Sands of Destruction (World Destruction) DS - 50% Less Random Encounters Patch

(copy/pasted from main post @ https://old.reddit.com/r/JRPG/comments/1tyswud/sands_of_destruction_world_destruction_ds_50_less/)

Hi all,

I was reading reviews for the JRPG Sands of Destruction/World Destruction on the DS, and many were complaining about the random encounter rate being annoyingly high. I then played it myself and indeed felt it was too high.

I located the subroutine responsible for RNG w/ random encounters in the game's code, and created a simple patch to globally reduce encounters by 50%. There are NO options or toggles for this patch - it GLOBALLY and PERMANENTLY reduces the encounter rate by 50% for your entire playthrough.

There's three patches in the zip, each for a different version of the game:

• Sands_of_Destruction_USA_Less_Encounters.ips - for the normal, untouched English release (this is probably the one you want)

• Sands_of_Destruction_USA_UNDUB_ONLY_Less_Encounters.ips - for the Undub version of the English release

• World_Destruction_JP_Less_Encounters.ips - for the original Japanese release

FAQ

• Q: Will it affect save files? A: No.

• Q: Will it break the game or softlock me? A: No.

• Q: I installed the patch but I'm still getting tons of encounters! Did I do something wrong?! A: No, you're just getting unlucky (Think of how in Pokemon you can run through entire patches of wild grass with zero encounters, and then next time you can't go 2 steps without getting into a battle)

Link: https://files.catbox.moe/g6ieg8.zip (mirror) (use an IPS patcher of your choice)