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FCE Ultra runs it fine. But yeah, no real hardware due to rom expansion.

Ex True, but this particular game has a really high encounter rate even by NES standards, and NES standards are worse than SNES standards. Once I got into the part with monsters, it was literally every 2-3 steps, 3-4 times in a row.

I believe you man!

I can think of two recent instances personally, where the encounter rate ruined otherwise great games for me; The Sword of Hope and Lagrange Point. Both of those not only have high encounter rates, like 2-3 steps 3-4 times in a row, but you can actually have random battles happen WITHIN an existing battle. As in, while you're fighting, randomly more monsters might appear. Ugh. Such ridiculous grind ruined both games for me. Sucks because I really liked both of those games quite a lot, except for their absurd encounter rates.

Ex I quit Lagrange Point, too, when I was at least halfway through the game. I had reached a point of complete saturation, could literally not stand to fight one more random battle. And as you mentioned, not only was the encounter rate horrible, they even had the nerve to have a system where there's a random chance of another battle happening whenever a battle ends, without even going back to the main screen. Truly disgusting.
And like most NES RPGs, it still felt too basic and undeveloped for me, anyway. I was fooled by the advanced graphics and FM sound.

Xeogred I don't think it's true that Takashi Yoneda designed Actraiser like that wiki says. If you look at the credits, he's just one of 10 names listed under "ENIX Staff". Like, the 6th or 7th name in the bunch, which implies a minor role in the development to me. He was neither the director (that's Masaya Hashimoto, who also directed Soul Blazer & ActRaiser 2 and produced Terranigma) nor producer. The scenario was by Tomoyoshi Miyazaki, who wrote all the Quintet games (as well as Granstream Saga) and participated in the game design for a bunch of them. Yoneda did direct EVO's PC-98 prequel, 46 Okunen Monogatari: The Shinkaron.

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EDIT: This is a revision patch!

Take note:

"The ROM was expanded past its mapper limitation and will not work on hardware and most emulators. The latter issue is an easy fix that is encouraged to be reported to emulator devs to support the translation. The game like a lot of Bandai games, uses an EEPROM which is not supported by flashcarts and the only way of playing this on hardware would be to modify the original cart, but the ROM expansion kills that."