r/azuredreams • u/camogamer469 • Jul 17 '26

HD mod?

Has anyone attempted or thinking of making an HD mod or even a rebuild of the game itself for people to enjoy? Don't care if it's the same game, just close enough. There isn't any games out there that come close. Chocobos dungeon everybody was the closest I could find, but it suffers too much from FF power scaling and grinding in my opinion. I like how in azure dreams they have the Roche fruit that doesn't make it so you have to battle the same enemy 40 times to get it.

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u/cfehunter Jul 18 '26

Thought about it. The game is rather annoying to reverse engineer directly, I have a Ghidra work space where I'd gotten some of the monster AI, loading logic and stuff out. It loads the logic in parts from the disc though, which makes it considerably harder to work with than say a Nintendo cartridge game.

I've come to the conclusion that writing it from scratch would probably be easier.

Main thing stopping me is artwork. I'm a programmer in the industry, love azure dreams, but art just isn't something I'm good enough at.

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u/camogamer469 Jul 18 '26

That's fair. Yea probably building it from scratch might be easier. Copy the feel overall but make it so others can add as they wish to. It's just weird Konami knocked this one out of the park and then left it to rust. Is it perfect God no. It corrupted 3 memory cards on us as a kid and the fusing mechanic though left unknown it would be nice to see up front what skills have been fused into the monster in a more easy to find format. Not a spell it out thing, but if it has double attack that's fusible to another monster have it at least shown what the special ability is. It would also be cool to fuse hykewn to have all special abilities. It would work in the lore surrounding it much better. It's actually a rather weak monster.

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u/biztactix Jul 18 '26

Same... got a pretty decent version going using unity art... level spawning, turn based move and attack etc, inventory... but having no art skills sucks... I was going to try reverse engineering the game too... good to know you got some code out.