I successfully patched and loaded the .sav file in patch 2, but can you tell me in chapter 22 do I need to save before or after passing the level?
When I load the .sav file, it freezes and cannot be operated
Part 2 ends either at chapter 21, chapter 21x, or chapter 21x pt 2. After you save your game and Chapter 22 is showing on your save file, you should start playing Part 3.
I’m halfway throught the Game, and the gameplay and the music used is just top!, I can’t sleep thinking about the battle theme of Ceres and Cronus, I’d die to know the track’s name
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Thanks for playing. The battle theme is the Saturos/Menardi battle theme from Golden Sun.
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So, I decided I would replay the game. Because man, this was a good ride a couple years ago
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I took my time playing because I had fun spelunking in the basement. I was in for a shock when I stopped paying attention to that one ugly duck. Rest in Peace Helen, you will be missed. GAME OVER.
We’ll get em, yet!
Permafrost, you made an absolute gem. There were (and still are) so many rom gaems in my backlog, but this one made it to the front lines!
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Thanks. It’s really cool to think not only have people played a game that I made, there are some who liked it enough to replay it.
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I’ve come to a rather difficult decision regarding my hacks. To cut to the chase, I’ve decided to delist them. The story for Saint’s Blood has expanded so much that I feel like I’m trying to cram it into a GBA Fire Emblem game, and it just isn’t making sense to do so anymore. Not only that, but the amount of effort it’s taking to realize the story within a hack is becoming far out of proportion with the kind of exposure a hack can reasonably have. While I know that many have enjoyed the story of Deity Device, the reality is that most hack players are just looking for a twist on their nostalgic favorites and aren’t expecting much of a story, and so, a hack just doesn’t feel like the right medium to tell the story I want to tell anymore.
That being said, the support and kind words I received regarding Deity Device has meant more to me than I can properly convey in a forum post. There were many times over the past few years where I cheered myself up by reminding myself that there were fans of my writing out there. It’s because of the support I received that I still believe I can make something of my writing if I keep trying at it.
But I’m at a very different stage in my life than I was when I first started messing around in FEBuilder just over five years ago now. I have to do things that make sense for my life as it is now, and continuing to develop this story as a hack just doesn’t make sense anymore. This is something that’s been in the back of my mind for a while now, but I didn’t want to face it because I still genuinely enjoy the process of making hacks and sharing them with you. But I also need to start living by the advice I always put in my characters’ mouths about not just living to avoid disappointing other people.
I want to work on redeveloping the story of the original Deity Device and the continuation in Saint’s Blood into something more than a hack that can only ever exist in a corner of the internet. If this decision upsets you, I hope that you can eventually understand why I had to make it.
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Hey no problem at all man! I completely understand, even if I’m relatively new here myself.
Wishing you the best of luck when you find the new place to shine your project to light!
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Sad to hear that. Your hacks (specially Saint’s Blood) have a very unique feel into them, but I can totally understand that feeling. Your games where a great experience.
But what will you do with your games now? Do a remake of them in another engine to distance them from FE? Make a book series out of it? Whatever your plans are, I wish you luck.
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While I can’t say I agree with delisting them, I understand fe hacks not being the right medium for something. I had an fe hack a long time ago I realized would never go anywhere. It has been since repurposed into a book I’m writing. But, regardless, deity device was a nice balance of story and game. Though if you feel your current projects fit in a different medium better, I understand more than most. Though, tbh, I’d prefer Deity Device stay up at least.
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Man, I’m really sad about this. I’ve been working through the FE ROM hack canon, and this was next on my list. Is there any chance you could DM me a copy of the patch if you aren’t wanting to have it up?
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It’s unfortunate. I was looking forward to playing this again soon-- definitely my favorite fan project. I hope you’re able to re-publish it again someday.
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Sucks to see them go, but I wish you luck in the future, and I understand your decision 
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Hey. I just wanted to log in quickly so people wouldn’t think I disappeared. I didn’t want to log back in on Sunday before the dust settled from my decision, and yesterday there was a major incident in my real life. I’m not in any state to meaningfully respond to any of this right now. I’ll try to provide more context later, but I can’t right now.
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So things have calmed down a bit in my life. While I don’t intend to argue with those who thought it was extreme to entirely delist the hack, I do appreciate that it’s coming from a place of having enjoyed something that I made, and for that, I appreciate your saying so. The thing is that I originally started working on Deity Device while being frustrated over not getting any responses from publishers and agents for several years when I tried to submit a duology of novels I had written. I kept some of the themes and character concepts and reworked it into a fantasy adventure that became Deity Device. And I think that I allowed myself to become a bit blinded by the fact that people were finally enjoying something that I had written to the point that I haven’t really written anything else since I released Deity Device other than work for the sequel, which continues to expand in scope with every idea that I have. I have much less free time now than the two years I spent working on Deity Device, and I have to face the facts that if I’m going to write something that breaks me out of my work-a-day life, it can’t come from working on a rom-hack. I’m afraid that if I leave the hacks to work on something else or tell myself that I’m putting Saint’s Blood to the side to work on other projects simultaneously, I’ll get pulled back in to devoting myself completely to Saint’s Blood whenever I see the number of downloads going up or someone leaving a comment about how much they enjoyed the story. But even if I succeeded in making Saint’s Blood the most acclaimed FE Hack ever, it would still be very limited in its reach, and it wouldn’t get me any further as a writer. This is something I agonized over, so please don’t think that the support I’ve received over the years doesn’t matter and I’m tossing you all aside. I still think rom-hacking is amazing, and I don’t want to leave anyone with the impression I think it’s a waste of time. It really hurts that there are things in Saint’s Blood I won’t ever see running in-game the way I imagined. But I have to face the reality that rom-hacking isn’t something that can change my life, and if I want to use elements of what I’ve accomplished in Deity Device, it’s best that I not leave it sitting out here. I hope that will help anyone who is still upset better understand my decision, and I hope that those of you who still have the patches will be respectful and not share them or post them on other websites.
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As someone who also dreams of having his work published one day, I can understand the feeling of wanting to have a bigger scope and not be limited in a specific niche. Deity Device was a wonderful ride and Saint’s Blood didn’t fall behind, and I would love to see a novelization version of them. I hope you can see your stories get the wider recognition they deserve someday.
Best of lucks for the future, Permafrost.
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It hurts to see it go but I also completely agree with what you’re doing.
In a world where time stops you’d be a fool. In this world though there would be a day when you feel completed by the projects you’ve done here… and be in the same place mentally / financially where you started or maybe even worse off. You may not succeed but it’s better to try than to not. Where you are now will always be available to you: those steps to a better world will not be.
I wish you the best and as you’ve stated take a page from your own hack: that change is scary but necessary for growth. Be well my friend. I will eagerly await and will most certainly buy your books or whatever medium you are going to. So you better come back and give us the deets when applicable!
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Will you update us on the projects you do in the future? Your writing is fun.
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Ey man If you ever decide to make another hack fe8 removed by author is a bad ass name man, I’d play that, main theme would be stories
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