So, this isn’t really a hacking question but it’s something that’s been nagging at me for a while now.
I vaguely recall reading somewhere, sometime back, that in one of the Archanea Fire Emblem games, it was possible to use a Knight Crest or some sort of promotion item on a Manakete, which would give them +14 or so Defense in lieu of actually promoting them. This could also, apparently, be used to bypass the Defense cap of 20.
The game in which this is possible (if indeed there is one) would have to be either FE1 or FE3, I’d imagine, since I know for a fact that this isn’t possible in the DS remakes.
Does anybody know anything about this or have any information on it? It’s such a weird, specific thing that I’d imagine most people just plain wouldn’t think to try, so I can’t help but be really curious about it.
EDIT: Okay, so I’ve managed to find this mentioned on TV Tropes, and according to there, the game is FE1 and using any promotion item on a Manakete will give them +15 defense. That’s still not exactly a surefire source, though, so I’d still appreciate hearing from other people, if anybody’s actually done this and can confirm it directly.
I don’t know the exact details in the code. What I do know are some of the effects. Using any promotion item on the dragons in FE1 grants a massive defence boost to them permanently. I believe this defence boost matches the defence boost the dragonstone usually gives as a bonus. It also breaks the defence cap and does not actually consume the promotion item. Therefore, once the first promotion items are obtained in chapter 10, you can raise defence up to 99 at the very least. Be careful not to use the glitch too much, though. The game can’t display more than two digits and the unit can end up overflowing back to zero defence.
And, wow, I didn’t know it also didn’t consume the item… That’s definitely sounds unintentional in that case.
I remember thinking that this is just such a strange thing to be able to do back when I read about it the first time, and then I went a really long time without encountering basically any mention of it at all, so it’s nice to know it isn’t just some fabricated memory and that this is actually a real thing.