-LIVE A LIVE RANDOMIZER V1.0-  1/10/2023

Welcome to the Live A Live SFC Randomizer! The randomizer is a modification to the base game allowing for randomization of the game's various elements. Randomization is handled inside of the ROM itself, with no need for seeded roms or external programs. In order to use the randomizer, you will need FLIPS (Or any program that can patch .BPS files), as well as a copy of the 2.0 English fan translation patch. Simply apply the patch over the fan translation ROM, and play. From the title screen, you will be taken to the Randomizer menu, which can be opened at any time during normal gameplay by going to the [Sound] option from the pause screen, and selecting the [Randomizer] option. The game can only save data for one seed at a time, but this seed will persist between save files and resets until another seed has been generated. Settings can be changed mid-game, though Major Characters will not take effect on the current chapter unless it is restarted. For more information, as well as feedback, bug reports, or if you want to be notified for updates, join the Randomizer Discord here:

[ https://discord.gg/9FYrBNjY2x ]

For more general Live A Live content, join Discord A Live.

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The 2.0 translation patch can be found here.

[ https://www.romhacking.net/translations/381/ ]

Enjoy! -Pink Switch, 2023

Which patch file should I use?
	(JP) should be patched over the original Japanese rom.
	(EN) should be patched over the english translation.
Some prepatched copies may or may not work. Regardless of which patch is used, the Randomizer will still be in English.
Additional credits to Sara for helping to gather data for the Buriki Daioh skills randomizer!


Changes from the base game:

-Holding B during dialogue will now automatically skip and close the current textbox. This does not work on choice prompts, menu text, item pickups, or the Sci-Fi chapter's terminal text.

-Text prompts during the Sci-Fi chapter will now accept any input as correct regardless of what was entered.

-The Trial of Technique will now accept any skill usage to break rocks.

-Files 3 and 4 have been removed to accomodate saved randomizer data.

-The Music menu has been replaced with the Randomizer menu and is open from the start of the game.

-[Hard Protect] and [System Recover] have been slightly tweaked to accomodate weaker characters.

-Some characters in the Wrestler chapter have received slight buffs to be closer to the chapter's expected difficulty.

-Fighters can now be refought during the Wrestler chapter.

-The Knight chapter is now available from the start of the game. All chapters must be completed including Knight to unlock the Final Chapter.

-Characters in the Cowboy chapter have received slight buffs to make the chapter more playable.
  
-[BonkBonk] and [Teh! Teh!] have been slightly tweaked to make Bel more viable as a starting character.

 -All characters can now learn their skillsets from fighters in the Wrestler chapter, even if those skills are not in the fighters' moveset. When a character is hit with a skill Masaru could normally learn, that character will learn their own skill of that respective level. If a character is hit with a learnable attack, but does not gain a skill, it means that character does not have a corresponding skill in their learnset. 
 and Cube can learn the Robotic Accessory skills via this method, however they will lose any newly gained skills once the fight has ended. Equipping the accessories directly will still unlock the skills as normal in all chapters.

-If major characters are shuffled, the Inheritors will learn the skill in the same slot that the master's character previously used on them, but will not gain any skills if this is a slot they already had or if this slot has no skill assigned to it. This will very likely change in the future.
		
-The item minigame in the Caveman chapter has been slightly changed. The last caveman you need to talk to to receive the materials now has a unique color from the others to stand out more.
	 
-The scent tutorial in the Caveman chapter can now be skipped by talking to the elder while outside.
	
-King Mammoth has been made always visible.

-Story progression in the Mecha chapter has been streamlined.
*Watanabe no longer needs to be spoken to after he leaves the TV in order for him to get the medicine.
*The staircase to Toei's basement has been reduced to one screen.
*The sequence to get Taeko's Panties has now been made an optional sidequest.
*You no longer need to talk to Kaori to learn that Matsu went to the facility after he leaves the harbor.
*You no longer need to explore the entire burning orphanage before being able to find Kaori.
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Settings:
   -Character Skills:
		|Normal: All characters will learn the same skills they would learn in the normal game, at their normal levels.
		|Shuffled: Skill learnsets will be randomized with each other, and skills will be learned at their normal levels. Each character will have a unique learnset.
		|Random Restricted: All characters will be given a skillset of 16 randomized skills from any character's learnset. The first skill will always be a damaging skill, and a character cannot learn duplicate skills. However, multiple characters may have the same skill as each other.
		|Random w/ Enemies: The same as Random Restricted, but allows characters to potentially learn a select few skills that are normally exclusive to enemies, such as Pulsar Walk.
		|Random w/ Items: The same as Random Restricted, but allows characters to potentially learn skills that can only be used by items, such as Area Great-Heal.
		|Random Full: The same as Random Restricted, but characters will be able to learn any skill available without restriction.
			Characters cannot learn any duplicate skills, but may share skills with another character. Each character will gain one skill per level,
			regardless of how many skills they can normally learn, except at level 15. The first skill learned will always be guranteed to be a damaging attack.
			If Skills is set to anything other than Normal, Buriki Daioh will gain 4 completely random skills regardless of the skill setting.
		
	-Major Characters:
		|Normal: The 8 chapter protagonists are the same as in the normal game.
		|Shuffled: The 8 chapter protagonists will be shuffled amongst each other.
		|Randomized: The 8 chapter protagonists will be randomized to be any potential party member in the game. If Auxillary Characters is not set to Randomized, this will act the same as Shuffled.
			Characters can not be duplicates regardless of settings chosen. The Master will be replaced with the chosen inheritor, which fall under Auxillary Characters, at the end of the chapter.
			(NOTE: Currently the Mind Dungeon cannot be accessed if Akira is not able to join the finale party, but this will not affect any endings.)
	 
	-Auxillary Characters:
		|Normal: Secondary chapter party members will be the same as in the normal game.
		|Swapped: Secondary chapter party members will be swapped amongst the other party members within that chapter, excluding the protagonist.
		|Shuffled: Secondary chapter party members will be shuffled amongst other party members across the game, but cannot be any of the major characters.
		|Randomized: Secondary chapter party members will be randomized to any character, potentially including major characters. If Major Characters is not set to Randomized, this will act the same as Shuffled.
			Characters can not be duplicated regardless of settings chosen. The mimic in the Ninja chapter will always mirror the leader of that chapter, regardless of which character they actually are.
			Auxillary Characters are automatically balanced by the chapter they appear in.
		
	  
	-Robot Equipment: 
		|Normal: Cube and Taro will learn extra skills when equipping the Kotobuki Lacquer, Stone Cannon, Kintoto Cannon, Hiyokokko Cannon, Bounce Gun, 100v Laser, Stun Gun, or Plasma Spark.
		|Random Accessories: Equipment that unlocks extra skills for Cube and Taro will be randomized, but can only be other Accessories.
		|Random Unique: Equipment that unlocks extra skills for Cube and Taro can be in any equipment slot, but gurantees more than one skill can't be locked on the same equipment slot.
		|Random Unrestricted: Equipment that unlocks extra skills for Cube and Taro can be in any equipment slot, potentially having multiple skills locked by the same equipment slot.
			There is a new NPC located in the antique shop's lower floor during the Mecha Chapter. They will tell you which equipment unlocks skills.
			Skill-granting equipment is guranteed to be something that Cube can equip, but not necessarily Taro.
	  
	-Character Colors:
		|Normal: Characters will always use their proper colors, barring a few specific instances (see Q/A for more details)
		|Battle/Menu: Characters' full detail appearance will use a randomly selected color scheme of another character in battles and menus
		|Overworld Only: Characters will use a randomly selected color scheme while on the overworld, not counting NPC characters (see Q/A for more details)
		|Full: Characters will use a random, and not necessarily matching, color scheme for their overworld and detailed appearances.
	
	-Menu Colors: All menu boxes outside of battle will be assigned a colored theme, akin to the box flavors from Earthbound.
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Known Issues:

    -Holding B during chapter intro and ending cutscenes skips displaying the text, but the cutscene time is unchanged.
	
    -The Trial of Mind cannot be entered if Akira is not playable in the Final chapter.
	
    -Sprites on the file menu do not currently match the randomized character.

    -Characters with names longer than 6 characters occasionally mess with text formatting.

    -The Xin Shan Quan master's name overfills the name entry textbox in chapters other than Kungfu.

    -The character on the seed/setting input uses incorrect graphics when loaded from the boot menu.
	
	-Sometimes Robot Accessory values can be overwritten. The cause is currently unknown.
	
	-During Oersted's final chapter, all bosses will use the same skills as Buriki Daioh if skills are shuffled.

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Q/A:

Q: Why do some characters use the wrong colors or appear differently?
	
A: Gori, Bel, Zaki, Taro, and Matsu use color sets that are specific to the Caveman and Mecha chapters respectively. They will still attempt to use their normal colors, but outside of these chapters those colors will be different. Characters that are not in the party, such as in the Final chapter or Auxillary Characters during scenes, load their colors differently from the player party and use their original intended colors. This may be subject to change in the future. Characters will still load the original sprites for special animations, as per the lack of matching animations for a character randomized in their slot.
	
Q: How do I use Power Parts if both Taro and Cube are in my party?

A: Power Parts will be used in formation order- Up, Left, Right, Down. The order can be changed using the [Form] option on the menu.

Q: Why do some characters not learn skills in the Wrestler chapter?

A: Characters that start above level 2 will already have some of the learnable skills unlocked, and will not need to learn them from the wrestler battles.




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Changelog:

1.0- Initial Release

1.1-

*Fixed a bug where characters and some skills would randomize off an unrelated variable rather than the seed number.
*Fixed a bug causing Wrestler chapter characters to not learn any skills unless they were in the Inheritor's moveset.
	
2.0-

*Fixed a bug where some party members would use the wrong menu background.
*Fixed a bug where Captain Square would appear as Cube on the save/load file screen.
*Fixed a bug where playing more than one level of Captain Square would permanently replace the Sci-Fi character with Captain Square unless the file was restarted.
*Fixed character sprites on the overworld not matching which character they actually were.
*Fixed a bug causing progression to be locked in the Mecha chapter if the skill menu was opened.
*Fixed a bug causing the Final chapter to not unlock unless Knight was the most recently completed chapter.
*Fixed a bug causing the Trial of Technique boulders to always require the unrandomized skill list.
*Fixed a bug where older emulators would crash on the title screen.
*Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur on the Randomizer menu.
*Fixed secondary characters not having animations on the Chapter Selection menu.
*Fixed the Randomizer menu loading out-of-bounds values for settings.
*Fixed the Ultimate Technique not being lost if used against Odi Wan Lee. Consequently, XuanYaLianShanQuan will not be lost if it is not the Ultimate Technique.
*Fixed the File menu showing the wrong character in the Kungfu chapter.
*Fixed being able to scroll to save slots 3 and 4 after finishing some chapters.

*All 3 of the Kungfu inheritors will now learn the same ultimate skill when skills are randomized.
*The caveman minigame to gain crafting materials has been changed to be less tedious.
*King Mammoth has now been made visible.
*The scent tutorial in the Caveman chapter has been made optional.
*The increased running speed will now be applied if the party leader is Oboro, Ryoma, or O-Robo, instead of when the leader was the Ninja character slot.
*Some non-damaging Skills have been added to the safety skill check.
*Kungfu sparring has been completely reworked.
If Character Skills is set to on, when sparring with a character in the Kungfu chapter, when they level up, they will gain the skill that was used on them, replacing the randomized skill they would have otherwise learned in the slot of the skill that was used. If more than one skill has been used, the lower slot takes priority for that level. If the characters has already learned a skill in that slot, the new one will not replace it. If Character Skills is off but Major Characters or Auxillary characters is on, upon level, they will gain the skill in that slot from their normal skill pool.
*Buriki Daioh is now given 4 random enemy skills if the Character Skills option is set to on.
*Progression in the Mecha chapter has been changed. See 'changes from the base game' for details.

*Auxillary Characters setting added.
*Robot Equipment setting added.	
*Character Colors setting added.
*Menu Colors setting added.

2.1-
*Fixed a crash occuring on chapter clear.
*Fixed a crash that could occur on the equipment menu if robot accessories were randomized.
*Fixed chapter endings taking you to the file load screen instead of the file save screen.

2.2-
*Fixed Auxillary characters randomizing into Major characters if they were shuffled.
*Fixed the second and third Auxillary characters having their appearance in battle swapped if they were not randomized.
*Fixed Square's size being incorrect when fighting against him in a character battle.
*Fixed Auxillary Characters not properly scaling their level or skills.
*Fixed the Sci-Fi chapter loading the incorrect color for its Major character.
*Fixed characters losing skills in between levels of Captain Square
*Fixed some characters appearing to learn the wrong randomized skill at level 16.
*Fixed the Randomizer menu occasionally initializing the randomizer when it shouldn't on some emulators
*Fixed the Randomizer menu closing when manually generating the initial seed.
*Fixed an issue where the same seed would always be loaded when the randomizer was first opened, and consequently would continue using that seed if the menu reinitialized. This also fixes a bug where manual seeds would not work the first time the Randomizer menu was opened.
*Fixed an obscure issue where characters could learn more skills than they are supposed to during Kungfu sparring.
*Fixed an issue where any time you used the last skill in your list during the Odi Wang Lee fight, it would be deleted, regardless of if it was the Ultimate technique or not.
*Fixed Robot Equipment not checking for duplicate values.

*Refactored the Randomizer Menu.
	Settings can now have nonbinary states, allowing for more varied parameters per setting.
	All setting state text has been adjusted accordingly.
	The Boot Randomizer menu will now properly fade into the Randomizer menu itself.
	The 'Generate' text will now update properly, and the wording has been made more clear. The text will also properly refresh after generation.
	Pressing 'B' on any setting will now decrement its state.
*A custom color scheme has been applied to the title screen.
*The menu will now always use Finale mode.
	You will be able to view the entire inventory regardless of the current chapter.
	You will be able to adjust Equipment, Formation, and view skills regardless of the current chapter.
	The inventory will still be wiped when entering the Finale.
*Cube and Taro can now level up, but will be capped at their normal base levels. This allows them to catch up to how strong they should be if they are balanced into a character slot weaker than they start as.
*The Xin Shan Quan master can now level up properly in all chapters.
*The Kungfu major character can no longer level up during the Kungfu chapter.
*The Kungfu major character will now be balanced to level 10.
*Auxillary characters will now display their correct names in overworld text.
*Randomized character colors will no longer be used in the Randomizer menu, to prevent loading them before generation.
*If Skills are not shuffled, but Major Characters and Auxillary Characters are, the inheritors in the Kungfu chapter will always learn their next level up skill regardless of what was used against them.
	This does not apply if Xin Shan Quan is the master and Auxillary Characters is set to Normal or Swapped.

	
	
*Shuffled state added to Character Skills.
*Random Restricted state added to Character Skills
*Random w/ Enemies state added to Character Skills.
*Random w/ Items state added to Character Skills.
*Shuffled state added to Major Characters.
*Swapped state added to Auxillary Characters
*Shuffled state added to Auxillary Characters.
*Random Accessories state added to Robot Equipment.
*Random Unique state added to Robot Equipment.
2.3-
*Fixed a softlock that would occur while controlling Buriki Daioh if Oersted was the Near Future major character
*Fixed a bug preventing seeds from generating if Auxillary characters was set to 'Randomized'
*Fixed a bug where overworld characters would use invalid color schemes if Character Colors was set to randomizer overworld colors.
*Significantly modified the main generator code to hopefully allow for more random outcomes.
*Tweaked Buriki Daioh's skill randomization. Now, each skill should be effective against each of the fight types Buriki Daioh encounters, and skills will never be too weak to fight OD-10.
*Fixed a bug were seed values would not saved across resets.
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