I made my first chapter!

Thanks to the words of encouragement from people on my last thread, I got to work and made my first ever chapter!

The hack is only 1 chapter and about 10-15 minutes long, but I plan to slowly make it a full game. Download link at bottom.

Notes: Don’t play on easy, it might break things. Hard may be too hard. Only 1 chapter. Character portraits and names are still placeholders.

If anyone actually plays this, please give me feedback! I am open to literally any I may get, so be as harsh as you want!

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Is it a patch for a vanilla FE8 rom?

It’s supposed to be…

I think the rom was the Australian one?

I know I got it from Vimm’s lair, though.

(Don’t tell me that’s against the ‘distributing roms’ rule)

I played a couple minutes, I’m in the middle of other stuff & didn’t really feel like playing seriously though.

Feedback:

Once you have character portraits you want to use, it’ll be a lot easier to get sucked in. It’s kind of hard to tell who’s who and what personality/archetypes characters are supposed to have when you’re using the default portraits as stand ins.

Is english your second language? I ask because the text/dialogue is very… not the usual way of saying things. It’s a bit wooden so to speak.

Once you feel more comfortable with FEB and events and everything, you can probably clean up the world map cutscene a little bit. Just little stuff like sentence structure, or displaying the main character on screen when you talk about him.

I like the map you made for the battle. Aesthetically it looks nice. Gameplay-wise it’s very simple which is nice for a prologue. I dislike it when maps have lots of hallways for no reason.

Finally, this is less feedback for your hack and more something I think every person new to FEB should know:

Go to options:

Go to Function:

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Then where it says “Rom Expansion Starting Address”, Select number 3 or number 4 (most likely 3)

This option significantly reduces the amount of space your edits will make and the filesize of your romhack. Combine this with a few other tricks (like reusing event space from the original game instead of creating new) and you can make tons of changes while taking up very little space.

Congratulations on making your first chapter and I wish you the best of luck!

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Sorry if it came off as robotic. That hurt a little bit. I’ll fix it. I was kinda just making it up as I went along, because I was more focused on the chapter itself. Other than that, I appreciate the feedback!

oh… I wasn’t trying to be mean :smiling_face_with_tear:

Sorry if this counts as post bumping but I wanted to share the first character portrait I made! It only took 2 and a half hours!

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Congrats on your first chapter!

Uhh…if I change to this mode now, will it brick my rom? Nobody told me this trick before…

nope. what it does is use empty space in your rom for your edits instead of adding new data everytime you make something new. The only way I could see it causing an issue is if for some reason you have a large number of uninterrupted zeroes (like 32+) that are actually game data and not just empty space.