May 8th, 1998 prototype

This is a sub-page of Proto:Shining Force III.

Saraband"The King of the Assembly, Benetram, is a great strategist and general. No way he would give up Barrand so easily. He must have some secret plan... Maybe something like taking the Emperor or a prince hostage..." Balsamo"The monks of the Bulzome sect behave quite well. They don't get drunk or cause trouble. That makes our job a lot easier. But... when we try to speak to them, they don't care much for conversation. I guess a tame life means no problems." Railhead"It's strange to have church services packed, but if no one comes, it's a much worse. It's hard to get motivated here." Quonos Village"Synbios, without Khan, even Vandal is helpless. Retreat and have Khan heal up and rejoin us" Vagabond"Whoo! Yea! Army! Hi, I'm JJ! That battle was exciting! Now I can't keep still! Ai laaaaaaate!" Storich"It's probably.... It must be.... They closed the gate to stop us from going to Flagard. But why?" Flagard"But the negotiations failed, so I decided to make him disappear. I guess he won't last too much longer." LookoverAll changes to the Town of Lookover, and its scenic Tower. MalorieFrom the final town of the game up until the 2nd to last battle.. Aspia"! !".

Debug#

Entering 3602206e 0001 will enable a debug mode. Its functions are as follows:

Also, pressing X+Y+Z together will pause the game. In this mode, pressing any button other than Start will advance the game 1 frame, and pressing L will enable some printout information, pressing Start will exit this mode. Also, holding Z while in control of a character will enable you to walk through walls, and holding Z during battle instantly ends it (pressing Start during an enemy's turn kills that specific enemy). Holding R during a cutscene will skip through massive chunks of dialogue, though this can sometimes crash the game.

General#

• Control codes are only left unaltered if they are relevant to the change, some common ones are:

* {02} - Line End
* {03} - Line Break
* {04} - Small Pause
* {05} - Next page symbol, occasionally shows up in longer conversations and for the purposes of this article, effectively just another line break.
* {07} - For color text, the color depends on separate control codes next to it.
* Anything from 10-1F - Taken from RAM. Generally, 10 is reserved for the main character's name, 1E is for Yes or No questions, or "JuMsY" the one time that shows up in the game, while the rest are context sensitive.

• ATK was abbreviated as ATT in this build
• Additionally, Speed and Agility were swapped around, to keep this article from becoming hopelessly redundant, changes like these will not be individually listed.
• Line 76F in all of the final's scripts is the line "Incompatible Peripheral". That is missing entirely from the prototype.

• Some of these lines were shortened in the final due to overflow and or wrapping errors. It is not uncommon for the text in this build to blank out while scrolling through it.

Classes#

Item Description/Names#

Enemy Names#

Mad Folk appears to be the proper translation.

Location Names#

Weapon Types#

This is the only time a "Laypia" is listed. Possible mistranslation.

File Select#

While most of the changes are already in place to some degree, the File Select still calls the game Scenario 1! Interestingly, an even earlier version of this screen appears in the game's manual, where it's misspelled as "Scearid".