There are many “Genealogy of X” hacks for Genealogy of the Holy War. Here’s a menu patch for one of them.
Plot outline
The year is 757, Gran Calendar, in the reign of King Victor of Velthomer. His son, Alvis, was waging war against Byron of Chalphy’s barbarian horde, alongside his trusted advisors Reptor of Freege and Maricle of Isaac. Bishop Claude of Edda was threatened by these alliances, and so formed one of his own with Trabant of Thracia to oppose him. Lady Deirdre of Barhara held little interest in political affairs, and largely kept to herself. Cuan of Lenster was suspicious of these developments, but few paid heed to his warnings.
In spite of a non-aggression pact, Prince Dew of Verdane invaded Grandbell, with only the dancer Laylea standing guard. Isaac’s fall was almost certain, and Freege was Verdane’s next target. With few soldiers on hand, Lady Tiltyu, daughter of Reptor, prepared to expel the Verdanian invaders from Grandbell. What awaited Tiltyu during her journey was not anything she could believe…
This hack is playable all the way through to the end of the game. Generally, the events are not changed, so the game is basically a reskin of the vanilla game. The plot (not translated) generally follows all the same beats as the original, except the characters have all been swapped around. Sigurd has been replaced with Tiltyu, for instance. The main appeal comes in the adjusted character item and skill layouts, providing different tools to face different challenges.
Pink Altenna isn’t real, she can’t hurt you.
Pink Altenna:
For real, this is really neat. I remember trying to play this a while ago but my inability to understand what was going on made it pretty intimidating (even moreso than with Japanese GBA hacks since I understand SNES mechanics even less). Looking forward to playing this.
Making these takes a fair bit of time and is not easy. If I decide to make another Japanese hack menu patch, I’ll keep your suggestion in mind, but I make no promises.
I had downloaded the text files earlier, but the website that they were hosted on went down and I never actually downloaded the skill icons, so they’re broken inside the HTML files. I’ll get around to adding them back in at some point.
ohhh man i love this thxxx soo much for this!!! it would be nice if someone translates the story also waiting so I’m very happy to be able to play this game and understand at least a little now
please help me i tried everything but i cant get it to work !!!
It seems like the untranslated text itself must have gotten messed up with this mod. I happened to notice a lot of numbers and letters appearing what looks like randomly. I think it’s a shame cause I would have like to read the Japanese someday once I learned it, but it’s likely not a priority
When I made this patch, I overwrote the Japanese font with the English font. While the English font is smaller than the Japanese one, it still disrupts the original dialogue. This was mostly for my own convenience (I think I ordered the font in line with ASCII), though it’s been so long I forget all the details.
It’s called FE4 Inflation, it’s an old, well, Inflation hack of FE4. Most Gen 1 characters have >70% growth rates, 3 skills each, you know the deal. I have a patched version somewhere on my desktop, but afaik the patch itself is wiped off the internet.
Btw have you ever played fe4 turbo? It’s a difficulty hack, a lot of changes, even map ones, it’s cool, a bit tricky in the difficulty but it was a nice experience.
Glad to hear that. If you have trouble finding the patch, let me know.
I did receive the patch for FE4 Turbo like…4 years ago? If I search my Discord DMs, there’s a high chance I’ll find it. Haven’t played past Prologue, though.
You should be able to use LIPS to create a patch of this if you have the patched rom somewhere already. I would be interested in this patch if you could share. I have the other ones, Genealogy of Neir, Tordo, Ulir but Inflation is the one from back in the day that I don’t have.
Fair warnings: Dancers fuck up the game a bit. IIRC they cause visual bugs, and both Dancer’ village events crash the game. I can also give some pairing recommendations.
This is a ROM file (you can tell because it’s still 4MB). I understand that mistakes happen, but please double-check which file you’re uploading in the future.
