is a program that allows players to design their own traditional role-playing game

Role-playing video game

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 on Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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. It is available only in Japan. Literacy in Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 is required to fully understand the creation process. Role-playing games that were made using this program are usually simple in design because of the cartridge's memory restrictions.

Feature

Players must design their character

Player character

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s and a map of the game's overworld

Overworld

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 by placing land masses in a world completely filled with water (so that villages and dungeons can be properly placed). Any useful items, monster

Monster

A monster is any fictional creature, usually found in legends or horror fiction, that is somewhat hideous and may produce physical harm or mental fear by either its appearance or its actions...

s, and the limitations of the monsters' domain must also be created by the player. The images of monsters used in any customized role-playing game range from insect

Insect

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s to skeleton

Skeleton (undead)

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s and even dragon

Dragon

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s among the 100 different images available in the game.

While most of the monsters are palette swap

Palette swap

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s of each other in order to preserve memory on the ROM cartridge for the player's games that he will customize, there is enough variation to supply monsters appropriate for most climate zones. These zones cover all different kinds of possible terrain (including desert

Desert

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s and forest

Forest

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s to underground dungeons and grassland

Grassland

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s). These monsters are assigned hit points

Health (gaming)

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, attack strength, defensive strength

Defense (military)

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, their agility rating

Agility

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, and the amount of gold piece

Gold coin

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s that they carry by the player/designer(s).

Even a title screen has to be designed using both graphics and alphanumeric text. This screen has the name of the created role-playing game along with the names of the designer(s).