FE4 Gay patch (now with possible children !) + inherited hair color for Gen 2

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This is a hack that adds gay relationships to FE4, working in the same way as straight relationships. This is for the moment a purely technical implementation: there is currently no new written talk event, though several functional one have been added to generation 2. My goal with this project is to implement them in the future. A WLW relationship in Generation 1 will result in substitute children for both women with the basic patch, but a patch that transfer half of gen 2 children to male unit in order for gay couple to have children has been created. Again, this is purely technical implementation : the story has not been altered to fit the sibling pairs

Finally, I have added a hair color inheritance feature for gen 2 children, similar to 3DS game. They take the color of their father, or of the variable parent with the one children patch.

Please be aware that the 4th save slot has been sacrificed for the sake of the implementation. This will only cause issues if the auto-save has been configured to the 4th slot.

There is currently a known issue involving the endings dialogue where female characters will talk about their wife as if she was dead.

Download can be found here

There is a Discord server for feedback, bug report or if you are interested to write talks events for the project !

Credits:

Advent for the design of the new Title Screen

The Lil’ Nordion team for the traduction used by this patch, and the buildfiles used to make it

Lil’Nordion full credits, taken from their serene forest post

LilinaGaming: Project Lead. Translation, localization, extraction, graphical edits, playtesting

Miacis: Build/repo management, script editing, localization, insertion, graphical edits

NMC: Translation, localization, playtesting

ThePsyShyster: Translation, localization

Ultimage: Hacking, his FE4 disassembly

Tchuu: Logo design

Based on the Project Naga translation for FE4.

Original English script by BookOfHolsety.

Original ASM by DDSTranslations.

Dialogue and menu font based on null’s EBMain F2U font.

Special thanks to the German and Spanish patch teams for sharing their ressources.

Ultimage for his FE4 disassembly and helping me with some technical question

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Why would there be subtitute children for a wlw relationship? No Tailtiu!ced….

Anyway, what would a son of alec and noish be? They don’t have a ‘canonical’ child

Which gen 1 units are connected to which gen 2 units?

And what about seliph and julia? How do they work here?

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Because the inheritance system is only designed for a couple to have 2 children, and changing it to allow for Tailtiu!ced for example would require to redo the whole inheritance mechanism and for the moment I don’t want it to prioritize it when there is already an in-game solution with the subs, unlike the other game with kids.

As for alec and noish, they will have no children. This is how both Fate and Awakening gay patches handle it. Seliph and Julia work the same way they work in the base games : they are fixed character

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A clarifying question: is lester connected to aideen, or midir?

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I have not touched the child system in any way, so Lester is still Edain child (and beside, Lester was originally Lex child in development, so even if I were to change the system I would probably go with Lex)

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Well, I have been patching bug. I think it should be fully working now, but I can’t say for sure without more testing. More importantly, I have succeed in adding a new talk event to the game ! Now there is a talk in chapter 7 that auto-marry Shannan and Oifey. The first of more to come

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Thanks to Advent, the project now has a much more fitting title screen. Big ups to him for the design

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I have also added three new lover conversations to the final chapter. Their texts are placeholders, but the stats increase is fully working. Since Vanilla lover talk only give stat to the man, I have chosen to make gay lover talk give both units a smaller increase.

I have also made a discord server for the project. If you have feedback, bug report or want to write event for the project, feel free to join !

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Per my username, I think Fire Emblem can always be gayer. Thank you for your service to the community :saluting_face: :rainbow_flag:

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I’m unsure what does what, then, if gay relations happen? Just, no children if everyone’s gay?

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I’m pretty sure that the font is just taken from a sprite sheet for the game, but I was wondering if you have any idea where to find the font in a usable format. Thanks!

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Hum, which font exactly ? I didn’t really modify any font for this patch

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Since a lot of people were wishing there was some way for gay couple to have children, I have made a patch that move half of the gen 2 children to some of the male character, like it was actually implemented at some point in dev (I also patched a important bug for the base gay patch). This is a purely technical patch : though the sibling crit mechanic work and the new siblings can’t marry each other, the story content is unadulterated. Ending is also somewhat messed up. The list of new children parents are :

  • Lester is Midir’s son (yes, I know he was supposed to be Lex son. Gameplay took priority)
  • Scáthach is Chulainn’s son
  • Diarmuid is Beowolf’s son
  • Arthur is Azelle’s son
  • Patty is Dew’s daughter
  • Ced is Lewyn’s son
  • Coirpre is Claud’s son

I have also made a inheritable hair color patch, like in the 3DS game. Forgive me if some of them look a bit weird, I am not a pixel artist and I had to sacrifice detail to make the new sprite fit the color palette limit. If you just want this feature and not the gay patch, there is a version that only add it without any other addition

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My main objective now will be to figure out how the endings attribution work in order to modify it, through I don’t know when I will be down with it.

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This seems really cool! I’m fascinated that something like this patch is possible, I’d be curious about the process of making it.

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It mostly involve looking at at the game code ( Ultimage disassembly and Mesen debugger is incredibly useful for this purpose) and figuring out what you have to change or add for your purpose, along general knowledge of how the SNES work. For example, I had the idea of the hair inheritance for a while because I knew it would be possible to update the palette of a portrait depending on a certain variable (the game, in fact, use a similar trick to colorize the character hair during battle animation). Not saying that it’s easy but with enough patience it’s really possible

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so i dont know if this is a bug from my fe4 rom or what, but when i try to get the shield sword in chapter 4 with Sylvia, the cutscene bugs out and shes just stuck there, softlocking the game while that dance music plays.

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I can’t seem to replicate it on my side. Can you send me a link with your save in dm and the patch you used ?

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This is absolutely amazing…tho I am curious if this affects Julia into having red hair,which would probably be neat

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I’m currently experiencing a bug where the game just freezes right at the start of chapter 3,with the screen getting very corrupt,something similar happens where if I save when prompted too after finishing chapter 2 the game just goes black…I have no idea whats causing this everything was running just fine :sob:,I’m using the hair color only patch

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Ive just experienced the same issue where the screen for chapter 3 after the title is completely corrupted and trying to save at the end of chapter 2 deletes the save file and makes the screen go black

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Hello, sorry for the issue. Can I you send me your save file ? I’m currently having issue reproducing the bug you are experiencing