BoF3 — Faster Learning

Breath of Fire 3 — Faster Learning v1.01 by RoSoDude https://rosodudemods.wordpress.com/

Breath of Fire 3's Examine command allows the player to attempt to learn skills from enemies. When a learnable skill is encountered, the game rolls a random value against a tier-based difficulty rating (0–7). Higher tiers are harder to learn. Peco has slightly improved learning rates compared to other characters.

Normal Learn Chance (vanilla):

0 - 100%

1 - 50%

2 - 25%

3 - 12.5%

4 - 8.33%

5 - 6.25%

6 - 4.17%

7 - 2.08%

Peco Learn Chance (vanilla):

0 - 100%

1 - 50%

2 - 33.33%

3 - 16.67%

4 - 12.5%

5 - 8.33%

6 - 5.56%

7 - 2.78%

This patch simplifies the learning formula with a unified tier-based formula:

learn_chance = 1/(tier+1)*100%

Most skills in the game are at tier 3, so this doubles the learning rate for common skills. The handful of skills at tier 5 and tier 7 are much less tedious to learn. The player will still have to experiment and endure risk to learn new skills, but it is a much smoother process overall.

New Learn Chance (all characters):

0 - 100%

1 - 50%

2 - 33.33%

3 - 25%

4 - 20%

5 - 16.67%

6 - 14.29%

7 - 12.5%

The patch is only for US ROMs, possibly only v1.1 (Ginseng version). If your ROM is split into two tracks, patch only the Track 1 binary. NOTE: If the game gets stuck while loading battles, you need to use error_recalc or EDCRE to fix the EDC/ECC data on your ROM.

Source files for assembly are included as a reference for other modders.