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SaGa4: Masters of the Demon World
(also known as Final Fantasy Legend 4 in the US)
(also known as 魔界の覇者Ｓａ・Ｇａ４ to meganerds)

SaGa4 is an unofficial spiritual successor to the gameboy SaGa RPGs, aka Final Fantasy Legend. It features old-school combat mechanics and visuals faithful to the gaming heyday of 1989. If you're nostalgic for retro games, or just looking for a good, challenging RPG, this game is probably a good fit.

Choose a party of humans, mutants, robots, and monsters, each with a unique leveling scheme
Employ over 300 combat items and abilities, either learned, found as treasure, or crafted from elemental stones
Explore the 20 floors of Babel in addition to the many alternate worlds beyond
Fight in finely-tuned battles against difficult opponents -- every encounter could be dangerous, and you'll need every trick to survive
Enjoy the best of old school mechanics without the pain points: items have descriptions, encounter rate is sane, randomness is controlled, etc
Uncover the fate of Jonas and Janine, the missing warrior twins, and gather the relics of the lost city of Hero to open the path to the world beyond

The project is complete and approximately 10 hours long, (shorter for the knowledgeable and longer for completionists, obviously). Bug reports are welcome. The game is made in Java on the MGNE engine, supporting Linux/Windows/OSX, and source code is available upon request. Graphics are a mix between SaGa rips (for sprites and battle portraits) and custom (all custom tiles!) Music is straight from the source and plays in an embedded Gameboy APU emulator. A bit more is explained in the manual but everything you need to know is in game. Our database tools and monster charts and things like that are also available -- we love talking old school game mechanics so if you have a suggestion, feel free to comment. Enjoy the game!

Game not endorsed by Square Enix in any way. All graphics taken without permission.

Latest Blog

Announcing a successor... The Secret of Varonis

psy_wombats
1 post(s)
02/09/2022 09:13 PM
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Hey all, bet no one was expecting an update on /this/ game. Which is partially true -- we're announcing a continuation project of sorts, The Secret of Varonis, which features all-original assets, a touched-up story, lots of brand new maps, and a more stable engine. The end goal is to get it on Steam. It has its own gamepage at https://rpgmaker.net/games/12387/ and homepage at https://varonis-rpg.com/

Thanks for your time, hope you enjoy the new game once it's out!

Completed
Leadpsy_wombats
Developerbob_esc
Testermrtacopants
EngineCustom
GenreRPG
Date Added01/11/2015 04:02 AM
Date Updated02/09/2022 10:57 PM
Date Completed03/21/2016
Profile Views136583
Subscribers48
Total Downloads1741

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Liberty

RTP Princess

24050

01/12/2015 03:21 AM

This looks interesting~

unity

You're magical to me.

12539

01/12/2015 02:39 PM

Wow! This looks cool! I always loved the FFLegends/SaGas for the Game Boy! :D

JosephSeraph

delet me

7783

01/13/2015 04:23 AM

*instasub*

coolopotomus

01/13/2015 12:18 PM

Is this one based on the one where you take out the pantheon? I remember loving this game when I was 7, but I ended up losing to Odin over and over since I didnt really know what I was doing and then I lost the game while traveling and could never find it again, maybe now 20 years later I can have my revenge :P

orochii

6736

01/13/2015 05:03 PM

I'm pretty insterested on, like... EVERYTHING about this game! Ahahahahaha! No only because of it being based on FFL, but also because of its development.

Java FTW! Heh.

El_WaKa

3568

01/13/2015 09:49 PM

Looks pretty good!

Brocknoth

01/14/2015 07:09 PM

Freakin' subbed. Good luck with the project!

psy_wombats

13240

01/15/2015 12:11 AM

author=coolopotomus
Is this one based on the one where you take out the pantheon? I remember loving this game when I was 7, but I ended up losing to Odin over and over since I didnt really know what I was doing and then I lost the game while traveling and could never find it again, maybe now 20 years later I can have my revenge :P

Yup, partially! We're drawing inspiration from all the FFL games, although I think the one you played was FFL2. SaGa as a series seems to have a weird obsession with godly bosses, even Final Fantasy Legend had CREATOR and FFL3 had the party kill off the Maitreya Buddha for some reason? Gotta keep some of that god-killing in there somewhere.

Macheman7

01/15/2015 09:46 AM

YESYESYES
I hope there's meat!
Oh, and potions! And Mutants! xD
I'm not sure I can sub it any harder. :3

Animebryan

1299

01/21/2015 02:02 AM

The irony is too much! I was actually planning on remaking the FFL/SaGa trilogy with RPG Maker VX Ace with updated graphics to make them look better (and to do away with 1 & 2's ammo-like weapon system BS!).

Dyhalto

7536

01/21/2015 03:50 AM

The ammo system is half the charm. What's not to like about going to the store and purchasing 99 Punches, 88 Kicks and 77 Throws?

amerk

2539

01/28/2015 07:41 PM

This looks so sexy. I'm a gonna mark this down to download when I get home.

Zachary_Braun

01/29/2015 08:12 PM

The "ammunition" system is in every single SaGa game. Whether it is in pure charges of use, or a pool of points which gradually run out... it is a shoo-in.

psy_wombats

13240

01/29/2015 10:50 PM

Yep, ammunition system is almost untouched, with humans/mutants/monsters/robots all interacting with it in a slightly different way. It's part of what makes the SaGa games unique so we've designed it as a core mechanic (as well as attacks not retargeting, deal with it).

Martial arts talents have been axed completely though, because yes it was stupid to buy 22 JUDOs and maybe 44 BUTTs while you were there. Without a complete redesign, they only would've served to encourage grinding (or as AGI fodder on robots). Fixed damage AGI weapons are more abundant to compensate (whips, bows).

Bugfragged

280

02/10/2015 01:11 AM

I'm executing this game on Linux Mint 17.1 right now with Oracle Java 8 (set to default). Unfortunately, directly executing a jar by double clicking or right clicking treats the home folder as the current directory, which causes an error. Running the jar via shell script bypasses the error.

This is all I needed to put in the shell script, which is then placed in the SaGa4 folder.

#!/bin/bash
java -jar game.jar

Some bugs I found:

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-The game freezes if you try to feed meat to a dead character.
-If you try to go into the Hero Cave without the flashlight and then try to leave, you could end up stuck in a wall.
-I got this error in the log, which indicates that the shop is too full to include some kind of cure spell.

Too many items in shop: wpn_hammerBronze(net.wombatrpgs.sagaschema.rpg.abil.CombatItemMDO@63b5eb55), wpn_hammerGold(net.wombatrpgs.sagaschema.rpg.abil.CombatItemMDO@2ff1822f), wpn_rapier(net.wombatrpgs.sagaschema.rpg.abil.CombatItemMDO@9773731), wpn_bowLong(net.wombatrpgs.sagaschema.rpg.abil.CombatItemMDO@37e14323), wpn_gunFire(net.wombatrpgs.sagaschema.rpg.abil.CombatItemMDO@7bc2e9c9), wpn_gunSMG(net.wombatrpgs.sagaschema.rpg.abil.CombatItemMDO@5881ec64), helm_bronze(net.wombatrpgs.sagaschema.rpg.abil.CombatItemMDO@68ff96fa), body_bronze(net.wombatrpgs.sagaschema.rpg.abil.CombatItemMDO@553a289d), spell_fire(net.wombatrpgs.sagaschema.rpg.abil.CombatItemMDO@395a1f52), spell_ice(net.wombatrpgs.sagaschema.rpg.abil.CombatItemMDO@6eef36d1), spell_cure(net.wombatrpgs.sagaschema.rpg.abil.CombatItemMDO@7ab335b0)

psy_wombats

13240

02/10/2015 08:23 PM

author=Bugfragged
I'm executing this game on Linux Mint 17.1 right now with Oracle Java 8 (set to default). Unfortunately, directly executing a jar by double clicking or right clicking treats the home folder as the current directory, which causes an error. Running the jar via shell script bypasses the error.

This is all I needed to put in the shell script, which is then placed in the SaGa4 folder.

#!/bin/bash
java -jar game.jar

Some bugs I found:

Thanks for the bug reports, just put them in the issue tracker. For next release I'm looking into making an actual launcher for the game to get around that sort of Java problem, and I've seen similar junk on other platforms as well. Glad you were able to solve it.

Dyhalto

7536

02/16/2015 06:48 AM

This game's awesome. I had a big shit-eating grin the whole time from nostalgia onslaught. You better see it through to completion.

Animebryan

1299

02/25/2015 09:59 PM

author=Zachary_Braun
The "ammunition" system is in every single SaGa game. Whether it is in pure charges of use, or a pool of points which gradually run out... it is a shoo-in.

Not in Final Fantasy Legend 3, at least not for sword type weapons.

JosephSeraph

delet me

7783

02/26/2015 01:40 AM

Final Fantasy Legend 3 is also considered the black sheep of the SaGa series and, if i'm not mistaken, is the only one not directed by Akitoshi Kawazu.
Many people consider it not part of the series at all.

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