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[badkiara]

[Ryrumeli]

Hmmm... Well, it is pretty pro. An ambitious approach to hacking, and as any ambitious approach, I really salut you, Mage Girl! ^__^

I heard heard about this hack since before I started learning to hack, so it is awesome to see that there is finally a patch out. Not only it should work as a landmark to the FE hacking community, but also as a proof that determination and love for the finished product even before it is done can take you far. ^__^




And my only...well, not "complaint", more like comment, lies in the cast. It seems more heavily biased towards females than any other FE was towards males. Even though, unlike most FEs, which have a (debatable, I admit) gender balance of "Date-able" males and females, having the remaining males to have bad looks or some sort of funny and/or different characteristic that makes them feel "peculiar", most people here in this hack are 15-30 years old, good looking females. Not saying it is a bad thing, but... It strikes to me like (ironically) a fan-game.


To be more fair, and a true spin in the gender balance in FEs, I would expect more Niimes and Vaidas, to say the least.(Even though Vaida was pretty hot in her artwork... <__<)



Other than that, keep 'em coming! And do you do your maps by yourself? I mean, they are pretty good. ^__^

[Mage Girl]

Yeah, I guess there are too many good looking females. XD But that's just how I was inspired to make them look. As for the balance itself, keep in mind that this is a demo; there's still more chapters and more characters to introduce. I definitely have more male characters lined up, they just don't appear in the demo. XD The balance will still be towards females in the end, but it may prove to be a little less biased towards them later in the game.

As for the maps; yes, I do make them myself. I basically do absolutely all the work for this hack. XD

[Kingultra]

What program do you use to insert the maps into your hack?

[Mankut]

^I'm guessing Mar array inserter and Nightmare.

[Mig64]

The custom maps are kinda similar to the original ones, I suppose you don't know how to change the character's moves and other stuff, right?

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[Mage Girl]

You suppose incorrectly. Yes, the maps in the demo are similar; I used the same events as FE8 in those chapters. The reason behind that is I started this project with limited knowledge of Fire Emblem hacking; however, I'll be using custom events from Chapter 9 (both routes) onwards.

[Fire Blazer]

CUSTOM EVENTS? NO WAI!

Using Event Assembler right? Going to make this hack even more epic. Just don't overdo it, trust me when I say events can get tedious and if you spend too much time on them it'll be harder to finish.

[Ryrumeli]

Well, dude, personally I don't think events are such a time waster, no... If you can get a notebook, and write the basics of them on the paper, creating first the theory, and then testing it in your mind, not only you have way less odds of getting it wrong, but you can always work on them in annoying moments like during a boring class at school or in the line to the bank.



And it is always exciting to hear about custom events... So far it is one of the most epic hacks of the community, and I am not just limiting myself to FE8 hacks no. Just with this hack you have a reputation which comes before you, I personally find it it to be so. ^__^

[Fire Blazer]

I have started playing, good job so far, here's some stuff I wrote down in Notepad while playing--

[Mage Girl]

Glad you've started playing!

In response to some of your comments:

I'll look into the script stuff... Just keep in mind that I'm not going for perfect, and I'm not going for realistic in certain regards. (I'm not exactly a stellar writer anyway. XP)

Yeah, Gorge has a generic palette, so does some of the other bosses. That will be fixed some point before the final version.

Certain NPC/Generic Enemy units have incomplete names and/or descriptions... That mercenary just happens to be one of them. >.<

I had said on the post I made about releasing the demo that the World Map stuff was the same, just saying.

Anywho, I hope you're enjoying and will continue to enjoy, and hopefully I can work out some of the flaws soon enough.

[Fire Blazer]

Right, I figured you purposely didn't do the World Map stuff, but I just wrote down whatever I saw.

As for script, if you aren't looking for an exceptional script I would just let it pass. It's pretty good in most regards anyway.

The NPC/Enemy name/description thing should be fixed at some point, and I'd make palettes for most bosses but that bandit boss probably doesn't matter, I mean in the end they all die a boring death.

I was enjoying and next week I will continue to enjoy but for this week I think my time is running out XP

[Mage Girl]

Just announcing that I am still making progress. Most of which script writing and new characters however, so mostly nothing to take screens of and show off. Although I'm going to officially announce that Brenna is the lead Lord of the next demo patch. (I would remove the poll, except I can't...)

The other official announcement I shall make is that there is a third Lord being included in the game, I'm not going to show them off yet, but I will show you a character that joins in the same chapter:



That's only a small teaser of things to come, there's more, including a 100% custom animation for that third Lord, and the first non-Lord character with a class specializing in axes.

Just wanted to give you all something to talk/think about while I'm working. At some point I will reveal the third Lord, but not at this time.

[Fire Blazer]

Excited to meet the 3rd Lord, especially with the custom anim and everything... and when you say class specializing in axes I'm assuming you mean in your hack because there are Fighters and Pirates and Berserkers in Fire Emblem that all specialize in axes XD

[Mage Girl]

I thought the fact that it was in my hack was implied. But yeah, that's what I meant. XD

[Blazing_Soul]

Show off >_> well nice hopefully your third lord will be epic. But how do you plan to implement the gameover for when they die? Also is the third lord male or female *not that it matters*

[Fire Blazer]

I think gender does matter. It's useful to know if someone is a boy or girl. Might end up calling him/her the wrong gender.

On a side note, making another unit cause game over when they die isn't that hard... :\

[cox21]

Yes it is. You have to edit every chapter. That takes time.

[Ryrumeli]

Or... Go in nightmare, and give that person the skill "Lord", which makes the game go game over when the person dies? o_O



And I too am excited. XD Can't wait to see Mr. New lord in action, in all of his 2-D glory!

[Mage Girl]

Yeah, the third lord does have game over whenever they die. I wouldn't have included them if I couldn't do that.

It's a lot easier than cox21 is suggesting. All you need is the Death Quote Editor Nightmare Module for whatever game you're editing, and the knowledge that 0x65 is the game over event. (Oh wait, even if you didn't before, you know now.)

Find your character's death quote, and replace the value of Event ID to be 0x65. That causes the game to call the game over event when it calls that death quote. (Note: As far as I'm aware, Event ID is "Trigger ID" in the FE7 Death Quote Editors) Make sure if they have any additional death quotes (like a death quote for a specific chapter) that you also edit that one to have Event ID 0x65 (unless you want them to be able to die on that specific chapter, but not on any others. XD)

Basically, it's as simple as editing one byte per death quote.

And yeah, "Mr. New lord" is a she. XP (Yes, all three lords are female, sorry to those people who were hoping I'd offset the first two lords being female by adding a male lord. XD)