addition to being vertically or horizontally mirrored.
- Added a summary tab which will display a summary of what options are set to.
- Added sorting of player inventory based on item index
- Added display of what spells you learned at level up (instead of "thou hast learned a spell").
- Added support for 2-byte XP and Gold drops from monsters
- Red Dragons now give 350 XP.
- Golems now give 350 XP.
- Goldmen now give 650 GOLD.
- Adjusted the player strength growth curve.
- Adjusted the curves for random XP and Gold drops for monsters based on the new values.
- "Short Charlock" now includes the top floor of Charlock unless "Stair Shuffle" is also on.
- Added new sprites:
- FF4 Edge
- Plumplim
- DoaE Guan Yu
- DoaE Zhang Fei
- DoaE Zhao Yun
- DoaE Huang Zhong
- DoaE Ma Chao
- DoaE Zhuge Liang
- DoaE Jiang Wei
- DoaE Lu Bu
- Bo Jackson
- Jerry Rice
- Barry Sanders
- Maximum STOPSPELL resist is now 9/16
- Maximum SLEEP/DL2 breath chance is now 50%
- New Flag: Scaled Metal Slime XP (32 times level)
- With this flag Metal Slimes will give XP equal to 32 times your level or 255, whichever is less.
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Added the ability for Erdrick's Armor to be in a chest
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The 3 search spots can now have any unique item: Sword, Armor, Token, Harp, Stones, Death Necklace, Fairy Flute.
- Death Necklace on a search spot also creates a mini gold grind there.
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Added the ability to use torches and fairy water in battle
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Added a flag for forcing heal/hurt before healmore/hurtmore
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Added a "No Hurtmore" flag
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Changed "Vanilla Map" to "Random Map"
- Opposite logic, of course
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Fixed picking up the token again after getting the Rainbow Drop
- The chest/search spot will now be empty instead if you have the drop
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Moved Challenge mode sprites to be flags on the new Challenge tab
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Removed the extra town/cave locations from vanilla map
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Major overhaul of all stat generation
- Added "make stats consistent" option for this mode for those who want the stats to be a little more sane.
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Also modified algorithms for random weapon prices and random XP.
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Modified the harp to pull lower-tier monsters (Zone 1&2)
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Rimuldar will no longer be required on the first continent if there is an accessible key in a cave
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Major speed increase to map generation (thanks dvj!)
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Removed stray sheild sprite in "Invisible hero" (thanks dwedit!)
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Added an option to disable screen flashing for spell casts
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Added "Permanent Torch" option
- This will make the minimum viewable area 3x3 in dark areas
- Torches will have no effect, but radiant still works as expected
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Fixed a bug where HP was not boosted when "Randomize Growth" was off in big swamp mode.
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Made sure there is no item on the overworld if "No Numbers" is enabled.
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Fixed an issue where towns were occasionally placed in improper spots on non-random maps
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Fixed random sprite choice to not be deterministic
- The random sprite chosen will no longer depend on the seed number
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Added new sprites:
- Ms. Pacman Sue
- FF4 Cecil
- Yoshi
- Fixed an error in the Kirby princess carrying sprite
- Fixed the slime and red slime sprites
- Fixed a bug where selecting the default hero sprite would crash the randomizer
- Fixed a bounds check error in the map code which could crash the randomizer
- Some minor edits to a few sprites.
- Cursed Princess mode!
- In this mode, you can win the game by getting Gwaelin to take a cursed belt from your inventory when you return her to the king.
- Three's Company mode!
- In this mode, you can win by bringing the princess to the Dragonlord and accepting his offer to join him.
- Vanilla Map option
- Allows you to play with the original map instead of a randomized one.
- "Chaos Mode" has been removed and separated into multiple options
- Fixed some issues with disabled/randomized music.
- Music can now be totally disabled aside from instances where it affects game timing
- All music is now randomized/disabled, including after inn stays, etc.
- New player sprites:
- Red Slime
- Metal Slime
- Dragonlord
- Jason (Blaster Master)
- Bomberman
- Christine (Arkista's Ring)
- Kirby
- Lala (Adventures of Lolo)
- Lolo (Adventures of Lolo)
- Pac-Man
- Ms. Pac-Man
- Inky
- Blinky
- Pinky
- Clyde
- Slime (Dragon Quest franchise)
- Mike (Star Tropics)
- Waluigi (Mario franchise)
- Wario (Mario franchise)
- Doran (Dragon Warrior IV)
- Tov the Dog (Dragon Warrior IV)
- Yeti (Dragon Warrior IV)
- The wizard now takes the token as well as the staff/stones when you receive the rainbow drop.
- An option to make metal slimes always run, even when you have low strength.
- "Search" now opens a treasure chest instead of just telling you one is there.
- It's still faster to use "Take"
- Added an option to change to modern Dragon Quest spell names
- Fixed a bug in Death Necklace max HP calculations
- This fixes an issue where HP was 1 lower than it should have been with the necklace equipped.
- Some tweaks to map generation which should make them more interesting
- Fixed an issue where Brecconary being on a different continent from Tantegel Castle could create a soft lock if the swamp cave is inside Tantegel.
- Brecconary will now always be on the same continent as Tantegel if the swamp cave is in Tantegel.
- Fixed the Fairy Water text for female characters (his -> her).
- This fixes an issue with some of the new sprites where some randomizer changes made their way into the sprite code.
- Affected sprites:
- Black Belt
- Black Mage
- Black Wizard
- Master
- Some tweaks to Chaos Mode
- Raised Dragonlord form 1's minimum HP to 81
- Removed abilities from the "wet noodle" monster
- Restricted the amount of XP given by the "wet noodle" (16-64XP)
- Fixed the REPEL table so that Chaos Mode enemies will be repelled based on their new stats
- Fixed a bug with forced encounters where running did not always push you back a space
- Fixed a bug where the player could be placed in the water by the return spell under certain conditions
- Added a bunch of new sprite options
- Fixed an issue where when Tantegel and Garinham were connected by the swamp cave, they would end up on the same continent, creating a map that was not able to be completed.
- Fixed an error in the player stat generation
- A bug was causing player stats to be higher than intended
- Added a slight HP boost to lower levels in Big Swamp Mode
- Changes to (attempt to) ensure that at least one enemy in early zones is beatable at level 1. The lowest strength enemy will have no more than 5HP
- Changed the run chance calculations in chaos mode
- Running chance in chaos mode is now based on map index rather than enemy index, since enemy index is fairly meainingless in this mode. Charlock will be the hardest place to run, followed by other dungeons, followed by Hauksness and Charlock (top floor), and easiest in the overworld. This should help with progression to level 2 as well.
- Fixed a problem with bridge placement
- Bridges shouldn't be placed where walkable tiles are located to the north or south of them
- Fixed a problem where Rimuldar could be placed on the wrong continent if the swamp cave was located in Garinham
- Fixed a UI crash in the title screen generation
- Made the random seeds in the UI more random
- The random seeds in the UI were not so random on Windows.
- Changed the UI such that a new random seed is chosen after generating a ROM.
- Fixed a read overrun in death_necklace()
- This was causing a rom difference and checksum mismatch.
- Bug did not affect gameplay.
- From scratch rewrite using C, C++ and the Qt toolkit.
- Split continents can now occur, causing the swamp cave to be required
- Some NPCs have been moved or removed
- The roving guard in the throne room has been sacked
- The old man in the Garinam item shop has been moved
- The weapon shop in Cantlin now contains 4 counter tiles - the owner can no longer hide!
- Chaos mode
- Randomizes all enemy stats including Dragonlord form 1.
- Randomizes experience requirements for levels.
- Dragonlord form 2 will have between 100 and 230 HP.
- Dragonlord form 2 could have
SLEEPorHEAL, but also is more susceptible toSTOPSPELL.
- More speed options
- Fast Text and Speed Hacks are now separate options
- Open Charlock - no Rainbow Drop required.
- Short Charlock - No need for torches because there's no dungeon, just straight to the Dragonlord's floor.
- Added an option to not require keys for opening doors.
- Big Swamp option - most of the overworld will be filled with swamp.
- Added player sprite options. The player sprite can be changed when generating a ROM.
- Fixed an issue where the player could obtain multiple flutes/tokens if they were in a chest.
- This would clutter the inventory since they are unable to be discarded.
- Graphical interface! DWRandomizer now has a GUI for a better user experience.
- There is now a Windows installer for DWRandomizer - it will now be added to the start menu.
- The ROM output directory can now be specified in the GUI or from the command line via the
--output-diroption - Fixed the Cantlin NPC dialog when the overworld item is more than 100 steps from the castle.
- Added back the silver harp.
- The NPC in the Northern Shrine will now always have the Staff of Rain.
- Enemies summoned by the harp will now be a random set of 8 different enemies.
- Buffed some of the weaker spells.
HEALnow has a range of 18-25 HP.HURTnow has a range of 9-16 HP.
- Menu wrap-around.
- Various menus in the game will now have the cursor wrap from top to bottom (optional).
- The Death Necklace will now always appear in it's chest the first time. You can still only get one.
- Death Necklace now has an optional function other than cursing you. It can give a +10 ATK at the expense of 25% of your HP (you are still cursed).
- Some enemy balance changes:
- Reduced Droll HP from 35 to 20
- Reduced Poltergeist HP from 26 to 23
- Reduced Specter HP from 48 to 33
- Reduced Goldman HP from 110 to 35
- Some changes to zone randomization:
- Zones 1 and 2 will now have Wolf and below only.
- Tantegel will have 2 of each of these zones surrounding it
- Zone 1 will be to the east and west
- Zone 2 will be to the north and south
- All other zones will be random (using a new algorithm)
- The new algorithm ensures each zone will appear on the overworld no more than 5 times.
- Fixed an issue where Garin's Grave and Tantegel Basement weren't randomized
- Moved "speed hacks" option to a top level question.
- A new option --speed-hacks (-H) has been added to speed up text and some other aspects of the game.
- Tantegel Castle is no longer confined to its original zone from the vanilla game. Zone 0 will be moved to accomodate.
- A few incorrect monster stats have been fixed:
- Droll HP has been reduced from 43 to 35 (this is what the GBC/SNES release has it as)
- Werewolves will now give 95 XP and 155G instead of 120/185. This also matches values from the GBC/SNES release.
- Gold drops will now always be the maximum amount instead of a random percentage. This is also in line with the re-releases.
- Fixed a bug where Charlock castle could be obstructed, thus making the game impossible to finish.
- Fixed a bug where the program would occasionally get stuck when generating the map.
Some refinement to growth curves
- Minor changes to growth curves - buffed hp/agi, nerfed str/mp
- Also removed the IPS generation question from prompts (few will want this)
- Specifying --ips on the command line will still generate this file
- Fixed an issue where the program crashed when formatting the title screen with short seed numbers.
- Added
--fast-leveling(-f) and--very-fast-leveling(-F) options. - The XP requirements for each level will be 75% and 50% of normal, respectively.
- Refined the player growth curves so that the average level to finish the game is level 15.
- Raised the encounter rate in zone 0 to the same as other zones
- Added randomizer version, flags, and seed number to the title screen
- Fixed xp/gold drops for Drakeema
- These values have been wrong since the first version - thanks to @gameboy9 for catching this
- Added an IPS checksum and IPS file generation.
- This version has no gameplay differences from 1.0-rc2
What's New?
- Added a new exit from the Tantegel throne room. Now you can die even faster!
- Moved the maximum spell level in ultra to 16 from 20. Too many grindfests resulted from learning HEALMORE at 20.
- Fixed a bug in normal rando where
HEALMOREwas being moved to level 8 instead ofREPEL. - Removed the Silver Harp and replaced it with a key.
- Changed Erdrick's Token chest to contain a key instead of gold if the token is on the ground.
- Fixed a bug where towns were occasionally being placed on top of other towns/castles.
Generated Overworld!
- A new overworld map can be generated with each seed. This is enabled by default
- The enemy for forced encounters are now randomized in ultra mode. Also, on generated maps, the golem encounter is moved into Charlock's Throne Room (kind of a miniboss guarding Dragonlord).
No more command line needed!
- When the randomizer is run without options (or drag and drop), you will be prompted for options, removing the need to run from the command line to customize options.
Other stuff...
- Random enemies in Charlock are now limited to Werewolf and above for ultra mode (it was too easy).
- The token location (or whatever replaces it) is now randomized. An NPC in Cantlin will tell you where it is.
- Fixed a grammatical error which has irritated me since 1989.
New Ultra Rando Mode!
- New options for a "no holds barred" approach to player growth, enemy spells, enemy zones, and spell learning. This makes them (almost) completely random.
- All spells will be learned by level 20, and enemies in zones 0 and 1 are limited to no tougher than scorpions.
This version also includes minor tweaks to zone randomization in normal mode.
- Fixed an issue where the game could end up with no Erdrick's Armor or no Fairy Flute.
- Added randomization of player HP, MP, strength, and agility (+/- 20%).
- Added randomization of spell learning levels (+/- 2).
- Added shuffling of Erdrick's Armor, Fairy Flute, and Erdrick's Token locations.
- Patched Northern Shrine to be accessible without the harp.
- The weapon shop in Kol is now randomized.
- Fixed an issue with the swamp cave south exit being moved improperly.
- Weaon shops are now randomized! (Except for Kol, which will be fixed next release)
REPELwill now be learned at level 8.HEALwill now have a range of 10-25 instead of 10-17.- Shortened the output filename for better readability on Everdrive.
- Removed the possibility of Axe Knight having strong fire breath
- Several tweaks to avoid a few potentially unwinnable situations.
- Dragonlord HP tweaks:
- Dragonlord form 1 will now have 100HP
- Dragonlord form 2 will be random between 150-165HP (Always the same on the same seed)
- Fixed some issues with pattern randomization
- Fixed stopspell resistance
- Enemies with newly obtained magic now have lower stopspell resistance
- Added fix for fighter's ring. It now adds +2 to attack. Special thanks to Zombero for supplying the ips patch for this.
- Tweaks to cave shuffle to mitigate a potential unwinnable situation.
- Lowered Dragonlord's HP to make him beatable at level 18.
- Tweaks to enemy zone randomization.
- Tweaks to town shuffle.
- Tweaks to enemy patterns.
- Fixed rom version detection to work on overdump roms.
- Fixed a bug in chest randomization where large gold chests were not as abundant as intended.
- Some output filename tweaks. This should be more readable on everdrive.
- Added more info to the README
- Initial Beta