RotDS v2.9.9 download

The time for another update has arrived! 
v2.9.9

- bettered and replaced some monster sprites, including the Guard Scorpion, Vlakorados, the Guardian Beast (now Sanctuary Guardian), Basilisk (also from Dark Souls), Arachtron (from Doom), and more. (credit to James White)
- corrected a small oversight with Cloud's HP during his scenario.
- corrected some misinformation with the Majin Vest armor item description.
- corrected two pirate npcs from having one frame of another sprite when entering the wor airship room.
- fixed an issue with two monsters being undead but immune to death, which caused an issue.
- added a teleport point in the first room of the Phoenix Cave to get to the bottom easily once you have re-recruited Cloud.
- added a save point to the castle balcony after the Shenron battle.
- slightly nerfed a couple of Serin's Aethers.
- increased price of Holy Water item by 100, is now 900.
- prevented music from switching back during a certain event if the menu was opened.
- can no longer hire Oboro right before the Opera House event, to prevent him leaving during it.
- changed the required level to gain access to the back room in the Developers' House from 60 to 50.
- implemented 'Fair Spinning' patch, which prevents pausing during Slots. Sorry not sorry! (credit to bropedio)
- applied seibaby's 'How to make Sketch not suck' patch, which makes Sketch (Inverse) use the character's Magic stat instead of the monster's. (credit to seibaby)
- updated the unrigged slots optional patch to include a more forgiving slot reel layout. (credit to Synchysi)
- the following weapons now have a completely new graphic, made by tomilho: Vendetta, Hawk Cleaver, Zodiac Sword, Justifier. (credit to tomilho)
- gave the glove weapon-type a graphic (the metal knuckle from vanilla) instead of the empty attack.
- gave two rod-type weapons a new graphic.
- edited some weapon animation attack palettes to look better.
- Havoc Sword animation now uses the original larger Shock sword graphic again.
- fixed a bad pixel in one of the knife weapons that was sharing a piece with another weapon. (thanks to tomilho for their advancement in how weapon graphics work)
- fixed an issue with the bullets from the Blunderbuss gun weapon being transparent. (thanks to tomilho)
- fixed the CT Wormhole track to include a missing instrument. (thanks to h.carrell)
- fixed an incorrect octave in RS2 Seven Heroes Battle.
- fixed an incorrect octave and a missed snare drum hit in RSMS Prelude to Battle.
- fixed harp note length in Saga Frontier Opening of a Journey.
- fixed a triplet note issue on Treasure of the Rudras Edge of Darkness.
- fixed the channel panning on FF4 Welcome to Our Town.
- changed the main instrument in Doom Dark Halls.
- swapped a percussion instrument for Lufia 2 Battle Theme.
- made a better version of FF7 Flowers Blooming in the Church song.
- corrected a song name mistake in the music player for soundtrack b.

- extensively worked on and corrected a mistake with the final boss's AI script that was preventing it from going into another (stronger) attack pattern. This will undoubtedly make the final boss more difficult than it previously was for all difficulties.
- a few other boss buffs and nerfs, most notably the Broodfiend inside the tomb had its HP lowered a bunch, and MiaB Pazuzu HP reduced and timer increased before its big attack extended, and the Marshal got its stats nerfed more on Insane difficulty. Also Alduin (Holy Dragon) and Melzalgald had script work done to make them less tedious.

- rearranged these esper restrictions for calculated reasons:
 Oboro can no longer use Shiva
 Oboro can now use Carbuncle
 Cloud can no longer use Leviathan
 Cloud can now use Shiva
 Tifa can no longer use Carbuncle
 Tifa can now use Leviathan

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So, without any future bugs that need addressing, the next version, if actual work ever starts on it, will be v3.0, and would be the 'final' version. But for now all we have is most of it all planned out... but no plans or time or motivation to begin working on it. But most likely someday that urge will strike. Currently, because the ROM is so maxed out in many ways, there's a lack of things like more unique monsters and items in order to add anything besides just event stuff... So it may not be as 'hype' a 3.0 as I'd like, but it would be nice to tie up some loose event ends, and add to/finish some character's stories better. And item & monster expansion might come to fruition, but it would require sram expansion, and probably more tedious things than simply having new items and monster to work with.

The RotDS website (https://rotds.com/) will have to have a few things updated for this version, so that will most likely be addressed before too long. Things like some changed monster names and stats, and screenshots with monster sprites that are different, for strategy guide, and the soundtracks will need re-uploading for the updated song edits.
Anyways, as always I hope enjoyment is had and thanks for playing!