Secret of Mana Randomizer: November 2024

About

(Ideas, bug reports, etc are welcome! Post them in the comments of the latest blog post or join the discord linked below to share them.)

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Secret of Mana Randomizer (formerly Secret of Mana Ancient Cave) is a multi-mode randomizer for the SNES game Secret of Mana. Applied to a copy of the US Secret of Mana ROM, it randomizes the location/layout of various game elements.

Currently included/under work:

- Vanilla game randomizer: swap locations of enemies, bosses, elements, and other things in the base game.

[Completion: ~85%]

- Open world: Grant access to Flammie immediately with various options for progression/difficulty/completion of the game.

[Completion: ~75%]

- Ancient cave: procedurally generate random dungeons, with random bosses and Mana Beast at the end.

[Completion: ~50%]

- Boss rush: encounter all bosses in a random order, while managing HP/MP resources to survive the whole gauntlet.

[Completion: ~65%]

- Chaos: Like Ancient Cave, but with vanilla dungeon maps randomly connected together.

[Completion: ~70%]

To be added sooner or later:

- Bingo: Open world mode but with in-game randomized bingo board as the primary objective.

[Completion: ~20%]

Other features/fixes:

- CPU player warp: instead of getting stuck on the edges of the screen, players 2 and 3 will warp to you when scrolled off.

- Status indicators: flash player character palettes to indicate current status effects, similar to FF6/Chrono Trigger.

- Randomized weapons: with random status effects, elements, and names/descriptions pulled from a variety of sources.

- Magic rebalance: Adjust the costs and effects of some spells to account for being able to use them earlier in the game. Also, modify Speedup spell to grant movement/recharge haste effect.

- Imported music: various tracks from other games, most with Secret of Mana's sample set, some with their originals.

- Increased inventory size: Hold up to seven items instead of vanilla's limit of four.

- Autosaves: Automatically save the game to slot 4 on most door transitions.

- Various other things

For current bugs, planned features, etc. see the Discord!

(Last updated 04/01/2020)

Screenshots

Leaving other characters behind (gif)

Speedup as Haste spell (gif)

Buy multiple items at once

Automatic spell orb colors

Autosaves

Random bosses

Cave tileset

Mana fortress tileset

Randomized character colors

Forest tileset

Finding random magic

Various enemies with stats scaled down to current floor

Warper to next floor

Island tileset

Warper to next floor

Alternate palette for forest

Random item drops including weapon orbs

Ruins tileset outside

Ruins tileset inside 1

Ruins tileset inside 2

Ruins tileset front door

Old Downloads

v1.36

A couple small fixes.

v1.35

Add plando and flammie drum in logic.

v1.34

Fix animations on wrong character issue.

v1.33

Some fixes to bosses.

v1.32

Adjust "boss kills" leveling difficulty.

v1.31

Fix rare open world ROM generation failure.

v1.30

Add minimap and neso hints.

v1.29

Various additions & fixes.

v1.28

Add boss element rando.

v1.27

Fix a few role swapping issues.

v1.26

Fix another open world generation issue.

v1.25

Fix logic issues with v1.24.

v1.24

Add character role selection.

v1.23

Version in options string.

v1.22

A bunch of new stuff.

v1.21

Refactor options entries.

v1.20

Add min/max enemy level option.

v1.19

Add open world presets.

v1.18

Fix obscure HP option.

v1.17

A couple fixes and new options.

v1.16

A couple fixes for v1.15 issues.

v1.15

Randomize orbs at sunken continent.

v1.14

A couple minor fixes.

v1.13

A few silly new options.

v1.12

A couple fixes and new options.

v1.11

A couple Christmas mode fixes.

v1.10

A couple more minor fixes.

v1.09

Some fixes to new goals.

v1.08

Add Christmas themed goals for open world.

v1.07

A few more fixes.

v1.06

Various fixes.

v1.051

Fix an issue with timed mode.

v1.05

Add more open world difficulties.

v1.04

Add option to pause timed mode while in menus.

v1.03

Fixes to vanilla confusion status issues.

v1.021

Fix a dialogue issue with Watts.

v1.02

Fix an issue with spell orbs.

v1.01

Fix a few minor things.

v1.0

Add Open World mode.

v0.999997

Fix various rando mode issues.

v0.999996

Allow buying multiple consumables at once.

v0.999995

Whip fix, round two. Add a couple new features.

v0.999994

A couple more minor fixes.

v0.999993

Various small fixes and changes.

v0.999992

Small fix to enemy randomization.

v0.999991

A few minor fixes.

v0.99999

Add auto-save option for randomizer.

v0.99998

Add enemy difficulty option for randomizer.

v0.99997

Fix Tsunamis in orb switch rooms.

v0.99996

Add Christmas randomizer mode.

v0.99995

Fix menu softlock.

v0.99994

Minor fixes.

v0.99993

Palette fixes and other minor things.

v0.99992

Add halloween mode.

v0.99991

Elemental weapon fix.

v0.9999

Music fixes.

v0.9998

Additional elemental weapons.

v0.9997

Add Luna/Dryad elemental damage

v0.9996

Add elemental melee damage

v0.9995

Add enemy species damage

v0.9994

Increase weapon leveling speed

v0.9993

Fix music unrandomizing issue

v0.9992

Fix AC-mode crash

v0.9991

Add title screen changes

v0.999

Fix bad samples on one song

v0.998

A few minor fixes plus new music

v0.997

Minor fixes and music changes

v0.996

Minor fixes to music

v0.995

Add music randomizer to rando mode

v0.994

More rando mode fixes

v0.993

More rando mode fixes

v0.992

Adjust randomization for wall bosses

v0.991

Fix various rando mode issues

v0.99

Fix a couple additional issues

v0.98

Fix a couple additional issues

v0.97

Fix some rando mode issues

v0.96

Add rando mode

v0.95

Add "sell all unequipped gear"

v0.94

Difficulty value adjustments & some new options.

v0.93

Bugfixes and add a few new chaos maps.

v0.92

Add chaos mode.

v0.91

Add status glow.

v0.90

Fix a boss rush crash.

v0.89

Add boss rush mode.

v0.88

Fix an issue with bosses on Ruins maps.

v0.87

Add in missing bosses.

v0.86

A few minor fixes.

v0.85

Fix a major bug with chest drops.

v0.84

Add character color designer.

v0.83

Add initial run statistics and fix a few things.

v0.82

Fix corrupted Island tileset issue.

v0.81

Random rabite colors.

v0.80

Customizable difficulty values.

v0.71
Fix other items after adding magic rope.

v0.70
Add continues and magic rope.

v0.65
Add flammie drum as a music randomizer.

v0.64
Some fixes and balance experiments.

v0.63
A couple small bugfixes.

v0.62
A few balance changes and fixes.

v0.61
Minor improvements to several tilesets.

v0.60
Add Manafort Interior tileset.

v0.54
Tweaks to magic.

v0.53
Fix Spring/Axe Beak position, add profanity option.

v0.52
Fix a bug with item drop tables.

v0.51
Add boss frequency option and fix a couple issues.

v0.50

Add cave tileset.

v0.40
Randomize weapons.

v0.31

Fix an issue with bosses on forest maps.

v0.30

Add bosses.

v0.23

Increase spell leveling rate and Mana Beast HP.

v0.22

Fix a startup glitch in v0.21, Mana Beast tweaks, screen scrolling tweaks.

v0.21

Tweaks to difficulty and a fix for the Mana Beast door.

v0.20