Hi all, I’m currently working on making a playable tactician for FE8. I’m aiming to allow the player to choose their affinity and weapon by using the split path menu. The set up I have in my events so far is that the player first enters their name, then they are prompted to choose their affinity. W…

Many aspects of character data are saved in RAM/save data (like inventory, level, weapon levels, stats…), but affinity is not one of them. Affinity is read from ROM character ID. Your hack would consist of reading affinity (and ig setting it as well) somewhere in RAM. It’s definitely doable, though …

Oh ok, thank you for the insight. I’ll find a work around the issue somehow. Thank you again for taking the time to answer.

I can try something out tomorrow, ill dm you if that gets anywhere

Thank you for trying. Even if it’s not doable, I appreciate you taking the time to attempt it.

[image] [FE8] Writing to memory using events Resources Read From Address Write To Address This is my first ASM hack, so I don’t really know what I’m doing. But the possibilities it opens up are kind of exciting. Basically, this is a little snippet of ASM that takes a va…

[FE8] ASM Hack to Assign an Affinity to a Character

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Pikmin1211 November 15, 2019, 12:43am 6

This may be what you’re looking for.
EDIT: I didn’t read the posts above, so affinity is not in RAM. My bad.