[DEMO] [FE8] Fire Emblem: The Brigading Dreams [Dreams Patch] [WIP]

[The7thFehtoon]

Heyo, It’s The7thFehtoon. And for the last 2… no wait it’s been 5 years, I’ve spent a good chunk of my free time creating this series of ROM hacks (None are public) known as “The Brigading Memes”, and all that work has lead to this, the series’ first public project:

This hack started as a meme hack but snowballed into something far greater as I learned how much I enjoy writing worlds, characters, plots, etc. And after several failed hack releases this is the first that even if it flops at least I won’t leave embarrassed about something outdated in the hack.

99% of “memes” have been removed and from here on the hack will be known as “Fire Emblem: The Brigading Dreams” starting with this single chapter first patch, the “Dreams Patch”.

Summary

Welcome to the Continent of Smasvia, a land ruled by four nations, the peaceful nation of Layron, the neighboring nation of Tenvaar, the isolated nation of Darude, and the studious nation of the Careen Tundra. For years the land lived in solitude, until one day an unknown species of humans appeared onto the continent, these “humans” were known as Melvin’s, Humans and Melvin’s eventually clashed and a war unseen to the lands before it had begun. The four nations fought together to defeat this new foe, and eventually succeed. This war was later named the War of Melvin’s. After the war, Smasvia returned to it’s peaceful self, but something was amiss…

You play as the current Prince of Layron, Faulyun, as he sets out on a mission to scout out a mysterious disturbance within the nation. Little does he know what journey lies ahead of him…

Screenshots/Assets

Details

• 9 Chapters long (+2 Mini Chapters)
• 13 Playable Characters (+14 Extra)
• Class/Personal hybrid Skill System
• Customizable New Game+
• Post Game Content
• Balanced for both Normal and Hard Difficulty
• Features Casual Mode

Patch

Current patch only covers the first chapter as of right now as I’m looking to get feedback on the changes this version has brought like the longer story length between battles or cosmetic changes.

Get the current patch here: Dreams Patch 1.0

Get the patch with all the memes still included here: Memes Patch 3.2

NEW TO THE DREAMS PATCH:

• The D. Menu (Dreams Menu): The D. Menu is a selection of features specific to this hack (not exclusive ideas just… you know what I mean!).

Those features are:

Extra Objectives

Each chapter will have 3 bonus objectives to complete. Based on the difficulty of the challenge and how many you completed you will be rewarded with items or gold during the next base camp or chapter start.

Mid-Chapter Gambling

As the name suggests this feature is a 4-stage gacha that can be used during chapters to gamble for weapons or gold. You will start with D rank weaponry and choose to upgrade or cash out if you succeed each stage.

Example: If you roll a Iron Sword you can keep upgrading to get the following chain of items, Iron Sword → Steel Sword → Silver Sword/Killing Edge/Paragon Sword → Silver Sword+/Brave Sword.

Retreat

No purpose as of yet.

• Cosmetic Changes:

Characters personal skills are now more personalized to them (Just cosmetic, effects are the same).

CREDITS:

Graphics

Portraits: The Blind Archer

Battle/Map Animations: Klokinator & All those who’ve submitted assets in the Repository

List will be finished once the hack is finished.

Music

The Brigading Memes Main Theme (Wii Fit Orchestral) - Ristar (FEU)
Sonic Underground Theme Song (Sonic Underground) - Ristar (FEU)
More Than Words (Hitsujibungaku) - Yosane (Musescore)

List will be finished once the hack is finished.

PROGRESS:

Prologue: Done. (Demo Available)
Chapter 1: Written, needs to be evented.
Chapter 2: Written, needs to be evented.
Chapter 3: Written, needs to be evented.
Chapter 3x: Written, needs to be evented.
Chapter 4: Written, needs to be evented.
Chapter 5: Written, needs to be evented.
Chapter 6: Written, needs to be evented.
Chapter 7: Rewriting.
Penultimate (Chapter 8): Rewriting.
Penultimate+ (Chapter 8x): Removed.
Endgame: Rewriting.

Base Camp: Incomplete.

Postgame: Incomplete.

KNOWN ISSUES:

• Portraits flicker for half a second when changing expressions.
• A weird white flash appears after re-rolling on the gacha.

CONTENT WARNING:

• D̶i̶s̶t̶a̶s̶t̶e̶f̶u̶l̶ j̶o̶k̶e̶s̶ i̶n̶v̶o̶l̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ P̶e̶d̶o̶p̶h̶i̶l̶i̶a̶. NOT ANYMORE IT’S GROSS
• I̶n̶c̶l̶u̶d̶e̶s̶ j̶o̶k̶e̶s̶ i̶n̶v̶o̶l̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ v̶a̶r̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ c̶o̶n̶t̶e̶n̶t̶ c̶r̶e̶a̶t̶o̶r̶s̶/p̶u̶b̶l̶i̶c̶ f̶i̶g̶u̶r̶e̶s̶. KINDA STILL BUT IMPROVING
• Minor swearing.
• Awful humor that died in 2020. …I still can’t really argue this one I suppose…

[MegaCowsamMan]

Reads the disclaimer.
Sees the Among Us Battle Animation in the Screenshots.

Not an insult, just, interesting. I’m interested!

[Thief]

Reads the summary

(Who’s Ligma?)

[The7thFehtoon]

While the Amogus are here mainly for comedic purposes. They fill the role of an “unknown creature” in this setting thats not just some generic FE8 Monster.

[The7thFehtoon]

I won’t make the joke.

“Ligma” or it’s full name: “The Ligma League”, is one of the four nations that unite The Continent of Smasvia.

The whole joke is that alot of the locations within Ligma, are just simliar jokes, examples: Town of Sawcon, Ida Village, Sugma Crossing, etc.

[Yasako]

At last, the meme section of the repo sees use

[The7thFehtoon]

UPDATE: I’ve added a short playable Demo of the Hack to showcase what it has to offer.

You can find it under the “Patch” tab.

EDIT: Had the wrong file on the download link, fixed now.

[The7thFehtoon]

Found Issues:

• Casual Mode is missing retreat quotes. (FIXED)
• The location name for “Stollower’s Passage” is incorrectly labeled “Stan’s Passage”. (FIXED)
• Bream’s mouth/eye frames are misaligned. (FIXED)
• In the Ranged event in Chapter 1, a soldier incorrectly names Bream as “Dream”. (FIXED)
• “Not L****” is missing a palette for their battle animation.
• In the Ranged event in Chapter 2, Gwara incorrectly names Sentinels as “Moderators”. (FIXED)
• In one of the Village events in Chapter 2, Wrys(?) incorrectly names Sentinels as “Moderators”. (FIXED)
• In one of the Village events in Chapter 2 both Gwara and Noilessa incorrectly name Sentinels as “Moderators”. (FIXED)

A.K.A. I forgor a few name changes from the Meme version of the Hack.

(If you find any issues, reply to this list with your issue and I’ll look into it.)

[The7thFehtoon]

UPDATE:

• Added a content warning. (Mainly for Chapter 2)

• Updated the Rom Hacks progress.

[The7thFehtoon]

UPDATE:

• Fixed multiple problems on the demo. Including issues like Chapter 3 failing to complete after completing the mission objective.

• Updated the portraits for Dermai, Bream, and Armored Noilessa.

• Split the Demo into 2 versions, Standard and Traditional.

• Updated the ROM Hacks progress.

[The7thFehtoon]

UPDATE:

- After being enlightened by several playtesters I’ve decided to remove the Demo until furthur notice.

When the playtest opens back up, I hope an actually sensible experience can be brought with it, so apologies for the terrible start!

[The7thFehtoon]

UPDATE:

After a rough start and heavy consideration I have decided to cancel the project and focus my efforts on a more narrative-driven sequel instead.

It was obvious from the start that Memes and a heavy plot don’t mix and it created a shaky narrative that often found me embarrassed to show people that I had made. Which resulted in a final product that I don’t feel comfortable sharing on FEU.

Taking in all the feedback, I hope the next entry can be twice the quality of its predecessor…

[The7thFehtoon]

UPDATE:

After a pre-mature cancellation, I’ve released a new Demo that goes to chapter 7. And the following changes have been made from the feedback:

• Skills have been nerfed across the board.
  • Most stat granting skills have been halved.
  • Focus’ crit rate has been reduced.
  • The Hit/Avo from Breaker skills have been halved.
• Fipynts personal skill has been changed from Loyalty to Breath of Life.
• Chapter 2 enemies have been weakened on Hard.
• The starting enemy placement for chapter 3 has been altered.
• Unwashed weapons now inflict -4 Def/Res upon hit alongside poison. (Does not stack.)
• Multiple units have had increases in their base stats and growth rates.
  • Aufehence
  • Gwara
• Frost/Fire tomes now scale with tier.
  • Frost grants an additional +1 Def/Res each tier.
  • Fire grants an additional +1 Weapon EXP each tier.
• Light/Dark tomes grant an additional +1 Weapon EXP per hit.
• “Wrys?” had a line removed from his recruitment dialogue.
• The chapter 3x boss has been replaced by a placeholder until the final asset is created.
• The dialogue has been proof read multiple times so a majority of uncapitalized “i’s” have been changed.
• A new battle quote has been added for Faukyu for chapter 1.
• The music for chapters 1 and 2 have been replaced with generic FE8 map themes.
• And more changes that I probably forgot.

[SS4312]

So I downloaded this today, not expecting much because its a “meme” hack. Hot dang, that was some tight gameplay. I wish more hacks focused on a small cast of characters, especially when you added personality to each of them during the camp sections! The huge differences in units, from a Jagen with no speed to growth unit heaven this was great. The 2 HP lord was interesting to work around, but his speed making him not get doubled and miracle being guaranteed made it a fun challenge!
Some feedback: Maybe look into the add-on that gives free movement, or no turn end during the camp locations, like you can see in Hetja’s quest.
The chapter 7 2nd village implied to bring !NotAnna there after I visited with a different unit, but closed anyway. Is it possible to have it refuse to even give the 10k unless you bring her?
I love the lower power your units have, requiring multiple units to take down unpromoted like on chapter 5. The reinforcements spooked the heck out of me.
I did get force restarted on chapter 5 when the boss began to move with no prompting, that threw me off.

I am really looking forward to the full release of this one!

[The7thFehtoon]

Im glad you enjoyed it!

About the feedback:

• I’ll look into the no turn end for the Base Camp.

• For chapter 7’s village having Dustee visit the village gives a bonus item alongside the 10K gold so ill probably add a little bit if dialogue that hints you to visit that village with Dustee if you have her deployed.

• Chapter 5 does give a diclaimer noting what turn Odio will move, I may make his movement lower so that he’s not immediately in attacking range when you proc him to move early.

[SS4312]

Re:Chapter 5, I think it was prior to turn 15, and because I got close to him that he began to move. The problem was that it was the final unit on my turn that moved in too close, triggering his dialogue at end of turn, rip.

Do you have an estimate of when the release is? I am very excited to play it when it comes out.

[The7thFehtoon]

I’ll see if I can add a disclaimer that shows exactly where the ranged event that makes him move starts, I tried giving him a turn delay before he moves but it failed to function.

Currently chapter 7’s end event is still in the works and after that only remains 2 chapters before the first act of the story concludes. I’d say around mid to late January at earliest.

[SS4312]

Hey, has there been progress since the last update? I was really looking forward to the completed version of this.

[The7thFehtoon]

Sorry I wish I seen this earlier, this has been my first time logging into FEU since 2025. This project is still alive just been going through an entire rewrite to change the world of the hack to be a lot closer to the story I want to write and adding a few gameplay changes to make it feel better. All 11 chapters gameplay has been finished for quite some time so once that’s complete the full hack will be ready. Currenty on chapter 7’s end event so it’s nearing completion.

It’ll still take awhile, I don’t want to have anymore releases where I feel embarrassed by something in the hack.

[The7thFehtoon]

UPDATE:

Almost everything about the page for this hack has been changed including:

• Changed the name of the hack from “The Brigading Memes 1 REMIX” to “The Brigading Dreams” simply because there are no “memes” and the “1 REMIX” doesn’t make much sense since it’s not like the original hack that this one is revamping is anywhere online (I’ve never posted it so don’t even try looking) so it’ll at least remove some confusion.
• Changed most location names in the summary (Will probably write a better summary in the future that doesn’t feel so ChatGPT generated even though it isn’t…)
• Removed screenshots and most music credits as they’ll be changed later once everything is figured out with the new version.
• Removed the demo for obvious reasons, although it being downloaded near 70 times means it’s still out there somewhere sadly
• Changed the progress to reflect how the current version of the hack is doing