The first in the long running series of games, beginning with the Nintendo Entertainment System and spanning the SNES, the Gameboy, and even the Playstation, as well as having mini-spinoffs which are a lot like Pokémon.

This, the original Dragon Warrior, starts you off in the throne room of the King of Tantegel Castle. He names you the descendant of the legendary Erdrick, who once possessed the Ball of Light. It has been stolen, the Dragonlord's minions roam the lands, and the Princess is kidnapped. You, the descendant of the legendary hero, must confront evil and save the continent.

This game features a single-character interface with single-monster battles. Do not think this means it will be easy…you can easily go in over your head. You must make sure to buy equipment, as for some odd reason, trained descendants of heroes do not have any starting equipment.

This game was once released by Nintendo along with subscriptions of Nintendo Power magazine, so it is not extremely rare. However, it is a good place to start learning of the series, as it began everything. Also, the rest of them are considered hard to find. If you get one, consider yourself lucky!

This is a hack that ports over Square-Enix's official script from their mobile remake nearly perfectly (give or take about 5% due to technical limitations). The rom is expanded, doubling the script size! The title screen is altered to say DRAGON QUEST. Monster, Item, and Spell names match current DQ Localization standards.

Made with the PRG0 dump of the game, but should work on the PRG1 version as well. As of the 1.1 update, the patch is in Xdelta format, you will need a program like deltapatcher to apply the patch.

Platform Nintendo Entertainment System
ROM format INES
External Header Yes
File Size 81936 (14010)
ROM Size 81920 (14000)
ROM CRC32 3B3F88F0
ROM SHA-1 73F9B88DEF80756EF29C5AA1A724C3112E5918C1
File SHA-1 6A50CE57097332393E0E8751924FD56456EF083C
No-Intro entry Dragon Warrior (USA)