• Add Review
  • Subscribe
  • Nominate
  • Submit Media
  • RSS

All is darkness. The Dragon Lord has captured the Princess and stolen The Legendary Hero's Ball of Light!

You are the Legendary Hero's heir. You have been assigned a most dangerous task: to rescue the King's daughter and retrieve the Ball of Light.

The journey ahead will be tough, but it is your destiny. Three Sages await your arrival, each willing to reward you with mystical items of great power.

Gather these three items, let your wits be about you as you gain experience, weapons and armor as you battle your way through Alefgard. Rest if you must!

Search out the Dragon Lord's lair and face your destiny, in the role playing epic, Dragon Quest.

New Features:

+Remixed Monsters
+New Weapons, Armor, & Items
+Orchestrated OST
+New Dragon Quest Monsters Inspired Bonus Dungeon
+New Dragon Quest Monsters 2 Inspired Bonus World
+New Mini Dungeons in Alefgard
+3 New Minigames

Notice: This is a non-profit fan game. All rights are reserved to Square Enix Co.Ltd/ Armor Project, Koichi Sugiyama©, and Akira Toriyama/Bird Studio.

This game is only compatible with Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 Pro, Windows 10, Windows 11 & Steam Deck(YMMV). Linux/Wine/MAC/EasyRPG and RetroArch are not fully compatible.

Latest Blog

Dragon Quest RPG Maker Remake | Final Trailer

Dragon Quest Plus will release, Friday November 10th, 2023!

This is a remake of Dragon Quest 1 with added content, quality of life features, and orchestrated OST. It will of course be 100% free.

The game can be found here when it launches. I would like to thank everyone who supported me and helped this become a reality after 11 years!

Posts

Just finished this amazing game with
110% completion based on the bard, 5 gold stars, 1 blue stars, lvl 45, dragon armor and sword, i did save-scum ALL my seed usages to get +3 so i had very high stats.


Really amazing remake with extra content you created there!
That letter item at the end of the ice key realm was really awesome as well!


I do wonder however :
Why does the spell page and zoom page both still have 1 full empty page and a couple of empty slots, and the portal key has 4 empty ????? as well... are those simply cut content that you didnt feel like removing the options from the game?


Whatever you do decide to do afterwards, I wish you luck! You certainly have skills! Even if it took quite a while, you made something amazing :) After leaving the "AAA" gaming industry back in 2013 after 10 years in it, I personally started learning C# and decided to make full on small indy games in unity, and now I'm starting again with Unreal.. so If I was able to learn all of it and make it happen, I am certain you will be as well! :)

Thanks again for this remake, you really did make something great there!
author=FireHawkX
Yeah I can totally understand wanting to move on after finishing a project :) No worries then! Thanks for the tips for the world! I shall do that! :)

Let me know if you need any assistance with French translation, being native french, my French is MUCH BETTER than my english! :D



No problem! Good luck finishing the post game.

I currently have a team of FR translators and we no longer are looking for volunteers, but thanks for offering your help anyways!
Yeah I can totally understand wanting to move on after finishing a project :) No worries then! Thanks for the tips for the world! I shall do that! :)

Let me know if you need any assistance with French translation, being native french, my French is MUCH BETTER than my english! :D

author=FireHawkX
I am in the "Monster world" now... (couldnt find any of the other keys yet) -- is there a written guide anywhere?

Also, I think some enemies in those randomly generated maps are kinda broken... UNLESS they are also randomly generated with varying levels of stats... cause the standard regular chimaera destroys me... hitting from 60 to 80... regular/standard Orc and Drakee are also a bit OP compared to Orc Lord and other drakee variants which are now easier... also found a dead skeleton which was near impossible i think.


All I can say is use Kabuff often. I'm currently not going back to this game to continue balancing and whatnot. The meta for Monster World is Kabuff if you want to fight, get a silver bracer if you want to run, or spam holy water to get to the final floor. This is just a world that helps you get Mini Medals to get the Ice Key where things are much more mellow.

There aren't any guides but guides aren't something I'm not into making at this time. I kinda want to move on from this project after getting the French translation done.

In terms of the keys I recommend visiting the Medal King.
I am in the "Monster world" now... (couldnt find any of the other keys yet) -- is there a written guide anywhere?

Also, I think some enemies in those randomly generated maps are kinda broken... UNLESS they are also randomly generated with varying levels of stats... cause the standard regular chimaera destroys me... hitting from 60 to 80... regular/standard Orc and Drakee are also a bit OP compared to Orc Lord and other drakee variants which are now easier... also found a dead skeleton which was near impossible i think.

author=Ljink
author=NightHawkZyx
I'm having great fun with this game. So much memory of old time and even more. You have all my thanks for what you have made.

After getting throughout the game at normal difficulty, I tought, why not do the impossible difficulty. Way harder than I imagined and so much grinding to do but made it... up to the demon world, where I am stuck in Gisei Cathedral. Since we have a 3 bombs limit, I can't blast my way to the chest. If I go back to the merchant, the block are back.
lmfao, forgot all about that. Send me you're save again. I'll include this change in the updated 1.0.6.

Edit: Actually, just replace this file https://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/19029/locker/Map0092.lmu


That does the trick. Thanks a lot!
author=Ascender
Really loving this game, but its very hard to play on a xb elite controller, the joystick is very touchy, making me make erratic movements and messing up on menuing.

EDIT: Using the Xbox accessory app on windows, you can have your dpad act as your left joystick inputs, which helps with gameplay tremendously. Hope this helps someone else out!


Yeah this is unfortunately out of my control with this version of RPGM. Xbox 360 controllers and generic USB controllers seemingly can't be used with the Xbox Controller App.

But Xbox One and up seem to be at least able to take advantage of the app.
author=NightHawkZyx
I'm having great fun with this game. So much memory of old time and even more. You have all my thanks for what you have made.

After getting throughout the game at normal difficulty, I tought, why not do the impossible difficulty. Way harder than I imagined and so much grinding to do but made it... up to the demon world, where I am stuck in Gisei Cathedral. Since we have a 3 bombs limit, I can't blast my way to the chest. If I go back to the merchant, the block are back.

lmfao, forgot all about that. Send me you're save again. I'll include this change in the updated 1.0.6.

Edit: Actually, just replace this file https://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/19029/locker/Map0092.lmu
Really loving this game, but its very hard to play on a xb elite controller, the joystick is very touchy, making me make erratic movements and messing up on menuing.

EDIT: Using the Xbox accessory app on windows, you can have your dpad act as your left joystick inputs, which helps with gameplay tremendously. Hope this helps someone else out!
I'm having great fun with this game. So much memory of old time and even more. You have all my thanks for what you have made.

After getting throughout the game at normal difficulty, I tought, why not do the impossible difficulty. Way harder than I imagined and so much grinding to do but made it... up to the demon world, where I am stuck in Gisei Cathedral. Since we have a 3 bombs limit, I can't blast my way to the chest. If I go back to the merchant, the block are back.
The base game is directly downloadable but the patches are all on google drive. Can you make the patches directly downloadable as well? Thanks...
author=FireHawkX
it worked! :) however when i went back to the throne room, it did as if the boss had already been killed, i'm unsure if its because i had killed it outside before when it was bugged, but either way i'm no longer stuck! so all good!

i wasnt expecting the credits to roll in the same position as they did back in the original :) - Alright so i'm in post game now!

You never did answer the question about the top right chests in the pyramid ;) I would greatly appreciate the answer to this one :)

Once more, thank you for everything it is extremely appreciated! Have a great weekend (and thanksgiving if you do celebrate that)


You mean the top left chests in the pyramid? You need to activate all 4 skulls on the walls to open the door.

And no problem, I hope you enjoy the rest of the game. Thanksgiving was great!
it worked! :) however when i went back to the throne room, it did as if the boss had already been killed, i'm unsure if its because i had killed it outside before when it was bugged, but either way i'm no longer stuck! so all good!

i wasnt expecting the credits to roll in the same position as they did back in the original :) - Alright so i'm in post game now!

You never did answer the question about the top right chests in the pyramid ;) I would greatly appreciate the answer to this one :)

Once more, thank you for everything it is extremely appreciated! Have a great weekend (and thanksgiving if you do celebrate that)
author=FireHawkX
Here is a zip of the 2 files from my save!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tLEAkbnGKjfdgWodogDslaRqCaYRxMfs/view?usp=sharing

Hopefully its fixable... i tried to open them with various online save editor but none were able to understand the format...

Again, thanks for the amazing remake! :)
This helps to wait until DQ3 2.5d remake comes out! :D


Here's your patch. It includes the updated save as well. Replace them and it should work now.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15QnPuNY0D7MLimtplFnDlhJSpS9bl7a-/view?usp=sharing
author=FireHawkX
Here is a zip of the 2 files from my save!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tLEAkbnGKjfdgWodogDslaRqCaYRxMfs/view?usp=sharing

Hopefully its fixable... i tried to open them with various online save editor but none were able to understand the format...

Again, thanks for the amazing remake! :)
This helps to wait until DQ3 2.5d remake comes out! :D


IT's fixable, just tested it and it was a bug, Hold tight.
Here is a zip of the 2 files from my save!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tLEAkbnGKjfdgWodogDslaRqCaYRxMfs/view?usp=sharing

Hopefully its fixable... i tried to open them with various online save editor but none were able to understand the format...

Again, thanks for the amazing remake! :)
This helps to wait until DQ3 2.5d remake comes out! :D
author=FireHawkX
humm... i actually updated yesterday to 1.06... long before even entering the dragon lord castle (but since i already had 3+ hours played, i kept the same save file)

EDIT : just to be 100% certain, since my readme still said "Dragon Quest + 1.0.5" I redownloaded the 1.0.6 patch, recopied over my current folder, overwrote 2000+ files... restarted, went back to the castle, still broken..

Do i need to restart from the beginning? as amazing as it was, i'm a bit over 6h and wouldnt want to restart it all and i really wish to see what new content you created :)

I can also confirm if i play the harp on the world map anywhere its the dragon lord that appears ;)

I think in my case the problem is that the 2nd phase killed me... so the flags got changed to phase 1 is done, but since i did not win the 2nd phase the first try, the fight did not get reset to not done.

Ah, so you lost to the Dragon Lord and then went to the pyramid? Can you send me your save.0001.lsd and save.0001.dyn files?

I see what happened one of the flags didn't reset. But I will still need your file to confirm. So basically when you go back the Dragon Lord just isn't there anymore?

Edit: Also forgot to update the readme. I'm very scatterbrained atm with the patches, leading a translation and getting it to work on AMD smoothly. But I'll see this through.
humm... i actually updated yesterday to 1.06... long before even entering the dragon lord castle (but since i already had 3+ hours played, i kept the same save file)

EDIT : just to be 100% certain, since my readme still said "Dragon Quest + 1.0.5" I redownloaded the 1.0.6 patch, recopied over my current folder, overwrote 2000+ files... restarted, went back to the castle, still broken..

Do i need to restart from the beginning? as amazing as it was, i'm a bit over 6h and wouldnt want to restart it all and i really wish to see what new content you created :)

I can also confirm if i play the harp on the world map anywhere its the dragon lord that appears ;)

I think in my case the problem is that the 2nd phase killed me... so the flags got changed to phase 1 is done, but since i did not win the 2nd phase the first try, the fight did not get reset to not done.
author=FireHawkX
Amazing game so far! :)
*I'm about lvl 20 ready to go finish the original DQ1 storyline

Decided to check out the pyramid to get a bit stronger... I found the 3 wall skulls but the top left treasury still wont open... can you spoiler tag what i'm missing to open this one please? :)

EDIT :
I might have found a rare bug... I let myself die against the dragon lord second phase since I didnt have any gold and wanted to save before trying the bad ending of joining him... however, when i got back, he aint there anymore!

EDIT 2 :
While walking around "upstairs" randomly and collecting other chests I had missed, one random encounter actually ended up being the dragon lord phase 2! lol

EDIT 3 :
I actually killed it, nothing happened, i was moving to go check the throne room again if the orb would do anything new, but i got another random encounter, dragon lord again!! LOL
I fled the fight, which worked somehow, then evac, warped back to 1st castle, but the kill didnt register the proper flag so its like he isnt dead...

This Dragon Lord issue is a bug from previous versions. 1.0.5-1.0.6 don't have this bug any more. I recommend updating to this version. This happens because there isn't supposed to be an encounter rate after defeating the Dragon Lord but some people go to the Pyramid after beating him. Which I didn't anticipate at the time.

There are 4 skulls in the pyramid btw
Amazing game so far! :)
*I'm about lvl 20 ready to go finish the original DQ1 storyline

Decided to check out the pyramid to get a bit stronger... I found the 3 wall skulls but the top left treasury still wont open... can you spoiler tag what i'm missing to open this one please? :)

EDIT :
I might have found a rare bug... I let myself die against the dragon lord second phase since I didnt have any gold and wanted to save before trying the bad ending of joining him... however, when i got back, he aint there anymore!

EDIT 2 :
While walking around "upstairs" randomly and collecting other chests I had missed, one random encounter actually ended up being the dragon lord phase 2! lol

EDIT 3 :
I actually killed it, nothing happened, i was moving to go check the throne room again if the orb would do anything new, but i got another random encounter, dragon lord again!! LOL
I fled the fight, which worked somehow, then evac, warped back to 1st castle, but the kill didnt register the proper flag so its like he isnt dead...