Shining Force 2 Complete
I'm just going to paste a link to my entire genesis.xml in a zip file because the cheat portion for Shining Force is something like 1.1MB. I doubt it would fit in the 70,000 character limit. You can do whatever with this. Convert it to another format. Use it to bribe someone to improve genesis.c. Whatever. Just give me the hint of credit I deserve. Especially Bare Knuckle 3. That's a lot of cheats for a game so poorly documented.
And seriously. Genesis.c could use some improvement. Savestates don't save the data in the Z80 and VPU. SRAM doesn't work. Mortal Kombat II doesn't work. These things should work. And why doesn't nes.c work? It's practically the same thing as vsnes.c and would have to work to have playch10.c, ffs.
Notes:
Battle Options -- As previously mentioned, Battle Options is the first cheat described
here. Hold B to walk anywhere except across rivers. Very dangerous, but handy for looking in chests you're not supposed to reach and finding the secret Elf forest battle.
Icon Mods -- These are mostly personal preference and example. I had to chart out the entire icon list and then find the pattern in the ROM that matched the promotions. Lowering one of those numbers in the pattern makes the character use lower promotion icons. Characters that don't promote can use other icons (like enemies) without any math. Hence, the Rohde icon cheat simply links Rohde directly to Dr. Rohde. 2002, baby.
Full Party Mods --
* Max HP gives you 300HP for every member.
* Max MP gives you 255 MP for every character.
* If you have infinite HP, you can still be killed in 1-hit and be considered dead in the battle. Self-destructing with the battle options cheat kills you, too.
* Maxed out stats gives you 255 in every stat regardless of equipment. This is higher than possible in game (200).
* Items never break is just that. Items don't break. You can use magic weapons and rings as much as you want.
* Move anywhere in battle gives your characters every possible land movement status letting them move over any terrain that can be moved over. You can get stuck with this cheat, so enabled Battle Options if you do.
* Fast + Strong Status only gives you permanent Attack + Boost. Nothing else can effect you, so you can equip cursed weapons and be muddled all day. If you die in battle, you will still be considered dead for that battle.
* Access 30 characters in menu lets you mess stuff up and access characters that are in the Caravan or something. I forget exactly what I made it for, but I remember it's useful. You can use this to have more than the possible amount of characters in your battle force, but it has no effect. You're limited by the number of spawns.
* Party Status Toggle lets you add characters to your party without meeting them. This is obviously quite dangerous, hence why it's a toggle. If you screw up, you might be able to fix it by undoing what you did, but I promise nothing. You can add optional characters without harm.
* Force Status Toggle lets you add and remove characters from the fighting force without using the Caravan. Remember that you can only have so many characters in the party. You can run around alone, though.
Per Character Cheats -- You can change class, level, items, and magic at will. Items can be equipped or unequipped. Only useful (working) magic is listed. Helps keep the list short (lol).
File Link:
Genesis.xml
Thanks to Pugsy for helping with stuff that I didn't know how to do (which was pretty much everything that involves more than freezing than a single byte).
Aww yeah. AMD A10-7850K givin' MAME and MESS systems what for.