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Breath of Fire 2 GBA

Breath of Fire 2 for GBA— Downloads

Download the Breath of Fire 2 GBA— Fresh Fire mod

Changelog

The aim of this mod is simply to create a fresh Breath of Fire 2 experience, and to allow for more liberal use of Dragon powers.

Version 1.0, Rev. 1 Changelog

  • Sten has been given the use of the Warp spell, so players may avoid some needless backtracking early in the campaign.

Version 1.0 Changelog

  • Spells are modified, especially their AP costs, names, and damage done.
  • Every character casts different spells, and some have different starting spells as well.
  • Starting stats, and level up progressions for all characters, including Bleu have been meticulously reworked. Some of the characters will play much differently than stock Breath of Fire 2, making your strategies different.
  • Items have been renamed (no 2 character demarcation at the end of each item). This allowed for 8 characters for each item name (6 for stackable items). There are numerous items with different properties, and almost all non-equipable items are stackable.
  • Dragon Magic has been significantly changed. No more zero-ing out of the Dragonbrood's AP when using Dragon abilities! They have been given an AP cost, and do damage based off of hero level (not AP remaining).
  • Fixed a bug in the original code that prevented the Dragon abilities (Fire, Ice and Thunder Dragon) from inflicting damage according to their elemental classification.
  • I have meticulously realigned the Shaman combo system. The Holy and Devil shamans are more powerful on their own. In face, a bug in the original code (namely, Luck was not affected as it should have been) meant that the Holy shaman by itself was worthless. I bypassed this by allowing the Holy Shaman to increase other attributes. I have also added new Shaman combos. I may post the new Shaman Combo list as time permits. For now, I'll leave you with this teaser... Nina + Fire + Water... is very powerful!
  • The "Special" message when character's critically hit monsters always annoyed me. It has been changed to "Smoked!"
  • Of course, to compensate for the various nifty new powers your characters have, your enemies' power had to be increased proportionally. To keep things interesting.

Screenshots

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Installation instructions

The following applies this and all future releases of the Breath of Fresh Fire mod.

  • First of all, you will need to obtain a clean GBA ROM of Breath of Fire 2. You are on your own for this step, as it is illegal to provide ROMs of copyrighted material. There are sites that do provide this ROM though, and you should be able to obtain it.
  • The ROM title that you are looking for is "0510 - Breath of Fire II (E).gba". This patch does not work with the "0403 - Breath of Fire II (U).gba" ROM.
  • When you get it, make a backup of it if you would want to play the vanilla version (or, in case I post an updated version of the mod here... I am not going to make version 1.0 to "version whatever" patches for my mods, for instance).
  • Download the Breath of Fresh Fire mod.
  • You will find an .exe file in the .zip file. This is the patch for your Breath of Fire 2 ROM. Apply it.
  • If the patch cannot patch your ROM, you can request that a new patch be made for your ROM. To do that, let me know that you to do this, and I'll respond to the email address you specify. From there, you can send me your ROM, and I'll make a patch for that ROM.
  • I hope you enjoy it!

Copyright notice

The content in this portion of the website pertains to "software" known as "Breath of Fire 2", which was developed by Capcom, and published by Capcom (SNES release) and later licensed for a remake to the GBA which was published by Ubisoft. The Fresh Fire mod is completely unofficial, and was an amateur fan-made undertaking. I respect the intellectual property of Capcom and Ubisoft, and under no circumstances will I distribute the ROMs for the GBA versions of Breath of Fire 2. The patch available for download is a derivative work and is completely my own. It is offered totally free of charge.