Questions about hacking FE8 (Using FEBuilder)

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03 Q: Exist a patch that affords the use of a distinct text bubble type?

I am not certain, but most UI stuff is generally TSA which really just means annoying to edit.

Luckily Snek came out with a tool to make it easier recently.

Snake's Pit of ASM (and Other Stuff)

TSA is SO SCARY like what even IS it? How do I deal with it? What do you MEAN width and height - 1? Flips? What’re those? Ew icky. Why is the palette even bitpacked in there if BgMap_ApplyTsa lets you use different palettes wtf?!? Yeah that’s how I feel about TSA too. It’s weird and confusing and a pain unless you have… tmx2tsa That’s right. You can use Tiled to generate TSA now. This is a long time coming, and I’m excited to release it. It’s really easy; all you need is an image of the tilesh…

And Pikmin has this tutorial on the general process, though he did it for custom battle frames, not custom text boxes.

[FE8] Creating and Inserting Battle Screens

Welcome to my battle screen tutorial. Here I will teach you both how to make battle screens that are insertable and how to actually insert them into your ROM. Things you will need: FEBuilder Usenti For Buildfile users: A hex editor (I reccomend HxD) PART 1 Making your battle screen First, you should know the standard layout for battle screens. It looks something like this. [Blank Battle Screen] The blue plates are where the character names will go. The red plates are where the item nam…

Hope that helps.