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Contents 1 Copyright Violation? 2 Music 3 Engine: Secret of Mana 4 More information

[edit] Copyright Violation?

I looked at the article history and it seems there used to be boxart for the game in the infobox, and it was deleted on the basis of a copyright violation. Many other Squaresoft (and Square-Enix) games including the Final Fantasy series contain boxart. I'm just wondering why it taken out.

I'm guessing the previous box art didn't have the {{Gamecover}} tag. I uploaded a pic with the tag and placed it back in the article. --Pagrashtak 18:42, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Music

Well I added a section on the score, however their is a paragarph in the introduction about the music which says pretty much the same thing I did which makes it a little redundant now, HOWEVER its much better written then my contribution so I decided to leave it because someone might decides to merge the paragraph etc. - UnlimitedAccess 20:39, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Engine: Secret of Mana

True, the ring system of the game was based on that of Seiken Densetsu 2, but to say that the game runs on Seiken Densetsu 2's engine is quite discrediting to the team at Square USA. They wrote Evermore's engine "from scratch," evident through the better efficacy with which one can use the rings and the entirely new functions such as alchemy. Is Chrono Trigger's engine listed as Final Fantasy III's? No, because it's not. --67.36.24.175 23:54, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Incorrect, Secret of Evermore is operating on a modified version of the Seiken Densetsu 2 engine. Square USA utilised the pre existing Seiken Densetsu 2 and wisely spent all their time doing artwork, levels, story, design etc. This is also made evidence by only four programmers working on the entire project. I cant comment on whether Chrono's engine is based on the Final Fantasy one, however Kid Icarus is certainly running on the Metroid engine etc. It's quite common for a game to be made using an already existing engine, most developers do it, Square USA would of been a fool to start from scratch and waist already stretched resources coding a redundant engine when it had a pre-existing engine that does the exact same thing freely availible to them. - UnlimitedAccess 19:21, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

You have no way of knowing that for sure. --134.84.96.60 23:37, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Except from being obvious from playing it. Same gameplay, same menus, same controls, same company ... different graphics. - UnlimitedAccess 20:53, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I recall an old issue of Nintendo Power had a preview of the Secret of Evermore, including developer commentaries. They said in the article that there were basing it off of the Secret of Mana engine, but were sacrificing some elements (such as multiple controllable player characters) in order to free up resources for other content elements. I wish I could remember the specific issue it was in, but I am afraid that I lost track of my old copies some time ago. Maybe I could do a little research. - Fearless Son 18:53, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More information

The lead programmer, Brian Fehdrau, appeared on GameFAQs a while ago and answered quite a few questions about the game. Check it out: http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~kneer/androl/gf-archive-soe/052_1.html --134.84.96.60 23:37, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Now that is a more persuasive argument, albeit from a forum with a guy who claims he was involved in the game. I concede the point, unless I stumble across anything more persuasive. If it is true, it certainly was a foolish waste of resources! - UnlimitedAccess 21:14, 1 October 2005 (UTC)