I feel like a lot of the changes asked from the criticisms such as units not feeling good enough or hit rates being sub-par can be adjusted without affecting much or any of the space issues and limitations being placed upon the project. All these changes would just be is a few changes to stats of enemy or playable units. If anything else, you can remove assets that are rarely ever used in order to create changes that would further improve the project or just ask assistance from other people, I bet theyâd be happy to assist a project this popular. The ideology of âcanât improveâ is really sad as most people just want the hack to improve. Itâs hard for a hack to improve if the download link gets taken down and less people are able to easily access it.
And speaking about games⌠How is Transcending darkness coming along???
You are correct. Changing stat changes wonât affect the size of the file. This can be done; however, I will not be doing these changes. In my opinion making these type of changes to make the hack âbetterâ is totally subjective. I will soon create a friendlier version of the Final build though, so people who want an easier experience can play that version. I kind of wish the old GBA games supports 5-6 difficulty settings.
The Lonely Mirror is officially in maintenance mode; I am really only fixing bugs at this point. Yes, there are many things that can be improved, but all games have their flaws, even the greatest. Weâll (myself included here) just need to accept this version of The Lonely Mirror.
Hereâs my question:
Does the game have the supports inolemented currently, or at least the fucntion to remove the diffiuclty lock on Gaiden Chapters?
Yes and yes.
I really like this hack, even though I have yet to finish. It truly baffles me when people come here and present their criticism with so much certainty of what they think is âgood designâ (although I have done something like that myself once or twice), and proceed to bash the choices of the authors, even when they confide it was intentional, idiosyncratic as they might seem. Some of the choices bother me for sure, some cryptic things that are difficult to understand, but overall I really enjoyed what iâve player, and really liked the characters. But I can understand getting very frustrated when you feel like you just cant address the feed back as itâs presented and when you feel things just didnât translated as well as youâd like.
I do not like hard games but I never had a problem with this game like at alllâŚI didnât know people even found it hard. I played it once and literally am about to start a second playthrough, I came here just to find out if I had the mot updated upsâŚJust to find this out. What the heck first Saintâs blood and lonely mirror in one ay! What are yall trying to do to me? Leah is my favorite hack Lord out of all of them so far. 
I loved the work you did here nd I hope you donât feel discouraged from doing future projects, itâs great work. I have played much worse hacks and this is one of the few I played straight start to finish no breaks.
Just thought Iâd pitch in if I could and say I was led to this project by a YouTube video proclaiming it one of the top tier completed hacks, itâs possible youâve made a bigger positive impact than you may have thought. Personally Iâve been having a killer time with it and came to the thread here to ask for advice on a chapter Iâm a bit stuck on. Though if the final build may not be coming out or is only available to a select few for an indeterminate amount of time, Iâd feel better putting it down and hoping to one day play it in its final form.
I truly hope you find the solace youâre seeking through your creations, and my final note is that itâs a genuinely fun hack and I was getting engrossed in the story from very early on. Youâre a skilled writer, you know how to create a good backstory. Admittedly I wasnât paying as close attention for typos as I maybe could have been, but I did catch one. The three way split around chapter 11ish has the word âmountainâ spelled as âmoutainâ on the lil route selection window.
You can play start to finish supports and all.
Which chapter are you stuck?
I thought the Gaiden chapters werenât locked behind hard mode anymore? I am stepping on the ruined house tile with Caspian and nothing happens, am I missing something?
There shouldnât be any difficulty related triggers, and I am not seeing anything left over, so I am not sure. My only guess would be perhaps the emulator that you are using. I really have only supported visual boy advance.
I use the mgba. I always heard that was the one with the least problems so itâs my go to, all the other triggers for gaidens have shown so far, idk it could just be me lol
When was the last update, perhaps I do not have the latest version, I am showing the last file I got was on 10/25/22 v 3_2 friendly version
I just played through this game - twice in fact! This is definitely my new favourite hack. Lots of fun, not too difficult and well made.
Only question I had was that I was not able to figure out how to recruit these characters: Violet, Alex, Thadeus, Beckett, Harlan, Law (I only realized they were recruitable after seeing them in the support conversations tab). I downloaded the version off of serenes forest if that helps!
I saw some comments in this thread about you feeling indifferent about the final product and burnt out regarding criticism. As someone who has managed several large projects as a full-time job, in my opinion, thereâs no escaping that feeling. For me, the"rush" or excitement is always while the project is underway but once it ends (or is close to ending) I often end up struggling to mentally get myself over the finishline. I donât have good advice to you beyond learning to move forward with what it is - I am joining the chorus here in saying that this is an incredible hack! My solution has always just been to move on to the next big project which makes it easier to get closure - donât think I would recommend this generally though.
Thanks! Lonely Mirror does have some really good replay value due to many different branch points and a lot of characters to try out. I like to think the cast is fun.
Violet, Alex, Thadeus, and Beckett are kind of âextra units.â I mostly added them to the playable roster due to many requests to make Violet playable. You must take the following steps:
- Trigger Tynan side quest on Ch 11 by walking Caspian onto ruined house tile.
- Speak to Tynan on Chapter 15 when he appears with either Caspian, Winifred, or Travis.
- Speak to Tynan (again) on Chapter 17 after he appears with either Caspian, Winifred, or Travis.
- Side with Queenie at the end of 17, so that you do not trigger 17x.
- On Ch23 (desert map), deploy the character who spoke to Tynan on Ch17. They must survive the map. This will trigger condition for 23x.
- Violet, Alex, Thadeus, and Beckett are recruitable on the next map. You will have a choice of 2 depending on your route through Burga. Wandaâs map will allow you to recruit Violet while Tanyaâs map can get you Beckett. Depending on who you meet Thadeus/Alex on Ch14 will determine the other.
Harlan has an easier recruitment. On chapter 3, do not defeat Roscoe and ensure that you have 2000 G. He is recruited in the alternate chapter 4 map.
Lawâs recruitment is pretty much the same as Ezra. He is available in Ch21 if you do not deploy Atticus and do not recruit Harlan. If Harlan is in your party and Euphemia was recruited, then Law and Ezra can be recruited on Ch20x. You must deploy Harlan on Ch20 and he and Euphemia (rejoins in 20) must survive.
Yes, that does sum up a lot of what I am feeling. Another thing is that I have been in the weeds of the building process for a long time, which has made me lose that âmagicâ feeling and therefore, I have focused on a lot of the negatives about this hack. I think with some time and reflection, I will feel different and more satisfied with true release of the full game.
This has told me i for sure had an old build. Now that I have updated there are some units I am unsure how to recruit. Euphemia, Galileo, & Erza. I may be missing an updated recruitment guide somewhere. Can you tell me how to get these units?
Any chance you will update the recruitment guide and growth rates documents in the goggle drive?
I would appreciate that as well. Might get around to doing another playthrough with the new recruitables
I just stumbled upon this topic and Iâm wondering, given I played this hack back in 2022 and absolutely loved it, has there been any major edits on the game other than stat changes big fixes? I downloaded it from Serenes from a [Completed] topic, but it doesnt say completed here, I see it can be downloaded âby requestâ? And comments about the creator not feeling the end product. 
I absolutely loved this hack and played it twice back in 2022 and after seeing this, Iâm going to start it again. Did something change in the hack in recent time?