Yeah, I just checked again and didn’t run into the glitch that time. I think I might have messed up with the character byte at some point and caused some kind of glitch?
I did just notice that class weapon levels do work, but only if the character in question has all their character weapon levels set at zero.
The “glitch” seems to have been the character being loaded with “types” whose graphics didn’t contain valid graphics data. Note that the patch is completely incompatible with the old way of storing weapon ranks, though.
Yeah, that’s the way I decided to implement the loading.
Okay then. I think the only real glitch I may have found then is the weapon disappear one then?
Yeah. Thanks for letting me know that… looks like the most problematic glitch is also the hardest one to fix 
It’d be neat if there were ranks for dragonstones and used that with an FE8 modular battle or something similar to make the stone’s stats increase with the rank, like strikes.
I can do that.
Also Item levels where you have to have a certain rank to use elixirs. Because medical knowledge. Practicce with Vulneraries too.
Ooh, ooh, or, you get to use lockpicks after getting A rank in keys by using 20 door/chest keys
Fix for animation issue: Installing the “Melee and Magic Fix.jfp” in the FEditor asm folder seems to make the issue go away. Thanks @CT075 for the suggestion!
Updated source - should fix all the issues noted above.
Tested this version and it is indeed working just fine now!
Alright, did some more heavy duty testing this time checking how compatible this hack is with other item/weapon rank based hacks. My results are as follows:
No problems:
Item Growth boost hack by Venno
All initial bugs reported are indeed fixed
New additions to the weapon triangle works, meaning you can do FE10 magic triangles and
all the more you could want
Works fine with Venno’s boss unlimited uses patch
Works fine with Venno’s passive stat boost hack
List of new bugs/compatibility issues:
-Auto leveling for enemy weapons doesn’t seem to work?
-Venno’s weapon lock hack:
There may technically be an already existing solution for this mentioned in the second paragraph but it is not optimal.
Applying his weapon lock hack to this hack causes all weapons without locks to become unusable by anyone who can natively use the weapon. For example, Seth can no longer use his steel sword, but the fighters in the prologue can use iron axes despite no longer having the ability to use any weapon.
All other functions of Venno’s patch still works fine, so setting a hard/soft lock for a weapon will allow a character to use it. This means that there is an inefficient solution if you’re willing to give a hard class lock for each weapon type to all classes.
-Venno’s weapon rank bonus patch does not work at all when combined with this hack. His hack then the patch makes the game restart in chapter one. The patch then the hack seems to change nothing.
-Venno’s Remove weapon level on promotion patch doesn’t seem to work when combined with this
patch. Causes unit to repromote into class they were already in? Tested on Mercenary. Promoted bonuses still work though so promoting into a hero gives you the Hero bonuses while Ranger
gives the ranger bonuses?
-Venno’s item based staff hacks - The rank boost from the ds style version of the staff hack
doesn’t seem to get added on. Everything else works.
Can’t test:
Your [FE8] Item/Staff lock - Link is dead
Thanks for this testng; it’ll be important once we do stuff for Sacred Shell.
Hmm, what sort of situations is the weapon leveling supposed to happen in?
For auto weapon leveling? That’s when an enemy is able to use any weapon so long as the units auto level flag is set to true and the class they’re in can use the weapon. So if I give a generic enemy fighter a silver axe and have them be auto leveled to 1 or 2 with the flag to give them an auto level set to true, then they’ll be able to use the silver axe. If the flag were set to false,then the enemy fighter wouldn’t be able to use the silver axe since their default weapon level isn’t high enough.
Ah. Yeah, that sounds like something that would break. I’ll take a look at it at some point.
Also, the links to the staff lock hack should be fixed now.
Just checked it with this patch and the staff/item lock patch is working fine in conjunction with it.
The links are dead now.
Should be fixed now.
I ran into two more glitches with the patch.
2 . When using a weapon with the magic weapon ability(0x41, so weapons like the light brand and rune sword) at range this creates an S rank in the weapon level associated with the magic. So using the light brand will give S rank light magic. Creating custom weapons with this ability just seems to cause the weapon level of that weapon type to become S.
I just realized we can use this for separating anima magic. Probably. idk why it took me so long to realize that.
Edit: Could be helpful:
Yes this can be done as I mentioned earlier and am doing in my hack(for proof see the thread on serenes). Below is the table I made for my hack in hex. Note that I don’t use the default anima magic index because it is a different weapon type.
00 01 FB FD 00 02 0F 01 01 02 F6 FE 01 00 05 03 02 00 F1 FF 02 01 0A 02 03 06 14 01 03 07 14 01 03 0A 14 01 03 0B 14 01 03 0C 14 01 03 00 0F 00 03 01 0F 00 03 02 0F 00 06 03 FB 00 07 03 FB 00 0A 03 FB 00 0B 03 FB 00 0C 03 FB 00 06 07 05 01 07 06 FB FD 06 0A F1 FF 0A 06 0F 01 06 0B F1 FF 0B 06 0F 01 06 0C F1 FF 0C 06 0F 01 07 0A 0F 01 0A 07 F1 FF 07 0B 0F 01 0B 07 F1 FF 07 0C 0F 00 0C 07 F1 FF 0C 0A FB FD 0C 0B 0F 01 0A 0B FB FD 0A 0C 05 03 0B 0C F1 FF 0B 0A 0A 02 FF FF 00 00
00 = swords
01 = lances
02 = axes
03 = bows
04 = staffs(not in table)
05 = anima(not in table)
06 = light
07 = dark
0A = fire
0B= thunder
0C = wind