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author=Isrieri
I'm up to Mercado so far and am having a great time. I could feel how painful animating a lot of these sprites must have been, and I'm really admiring the level of polish that you've put on all the visuals and the customized 1v1 battles. Superb.

There's some good and some bad to my mind as I play. But I can tell you two things right now:

1) I'm really happy that you've put all the little goodies and new areas across the map in addition to the traditional locations. They may not amount to much, but in a game as bare bones as Dragon Quest I they go a long way to making the world more rich and letting players scratch the exploration itch. No future games had as interesting or expansive world maps as I & II but they were so empty! Hidden landmarks and items were the touch most needed.

2) I'm disappointed that you can't throw torches or holy water at enemies. It was a very negligible feature of the GB version but there are so few items as it is, best to give them as much versatility as possible for the additional fun factor.


Question: Does the Death Necklace exist? I don't want to go rolling dice to find out; was just curious.


Glad you're having fun so far and yes much time went into the monsters, battles and visuals. Of course I expect some things not to land very well with some players. Gotta take the good and bad in terms of criticism!

I definitely tried to make exploring Alefgard just a bit more interesting and I am happy to see people are taking well to these additions.

In terms of throwing torches and holy water at enemies...this is something I don't think I've ever tried in DQ! I had no idea you could do that. I might add it back in if I have the time. My goal is to move on from the game with the new year but I'll see what I can do.

The Death Necklace/Choker does exist in this game.

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author=Retrohacknerd
Postgame question:

I got 4 stars, found Nightfly, and just received the Demon key. When I go there I’m trapped between mountains and can’t progress. What am I missing?


Please update to 1.0.5 in the Downloads section.

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author=Balthazar
What's the NICE that sometimes shows up when i'm in battle?

Um, so in the future can you just DM me any issues so the comments don't get too clogged?

I don't intend to change the flee rates, if you're on hard Buffs don't work anymore. The nice shows up when you have 69 HP. If you want to flee easier from battles, I recommend finding and buying the Silver Bracer.

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author=Roden
I hate to be "that guy" since I'm loving every part of this so far, but a little thing I noticed about some extra content:

It seems a little odd that the ship at Southport and the Mini Medal Castle Island both show up at the same time, and the Captain shows up on the island even when logically he should be in one place or the other depending on the state of things.

SUPER minor, I know, so sorry for being a nitpicker. Just something that irks my sensibilities. Figured I'd give it a shout for consistency's sake, even if you have much bigger problems at the moment.


Now that I got it off my chest, back to enjoying the game!

I legit was just too lazy to do that. But I'll add it now, lol.

Edit: Actually, I think the way I explained it to myself is the other guy is a different ferry. So therefore, he always has to be on that island...does that work? lol

Edit 2: Nah, I'll just do it right. Angels and demons, angels and demons on my shoulder...

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author=Retrohacknerd
Okay thank you for the reply! That’s a totally fair balance decision and I’m glad I know the game isn’t bugged haha

This has been a great DQ1 experience I especially like the remade mountain cave and the new pyramid dungeon. The flow of the game really nice I don’t feel like I need to constantly grind and the new items are all fun to use. Thanks so much for this


No problem! The game definitely had bugs but that wasn't one of them, lol.

But I'm so happy to hear that you had a good time with the game. Mountain Cave is one of my favorite ones in the game. I definitely tried to make normal a pretty grindless experience. You are welcome!

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author=Retrohacknerd
Hi Nightfly,

I defeated the dragon lord, and ever since then, Roto's armor no longer heals me while walking around. Is this by design? I've tried to unequip and re-equip, and quit and reload, but it still doesn't work.

Terrific game though! I'm really enjoying it. Took me a minute to realize why the words NICE!!! were scrolling across my screen but I finally got it lol :)


Thank you! And yes, Roto's armor will no longer heal after defeating the Dragon Lord. This is just something done in post to nerf reliance on it as a free heal. Gotta balance the 3 herbs with it somehow.

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author=TD
I enjoyed it up to 6 stars. Thank you for the game.
I tweeted bugs and some typos report according to the ReadMe, but it doesn't seem to be received, so I'll post it here.

https://twitter.com/td14483122/status/1723765616983822389
https://twitter.com/td14483122/status/1724421825843597564
https://twitter.com/td14483122/status/1724668103899181518
https://twitter.com/td14483122/status/1725024207472623728
https://twitter.com/td14483122/status/1724997958524088445
https://twitter.com/td14483122/status/1725044366518214864

The third tweet was right after I defeated the Dragon Lord in 1.0.3.
The fourth tweet continues to be defended until 2:00. The enemy's HP should have been 200. Also, MP consumption is strange.

Machine translation was used for this post. Sorry if it's hard to read.

Thank you for this report! Most of these issues are now fixed on my side and will be included in 1.0.5.

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author=Balthazar
I find it odd that you're able to buy 9 of an item at a time but it only shows 3 in your inventory and you still lose gold as if you bought 9 of them. Is this a glitch or something? Furthermore the game doesn't stop you from buying more even though you can't have any more in your inventory so you just end up losing money. Can this be fixed?

Which difficulty mode are you on? If you're on impossible the limit is set to 3 per item. I mean, I just ask that you read how many you have before you buy.

Actually what I'll do in the meantime is make 9 a different color to signal that you've reached the max on normal and easy. And I'll change the color of the 3 to yellow to signal max on hard.

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author=Roden
Just an FYI, I pasted the 1.04 patch (clouds on) into v1.02 and now the game starts in Mercado with a generic hero.


Yup, that was fixed earlier. Please redownload 1.0.4 to fix.

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author=Balthazar
author=Ljink
author=Balthazar
author=Ljink
author=Balthazar
Why does the game sometimes have start up issues? I tried to open it just now and it just takes me to a white screen. I can't close the window but opening the game again seems to work, but now I just have a white window that I can't close.
First time hearing this one. Can you send me your save0001.lsd and dyn files? Also screenshots or videos would help troubleshoot this issue. Posting your CPU will also help.

Also, if you are applying a patch make sure to replace all files, even if they may seem the same.
Just to be clear the error doesn't stop me from playing the game. By opening the game a second time while the first one is stuck in white screen the second game window runs perfectly fine. I can save and load, save scum the seeds, level up etc. I can only close the first game window (the one that doesn't work) when a pop up showed up that said "System error. Code: 1447. The window does not have scroll bars.". After I said ok the window closed itself but i did take a screen shot before I did anything.
Huh, that sounds like an OS issue. I can't say I've ever seen this error code. If it still persists I recommend restarting your PC to clear any potential bad memory that's still in RAM that may be causing the issue. It's kinda hard troubleshooting an issue that hasn't come up in QA or test plays. If some way you could replicate the issue and record it that would be most helpful.

In terms of sharing, my preferred way is to upload the file on Google Drive or even archive.org and link it in Private Messages.
Alright do you want me to do that now and send a screenshot?


Yeah a screenshot would help but a video would work better imo. Still recommend that restart as well. As stated this is now a widespread issue so it probably is more of a local issue.