[FE8] Self-Randomizing Rom v1.1

circleseverywhere 2018-03-08 23:20:21 UTC #1

Link to UPS patch (FE8U)

What's Self-Randomizing?

This is a rom that randomizes itself - meaning that no two playthroughs will be alike!

Features

Randomization options

Tactician name as seed value

Random classes for players and enemies

Random Growths (& Bases)

Random Personal Skills

Random Weapon Stats

Random Chest and Event Items

Palettes That Might Be Janky Because That's Part Of The Charm

Known Issues

Scripted battles may break
Randomized hit rates above 127 show as negative

DDDHunter 2018-03-08 23:23:02 UTC #2

What does it all randomize? Just the characters or does it randomize recruitment, weapon stats, bosses and so on ...

circleseverywhere 2018-03-08 23:26:08 UTC #3

Exactly what it says in the OP (will be adding weapon stats and other stuff in future)

Zmr 2018-03-08 23:29:28 UTC #4

But can it give me any info on Fire Emblem for the Nintendo Switch 2018?

Serenade300 2018-03-08 23:29:33 UTC #5

This would be cool. Hope it goes well, I missed the janky palettes in randomized FE8 so much.

I will admit those non 5 incremental growths are making whatever small amount of OCD I have, go off.

Serenade300 2018-03-08 23:30:19 UTC #6

Enter the Konami Code when Knoll Crits.

Snakey1 2018-03-09 00:48:25 UTC #7

Oh man this looks like so much fun. Great work as always circles!

circleseverywhere 2018-03-09 11:10:06 UTC #8

Update: Inventories should be fixed now, thieves stay thieves, manaketes/dracozombies removed from the randomization pool

circleseverywhere 2018-03-09 13:57:34 UTC #9

Fixed weapon breaks and valni tilesets (which caused it to crash when trying to show the route split)

DeltaFiend 2018-03-09 17:15:26 UTC #10

I'd like to report that I encountered a situation where Franz would freeze the game whenever he targets or is targeted for an attack. I forgot to screenshot it unfortunately, but the only thing unusual of him that I can remember was the skill he had. Down with Arch, I think? Something like that. If it happens again on this other save I'll test it more.

circleseverywhere 2018-03-09 17:34:22 UTC #11

Huh, well I dunno why that would be but for now i've just made the skill do nothing since nobody's name starts with Arch anyway

Serenade300 2018-03-09 17:42:35 UTC #12

Arch is a super secret extra charecter in the final version.

Hederbomb 2018-03-09 18:37:10 UTC #13

You mean this isn't FE16?

circleseverywhere 2018-03-10 01:41:25 UTC #14

Update: classes are now randomized by chapter and game - resetting chapter will no longer change the class of your units, and all units of a class within a chapter will become the same new class, to avoid the map sprite vram limitation. Also fixed a couple other minor things.

Flame 2018-03-10 12:42:01 UTC #15

Eirika's Rapier was droppable once, for some reason. Not too much of an issue though, it went away when I went to Chapter 1. Same happened to Gilliam just now as well. This is neat to play around with, faster than randomizing normally at least. 1d12 sounds like a fun skill.

EDIT: The Seth-Eirika support displays the Adept description. From the support log seems like a lot of supports are like this, I guess it's part of the patch.

EDIT 2: Didn't grab a picture, but an Enemy Thief stealing an item doesn't have the blue background when it says "The [item] was stolen"

pictures

circleseverywhere 2018-03-10 15:31:58 UTC #16

Update again: Cleaned up broken skills, increased likelihood of healing items a bit, other minor fixes. Also gave many classes Shove so they can traverse mountains more easily.

Flame 2018-03-10 18:54:30 UTC #17

Every time I resummon a phantom after it dies, it comes back with 0 HP.

I tried moving him, but he disappeared.

Well, not exactly. Seth can't summon another one and it still shows up in the Unit/Status menus.

EDIT:
Encountered a very fast Bonewalker in Difficult mode Prologue. His friends weren't anything special though.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, a -- Speed mage:

This hack is really cool.

circleseverywhere 2018-03-11 16:46:38 UTC #18

Might be because phantoms have base 1hp which could get randomized to 0 or something, I've made HP always at least 1 for the next release

Flame 2018-03-11 17:05:00 UTC #19

Seems like village destruction is tied to the specific AI of the enemy, and the myrmidons probably replaced the usual pirates. Interesting

Handaxe animation seems kind of off. The guy still has his axe after he throws it.

Other than that, the only thing I really noticed is the lack of promotion items in enemy inventories. I guess because they are randomized and you can buy Master Seals in the battle prep armory anyway.

EDIT: Didn't notice any droppable door keys from anyone. This results in basically no door keys since all/most of them are droppables from enemies that will get randomized inventories. Mainly a problem on Eirika Chapter 14 if Colm isn't alive and there are no staffers to use Unlock.

EDIT 2: Just a personal thing but I think I can still progress by grinding in the Tower of Valni to raise the money to promote Shaman Cormag. Oof

EDIT 3: Promoted Cormag into a Summoner but he can't summon though he has the skill.

EDIT 4: Rennac is a Druid. Maybe because he comes as a Rogue and not a Thief

circleseverywhere 2018-03-12 15:22:57 UTC #20

v0.9 update:

options menu upon new game
tactician name used as randomizer seed
buyable door and chest keys
cheaper master seals
demon king inventory fixed
dark magic inventory fixed