Talk:Rance I:Enemies/@comment-31720212-20200109000651/@comment-40164738-20200113145021

I've just gone through the PC88's suspected monster file and these are a few oddities I noted when sorting the data.

PC88 Smog Sylph uses attack type 10 PC88 Both Level shop's boyfriend and Demon king incarnation also have attack type 10, both with 000 accuracy. PC88 Red Hanny, White Hanny, Green Hanny, Triple Hanny, Blue Hanny and Ladle Man use Attack type 11 PC88 Double hanny uses attack type 12 PC88 Rainbow Hanny uses Attack type 13 PC88 Triple Hanny also uses attack type 14 PC88 SM Hanny King has attack type 15 with 000 accuracy but 45 strength.

From memory the Smog sylph's attack is probably memory killer, her other attack's are 01 and 04. In the case of the Hannies (and ladle man) these are probably just different versions of Hanny Flash? Checking the double hanny, it's other attacks are type 3 and 4. Interestingly enough, checking for attack type 06 leads me to the fisher snake's 3rd attack and it has accuracy and strength. I'm not so sure the PC88 has all the moves in the same order, unless the Fisher Snake also used Hanny Flash. Things to follow up on I guess, might just be the Hanny Flash which was moved. If you'd like a save or just the txt file, ask and I'll upload. Otherwise I'll probably look myself, but I'll have to datamine the others first.

Obviously due to not actually extracting  the files, I have to assume giant blocks of "e5" indicate that after that we are in a different file. If this is the case, the PC88 has three monster files. The monsters in this 2nd file are: SM Hanny King, Rainbow Hanny, White Hanny and Red Hanny. The monsters in the 3rd file are: Both incarnations of the level shop girl's boyfriend, Female Ninja and Yulang. I'd find it weird to split them into 3 separate files, 2 would make more sense if there were file size limits as the 2nd and 3rd aren't close to the same size as the 1st. Ofcourse this is assuming they are separate files to begin with.

Done with the X68K version, only thing I can really note is that the XP difference I noted whilst playing through it (the colosseum fights) isn't part of the mon.dat file. It gives the shown values (20 and 30). So why it changes to 70 and 80 is still a mystery.

I also wanted to see the FM Towns version (TMON.DAT), this file differs a bit in how it's presented. It's only really readable in the hex adresses itself and is littered with 00. These also transform into 20 when I copy it over making it even more annoying to go through manually. I've checked the Nubobo and it's stats are identical. So I assume the stats are identical.

Will also check the win32 version as that is probably the same as the PC98.

I didn't think I'd get the PC98 Rance I disks open, but L3diskex autodetects it as N88 BASIC (5inch 2HD), I can get the files out as well. The MON-A.bas file isn't immediately human readable though. I'll see if I can fiddle with it and get it to open the PC88 disks properly.