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Remove Barrels on Run

Original game : Secret of Mana

Platform : SNES

Author : Kethinov

Release date : 29 December 2019

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.2

Modifications : P

Downloads : 237

ROM Information

Database match: Secret of Mana (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Super Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20180813-062835)
File/ROM SHA-1: 8133041A363E3CC68CEDEF40B49B6D20D03C505D
File/ROM CRC32: D0176B24

Hack description

This hack changes the behavior of barrels in three ways to make them more useful:

1. Barreling an ally and then fighting with a different character will no longer remove the ally's barrel.

2. Accordingly, barrels are now removed by running instead of attacking.

3. Barrels are now removed one at a time instead of all at once. You must switch to the character whose barrel you want to remove in order to remove it. Barrels can also be removed by Magical Herbs if you have the Magical Herb hack applied as well: https://retrohackers.net/hack-details.php?id=4426/.

Removing barrels when running instead of attacking is useful because makes it possible to protect a weak character more easily while fighting with a strong character. See video of this strategy here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OIqPYJ1WK8

Removing barrels one at a time is useful because now players can individually barrel themselves and remove the barrels when they like rather than having to decide as a group whether to keep the barrels on or off for all players.

Note: This hack bundles the "Fix Barrel Frame Glitches" changes as well. Special thanks to Queue for providing significant refactoring to the original code.

Screenshots

Contributions

ContributorType of contributionDescription
KethinovHackingOriginal version
QueueHackingSignificant refactoring

Reviews

Pretty much necessaryhmsong2019-08-28Version 1.1

Patch this. This allows you to prevent AIs from doing stupid things, and it also prevents AIs from engaging enemies when you're just trying to run through. AIs don't slow down when barreled.