Yes, Crow the Emereus replacement has a boss quote, feel free to submit textual edits. As dialogue is unskippable, I have started going through replacing event text to make it brief and/or funny. Chapter 1 is in fact 100% complete, it has had all text (except the houses) changed and all the units replaced.
Tomorrow I’m going to do a more detailed progress update.
Neat! : D
Since no one took elice why not make a super est
name: Barlinda
class: cavalier
Asset: defense
flaw: availability, luck
growths:
Hp: 90
str: 90
skl: 10
spd: 90
luk: 10
def: 90
wep lvl: 50
inv gradivus, silver sword, knight crest
also, if possible can you give her 10 res if possible, and make her be able to use any of belinda’s prfs?
also for bosses I’ll take Morzas
Name: Davey
Class: Pirate
stats
Hp: 45
Str: 13
Skl: 5
Spd: 18
luck: 20
def: 9
wlv:20
res:0
Inventory: killer axe, warp
Roshea:
Name: Marty
Class: Pirate
Asset: Def
Flaw: Spd
Growths:
HP: 90
Str: 20
Skl: 10
Spd: 20
Luk: 50
Def: 40
Wep lvl: 0
Inv: Axe, Hammer, Devil Axe
Mani ver1:
Mani ver2:
Hati:
Here’s the progress update:
I have changed to a slim font like the Switch version. It saves space and looks better than the chunky letters. Only downside is slightly inconsistent spacing between letters.
Several new more mundane items have been implemented due to being requested in inventories: Elixirs, Killer Axes and Bows. Killer Bows appear on some late game enemies like in FE11, at least one of them is dropped. Due to Dark coming with a firestone, the Chapter 5 village gives an Elixir instead. Currently Zethan still has the only Killer Axe in the game. I want to add them to shops, but it would not be easy, as almost all shops use the same inventory in multiple chapters, and there is no way to add items without replacing others. It might be possible to repoint and expand the shop list in free space.
Then there is the Lance/Iron Lance/Steel Lance situation. The generic “Lance” item, known as that in both the Japanese and official English localization, has in various fan translations been given a material of “Iron” or “Steel.” Whenever someone asks for a Lance/Iron Lance/Steel Lance, I implement it as item 0C. Due to any class able to use lances being also able to use swords, there isn’t much of a niche for additional lances, anyway.
Prf weapons can only be locked to one unit. Thus, the Rapier is currently locked to the Lord, Richard. Larisa is armed with the originally suggested Iron Sword instead. Belinda will get the Reginleif in Ch. 5, no one’s missing out that much currently. I do know that in Time for Tom, Polinym got a shared Prf working, so it is proven doable.
Sadly, making staves give Exp is a tall order - if Time for Tom, with its many changes such as a weapon triangle and fully implemented Res stat, didn’t find it worth the effort, Curates will probably still need to get beat up to level up.
T-Sam is still a Wyvern in Chapter 7 to be able to fly away, but becomes a General by Chapter 10.
Fauchard can’t heal 10HP, its probably hardcoded to the Vulnerary. Weapon Usability in general is undocumented, the Weapon Usability Pointers have been. I calculated these pointers as corresponding to addresses 1A3FC, 1A402, 1A408, 1A40D, 1A40F, 1A412, 1A414, 1A417, and 1A41A, some kind of list that seems to be terminated by EF immediately following those pointers. This list I can make no sense of, and there’s still a large unknown area below it, continuing for over 1,500 units, where the Usability Routines probably are. Because this area is so large and the hex values for the vanilla usable weapons are exceedingly common, like A and 10, lots of trial and error would be needed to crack the code.
Funnily enough, Mercurius’ effect HAS been documented [FE1] Starsphere Mercurius? That's a lie - #16 by L95 so it would probably be possible to extend the growth boosts to other weapons such as the suggested Excalibur.
Lastly, recruitment. There is a table for who recruits who, if its safe to repoint, Mani, in addition to Dark, could be able to recruit Hati without replacing another one. The only unused one, Ogma recruiting Saber, is for whoever replaces Lorenz to recruit Edo. If not, we could sacrifice one of Venom or Richard’s non-Belinda recruitments.
I have not implemented any portraits yet, that will be one of the last things done. I’m not putting it off because it’s hard, I have an excuse. As I’m directly (and permanently) editing the ROM, I don’t want to overwrite, say, Draug’s portrait only for someone to submit a Draug recolor. So once all submissions have gone through, it will be a while until I can put in the mugs and release the patch.
You should be able to add shops. Shops just have an inventory pointer table in the menu bank, and then shop tiles are defined by the shop location table for the whole chapter. If you called a shop for an index higher than the last vanilla index, and a valid pointer to valid data existed at that table position, I don’t see that being an issue. It worked for adding a chapter after the last one (I tested this some time ago by seizing Mediuth’s throne instead of killing Mediuth). You just need space for this extra shop.
There are extra items in the form of the unused items. For example, I’ve overwritten item 0x20 with a Steel Lance in my hacks, although this only works with the custom item type table I added.
If I recall correctly the Item Type value is used to index into a “which classes can equip” table. For example, Swords are Item Type 0x0, and in the equipping table, this points to a list of classes that can use that type (0x6 Merc, 0xa Hero, 0x1 Social, etc.) with a terminator. I added more Item Types by simply adding more entries to the item equip table. Weapons are made single-character-prf by doing 0x80 + the character’s index number. As a side effect, single-char-prf weapons can ALWAYS be equipped by that character, regardless of class or weapon level. That’s why in vanilla, Mars can be turned into a Mamkute and still attack with his Falchion or Rapier.I believed I’ve solved this in a patch somewhere by making Rapier a Lord equip type and the Falchion Mars-prf.
Growth boosts could definitely be added, just requires some ASM.
Not sure if you need/want it, but I have an amendment to my fully modded build in the works which adds item name/menu name compression, as well as 80% functional, non-softlocking expanded item names, and fixes the bug with battle messages having not been compiled into the game causing battle softlocks. The only reason I haven’t released it yet is that I haven’t copied the compression code for battle strings yet, but that can be postponed for a release.
@Vesly @Estratega @DarkChibimon @Congrio @Smokeyguy77 @LordLouie I wanted to ask since I wanted to edit dialogue concerning my characters. Is there any particular way you guys wanted me to write your chars? (Took me a while to look for a fe1 script…)
I’ll have to check it some things about Klaus, but I only remember that he is very confident about his plans and is a little cruel with his enemies but I’m going to look in some volumes in FE1’s manga
Replace: Gomer
Name: Kerlune
Class: Mercenary
Inventory: Levin Sword
Hp25 str7 ski11 wlv11 spd13 lck0 def11(… is calculating stats for bosses even helpful?)
Just take out any reference to Julian and any past relationships and honestly the character is fine by me. In short he should be characterized as a goofy lord who tends to get into troublesome situations.
Alright, I’ll give this a go!
Replace: Tomas
Name: Koujaku
Class: Fighter
Asset: Speed
Flaw: Luck
Growths:
Hp: 80
Str: 60
Skl: 50
Spd: 50
Luk: 10
Def: 20
Wep lvl: 30
Inv:Hammer, Hand Axe, Vulnerary, Pure Water
Roshea, Linde, Elice, and Tiki are all already taken, it just hasn’t been updated yet.
Maybe I’m really tired but how’s this ><;
Haru: … what’s a lord doing here?
Richard: Ah! My escort out of this dreary cell. They mistook me for some common lord! …they took my favorite sword, Martha! Why did I think Crow was trustworthy? I should’ve poked him!
Haru: You… don’t seem all that capable.
Richard: What. I’ll have you know that I was hired by Sus to scout out the castle!
Haru: That explains the weapons… wait.
Richard: Yeah! I planned ahead and stored weapons in here when I first broke in. Just in case the others got caught, though I wish I got a key.(First job and I’m already falling into habit!)
Haru: Well, follow me and-
Richard: (ooho what a pretty sword…) I’m right behind you!
Thats bout right, love the added mention of hiding weapons around the castle, a very Rich thing to say
Glad you like it! ^-^
Damn, can I replace Tomas then, with the same parameters?
Yes, just edit your original post so it’s easier for Norikins. : )
@TomatoSam I should’ve asked you even if our chacraters don’t interact.
Belinda recruiting Freya
Freya: Ah, Belinda! Thanks for rescuing me. Now lets hurry, T-Sam/T Sam is being forced to fight! With you here his sister is safe. Now I’ll cover you with my healing!
