The Legend of Zelda Journey of a Day

Icepenguine's 3rd hack of Zelda II! -New Graphics. Everything has been changed in some way. It features custom sprites and gameplay challenges. Some examples:

-Magic.........You don't need to Pause the Menu anymore to cast magic! Well,

you still have to push it to select which magic, but if you have

the Life spell out, just push select until you are healed! No

more hassle of: Pause, heal, pause, heal, pause, heal....etc.

-Dungeons......New Dungeon layouts! Mmm, delicious.

-New Beam......The reason for changing the Sword Beam is because the original

one just....sucked. Hehe. This time, having full health will feel

so rewarding! ;)

-Enemy Count...In the pause menu is a new feature. If you look at the bottom

left of the menu, you will see two enemy Icons. The smaller one

represents Weak enemies, and the bigger one represents strong

enemies. Once you kill 10 of either one, you will get a prize!

Weak enemies usually drop weak potions or small Rupees and the

strong enemies drop strong potions or big rupees. Unfortunately

you can't tell the difference between rupees. :(

-Experience....completely re-done experience system. It's still on

scale with the old one, it just seems less daunting. Maybe?

-Dialogue......All NPC's have more to say and they even talk faster now, too!

So if you are in town, say hello!

As usual, there are two versions of the hack. Easy and Hard. They both play

exactly the same, but have some differences:

Easy Mode: 3 Lives

Aims to make it as easy as the orginal Zelda II. Link's sword is more powerful

than his original, enemies do less damage to Link, and there is experience

aplenty.

Hard: 2 Lives

If you enjoy a challenge, load this one up. Link has reduced

attack power, enemies have slightly more HP, enemy AI has been tweaked to add

more challenge, and now, they all have increased attack power. So, if you

don't like a challenge, stay away from this one!

New overworld, new dungeons, new graphics, and more dialog! What's not to love?

Have fun!

In this hack, you start with 5 crystals. If you name the ROM after a previous

ROM, something that already has an existing .sav file, you will start the game

with 6 crystals.

That is not good, because you will not be able to beat the game.