Frequently Asked Questions
Since I see the same kinda questions pop up places like Reddit and Discord, I will try to answer some of those here. Modding questions are in the second half-
Question-
Can I carry over my save file from the original Legacy of the Duelist?
Answer-
Nope, they are two entirely different/separate games. Any progress you had in the first game can not carry over to the new game.
Question-
So what’s different between both games?
Answer-
-The first thing you will notice is MR5 being added with Link monsters and the Link zone.
-The first game had multiple DLC for it, all that is included in Link Evolution for free (not counting the base game cost of course), but the DLC decks are not used in game by anyone, but still exist in the files.
-There’s just over 10,000 cards in the game now compared to roughly 7484 or so in the previous game (including DLC’s).
-There’s an actual story now for all Arc-V duels (the original game had none), as well as multiple new characters in Arc V and pretty much everyone got a new and reworked deck for their duels.
-You knew they had to skip out somewhere though and that’s the fact that Vrains has literally no story at all, but hey if someone wants to write it for me, I will be glad to help mod that in xD
-The cards Spirit Elimination and Pole Position were apparently removed from the first game and are not present in Link Evolution (Pixeltris found this out), as to why they were removed, who knows lol
-5D’s has one new duel between Jack and Yusei at the end of the series.
-Pretty much all challenge decks are identical to the first game sadly, and haven’t been updated since the original game came out like 5 years ago, which leads to the next question….
Question- Can you add more cards into the game?
Answer- This is one of the most asked questions, the answer is no you can’t. The card effects are scripted into the exe, it would take a huge effort to figure all that out if someone is crazy enough to try it, by all means go ahead. You can edit what is there already (not effects), but adding, scripting effects, then scripting the AI to handle those effects is not something that is possible at the moment, and likely will never happen.
Question-
Why are story decks so bad?
Answer-
Keep in mind that some of these decks were made almost 20 years ago in the anime that didn’t follow the game’s actual rules (looking at you Duelist Kingdom) and the game changed a lot since then, so cards and decks that worked 10+ years ago are obviously not going to be as good as meta decks of today. Think of these old duels as more of a way to relive what Yugioh used to be (either for us old timers that remember those days, or the newer people that didn’t know how slow the game used to be back then compared to now). That being said though, that still doesn’t excuse them from leaving out cards from character’s decks that are in the game anyways.
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Can you create more than 32 decks?
Answer-
Nope, seems like that is a limitation in the actual save file. If someone wants to look into expanding the save file space somehow, then by all means should do it. Either way though, it’s a pretty low number compared to how some of the PSP and DS games let you save over 100-200 decks, and had far less cards than we do now.
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Is this game going to update to include…
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Almost positive the answer is no here. Keep in mind this is basically a 5 year old game that they released on Playstation and Xbox, then dragged over to PC with literally 1 update, then remade it to include Link monsters and released it on Switch, then dragged it over again to PC (this time sold as a ‘new’ game). They’re far more focused on Duel Links now making them money and I doubt they will update this game at all, and honestly even though I enjoy Legacy, I think it’s time for a brand new game, even a new Tag Force game or something with all the characters and cards rather than them focusing on this game anymore.
Modding Questions
Question-
The Repacker you uploaded didn’t finish repacking/The dat file is only like 300mb/the character artwork is white
Answer-
This most likely happens when Python gets a memory error from trying to repack all 10,000 images. This happens on people with far better systems than I do and on all kinds of systems, so not sure why it happens. To fix it, if you made edits to your files and want to repack, try removing both the 2020.full.illust_a.jpg.zib and 2020.full.illust_j.jpg.zib folders that hold all the artwork in them and move them somewhere else so the repacker can’t see them (meaning in a different folder entirely) and it should repack the files fine when you run it. If you actually edited card artwork and got that error though, do the opposite of that and remove every other folder but those 2 and let the repacker repack only those 2 folders and that should work.
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Can I edit card attributes?
Answer-
Sure can, Maide created a tool Here that does it, keep in mind to save a original backup file of your cardprop.bin file in case something goes wrong, and note that stats most likely can’t go beyond 5000. Also you can potentially turn spells into monsters and such, but you may run into some glitches such as not being able to turn anything into Xyz monsters and finally keep in mind that a Link monster does not have defense, as such it’s defense value that is in the file is actually a reference to which arrows it has instead.
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Can I play in Tag Duels?
Answer-
Sure can, Pixeltris made a tool Here . Check the Release tab for an exe download,and keep in mind it only works on the official Steam copy of the game.
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How do I add new characters?
Answer-
This is a bit complicated, but to copy my description from my Discord post, you basically need to follow these steps as a general rule-
1- make the character in the creator tool and add it. Whatever name ID string you give it is very important and gonna need it for everything else
2- add that character’s in duel avatar into the big chars.png with everyone else
3- find the coordinates of that avatar, and write it the chars.dfymoo file in like the others that are in there making sure to match the ID of what you used to create the character, then _neutral at the end, with the X Y 128 128 (X Y being the numbered coordinates that are in the chars.png)
4- Create a new image for them to be shown at the duel select screen (this will be named exactly as you just did in the dfymoo file, so name_neutral), if you leave this part out the game will crash soon as you try to load the duel.
5- create an image for the busts zib folder (this is what shows up on the deck select screen and before a duel, must also be named exactly the same as above)
6- actually add that character to a story duel (whether its an existing one or one you created, putting their ID number into one of the character slots)
7- if adding a challenge for them, the proper deck ID must be put in the character editor and the deck must not be used by anyone else, including the same character using it in a story duel
8- add the image name you added from the dialog/chars folder into the toc and save it
Question-
How many duels or characters or other stuff can I add to the game?
Answer-
Duels is 40. Characters total seem to be between 234-240, duelist challenges seem to max at whatever the character limit is, 235 works, but I didn’t check higher than that, they stop showing up before 240 though. For adding new decks, the limit is around 700 total decks, as decks in the 690’s show up, but not able to read beyond a couple over 700 or so.
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Can I change the music or sound effects?
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Yep, you can change those by using a program called Wwise. You need to basically convert the game’s audio from wem into something you can edit in Wwise, then convert back. I haven’t tried this yet myself, but if someone wants to write a guide for this or the next question, I will gladly post it here xD
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Can I edit monster animations or add more?
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Yes, you can find out how to add these on the random modding info page on this wiki.
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Can I change arena/duel backgrounds or card sleeves?
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Yep, this is really easy, all you need to do is replace the image in question (card images are in the YGO_2020/card folder, and backgrounds are in the YGO_2020/arenas folder.
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Can I edit or remove the banlist?
Answer-
Yes, you can use my empty banlist files and put them into your YGO_2020/bin folder. The files are here- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IieJkNOhpf8qHGsYCi0V0-pgAiDAw59a/view?usp=sharing
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Can I turn off monster animations, I’m tired of watching them/Exodia crashes my game..
Answer-
Yep, you can either make all movies empty by having them at 0 bytes or just use my files here and place them in the YGO_2020/movies folder-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WuOxRW0kD9bFv8NGrLDL8Vbc7VB5t7oc/view?usp=sharing