Homer: [thinking] Hmm...Barney's movie had heart, but "Football in the Groin" had a football in the groin.
On gamefaqs, there’s only one FAQ for the Japanese SNES rpg “Romancing Saga”. The game is difficult for a number of reasons:
1) It is non-linear to the extreme. Imagine being thrown into a world with many different locales and side quests. Now imagine being given no direction for the entire game.
2) Old-school RPG difficulty (ie. tough random battles, brutal bosses, inconvenient runs back to town for healing supplies etc.)
If you managed to somehow overcome all that, you still have to face an insurmountable final boss.
From the FAQ, here’s the advice for the final boss.
2) How do I beat Sharuyin?
Unfortunately I'm not sure that I have an answer to this. At least not an answer that 1) isn't in hexadecimal and 2) doesn't reference specific bytes within the save state. I'm not much for cheating in RPGs, but Romancing SaGa asks a bit too much for the leveling up required to beat this boss. Even editing every characters hitpoints to 999 didn't bring me close to a win. By my estimates a lot more is needed. 99 of all stats did the trick at least.
Again, as I warned in the notes before this quest, Sharuyin has over 85000 hitpoints. I saw a video on that 'youtube' site. Humorously the video was of a person with his own hacked stats hacking away at the boss. Has anyone actually beaten this boss legitimately? If so email me at lance3335@bellsouth.net with your strategy and I will gladly include it. But Sharuyin is indeed the last boss--I had already seen the ending through a bug, so I didn't need to beat him, but pride nevertheless forced me into digging up the offsets for character stats and he went down quickly.
Well ain’t that a football to the groin.
