Shin Megami Tensei: PCE Content Expansion
真・女神転生
An optional add-on for gymzatan's English GBA port of Shin Megami Tensei that brings over demons, story events, fusions and cinematic scenes that were only in the PC Engine CD version.
What it is
gymzatan's main project ports the official English script of the iOS release into the Japanese Game Boy Advance version. This optional patch, applied on top of that English game, adds content that only existed in the PC Engine CD release.
What's restored
- Eight more demon forms, among them Preacher, Amaterasu, Crusader and Dainichi, plus extra event forms for Cerberus and a high-level beast form for Pascal. They fight, fuse, join the party and save like any other ally.
- Pascal's extra story scenes, from his rescue to the later reunion, and a demon ritual in Sugamo Prison that uses the game's own fusion screens.
- Encyclopedia entries for the added demons.
- Five of the PC Engine's in-game cinematics, fitted to the GBA screen and played with their original music, plus the PCE terminal presentation.
The latest update fixes a missing item when the high-level Pascal is in the party.
Two editions
One edition has the cinematics and music. A second, smaller edition keeps the demons, events and fusions but uses the GBA's own story scenes, for players whose emulator freezes on the movies. Both were checked in mGBA.
Playing it
First build the English game with the main port, then apply one of the two editions to it, following gymzatan's instructions on GitHub. An optional font tweak by FlamePurge goes on last.