It’s International Hack Release Day once again and this time I’ve also decided to throw my hat into the ring.
Everyone always says that when you work on a project, it’s advantageous to put your tasks in order to quickly and efficiently reach your goal… but what if you turn this process around?
I sorted my project, made some questionable decisions, wrote awful code and still got something as a result!
I present to you:
Emblem Fire 5 Thracia 776: Alphabetical Edition
Join the crew of Alba the archer and his trusted archer and retainer Asbel to take down all threats of Thracia from A to Z… Alphand to Zaun specifically. All the player characters, enemies, their classes and even most menus are now ordered alphabetically! The class lists were split between promoted and unpromoted ones, ordered and then reassigned to originally promoted and unpromoted characters. The exception are enemy classes, they were assigned in the reverse order as fighting a million barons early on and only warriors later made for some… questionable gameplay.
I also hope that you either have no muscle memory whatsoever or can suppress it enough to not yeet your entire inventory on the floor when you try to equip or use an item… you’ll see what I mean when you play this wonderful hack.
Updates:
- V1.1:
- Changed the item in one of the Ch 4x chests to a Brave Lance, the talk convo in Ch13 now gives the Brave Sword
- Fixed Hicks’ weapon ranks
- Fixed Osian/Halvan/Ronan replacements not correctly showing up in Ch. 8
- Fixed Fred replacements inventory in Ch 11x
- Fixed Lara replacements promotion to dancer crashing the game
- Changed AI of Ch 15 boss so he only charges opponents within half his movement range
- Fixed some item descriptions
- Fixed Typos
Disclaimer:
- I didn’t get to fully playtest this, so if you find any errors just let me know
Known Issues:
- Linoan’s PRF has some animation issues if battle animations are on.
Credits:
- Lil' Manster Team
Text insertion, graphical edits and overall project management by Miacis
Based on Zane Avernathy’s FE5 menu translation and compiled with his tools.
All credit for the original game goes to Intelligent Systems and the wonderful development team they had.
Lead Script Editors:
Miacis, Expert Criminal
Programming:
Ultimage
Graphic Design:
Ferris, Flasuban, Miacis
Lead Playtester:
CedAodh
Playtesters:
Advent, Lehran, Ferris, Lord Louie, Yuiz
Logo, Banner Design:
Ferris
Linguistics Consultants:
Straylize, Rosie the Riveter, Laivinia
Discord Administrator:
Xylonphone
And the credits of the base of Lil’ Manster:
Project Exile Team
Script Translation, Localization, and Text Insertion by Cirosan
Based on a patch architecture first developed by Kirb
Incorporating Zane’s FE5 menu translation
ROM expansion by Kirb and dn
Project Lead:
Cirosan
Lead Script Editor:
Miacis
Lead Playtester:
KrashBoomBang
Lead Programmers:
HidoranBlaze
Ando
Lead Graphic Designer:
Ando
World Map Editing:
Ando
Robert of Normandy
Title Screen Design:
EnDavio
“The Ballad of Yied” written by:
Sam Heitzer
Additional Script Editors:
Bartz
KrashBoomBang
NitroAssassin524
Shale
Expert Criminal
Additional Playtesting:
Ves
Additional Programming:
Cirosan
Miacis
Additional Graphic Design:
EnDavio
Miacis
Discord Administrator:
Xylonphone
Lead Script Editors Emeritus:
Alan Smithee
Shale
Special Thanks:
DDS
FireLizard
Kirb
Mekkah
Shaya
Zane
And everyone else who helped make this project a reality.
Both Kirb and Zane have continued to provide me with technical advice, and I’d like to stress that this patch would not have been possible without them.
This patch would not be possible without the ROM expansion performed by Kirb and dn, and I wish to thank them again.
- Miacis (again) for some quick, but valuable playtesting
- Custom item icons by Ferris, commissioned and made F2U by Miacis
