FE6 + FE7 + FE8 Plus [Enhancement Patch]

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Hi, everybody. This patch exists in order to bring some of the amazing changes in the hacking community to the base games of Fire Emblems 6, 7, & 8 as well as fixing bugs/localization issues. The idea is to attempt to create a hack that doesn’t create an alternate experience to the base game but, instead, an enhanced one.

Major changes include:

  • QOL fixes like HP bars, toggling animations with L, viewing the danger zone with Select, fast unit/text speed by default, etc. (FE7 & 8 only)
  • Casual mode added
  • All difficulty modes available at start in FE6 & FE7 along with a fully unlocked support viewer and sound room for FE7 & FE8
  • Errors brought on by localization fixed (FE7 & FE8)
  • Option to remove localization changes (especially in FE8) in order to bring the games more in line with the Japanese versions or add additions made in the Numbers patch (FE6)

Check out the READme for more info.

Health Bars
Health Bars720×480 17.1 KB

Casual Mode
Casual Mode720×480 13.9 KB

Unlocked Difficulty Options
Unlocked Difficulty Options720×480 32.3 KB

Localization Fixes
Localization Fixes720×480 23.2 KB

Casual Mode
Casual Mode720×480 30.2 KB

HP Bars and Danger Radius
HP Bars and Danger Radius720×480 30.9 KB

Detailed Animation Off Display
Detailed Animation Off Display720×480 18.4 KB

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Let me know what you think and if you come across any issues! I’m not sure how good of a ROM base this would be, but feel free to use it as such if you want.

NOTE: There is a new translation patch for FE6, but I’ll hold off on making a new FE6 Plus patch until its issues get ironed out.

Special thanks to Tequila for inspiring this project with their Fe7 QoL patch.

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#2

good to know I’m not the only one who thinks this should be a given for any game with permadeath

thank the gods

you may have a bit of a challenge there, specifically you may need to change either the name of Nergal’s dead wife or quintessence to make his final line work as intended. Essentially Nergal’s wife and quintessence both had the same characters in the first half of their name so when Nergal’s death quote comes up it’s unclear whether he talks about his wife or quintessence

L’arachel appreciates this change as does Rennac

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#3

you may have a bit of a challenge there, specifically you may need to change either the name of Nergal’s dead wife or quintessence to make his final line work as intended. Essentially Nergal’s wife and quintessence both had the same characters in the first half of their name so when Nergal’s death quote comes up it’s unclear whether he talks about his wife or quintessence

Don’t worry. From what I can tell, the game references Aenir so infrequently all it seemed to take was replacing two lines to reintroduce the plot thread. I changed Nergal’s final death quote to swap out “quintessence?” for “Aenir?” and the line where he basically says “I’m going to Aenir to get mommy” to something like “I’m going to get Aenir who is mommy”. Really, it was more annoying trying to figure out when the game calls Eliwood’s mom Eleanor instead of Eleanora than fixing Aenir/Aegir. If the Aenir issue goes any deeper than that, then I’ll be sure the fix it as I become aware of it.

Let me know what you think if you get the chance to play it. When I was working on this, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something this simple should have been done before, so if I messed something up big time, let me know haha.

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#4

Wouldn’t Rennac hate it actually? Unless Mkol did not change characterstats for some reason.

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#5

wasn’t rennac nerfed in the na version? he was given -5% hp and +5% res and… oh those base stats… I retract my previous statement

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#6

Yeah, Rennac gains base stats across the board in the NA release. There are 3 version of the FE8 patch: Original, Mix, and JP. The Original and Mix versions leave the character stats the same while the JP version reverts them back to their original state.

#7

Thank you!! I have just recently finished another GBA game where a lot of content was cut from the US version. So we had to use the JP version as base rom and applied the english translation patch.

I will be playing FE for the first time. I have read about the many differences between the JP and US version and I was worried I wouldn’t be able to play it how it was originally intended. You couldn’t have posted this at a better time for me haha.

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#8

Wow, glad to hear it. What was the game you were playing? Just a heads up, the changes I made to FE7 are a lot more minimal than the ones to FE8 just because they seem to be mostly subtler changes that are difficult to find documentation on. For FE7, the version doesn’t matter much since not much is changed between patches. For FE8, the changes are more alterations/balancing than straight-up removals. I would say any version is also valid to play, but they are noticeably different. I am also baised toward the US version being valid because it’s what I played as a kid. No matter which version you pick, I hope you have fun playing!

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#9

Thank you for the heads up! I am planning to play the JP version of FE7 mostly due to the x3 multiplier for effective weapons. I was able to come across a thread titled “Why You Should Play the Japanese Version of Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword” and it seems to me that there is a noticeable difference brought about by going from x3 to x2. Admittedly, I will not be able to compare anyway, not having played the US version yet.

The game was MegaMan Battle Network 6: Cybeast Gregar. I had a great time playing it! Even though I found the post-game quite lacking. It was fun nonetheless. I’m looking forward to playing FE7. Thanks again!

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#10

Oh, you should link the thread. I’d like to read it. Maybe it’ll have some more info on the changes so I can make more improvements to the patch.

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#11

Sure, here it is:
Why You Should Play the Japanese Version of Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword

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#12

Thanks! The poster mentioned something about bosses being nerfed, so I’ll look into that.

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#13

New version is out! It includes a fixed growths mode for all patches, restored boss stats for FE7 (JP) and more.

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#14

Will the new version be compatible with current save files or do I have to start a new game?

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#15

It should be fine to use your old save file. I think if you are on chapter 23 or up playing the JP FE7 patch, then you might need to reload it for the new boss stats to apply, but otherwise there shouldn’t be any conflicts.

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#16

By the way, I still don’t quite get how fixed mode works after reading the linked thread from the changelog. Does it mean units will have a predetermined stat raise per level up?

For example, +1 strength for Lv 2, 4, 6 instead of random.

#17

As far as I understand it, each character starts with 50 growth points in each stat, and once they level up, each growth gets added to each growth point value (e.g. a unit with a 45 strength growth would have 95 growth points in strength after 1 level up). Whenever a level up makes your growth point total go past 100, the stat goes up and 100 points are taken off (e.g. after 2 level ups, the 45 strength growth unit would have 140 points in strength, so their strength stat would go up by 1 and they would lose 100 strength growth points, bringing them down to 40.)

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#18

Thanks! Perhaps Fixed Mode is useful for speedruns or when more consistency is necessary, like having a predetermined team in mind and not allowing them to be subjected to random bad luck.

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#19

New update: FE6 added. The original game and numbers patch are included as options. If you don’t care about FE6, then you don’t need to do anything; nothing was done to FE7 or FE8.

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#20

Do you plan on making a FE6 patch with the FE7/FE8 weapon stats?

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