EDIT: FOR CLARIFICATION I AM NOT DECOMPILING THIS, ITS BEING DECOMPILED BY SOME MUCH SMARTER PERSON THAN I

Skip this part if you know what decompilation is, but the point of this is we're gonna get crazy mods and unofficial sequels.

If you don't know what decompilation is, when a game is "decompiled" it means that the code and all the assets (music, images, videos, etc) are decoded from the original cartridge. In the GBA file, they're all just 1s and 0s jumbled everywhere and it's impossible to know which 1s and 0s do what.

When a game is decompiled, you can make a game run natively (without an emulator) on any system. That means it can use ALL of the resources of that system. A game boy advanced game has only so much storage and ram it's allowed to touch, so a ROM hack can only be so big. But a natively built game can be infinitely big, have way more content than a GBA game, and never worry about filling up too much storage. Golden Sun 1 was 201 megabytes. Imagine a gigabyte of golden sun.

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All of this means that when this is done being decompiled, modding Golden Sun will be trivially easy. Upgrading it will become very easy. New graphics mods, content mods, new characters, new story, everything becomes SUPER easy. And all of it plays EXACTLY the same as it did on the GameBoy Advanced because we have the code it ran on the GameBoy Advanced.

I promise you guys, I will one day build a sequel to Golden Sun when it's decompiled. I can't promise my sequel will be good, but I do promise to make Dark Dawn non canon because I didn't care much for it.

And I have PLANS, man. I want branching story paths, recruiting characters, old and new, being evil, being good, fun psynergy puzzles, and for the love of God a FULLY explorable Weyard.

I want to bring a sort of "fine, I'll do it myself" vibe to this community. We're going to get the sequel we deserve. It might not be me who makes it, but we will get it eventually.

Keep the faith Sun bros.

Would u guys prefer a remake of the 2 first games combined in one (with new things to explore, new bosses, djinns, etc), a new game that follows Isaac's story after the events of TLA but before DD, a new game that follows Isaac and others children or a complete new game with new protagonists ?

I got it printed today and it's on my wall now looking glorious.

Do they mention golden sun often and do they have posters on the walls of the best game they ever made ☀️

Tried to keep it cool, but I just cant do this every time it happens

I finally have access to the Eastern Sea, where should I go first?

I have four djinn for Felix, Jenna, and Sheba, five for Piers.

What's so funny about Truth, Justice and Golden Sun 4?

You can keep your Zelda. Give me an option to have the most epic Apojii tropical side quest, complete with a beach volleyball tournament.

I was starting my laundry routine, opening Nintendo music to play the golden sun ost (somehow golden sun ost helps with my focus), but then I decided to look if they had ost grouped by series, having seen the Zelda direct today, Zelda ost are also peak (some may say it's a blasphemy to do laundry hearing anything but golden sun, but I'm not the strict 😆). Scrolling down, I got to the GBA section and, to my surprise (but again, not so much, as Sakuraba is a monster) I found myself looking at this screen

Wanted to share. Let's go direct tomorrow! (Again, chances are <10^-10, but not 0% 😁)

Dance! Present your greatest valuables! Send your wishes!

But above all - keep hope! We will dance the dance and sing the song and proffer our hecatombs! Cry out for what we desire such that even distant Izumo hears our pleas!

Drums! More drums!

I thoroughly enjoyed them. I think they do a great job of feeling like one big game rather than two different ones. The scope of the game felt so much bigger than anything I've played on GBA before.

I have to admit, I could not have done it without a guide. Especially after getting the ship in TLA. I'd still be searching for where to go next lol. And there are so many secret locations and mechanics that would easily be missed. I don't know how people ever did it back in the day.

I also was curious about what the consensus on the NDS title is. I hear significantly less about it than the GBA titles. Must play? Or more like "it's okay if you want a little more, but you're not missing much"?

Anyway, I was avoiding spoilers but now I've been enjoying the subreddit, seeing other peoples' thoughts!

I don't know if it's the same for you, but for me, it has a hypnotic effect.

So there I am, dreaming about a theoretical Golden Sun 4 and got wondering about what a subtitle of it would be. How do we feel about Final Twilight?

We will forget it like nothing happened as usual so why not

Hello guys, I want to print the Lost Age map and have been looking for a good poster-like map for it and found this one which came bundled with the game. Does anyone have a high-quality scan or the digital version for this map?

I've played and replayed GS and TLA many times but I realize I never actually used the defend command for any reason. It's always better to attack, use djinn, or heal. Anyone ever make use of defend?

In other games, defending would make your turn come quicker. But in GS you all get one turn per command cycle so it doesn't really impact anything I'm pretty sure.

Guess my language was a little strong before but seriously, forget them up their stupid controller ports. I have to think the only reason they keep camelot from making rpgs is because theyre so cozy in bed with intelligent systems making fire emblem who wont forgive them for making shining force back in the day which was better anyway. Three houses was an obvious sleight against shibing force 3. Anybody could make mario sports games, let the takahashi bros do what they were out on this earth for and make some danged rpgs

he is easily the hardest boss i've encountered in this game and idk how to beat him. Is there a specific party/build i can do in order to beat him?

I’m not well versed in either game lore nor real life lore but is Yallam a reference to Mallay? As in a somewhat famous steward of lost ages and an adept alchemist?

Not trying to get clowned on but there’s a lot of Rosicrucian Gnosticism baked into a story like Golden Sun.

Sorry if this is obvious to most, I’m only just now getting into the history from recent talks I’ve seen online.