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Hi guys, you may not remember me since I decided to vanish for a load of months but I'm back now and ready to hack!
This will be my personal hack for GS so naturally it's going to a mix of what I think it needs and what I think would be cool/fun. I'm probably going to be working on it little at a time so it'll probably take a while before I have something I think is worth sharing. I'm also going to hack both games to make it nice and continuous.

With all the intro out of the way here's some features I've thought up that I'm going to try to accomplish:

• Swap Ivan and Isaac's elements - so Isaac will be a Jupiter adept and Ivan Venus. I've always felt that Earth psynergy was the weakest and just generally disappointing so having an Earth Mage means I can make some nice high cost spells for Ivan to cast. Isaac on the other hand... just feels like a Jupiter adept.
• Rebalance the classes - Remember how everyone hated Garet? I'm hoping to change that. I've decided on very little at this stage but I'm thinking that whereas Isaac would be a fast hard-hitter with little defense (glass cannon) Garet would also deal heavy damage but more slowly and with more bulk to take hits. When I get on to TLA I'll be using the class separation patch too so hopefully the classes will be more interesting and useful than normally.
• Rebalance psynergy - A recurring complaint seems to be that psynergy quickly loses its usefulness, resulting in most battles being mindless normal attacking. I'm going to try and change this, making higher costing and more powerful spells. Also going to attempt implementing more strategic spells.
• Make djinn more important - so here you might be thinking there was nothing wrong with djinn in the original game, but let's not forget the tried and tested boss-fighting formula of spamming summons. With my system, that may not be a possible strategy: base classes will have their stats reduced and in particular the affinity each adept has with their element has been reduced, so psynergy spamming will be most effective with all djinn ready.
• General increase in difficulty - Not sure how much more I'm going to deal with this but I might see about increasing the defense of most enemies to further discourage blindly relying on normal Attacks. I'll make sure to balance weapons with these changes in some way.

So yeah, leave me suggestions and tell me what you think.

Listen to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atty13H6AOk

Enjoy.

I've been having a play-around with anvil studio and made some... perhaps less than good tracks, but I'm still quite proud of them. If you want, listen to them and tell me what you think (even if you think they're awful).
[spoiler]and yes, to any Senses Fail fans I did borrow a couple of their riffs  [/spoiler]

I'm currently coding an RPG using visual basic that I'm basing on Golden Sun.
If I feel it's good enough I might include a link here.
Primarily, I'm asking for ideas (although offers of help are nice too.)

My main aim is to make it as canonical as possible. (Yes, this means no playing as Dullahan and his team of Giant Chestbeaters wreaking havoc through Weyard.)
My first idea for a storyline was the backstory around Saturos and Menardi - specifically, the short period of time that led to the Mt. Aleph Boulder being released and the simultaneous storm.
I have a couple of problems however;
A) I really wanted to make Alex a playable character but according to Golden Sun wiki, he only joined up AFTER the first raid.
B) Other than Saturos & Menardi, up to 2 player-named characters and Alex, I've had no ideas for party members. (Especially since very little information in the games is given about that time.)

So basically, if anyone knows something major about this time period and/or has good ideas for party members, please speak up.

Hi. I'm Awec.
I should really have read some of the other introduction topics before posting this. But I'm lazy. Oh well.

Anyway, hi. Actually, I only registered to post in the error report section of TLA Editor, and I'm probably wrong too.
You may or may not see me post more.