Still burned out

If your interested in the Genghis Khan series please do read all the blog posts here.
If your interested in my translation you'd be one of three people. ;~;
I apologize for not being skilled enough to complete the project myself. I have no background and no one looking over my shoulder giving me tips. Everything I've done so far is done through trial and error. I've read the FAQs at are on the internet and they have very little info as far as my current problems within this rom.

Feedback for additional content

Ah... a breath of fresh air... new content within an old game. Who would have thought this would be skull cracking and tedious.

My first concern is being accurate and not breaking the game. The only way to be accurate is to read books, wikis, and offical Koei stuff through a translator and balance it all out. Not breaking the game? Testing... constant testing.

Its fun sometimes but very time consuming. I love to read about the exact scenario dates (1185-1189, 1206-1226, 1271-1304) and persons of game interest. If you have any book suggestions to share please do so.

The biggest pains are what portrait to use, fair and balanced stats, and where to place in the game to get it to work( if you have any suggestions on rom hacking tutorials about rom resizing and adding content without breaking game I'd like to see them). I am also considering taking out personas that hold no value in the game. Like Nizami(he blows and is old and why should he have a spot that can be filled with a more interesting person)

This is where you die hard retro gamers can chime in and assist me without actually testing the game or opening a hex editor. I'd appreciate very much some feedback on these stats. These are not set in stone and intelligent feedback will help me reconsider. I am not listing everything I've already added. You'll have to find it yourself when v1 or the beta is released.

Here is a number of historical personas I am planning on putting in the game.
(Port is the value of his portrait)

Innocent 3 (1161-1216) Pol A War E Lead E Charm B BP 10 Port 6E Location 30 S1206
I was toying with the idea of putting Innocent in charge of a number of countries(could still work as a fan mod of S1206). As the Pope was the real ruler power at the time. He was a lawyer before becoming Pope and his nickname is "the lawmaker". He made alot of thing happen and changed things. His military badgering and crusade affairs were horrors and failures. What Pope uses underhand... ahem clever military tactics? Leads the van? Not this one. Two ways to see his role in game. (sans the fan mod)

Catholic rule over the world! With one of the greatest Popes ever to have as a political advisor by your side you smash the barbarians of the world, install you son as the king of Jerusalem, backhand that chump named Genghis, and sort out the affairs of who the real prophet of god was...

or

The ultimate victory over Christians(in game) would be to take Jerusalem and Rome. Have the Pope as your puppet or better yet your loyal advisor( or whatever you want you scourge of god)!

Guy Lusignan, King of Jerusalem/Cyprus (1150-1195) Pol C War E Lead D Charm B BP 8 Port ?? Location ?? S1185
Guy(pronounced GEE) is often protrayed as a spoiled turd of a man who got his foot in the door to the title of King of Jerusalem. He was most probably the cause of Saladin's ease of victory against the armies of Jerusalem. Is Guy 100% useless? Nah... he is in 1185 the King. He was an ally and a chess peice for Richard I. He could be a symbolic figure to marry your daughter off on and toss in a back country. I think he'd be fun to execute! His placement is a difficult one as there is no Jerusalem in game just 16-Syria.
--I am thinking about giving Guy 16 in 1185 with Reynard as his advisor and piss poor troops/moral/arms and giving Saladin what he had in Syria in Egyqt and making Al-Adil his advisor(giving him a red carpet to smash Guy.The problem with doing that is there is no seperate kingdom code for 16 syria its always with Egypt in the three world scenarios.

Conrad of Monferrat(wiki says 1145/Koei says 1152-1192) Pol C War C Lead B Charm C BP11 Port ?? Location Isaacius2 general roster S1185
He is actually in GK4 his stats are good to (Pol71Combat85Intel82 Military -ABBC). Isaacius 2's brother in law through marriage and skillfully edged his way to become the next king of Jerusalem after Guy's death. Unfortunely, he had alot of enemies and was feared among many Muslims. His men killed and stole from the Hash assassins and in 1192 they killed him. -Also note the fact that he killed Byzantine general Branas after Branas revolted and he was within Isaacius's court in 1185 its a no brainer where his placement should be in game.
---I've added Conrad successfully in game see screen shot---

Tomoe Gozen (1157-1247) Pol E War B Lead B Charm B BP11 Port CC Location 11 S1185
"Tomoe was especially beautiful, with white skin, long hair, and charming features. She was also a remarkably strong archer, and as a swordswoman she was a warrior worth a thousand, ready to confront a demon or a god, mounted or on foot. She handled unbroken horses with superb skill; she rode unscathed down perilous descents. Whenever a battle was imminent, Yoshinaka sent her out as his first captain, equipped with strong armor, an oversized sword, and a mighty bow; and she performed more deeds of valor than any of his other warriors." —Tale of the Heike
With appearances by Robin Hood and Ivanjo in GK2/3 and so many other personalities that are probably imaginary in GK4 she would be a nice addition to both the general list and the wife list! She is a wife in the PSX remake and has max wife stats making her the best female in game(yes she is better then borte). Hey, you can even marry your daughter off... on... erm...

Rashid Al-din Sinan(????-1194) Pol C War C Lead C Charm C BP 12 Port ?? Location 16 S1185
The Bin Laden of scenario 1. "Old man on the mountain" leading of the hash assassins. A evil sect of bud smoking killers and makers of terror. Saladin hated them with a passion. Hugalu Khan wiped them out. This guy was the standard on which all "assassin guilds" and writs were writen. Sans the dope and the radical "I am the messiah of the apocalypse" speak. He'd be a cool villian to execute... or marry your daughter off on...

--edit--- I'll be back tomorrow to finish this up/add more
Humphery IV of Toron Pol War Lead Charm BP Port ?? Location ?? S1206
Balien of Ibelin Pol War Lead Charm BP Port ?? Location ?? S1206
Henry of Champagne of Toron Pol War Lead Charm BP Port ?? Location ?? S1206
Leopold of Austria

Children of the Hex

Our model and experiment will be the son of Saladin and a computer generated wive I named "Taqii Oh"(through editing the save state). The son's name is Sartaq.

I will base and bounce information off of Genghis Khan's four sons and Sartaq's three brothers "Abdullah", "Saphur", & "Baldwin-5". Abdullah and Baldwin are from a mother who will remain nameless and Saphur is Saphina's son.

Note: Within each mother is traits that will give great scores in certain stats. Saphina give good Charm and Leadership to her children.

Joti/Jochi's values
18 40 23 06 23
Jagatai's values
16 31 13 0f 24
Sartaq's values
24 23 0f 50 F0

Alright... we have six values(bytes). The last byte looks like the portrait byte. To test I'll change Jochi's value to 18 which I believe is Despina's portrait... wat no change... alright changing to CC

BINGO Value five is portrait!

Since I don't want a typical portrait for Sartaq and F0 is what all his brothers have... I'll change it to AA.

WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE! URGH! I'll change that value quick...

Joti/Jochi's values
18 40 23 06 23
Jagatai's values
16 31 13 0f 24
Sartaq's values
24 23 0f 50 AA

The first value "18", "16" and "24". Jochi is 24 and Jagatai is 22 years of age. So I can see this as being an age value. Ogedei has a 14 value and he is 20 years old.
Gkhan's kids Age "1st value/byte"
Jochi 24 "18"
Jagatai 22 "16"
Ogedei 20 "14"
Tolui 14 "0E"

Saladin's kids Age "1st value/byte"
Abdullah 2 "02"
Saphur 1 "01"
Baldwin5 1 "01"
Sartaq 0 "00"

To test I'll change Sartaq's value to 0A. It works. I did the same for Baldin 5/Saphur and they were ten.


I'll have to use Saphur as the model now.

We know Saphur's mother is Saphina. We know from a chinese faq that Saphina gives LEAD/CHARM.

Yep, confirm. So now we know his stats and Gkhan's sons. We can see which one they are in the other three values.
(added sixth value)
Joti/Jochi's values
18 40 23 06 23 00
Jagatai's values
16 31 13 0f 24 00
Saphur's values
0A 22 34 05 E0 28(I changed his port from f0 to 28/ his age from 1 to 10)

Joti's second value is his Pol/War(see Dave's guide below). No doubt! His third value is his Lead/Charm.

Saphur values validate this theory.

Remember the guide given to us from Dave for Pol/War Lead/Charm

77 -- 9/9 (glitched again, but still higher than 66)
66 -- (glitched visually, shows nothing.. still higher than */* though)
55 -- */*
54 -- A/*
53 -- B/*
52 -- C/*
51 -- D/*
50 -- E/*
45 -- */A
44 -- A/A
43 -- B/A
42 -- C/A
41 -- D/A
40 -- E/A
35 -- */B
34 -- A/B
33 -- B/B
32 -- C/B
31 -- D/B
30 -- E/B
25 -- */C
24 -- A/C
23 -- B/C
22 -- C/C
21 -- D/C
20 -- E/C
15 -- */D
14 -- A/D
13 -- B/D
12 -- C/D
11 -- D/D
10 -- E/D
05 -- */E
04 -- A/E
03 -- B/E
02 -- C/E
01 -- D/E
00 -- E/E

Joti/Jochi's values
18 40 23 06 23
Jagatai's values
16 31 13 0f 24
Saphur's values
0A 22 34 05 E0

Lets see values 1, 2, 3, and 5/6 are all acounted for. The fourth value would have to be body points.

Dave's guide for body points...
FF -- 15/15
EE -- 14/14
DD -- 13/13
CC -- 12/12
BB -- 11/11
AA -- 10/10
99 -- 9/9
88 -- 8/8
77 -- 7/7
66 -- 6/6
55 -- 5/5
44 -- 4/4
33 -- 3/3
22 -- 2/2
11 -- 1/1
00 -- 0/0

No help there... as a test I'll change Saphur's value to 05 to FF. He is missing from the list! Wat... I'll change it from 05 to 06 then...

Ah ha! The BP went up two points!


So the byte values are 1st-age 2nd-Pol/War 3rd-Lead/Charm 4th-BP 5th/(6th if there)-Portrait

Brand new historical generals and wives

As a bonus I've successfully added new content(used unused portraits in the game) in wives and generals. I wont spoil the shock and awe of finding them or drag out a "confirmed for brawl" type scenario here. Its possible to add 10-16 more wives and 20 or so generals.

Lurkers lend suggestions here.

징기스칸2 : 원조비사

I've got her! Dahhh, that was a pain. Should have came alot easier then it did.

: ( They cut rulers instead of adding.

Lets see S3 Yuan Dynasty

Charles 1
Abaga
Baybars
Kublai Khan
Hojo
Wang Sik(Wonjong) 왕식

Ruler cut Michael VIII

S2 Genghis Khan
Phillip 2
John Lackland
Ghuri
Minomoto
Genghis Khan
Gojong(died in 1254 so why is he there?)

Ruler cut Muhmud Ala Al-Din

S4
EDIT
THEY CUT SALADIN FOR THIS GUY

Politics D 11 body points? He sucks worse then Tayan Khan. I guess he is the extra difficult charactor. Korea is not in a good area either. "Border"ing three powerful countries in Jin, Nan Song, and Kamakura Shogunate.

Ming-Zong: Polit D, Lead C, War C, Charm B, Body 13, Age 41
This is Korea's ruler in GK2 Sc4 Wonjong which is backwards unless of course wiki is wrong... hmmm... The hangol is on the money though.

Alright I'm confused.

also lol at Temujin's portrait in the advisor slot

GK3 Korean tracking it down

I saw this yesterday and freaked out a litte. Its true... its DAMN TRUE! Korea did get there own special version of GK3. I am digging hard and deep to acquire it.

韩国 The search goes on
http://khan.mirinae.com/

While searching I found a MMO game based on GK era. At first I thought it sounded cool through a translator and my little knowledge of kanji. Then I found the website. Oh man... does that look like a bag of fail.

Juk Sa the 15 year old Tangut couldn't do squat to a filthy half beaten Aybak from the Slave Dynasty. Then "Simone" the turk with her mystical butterfly wings ;->

I noted the AD&D rip off stats & enemies. Then the SW/DW game play and level design.


It was a sad moment for this retro gamer. Hill Giants, Giant Scorpians, Butterfly winged Necromancers from Turkey?

Then again I never played it( and I never will) and if you like WOW & the genghis khan series this is probably the game for you.

Genghis Khan 3

First an updated screenshot. I'm looking for that annoying worthless letter knocking the last romanji of the season out of the box.


http://fatisuya.pixnet.net/blog/post/12612303

This website lead to a stark revelation. Genghis Khan 2 clan of the gray wolf is actually Genghis Khan 3 secrets of the Yuan dynasty!

We never got the 1985 release of the first aoki okami game. Its kind of like the Final Fantasy series. Where 3 is actually 6 and 2 is actually 4.