Hi, just dropping in the thread since it’s been a while; FEBuilder and Lex Talionis are both free-to-download engines that can let you create a Fire Emblem-style SRPG fangame as you want.
FEBuilder is the more relevant one here, since it’s the most common tool hackers use to create their ROMhacks. As for the ROM, you should be able to source your own copy of FE8 with a brief look on the internet; the same applies to the emulator as well (assuming you are on PC, I personally recommend mGBA from personal experience).
Lex Talionis, while mainly locked to PC until recently with some relatively recent developments, is a very powerful engine that runs on Python; emulating the feel of FEGBA while giving you much more creative control to do whatever you want. (skills more complicated than gacha game passives, adding new weapon types, breaking the color limit boundary imposed by the ROM’s space limitations which allows for portraits with more than 16 colors or ones that are far, far bigger than what FEBuilder natively supports; I can go on, honestly)
The point remains that if you wish to make a ROMhack featuring the Holostars, there is frankly nothing stopping you from doing so. I’m sure you’re not the only one who’s had the idea to see the Holostars – hell, not just them, but other corpos and groups as well – feature in their own fanwork.
A quick example, then: namestooVirtual, smaller corpo that got a kickstarter that went well. My friend @Hatsuru was a fan of one of their talents, whose 2.0. model debut was coming up; so they painstakingly took the time out of their life to develop a fun little project to celebrate the Vtuber group and the talent in question. It’s a short, sweet hack that’s 7 chapters long and filled with in-jokes; but more importantly it’s something that exists. It exists, because Ru wanted to make something to celebrate the group and their success, existence; I don’t know, but I think they’d be more than happy to answer if they want to.
So now I’m gonna turn this back onto you, @Efficient_Pomelo_674. Why do you want to see Holostars talents represented? It’s because you want to celebrate them, as Ru celebrates the Hololive talents, right? I think you’d have much better success at finding likeminded people who’d be willing to help with a project of your own, rather than trying to force your own visions onto projects that already exist and have a clear path of their own to take.
Please understand that I’m not trying to discredit you here; I think having the Holostars represented in a ROMhack or other fangame of the SRPG style would be very interesting; to use the words of the youth, go insanely hard, even. But I don’t know if the way you’re going about this, as you’ve been doing to some other projects as well, is the best way about it.
If you ever want to make it happen though, like I said; FEBuilder and Lex Talionis are both free-to-download engines that can let you create a Fire Emblem-style SRPG fangame as you want. There are active communities that can help you on your journey of making that fangame happen; hell, FEU here is one such community filled with many active ROMhackers and LT users who I’m sure will be willing to give you a hand if you ever needed it.
I’m droning on for a bit, but I hope you find it in you to start your own project one day rather than taking to threads and forums like this. The concept’s fine; but there’s better ways to make it happen, yeah?