Which character slots can be safely overwritten in FE7?

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I need two additional character slots in FE7, one for the Tactician and one for an extra character. I was going to use the Tactician’s original character slot for them, but… Well, it seems like the Tactician character slot is hard-coded to have infinite turns..?

Anyway, I’m just wondering which slots I can overwrite without breaking cutscenes, since I know not every character shows up on the map

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Firstly, if you’re adding playable characters, I’d use slots at or below 0x45 first, only because slots after 0x45 don’t save things like BWL data or which chapter the character died in. You may have to move some bosses and NPCs around, though, and if you do, you’ll have to adjust the events and units loaded in the chapters they appear in.

I wouldn’t mess with the slots used by Lords, Merlinus, or any Lyn Mode characters, and I believe Kishuna has some hardcoded ASM stuff tied to them, too. Anyone else in the 0x01~0x45 range should be free game as long as you’re willing to change references to their unit slots in chapter events and unit layouts, though.

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Is there a way that I can find where character slots are referenced in FEB? It’d help a lot to have that if I have to move bosses around

If my range is anything below 0x45 that isn’t used by an existing player character or Kishuna, then my options are Uther, Eleanora, Leila, Bramimond, Groznyi, Wire, Zagan, Boies, Puzon, Santaruz, and Nergal

I imagine my best bets would be Uther, Eleanora, and Santaruz, since I’m pretty sure the former two appear in exactly one cutscene each (I could be wrong) and the latter pretty much appears in like, two chapters? I could also try for any of the generic bosses who only appear in one chapter

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Cutscene characters like these are fine to modify. Leila is the most iffy one of these, as she has an event battle assigned to her, but you can work around that by just using a different unit ID for that cutscene character.

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I made a romhack to add more bosses to lyn mode and my advice is just switch lyn mode enemies into the characters (you might need tp change the enemies in the enemy placer)

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Kinda glad I didn’t try to add characters, because I didn’t know that, and that sounds like another frustrating deep dive before asking the right questions.

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