[FE8/4K] Fire Emblem: Infinite Kings (19.5/28 playable chapters)

BobbyAsaka · October 23, 2023, 9:09pm

WARNING: THE SAVE POINTS IN CHAPTERS 8 AND 19 HAVE INCONSISTENT CRASHES! IT SEEMS EMULATOR DEPENDENT, BUT IT’S STILL INCONSISTENT. BE CAREFUL WHEN USING THESE!

In the time before time, God himself created Fire Emblem: The Four Kings, and it became the first-ever romhack to receive one fourbillion downloads.

And after a brief 38-month timeskip™… Fire Emblem: Infinite Kings, the first-ever hack of the smash hit romhack Fire Emblem: The Four Kings, was brought into reality.

Fire Emblem: Infinite Kings is a parody project built upon the foundation of KrashBoomBang’s romhack Fire Emblem: The Four Kings. Originally planned to be released as an April Fools’ joke hack, it gradually shifted into a commemorative celebration of my FE romhacking experiences throughout the past years.

While Infinite Kings operates on the foundation of The Four Kings, it aims to provide a starkly different experience than the hack it uses as a base. It departs from The Four Kings’s core philosophy of gameplay and focuses much more on unit growth and development through discoverable story events. The maps are more or less the only core aspect retained from The Four Kings (and even then, they are often adjusted in certain ways) and the gameplay and story experience is very different. The hack features a completely custom story, both new and familiar characters, bizarre player tools and items that would shatter the internal verisimilitude of a more grounded narrative, and an Engage-inspired Emblem Ring system that grants unique abilities to certain units.

Features

A brand new adventure retreading old ground—follow Daltry and Léon as they try to navigate a post-4K Ibril that is slowly tearing itself apart at the seams. The maps and enemy composition are generally similar (but not identical) to the source material, but all of the characters, writing, and eventing have been completely altered in the process. Most importantly, Infinite Kings’s story is entirely custom: almost every single bit of text in this hack has been changed from vanilla in some way!

A thorough amount of sidequests and hidden events! The game rewards curiosity above all, as almost every map past Chapter 4 will have some kind of event—often progressing both a character’s gameplay and story in some form. And every single character (aside from the secret characters) gets at least some kind of progression in this way, so your entire team will grow dynamically and gain new niches as you discover more hidden dialogues and interactions. You shouldn’t need a guide for these events, nor will you need to probe every single tile to check if a secret unit pops out: they are designed to be gleaned through paying close attention to contextual clues and using the information that you are given rather than searching blindly.

A GBAified Emblem Ring system, themed around romhacks! Emblem Rings give passive stat boosts to the holder, and some provide skills when equipped. More importantly, if certain characters hold the right rings, they will grant access to special “Engage” commands. These commands can vary wildly in function, and are generally dependent on the nature of the ring’s original romhack. Anything can happen!

Countless special interactions which are all closely tied to the story! Infinite Kings is a story experience above all else—just because this is a joke hack doesn’t mean it won’t go all-out with how it conveys its narrative. Be sure to go out of your way to experiment with as many story interactions as you can when you play this hack, and you’ll certainly be rewarded in the process!

Also (since I don’t have anywhere else to say it), recruitment conversations are no longer mutually exclusive! There’s no need to savestate to read every possible recruitment dialogue.

A grand tribute to all of my experiences (so far) with romhacking and the romhacking community! Obviously, my own knowledge of romhacks only goes so far—there are far too many hacks out there for me to recognize all of them, of course—and I didn’t add any references to hacks that I felt I wasn’t familiar enough with to portray accurately or wasn’t comfortable adding. But I tried to reference as many different hacks as I could, in at least some form or another!

Content Warning / Hack Spoiler Warning

While there is (hopefully) nothing that is classless enough to break FEU’s content policy, this hack does have cruder jokes and generally stronger/more frequent explicit language than one might expect from an FE game or hack. Unlike VQ, it certainly has more than just one use of the word “fucking”.

While I did my best not to include any major spoilers for the hacks that are referenced in this project, I was unable to avoid a certain midgame spoiler from Order of the Crimson Arm, due to the inherent nature of the characters included. In addition, this hack also includes one or two light spoilers for The Four Kings as well. Do not play Infinite Kings if you would like to experience these hacks’ stories entirely blind.

Credits

Full patch credits TBA

Mugs: LaurentLacroix, GratedShtick, Cardcafe, NickT, Melia, RandomWizard, Xenith, card, lenh, FEier, Bluuey, Renoud, Glacoe, ObsidianDaddy, Sterling Glovner, devisio, vilkalizer MournfulRelic, Scraiza
Music: pandan, Sme, SurfingKyogre, Tristan_hollow, DrGreen, Tacthack, Retina, Stardust, Xilirite
Map Sprites: epicer, TAS20xx, archerbias, Pikmin1121, Aruka, Kenpuhu, Amyd
Battle Animations: Obs, Nuramon, Greentea, Bonestorm, Pikmin1211, Jj09, 7743, Jey the Count, ScubaLuigi, Amdy, Dark, Kalastar, Huichelaar, Konami
icons: SacredStones, zarg, maxim, 2wb, jubby, AtelierLabs, Ryan914, Batima, Alguien, Sphealnuke, Scraiza
Skill Icons: Purple Mage, devisio
Text Icons: Retina
Palettes: Retina, Knight_Moris, TytheBub, Tacthack, Sphealnuke, Caladrius, SirSpensir
Eventing: SirSpensir

A huge special thanks to all of the assorted hackers and content creators who generously allowed me to use their hacks’ assets and original characters in this parody project.

devisio, Retina, Sphealnuke, TytheBub, Tacthack, Bilal, Parrhesia, Scraiza, epicer, Mycahel, Caladrius, TDAWS, Rivian, Knight_Moris, Roze, SirSpensir

Special thanks to catball for helping me fix a patch glitch and Retina for teaching me how to add new symbols in the text.

And of course, this would not be possible without the OK from KrashBoomBang. Thank you so much for letting me use your hack as a base for this commemorative parody!

Helpful Resources (tier list maker & unit data)

Here’s a tier list maker for the game if you’re interested in that

Also here’s a spreadsheet containing everyone’s base stats, growth rates, and join times!

Implemented Hacks Megalist (Contains Spoilers)

While I personally think it’s more fun to go into Infinite Kings blind without knowing which hacks are included, I thought it would be useful to outline this for record-keeping anyways. Please try some of these hacks on your own if you aren’t familiar with them!

The following hacks have a significant presence in Infinite Kings, including the appearance of at least one unit from said hack on at least one map:

The following hacks have a minor presence in Infinite Kings, usually through some kind of small reference like an item or a one-off mention in dialogue:

The following hacks have little to no presence in Infinite Kings currently, but are planned to receive a more major presence in future updates:

Please note that this list is not finalized nor definitive by any means. It does not necessarily include all hacks that are planned to be added in the future. Plans may also be changed depending on individual circumstances.

Known issues off the top of my head

If the spiel above didn’t give it away already, supports are still incredibly bare-bones and are enormously unfinished.
Player unit death quotes are unfinished.
Nern functionality on chapters 6, 8, and 9 has been reported to be odd. While I think I’ve fixed this, please let me know if issues are still occurring.
Some item, spell, and skill icons, item descriptions, and other bits of vanilla text are WIP.
The content of the story is also subject to change, as none of that is set in stone yet—I frequently take time to revise prior bits of writing. Future patches will specify any significant story changes.
Some weapons that are designed to do Str-Res damage are set as Bows, which gives the Bowbreaker an advantage against them when it really shouldn’t be.
Visual errors may occur in the portraits during talks in chapters 1 and 6. This error has become a part of canon and therefore I have no intention of fixing it.
A visual glitch may occur sometimes on the stat screen, especially if there are many stats being boosted by held items. This does not affect the gameplay.
Granz+'s stat boosts display weirdly on the stat screen when it is equipped.
An event in Chapter 16 tends to bug out sometimes, especially if the player uses the START button to skip it.
Emblem Rings’ universal passive skills will not activate unless the user is equipping the Emblem Ring as a weapon. I sadly do not know how to remedy this at the moment.
Promoting a unit while equipping an Emblem Ring or any other item with no battle animation (such as the brick) may cause visual errors. This does not affect the gameplay.
Some functionality of the Milk Ring, Onion Ring, and Dark Lord’s Ring has not been implemented yet.
There are not enough battle quotes in the game. This will be remedied soon.
Early patches had remnants of tutorial events which would randomly flip on a bunch of global flags for some reason. Though I think this has been fixed in the recent patch, existing save files may have their eventing messed up as a result of this.
Ty’s convo with James in Chapter 16 accidentally triggers the Salman convo instead.
Cassius is currently unable to obtain the Milk Ring effect for some reason.
The functionality of the inn event in Chapter 14 is a bit funky sometimes. Please make a save state before entering it!

Road map for future patches:

Complete hack rebuild
Fix class text (huge lore fail found)
Complete functionality of 1984
Milk Ring engage for Blair, Dark Lord’s Ring engages for Khan, Shelby, and Ty, and Onion Ring engage
Completing the rest of the game (hopefully)

THE PATCH IS HERE

While a player’s overall enjoyment of this hack will likely be correlated to how many of the referenced hacks they are familiar with, I can’t say for certain if it’s necessary to be familiar with them all. That being said, it is strongly recommended to have at least played The Four Kings before playing this hack, in part because much of this hack’s content is built upon the existing narrative foundation of the original game.

Despite being a redux of The Four Kings, this hack is a vastly different gameplay experience. It is NOT meant to be a substitute for The Four Kings in any way, and likewise should not be viewed as such. These two projects have very different experiences in mind for the player—hell, I wouldn’t be able to accomplish recreating the original game’s intended experience with my stupid shitposting even if I tried.

Patch to FE8.

Infinite Kings—demo ver. 0.19.4

Legacy Patches

Infinite Kings—INFINITY DAY demo ver. 0.19.1
Infinite Kings—demo ver 0.0.03
Infinite Kings—initial release demo ver 0.0.02

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Retina · October 23, 2023, 9:44pm

unmitigated peak

SubwayBossEmmett · October 23, 2023, 10:29pm

I don’t even know who the audience for this hack truly includes, but I’m just glad I’m a part of that narrow group that can even parse together the depths of your insan- I mean creativity Bobby.

Kliss88 · October 23, 2023, 11:06pm

Please tell me this part is a joke lol. If not… damn!

BobbyAsaka · October 24, 2023, 12:13am

the ugly truth

it’s just a corruption of the original 4K hack post’s words. Sadly, there’s far from enough item slots to make infinity prfs. But I would totally do this if I could.

Anyways, as is tradition when it comes to releasing stuff publicly, I found something that I needed to fix within 24 hours of putting this up. So uhh, if you’re one of the 9 people who already clicked on the download link, there’s a new patch waiting for you with a few tiny things that slipped my mind.

Yasako · October 24, 2023, 5:15am

Oh no, this is kind of terrifying. Like, the sheer amount of possibilities as to what the heck this could be. My imagination is teeming. There are no brakes on this thought train. Dream dream dream dream dream dream (I will have to sleep late to experience this)

Shiina · October 24, 2023, 3:40pm

hack of the year candidate let’s fucking go

BobbyAsaka · October 31, 2023, 11:20pm

Hello-ween, the dead have returned amongst the living, with a new patch in their arms

Update time. Evidently something weird was happening where certain global flags were being turned on in Chapter 1 when they really shouldn’t have been. This ended up catastrophically messing with things later down the line for obvious reasons. I’m not exactly sure what caused this, especially since I have never had this problem before putting up a public patch, but I am assuming it was leftover FE8 tutorial stuff.

Just in case (and for anyone whose save files are pre-Chapter 5), I added an event at the start of Chapter 5 that turns a bunch of the affected flags off. There may have been other global flags flipped on that I’m unaware of, though, so I can’t guarantee 100% stability for existing saves.

Rest of the patch notes

Bards’ offensive caps adjusted
Brigand in chapter 2 now drops a torch
Chapter 4 is now much less restrictive; Mishelan now turns green 1 turn later, and Nicole got a nerf
Story adjustments all around. The most significant alteration was in Chapter 16, along with the purposeful continuity error in Chapter 1 being removed (but it may be re-added later if I feel like it)
Perseus now has a ranged animation (no idea how this one slipped through…)
Difficulty descriptors tweaked
End of Chapter 5 (hopefully) doesn’t implode now
Added one enemy to Chapter 8
Tweaked the Chapter 8 end event to account for another possible outcome
A non-meme pitch has been added to the hack post
A few other tiny things that may or may not be reverted later on

Thank you to everyone who has provided post-release feedback so far! Unless something breaks down horribly again, I likely won’t be making too many huge alterations this coming month as I’ll be shifting my focus towards other writing projects.

IYNH · November 1, 2023, 1:42am

How many kings are in this hack?

Kit · November 1, 2023, 5:05pm

At least two I think

BobbyAsaka · January 8, 2024, 10:51pm

Hey, I hope everyone had a pleasant holiday season. Not many people know this, but Christmas is actually a reference to the rising star of FEU, the one and only cult classic romhack known as Fire Emblem: Infinite Kings. Thanks to everyone who’s supported the hack so far by celebrating the season of Léon.

LÉON BACKWARDS

Anyways, I’ve just updated the download link with a new patch. I don’t plan on releasing public updates with only one chapter bundled within them too often, but considering the nature of Chapter 17, it felt prudent to get it out when I had the chance to. The next major public release will likely come out after the completion of Chapter 20, and I’m hoping to get that out sometime in the spring if possible, though that’s a pretty optimistic goal all things considered.

Patch Notes

-Chapter 17 has been implemented.

-Chapter 16’s end-of-chapter cutscene has been altered. This does break the functionality of one or two things from prior patches, specifically the Cassius reward at the end of the chapter. If you received the reward from keeping all the Cassiii alive, you will need to play the end cutscene again for it to work in future chapters.

-Chapter 16’s bosses can no longer charge at you before turn 3.

-The reinforcements from behind now appear earlier in Chapter 16.

-Implementation for Nern’s skill has been added to Chapter 16 (sorry I didn’t do this last update).

-Multiple failsafes were added to some chapters to ensure that certain potentially missable recruits cannot be missed.

-The eventing for Chapter 7’s start event has been tweaked for smoothness.

-Colt now has an event in Chapters 5 and 7.

-Léon now has a new battle quote in Chapter 7. This has been properly added to Nern’s event.

-A mage in Chapter 8 has lost his Spark tome.

-Emblem Ring weapons are now unbreakable.

-You can now use the talk command on sleeping units (Thank SubwayBossEmmett).

-Jeremy now has a silence instead of a berserk in Chapter 10 (Thank SubwayBossEmmett).

-Connie no longer moves in Chapter 12 (Thank SubwayBossEmmett).

-Locritus now has a special dialogue if he learns Wrath (Thank SubwayBossEmmett).

-Locritus can no longer learn Ty’s personal skill.

-Ernie can no longer use Sleep (whoops).

-Indicators were added for STR reinforcement locations in Chapters 4 (Thank Bloble).

-The spawners are no longer STRs in Chapter 15.

-Fixed an error where the custom dialogue that plays when Daltry kills the boss in Chapter 16 didn’t work.

-Skyshots have been removed from all non-Nomad enemies.

-Fixed a characterization issue where Mort from Shackled Powers wasn’t saying anything when he attacked an opponent.

-Bow locks have been fixed for Prf bows.

-Alair, Colt, Ty, Shelby, and Dorian have all received some new escape quotes in chapters 8 and 9.

-A certain unit’s description and dialogue has been spiced up (Thank Retina).

-Added new Emblem Ring functionality for Léon, Andrew, Cassius, and Clement with the Armor, Crimson, Milk, and Blessed Rings respectively. The Clement one is more of a dumb Easter egg than anything, but idk maybe it will be helpful to someone.

-Altered money output to accommodate for Nern tweaks.

-As funny as it would have been to just leave it as it was, Marcie’s Interlude talk now gives her Tomebreaker instead of breaking her EXP bar (Thank Shiina).

-Thrones now give 5 avoid, because I don’t want to sacrifice statistical accuracy to vanilla anymore than I already have.

-Fixed a bug where Halberdier!Ty couldn’t walk on the mountains in snowy weather.

-Certain abilities, such as the Music command, will now be connoted with visible skills. The skills are added at certain points in the game, so they will not show up on older saves. This also means that the placeholder skill that was once given to Nern on promotion will now display incorrectly on older saves.

-A Guide has been added to clarify miscellaneous mechanics that might not be explainable with 3 lines of dialogue, such as rings. Some of these might not show up on older saves, but the Emblem Ring ones generally should work (Thank SubwayBossEmmett for helping me figure out how to get this working at all).

-Salman can now promote properly.

-Cassius has received Charge, and his base bulk has increased. Emerald Knight caps have also been altered to better fit him.

-Blair now has a working palette (Thank Retina).

-Granz+ has been made slightly less useless.

-Tutorial messages have been added for clarity for certain chapters’ functions.

-Story adjustments all around. Telegraphing regarding an early Alair event is now more directly hinted at in a prior chapter, and Cielo randomly being alive at the end of Chapter 12 is now actually addressed by the text. In addition, some TMGC characters have been given the proper dialect in their dialogue to reflect their hack of origin, and the start of chapter 16 was trimmed down slightly.

-Re-added the One Piece Rap into the game.

SubwayBossEmmett · January 8, 2024, 11:59pm

Infinite Kings sweep

Alexmanpersonguy · February 11, 2024, 9:18pm

I didn’t think it could be done but infinite kings manages to use 4 kings(which is awesome)as a launching board for its own wild and insane designs. With moment to moment story beats that had me constantly laughing and somehow featuring a genuine narrative that the player can influence with choices. My years of hackrom gamer sweating have paid off in that I could Intuit many of the battle dialogues between various hackrom characters which was a treat. Replayability seems ripe with each chapter jam packed with secrets and conditionals. I would definitely recommend this people it’s a wonderfully wacky time. Though, I was somewhat dismayed at My redemption code for Apsussy, the weapon of the eternal winter seems to be bugged. I received a Tim gussy instead. Oh well that’s just how it is sometimes. 10/10 would listen to allstar in GBA again.

BobbyAsaka · March 14, 2024, 4:09am

Hello again, gathered friends. Unfortunately, it is NOT Patchday, as I have not yet reached the point of progression that I’d like to be at for the next public patch. In fact, I am currently adding polish to Chapter 18, which is approximately 1.5 chapters behind in terms of where I would’ve liked to be right now. But that’s okay! In lieu of a patch, I do have some great news regarding Fire Emblem: Infinite Kings regardless… news that is bound to turn your world upside down.

Today, March 14, is the day that the official, FEU-endorsed Fire Emblem: Infinit(e) Kings novelization will be released into the wild for the public to enjoy. This is a treat that’s been in the works for longer than you’d know—I’d reached out to the author years before I ever posted Infinite Kings publicly, and not only did he volunteer to resculpt my pride and joy into the brand-new, never-before-seen medium of a wall of text, he ALSO offered to write not just one, but TWO prequels about all the important backstory events that go down before the beginning of Infinite Kings’s story. So let’s all give a huge round of applause and a Subway coupon to the one and only #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera, for all of his hard work bringing the continent of Ibril to life on the page!

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“absolutely enchanting. reminded me of page 179 of famous hit f scott fitzgerald novel ‘the great gatsby’ by famous hit f scott fitzgerald author, where nick complains abt rich ppl cause they suck.”

“How do I skip the cutscenes? The words don’t go away no matter how many times I press B. The controls of the game are broken, it makes the game unplayable”

“As a huge fan of Four Kings, Infinity Kings is a most welcome entry to the Four Kings universe… wait, what do you mean it’s not canon?” 2/4 Stars

“this happened to my buddy eric”

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BobbyAsaka · April 24, 2024, 5:58pm

Hey, so apparently something in the Chapter 11 end event has spontaneously decided that it would be a hilarious joke to start randomly softlocking the hack. The patch link has been updated to remedy this, along with a few other small but critical problems that I noticed when briefly scanning through the ROM.

This update isn’t too substantial because I am currently in the middle of writing Chapter 19 and revamping a bunch of internal mechanical stuff throughout the hack, and the most up-to-date copy of the hack isn’t ready to be public just yet, so I just did some quick fixes on this old version. Other issues will be covered next patch I promise

in conclusion, walterdies

BobbyAsaka · June 25, 2024, 1:40am

Good evening, my friends. It is unfortunately not Patchday yet—progress is going slow but steady, and I am still writing the end event for Chapter 19 and adjusting it to tester feedback. Chapter 20 will hopefully be a relatively faster map to complete given my ideas for it, though.

In lieu of a patch, here's a quick teaser for what's to come:

But today, June 24th, is a very special day for Fire Emblem: Infinite Kings. It is so special, in fact, that as the first-ever of its kind it deserves a little extra spice from yours truly. It is a day unlike any other; even the Four Kings themselves realized this and decided to host a half-price beer day at their local sportsdome in Ibril just for this one unforgettable day. It is such a uniquely special occasion in the history of the development of the hack that I went out of my way to purchase and enjoy a cold canned coffee for the first time in my life, just to commemorate today. I sat outside this afternoon, in the heat of the summer sun, sipping on chilled coffee and basking in the glow of this wondrous day.

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IYNH · July 4, 2024, 3:17pm

when patch

BobbyAsaka · August 8, 2024, 5:50pm

Good evening, ladies and gentleacquaintances. Today is 8/08, better known as INFINITY DAY, which means it’s the opportune time for a patch! I’ve spent a lot of time polishing up prior bits of the hack, but more importantly, Chapter 18 and 19 are now in a playable state! This was an absolute behemoth to write, and both chapters are very dense with dialogue—this is part of why production took so long—so I really hope you enjoy the story, and as always I heartily encourage you to go out of your way to explore everything you can, because that’s what the hack was designed for!

INFINITY DAY Patch Notes

NEW ADDITIONS

Chapters 18 and 19 have been implemented. I hope you’re ready to for a true romhack rumble… find out which fraud will hack it out alive tonight!
Basic functionality for a new Emblem Ring (Emblem Zahhak, the Ring of the Dark Lord) has been implemented. Though this ring has Engage commands planned for Ty, Shelby, and Khan, this has yet to be implemented.
Elffin now has Miracle
Mishelan now starts with a Short Bow and a Silver Bow
The Max family and some secret units now have proper support frameworks set up
Dorian now starts with a half-drunk alcohol when he appears
Implemented a new Léon Prf, the Breadslice. Inspired by Call of the Armor and Cerulean Coast, it is a 2-use sword that ignores defenses, always crits, grants Galeforce, and regenerates per chapter.
Alair now joins with two Alaircaliburs
Bow armors and Longbow Generals can now use ballistae
If an imprisoned unit is holding a Get Out Of Jail Free Card in Chapter 8, they will now automatically break out of their prison cell on set turns if they haven’t been freed already.
Basic Ron functionality has been implemented. Please have fun with him! Note that this is the first patch where Ron will remember your interactions with him. If you have done anything with him prior to this patch, you will have to do it again.
Added a new dialogue and battle quote in Chapter 12.
The March 13th and June 24th promotional event codes have been activated. Don’t forget to redeem them!
Added a new talk for Ty in Chapter 8

TWEAKS AND ADJUSTMENTS

IMPORTANT: Swapped out a few item slots because there was an error with the Special Event per Item patch. If you mysteriously have enemy Prfs in your inventory that you don’t remember getting, it’s because they used to be different items. There should be some eventing in this patch to change them to what they’re supposed to be.
Replaced the Kayamori-Rama support line with Kayamori-Dorian because that really should’ve existed earlier
Ladon now shows up a few turns earlier in Chapter 16
Fixed an error where Closer Khan’s constitution was inaccurate to the source material
Dialogue in a house in the Intermission was altered.
Fixed many weapon lock and prf lock issues that prevented enemies from using weapons
Fixed Salman’s abnormally fast EXP gain
Secret Shops were added to certain chapters.
Fixed an error where both outcomes of the event at the end of Chapter 15 would play if both Hoff and Colt are alive.
If Shelby kills Yufin the final time, but did not kill him in one of his prior appearances, he now learns the skills he would have gained from those past kills
Fixed an error where Samto’s mug was displaying incorrectly in Chapter 14
Tweaked a few of the generics in Chapter 15 to be a more accurate reference to Reddit Emblem
Fixed an error involving the Special Event with Item commands (thank Catball for walking me through how to do this)
Fixed an error where Rudolfo’s class was loaded improperly in Chapter 11
Reworded Vision Ring’s description to be clearer
Fixed an error where the tavern in Chapter 13 wasn’t properly interacting with Alair
IMPORTANT: Tweaked Locritus’s internal skill list so that Odd Rhythm can be forgotten once he hits the maximum number of skills. As a side effect of this, all Locritii in existing saves will have lost their Odd Rhythm. This is aesthetic only and will NOT affect gameplay, and he will still learn more skills even without having this skill.
Fixed an error in Chapter 17 where Shelby wouldn’t turn blue again if another player unit killed Yufin
IMPORTANT: Fixed the HUGE LORE FAIL that will forever shame my conscience (inaccurate Rakkaus reference… I’m such a fake fan…)
Revamped Chapter 6 by changing the enemy formation and player starting positions. It’s still a bit of a walking sim because that’s what it was intended to be, just much less so now because I forgot that not everybody is a psychopath like me who loves FE4 gameplay
Tweaked the boss positioning in Chapter 8 so that they don’t spawn farther than they should if the top hallway is already clogged with dudes
Altered a few meh legacy jokes to be more relevant and interesting
Fixed a grammar error in the Cassius-Cassius boss quote
Nern received -5% to his Magic growth
Hoff received +2 Defense and +1 Res at base, and now grows 2 less Def and 1 less Res in his Chapter 5 event
Takar’s growths were altered all around, with the most significant change being a big buff to his Skill and Speed
Buffed the A. Collider in the Shackled Ring—it is now 1-2 range just like the SC-Cracker
+3 base Strength to a secret unit
Daltry received +3 base HP
Colt received +2 base HP
Andrew received +1 to base offenses to help him compete with Closer Khan
Ernie received +1 Strength, +4 Skill, -1 Defense, +2 HP to be more accurate to vanilla
Mishelan received +1 Strength, +3 Skill, B bows
Hoff now has D bows at base, and grows C bows once Chapter 10 is reached.
Fixed Shelby’s boss music
Fixed an error where Legis couldn’t use Maelstrom in Chapter 9
Fixed a significant issue where Nern’s skill wasn’t working in Chapters 6, 8, and 9
Tried to patch up a significant error where using Unlock on the doors in Chapter 8 led to weird results
Fixed an error where Loewe wasn’t being given his correct bow rank and therefore couldn’t use his bow
Fixed an error where some Lonely Mirror characters weren’t using the proper dialect
Fixed the flow of the Daltry-Ty recruitment conversation in Chapter 7
Fixed an embarrassing error where redeeming the Raid: Shadow Legends promotional code granted the player a Tim gussy instead of an Apsussy
Fixed an issue where Adam Silvera was improperly credited in the credits
Changed Cindy’s item drop into an Orion’s bolt
Changed the ch15 warrior’s drop to a crest and gave a bolt to Elias instead
Text adjustments, polishing, and proofreading all around (as usual)

A warm thanks to the players who participated in this season of CBT (Closer Bolting Therapy) who are all more clever than me and helped me scrub out many bugs and unintended interactions within these chapters. As always, please let me know if any further issues arise!

Unfortunately, because I am coming disturbingly close to the 32 MB cap (there is a very high chance that I will do a ROM rebuild after finishing Chapter 20, and this is something that keeps me up at night with terror) I was unable to re-add the Chapter 12 enemy phase music into the game. I can only offer my most sincere apologies for my inability to provide you a more complete and satisfactory Infinite Kings experience, and I hope to remedy this after spending 10 years weeding out all the problems that a ROM rebuild would probably sow into the hack.

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Alexmanpersonguy · August 8, 2024, 6:54pm

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SubwayBossEmmett · August 8, 2024, 8:21pm

Bobby on his way to rebuild the Rom so he can find enough space for ch11’s music:

edit: im sorry bobby I used the image that was a typo we both know it was supposed to be MB