*NOTE: RL1 DOCUMENTATION IS NOW AVAILABLE IN MS-WORD FORMAT. IF YOU HAVE MS-WORD, OPEN THE OTHER README. Omnimaga presents RRRR L R R L R R L RRRR L R R L R R L R R LLLLL THE REIGN OF LEGENDS 2 version 1.10 (c) 2003 Kévin Ouellet alias Dream of Omnimaga https://djomnimaga.music-2000.com 1: Installing the game 2: Introduction 3: Story 4: How to play 5: Characters 6: Controls 7: Orbs 8: Battles 9: Menu 10: Features 11: Bugs 12: Version History 13: Special thanks 14: Disclaimers 1: Installing the game *For some reason, the game has problems with OS 1.13.* 1) Make sure you have 24 KB of RAM and 120 KB of Archive or higher. 2: Send everything located in the archive folder to your calculator archive 3) Send everything located in the RAM folder to your calculator RAM. 4) Run the game with prgmR00LEGEN. (If an ERR:ARCHIVED occurs, then press 2nd+ENTER, then ENTER again. Repeat this process whenever that error occurs) 2:Introduction Thanks for downloading The Reign of Legends 2 (a.k.a. RL2)! I hope you'll enjoy it. RL2 is a RPG (Role Playing Game) where magic and monsters take place. You have to explore lots of forests, dark caverns and dungeons to collect treasures while fighting many foes. The only difference in this one compared to other TI-calc ones is that it's even more complete. In fact, it's the most complete and the most advanced yet! Be prepared for a challenging experience. So what's so challenging in this game? Ok. You, as RPG fans, may be familiar with RPGs where monsters can heal other monsters. Unfortunately (for you), my TI-BASIC skills were high enough to put this annoying kind of monster in The Reign of Legends so you're still stuck with them ?. However, if you got a hard time completing RPGs where monsters had healing ability, you're screwed! As if healing monsters weren't enough in The Reign of Legends, you'll fall down from your chair when you'll see monsters casting Life spells to dead monsters!!!! Isn't enough? No, because RL2 has something making it harder than RL1 and RL3. Unlike RL1 and RL3 where monsters attack once per turn (usually, all your characters get to attack each turn too), later in RL2, each monsters will attack twice per turn with spell that can wipe out your entire party in one hit (check the Version History section. I even had to weaken one boss because of that) and to make matter worse, most of playable characters (especially mages) will never reach 9999 HP, even at LV 99. After a round or two, your party will be in a sore shape. So are you still ready for the challenge… or for the massacre? Don't worry; there are some hints in this readme and a complete bestiary in HTML format. 3:Story The emperor Zida wants all orbs and you must avoid that. You must enter his castle using a special orb, Neova. However, finding the orb will not be easy. You'll have to explore, ask people and fight incredibly powerful creatures to get to the orb. He must not get Neova! If this happens, something very bad may occur!!! 4:How to play When the game starts, you should have a loading screen. This is called a failsafe system (everyone who ever played FFTOM2 knows what it is.) Because the game is very sensitive to exiting with ON and many people will unarchive thing that should not, I decided to integrate this routine in the RL series and Mana Force 2. This feature attempt to re-archive RL2 files that should be archived. This game uses a lot of archiving and unarchiving. Because archiving and unarchiving fragment the Flash ROM and take more and more time to find enough space to write a prgm in the archive memory, you must garbage collect periodically. It will load faster if the only game you have on your calc is this one ?. If you have a TI-83+, archiving will be faster but you will have more garbage collect messages. After it's finished, the title and credits will appear. Press ENTER. A menu with options will appear. Select "NEW GAME" to start a new adventure. In a RPG, you have to enter houses to talk to citizens, explore and fight powerful monsters to get useful treasures and clues. As you fight and gain experience points, you level up and become more powerful. To face more powerful foes, you'll need to fight a lot. Although it's important to fight, you may need to buy orbs (a mix with items and magic) to heal yourself or defeat monsters faster. 5: Characters RL2 is one of the RPG with the biggest amount of playable characters, making the plot more and more interesting as you progress through the game. Here is a description of RL2 characters: -Eljin: A sky mage who has a good defense. Early in the game, you may want to put him in middle row until Merix is good enough. Then you should put him back. -Merix: Son of Gurly, Merix is an apprenti-fighter. He and Gurly came from the Gurly village that sank into water after a comet crash. He isn't very good early in the game (he starts at LV 1 with 39 HP) and can get killed in one hit. However at level 5 or above, he's the best! Merix is the only character in the game that can reach 9999 Hit points. -Zormy: A good mage who uses hell orbs to attack enemies. He doesn't have a good defense but he's very efficient in defeating large groups of enemies. -Guil: He's a good engineer and explorer. He plans to create the first airship in the world (yes! You really heard an AIRSHIP!) and he's very efficient in battles: His attack almost never misses and he can view monsters LV and HP. -Ji: A good thief. However, when there is no treasure around, he's gone. To take him in your party, you'll have to prove you are searching for good items. He's very powerful and has a lot of HP. With his (awesome for a calculator) STEAL command, you'll get powerful orbs without spending money! -Manu: Another Sky mage. She's the chief of the Manu Village on the small Island near Karidio and the Mountain Ruins and will not let anyone invade his kingdom. She has less HP than Eljin, but her sword skills rival Merix's so she will come handy in long boss fight and may be put in front row. Just keep her HP high. -Kyra: As the Kasinudio Magic Town chief, she's the master of orbs. She can use both sky and hell orbs and start very strong near LV 50. However, her HP are very low and she will never reach 6000 so put her in the back because she's a valuable character. -Gurly: Merix's father. He teached Merix his EXPEL skill and how to use the sword. He's slightly less powerful than Merix and you'll only control this character in the beginning of the quest. -Nylie: A mysterious girl. She's very powerful while fighting and can revive all dead character at once in battles. A very mysterious girl… This may sound impossible to you since it's a TI-BASIC RPG, but RL2 come with one of the most advanced feature ever seen on a calculator. Unlike RPGs where party members constantly changes, once you get the airship RL2 allow you to switch your party members (kinda like Final Fantasy 6) at any time! RL2 is the most challenging RPG in the Reign of Legends serie because you need to plan more tactics and strategy before venturing in a long dungeon. The following tactics may help you making your team and getting ready for the challenge. If you go somewhere you always get attacked by 3 monsters at once, you can bring a lot of mages (Kira and Zormy are good ones). If you're close to a tough boss, you come back and bring Merix, Ji and Manu and if you are afraid of dying, bring Eljin, Manu and Kyra so you'll have 3 healers in your team. Get familiar with each of those characters and try to find tactics to defeat challenging monsters found in RL2. Just make sure you don't let someone at LV 20 while raising the others at LV 70 (this happened to me when debugging the game ?). 6:Controls Arrows: Moves the team/airship, choose options in menus. Note: To engage a boss fight or to talk to someone, just walk on it. Enter: Enters the menu or confirm (-): Exit the menu or cancel. On the airship, allow you to create your team. CLEAR: Shut down the calc. When you turn it ON, you are at the same place! ON: Quit (NEVER EXIT THE GAME DURING THE FAILSAFE LOADING!!!!) 7: Orbs The Reign of Legends magic system works a bit differently than other RPGs. In RL, items act as magic (orbs). For example, you can have 30 FLAMEs and if you use one, the number decreases by 1. You can buy these items in shops and each unit costs an amount of GP. This means that if you run out of FLAME, you can use something else. No more Magic Points required! Note that you can have a maximum of 99 of each kind of orbs. 8:Battles When you walk or talk to someone, you may be engaged in a battle. Be prepared for anything! Each character has a special command. The standard ones are FIGHT and FLEE. Here is a description of commands: -FIGHT: Attack a monster -EXPEL: Sacrify HP to attack all enemies -SKY: Use sky orbs -HELL: Use hell orbs -TWIN: Use sky or hell orbs -STEAL: Yes! One of the first calculator RPG with a STEAL command! Steal orbs from foes -SPY: View monster's LV, HP, EXP and GP -RETURN: Bring all dead characters to max HP. -FLEE: Escape from battles. You cannot escape from bosses. Basically, you must keep your HP high to not get killed. Orbs that resurrect dead members cost A LOT of money. Also bring lot of orbs with you and don't waste powerful healing orbs outside of battle. After winning a fight, you can get experience points and when you reach a certain amount, you level up and your stats increase. 9: Menu Here you can view your stats and change many things. -The ORBS option shows all sky and hell orbs you have in your inventory. -The HEAL option allows you to heal party members. You just have to select an orb name and then select the character to heal. -The STATUS option allows you to see how many exp points you need to level up. You can also view your attack power and your hit percentage. -You may not believe it, but you are really seeing a ROW option in the screenshot! Trust me, it's really in the game… yes!!! In a calculator RPG!!!! The ROW option is useful to put low HP fighter or orb users in back or in the middle (yes!!! There are even three rows in this game! ? ). If you put your character in front, his weapon attack power will increase but his defense will decrease against physical attack. If you put him in the back, he will have a better defense against physical attack, but less weapon attack power. -See how complete is RL2: an ORDER option!!! You can change character order in battles (one of the most advanced feature in TI-RPG). In case of FIRST STRIKEs, fighters will attack in this order. -CONFG (you can even CONFIG THE GAME!!!) allow you to change the battle speed, the message speed, the status box emplacement in battle and change the GUI to the new one or the classic RL1 interface -SAVE is to save the game. You can choose one of the two save files. 10: Features -One of the only TI-RPG coming from Quebec (Canada) -A storyline with over 25 hours of gameplay -7 permanent characters you can change in the airship!!! -Magic Feed-back (a.k.a. New Game + in Chrono Trigger) -ASM tools to enhance home screen crap -Magic animations -Changing character row and order in battles -Each character has different abilities (including stealing items from foes) -2 world maps -Over 70 challenging monsters -Huge boss -Different battle scenes -30 locations with over 1000 screens -More than 10 magic orbs -Shop and Inn in villages -Grayscale????? No. In fact, the contrast become darker in caverns and lighter when there is fog -Interaction with NPCs (Non-Playable-Characters) inside the houses -Many side-quests -2 hours of specials events -Airship -And many other features I forgot… ? 11: Bugs Currently, even after RL3 release, there are still some errors I couldn't fix in RL2, but they can be avoidable if you follow these precautions. -The game has nearly 90 subroutines (programs) so it will not work properly with OS 1.13. This OS crashes with over 50 programs in the PRGM menu. Make sure you have the OS 1.14 or higher. -Sudden ERR:MEMORY when returning on the world map that happens often on the Silver Edition after long gameplay. This annoying error got me crazy when making the game. Delete all non-RL2 files from your calc. Each archived PRGM/VARS/app/group tax 12 bytes of your RAM so delete some useless variables and RL2 requires all this RAM. -If you get an ERR:ARCHIVED when starting the game, press 2nd once then ENTER twice. It's because Zflash is in beta stage and has problems checking Ans variable. I integrated a routine that check if Zflash is currently working so you'll not get others errors while playing. Avoid exiting the game during the Failsafe (The loading with the big RL logo at the game beginning) because the calculator will not be able to check if Zflash is working. 12:Version history -1.10: Difficulty fixes near the end of the game (a boss was impossible to defeat) -1.05: Display bug fixes in the English Version and handling of the bug with Nylie HP. *UPDATE* a new RL3 style readme.doc file -1.01: Some issues corrected. -1.00: Initial belated release 13: Special thanks -Joe Pemberton for ZFLASH (although this is not the best program). Without that RL1 and RL2 would have never existed. -Michael Vincent for BASIC Tools 14:Disclaimers -If you decide to upload this game to your website download section or use the source code, you MUST mention me -I cannot be held responsible for any damage caused to your calculator.