Shining Force issue

[ManiacOverlord.ttv]

If I, say, save and exit the game normally, the emulator gives me a new save screen. I -have- to save at that save screen to be able to Resume my Shining Force game, right? But if I Resume later after I've saved the game and exited the normal way, I get stuck at the "Exit the game now" screen with no way to continue. I lost quite a bit of tme due to this mistake. Is there any way to reverse this or am I forever disallowed from being able to save-and-exit at risk of an irrecoverable game? Does this mean I have no way to access New Game Plus as well?

[freebird123456789]

use the emulator's save option before you quit the game. I think there is a F.A.Q. somewhere that mentions to use the emulator to save.

edit: found it...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=398334923
save with the emulator before quitting. that's the point where you can come back to after quiting. but also use the in game save function, for your own safety. I guess once you finished the game, there will be a "new game plus" option for you (if you saved in game?).

[xyteryon38]

Just to clarify things a bit.

The in-game save function for Shining Force 1 don't always save while the build-in save function ALWAYS save no matter what so saving with it is safer than using the in-game save.

And unfortunately there is no "new game plus" unlocking after completing the game. I complete it already and there is no such things. In short it's the very same game as it was at the time of its release on the Sega Genesis. It never had a NEW GAME+ but it has 3 scenarios you can choose from when you start a new game. Basically the scenarios could be seen as difficulty settings. One scenario gives more defence points than attack points and more hp per level up, an other scenario give average attack and deff with average hp per level up and the last one gives average attack, great defence but very little HP per level up. At the end it doesn't really matters which scenario you choose at the end of the game but it can affect your strategies in battles.

Speaking of strategy, here is some ...

All characters can be promoted at level 10 BUT you can still level up till level 20. A character can't level up beyond lv 20 before he is promoted, then after promotion a character can reach lv 99. So to have better starting stats for a character after he has been promoted don't promote him before he reached lv 20, then promote him and he will have far better stats at lv 1 than if he was promoted at lv 10.

Also the main character(Max) is the primary target of all enemies and monsters (they will all rush toward him if he is too far ahead on the front line ) so he should be used to finish off a weaken enemy to have more xp and make him level up faster and get his promotion before other characters. If he is too weak he will get killed and you will loose the battle.

[sacuL64]

Its not a new game plus but inorder to do the name everyone code you need to have a completed save.

[xyteryon38]

Originally posted by sacuL64:

Its not a new game plus but inorder to do the name everyone code you need to have a completed save.

It doesn't need a complete game, just a second controller and some tricky button combo to activate it. Also note that this trick only works on the japanese version of the game. (That's supposed to be the case but it needs confirmation)

What to do :

1 - Start "New Game" and rename the main character BUT DON'T PRESS START YET on controller 1, instead do ...

2 - Highlight the "End" option and while holding "START+A+B+C" on controller 2 press "START+A+C" on controller 1. Doing so will make a new window appear and you will be able to rename all playable characters.

Also there is some odd trick to have more HP and MP "legally". You just have to name your main character(Max) "SEGA" and you will have more HP and MP to start the game. I personnaly never tried this one but i mention it because i found it on Gamewinners and it might interest some players.

An other code for the Japanese version is the "Control Oponent" code. This one is also tricky but i guess it worth it. All you have to do is ...

Quickly press "A, B, C, UP, A, C, A, B, A" when the battle begins.

Honestly it's easier to do for Shining Force 2 than for Shining Force 1.

The only thing "unlocking" after completing the game is the useless sound test. For me it's not even worth mentioning it because it's not much of a reward for the 40 hours + that this game takes. It's better than nothing i guess.

I hope it helps :)