Eltale Reborn: Holy Magic Century
Holy Magic Century · Eltale
A Dreamcast build of Eltale Reborn, the fan reimagining of Quest 64 that rebuilds its story around the Game Boy Color version and fills its towns with new people and quests.
What it is
Eltale Reborn is a large fan rework of Quest 64 by billymonks. It takes the fuller storyline told in the later Game Boy Color game and builds it into the 3D Nintendo 64 adventure, then keeps going: towns gain new characters with their own side quests, conversations offer choices that change rewards and how people react to you, and some details from the Japanese release (critical hits, extra effects, map markers) are brought in.
This project carries that mod, and the plain US game too, over to the Sega Dreamcast. It uses the same static recompilation approach as the Quest 64: Recompiled PC project, running on the KallistiOS homebrew library.
What changes
- A reworked story that follows the GBC plot and adds more of its own
- Shops where you can buy and sell items
- Encounter rates, rewards and spell balance reworked to cut out grinding
- Saves stored on the VMU, and a full Dreamcast controller layout (sprint, item and magic buttons)
Version 1.1.6 adjusts some castle cutscene cameras and fixes a rare event-order bug.
Playing it
The disc image is built from your own Quest 64 (USA) 1.0 cartridge dump with the scripts in the repository, following its instructions. If you play it in the Flycast emulator, use a recent release (2.7 or newer), as older builds draw the game upside down. Credit goes to billymonks; see the repository for the build steps and button map.