Custom Robo is a franchise where you get to customize your robos and make them battle each other in various stages. There is story too, but that's not really important. Custom Robo GX is a game for GBA, and because the system is far more limited than N64, GC, and NDS, the developers had to recreate the mechanics of the game. And yet, it was still pretty good, considering the limits they had to work with. It was truly a shame that this game never got released outside of Japan (nor have the fan translation), at least at the time of this writing.
Having said that, there were few things that could have made the game better. So this patch does the following:
- Increased the shop's possible items, so that you'd have access to few more items early (most items that the opponents in the same league have). See the shop items in the attached document. In addition, the "rarity" of the items were reduced a bit, so that some rare items, such as Dodecane Turbo, aren't as absurdly rare (some of the post-game rare items were 1/500 and even 1/3000 -- they were reduced to 1/100 and 1/200 -- you can get one of all those items from either the Password or the Commander Check), and all rare items with 1/8 or rarer are available by other means.
- Changed the prices of items, generally to make the legal item prices a bit more reasonable. In addition, the prize items's prices increased, in order for you to sell them at higher prices if you decide to do so (which shortens the money farming time).
- Increased the prize money for most tournaments, although some tournaments' entry fees increased too -- the profit will still be higher, especially for the post-game tournaments.
- Changed the order of some prize items for B and A tournaments.
- Removed one possible "common" prize items from S, GX, and Dark tournaments, so that the prizes for those tournaments are more consistent (the missing ones are available by other means).
- Changed the possible prize items from Lady P's Limit Battles (see the attached document), especially to prevent being locked out of those if you sold off Gatling Gun or all of Lightning Skyers too early (for whatever reason).
- Raised the necessary score for the "rare" items in the Dark tournaments from 90,000 to 110,000 points (to match S and GX tournaments). In the original game, winning the Dark tournament while getting below 90,000 points was actually more difficult, because you had to intentionally get hit and drag out the fight, just to lower the score.
- Changed the free items you get in the Creepy Mansion.
BIG thanks goes to Thunderdisk and Tony H. They were the ones who found the method to change the shop items.
If you have any questions, suggestions, requests, or anything else, please PM me
on Romhacking.net (click my name, then click my name next to "Forum Account",
then click "Send PM").
Applying Notes:
- This patch is for the J version of Custom Robo GX (which is the only version that's available at the time of this writing). If there is a translation patch in the future, please let me know, and I will check for compatibility.
- This is compatible with all patches by hmsong.
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Custom Robo GX -- Shops and Prizes
v1.1
by hmsong
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Custom Robo is a franchise where you get to customize your robos and make them
battle each other in various stages. There is story too, but that's not really
important. Custom Robo GX is a game for GBA, and because the system is far more
limited than N64, GC, and NDS, the developers had to recreate the mechanics of
the game. And yet, it was still pretty good, considering the limits they had to
work with. It was truly a shame that this game never got released outside of
Japan (nor have the fan translation), at least at the time of this writing.
Having said that, there were few things that could have made the game better.
So this patch does the following:
- Increased the shop's possible items, so that you'd have access to few more
items early (most items that the opponents in the same league have). See the
shop items below. In addition, the "rarity" of items were reduced a bit, so
that some rare items, such as Dodecane Turbo, aren't as absurdly rare (some of
the post-game rare items were 1/500 and even 1/3000 -- they were reduced to
1/100 and 1/200 -- you can get one of all those items from either the Password
or the Commander Check), and all rare items with 1/8 or rarer are available by
other means.
- Changed the prices of items, generally to make the legal item prices a bit
more reasonable. In addition, the prize items's prices increased, in order
for you to sell them at higher prices if you decide to do so (which shortens
the money farming time).
- Increased the prize money for most tournaments, although some tournaments'
entry fees increased too -- the profit will still be higher, especially for
the post-game tournaments.
- Changed some of the prize items for B and A tournaments (ex: tournament A-2
gives Javelin Mk 2).
- Removed one possible "common" prize items from S, GX, and Dark tournaments, so
that the prizes for those tournaments are more consistent (the missing ones
are available by other means).
- Changed the possible prize items from Lady P's Limit Battles (see below),
especially to prevent being locked out of those if you sold off Gatling Gun or
all of Lightning Skyers too early (for whatever reason).
- Raised the necessary score for the "rare" items in the Dark tournaments from
90,000 to 110,000 points (to match S and GX tournaments). In the original
game, winning the Dark tournament while getting below 90,000 points was
actually more difficult, because you had to intentionally get hit and drag out
the fight, just to lower the score.
- Changed the free items you get in the Creepy Mansion.
(the number is for the rarity of 1/n)
Shop 1 - Basic Shop
1 Shotgun
1 Bubble Smasher
1 Energy Dagger
1 Standard Bomb P
1 Standard Bomb R
1 Lizard Bomb R
1 Standard Pod P
1 Standard Pod R
1 Speed Pod R
Shop 2 - Medium Shop
2 Sonic Rifle
1 Eagle Cutter
1 Reflect Laser
1 Fang Blow
1 Standard Bomb U
1 Standard Bomb D
2 Pillar Bomb R
1 Pillar Bomb D
1 Gemini Bomb U
8 Gemini Bomb D
1 Cross Gunner
1 Seeker Pod P
2 Seeker Pod R
2 Sideways Pod P
8 Satellite Pod P
1 Tornado Beat
Shop 3 - Master Shop
4 Phoebe
1 Iron Leo
1 Cross Bone
4 Rayfall Gun
8 Hornet Buster
1 5-Way Laser
1 Spread Shell
1 Wall Bomb P
1 Submarine Bomb U
1 Submarine Bomb D
4 Idling Bomb D
1 Idling Bomb P
1 Lizard Bomb U
1 Lizard Bomb D
8 Geo Trap Bomb
1 4-Way Gunner
1 Yajyuu Pod P
4 Yajyuu Pod R
4 Feint Pod D
1 Dolphin Pod P
8 Dolphin Pod R
1 Throwing Pod U
8 Throwing Pod D
20 Short Slash
6 Light Protector
Shop 4 - Marvellous Shop
100 X-Ray
1 Neo Metal Bear
100 Garapon
100 Dodecane Turbo
1 Glider Wing
1 Star Layer
1 Pulse Knuckle
1 Meteor Flicker
100 Cross Scissors
4 Submarine Bomb S
20 Lizard Bomb S
1 Bound Bomb U
1 Bound Bomb D
1 Twin Snake Bomb U
1 Twin Snake Bomb D
20 Feint Gunner
1 Throwing Gunner
1 Smash Gunner
1 Reflect Pod R
1 Satellite Pod U
4 Break Tackle
4 Break Tornado
Shop 5 - Dark Shop
1 Dark Sam
1 Messier
1 Devil Rex
100 Bigfoot
100 Hellfire
100 Demon Blaze
200 A.I.R.S
1 Blizzard Rain
1 Darkness Blow
1 Viking Axe
5 Ryuujin Gun
100 Camilla Gun
1 Yanai Gun
100 Nikaidou Gun
200 ARS-G02
1 I.Wall Bomb
1 Ryuujin Bomb
5 Camilla Bomb
100 Yanai Bomb
100 Nikaidou Bomb
200 Supernova
1 I Seeker Gunner
5 I 4-Way gunner
100 Ryuujin Pod
1 Camilla Pod
5 Yanai Pod
100 Nikaidou Pod
200 Circulation W
200 Force Protector
Robo Limitation Lv 01~05
Luna
Tiger Glare
Kunai
Patriot
Yoshitsune
Robo Limitation Lv 06~10
Photon
Pluto
Death Metal Bear
Falchion
Masakado
Parts Limitation Lv 01~06
Gatling Gun
Wall Bomb U
Wall Bomb D
Twin Snake Bomb P
Feint Gunner
Dolphin Pod R
Satellite Pod P
Parts Limitation Lv 07~12
Basic Gun
Gemini Bomb D
Lizard Bomb S
Strike Bomb
Satellite Gunner
Throwing Pod D
Smash Pod P
Fixed Customization Lv 01~03
Hornet Buster
Traction Ring
Geo Trap Bomb
Garapon Pod
Perfect Challenge Lv 01~02
Gaiou Gun
Gaiou Bomb
Gaiou Pod
Garapon Challenge
Claymore
Short Slash
BIG thanks goes to Thunderdisk and Tony H. They were the ones who found the
method to change the shop items.
If you have any questions, suggestions, requests, or anything else, please PM me
on Romhacking.net (click my name, then click my name next to "Forum Account",
then click "Send PM").
Applying Notes:
- This patch is for the J version of Custom Robo GX (which is the only version
that's available at the time of this writing). If there is a translation
patch in the future, please let me know, and I will check for compatibility.
- This is compatible with all patches by hmsong.
Database match: Custom Robo GX (Japan)
Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20210227-023848)
File/ROM SHA-1: 0B5CE051AA1FD83AB0EC79122B07B02BB41096A5
File/ROM CRC32: F533DC13
