I noticed a small bug with staff/lifewringer sandy, when I enter the arena with her she equips an iron sword but cant attack, the staff animation plays but nothing happens. Also when out of the arena in the normal map equipping her with a sword and attacking an enemy causes her to do her staff animation but deal no damage again in combat, however after combat the enemy dies as they should, giving her a spell seems to work correctly though maybe you could change her arena default weapon to fire?
I cannot manually change which weapon a character equips on the arena. It defaults to the highest weapon rank, and since swords are the first weapon type on the list, they take priority when there’s a tie.
In any case, that character is fairly unstable, but I thought that was all right. It’s more of a little trophy/bonus for completing the postgame than a “real” unit - I think it’s fine if it functions a little weirdly. I figured someone willing to play the postgame more than once would be the kind of person who’d enjoy toying around with a weird buggy unit.
I’m interested in taking a deep dive into The Hag In White’s story and trying to analyse it… but I have NO WAY to get a FE8 ROM! So I can’t patch the .ups file and play the hack. How do I look at the files when I have no ROM to patch? I JUST WANT TO READ THE STORY FROM START TO FINISH!
(There are no source files available and I also don’t have a ROM. Am I going to be forced to make analysis of the characters with only info I can see from Let’s Plays, or is there another way I can delve into the full dialogue? Not every boss convo is seen in those playthroughs, you know!)
If you have access to the internet, you should be able to acquire an FE8 rom. I’m not trying to be snide or anything; unless you’re in a location where the internet sites you can access is extremely limited that shouldn’t be an issue. That, or if you don’t have access to a computer that could be a hindrance too; I don’t play emulators on mobile devices and I’m not sure how patching games on mobile works (if at all.)
If you don’t have a rom, I don’t know if it will be possible to read any of the files. As far as I know, programs like FEBuilder (which I use to read technical information within roms) requires that you have the rom in addition to the ups patch.
Sorry I couldn’t offer any solutions; hopefully someone else has more ideas.
Sadly I do not have the script on a separate file or anything that I could give to you. You’d have to find yourself an FE8 rom. For what it’s worth, those are really easy to find online - although I cannot help you there, as it would be against the site’s rules. But yeah, if you look for it, the rom should be fairly simple to find.
You can patch online very easily using marc robledo rom patcher, just google it up for the site. Basically as long as you have vanilla FE8 rom on your device as well as the UPS patch and access to internet (should be a given to even acquire the files and emulator in the first place) you can patch the game. Just make sure to rename the patched rom so that you don’t get confused later
On chapter 13 and I am enjoying it so far but I feel like i’m missing something. I noticed that one of my units just left, I was using them and would have clearly remembered them dying. The only thing I can think of that might be related is that at base camp I answered that I disliked lances and they were a soldier