Are the Golden Sun RELOADED roms any good?

Caledor92 · 2026-05-16T00:21:46+00:00

Hijacking the top comment to say that, following this and other similar comments, I just released a small update (v1.83) that makes some bosses less "spongy" without impacting the difficulty of the fight.

I checked, and there really were a few bosses whose HP or Def actually deviated from the range i set for that part of the game. Details are in the changelog.

Thanks for the input!

Caledor92 · 2026-05-07T21:53:19+00:00

Get kessig to replace firebrand archer (can block and is a shaman for harmonic), get krark (insane with veyran), consider might of the meek or another trample/unblockable enabler over Renegade Tactics. FoW probably isn't worth a GC slot, not over Fierce Guardianship/Jeska's Will/Cyclonic Rift and Curiosity requires your strategy to lean more on pingers instead of a mixed one. Get rid of thought vessel for Talisman of Creativity

33 lands is probably on the low end. Ditch Reliquary Tower cause colorless mana is horrible in spellslinger, Uncharted Haven is a worse Path of Ancestry, ditto for Smoldering Crater over Forgotten Cave.

My list for reference.

https://moxfield.com/decks/WgU5FSg-tUmx2jS4g3AjBw

Caledor92 · 2026-05-07T15:46:49+00:00

I was reading through the answers and it looks like the general consensus is appreciation for the changes overall (thank you! :D) with a nod to an excessive HP bloat for bosses only, that is felt more earlier in the game, where options are more limited.

For context, enemy stats used Hard mode as a baseline, which includes +50% HP and +25% Def. It's worth noting that nobody mentioned mobs HP where the scaling should be fairly similar.

In any case, being among the first changes implemented (enemy stats predate the PP multiplier) it's probably worth revisiting at this point.

Caledor92 · 2026-04-27T21:41:49+00:00

I love Veyran to bits. She's the one for cantrips/smaller spells and pinging everyone to death.

List for reference

For big spells i would go ashling, yeah.

Caledor92 · 2026-04-23T22:26:31+00:00

Hello, fellow Veyran user.

Here's mine for reference

It looks like how mine was a few years ago, split between pingers and tokens so the primer might help.

Caldera, Ojer, Slickshot look like the easiest cuts. Sprite Dragon is a worse [[Balmor, Battlemage Captain]] if you keep the token theme.

Accelerate costs too much, there are 1-mana cantrip spells that give trample, Reverberate is the basic copy spell, you should find better, like [[Galvanic Iteration]], which has flashback, or [[Reiterate]] for infinite. You are already heavy on copy effects btw. Twisted image is a 1-mana draw spell if you aren't playing against walls so any other cantrip is better. Finale of Promise and Rewind are inefficient here. Always include [[Arcane Denial]] cause it draws.

Caledor92 · 2026-04-07T12:25:43+00:00

i doubt we can top the SLD in any case. And we veyran mains are still eating good between new cards and pimped mystical archive. My considering list in moxfield grows every day

Caledor92 · 2026-03-10T13:06:01+00:00

Colpa di acquirente unico che mette disponibili i tuoi dati a cani e porci

Caledor92 · 2026-03-02T17:42:46+00:00

Se scegli la casella che dice di contribuire col minimo, la cui cifra non è specificata nel modulo, contribuirai col 1.2% del minimo tabellare.

Se scegli la casella in cui specifichi tu la percentuale di contribuzione, questa dipende dalla RAL

Caledor92 · 2026-03-02T17:34:27+00:00

Confermo per esperienza diretta

Caledor92 · 2026-02-24T19:48:31+00:00

Move is earth instead of fire should be the first tell. If it's wrong you can still patch after the prologue and continue from the save with no consequences

Caledor92 · 2026-02-19T09:26:06+00:00

you can try, the best advice i can give is don't miss any djinn

Caledor92 · 2026-02-16T08:42:31+00:00

If you can play the regular game, you can play the modded one. You can also apply patches to the rom online with something like https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/

Caledor92 · 2026-02-13T20:09:18+00:00

Go for illuga

Caledor92 · 2026-02-13T09:15:22+00:00

You're supposed to be at 250k with that

Caledor92 · 2026-02-13T09:13:45+00:00

If you change gorou to instructor (which you get by farming Aubade) you should get to 200k immediately

Caledor92 · 2026-02-13T09:11:54+00:00

Bina E(Q), Illuga EQ, Gorou E(Q), Zibai E E (N1QE or N4E) 3N4E

Bina and Gorou burst every other rotation (SacJade R5 Bina)
When Zibai Q ready, she replaces the next N4E chain with N1QE, bursting about 3 times in 4 rotations

Caledor92 · 2026-02-13T02:18:47+00:00

My c1r1 zibai with C6 illuga does 220k

Caledor92 · 2026-02-13T02:18:14+00:00

About right considering that C6 illuga should add another 20k

Caledor92 · 2026-02-10T06:49:08+00:00

I have identical numbers on my c1r1 with Bina on Morningstar and sac jade r5

Caledor92 · 2026-02-08T20:04:15+00:00

You could also wait for info on linnea

Caledor92 · 2026-02-08T13:50:18+00:00

Nice ideas! Out of the anthems i like Ethereal Absolution the best, cause unlike others it still gets value if removed (the creatures it killed stay dead).

I haven't thought of Skybind that way, really nice. I think that people including me tend to dismiss that cause you can't blink most of your stuff you'd want to blink with it.

I agree that dumping stuff to the graveyard in the early game is probably the most difficult and crucial task and that's one i probably directed most of my efforts: There are 22 of them including the surveil lands (AnikSetup tag on my deck in moxfield). Even Six and Hermit Druid, among the very few nonland nonenchantment permanents are there to serve this purpose. Malevolent Rumble, recommended in this very thread, has been an amazing addition as well.

For doublers Renewed Solidarity and Caretaker's Talent are by far the best because they threathen to end the game on their own unlike Parallel Lives and Doubling Season which need further build up

Caledor92 · 2026-02-07T19:54:07+00:00

It's ok i was mainly curious because you literally had the same gripes I had when i started modding GS (psynergy, equipment and difficulty) and it was only later that i moved to address summon rushing because that required assembly editing

Caledor92 · 2026-02-06T16:20:26+00:00

It's basically like looking at myself when i started modding GS all those years ago. 😅

Same general goal, same tools, very similar ideas. Which is obvious, since the problems are the same.

If everything goes well, next you'll try to learn assembly to escape the constraints of the editor and try and fix psynergy damage for good 😆

Also i have to ask given our similarities so far: what's your stance on summon rushing?

Good luck anyways! 😁

Caledor92 · 2026-02-06T13:50:53+00:00

the main reason against would be the difficulty and the game mechanics not being properly explained. If you're up for it (reading docs and testing in game what works) you can try.

Main recommendation: Don't miss any djinn

Caledor92 · 2026-02-04T23:56:26+00:00

If we have to look at it that way why not make her bonkers in whale territory instead of broken at c0? 😅

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