Legend of Legaia: Restored Progression
レガイア伝説 · Legaia Densetsu
Gives the North American Legend of Legaia back the full experience and gold rewards of the Japanese and European versions, cutting out the extra grinding the US release added.
What it fixes
The North American release of Legend of Legaia pays out less after every fight than the other versions: experience is cut to 75% and gold to half of what the Japanese and European releases give. CrazyMLC's patch removes those modifiers, so battles reward you at the intended rate and the game needs far less grinding. The author's guess is that the cut was made to slow players down in the era of game rentals.
Why not the European version?
The PAL release keeps the full rewards, but it runs at 50 Hz with borders on screen and its timing makes the whole game play at roughly five sixths of normal speed. This patch gives the US version's full-speed 60 Hz presentation with the original progression.
Playing it
Apply the patch to your own copy of the North American disc, following the readme that comes with it.
Credit: CrazyMLC.