This hack will add an experience counter to each characters’ Data window.
I found it annoying that the original game never told you how much you've accumulated, aside from telling you how much from each fight.
Facing limited ROM space to insert, the display isn't polished. It'll show leading zeros, unlike the rest of the numbers, and it'll be blank if you have 0.
Still, I found it more useful than nothing.
I've included two patches: one for the original Japanese game, and one to apply on top of j2e's translation which can be locates on the link below.
KingMike's Translations
4/11/2007
STED Exp
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STED is an obscure sci-fi RPG for the Famicom.
Like most RPGs, you collect Experience points in order to earn
higher experience levels, for stronger attributes.
One annoying thing about STED is that it tells you how much
experience you earn after each fight. But it doesn't tell you
how much you've already earned, nor how much is needed for the
next experience level (aka Class).
So here is where I come in.
I took a few hourse, and I made it display how much experience you've collected since the last level-up.
Just go to the Data screen, and your EXP will now be shown next to the Class (Lvl in j2e's translation)
Sorry I didn't take out the leading zeros. Free space in the ROM
was very tight. I barely had enough space for the routine as it is.
Simply use your favorite IPS program to apply:
stedexp-jpn.ips for the Japanese version, and
stedexp-j2e.ips on top of j2e's English translation (I worked on the
Japanese version, and I needed to change a couple bytes in the j2e
version to make it work)
Sted - Iseki Wakusei no Yabou (J).nes - GOODNES 3.14
CRC32: A86FB17A
MD5: D838580E334C5977DFFDDBA07827AA06
SHA-1: 3B2364F2CF804D2B114C4382C14A99BCB990227F
SHA-256: 55C2C02541C85B7B154A2E8662DE4AF2D7FDA0CF470471616B5E23524125B038